Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 5, Episode 3 - Alien Power Plants - full transcript

The greatest civilizations of antiquity...

running on electrical power.

Electricity is one of
those things that ancient

cultures seem to be harnessing
in ways that we still can't wrap

our brain around.

Energy generating
microwaves, produced at the

Great Pyramid of Giza.

The question is not if they
used power, the question is

where did they get the knowledge
with which they created the power?

And a wireless energy
grid that crossed the globe.

It was a transmitter
of this cosmic power that fed



these celestial beings.

Could our ancient ancestors have mastered

the ability to harness and create power?

If so, where might this advanced
knowledge have come from?

This evidence of some nuclear
reaction, what we may be

seeing is the residue of one of
the ancient power plants used by

extraterrestrials.

Millions of people around
the world believe we have

been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And what secrets of ancient
energy sources may be unlocked

at these alien power plants?

# Ancient Aliens 5x03 #
Alien Power Plants
Original Air Date on January 04, 2013



The Western Stone, Jerusalem, Israel.

1.2 million pounds.

The Rammeseum statue, Thebes, Egypt.

Two million pounds.

The Trilithon at the Temple
of Jupiter, Baalbek, Lebanon.

4.8 million pounds.

All over the world, ancient
sites reveal engineering feats

that mainstream archaeologists
believe were achieved with slave

labor and simple tools.

The reason why I am convinced that

sophisticated technology was
implemented in these ancient

rocks is because if we go to a
stone quarry today and look at

the scope of machinery required
to accomplish similar things,

well, those machines are huge.

They're power machines.

Powerful tools.

And if the mainstream archeology
explanation is given that all of

this stuff was accomplished with
obsidian or with chicken bones...

I'm sorry, it doesn't hold up.

There are temples that are built using

blocks that range from 50 to 200 tons.

They're just far too big for
people who didn't have

the wheel, who didn't have the
pulley, who didn't have any

facilities to move these blocks.

So to me, there is a mystery there
that needs to be explained.

Either a technology that we
don't understand, or,

if one wants to go very speculative,
an external influence.

But could the strength
of men alone have been

enough to manage such colossal efforts?

Or did these marvels of engineering
require something more?

Stone Valley Materials Quarry.
Riverside, California.

February, 2012.

A massive 680,000-pound granite
monolith is prepped to travel

over 100 miles to become part of
an exhibit at the Los Angeles

County Museum of Art.

Workers from 100 utility crews,
a 1.4 million pound crane,

and a 44-axel tractor-trailer rig
with over 2400 horsepower are needed

to move the rock.

It's going to require hydraulically

jacking the boulder up off the
ground, which is incredibly

difficult in itself...
building steel girders

underneath it, placing 208
tires underneath those steel

girders, having one power unit
pulling it and one pushing it,

and still, after all of that, only
achieving about five miles an hour.

The boulder, called
"Levitated Mass," is a gigantic

payload by modern
construction standards...

but it is small when compared
to many of the solid blocks

moved by ancient builders.

From my perspective, it is almost

impossible to take the 340 ton
rock and move it without modern...

day technology.

It baffles my mind.

I have-I have... I have no idea.

It's crazy to think about.

How did our ancestors move monoliths,

some over five times the size of
Levitated Mass without the

aide of high-powered machines?

Researchers believe the ancients
not only used power to move

solid stone, but to cut it as well.

And the evidence can be found on
a remote cliff face buried in

the Andes Mountains.

Ollantaytambo, Peru.

The walls of this ancient
mountain stronghold tell the

story of what some experts
believe to have been thousands

of craftsmen, shaping and
cutting solid stone with a

precision that today could only be
matched with high-powered

machine tools.

We find huge cube-like
sections of stone...

andesite, which is very hard...
have been removed from the

mountain with such accuracy that
that we can't find a scratch

in the surface.

The corners, also, are not sharp...
they're perfectly

rounded and no one can explain how
this could have been achieved.

The ability to fit perfectly
fitting stones of several tons

in weight together so that a
single human hair can't fit

in between them is not a
question of sweat or man hours.

It's a question of technology.

It's really done to perfection.

And not just perfection with
small blocks of stone, but with

blocks of stone weighing many, many tons.

I believe that Ollantaytambo
is evidence of really advanced

human civilization on Earth that was
world-wide and had power tools.

But if our ancestors really used

sophisticated tools that ran on
some sort of power, might there

have been other applications of
this technology, beyond moving

and cutting stone?

