Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 5, Episode 8 - Beyond Nazca - full transcript
Intricate diagrams carved
into the surface of the Earth.
There are over 800 straight lines.
One has to wonder, what was it for?
Massive depictions of
animals and strange beings
seen only from the sky.
There's enormous amount of mystery about
the Nazca Lines.
Who could have done this, and why?
And bizarre, elongated skulls
found all over the world.
This is an unusual cranial,
kind of elongated head.
And we don't know whether it's
really natural or was some
kind of deformation that they did.
Are the mysterious geoglyphs
of Nazca really just
artistic creations by ancient man?
Or are they evidence of
otherworldly visitors in the remote past?
I am absolutely sure long time ago
the extraterrestrials, they
were seeking for raw material
for energy of all kind.
They found Nazca.
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 if so, might the proof
be found when we explore
the mystery Beyond Nazca?
# Ancient Aliens 5x08 #
Beyond Nazca
Original Air Date on February 15, 2013
Southern Peru.
1927.
While hiking in the foothills
of the arid Nazca Desert,
archaeologist Toribio Mejia
Xesspe discovers what appears to
be a large network of ancient
roads carved into the earth.
Years later, as airplane travel
to the region becomes more
frequent, aerial flyovers reveal
nearly 100 other designs
in the nearby landscape.
Known as geoglyphs, they depict
animals, flowers, and even a
mysterious, human-like being.
Scattered over a nearly
200-square-mile area,
these lines and figures have become
collectively known as the Nazca Lines.
The Nazca Lines consist of these massive
drawings, or carvings, if
you like, on the ground.
Everything from geometric
symbols, lines, to animals...
fish, birds.
But the intriguing thing about
them is, you know, number one,
they're massive, and they can really
only be seen properly from the sky.
There are over 800 straight lines.
There are over 70 animal figures.
There are over 150 geometrical shapes.
We have glyphs of different
figurines on the ground.
We have these intricate lines
and what appear to be runways
spread all around the desert.
Some of these actually show
mathematical diagrams built
thousands of years ago, which
really raises the question: Why?
There's an enormous amount
of unanswered and perhaps
unanswerable questions that
arise from the phenomena.
The largest of the figures
is nearly 1,000 feet,
or the size of three football fields...
while the longest line
extends almost nine miles.
According to mainstream
archaeologists, these mysterious
earth drawings were created by
the Nazca, an ancient people
that flourished in the region between
the 1st and 8th century A.D.
The lines were formed by the
careful removal of the reddish
iron oxide pebbles that
make up the desert surface.
Once exposed, the underlying
dirt, which contains high
amounts of lime, hardened and
was resistant to erosion.
The Nazca plain is made up of layers
of light-colored kind of rock
and dirt with dark-colored
rock and dirt, just on top.
It's very simple.
And then you just remove the
dark-colored stuff to reveal
these kind of white looking
lines over the landscape.
It's like a canvas that
isn't being disturbed,
that's maintained its integrity for
hundreds or even thousands of years.
The reason why they have survived is
because of the desert conditions.
Truly, if you make a geoglyph
at the Nazca Desert environment today,
it will be found
hundreds of years from now.
There is hardly any rain, hardly any wind.
Anything you make here
will last for eternity.
But why did the Nazca
people feel it necessary
to make these elaborate and
massive drawings in the earth?
What purpose were they intended to serve?
And why were they designed in
such a way that they could have
only been seen and appreciated
from the sky...
at a time when aircraft didn't even exist?
The only place you can
see them above is that
somehow you're floating in midair.
It has been suggested
that whoever inhabited
the Nazca plateau, that they had
access to some type of balloon flight,
so that they could appreciate
what they had created on the ground.
If the Nazca population had
access to balloon flight,
the Spanish chroniclers would
have most certainly
recorded that in their reports.
But there is not a single word
that describes that the Nazcans
had access to hot air balloons.
They would have written that down,
but they didn't, so it didn't exist.
By default, we're in the
bailiwick of highly advanced
terrestrial technology,
and that is really the
anomaly of the Nazca Lines.
They really are easy to make,
when you look at it, because it
is only really removing the
top layer of a surface.
But the magnitude of the figures
is what makes this such a
complex undertaking.
Many of the lines at Nazca
go for miles, perfectly
straight through the desert.
There are various trapezoids and
spirals and other glyphs that
are so large that the surveyors would
need some direction from the sky.
And this is where aliens or some
kind of people with flight had
to be involved with the
creation of the Nazca Lines.
I was in Peru for a month in 1987.
I went with a pilot over
the plains of Nazca.
The first pattern that the pilot said,
"Well, let's aim for that
long six-mile triangle."
And there have been laser
surveys done, and it is
remarkably accurate, this triangle.
And it looked like something had
pressed the whole ground
down at least 24 inches.
How would you press down a
six-mile-long perfect triangle
into the desert of Nazca?
What kind of technology can do that?
Not the feet of ancient people.
How could the ancient people of Nazca have
created such massive geoglyphs
without the capability of flight
or the use of advanced tools?
Might these mysterious lines
have actually been created with
the help of otherworldly beings,
as ancient astronaut theorists believe?
The fact that these
designs can only be seen
from above, from the sky, is an
indication that they were to be
used as navigational markers for the
gods when they were actually here.
So the question then becomes,
you know, were they drawn in
this way as navigational markers
for the gods to actually
fly their vehicles in?
Let's assume for a moment
that extraterrestrials
sent down some type of an
unmanned craft, like a rover
that we have on Mars right now,
that is collecting samples,
and is driving around a desert plateau.
It, of course, leaves
behind some type of tracks.
And then the natives who just
witnessed this would look at
each other and say, "Wow!
We were just visited by God."
When in reality, no such thing happened.
Now, could it be the the
case that the gods directed
building of them to the people below?
Could it be that there was some
sort of teaching process involved?
The fact that we're talking about
geometric lines and things
like this, was it a teaching
process by somebody up there for
the so-called "lesser
perceived" people down below?
We're still asking questions
1,500 years later, but, you know,
to this day they fascinate people
and just provoke endless controversy.
Were the Nazca Lines really navigational
markers for otherworldly
beings visiting Earth?
Or were they meant to
commemorate an extraterrestrial
encounter, one that happened...
tens of thousands of years ago?
Modern-day historians and
anthropologists believe the
Nazca people were one of
several ancestors of the Inca
civilization, the largest empire
in pre-Columbian America.
In the 13th century, the Inca
Empire thrived in the Andes
Mountain region of South America.
According to legend, the
mysterious Incan creator god
Viracocha, commissioned the Nazca
Lines and glyphs in the remote past.
