UFOs: The Lost Evidence (2017): Season 1, Episode 4 - Ancient UFO Earth Landings - full transcript
Uncovering new evidence pointing to the possibility that ancient man was visited by extraterrestrials; influencing ancient technologies, architecture and art.
Narrator: UFO SIGHTINGS ARE
RELATIVELY MODERN PHENOMENON,
BUT THERE ARE THOSE WHO HAVE
RAISED THE QUESTION
OF ANCIENT ALIEN INTERACTION.
NOW RECENT DISCOVERIES
SUGGEST CONTACT WITH UFOs
LIKELY OCCURRED EARLIER
IN HISTORY THAN EVER IMAGINED.
Rosenfeld: GIVEN THAT THESE ARE
ARTIFACTS FROM ANCIENT TIMES
TELLS ME THAT THESE ARE
DEPICTIONS OF CONTACT
WITH AN ANCIENT VISITOR.
Narrator: NEW EVIDENCE OF
ANCIENT MONUMENTS
BUILT FOR THE GODS THAT
DESCENDED FROM THE SKY.
Lukes: ARE THE ANCIENT MAYANS
TRYING TO POINT TO
THEIR OWN ORIGINS THAT COULD,
PERHAPS, BE EXTRATERRESTRIAL?
Pope: IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE,
THIS CAN ONLY SUGGEST
THAT THESE REALLY ARE TALKING
ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS.
Narrator: WHY HAVE GOVERNMENTS
ALL AROUND THE WORLD
BEEN KEEPING SECRET THEIR
KNOWLEDGE OF ANCIENT CONTACT
WITH ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS?
Dolan: IT'S NOT SIMPLY
THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH
AN INHERENTLY
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENON.
WE ARE ALSO DEALING
WITH GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY
OBFUSCATION AND SECRECY.
Narrator: DID UFOs LAND ON EARTH
SEVERAL MILLENNIA AGO
AND SEED MODERN CIVILIZATION?
Bara: WHAT I SAY IS AN
EXPRESSION OF THE SAME CONCEPTS
ALL ACROSS DIFFERENT CULTURES
ALL SAYING THE SAME THING,
WHICH IS THAT WE CAME
FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Rosenfeld: IT GOES TO SHOW YOU
THAT THESE VISITORS
HAVE BEEN HERE
FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME.
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Narrator: NEW INFORMATION
IS TRANSFORMING
WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT
EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT.
ARE UFOs REALLY
VISITING OUR WORLD?
IS THE GOVERNMENT
HIDING THE TRUTH?
AND, IF SO, COULD
NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
REVEAL THE ASTONISHING TRUTH OF
ANCIENT UFO EARTH LANDINGS?
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DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS
MARCH 25, 2013.
MEXICO CITY.
HERE, IN THE MOST POPULATED
METROPOLITAN AREA
IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE,
GOVERNMENT MINISTERS
DECLARE PUBLICLY THAT THEY HOLD
ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS
PROVING THE REALITY
OF EARLY CONTACT
BETWEEN THE ANCIENT MAYA
AND UFOs.
SEEN HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME
ON NATIONAL TELEVISION,
THE ARTIFACTS HAVE BEEN KEPT
A CLOSELY GUARDED STATE SECRET
FOR OVER 80 YEARS.
BUT WHY?
WHEN ONE LOOKS AT THE CLASSIC
MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS --
THE MAYANS, THE INCAS --
IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE
THE RECURRENCE OF THE IDEA
OF VISITORS FROM THE STARS,
SKY GODS COMING DOWN,
INTERACTING WITH THE PEOPLE.
THIS IS A THREAD
THAT RUNS THROUGH
THE NARRATIVE OF THESE PEOPLES,
OF THESE CIVILIZATIONS.
IS THIS JUST STORY AND MYTH?
OR IS IT A RETELLING
OF SOMETHING
THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED?
THESE ARTIFACTS
ARE VERY DRAMATIC,
AND THEY SHOW IN SOME CASES
WHAT LOOKS LIKE
CLEAR GRAY ALIEN
EXTRATERRESTRIAL
AND FLYING SAUCERS.
SO I THINK WE NEED TO BE VERY
CAREFUL, FIND THE TRUE ORIGIN,
AND FACT CHECK
THE HECK OUT OF IT.
Narrator: ACCORDING TO ARTIFACTS
RESEARCHER KLAUS DONA,
THE LONG, LOST OBJECTS
WERE FOUND IN A CAVE
JUST NORTH OF MEXICO CITY.
BUT SOME IN THE MEXICAN
INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY
AND HISTORY BELIEVE
THE ARTIFACTS WERE
ORIGINALLY FROM THE ANCIENT MAYA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF CALAKMUL.
THIS ONCE MIGHTY CITY,
DATING TO 600 A.D.,
WAS POSSIBLY
THE LARGEST MAYA CITY
WITH THE TALLEST KNOWN PYRAMID
IN THE YUCATAN PENINSULA.
French: SO THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE
OF MAYA WE START SEEING
AROUND 1500 B.C.
WE'RE SEEING DENSER POPULATIONS
OF PEOPLE THAT ARE STARTING
TO BUILD MONUMENTAL
ARCHITECTURE,
AND THAT MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE
HAS CERTAIN SIGNATURES
THAT WE START SEEING
IN OTHER PLACES
THROUGHOUT THE MAYA REGION.
THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT
FOR THE MAYA, IN MY OPINION,
WOULD REALLY BE
THEIR WRITING SYSTEM.
NO ONE ELSE IN THE NEW WORLD
HAD THAT KIND OF WRITING SYSTEM.
THAT AND THEIR COMPLEX
CALENDAR SYSTEM WOULD BE
THEIR GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS.
Narrator: REGARDED BY SCHOLARS
AS ONE OF THE MOST SOPHISTICATED
CIVILIZATIONS IN
THE ANCIENT WORLD,
THE MAYA ALSO MASTERED
AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING,
AND ASTRONOMY.
THEIR CALENDARS ACCURATELY TRACK
CELESTIAL EVENTS OVER DECADES.
BUT DID THE MAYA CREATE THIS
REMARKABLY ADVANCED CIVILIZATION
THROUGH THEIR OWN INGENUITY,
OR IS IT POSSIBLE,
AS SOME UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVER, THE MAYA ACQUIRED
SUCH KNOWLEDGE
FROM EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS
THAT ARRIVED IN WHAT
WE KNOW CALL UFOs?
Pope: SOME PEOPLE LOOK AT
CIVILIZATIONS LIKE THE MAYANS
AND POINT TO HOW ADVANCED
THEY WERE IN AREAS SUCH AS
MATHEMATICS AND ARCHITECTURE.
AND THEY SAY,
DID THESE PEOPLE HAVE SOME HELP?
WAS THEIR CIVILIZATION
SOMEHOW JUMP STARTED?
THIS IS AN INTRIGUING
POSSIBILITY.
AND AGAIN, IT ALL TIES IN
PERHAPS TO THE IDEAS OF GODS
COMING FROM THE SKIES,
INTERACTING WITH THESE PEOPLE,
SHARING THEIR SACRED KNOWLEDGE.
IN FACT, MANY UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVE THE ARTIFACTS DISCOVERED
IN MEXICO MORE THAN 80 YEARS AGO
SUPPORT THE THEORY THAT THE MAYA
NOT ONLY EXPERIENCED
OTHERWORLDLY VISITATION,
BUT PAY HOMAGE TO THEIR VISITORS
THROUGH THEIR ARTWORK.
Pope: IT'S BEEN SUGGESTED
THAT MANY OF THESE IMAGES
COME FROM THE SHAMANIC JOURNEY,
THAT THEY COME FROM
THINGS GLIMPSED
IN THE SHAMANIC CHANTS
WHICH ARE MAYBE BASED ON SOME
MIXTURE OF DREAM, IMAGINATION,
AND REALITY ALL MIXED TOGETHER.
SO, IS ANY OF THIS ALIEN?
WE DON'T KNOW,
BUT IT'S AN INTRIGUING MYSTERY
AND WORTH FURTHER STUDY.
Narrator:
BUT WHAT IF THE ARTIFACTS REVEAL
SOMETHING MORE
THAN A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY?
WHAT IF, AS UFO EXPERTS BELIEVE,
THEY REVEAL
ACTUAL CONTACT WITH UFOs?
NOW, LOOKING AT THESE THINGS,
THEY DO LOOK, FOR ALL THE WORLD,
LIKE A CLASSICAL IMAGE
OF A FLYING SAUCER.
THEY ARE DISC-SHAPED.
THEY SEEM TO HAVE
A RAISED DOME IN THE CENTER,
AND THERE ARE
STRANGE PATTERNS ON THEM.