All over the world we have extraordinarily

advanced civilizations with urban systems.

The things we have today in
delivery systems for water,

for handling waste, pumps, very
sophisticated farming and agriculture

techniques that they should not
have had given the level of

technology they worked with.

The only thing that we
have leftover is the

original stone that all these
ancient structures were built in.

Everything else that was built
on top of it, that had to do

potentially with electrical
components, that has disappeared

because only stone
withstands the test of time.

Is it possible that the
most dominant civilizations

of antiquity were able to
achieve such status because of

energy-driven technologies?

And if so, what was the
source of that power?

Perhaps clues may be found among
ancient Mesopotamian artifacts.

The National Museum of Iraq.

In 1938, the museum director
discovers terra cotta pots and

copper cylinders in the archives
that may have been used as

galvanic cells.

The nearly 2,000-year-old
devices called "Baghdad

Batteries" are believed to
predate the invention of the

cell battery by more than 1,000 years.

Archaeologists speculate
they may have been used to

electroplate gold onto silver
for decorative jewelry.

The Baghdad Battery that we've currently

found in Iraq, about a dozen of them,
it can generate around four volts.

Now, a current modern-day
flashlight could be run

by a nine-volt battery.

So if we think of a Baghdad
Battery around this size

generating four volts, what if we
increased the size to around six feet?

That might generate
20, 30, 50 volts and have

the sufficient power to actually utilize
energy in a way that we do today.

Mainstream scientists agree that the

Baghdad Battery is evidence
ancient man had the means to

create power and the understanding
of how to apply it.

But is there proof of even
more complex devices that may

have run on electricity?

370 miles south of the Giza
Plateau stands the Hathor Temple.

Approximately 4,000 years old,
the halls of this monument are

lined with curious images,
but one relief depicts what many

ancient astronaut theorists
believe to be proof that the

ancients used power.

They call it "The Dendera Bulb."

Here is a replica
of the bulb that's shown in

the Dendera reliefs in Egypt.

What's interesting about this
bulb is the fact that on the

wall relief, we see the bulb
is actually plugged into what

appears to be a power source.

The whole idea that the ancient Egyptians

had some kind of electrical
lighting, and this was

something that happened in probably
temples around the world...

It baffles Egyptologists how
people deep underground

would be able to paint these
ceilings without fires and lights.

Their explanation right now
is that they used a complex

system of mirrors to move light,
at just a few minutes during

the day, down deep inside these tombs.

But another explanation,
of course, would be they actually

had electrical lights.

Did our ancestors have an
understanding of how to

generate power thousands of
years before modern man?

Or is it possible that they
received the knowledge from some

otherworldly source, as some ancient
astronaut theorists contend?

Electricity is one of
those things that ancient

cultures seem to be harnessing
in ways that we still can't

wrap our brain around.

So it's very possible that
when we look at things like

electricity, where would
they get this information?

We have all sorts of
stories, mythologies and

legends that could be
interpreted as gods who,

in reality, were misinterpreted
extraterrestrials gifting man

with technology in the form of power.

For example, when God said,
"Let there be light"

in the Old Testament, or when
Prometheus gave fire to man.

The Burning Bush and the Eternal
Flame at the Temple of Apollo,

all of that conceivably
could have been technology.

The question is not if they used
power, the question is where did

they get the knowledge with
which they created the power?

Is there really evidence
among the ruins of

ancient civilizations that man
had access to sophisticated

technologies that ran on power?

If so, where are the mysterious
power plants that generated the

energy?

Perhaps they're still here,
hiding in plain sight.

The Giza Necropolis, Egypt.

1993.

A team of engineers uses a
remotely operated camera in an

attempt to discover the true
function of what is believed to

be an airshaft leading from the
supposed Queen's Chamber of

the Great Pyramid.

First discovered in 1872,
archaeologists long considered

these narrow tunnels to
be ventilation ducts.

This robot traveled up
this small shaft which was

too small for a human or any
type of device to go through

and all of the sudden it finds
a closed door hinged by two

little metal clamps.

According to mainstream archaeologists,

the door and metal handles were
intentionally built as a

symbolic passageway that the
queen would travel through to

the afterlife.

But some researchers have
questioned why this passageway

would have been designed
with a deliberate blockage.

And why... on a plateau filled
with monumental pyramids

believed to serve as royal tombs...
is the Great Pyramid

the only one with such a door?