And these were said to be
created by the Viracocha himself,
who was the great teacher god of the Andes.
And so where he came
from is still a mystery.
He could've been from Sumeria.
He could've been connected
somehow with the Anunnaki.
No one really knows.
But the same legends and the
same stories of these great gods
appear throughout the world, especially
all the way through the Americas.
We know that they are part of a creation
mythology in which some of the
figurines which are depicted
here are said to be deities, are
said to be part of the creation
mythology as to how the people
who lived in that area and who
made these geoglyphs came about.
They are messages to be seen
from above to basically say that
the people on the ground still
live in accordance with the
rules established by the deities
who came from above to teach the
people on the ground about civilization
and various other aspects of culture.
Could the lines and glyphs
of Nazca really have been
the work of the Inca god Viracocha,
as their legends suggest?
If so, what was the purpose of
carving these strange
geoglyphs into the Earth?
Perhaps the answers can be found
by taking a closer look at one
of Nazca's most mysterious
figures, one that has become
known as El Astronauto.
Switzerland, 1968.
Researcher and writer Erich von
Daniken publishes his first book,
"Chariots of the Gods?"
In it, he introduces the
revolutionary notion that the
Nazca Lines were created by the
Nazca people after witnessing
extraterrestrials using advanced
technology and a sophisticated
knowledge of mathematics.
Erich Von Daniken was
one of the first to actually
do aerial flyovers of the Nazca
region, and was one of the first
researchers to not only look at
the diagrams on the plain floor,
but also in the hills of Nazca.
We find intricate mathematical
diagrams that have never been
documented before.
When you fly over the desert,
you see down gigantic lines.
Seen from the air, they give you
the imagination of airstrips
because they start abruptly, end
abruptly; sometimes they cross.
They look like airstrips.
When Erich drew the comparison
as to how this looks
like a network of runways, it is
to draw a visual comparison to
what they look like from above.
They are not runways.
They would not support the weight of
anything physically landing there.
Some theorize that they were runways.
I don't believe that for a moment.
Hell, I was in the Air Force
for six years, and none of the
aircraft that we had would be capable
of landing on that as a runway.
I think it's more of a attention-getter.
You can see them from space.
So I think that it's a, uh...
a signal.
In the more than four decades since the
publication of Chariots of the Gods?,
Erich von Daniken's
controversial theories
concerning the Nazca Lines have
continued to spark widespread study.
Some scholars, after discovering
curious patterns in the numerous
designs, suggest that the Nazca
Lines might actually be one of
the earliest known examples
of applied geometry.
They were interesting geometric figures.
They could draw a figure,
and then they could envision
making it even bigger.
You're making angles; you're
approximating distances,
and that innate skill of us to
deal with geometry, I think,
translates to our earliest art forms.
It's interesting as you
look at these designs on the
plains of Nazca, some of them
have very, very interesting
relationships to the skies overhead.
There's a very famous glyph of a
spider with one leg that extends
way, way out, and if you take
that and flip it into sort of a
mirror situation, what you can
plainly see is that the spider
is meant to represent the
constellation of Orion, and the
spider's leg, the extension, is
meant to represent the star Sirius.
So whoever put these designs on
the plains of Nazca understood
the same thing that all of the
other ancient cultures before
them understood, which is that
there's some critical importance
to understanding Orion and Sirius and
their relationship to the Earth.
But could the Nazca figures
really have had a more
profound purpose?
Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe they were created as a
means of communicating
messages to the gods...
messages that may have also
included a plea for them to return.
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the mysterious figure
known as El Astronauto could hold
a clue to the Nazca mystery.
They call him The Spaceman...
and he appears
to have a space helmet or
something on his head, and he's
got one arm up and he's waving.
And it would seem this
is one of the sky gods.
Or if he's not one of the sky
gods himself, he's one of the
Nazca people who's waving
to the sky gods and saying,
"Hi, we're here.
Come and land.
We know you came here before.
Come back."
You have a figure that looks like E.T.,
with the big eyes and the big head,
and one hand is pointing to the sky
and the other is pointing to Earth,
as if it was some type of a message:
"Hey, something happened here; we
were visited by beings from above.
Is the mysterious figure
known as El Astronauto
evidence of an extraterrestrial
visitation in the distant past,
as some researchers believe?
And if so, might this suggest
a reason why extraterrestrial
visitors may have landed at
Nazca in the first place?
We send scientists from the
University of Dresden to Nazca.
They measured the magnetic field,
and they found a change
in the magnetic field
under some of the lines.
And also, we measured the
conduction, electricity along
the lines, and right next to it,
the ability to conduct currency
was 8,000 time higher on the lines.
And they found that eight feet
below one of these lines,
the magnetic field definitely changes.
So we have the result.
There is something in the ground,
but we don't know what it is.
Is it really possible
that something in the
earth might have attracted an
otherworldly species to Nazca?
Could it have been an outpost
for a mining operation of precious metals?
Or perhaps minerals
needed for rocket fuel?
It's been said that, if any
extraterrestrial wanted
to come to Earth, Nazca would be
a great place for them to land.
Nitrates and various things that
we use in our modern propulsion
are found in abundance.
Maybe it's possible that
extraterrestrials were aware of
this location as an energy
source, and ancient man left
these depictions and runways as
a way to entice those beings to come back.
We find that the Nazca
civilization was placed in
nitrate-rich environments.
They had no purpose for these nitrates.
The question might be, whether
nitrate was indeed of importance
to the people who came to this area,
maybe in prehistoric times.
Maybe an extraterrestrial
civilization somehow had a
purpose for this nitrate.
Because nitrate is used in
an awful lot of interesting
technological applications today.
Such applications as space travel.
But might the extraterrestrial contact
at Nazca have been designed to
support an even greater presence
that we have yet to recognize?
And could Nazca have in time
served its purpose, only to be...
abandoned?
With any visit, or with
any project, the time
arrives when something is finished.
And that is why some of these
contacts had ended, because
the extraterrestrials went
on to different places.
So why would extraterrestrials
be coming to Nazca?
Some of the lines at Nazca are
going straight through the Andes.
The lines themselves
directed you farther east.
But if Nazca was used as
an ancient mining site
by extraterrestrials, might
there be evidence of other,
similar sites around the globe?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, there are.
And they can be found hundreds
of miles away at the ruins of
another lost civilization.
Western Bolivia.
400 miles east of the Nazca
plain, near Lake Titicaca,
lay the ancient ruins of Tiahuanaco.
According to archaeologists,
this ancient city was the
capital of the Tihuanaco culture that
thrived more than 1,000 years ago.
But ancient astronaut theorists
believe that Tiahuanaco is also
the place where the mysterious Nazca
Lines seem to be pointing to.