ARE THEY REAL OR NOT,
AND IF THEY'RE REAL,
ARE THEY REALLY SHOWING
EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT?
ONE OF THEM LOOKS
CLEARLY LIKE A FLYING SAUCER
OR SOME KIND OF FLYING CRAFT.
IT'S DISC-SHAPED.
IT'S GOT A CLASSIC
UFO SHAPE TO IT.
IT'S DEFINITELY DEPICTING
SOMETHING FLYING.
EVEN A LANDING GEAR OR A RAMP
COMING DOWN OFF OF IT.
TO ME, THIS IS
VERY STRONG EVIDENCE
THAT WE'VE BEEN VISITED
IN THE PAST BY ANCIENT VISITORS.
Narrator: BUT, ACCORDING
TO UFO RESEARCHERS,
ONE KEY QUESTION REMAINS.
ARE THESE
MAYA ARTIFACTS AUTHENTIC?
THE FACT THAT THE GOVERNMENT
RELEASED THESE ARTIFACTS
THAT CLEARLY DEPICT UFOs,
SOME KIND OF ADVANCED
ALIEN TECHNOLOGY,
THAT'S KIND OF A BIG DEAL
BECAUSE YOU DON'T NECESSARILY
HAVE WORLD GOVERNMENTS
THAT ARE WILLING TO RELEASE
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.
BUT, ARE THEY REAL?
WE DON'T KNOW.
Narrator: ALTHOUGH THE CONCEPT
OF FLYING SAUCERS
OR FLYING DISCS
AND THEIR IMAGES ONLY BEGAN
IN THE MID-20th CENTURY,
OFFICIALS AT THE MEXICAN
INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY
AND HISTORY HAVE DETERMINED
THE ARTIFACTS PREDATE FLYING
SAUCER IMAGERY BY CENTURIES.
Bara: THE DISCS,
THEY WERE FOUND 80 YEARS AGO.
80 YEARS AGO, THERE WAS NO
SUCH THING AS A FLYING SAUCER.
SO, WHATEVER THESE OBJECTS ARE,
THEY CLEARLY EXISTED
80 YEARS AGO, BEFORE
THERE WAS ANY SORT OF
FLYING SAUCER CULTURE
OR TV INTERVIEWS
OR ANY OF THESE
KINDS OF PROGRAMS.
SO THE IDEA THAT
THEY'RE NOT AUTHENTIC
KIND OF BLOWS UP RIGHT THERE.
BECAUSE TO ME, CLEARLY,
IF THEY WERE FOUND,
AND THIS IS WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE,
IT'S NOW UP TO US
TO MAKE A MODERN INTERPRETATION
OF WHAT THEY WERE
SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT.
Narrator: ACCORDING TO
UFO RESEARCHERS,
EVIDENCE OF
EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS
FOUND 60 MILES FARTHER SOUTH
IN THE ANCIENT CITY OF TIKAL
IS MORE DIFFICULT TO DISPUTE.
SURROUNDED BY DENSE RAINFORESTS,
TIKAL IS BELIEVED TO BE
THE OLDEST URBAN CENTER
OF THE MAYA CIVILIZATION.
French: TIKAL'S LOCATED
IN NORTHERN GUATEMALA,
VERY LARGE SITE, COVERED ABOUT
SEVEN OR EIGHT SQUARE MILES.
ABOUT 50,000 PEOPLE.
EARLIEST BEGINNINGS
AROUND 400 B.C.
Narrator: EVIDENCE OF
ASTONISHING MAYA ARCHITECTURAL
AND ASTRONOMICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
CAN BE FOUND IN WHAT WAS
ONCE TIKAL'S GRAND PLAZA.
SEVEN PYRAMIDS STAND
IN PERFECT ALIGNMENT,
AND IN THE SAME
GEOMETRIC PATTERN
AS THE PLEIADES STAR CLUSTER
WHICH IS VISIBLE
TO THE NAKED EYE.
Rosenfeld: FOR THE MAYANS
TO LAY OUT THEIR PYRAMIDS
IN THE FORMATION
OF THE PLEIADES CONSTELLATION
TOOK GREAT CARE AND EFFORT, AND
WHY WOULD THEY DO SUCH A THING?
IT HAS TO HAVE BEEN
OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THEM.
Bara: THE MAYANS ACTUALLY
SAY THAT THEY DID THIS
BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE
THEY COME FROM.
THAT THEY HAVE ACTUALLY
COME FROM THE PLEIADES,
AND THEY ACKNOWLEDGED IT
BY THE CONSTRUCTION
OF THESE VERY UNIQUE PYRAMIDS
ON THIS SITE
COMPLETELY ALIGNED
WITH THE PLEIADES.
Narrator: MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS
BELIEVE THAT SUCH ACHIEVEMENTS
IN COMPLEX CONSTRUCTION
WERE MADE POSSIBLE
BECAUSE OF A UNIQUE
AND SOPHISTICATED
NUMBERS SYSTEMS
DEVELOPED BY THE MAYA.
BUT UFO RESEARCHERS CONTEND
THAT EVEN THIS WAS THE RESULT
OF CONTACT
WITH SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES.
THE MAYAN SAY THEIR GODS
COME FROM THE PLEIADES,
AS DO MANY OTHER
NATIVE CULTURES.
THE QUESTION BECOMES,
NOT ONLY WHERE ARE THEY GETTING
THE INFORMATION, BUT WHERE
ARE THEY GETTING
THE MATHEMATICAL
INTELLECTUAL ACUITY.
TO ME, IT LENDS ITSELF TO
EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCES,
EITHER DEEPLY, DEEPLY CONNECTED
WITH THIS CIVILIZATION,
OR AT LEAST
BEING VISITED BY THEM
TO GIVE THEM THIS INFORMATION.
BUT PERHAPS THE MOST COMPELLING
EVIDENCE OF CONTACT WITH UFOs
AT TIKAL, SAY UFO EXPERTS, IS
THIS ASTONISHING STONE CARVING
KNOWN AS THE TIKAL ASTRONAUT.
ONE STONE FIGURE FOUND AT TIKAL
IS PARTICULARLY INTRIGUING.
NOW, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT SAY THAT
IT JUST SHOWS A REPRESENTATION
OF SOMEONE IN A CEREMONIAL
HEADDRESS OF SOME SORT.
BUT OTHERS LOOK AT IT AND SAY,
WAIT A MINUTE, THAT'S
AN ASTRONAUT'S HELMET.
Rosenfeld: THIS MAYAN FIGURINE
WEARING WHAT LOOKS TO ME
LIKE AN ASTRONAUT'S HELMET
WITH BREATHING APPARATUS
AND KIND OF A PRESSURE SUIT,
LOOKS TO ME LIKE
AN ANCIENT VISITOR.
Lukes:
WE HAVE TO POSE THE QUESTION,
ARE THESE CIVILIZATIONS
LEAVING A MESSAGE HERE?
ARE THE ANCIENT MAYANS
TRYING TO POINT TO THEIR GODS?
ARE THEY TRYING TO POINT TO
THEIR OWN ORIGINS THAT COULD,
PERHAPS, BE EXTRATERRESTRIAL?
Narrator: COULD THIS
ANCIENT ARTIFACT REPRESENT
A SO-CALLED SKY GOD
THAT TRAVELED FROM
THE PLEIADES STAR CLUSTER,
AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?
AND IF SO, WHY HAS THE MEXICAN
GOVERNMENT KEPT THEIR KNOWLEDGE
OF THESE ARTIFACTS
SECRET FOR SO LONG?
INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE
FURTHER EVIDENCE LONG-HIDDEN
IN THE MEXICAN JUNGLE,
COULD FINALLY PROVIDE PROOF
OF WHAT THE GOVERNMENT
HAS KNOWN ALL ALONG
ABOUT ALIEN CONTACT
IN THE DISTANT PAST.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO RESEARCHERS,
NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
COULD REVEAL CLUES
TO THE QUESTION OF EARLY MAN'S
INTERACTION WITH UFOs.
AFTER WITHHOLDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL
EVIDENCE FOR 80 YEARS,
THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT
HAS FINALLY COME FORWARD
WITH WHAT MANY BELIEVE IS PROOF
OF UFO CONTACT
WITH THE ANCIENT MAYA.
WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, AND INDEED,
CONTINUE TO LEARN AS WE STUDY
IS THAT THEY WERE
PRETTY ADVANCED.
MATHEMATICS, ASTRONOMY,
WRITTEN LANGUAGE.
HOW THEY ACQUIRED
THAT KNOWLEDGE IS FASCINATING,
BUT IT'S AN UNANSWERED QUESTION.