Egyptologists are very much fond of saying

that pyramids are tombs and
that they have been robbed

at some point in the past.

But the fact is that we have
found in the 20th century

a number of pyramids whose central
king's chamber, so to speak, is intact.

And when they opened the
sarcophagus they found that

sarcophagus to be empty as well.

If the Great Pyramid
was not a tomb, what may

have been its true purpose?

In May 2011, another team of
researchers set out to further

explore the blocked airshaft
in the Queen's Chamber.

This time, the crew used a robot
equipped with a micro-snake

camera to slip through a hole and
reveal what was beyond the door.

When they actually
penetrated this small door

they found a hidden room
within the pyramid.

What they found was copper
fittings or the metal fittings.

Another feature of the back of
these metal fittings was that on

one side the loop looked
like it was corroded.

The camera also looked down and
scanned the floor and what we

saw was red markings.

My interpretation of those were
they were electrical symbols.

But why were they there?

Could these artifacts be actual evidence

that electricity once coursed
through the structure?

And if so, could the Great
Pyramid of Giza have been built

to serve as... not a royal tomb...
but a power plant, as some

researchers contend?

If we dismiss the tomb
theory and we look at the

pyramid itself, we see something
that modern engineers can really

tune into and understand.

What we have is a very, very
precise building that has the

precision of a fraction of an inch.

It's something that is very
noteworthy and not indicative

of a simple agrarian culture.

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

If the Great Pyramid was a sophisticated

machine, potentially capable of
creating energy, how could it

have worked?

Some researchers believe clues
can be found by exploring

underneath the structure.

In 2000, maritime engineer John
Cadman proposed a theory that

the Egyptians pumped water from
the nearby Nile River into a

small chamber underneath
the Great Pyramid.

The pump could then create
intense hydraulic pressure that

would cause the entire pyramid to vibrate.

In the subterranean chamber there is

some evidence that shows that
there had been water present

in it, and that there's water
erosion on the floor, and then

up in the thin area.

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

So you have a rarefaction wave,
which is an extremely low

pressure wave, which would have
struck the ceiling and the

ceiling is actually chipped.

And that would have been from
the actual compression waves

hitting the ceiling.

It's very evident.

If Cadman's theory proves
true, what would have

been the purpose of the hydraulic pulse?

Engineer Chris Dunn believes
the answer can be found by

further examination of the
shafts in what some call the

Queen's Chamber, where traces of
zinc and hydrochloric acid have

been discovered.

I believe the chemical coming
in through the northern

shaft was hydrated zinc and the
other chemical coming through

the southern shaft and into the
chamber was dilute hydrochloric acid.

These are actually seen
on the chamber walls.

Dunn suggests that
the two chemicals were poured

down through the shafts and
then mixed together inside the

Queen's Chamber, triggering combustion.

This vessel represents
the Queen's Chamber.

Into the tubes we're going
to pour hydrated zinc...

and then hydrochloric acid.

When you bring these two liquids
together, a chemical reaction

occurs, and a product of that
chemical reaction is hydrogen.

And you can see the vapor, the
hydrogen, escaping through

the chimney.

And there you have the reaction.

Dunn speculates that
the hydrogen gas traveled

from the Queen's Chamber
into the King's Chamber.

Then the vibrations from the
subterranean pool energized the

hydrogen atoms into a
microwave energy beam.

The evidence that indicates
the use of hydrogen

can be found in the King's chamber.

There is a shaft in the King's
Chamber, has dimensions of

8.4 by 4.8, which would be
suitable for a wave guide for a

MASER, or a microwave
amplification through stimulated

emission radiation.

And from there, we can actually
propose many different ideas

of what they did with it.

Might the great Pyramid
of Giza actually have

created power in the remote past?

And is it possible that energy
ran the advanced tools of early

builders and devices
like the Dendera Bulb?

We can use our imaginations
and, uh, come up

with all kinds of devices to
power with that kind of energy.

Uh, from simple domestic appliances
to highly advanced spacecraft.

I mean all things are possible.

The ancient Egyptians demonstrated

an exceptional level of skill
in everything that they created

during the Old Kingdom, but the
question remains... did they do

it on their own, or did they
have some access to information

or technology that's not of this Earth?

If Giza was, in fact,
a power plant, could the

energy have been used for some
otherworldly purpose, as some

ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And if the power coming from
Giza was that strong, could it

have traveled beyond Egypt?