But if so, why?
When we consider the Nazca Lines in
Peru, we have to consider
them in their context.
They're not isolated phenomena.
There might not be other examples
exactly like the Nazca Lines,
but they would be embedded
in a larger ritualized
or ceremonial landscape that
might include other famous
places from ancient cultures,
such as Tiahuanaco.
At Tiahuanaco, we can
find hundreds of glyphs.
We can find faces.
We can find carvings of all
sorts of different things.
According to legend,
Tiahuanaco was created
as a tribute to beings called Sky People,
under the direction of Viracocha,
the Inca god linked to Nazca.
But might these Sky People be
the same extraterrestrials who
helped create the Nazca Lines
thousands of years ago?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, the answer is yes.
Nazca, in a sense, is really a way
station along the coast of Peru.
There's an indication there
that once you arrived in Nazca
with your airship, the lines
themselves directed you into the
Andes to the giant megalithic
cities of Tiahuanaco and Pumapunku.
But is there other evidence
of an extraterrestrial
presence at Tiahuanaco?
Evidence that may give us
insight into the true nature of
the ancient aliens who allegedly
visited Nazca in the remote past?
There are many connections
between the Nazca
culture along the west coast of
Peru, and the inland cultures,
the Andean cultures of Tihuanaco,
Pumapunku and Cuzco.
All throughout this area, they
found evidence of these unusual
elongated skulls in all these different
places, not just in one area.
And so, it seems like they were
the builders of these sites.
Found in numerous
gravesites in the region,
these elongated skulls have a cranial
capacity 25% larger than human skulls.
But where did they come from?
You will find academic
critics who will say it was
because there were some Incas
who wrapped their baby's heads
in some kind of blankets or
cloths to make them grow long.
A kind of cosmetic procedure.
There's a lot of argument on the
other side that there is not one
single piece of cultural evidence
that the Incas ever bound the heads.
So, you've got a conflict
there among archeologists,
even looking at the Peruvian heads.
I suggest the extraterrestrials
who were here
thousands of years ago...
they had elongated heads,
and our ancestors simply
wanted to copy it.
They made it in the beginning.
They hoped that they would
become similar to the extraterrestrials
they have seen a long time ago.
They are physically
changing the appearance of
their children to resemble the
physical appearance of the deities.
For the Nazca people to have
done that, it means that these
people somehow preserved the memory
of such physical contact with a deity.
But if there is no
evidence of the skulls being
created by means of binding,
or other man-made means, then
how can they be explained?
Could there be another, perhaps
more extraterrestrial, explanation?
Might they be evidence of some
kind of human-alien hybrid race,
a race that not only lived in western Peru
but who may have also
inhabited ancient Egypt?
According to ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is a profound yes.
And they also cite a link
between the people of Nazca
and the god Viracocha.
What's most interesting is the fact that
Viracocha was also said to be
the builder of all these sites.
So was he part of the race of
the elongated skull people that
came to this land and built all
these amazing megalithic
temples as well as the Nazca Lines?
What is perhaps as
mysterious as the origin
of the elongated skulls is
the fate of the Nazca people.
According to most
archaeologists, both Nazca and
Tiahuanaco were suddenly
abandoned at about the same time
approximately 1,000 years ago.
Those civilizations, I think,
are connected to what
was going on in the Peruvian
desert with the Nazca.
To what extent?
I don't think we know.
There's not enough information
that has been gleaned from those
civilizations, but they both
disappeared around the same time
for whatever reasons.
But there was some
shift in the earth right then,
either some massive earthquake
that even caused Lake Titicaca
to flood the whole area
or perhaps it was some kind of cosmic
war between the extraterrestrials.
But once that mining center...
the, in a sense, the capital of
this area... was destroyed
and no longer functioning, Nazca became
this backwater where nothing was
really happening anymore.
And it was during that period
probably that many of the lines
were drawn and the figures,
trying to attract the extraterrestrials.
Might the elongated skulls found at sites
surrounding Nazca really be
evidence that extraterrestrial
beings once visited Earth
thousands of years ago?
And, if so, is it also possible
that these otherworldly beings
came to mine precious minerals
until they were mysteriously
destroyed, as some ancient
astronaut theorists contend?
Perhaps further evidence can be
found hidden in plain sight
at mysterious mounds and crop
circles found all over the world.
Pleasant Hill, Ohio, 1848.
The Smithsonian Institute
surveys a 1,350-foot long,
three-foot high effigy mound
built in the shape of a coiling serpent.
Like the lines and geoglyphs
of Nazca, this reptilian motif
known as the Serpent Mound can only
be seen from high above the Earth.
Similar to Nazca, what
we have with these earth
mounds is that they're put into
easily recognizable symbols,
but unless you're looking
at them from some altitude,
they don't look like anything.
In the Native American legend, we call
it the plume serpent,
which is probably the same
as the Quetzalcoatl down
in the tribes in Mexico.
The plume serpent theory is
probably related to something
that came from the sky.
It came from the
extraterrestrial territory.
Serpent Mound and other places
of what the Indians used to
call places of worship are very
important to study these things.
There are certain things that are
connected for the well-being
of the planet, whether it be the
magnetic system, whether it be
the ley lines, whether it be
observance points from other
worlds that existed here before.
According to historians
and anthropologists,
an indigenous Native American
culture called the Fort Ancient
people built the mounds
nearly 1,000 years ago.
But, if so, why?
Serpent Mound is an extraordinary site.
It is one of the most important
sites in North America.
It's almost as if somebody is
trying to point out, that for
anybody passing from above,
he or she or it is about to
approach a site of importance.
Why would a so-called
primitive people have
constructed a massive earthwork
that, like the geoglyphs and
lines in Nazca, went unnoticed
and undetected by those on the
ground for hundreds of years?
Perhaps a clue can be found in
the fact that the Serpent Mound
was constructed on the edge of a
meteor crater that was formed
approximately 300 million years ago.
Coincidence?
Or was the mound's proximity to
a meteor site intended to mark
the presence of a very rare and precious
element often found in meteors...
iridium?
Iridium has great conductive abilities.
It's one of the rarest elements
we have, and it tends to be
concentrated in unique
areas for two reasons:
either a meteorite crashed
at some point in the past
or volcanic activity and lava flow.
Looking at locations like
the Serpent Mound in Ohio
and various other sites, we see
some type of energy source that
either was powering these
locations or is still offering
some type of energy source
today, like iridium and other
exotic elements.
And if extraterrestrials are
aware of these locations,
were they tapping into this energy?
The concentration of
iridium on that site is ten
times higher than what would be expected.