Narrator: FOR UFO RESEARCHERS,
THE ANSWER LIES IN A FRESH LOOK
AT EVIDENCE LONG HIDDEN
IN THE MIST-SHROUDED JUNGLES
OF SOUTHERN MEXICO
AT THE MAYA RUINS OF PALENQUE.
HERE AT ONE OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES
OF THE AMERICAS
LIES THE TEMPLE OF INSCRIPTIONS.
INSIDE, IN 1952, ARCHAEOLOGISTS
UNCOVERED THE BURIAL TOMB
OF PAKAL THE GREAT --
A MAYAN KING WHO RULED
IN THE 6th CENTURY A.D.
HIS MOTHER HANDED OVER THE
THRONE TO HIM AT THE AGE OF 12,
AND HE RULED FOR
THE NEXT 68 YEARS.
AND THAT IS THE TIME
THAT PALENQUE DEFINITELY
HAS ITS RENAISSANCE.
MORE BUILDINGS,
MORE CONSTRUCTION GOES ON
DURING THAT TIME PERIOD.
WE ALSO KNOW THAT KING PAKAL
LIVED TO BE 80 YEARS OLD
BECAUSE WE'VE DONE AGE ANALYSIS
ON HIS SKELETAL REMAINS.
Narrator: IN ADDITION
TO THE KING'S REMAINS,
ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVERED
PERHAPS THE MOST STUDIED
AND CONTROVERSIAL
ANCIENT MAYA ARTIFACT --
KING PAKAL'S SARCOPHAGUS LID.
ONE OF THE IMPRESSIVE ELEMENTS
OF PAKAL HAS SOMETHING TO DO
WITH HIS SARCOPHAGUS WITH
THIS ENORMOUS LID
WHICH MEASURES ABOUT
4 METERS BY 3 METERS.
SOLID PIECE OF LIMESTONE,
AND IT HAS AN IMAGE
OF PAKAL HIMSELF BEING
SWALLOWED UP BY AN EARTH MONSTER
AS HE'S ENTERING XIBALBA.
IT'S WHAT THEY REFER TO
AS THE UNDERWORLD.
Narrator: BUT UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVE KING PAKAL'S
SARCOPHAGUS LID REPRESENTS
SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY,
SOMETHING THEY CALL
THE MAYA ASTRONAUT.
I'M A MECHANICAL ENGINEER.
I WORKED IN THE AEROSPACE
INDUSTRY FOR YEARS.
I SEE MECHANICAL DEVICES.
SOME SORT OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY
BEING CONTROLLED AND PILOTED
BY I WOULD ASSUME KING PAKAL.
HE'S TURNING DIALS.
HE'S OPERATING GUIDANCE SYSTEMS.
THERE ARE FOOT PEDALS BEING USED
OUT OF THE BACK OF THIS
SORT OF ROCKET SHIP SHAPE.
THERE ARE FLAMES COMING OUT.
Pope:
THE SARCOPHAGUS OF KING PAKAL,
IT SHOWS A FIGURE WHO LOOKS,
FOR ALL THE WORLD, AS IF HE'S
ACTUALLY IN WHAT CAN ONLY BE
DESCRIBED AS A SPACE CAPSULE.
NOW, IS THIS IMAGE
ON THE PALENQUE LID,
AS SOME BELIEVE,
THE MAYANS HOMAGE
TO THEIR CREATOR GODS
WHO CAME FROM THE STARS?
PERHAPS KING PAKAL
BELIEVED THAT AFTER DEATH,
HE WOULD JOURNEY
BACK TO THE STARS HIMSELF,
AND HIS SARCOPHAGUS WOULD BE THE
VEHICLE IN WHICH HE TRAVELED.
Bara: THERE'S BEEN
A LOT OF SPECULATION
THAT EITHER KING PAKAL
WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED
WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS
OR, IN FACT,
HE WAS AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL
HIMSELF.
AND THE IDEA IS THAT THIS
LID WAS ACTUALLY DEPICTING HIM
RETURNING HOME AFTER HIS DEATH,
RETURNING BACK TO THE STARS
FROM WHENCE HE CAME.
THIS IS VERY UNIQUE, AND IT HAS
RAISED A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
IS, IN FACT, THIS KING
IN SOME SORT OF OXYGEN CHAMBER
OR PERHAPS
SOME SORT OF SPACE POD?
WE DON'T KNOW, BUT IT IS
AN INTRIGUING IMAGE.
Rosenfeld: WE KNOW THAT
THE MAYANS HAVE TALKED
ABOUT SKY GODS, AND THAT
TECHNOLOGY THAT THEY USED
TO COME DOWN TO EARTH
AND SHARE THEIR TEACHINGS.
IT GOES TO SHOW YOU THAT
THESE VISITORS HAVE BEEN HERE
FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME.
Narrator: IS KING PAKAL'S
SARCOPHAGUS LID
THE ULTIMATE PROOF
OF UFO LANDINGS
IN THE ANCIENT PAST
AS RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?
AND WHY WOULD THE MEXICAN
GOVERNMENT BE HIDING THIS?
ACCORDING TO UFO INVESTIGATORS,
SIMILAR ARTIFACTS
RESEMBLING ASTRONAUTS HAVE BEEN
FOUND IN OTHER CULTURES
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
IN ECUADOR, SOUTH AMERICA,
IN A REGION ONCE DOMINATED
BY THE ANCIENT INCA PEOPLE,
UFO RESEARCHERS HAVE TAKEN
RENEWED INTEREST IN CLAY FIGURES
HANDCRAFTED AROUND 1500 B.C.
IN ECUADOR, YOU FIND
THESE SCULPTURES
OF WHAT CLEARLY APPEAR TO BE
BEINGS IN SPACE SUITS.
THEY HAVE HELMETS.
THEY HAVE
FULLY PRESSURIZED SUITS.
THEY HAVE BOOTS ON.
SO CLEARLY WHAT THE INCA
ARE REPRODUCING,
THE SAME THINGS THAT
THE MAYANS HAD ALREADY SEEN
AND ALREADY REPRODUCED IN THEIR
VARIOUS ARTWORKS AND SCULPTURES.
IF YOU COMPARE IT SIDE BY SIDE,
YOU CAN DEFINITELY SEE
THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN
MODERN-DAY ASTRONAUTS.
THE HELMET SIZE, THE WHOLE
LAYOUT OF THE SUITS, THE BELTS.
IT LOOKS LIKE A PRESSURE SUIT.
EVEN IT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS SOME
KIND OF APPARATUS ON THE BACK,
LIKE OUR PRESENT-DAY
ASTRONAUTS WOULD HAVE.
GIVEN THAT THESE ARE ARTIFACTS
FROM ANCIENT TIMES,
WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?
IT TELLS ME THAT
THESE ARE DEPICTIONS
OF CONTACT WITH
AN ANCIENT VISITOR.
Bara: IN ECUADOR, IT'S VERY HOT,
IT'S VERY HUMID,
YOU DON'T WEAR A LOT OF CLOTHES.
THE IDEA THAT THEY WOULD WEAR
SOME SORT OF CEREMONIAL CLOTHES
THAT LOOK EXACTLY LIKE
A HEAVY, PRESSURIZED SPACE SUIT
WITH A SPACE HELMET
IS PRETTY LUDICROUS.
YOU WOULDN'T DO THAT
FOR ANY REASON OTHER THAN
TO COMMEMORATE, PERHAPS,
SOMETHING YOU'D SEEN
SOMEBODY ELSE WEAR LIKE,
PERHAPS, ONE OF YOUR GODS.
Narrator: MORE STRANGE ARTIFACTS
HAVE BEEN UNEARTHED
HALFWAY AROUND THE GLOBE.
IN JAPAN,
THE ANCIENT JOMON PEOPLE,
A CIVILIZATION DATING
AS FAR BACK AS 1200 B.C.
CREATED 12-INCH CLAY FIGURES
KNOWN AS THE DOGU.
Pope: THE DOGU FIGURINES
FROM JAPAN ARE INTERESTING.
SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT
THEY ARE REPRESENTATIONS
OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS.
THERE'S NO GETTING AWAY FROM
THE FACT THAT IT'S CLEARLY NOT
A LITERAL REPRESENTATION
OF A HUMAN BEING.
BUT DOES THAT MEAN
THAT THESE PEOPLE
WERE CARVING VISITORS
FROM THE STARS?
WE SIMPLY DON'T KNOW.
Bara: NOW, IT SEEMS TO ME
WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT
IS SOME SORT OF HUMANOID BEING
IN A PRESSURIZED SUIT,
LIKE A SPACE SUIT.
THEY HAVE HELMETS,
THEY HAVE THE WIDE,
PUFFY SLEEVES LIKE WE'RE USED TO
SEEING ON THE APOLLO ASTRONAUTS.