Answers may be found in a
material that connects Giza to a

special kind of monolith, one
that exists on continents all

over the world.

The sun temple at
Abu Gorab Memphis, Egypt.

In 1898, an excavation team with
the Berlin Museum discovered the

base of a massive obelisk
estimated to have once stood at

over 160 feet tall.

According to the ancient Egyptian building

texts from Edfu, Abu Gorab was
known as the "Place of the Gods."

Egyptologists know it as a
place where the ancients

connected with divine energies.

It is said that this is the
very place where pharaohs and

priests experienced heightened
awareness through the

use of vibrations transmitted
through the obelisk.

This ancient obelisk
was used as a geodetic marker,

pinpointing the source of
some type of ancient energy.

Maybe not spiritual energy, but
actual physical energy that they

were able to harness.

While scholars believe
Abu Gorab was home to

one of the largest
obelisks ever constructed,

similar-shaped monoliths
have been found in

hundreds of variations all over the world.

Unsuitable for shelter,
storage, or a higher vantage

point, could obelisks have served
another more powerful purpose.

There's evidence that
obelisks are tapping in

to this natural energy
that's part of the Earth.

The whole concept is to take
these natural energies of the

Earth and manipulate them.

It's a subtle energy, but for
those who have the devices and

technology to see and measure

this energy, it's something
that can be used.

I believe obelisks are kind of like

acupuncture needles for the
Earth, focusing and possibly

healing Earth energy meridians
that are not balanced, and that

the ancient cultures knew how to do that.

A vast number of obelisks
are constructed from

granite... a stone containing
high concentrations of

energy-responsive quartz crystal.

Because of its crystalline
structure, quartz has the

ability to convert the Earth's
natural electrical vibrations

into usable energy by a property
known as piezo-electricity.

The piezo is for the vibrating or

oscillating, and the
electric is for electric.

What this means is that you can
use electricity to make them

vibrate mechanically.

And when they vibrate mechanically
they can generate electricity.

Crystals have been used throughout all

of history for various inventions, various

technologies, and for getting things done.

Your watch that you wear on your
wrist could be a technology

that uses crystals.

Crystals are literally a
tool and a technology that's

essentially for transducing
energy, and that is taking

energy in one state and essentially
converting it to another state.

Is it possible the ancient
cultures that erected

obelisks had some understanding of
the high-tech properties of quartz?

And if so, could they have used
obelisks to transmit energy over

vast distances?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer is yes,

and that evidence can be found by
studying the work of Nicola Tesla.

In July 1899, the famed
scientist claimed to have

invented a way to transmit
electricity through the air,

wirelessly, all over the world.

By harnessing the Earth's
natural conductivity... or what

Tesla called "standing waves"...
giant transmitters could send

and receive limitless amounts
of electricity, flowing like

invisible water.

And one of the key components in
his system was quartz crystal.

Typically when we deal with the energy of

electromagnetic waves it's in
what we call a propagating form.

It's like the flashlight...
you turn it on and it moves.

It propagates through space and
goes from one place to another.

A standing wave is kind of a
different phenomena because

the wave just oscillates in
one place up and down,

and the energy goes in between two
different regions, back and forth.

Tesla was proposing and tried to build

this system of wireless power.

He built the Wardenclyffe Tower
on Long Island in New York.

Tesla was going to then hook
this tower up to a power plant

and he was going to broadcast electricity.

According to him, antigravity
airships would draw power

from these towers.

Ships, cars and other power
plants could also draw from

this broadcast power.

Was Tesla's technological breakthrough a

modern scientific innovation,
or could it have been a

rediscovery of a lost alien technology?

Some researchers believe that,
like Tesla, ancient builders

discovered the ability
to harness and broadcast

Earth's power, and the ancient
equivalent to Tesla's

Wardenclyffe Tower may have
been the Great Pyramid.

The walls of this massive
monument contain a high

concentration of quartz crystal,
and some believe the Great

Pyramid, in conjunction with the
obelisks, made up what may have

been a global wireless energy network.

The pyramids were actually
geo-mechanical devices.

In other words, they were
attached to the Earth.

They were tuned to vibrate with
the frequencies of the Earth and

they converted the energies of the
Earth into electromagnetic energy.

Obelisks themselves, uh, particularly the

ones we find in Egypt, are in
fact, giant crystal antennas,

and they can broadcast power
in a way that Nikola Tesla,

the great American inventor
wanted to broadcast power.