Serpent Mound is some kind of
memorial to the presence of
another world involved in mining
of this iridium at some point in
the remote or maybe not-so-remote past.
There's even gravitational
anomalies such as
you get at the Serpent Mound in Ohio
which has magnetic and
gravitational effects.
And it can really affect
your consciousness.
There's a whole preponderance of
possibilities that these sites
were built on these particular spots.
Could the Serpent Mound be a marker where
extraterrestrial beings mined
iridium as an energy source,
as some ancient astronaut
researchers believe?
And, if so, might there be a
connection between energy in the
ground here and that found
in the Nazca plain?
Perhaps more clues can be found
by examining the mysterious
crop circles discovered
throughout the world.
Wiltshire, England, 1978.
Here, in this tranquil countryside
90 miles west of London,
strange crop circles begin
to appear overnight in
fields of wheat and corn.
Like the geoglyphs found at Nazca,
the designs are geometric
shapes seen only from above.
Crop circles, they are
described as some type
of energy ball that whizzed
through the field and all of a
sudden there's this intricate diagram.
We also have to wonder if
extraterrestrials potentially
were involved in Nazca,
maybe they're also trying to get us
messages today through crop circles.
There is a correlation between the ancient
glyphs and the modern crop
circles in that they're both
being presented to the Earth
from what we would call star
people using a higher technology.
Mainstream scientists have yet to
acknowledge an extraterrestrial
connection to crop circles.
But ancient astronaut theorists
remain convinced that there is
more here than what meets
the skeptical eye.
While some crop circles are
undoubtedly the work of farmers
and others trying to pull off a hoax,
many cannot be explained so easily.
They appear to be made too
quickly, too perfectly.
Some magically appear within
a few hours, accompanied by
strange lights in the sky.
Could there be a connection
between these unusual shapes and
the mysterious designs found at Nazca?
Now, people suggest that crop circles are
made by either
extraterrestrials or some sort
of non-human intelligence,
some sort of non-human entity
that's possibly trying
to give us a message.
If we draw the parallel between
the crop circles and the Nazca
Lines, one, yes, is made in,
like, a sandy desert-type
terrain; the other's made in
corn, but the actual designs are
somewhat similar, and maybe even
the message is a similar one,
but it's just been upgraded for a
new era and a different country.
In the past, we set the
communications in stone.
And what's happening now, today,
in fields all over the world but
especially in England, the crop
circles are so much more complex
than the designs at Nazca.
There definitely seems to be
some sort of communication taking place.
Somebody is trying to communicate with us,
and we are too stupid to
understand the communication.
One morning, you have a simple
circle in a crop field.
Now, the humans think,
"Okay, circle, it happens by the wind
or by animals overnight or whatever."
We all are too arrogant, so we
don't try at communication.
Is there really a profound
connection between
the Nazca lines and crop circles, as
ancient astronaut theorists believe?
And might they contain messages
that we have yet to decode?
If so, what are they trying to tell us?
Perhaps answers can be found by
examining other, equally strange
geoglyphs, recently discovered
after nearly 2,000 years.
2011, the Middle East.
Satellite and aerial photography
reveals high numbers of
mysterious stone wheels carved
into the earth in Syria,
Saudi Arabia, and Jordan.
First discovered in 1927, these
stone circles are believed to
number in the thousands, and
date back more than 2,000 years.
Ranging in size from 80 to
more than 200 feet in width,
ancient astronaut theorists believe
these designs fit a global pattern.
Seems to me that there
was high intelligence behind
everything that has been
constructed and built, and that
it has all been built for a reason.
Somebody decided to make these
amazing circles with spokes.
The same thing in Peru, and
look at how far apart we are.
Peru is in one hemisphere,
and Jordan and Syria and
Saudi Arabia are in another
hemisphere, and they're on two
sides of the planet, but you're
talking about a similar kind of,
shall we say, communication.
Thanks to Google Earth,
we now have a vehicle by
which we can see some of these glyphs.
They're being called Nazca-like phenomena.
I think we are opening the first
page of a chapter that deals
with glyphs and structures which
can be seen from the air.
It's not only at Nazca
that ancient man was
trying to communicate to the
heavens, but around the world we
are finding new monuments and
glyphs that raise the question,
"Was there a connected geodetic
presence of sites that the
extraterrestrials used to
navigate around our planet?"
What is the purpose
of the strange shapes and
geoglyphs found at Nazca
and all over the world?
Were they used as navigational markers,
intended to guide space travelers?
Or might they contain a more
profound message for humanity?
In 1972, cosmologist Carl Sagan
stated that if an
extraterrestrial intelligence
exists in the universe,
the means of contact would be mathematics.
If you think about this as communication,
as Carl Sagan was quoted as saying,
it is certainly true that this
would be the way we'd
probably have to start.
A circle is a circle,
and that's just a universal
feature of geometry.
And it would be the same no matter
where you were in the universe.
Is it possible that
otherworldly beings have been
using basic mathematics and
geometry in an effort to
communicate with us?
And might the proof of this be
found in the many geoglyphs at
Nazca and throughout the world?
Could mankind have been
receiving extraterrestrial
messages for hundreds and even
thousands of years...
messages that have gone unread and
undeciphered right before our eyes?
Imagine you wanted to
reveal a truth about the
higher world to humans.
You would lay down one card at a time.
Each of these cards would be a
glyph or a crop circle image,
and it would reveal something
about the spiritual world.
Not just knowledge.
It would provide an experience of the
actual reality it was describing.
What we have in the Nazca
culture is something which
our ancestors knew that what
they were making was gonna
have a lasting effect.
Hundreds of years afterwards,
it is still there.
And it might be very ironic to
realize that they were shouting
out for the deities, saying,
"Please come down and visit us."
And that 100 years later,
the Nazca Lines have become
the billboard for the ancient alien
theory, whereby they really are
interpreted as, indeed, a
landing place for the deities.
And so we might find that across
time and space and culture,
really the core of the
message of the Nazca Lines
is maintained, even though maybe
slightly placed in a different context.
When you look at some
of the glyphs at Nazca,
they would seem to be
just simple things...
animals and figures and things like that.
But then other of the figures
and the lines seem to
be so incredibly complicated.
Mathematical, and they're-they're
following energy lines.
So, there seems to be a much
deeper meaning in all of the
figures and the lines, and where
they're going and why they intersect.
But we can't figure it out.
Is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,
that the lines and geoglyphs
of Nazca are part of
a worldwide communications network...
a network that is directly connected to
otherworldly visitors
from the remote past?
And if so, might this form
of alien communication
be intended for us or for something,
or someone not of this world?
Perhaps these strange shapes
and symbols provide clues to
mankind's not-so-distant future,
or serve as an invitation for
other alien visitors to return.
into the surface of the Earth.