THEY EVEN HAVE
THE VERY LARGE, SORT OF
ALIEN GRAY TYPE OF EYES ON THEM.
I MEAN, CLEARLY, YOU'RE LOOKING
AT SOME SORT OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL
WHO'S NOT ABLE TO SURVIVE
IN THE ATMOSPHERE
OF THE PLANET EARTH WITHOUT
THE ASSISTANCE
OF THIS PRESSURIZED SUIT.
Narrator: FOR MODERN MAN,
DEPICTIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN
IN SPACE SUITS AND ALIEN BEINGS
WITH BULGING EYES
ARE IMAGES UNDERSTOOD AS NORMAL
IN OUR EVERYDAY CULTURE.
BUT PRIOR TO
THE 1950s, RESEARCHERS ASK,
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
ANCIENT MAN WAS ABLE TO DEPICT
OR EVEN IMAGINE BEINGS
THAT APPEAR TO BE OUTFITTED
LIKE MODERN ASTRONAUTS?
LIKE THE EVIDENCE
UNCOVERED AT MAYA RUINS.
COULD THESE
STONE CARVINGS REPRESENT
OUR ANCESTORS'
SPIRITUAL BELIEFS,
OR CONTACT WITH
OTHERWORLDLY VISITORS?
THEY SEEM TO BE
TIED UP WITH WORSHIP,
BUT WORSHIP OF WHAT?
ANCIENT GODS?
BUT WHAT IF THOSE GODS
WERE VISITING EXTRATERRESTRIALS?
Lukes: COULD THIS BE EVIDENCE
OF ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS?
WE DON'T KNOW, BUT WHEN YOU HAVE
ALL OF THESE REFERENCES
ACROSS CONTINENTS,
THROUGH DIFFERENT CULTURES,
AND THEY'RE REMARKABLY SIMILAR,
ONE HAS TO ASK THAT QUESTION.
Rosenfeld: SOMETHING
THAT'S BEEN PASSED DOWN
THROUGH HISTORY,
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD,
DIFFERENT CULTURES
THAT DON'T HAVE ANY CONTACT
WITH EACH OTHER
SHARED THE SAME IDEA.
I THINK THAT WE'VE BEEN
VISITED ON THIS PLANET
FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME.
AND THE ANCIENT PEOPLES
HAVE DOCUMENTED THIS VISITATION.
Narrator: BUT IF EARLY MAN
WAS AWARE OF SPACE TRAVELERS,
AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE,
IS THERE A TRUTH
YET TO BE REVEALED
ABOUT THE EXACT NATURE
OF MAN'S RELATIONSHIP
WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS?
Narrator: SEARCHING FOR PROOF
OF ANCIENT EARTH LANDINGS
BY EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS,
UFO RESEARCHERS TRACING
THE ORIGIN OF THE ANCIENT MAYA
ARE TAKING A RENEWED LOOK
AT EVIDENCE FOUND
IN WHAT MANY CONSIDER
TO BE THE OLDEST CIVILIZATION
OF THE AMERICANS -- THE OLMEC.
LOCATED 170 MILES
WEST OF PALENQUE
NEAR THE GULF OF MEXICO,
THE OLMEC PEOPLE THRIVED
IN AN AREA KNOWN AS LA VENTA.
French: THE OLMEC COME ABOUT
AROUND 1,400 B.C.
THEY EXIST IN A PRETTY SMALL
AREA OF THE GULF COAST,
IN WHAT'S
SOUTHERN VERACRUZ TODAY.
OFTEN, THE OLMEC
ARE REFERRED TO
AS THE MOTHER CULTURE
OF MESOAMERICA.
BUT REALLY, I THINK WHAT
THAT'S REFERRING TO IS
THEY'RE THE EARLIEST
STATE LEVEL SOCIETY
TO FORM IN MESOAMERICA.
THEY'RE THE FIRST ONES TO START
BUILDING MONUMENTAL
ARCHITECTURE,
TO START HAVING
A HIERARCHICAL GOVERNMENT
AND THAT TYPE OF THING.
OLMEC RELIGION WAS JUST WOVEN
INTO ALL ASPECTS
OF THEIR CULTURE.
THEY KNEW THE EARTH WAS ROUND.
THERE WAS A PRIESTLY CASTE
WHO MEDIATED BETWEEN THEIR GODS,
WHO THEY SAY CAME FROM THE SKY,
AND THE MAYANS BORROWED HEAVILY
FROM THAT COSMOLOGY.
Narrator: BUT WHILE THE OLMEC
DOMINATED CENTRAL AMERICA
FOR OVER 1,000 YEARS,
BY 300 B.C., THE OLMEC PEOPLE
SEEMED TO MYSTERIOUSLY VANISH
FROM HISTORY.
WHY?
UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE
ARTWORK DISCOVERED HERE
MAY PROVIDE CLUES TO THEIR FATE,
BEGINNING WITH THESE ARTIFACTS
OF WHAT IS KNOWN
AS THE OLMEC BIRD MONSTER.
French: WE SEE WITH ANCIENT ART,
WITH ANCIENT ARTIFACTS,
IF IT MIMICS ANYTHING,
IT ACTUALLY MIMICS
THE QUETZAL BIRD,
WHICH HAS AN EXTREMELY LONG
SERIES OF FEATHERS.
AND WHEN IT FLIES
THROUGH THE AIR,
IT HAS THESE VERY LONG
TAIL FEATHERS
THAT FLAP IN THE WIND.
Narrator:
BUT UFO RESEARCHERS DISAGREE.
Bara: THE OLMEC BIRD MONSTERS
LOOK EXACTLY LIKE MODERN-DAY
DELTA WING JET AIRCRAFT.
YOU CAN EVEN SEE ON
SOME OF THEM AIR INTAKES.
THEY HAVE TAILS.
THEY HAVE ELEVATORS.
THEY HAVE DELTA
WING-SHAPED AIR FOILS.
CLEARLY, THEY WERE
TRYING TO DEPICT THINGS
THAT THEY SAW IN THE SKY,
THESE AIR MONSTERS
THAT WERE ACTUALLY
PROBABLY AIRCRAFT
THAT THEY SIMPLY
DIDN'T UNDERSTAND.
THEY SIMPLY DIDN'T KNOW
WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING AT.
Pope: IF YOU LOOK AT
THE OLMEC BIRD MONSTER,
IT REALLY DOES LOOK LIKE
A MODERN JET AIRCRAFT
OR A SPACE SHUTTLE.
IT'S GOT ALL THE FEATURES --
THE FUSELAGE,
THE WINGS, THE TAIL.
I MEAN, IT REALLY COULD BE
ALMOST EXACT REPRESENTATION
OF SOMETHING MORE MODERN.
Rosenfeld: THESE THINGS
LOOK LIKE FLYING CRAFT,
ALMOST LIKE AIRCRAFT.
THEY DON'T FIT THE PERFECT
FLYING SAUCER TYPE UFO,
BUT IT'S DEFINITELY
A FLYING MACHINE.
BACK THEN, THEY WERE THINKING,
THIS IS SOME KIND OF BIRD,
AND IT'S SO MONSTROUS,
IT'S A BIRD MONSTER.
Narrator: UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVE FURTHER CLUES
TO THE FATE OF THE OLMEC
CAN BE FOUND
IN OTHER ARTIFACTS AT LA VENTA.
SOME DEPICTING WHAT
IS KNOWN AS THE OLMEC DRAGON.
IS A FIERY DRAGON SOME SORT OF
MYTHICAL SKY CREATURE?
THE ONLY WAY IN WHICH SOMEBODY
IN AN ANCIENT CULTURE
COULD FRAME A DESCRIPTION
OF WHAT WE WOULD
NOW CALL A SPACESHIP.
SOME PEOPLE HAVE SPECULATED
THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT,
FOR EXAMPLE, LEGENDS OF DRAGONS
FLYING IN THE SKY
AND BREATHING FIRE,
THAT THIS IS, IN FACT,
HOW SUCH ANCIENT PEOPLES
DESCRIBED
AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT
MAYBE WITH FIERY EXHAUST
COMING OUT OF THE REAR.
Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE
THE OLMEC DRAGON
AND THE BIRD MONSTER COULD BE
PRIMITIVE MAN'S INTERPRETATION
OF FIRE-EMITTING SPACECRAFT?
PERHAPS THE MOST
CONTROVERSIAL DEPICTION AMONG
THE OLMEC ARTWORK IS FOUND
ON A SCULPTURE
KNOWN BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS
AS "MONUMENT 19."