Could obelisks have
been constructed as ancient

energy conductors?

And was this expertise really
the product of man alone,

or might it been the result of
an otherworldly intelligence,

as ancient astronaut theorists contend?

We do know that obelisks
symbolize this power of the gods.

The top of the obelisk is a small
pyramid; it is a ban-ban stone.

And it is the ban-ban stone,
which is said to have been a

communication device with the deities.

It's possible that inside of some

pyramids there might be some
sort of energy, let's say, some

sort of equipment, which creates waves.

So I could imagine that
some of the real gods,

the extraterrestrials, some
thousands of years ago,

they left some little
technology inside the pyramid.

And this technology was very
super modern and powerful.

Could the numerous obelisks
found at various sites

all around the world actually be
remnants of a power system far

more sophisticated than
anything available today?

And is it possible our ancestors
may have pioneered other types

of power plants thousands of
years ago, which would be

considered cutting-edge by
21st century standards?

Some believe the answer can be
found in the remote mountains

of the Himalayas.

The Indus Valley, Pakistan.

1922.

The Indian Archaeological Survey
discovers the remnants of what

is the largest ancient city of the
Indus Valley Civilizations...

Mohenjo-Daro.

The artifacts and architecture
catalogued at the site indicate

a metropolis prospered here
nearly 4600 years ago.

But the skeletal remains found among
the ruins tell a puzzling story.

I understand that they found a lot

of radioactive ash there and they
found radioactive people there.

And so the assumption is
that there must've been some

radiation event.

And so it is possible that
there was some kind of nuclear

explosion there a long time ago.

The problem is that in order to
do that, in order for that to be

the case, you would have to have
some very advanced technology.

These people are
just lying dead in the street.

There's radioactive skeletons.

There are ceramics that have been melted.

It's as it some kind of atomic
nuclear detonation went off in

this area, totally destroying these
cities and killing everyone.

What we may be seeing is the
residue of one of the ancient

power plants used by extraterrestrials.

But if, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,

Mohenjo-Daro was wiped out in a
nuclear meltdown, where is the

power plant that might have
caused such mass devastation?

Mount Kailash, Western Tibet.

At an elevation of nearly 22,000
feet, this mountain is one of

the most distinctive peaks in the world.

This is a very interesting
shape for a mountain.

It is cone-shaped from one side
and pyramid-shaped from another.

And this is precisely the shape
we see elsewhere, in Ancient

Sumeria, Ancient Egypt, various
other ancient civilizations

whereby this pyramid-shaped
object really is said to have

some form of power, some kind
of connection with the deity.

In the Eastern world,
Mount Kailash is regarded

as the spiritual center of the
universe and the birthplace of

four of the world's religions...

Hinduism...

Buddhism...

Jainism...

and Taoism.

For thousands of years,
religious pilgrims have

trekked here to perform the holy
ritual of walking a 32-mile

circular path carved along
the mountain's base.

Everybody at one point
in their lifetime had to

go to this place to connect with the gods.

And this is really the
interesting aspect, because

what is it about this mountain
which sets it apart from other

mountains?

There are several possibilities.

One of them is that the gods
really took residence here.

Is it possible, as some
ancient astronaut theorists

speculate, that Mount Kailash
was once inhabited, or

perhaps operated, by the gods?

They say the true significance
of this mountain can be found

detailed in an ancient Chinese drawing.

The Mogao Caves, Western China.

Between 500 BC and 1500 AD,
Buddhist monks stored thousands

of scrolls and manuscripts
inside a series of painted

temples and shrines dug into a
hillside approximately 600 miles

North of Mount Kailash.

Here, in 1907, Hungarian-born
British explorer Aurel Stein

discovered a sealed-off room
containing nearly 50,000

manuscripts in various languages.

Aurel Stein finds this incredible place

called the Cave of the Thousand Buddha's,

which is sort of like a
Buddhist hall of records.

It's a cache of thousands upon
thousands of ancient Buddhist texts.

Included within this is the
Diamond Sutra, which is the

oldest printed manuscript
known to human history.

The collection of ancient
texts and relics also

included a 2nd Century AD
Buddhist diagram of a cosmic

mountain called Mount Meru...
a sacred site believed to be a

stairway connecting heaven and earth.

For nearly one hundred years,

the ancient illustration
drew little notice.

But recently, the diagram caught
the attention of a scientist

from Northrup-Grumman who
specializes in the development

of advanced weapons for the military.