There are over 800 straight lines.
One has to wonder, what was it for?
Massive depictions of
animals and strange beings
seen only from the sky.
There's enormous amount of mystery about
the Nazca Lines.
Who could have done this, and why?
And bizarre, elongated skulls
found all over the world.
This is an unusual cranial,
kind of elongated head.
And we don't know whether it's
really natural or was some
kind of deformation that they did.
Are the mysterious geoglyphs
of Nazca really just
artistic creations by ancient man?
Or are they evidence of
otherworldly visitors in the remote past?
I am absolutely sure long time ago
the extraterrestrials, they
were seeking for raw material
for energy of all kind.
They found Nazca.
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 if so, might the proof
be found when we explore
the mystery Beyond Nazca?
# Ancient Aliens 5x08 #
Beyond Nazca
Original Air Date on February 15, 2013
Southern Peru.
1927.
While hiking in the foothills
of the arid Nazca Desert,
archaeologist Toribio Mejia
Xesspe discovers what appears to
be a large network of ancient
roads carved into the earth.
Years later, as airplane travel
to the region becomes more
frequent, aerial flyovers reveal
nearly 100 other designs
in the nearby landscape.
Known as geoglyphs, they depict
animals, flowers, and even a
mysterious, human-like being.
Scattered over a nearly
200-square-mile area,
these lines and figures have become
collectively known as the Nazca Lines.
The Nazca Lines consist of these massive
drawings, or carvings, if
you like, on the ground.
Everything from geometric
symbols, lines, to animals...
fish, birds.
But the intriguing thing about
them is, you know, number one,
they're massive, and they can really
only be seen properly from the sky.
There are over 800 straight lines.
There are over 70 animal figures.
There are over 150 geometrical shapes.
We have glyphs of different
figurines on the ground.
We have these intricate lines
and what appear to be runways
spread all around the desert.
Some of these actually show
mathematical diagrams built
thousands of years ago, which
really raises the question: Why?
There's an enormous amount
of unanswered and perhaps
unanswerable questions that
arise from the phenomena.
The largest of the figures
is nearly 1,000 feet,
or the size of three football fields...
while the longest line
extends almost nine miles.
According to mainstream
archaeologists, these mysterious
earth drawings were created by
the Nazca, an ancient people
that flourished in the region between
the 1st and 8th century A.D.
The lines were formed by the
careful removal of the reddish
iron oxide pebbles that
make up the desert surface.
Once exposed, the underlying
dirt, which contains high
amounts of lime, hardened and
was resistant to erosion.
The Nazca plain is made up of layers
of light-colored kind of rock
and dirt with dark-colored
rock and dirt, just on top.
It's very simple.
And then you just remove the
dark-colored stuff to reveal
these kind of white looking
lines over the landscape.
It's like a canvas that
isn't being disturbed,
that's maintained its integrity for
hundreds or even thousands of years.
The reason why they have survived is
because of the desert conditions.
Truly, if you make a geoglyph
at the Nazca Desert environment today,
it will be found
hundreds of years from now.
There is hardly any rain, hardly any wind.
Anything you make here
will last for eternity.
But why did the Nazca
people feel it necessary
to make these elaborate and
massive drawings in the earth?
What purpose were they intended to serve?
And why were they designed in
such a way that they could have
only been seen and appreciated
from the sky...
at a time when aircraft didn't even exist?
The only place you can
see them above is that
somehow you're floating in midair.
It has been suggested
that whoever inhabited
the Nazca plateau, that they had
access to some type of balloon flight,
so that they could appreciate
what they had created on the ground.
If the Nazca population had
access to balloon flight,
the Spanish chroniclers would
have most certainly
recorded that in their reports.
But there is not a single word
that describes that the Nazcans
had access to hot air balloons.
They would have written that down,
but they didn't, so it didn't exist.
By default, we're in the
bailiwick of highly advanced
terrestrial technology,
and that is really the
anomaly of the Nazca Lines.
They really are easy to make,
when you look at it, because it
is only really removing the
top layer of a surface.
But the magnitude of the figures
is what makes this such a
complex undertaking.
Many of the lines at Nazca
go for miles, perfectly
straight through the desert.
There are various trapezoids and
spirals and other glyphs that
are so large that the surveyors would
need some direction from the sky.
And this is where aliens or some
kind of people with flight had
to be involved with the
creation of the Nazca Lines.
I was in Peru for a month in 1987.
I went with a pilot over
the plains of Nazca.
The first pattern that the pilot said,
"Well, let's aim for that
long six-mile triangle."
And there have been laser
surveys done, and it is
remarkably accurate, this triangle.
And it looked like something had
pressed the whole ground
down at least 24 inches.
How would you press down a
six-mile-long perfect triangle
into the desert of Nazca?
What kind of technology can do that?
Not the feet of ancient people.
How could the ancient people of Nazca have
created such massive geoglyphs
without the capability of flight
or the use of advanced tools?
Might these mysterious lines
have actually been created with
the help of otherworldly beings,
as ancient astronaut theorists believe?
The fact that these
designs can only be seen
from above, from the sky, is an
indication that they were to be
used as navigational markers for the
gods when they were actually here.
So the question then becomes,
you know, were they drawn in
this way as navigational markers
for the gods to actually
fly their vehicles in?
Let's assume for a moment
that extraterrestrials
sent down some type of an
unmanned craft, like a rover
that we have on Mars right now,
that is collecting samples,
and is driving around a desert plateau.
It, of course, leaves
behind some type of tracks.
And then the natives who just
witnessed this would look at
each other and say, "Wow!
We were just visited by God."
When in reality, no such thing happened.
Now, could it be the the
case that the gods directed
building of them to the people below?
Could it be that there was some
sort of teaching process involved?
The fact that we're talking about
geometric lines and things
like this, was it a teaching
process by somebody up there for
the so-called "lesser
perceived" people down below?
We're still asking questions
1,500 years later, but, you know,
to this day they fascinate people
and just provoke endless controversy.
Were the Nazca Lines really navigational
markers for otherworldly
beings visiting Earth?
Or were they meant to
commemorate an extraterrestrial
encounter, one that happened...
tens of thousands of years ago?
Modern-day historians and
anthropologists believe the
Nazca people were one of
several ancestors of the Inca
civilization, the largest empire
in pre-Columbian America.
In the 13th century, the Inca
Empire thrived in the Andes
Mountain region of South America.
According to legend, the
mysterious Incan creator god
Viracocha, commissioned the Nazca
Lines and glyphs in the remote past.
And these were said to be
created by the Viracocha himself,
who was the great teacher god of the Andes.