IT IS THE EARLIEST KNOWN
REPRESENTATION OF
THE FEATHERED SERPENT --
A GODLIKE FIGURE KNOWN
TO BOTH THE OLMEC AND THE MAYA.
MONUMENT 19 IS JUST A DEPICTION
OF A WARRIOR WEARING A HELMET,
AND HE'S WITH
THE FEATHERED SERPENT,
WHICH IS A DEITY
ALL ACROSS MESOAMERICA.
AND THE FACT THAT HE HAS
THAT LITTLE KIT,
MAYBE WHAT THAT'S SYMBOLIZING
IS THIS PERSON
IS HEADING OFF
INTO THE AFTERLIFE.
Narrator: FOR INVESTIGATORS,
HOWEVER, MONUMENT 19
IS REGARDED AS EVIDENCE
SUGGESTING THAT THERE REALLY WAS
CONTACT WITH UFOs
IN THE ANCIENT PAST.
MONUMENT 19 AT LA VENTA SHOWS
WHAT MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE
IS A REPRESENTATION
OF A HUMAN FIGURE
IN A SPACESHIP OF SOME SORT.
AGAIN, THERE'S WHAT SEEMS
TO BE MACHINERY.
I MEAN, IT REALLY
DOES LOOK LIKE SOMETHING
THAT'S BEEN CONSTRUCTED.
Bara: I THINK THAT THE FEATHERED
SERPENT IS AN ANALOGY
FOR SOME SORT OF
FLYING CRAFT THAT THEY SAW.
BUT THERE IS ACTUALLY
A MAN INSIDE OF IT.
HE'S WEARING A HELMET,
A PRESSURE SUIT OF SOME KIND,
AND HE'S ALSO CARRYING A BAG
THAT LOOKS A LITTLE BIT
LIKE A PURSE,
BUT IT ALSO BEARS
A REALLY STRIKING RESEMBLANCE
TO AN ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
PACK LIKE THE ASTRONAUTS CARRY
BEFORE THEY WOULD GET ON
THE SPACE SHUTTLE
OR BEFORE THAT THEY WOULD
GET ON THE APOLLO MISSION.
IT LOOKS LIKE THE FIGURE
IS ACTUALLY MOVING LEVERS,
HAS SOME KIND OF APPARATUS
ON ITS HEAD,
MAYBE SOME BREATHING GEAR.
DEFINITELY NOT SOMETHING
THAT YOU WOULD SEE
SOMEONE DOING 5,000 YEARS AGO.
ANYTHING THAT FLEW TO THE OLMEC
WOULD HAVE BEEN FEATHERED.
SO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
SOME SORT OF BIRD.
SO AGAIN, IT APPEARS
THAT THEY ARE DEPICTING
EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAW,
WHICH IS A PILOT
OF A FEATHERED SERPENT,
AN AIRCRAFT,
A HIGH-ALTITUDE AIRCRAFT,
SPACECRAFT OF SOME TYPE
THAT PROBABLY WORE ONE OF THESE
PRESSURIZED SUITS WITH A HELMET
AND AN ENVIRONMENTAL
CONTROL PACK.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS,
THE IDEA THAT ANCIENT PEOPLE
COULD IMAGINE A TRAVEL SCENARIO
THAT WOULD REQUIRE A HELMET
AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
IS SIGNIFICANT EVIDENCE
IN AND OF ITSELF.
DID THE ANCIENTS REALLY BELIEVE
THEY WERE GOING SOME PLACE
ENTIRELY DIFFERENT AND HAZARDOUS
FOR THEIR HEALTH?
MORE TO THE POINT,
FROM WHO OR WHAT WERE
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
GETTING THE INSPIRATION
FOR SUCH ARTWORK
OVER 3,000 YEARS AGO?
FOR UFO EXPERTS,
THE ONLY POSSIBLE ANSWER LIES
IN ANCIENT CONTACT
WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS
IN THE DISTANT PAST.
Bara: IT'S JUST A NATURAL,
LOGICAL CONCLUSION
BASED ON THE VISUAL EVIDENCE.
I TEND TO THINK THAT THINGS ARE
EXACTLY WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE.
Narrator: THE ARTIFACTS
DISCOVERED AMONG THE RUINS
OF THE MAYA, THE OLMEC,
CRAFTED BY EARLY JAPANESE,
AND ANCIENT INCAS ALL GOING BACK
THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
IS THIS EVIDENCE
OF CONTACT WITH UFOs?
WHAT IF WE LOOK AT MAN'S
EARLIEST KNOWN CIVILIZATION --
THE SUMERIANS?
ARE THERE CONNECTIONS
TO ALIEN LIFE THERE, AS WELL?
AND WHAT STUNNING REVELATIONS
MIGHT THOSE CONNECTIONS REVEAL
ABOUT THE VERY ORIGINS
OF MANKIND?
Narrator: AFTER LOOKING BACK
OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS
TO FIND EVIDENCE
OF MAN'S INTERACTION
WITH ANCIENT EXTRATERRESTRIALS,
UFO RESEARCHERS ARE NOW
GOING ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE WORLD'S EARLIEST
KNOWN CIVILIZATION --
THE SUMERIANS.
DATING TO 6,000 B.C.
LOCATED IN THE SOUTHERNMOST
PART OF MESOPOTAMIA,
AN AREA OFTEN CALLED
THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION.
French:
MESOPOTAMIA'S REALLY THE AREA
BETWEEN THE TIGRIS
AND EUPHRATES RIVER VALLEYS.
THAT AREA STRETCHES
FROM PORTIONS OF SYRIA
ALL THROUGH IRAQ
AND A LITTLE BIT INTO KUWAIT.
VERY RICH, FERTILE AREA WHERE
SOME OF THE EARLIEST AGRICULTURE
IN THE WORLD CAME ABOUT.
THE SUMERIANS REALLY WERE
THE FIRST HUMAN CIVILIZATION.
THIS REALLY MARKED
THE TRANSITION
FROM HUNTER/GATHERER
SOCIETIES TO SOCIETIES
WITH MUCH MORE SOPHISTICATION
WHO WROTE DOWN
IN WRITTEN LANGUAGE,
WHO CONSTRUCTED CITIES.
Narrator: THE SUMERIANS
ARE ALSO WELL-KNOWN
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION
OF PYRAMID-LIKE STRUCTURES
KNOWN AS ZIGGURATS.
ZIGGURATS ARE JUST LARGE,
MONUMENTAL CONSTRUCTIONS
THAT THE ELITE WOULD USE
FOR A MULTITUDE OF PURPOSES --
FOR LIVING QUARTERS,
TO CONDUCT CEREMONIES,
AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
THEY'RE BUILT OVER
A LONG PERIOD OF TIME
LIKE MOST TEMPLES ARE.
Narrator: ALTHOUGH RELIGIOUS
SCHOLARS BELIEVE THE ZIGGURATS
WERE USED MOSTLY
FOR SPIRITUAL PURPOSES,
IS IT POSSIBLE
THESE MASSIVE TEMPLES SERVED
A VERY DIFFERENT PURPOSE?
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ZIGGURATS,
THEY HAVE A HUGE,
SOLID BASE AND A FLAT TOP.
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT
THIS THING RISING UP.
I MEAN, IT'S VAST.
IT'S EASY TO LOOK
AT THEM AND SAY,
WELL, THIS IS REMINISCENT
OF A LANDING PAD.
YOU CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING
COMING DOWN AND LANDING
ON THE TOP OF THIS THING.
I MEAN, IT'S VISIBLE
FROM THE SKY.
SOMEBODY FLYING IN COULD SEE IT
FROM A LONG WAY OFF,
COULD NAVIGATE BY IT,
AND THEN LAND ON TOP OF IT.
Narrator: IF ZIGGURATS
WERE, IN FACT,
USED AS NAVIGATIONAL SITES,
OR EVEN LANDING PADS
FOR INCOMING ALIEN CRAFT,
AS MOST UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE,
IS IT INCONCEIVABLE
THAT PRIMITIVE MAN
WOULD MISTAKE OTHERWORLDLY
BEINGS FOR STAR GODS?
FOR ME, IT'S HARD NOT
TO COME TO THE CONCLUSION
THAT THERE WAS SOME TECHNOLOGY
THAT WAS WITNESSED,
MAYBE EVEN EXPERIENCED.
AND I THINK FOR
EARLY HUMAN BEINGS,
THEIR TECHNOLOGY
WAS MAGIC TO US.
THIS IS WHY THESE BEINGS
WERE WORSHIPED AS GODS.