He said, "I design
particle beam weapons for

a living for the government.

Do you realize that that's a blueprint
for a particle accelerator?"

I went and compared the
diagram of Mount Meru with an

illustration of what's called
the cyclotron... an atom

smasher... which was used in the
development of the A-bomb for

the Manhattan Project.

They're a perfect match for one another.

Aurel Stein's diagram
of Mount Meru that he

found seemed to show Mount Meru
as some kind of particle beam

accelerator or some device that was
stacked up, had different lenses.

It would have made it into some
device that focused energy.

The kind of energy needed would
have required some tremendous

power plant, something putting
out enormous amounts of energy.

Might the nearly 2,000
year-old Buddhist diagram

of Mount Meru actually depict a
device that, today, would run

on nuclear power?

Mongolian myth says
that these celestial beings

dwelled around Meru because of the
energy that was emitted from it.

It was a transmitter of this
cosmic power that fed these

celestial beings or kept them alive.

Whatever the purpose of this device was,

it would have required some
extremely powerful energy

source, some type of nuclear power.

And I think that power might
have come from Mount Kailash.

This wasn't a place that
actually put out spiritual

energy, but what we're talking
about is a place that produced

raw energy, technological energy.

Potentially, we're talking
about a power plant.

Could the ruins at Mohenjo-Daro
really be evidence

that a nuclear power plant
existed in the Himalayas

thousands of years ago?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and speculate that remnants

of a world-wide power grid may
be found among the sacred ruins

of ancient civilizations
all over the world.

Three Mile Island...

Chernobyl...

Fukushima Daiichi...

These sites are now just shells
of what were once thriving power

plants of the 20th century.

Nuclear power is widely used in today's

infrastructure, and it serves
a very high need, but we also

know that nuclear power can
possibly become unstable and

cause a meltdown.

Just like the power
plants we've seen melting

down in modern times, the
ancients saw their own power

plants fail, and did that, in
turn, cause some of the greatest

civilizations to fall?

If we assume that all of these
power plants were somehow

connected, and one power plant
went offline, is it possible

that, as a result, the other power
plants went offline, as well?

Some researchers believe, just as modern

engineers employ strategic
placement of power plants today,

so did the ancients and that
some sacred sites were not

revered for spiritual or
ritualistic reasons,

as mainstream scholars believe,
but actually valued for their

capacity to produce energy.

Certain monuments are
placed in certain locations

and we might think this is haphazard.

But we are slowly beginning to
realize that it is not the case.

And the reason why is because
whether it is the Great Pyramid,

whether it's Stonehenge, whether
it's Teotihuacan, whether it is

another important power site of
our ancestors, we're beginning

to realize that those sites
have an energy which we don't

register at first.

There is definitely some knowledge,

by ancient man, of this world grid,
and these energetic points...

and they are marked by these monuments.

There is a lot of evidence that
the ancients were far more

connected to this higher energy
source than we are today.

But if ancient engineers
pulled energy from a

power grid, as some researchers believe,

why... after thousands, if not
tens of thousands of years...

did the power stop flowing?

The ancient Egyptians
had developed their knowledge

over many years.

And they must have had tools and
technology that do not exist in

the archaeological record anymore.

So something happened to this
ancient culture that caused the

power plants to shut down and
probably wiped out a large

portion of the civilization.

They possessed incredible technology,

which means that they were far
older than we think they are.

And then something happened to them.

Whether they fought, blew themselves up,

or some Earth-wide calamity came
and wiped them out.

But where would agrarian cultures...
some that

didn't have the wheel or work
animals, acquire the skills

necessary to build a worldwide

energy grid and the
power plants to run it?

According to the ancient astronaut theory,

extraterrestrials have always
been motivated by the idea of

advancing human civilization.

They've given us so many gifts
of knowledge that power is

pretty much a no-brainer.

The thing all these ancient
cultures had in common is that

they included stories and
artifacts that are meant to

honor those who gave them this
knowledge, the "gods," and the

gods were extraterrestrials.

Is it possible that alien
beings helped ancient

man create a global network of
sophisticated power plants in

the remote past...

one that may have powered
the devices used to create

civilization's greatest
archaeological mysteries?

Are modern scientists just now
rediscovering energy technology

mastered by the ancients?

And, if so, could what remains
of these long-forgotten power

sources reveal a celestial connection?

One that led to the advancement

of the human race in the distant past...

and that, perhaps, may one day
return to help us in the future?