And so where he came
from is still a mystery.
He could've been from Sumeria.
He could've been connected
somehow with the Anunnaki.
No one really knows.
But the same legends and the
same stories of these great gods
appear throughout the world, especially
all the way through the Americas.
We know that they are part of a creation
mythology in which some of the
figurines which are depicted
here are said to be deities, are
said to be part of the creation
mythology as to how the people
who lived in that area and who
made these geoglyphs came about.
They are messages to be seen
from above to basically say that
the people on the ground still
live in accordance with the
rules established by the deities
who came from above to teach the
people on the ground about civilization
and various other aspects of culture.
Could the lines and glyphs
of Nazca really have been
the work of the Inca god Viracocha,
as their legends suggest?
If so, what was the purpose of
carving these strange
geoglyphs into the Earth?
Perhaps the answers can be found
by taking a closer look at one
of Nazca's most mysterious
figures, one that has become
known as El Astronauto.
Switzerland, 1968.
Researcher and writer Erich von
Daniken publishes his first book,
"Chariots of the Gods?"
In it, he introduces the
revolutionary notion that the
Nazca Lines were created by the
Nazca people after witnessing
extraterrestrials using advanced
technology and a sophisticated
knowledge of mathematics.
Erich Von Daniken was
one of the first to actually
do aerial flyovers of the Nazca
region, and was one of the first
researchers to not only look at
the diagrams on the plain floor,
but also in the hills of Nazca.
We find intricate mathematical
diagrams that have never been
documented before.
When you fly over the desert,
you see down gigantic lines.
Seen from the air, they give you
the imagination of airstrips
because they start abruptly, end
abruptly; sometimes they cross.
They look like airstrips.
When Erich drew the comparison
as to how this looks
like a network of runways, it is
to draw a visual comparison to
what they look like from above.
They are not runways.
They would not support the weight of
anything physically landing there.
Some theorize that they were runways.
I don't believe that for a moment.
Hell, I was in the Air Force
for six years, and none of the
aircraft that we had would be capable
of landing on that as a runway.
I think it's more of a attention-getter.
You can see them from space.
So I think that it's a, uh...
a signal.
In the more than four decades since the
publication of Chariots of the Gods?,
Erich von Daniken's
controversial theories
concerning the Nazca Lines have
continued to spark widespread study.
Some scholars, after discovering
curious patterns in the numerous
designs, suggest that the Nazca
Lines might actually be one of
the earliest known examples
of applied geometry.
They were interesting geometric figures.
They could draw a figure,
and then they could envision
making it even bigger.
You're making angles; you're
approximating distances,
and that innate skill of us to
deal with geometry, I think,
translates to our earliest art forms.
It's interesting as you
look at these designs on the
plains of Nazca, some of them
have very, very interesting
relationships to the skies overhead.
There's a very famous glyph of a
spider with one leg that extends
way, way out, and if you take
that and flip it into sort of a
mirror situation, what you can
plainly see is that the spider
is meant to represent the
constellation of Orion, and the
spider's leg, the extension, is
meant to represent the star Sirius.
So whoever put these designs on
the plains of Nazca understood
the same thing that all of the
other ancient cultures before
them understood, which is that
there's some critical importance
to understanding Orion and Sirius and
their relationship to the Earth.
But could the Nazca figures
really have had a more
profound purpose?
Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe they were created as a
means of communicating
messages to the gods...
messages that may have also
included a plea for them to return.
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the mysterious figure
known as El Astronauto could hold
a clue to the Nazca mystery.
They call him The Spaceman...
and he appears
to have a space helmet or
something on his head, and he's
got one arm up and he's waving.
And it would seem this
is one of the sky gods.
Or if he's not one of the sky
gods himself, he's one of the
Nazca people who's waving
to the sky gods and saying,
"Hi, we're here.
Come and land.
We know you came here before.
Come back."
You have a figure that looks like E.T.,
with the big eyes and the big head,
and one hand is pointing to the sky
and the other is pointing to Earth,
as if it was some type of a message:
"Hey, something happened here; we
were visited by beings from above.
Is the mysterious figure
known as El Astronauto
evidence of an extraterrestrial
visitation in the distant past,
as some researchers believe?
And if so, might this suggest
a reason why extraterrestrial
visitors may have landed at
Nazca in the first place?
We send scientists from the
University of Dresden to Nazca.
They measured the magnetic field,
and they found a change
in the magnetic field
under some of the lines.
And also, we measured the
conduction, electricity along
the lines, and right next to it,
the ability to conduct currency
was 8,000 time higher on the lines.
And they found that eight feet
below one of these lines,
the magnetic field definitely changes.
So we have the result.
There is something in the ground,
but we don't know what it is.
Is it really possible
that something in the
earth might have attracted an
otherworldly species to Nazca?
Could it have been an outpost
for a mining operation of precious metals?
Or perhaps minerals
needed for rocket fuel?
It's been said that, if any
extraterrestrial wanted
to come to Earth, Nazca would be
a great place for them to land.
Nitrates and various things that
we use in our modern propulsion
are found in abundance.
Maybe it's possible that
extraterrestrials were aware of
this location as an energy
source, and ancient man left
these depictions and runways as
a way to entice those beings to come back.
We find that the Nazca
civilization was placed in
nitrate-rich environments.
They had no purpose for these nitrates.
The question might be, whether
nitrate was indeed of importance
to the people who came to this area,
maybe in prehistoric times.
Maybe an extraterrestrial
civilization somehow had a
purpose for this nitrate.
Because nitrate is used in
an awful lot of interesting
technological applications today.
Such applications as space travel.
But might the extraterrestrial contact
at Nazca have been designed to
support an even greater presence
that we have yet to recognize?
And could Nazca have in time
served its purpose, only to be...
abandoned?
With any visit, or with
any project, the time
arrives when something is finished.
And that is why some of these
contacts had ended, because
the extraterrestrials went
on to different places.
So why would extraterrestrials
be coming to Nazca?
Some of the lines at Nazca are
going straight through the Andes.
The lines themselves
directed you farther east.
But if Nazca was used as
an ancient mining site
by extraterrestrials, might
there be evidence of other,
similar sites around the globe?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, there are.
And they can be found hundreds
of miles away at the ruins of
another lost civilization.
Western Bolivia.
400 miles east of the Nazca
plain, near Lake Titicaca,
lay the ancient ruins of Tiahuanaco.
According to archaeologists,
this ancient city was the
capital of the Tihuanaco culture that
thrived more than 1,000 years ago.
But ancient astronaut theorists
believe that Tiahuanaco is also
the place where the mysterious Nazca
Lines seem to be pointing to.
But if so, why?