Bara: IF YOU'RE AN ANCIENT,
PRIMITIVE HUMAN CULTURE,
AND YOU SEE THESE
EXTRATERRESTRIALS COME IN
ON FIERY SLEDS
OR FIERY SHIELDS, ROCKETS,
LANDING NEAR YOUR VILLAGE
AND COMING OUT
OF THEIR SPACECRAFT
AND DISPLAYING ALL THIS
INCREDIBLE TECHNOLOGY,
THERE'S NO WAY YOU'RE GONNA LOOK
AT THEM AS ANYTHING BUT GODS
WHO CAN MANIPULATE
THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE IN WAYS
THAT YOU HADN'T EVEN
THOUGHT OF BEFORE THAT.
Narrator: BUT WHAT CAN
EXPLAIN WHY SUCH SIMILAR
PYRAMID STRUCTURES ARE FOUND
IN ANCIENT SITES
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD?
Dolan: PYRAMIDS IN EGYPT,
PYRAMIDS IN MEXICO,
PYRAMIDS IN BOSNIA.
THERE ARE ALLEGED
PYRAMIDS IN CHINA.
WE NEED TO
LOOK INTO THESE MORE.
IF THERE IS A SERIES OF PYRAMID
CREATIONS AROUND THE WORLD,
WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND
WHY THAT IS SO,
AND IF THERE IS
SOME KIND OF CULTURE
THAT IS RELATED TO ALL OF THEM.
MAYBE IT'S A COINCIDENCE,
BUT PYRAMID STRUCTURE
DOES SEEM TO BE A RECURRENT ONE
MORE THAN WE HAVE REALIZED
IN ANCIENT HUMAN HISTORY.
Bara: THE SIMPLE FACT
IS THAT PYRAMIDS
ARE EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE
TO DESIGN, CONSTRUCT,
AND EFFECTIVELY CREATE.
AND YET, ALL AROUND THE WORLD,
WE SEE THESE
BEAUTIFULLY PRECISE,
INCREDIBLY CALCULATED
PYRAMIDAL STRUCTURES.
AND THEY MAY NOT
LOOK EXACTLY LIKE,
BUT THEY ALL HAVE
THE SAME FUNCTION.
THEY ALL HAVE
MATHEMATICAL ALIGNMENTS --
ALIGNMENTS WITH THE STARS,
THE SUN, THE MOON.
THEY'RE ALL MEANT TO
SERVE A CERTAIN PURPOSE,
AND WHAT I SEE IS AN EXPRESSION
OF THE SAME CONCEPTS,
THE SAME SCIENTIFIC IDEAS
ALL ACROSS DIFFERENT CULTURES,
ALL SAYING THE SAME THING,
WHICH IS THAT WE CAME
FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Narrator: MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS
OFFER FEW CLUES
ABOUT HOW ANCIENT CULTURES
ARRIVED UPON
THE MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE
AND ENGINEERING SKILL NECESSARY
TO BUILD THESE
PRECISE STRUCTURES
AT SUCH AN EARLY STAGE
OF HUMAN EVOLUTION.
EVEN MORE ASTONISHING,
HOW COULD ANCIENT CULTURES
SEPARATED ACROSS TIME
AND VAST DISTANCES
WITH NO MEANS OF COMMUNICATION
BUILD PYRAMIDS SO SIMILAR
TO THOSE FIRST BUILT IN SUMER?
THE ODDS OF THESE
SEPARATE CULTURES ARRIVING
AT THE SAME EVOLUTIONARY POINT
INTELLECTUALLY
ARE REMARKABLY SLIM
ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS,
WHICH LEADS THEM TO BELIEVE
THAT THE KNOWLEDGE WAS SPREAD
BY WHAT WE CALL
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS.
NOT ONLY ARE WE SEEING
PYRAMIDS IN SUMER,
BUT WE ARE SEEING THEM
ALL OVER THE WORLD,
AND THEY ARE
VERY SIMILAR STRUCTURES.
WAS THERE SOME
EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE,
PERHAPS, GIVING INFORMATION
OR GUIDING THESE CIVILIZATIONS
TO BUILD OBJECTS
THAT ARE VERY SIMILAR?
Rosenfeld:
FOR THIS KNOWLEDGE
TO BE SPREAD
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD,
IT HAD TO HAVE
SOME KIND OF HELP.
AND HELP WOULD BE STAR VISITORS
WITH UFO TECHNOLOGY.
Pope: OBVIOUSLY,
WE CAN ONLY SPECULATE
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED
A MILLENNIA AGO IN RELATION
TO ALIEN VISITATION.
BUT THE EVIDENCE
IS INTRIGUING
AND OUGHT NOT TO BE
DISMISSED OUT OF HAND.
IF UFOs REALLY ARE HERE,
IT'S ABSOLUTELY LOGICAL TO THINK
THAT THEY'VE PROBABLY BEEN HERE
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
SO IT MAKES SENSE THAT
IF WE'RE SEEING IT TODAY,
AND IT REALLY IS A PHENOMENA
CONNECTED TO ALIENS,
THEN I'M GUESSING
THEY PROBABLY SAW IT
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, AS WELL.
Narrator:
DOES THE EVIDENCE SUGGEST
THAT THE SUMERIAN ZIGGURATS
AND OTHER PYRAMIDS
ALL AROUND THE WORLD
WERE REALLY USED AS LANDING
SITES FOR ANCIENT UFOs?
AND IF, AS SOME MAINSTREAM
SCHOLARS ADMIT,
QUESTIONS STILL EXIST ABOUT
THE ORIGIN OF LIFE ON EARTH,
IS IT POSSIBLE
THAT OTHERWORLDLY BEINGS
HAD A HAND IN SEEDING MANKIND?
I DEFINITELY THINK
THAT UFOs PLANTED THE SEED
FOR THE EXPANSION
AND TRANSFORMATION
OF OUR LIFE AS HUMAN BEINGS.
I THINK THIS IS WHERE
OUR RELIGIONS COME FROM.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS,
THE TRANSLATIONS
OF ANCIENT SUMERIAN TABLETS
MAY ACTUALLY REVEAL
THE TRUE ORIGIN OF MAN.
Narrator: WHILE INVESTIGATING
THE HISTORY
OF ANCIENT UFO CONTACT,
INVESTIGATORS DISCOVER
THE STUNNING IDEA
THAT EARLY UFOs
MAY NOT JUST BE ABOUT CONTACT,
BUT ABOUT THE BEGINNING
OF THE HUMAN SPECIES.
AND THEY SAY THE EVIDENCE LIES
ALONG THE EASTERN BANK
OF THE TIGRIS RIVER IN WHAT WAS
ONCE KNOWN AS UPPER MESOPOTAMIA,
NOW MODERN-DAY IRAQ,
IN THE RUINS OF THE GREAT
SUMERIAN CITY OF NINEVEH.
HERE IN 1849,
BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGIST
AUSTEN LAYARD DISCOVERS
ANCIENT CLAY TABLETS --
30,000 OF THEM DATING BACK
AN ESTIMATED 6,000 YEARS.
WHAT THEY DEPICTED
WAS REALLY THE ORIGIN
OF ONE OF MANKIND'S
GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS,
WHICH IS THE WRITTEN WORD.
THEY CONTAINED
WHAT'S NOW KNOWN
AS THE SUMERIAN CUNEIFORM TEXTS.
THE CUNEIFORM ITSELF WAS
A VERY INTRICATE TEXT
THAT WAS ACTUALLY PRESSED
INTO THE WET CLAY
TO CREATE AN IMPRESSION.
AND AT FIRST, IT WAS CONSIDERED
JUST DECORATION BY THE SCHOLARS
UNTIL THEY FIGURED OUT
THAT IT WAS ACTUALLY
A VERY, VERY INTRICATE
WRITTEN LANGUAGE.
Narrator: EARLY ATTEMPTS
TO TRANSLATE THE TEXTS
WERE LARGELY UNSUCCESSFUL,
AND AFTER A CENTURY PASSES,
THE TABLETS WERE
ALL BUT FORGOTTEN --
THEIR TRUE MEANING
SHROUDED IN MYSTERY.
THEN IN THE 20th CENTURY,
A NEW GENERATION OF SCHOLARS
ATTEMPTS TO TRANSLATE
THE TABLETS.
ONE IN PARTICULAR
WAS ZECHARIA SITCHIN.
PART OF WHAT HE WANTED TO DO
WITH HIS RESEARCH IS TO BE ABLE
TO READ THESE FOR HIMSELF
AND NOT JUST TAKE VERBATIM
THE WORD OF PEOPLE
WHO HAD TRANSLATED THEM
WITH A DIFFERENT WORLD VIEW.
AND HE LOOKED AT
THE DIFFERENT STORIES
OF THE ANCIENT PEOPLE TO SEE,
WHAT WERE THEY SAYING?
AND DOES IT REALLY
HOLD TOGETHER AS HISTORY?
AND DOES PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
CORRESPOND WITH THAT, TOO,
AND CORROBORATE IT?
WHAT HE FOUND WAS, YES, IT DID.
Narrator: WHAT SITCHIN'S
TRANSLATIONS REVEALED
SENT SHOCKWAVES THROUGH ACADEMIC
CIRCLES AND THE UFO COMMUNITY.
ZECHARIA SITCHIN PRODUCED
A CONTROVERSIAL TRANSLATION
OF SOME OF THE CLAY TABLETS.
AND HE SAID THAT THEY SPOKE
ABOUT THE ANUNNAKI.
ACCORDING TO
ZECHARIA SITCHIN'S TRANSLATION,
THESE CLAY TABLETS
ARE TALKING ABOUT CRAFT
THAT FLY IN THE AIR.
THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT
THE QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY.
THEY'RE TALKING
ABOUT WAR IN HEAVEN,
WAR AMONGST THE GODS.
IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE,
THE CONCLUSION IS INESCAPABLE.
WE REALLY WERE VISITED.
Narrator: BUT WHO WERE THESE
BEINGS KNOWN AS THE ANUNNAKI?
THE ANUNNAKI IS SUMERIAN
FOR "THOSE WHO FROM HEAVEN
TO EARTH CAME."
THEY ARE TALLER THAN US.
THEY WERE ABOUT
8 OR 10 FEET TALL,
AND SO TO US,
THEY WERE GIANTS.
SO, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT
THAT THE GODS CREATED MAN
IN THEIR IMAGE,
WE LOOK LIKE THEM.
Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE
THE EXPLOSIVE TRUTH DISCOVERED
IN THE CUNEIFORM TABLETS REVEALS
THAT THE SUMERIANS
WERE ACTUALLY VISITED BY
A RACE OF
EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS,
AND IF SO, WHY WERE THEY HERE?
ZECHARIA SITCHIN BELIEVED
THAT THE SUMERIANS
WERE TALKING ABOUT
EXTRATERRESTRIALS
WHO HAD VISITED
THE ANCIENT SUMERIANS,
HAD PERHAPS SHARED
KNOWLEDGE WITH THEM.
AND PERHAPS EVEN SEEDED
HUMAN SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT
BY BREEDING WITH HUMANS
AND ACTUALLY PRODUCING
A HYBRID RACE.
Bara: ACCORDING TO SITCHIN,
THE ANUNNAKI CAME DOWN HERE
TO DO SOME WORK,
TO DO SOME MINING FOR GOLD,
TO FIND THINGS THAT THEY NEEDED
FOR THEIR CIVILIZATION.
WHEN THE WORK BECAME
TOO INTENSE FOR THEM,
WHEN THEY COULDN'T
HANDLE ALL THE WORK,
THEY DECIDED TO FASHION
A WORKER SPECIES,
AND THEY TOOK THE GENETICS
OF THEMSELVES,
AND THEY TOOK THE GENETICS
OF THE LOCAL INHABITANTS,
AND THEY MELDED THEM TOGETHER
AND APPARENTLY CREATED
THE PHYSICAL BODIES
OF WHAT WE NOW CALL MODERN MAN.
THE SUMERIANS BELIEVED THAT
THEY WERE MADE TO MINE GOLD.
THAT'S VERY, VERY INTERESTING
BECAUSE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT,
THEY BRED THAT INTO US.
WE STILL HAVE THAT FASCINATION
TO THIS DAY WITH GOLD.
THE REAL QUESTION THAT WE WANT
TO ASK ABOUT THE ANUNNAKI IS,
DO WE TAKE THESE STORIES
TO BE LITERALLY TRUE?
ALL RIGHT?
OR DO WE TAKE THEM
AS STORIES THAT THE SUMERIANS
JUST HAD ABOUT THEIR CULTURE?
IF WE'RE TO TAKE THEM
AS LITERALLY TRUE,
WE HAVE A LOT
OF QUESTIONS TO ASK.
Narrator: ONE QUESTION RELATES
TO EXTRAORDINARY SIMILARITIES
FOUND IN THE ARTWORK
OF THE SUMERIANS
AND THE OLMEC OF MESOAMERICA.
IN SUMERIAN DEPICTIONS,
THE ANUNNAKI GODS
HOLD WHAT APPEARS TO BE
A SMALL BAG WITH A HANDLE.
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE
THAT A STRANGELY SIMILAR BAG
IS BEING HELD BY THE OLMEC
ASTRONAUT AT LA VENTA?
Lukes:
SO, HERE YOU SEE THE ANUNNAKI.
THEY'RE CLEARLY HOLDING
SOMETHING IN THEIR HAND.
WHAT IS THIS OBJECT?
WE'RE SEEING THIS
WITH THE OLMEC CIVILIZATION.
IT IS AN OBJECT OR OBJECTS
THAT ARE ALMOST IDENTICAL.
DOES IT MEAN THAT THERE IS
A GREATER INTELLIGENCE AT WORK?
PERHAPS, AS SOME THEORIZE,
AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE
THAT IS SHARING THIS INFORMATION
WITH BOTH CIVILIZATIONS.
Narrator: COULD THERE REALLY BE
A DIRECT CONNECTION
BETWEEN THE OLMEC
AND SUMERIAN CIVILIZATIONS,
AS UFO RESEARCHERS THEORIZE?
Dolan: THEY HAD EXISTED IN
A VERY DIFFERENT PERIOD OF TIME.
BUT NONETHELESS, IS IT POSSIBLE
THAT THERE'S A TIE-IN?
MAYBE IT'S A COINCIDENCE.
Pope: IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE,
I MEAN, THIS CAN ONLY SUGGEST
THAT THESE REALLY ARE
TALKING ABOUT
THE SAME
EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS.
Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE
SUGGEST THAT THE OLMEC AND MAYA
WERE VISITED BY THE SAME
SO-CALLED STAR GODS
KNOWN TO THE SUMERIANS
AS THE ANUNNAKI?
AND IF SO, WHAT WOULD
EXTRATERRESTRIALS HAVE TO GAIN
BY THESE VISITATIONS?
IF UFOs ARE AN ADVANCED
ALIEN CIVILIZATION,
AND THEY ARE HERE
IN THE 21st CENTURY,
IT'S ABSOLUTELY LOGICAL TO THINK
THAT THEY'VE PROBABLY BEEN HERE
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
THEY COULD ESSENTIALLY BE
WATCHING THE GROWTH OF HUMANITY.
WOULD THEY STICK AROUND
AND RESEARCH US THAT LONG?
THAT'S A BIG QUESTION MARK.
MAYBE THEIR AGENDA
IS TO SEE THE NATURAL EVOLUTION
OF A YOUNG SPECIES.
MAYBE THAT IS THEIR MISSION.
Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD,
INCLUDING IN MEXICO,
HAVE KNOWN THAT OUR CIVILIZATION
MAY HAVE BEEN SEEDED
BY EXTRATERRESTRIAL LANDINGS
IN THE ANCIENT PAST?
IF SO, WHAT ELSE
ARE THEY NOT TELLING US?
IT'S NOT SIMPLY THAT
WE'RE DEALING WITH AN INHERENTLY
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENON,
WHICH WE ARE.
WE ARE ALSO DEALING
WITH GOVERNMENT
AND MILITARY OBFUSCATION
AND SECRECY,
AND THAT'S JUST A FACT.
WE LIVE IN AN ERA
IN WHICH THERE IS
A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF SECRECY.
Narrator:
STILL, ONE THING IS CLEAR.
THE SUMERIAN TABLETS
DO OFFER CLUES TO THE FUTURE
IF THEY ARE TO BE BELIEVED.
Bara: THERE IS A PROPHECY
THAT SOME DAY,
THE ANUNNAKI WILL COME BACK.
THEY WILL RETURN TO
CLAIM THEIR PROPERTY,
CLAIM THEIR STAKE,
AND LIVE IN HARMONY
WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH.
WE SHALL SEE IF
THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS.
Narrator: WHAT IS ABUNDANTLY
CLEAR IS THAT THE FASCINATION
OF OTHERWORLDLY VISITORS
AND THEIR LIKENESS
THROUGHOUT ANCIENT HISTORY
IS NOT SOMETHING THAT BEGAN
MERELY IN THE 20th CENTURY.
THERE ARE UNDENIABLE GAPS
IN OUR UNDERSTANDING
OF ANCIENT CULTURES,
GAPS WHICH MAY
ONLY BE EXPLAINED,
ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS,
IF WE LOOK TO THE SKIES
FOR ANSWERS.
RELATIVELY MODERN PHENOMENON,
BUT THERE ARE THOSE WHO HAVE
RAISED THE QUESTION
OF ANCIENT ALIEN INTERACTION.