When we consider the Nazca Lines in
Peru, we have to consider
them in their context.
They're not isolated phenomena.
There might not be other examples
exactly like the Nazca Lines,
but they would be embedded
in a larger ritualized
or ceremonial landscape that
might include other famous
places from ancient cultures,
such as Tiahuanaco.
At Tiahuanaco, we can
find hundreds of glyphs.
We can find faces.
We can find carvings of all
sorts of different things.
According to legend,
Tiahuanaco was created
as a tribute to beings called Sky People,
under the direction of Viracocha,
the Inca god linked to Nazca.
But might these Sky People be
the same extraterrestrials who
helped create the Nazca Lines
thousands of years ago?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, the answer is yes.
Nazca, in a sense, is really a way
station along the coast of Peru.
There's an indication there
that once you arrived in Nazca
with your airship, the lines
themselves directed you into the
Andes to the giant megalithic
cities of Tiahuanaco and Pumapunku.
But is there other evidence
of an extraterrestrial
presence at Tiahuanaco?
Evidence that may give us
insight into the true nature of
the ancient aliens who allegedly
visited Nazca in the remote past?
There are many connections
between the Nazca
culture along the west coast of
Peru, and the inland cultures,
the Andean cultures of Tihuanaco,
Pumapunku and Cuzco.
All throughout this area, they
found evidence of these unusual
elongated skulls in all these different
places, not just in one area.
And so, it seems like they were
the builders of these sites.
Found in numerous
gravesites in the region,
these elongated skulls have a cranial
capacity 25% larger than human skulls.
But where did they come from?
You will find academic
critics who will say it was
because there were some Incas
who wrapped their baby's heads
in some kind of blankets or
cloths to make them grow long.
A kind of cosmetic procedure.
There's a lot of argument on the
other side that there is not one
single piece of cultural evidence
that the Incas ever bound the heads.
So, you've got a conflict
there among archeologists,
even looking at the Peruvian heads.
I suggest the extraterrestrials
who were here
thousands of years ago...
they had elongated heads,
and our ancestors simply
wanted to copy it.
They made it in the beginning.
They hoped that they would
become similar to the extraterrestrials
they have seen a long time ago.
They are physically
changing the appearance of
their children to resemble the
physical appearance of the deities.
For the Nazca people to have
done that, it means that these
people somehow preserved the memory
of such physical contact with a deity.
But if there is no
evidence of the skulls being
created by means of binding,
or other man-made means, then
how can they be explained?
Could there be another, perhaps
more extraterrestrial, explanation?
Might they be evidence of some
kind of human-alien hybrid race,
a race that not only lived in western Peru
but who may have also
inhabited ancient Egypt?
According to ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is a profound yes.
And they also cite a link
between the people of Nazca
and the god Viracocha.
What's most interesting is the fact that
Viracocha was also said to be
the builder of all these sites.
So was he part of the race of
the elongated skull people that
came to this land and built all
these amazing megalithic
temples as well as the Nazca Lines?
What is perhaps as
mysterious as the origin
of the elongated skulls is
the fate of the Nazca people.
According to most
archaeologists, both Nazca and
Tiahuanaco were suddenly
abandoned at about the same time
approximately 1,000 years ago.
Those civilizations, I think,
are connected to what
was going on in the Peruvian
desert with the Nazca.
To what extent?
I don't think we know.
There's not enough information
that has been gleaned from those
civilizations, but they both
disappeared around the same time
for whatever reasons.
But there was some
shift in the earth right then,
either some massive earthquake
that even caused Lake Titicaca
to flood the whole area
or perhaps it was some kind of cosmic
war between the extraterrestrials.
But once that mining center...
the, in a sense, the capital of
this area... was destroyed
and no longer functioning, Nazca became
this backwater where nothing was
really happening anymore.
And it was during that period
probably that many of the lines
were drawn and the figures,
trying to attract the extraterrestrials.
Might the elongated skulls found at sites
surrounding Nazca really be
evidence that extraterrestrial
beings once visited Earth
thousands of years ago?
And, if so, is it also possible
that these otherworldly beings
came to mine precious minerals
until they were mysteriously
destroyed, as some ancient
astronaut theorists contend?
Perhaps further evidence can be
found hidden in plain sight
at mysterious mounds and crop
circles found all over the world.
Pleasant Hill, Ohio, 1848.
The Smithsonian Institute
surveys a 1,350-foot long,
three-foot high effigy mound
built in the shape of a coiling serpent.
Like the lines and geoglyphs
of Nazca, this reptilian motif
known as the Serpent Mound can only
be seen from high above the Earth.
Similar to Nazca, what
we have with these earth
mounds is that they're put into
easily recognizable symbols,
but unless you're looking
at them from some altitude,
they don't look like anything.
In the Native American legend, we call
it the plume serpent,
which is probably the same
as the Quetzalcoatl down
in the tribes in Mexico.
The plume serpent theory is
probably related to something
that came from the sky.
It came from the
extraterrestrial territory.
Serpent Mound and other places
of what the Indians used to
call places of worship are very
important to study these things.
There are certain things that are
connected for the well-being
of the planet, whether it be the
magnetic system, whether it be
the ley lines, whether it be
observance points from other
worlds that existed here before.
According to historians
and anthropologists,
an indigenous Native American
culture called the Fort Ancient
people built the mounds
nearly 1,000 years ago.
But, if so, why?
Serpent Mound is an extraordinary site.
It is one of the most important
sites in North America.
It's almost as if somebody is
trying to point out, that for
anybody passing from above,
he or she or it is about to
approach a site of importance.
Why would a so-called
primitive people have
constructed a massive earthwork
that, like the geoglyphs and
lines in Nazca, went unnoticed
and undetected by those on the
ground for hundreds of years?
Perhaps a clue can be found in
the fact that the Serpent Mound
was constructed on the edge of a
meteor crater that was formed
approximately 300 million years ago.
Coincidence?
Or was the mound's proximity to
a meteor site intended to mark
the presence of a very rare and precious
element often found in meteors...
iridium?
Iridium has great conductive abilities.
It's one of the rarest elements
we have, and it tends to be
concentrated in unique
areas for two reasons:
either a meteorite crashed
at some point in the past
or volcanic activity and lava flow.
Looking at locations like
the Serpent Mound in Ohio
and various other sites, we see
some type of energy source that
either was powering these
locations or is still offering
some type of energy source
today, like iridium and other
exotic elements.
And if extraterrestrials are
aware of these locations,
were they tapping into this energy?
The concentration of
iridium on that site is ten
times higher than what would be expected.
Serpent Mound is some kind of
memorial to the presence of
another world involved in mining
of this iridium at some point in
the remote or maybe not-so-remote past.
There's even gravitational
anomalies such as
you get at the Serpent Mound in Ohio
which has magnetic and
gravitational effects.
And it can really affect
your consciousness.
There's a whole preponderance of
possibilities that these sites
were built on these particular spots.
Could the Serpent Mound be a marker where
extraterrestrial beings mined
iridium as an energy source,
as some ancient astronaut
researchers believe?
And, if so, might there be a
connection between energy in the
ground here and that found
in the Nazca plain?
Perhaps more clues can be found
by examining the mysterious
crop circles discovered
throughout the world.
Wiltshire, England, 1978.
Here, in this tranquil countryside
90 miles west of London,
strange crop circles begin
to appear overnight in
fields of wheat and corn.
Like the geoglyphs found at Nazca,
the designs are geometric
shapes seen only from above.
Crop circles, they are
described as some type
of energy ball that whizzed
through the field and all of a
sudden there's this intricate diagram.
We also have to wonder if
extraterrestrials potentially
were involved in Nazca,
maybe they're also trying to get us
messages today through crop circles.
There is a correlation between the ancient
glyphs and the modern crop
circles in that they're both
being presented to the Earth
from what we would call star
people using a higher technology.
Mainstream scientists have yet to
acknowledge an extraterrestrial
connection to crop circles.
But ancient astronaut theorists
remain convinced that there is
more here than what meets
the skeptical eye.
While some crop circles are
undoubtedly the work of farmers
and others trying to pull off a hoax,
many cannot be explained so easily.
They appear to be made too
quickly, too perfectly.
Some magically appear within
a few hours, accompanied by
strange lights in the sky.
Could there be a connection
between these unusual shapes and
the mysterious designs found at Nazca?
Now, people suggest that crop circles are
made by either
extraterrestrials or some sort
of non-human intelligence,
some sort of non-human entity
that's possibly trying
to give us a message.
If we draw the parallel between
the crop circles and the Nazca
Lines, one, yes, is made in,
like, a sandy desert-type
terrain; the other's made in
corn, but the actual designs are
somewhat similar, and maybe even
the message is a similar one,
but it's just been upgraded for a
new era and a different country.
In the past, we set the
communications in stone.
And what's happening now, today,
in fields all over the world but
especially in England, the crop
circles are so much more complex
than the designs at Nazca.
There definitely seems to be
some sort of communication taking place.
Somebody is trying to communicate with us,
and we are too stupid to
understand the communication.
One morning, you have a simple
circle in a crop field.
Now, the humans think,
"Okay, circle, it happens by the wind
or by animals overnight or whatever."
We all are too arrogant, so we
don't try at communication.
Is there really a profound
connection between
the Nazca lines and crop circles, as
ancient astronaut theorists believe?
And might they contain messages
that we have yet to decode?
If so, what are they trying to tell us?
Perhaps answers can be found by
examining other, equally strange
geoglyphs, recently discovered
after nearly 2,000 years.
2011, the Middle East.
Satellite and aerial photography
reveals high numbers of
mysterious stone wheels carved
into the earth in Syria,
Saudi Arabia, and Jordan.
First discovered in 1927, these
stone circles are believed to
number in the thousands, and
date back more than 2,000 years.
Ranging in size from 80 to
more than 200 feet in width,
ancient astronaut theorists believe
these designs fit a global pattern.
Seems to me that there
was high intelligence behind
everything that has been
constructed and built, and that
it has all been built for a reason.
Somebody decided to make these
amazing circles with spokes.
The same thing in Peru, and
look at how far apart we are.
Peru is in one hemisphere,
and Jordan and Syria and
Saudi Arabia are in another
hemisphere, and they're on two
sides of the planet, but you're
talking about a similar kind of,
shall we say, communication.
Thanks to Google Earth,
we now have a vehicle by
which we can see some of these glyphs.
They're being called Nazca-like phenomena.
I think we are opening the first
page of a chapter that deals
with glyphs and structures which
can be seen from the air.
It's not only at Nazca
that ancient man was
trying to communicate to the
heavens, but around the world we
are finding new monuments and
glyphs that raise the question,
"Was there a connected geodetic
presence of sites that the
extraterrestrials used to
navigate around our planet?"
What is the purpose
of the strange shapes and
geoglyphs found at Nazca
and all over the world?
Were they used as navigational markers,
intended to guide space travelers?
Or might they contain a more
profound message for humanity?
In 1972, cosmologist Carl Sagan
stated that if an
extraterrestrial intelligence
exists in the universe,
the means of contact would be mathematics.
If you think about this as communication,
as Carl Sagan was quoted as saying,
it is certainly true that this
would be the way we'd
probably have to start.
A circle is a circle,
and that's just a universal
feature of geometry.
And it would be the same no matter
where you were in the universe.
Is it possible that
otherworldly beings have been
using basic mathematics and
geometry in an effort to
communicate with us?
And might the proof of this be
found in the many geoglyphs at
Nazca and throughout the world?
Could mankind have been
receiving extraterrestrial
messages for hundreds and even
thousands of years...
messages that have gone unread and
undeciphered right before our eyes?
Imagine you wanted to
reveal a truth about the
higher world to humans.
You would lay down one card at a time.
Each of these cards would be a
glyph or a crop circle image,
and it would reveal something
about the spiritual world.
Not just knowledge.
It would provide an experience of the
actual reality it was describing.
What we have in the Nazca
culture is something which
our ancestors knew that what
they were making was gonna
have a lasting effect.
Hundreds of years afterwards,
it is still there.
And it might be very ironic to
realize that they were shouting
out for the deities, saying,
"Please come down and visit us."
And that 100 years later,
the Nazca Lines have become
the billboard for the ancient alien
theory, whereby they really are
interpreted as, indeed, a
landing place for the deities.
And so we might find that across
time and space and culture,
really the core of the
message of the Nazca Lines
is maintained, even though maybe
slightly placed in a different context.
When you look at some
of the glyphs at Nazca,
they would seem to be
just simple things...
animals and figures and things like that.
But then other of the figures
and the lines seem to
be so incredibly complicated.
Mathematical, and they're-they're
following energy lines.
So, there seems to be a much
deeper meaning in all of the
figures and the lines, and where
they're going and why they intersect.
But we can't figure it out.
Is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,
that the lines and geoglyphs
of Nazca are part of
a worldwide communications network...
a network that is directly connected to
otherworldly visitors
from the remote past?
And if so, might this form
of alien communication
be intended for us or for something,
or someone not of this world?
Perhaps these strange shapes
and symbols provide clues to
mankind's not-so-distant future,
or serve as an invitation for
other alien visitors to return.