NOW RECENT DISCOVERIES
SUGGEST CONTACT WITH UFOs
LIKELY OCCURRED EARLIER
IN HISTORY THAN EVER IMAGINED.
Rosenfeld: GIVEN THAT THESE ARE
ARTIFACTS FROM ANCIENT TIMES
TELLS ME THAT THESE ARE
DEPICTIONS OF CONTACT
WITH AN ANCIENT VISITOR.
Narrator: NEW EVIDENCE OF
ANCIENT MONUMENTS
BUILT FOR THE GODS THAT
DESCENDED FROM THE SKY.
Lukes: ARE THE ANCIENT MAYANS
TRYING TO POINT TO
THEIR OWN ORIGINS THAT COULD,
PERHAPS, BE EXTRATERRESTRIAL?
Pope: IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE,
THIS CAN ONLY SUGGEST
THAT THESE REALLY ARE TALKING
ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS.
Narrator: WHY HAVE GOVERNMENTS
ALL AROUND THE WORLD
BEEN KEEPING SECRET THEIR
KNOWLEDGE OF ANCIENT CONTACT
WITH ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS?
Dolan: IT'S NOT SIMPLY
THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH
AN INHERENTLY
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENON.
WE ARE ALSO DEALING
WITH GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY
OBFUSCATION AND SECRECY.
Narrator: DID UFOs LAND ON EARTH
SEVERAL MILLENNIA AGO
AND SEED MODERN CIVILIZATION?
Bara: WHAT I SAY IS AN
EXPRESSION OF THE SAME CONCEPTS
ALL ACROSS DIFFERENT CULTURES
ALL SAYING THE SAME THING,
WHICH IS THAT WE CAME
FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Rosenfeld: IT GOES TO SHOW YOU
THAT THESE VISITORS
HAVE BEEN HERE
FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME.
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Narrator: NEW INFORMATION
IS TRANSFORMING
WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT
EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT.
ARE UFOs REALLY
VISITING OUR WORLD?
IS THE GOVERNMENT
HIDING THE TRUTH?
AND, IF SO, COULD
NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
REVEAL THE ASTONISHING TRUTH OF
ANCIENT UFO EARTH LANDINGS?
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MARCH 25, 2013.
MEXICO CITY.
HERE, IN THE MOST POPULATED
METROPOLITAN AREA
IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE,
GOVERNMENT MINISTERS
DECLARE PUBLICLY THAT THEY HOLD
ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS
PROVING THE REALITY
OF EARLY CONTACT
BETWEEN THE ANCIENT MAYA
AND UFOs.
SEEN HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME
ON NATIONAL TELEVISION,
THE ARTIFACTS HAVE BEEN KEPT
A CLOSELY GUARDED STATE SECRET
FOR OVER 80 YEARS.
BUT WHY?
WHEN ONE LOOKS AT THE CLASSIC
MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS --
THE MAYANS, THE INCAS --
IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE
THE RECURRENCE OF THE IDEA
OF VISITORS FROM THE STARS,
SKY GODS COMING DOWN,
INTERACTING WITH THE PEOPLE.
THIS IS A THREAD
THAT RUNS THROUGH
THE NARRATIVE OF THESE PEOPLES,
OF THESE CIVILIZATIONS.
IS THIS JUST STORY AND MYTH?
OR IS IT A RETELLING
OF SOMETHING
THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED?
THESE ARTIFACTS
ARE VERY DRAMATIC,
AND THEY SHOW IN SOME CASES
WHAT LOOKS LIKE
CLEAR GRAY ALIEN
EXTRATERRESTRIAL
AND FLYING SAUCERS.
SO I THINK WE NEED TO BE VERY
CAREFUL, FIND THE TRUE ORIGIN,
AND FACT CHECK
THE HECK OUT OF IT.
Narrator: ACCORDING TO ARTIFACTS
RESEARCHER KLAUS DONA,
THE LONG, LOST OBJECTS
WERE FOUND IN A CAVE
JUST NORTH OF MEXICO CITY.
BUT SOME IN THE MEXICAN
INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY
AND HISTORY BELIEVE
THE ARTIFACTS WERE
ORIGINALLY FROM THE ANCIENT MAYA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF CALAKMUL.
THIS ONCE MIGHTY CITY,
DATING TO 600 A.D.,
WAS POSSIBLY
THE LARGEST MAYA CITY
WITH THE TALLEST KNOWN PYRAMID
IN THE YUCATAN PENINSULA.
French: SO THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE
OF MAYA WE START SEEING
AROUND 1500 B.C.
WE'RE SEEING DENSER POPULATIONS
OF PEOPLE THAT ARE STARTING
TO BUILD MONUMENTAL
ARCHITECTURE,
AND THAT MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE
HAS CERTAIN SIGNATURES
THAT WE START SEEING
IN OTHER PLACES
THROUGHOUT THE MAYA REGION.
THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT
FOR THE MAYA, IN MY OPINION,
WOULD REALLY BE
THEIR WRITING SYSTEM.
NO ONE ELSE IN THE NEW WORLD
HAD THAT KIND OF WRITING SYSTEM.
THAT AND THEIR COMPLEX
CALENDAR SYSTEM WOULD BE
THEIR GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS.
Narrator: REGARDED BY SCHOLARS
AS ONE OF THE MOST SOPHISTICATED
CIVILIZATIONS IN
THE ANCIENT WORLD,
THE MAYA ALSO MASTERED
AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING,
AND ASTRONOMY.
THEIR CALENDARS ACCURATELY TRACK
CELESTIAL EVENTS OVER DECADES.
BUT DID THE MAYA CREATE THIS
REMARKABLY ADVANCED CIVILIZATION
THROUGH THEIR OWN INGENUITY,
OR IS IT POSSIBLE,
AS SOME UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVER, THE MAYA ACQUIRED
SUCH KNOWLEDGE
FROM EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS
THAT ARRIVED IN WHAT
WE KNOW CALL UFOs?
Pope: SOME PEOPLE LOOK AT
CIVILIZATIONS LIKE THE MAYANS
AND POINT TO HOW ADVANCED
THEY WERE IN AREAS SUCH AS
MATHEMATICS AND ARCHITECTURE.
AND THEY SAY,
DID THESE PEOPLE HAVE SOME HELP?
WAS THEIR CIVILIZATION
SOMEHOW JUMP STARTED?
THIS IS AN INTRIGUING
POSSIBILITY.
AND AGAIN, IT ALL TIES IN
PERHAPS TO THE IDEAS OF GODS
COMING FROM THE SKIES,
INTERACTING WITH THESE PEOPLE,
SHARING THEIR SACRED KNOWLEDGE.
IN FACT, MANY UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVE THE ARTIFACTS DISCOVERED
IN MEXICO MORE THAN 80 YEARS AGO
SUPPORT THE THEORY THAT THE MAYA
NOT ONLY EXPERIENCED
OTHERWORLDLY VISITATION,
BUT PAY HOMAGE TO THEIR VISITORS
THROUGH THEIR ARTWORK.
Pope: IT'S BEEN SUGGESTED
THAT MANY OF THESE IMAGES
COME FROM THE SHAMANIC JOURNEY,
THAT THEY COME FROM
THINGS GLIMPSED
IN THE SHAMANIC CHANTS
WHICH ARE MAYBE BASED ON SOME
MIXTURE OF DREAM, IMAGINATION,
AND REALITY ALL MIXED TOGETHER.
SO, IS ANY OF THIS ALIEN?
WE DON'T KNOW,
BUT IT'S AN INTRIGUING MYSTERY
AND WORTH FURTHER STUDY.
Narrator:
BUT WHAT IF THE ARTIFACTS REVEAL
SOMETHING MORE
THAN A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY?
WHAT IF, AS UFO EXPERTS BELIEVE,
THEY REVEAL
ACTUAL CONTACT WITH UFOs?
NOW, LOOKING AT THESE THINGS,
THEY DO LOOK, FOR ALL THE WORLD,
LIKE A CLASSICAL IMAGE
OF A FLYING SAUCER.
THEY ARE DISC-SHAPED.
THEY SEEM TO HAVE
A RAISED DOME IN THE CENTER,
AND THERE ARE
STRANGE PATTERNS ON THEM.
ARE THEY REAL OR NOT,
AND IF THEY'RE REAL,
ARE THEY REALLY SHOWING
EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT?
ONE OF THEM LOOKS
CLEARLY LIKE A FLYING SAUCER
OR SOME KIND OF FLYING CRAFT.
IT'S DISC-SHAPED.
IT'S GOT A CLASSIC
UFO SHAPE TO IT.
IT'S DEFINITELY DEPICTING
SOMETHING FLYING.
EVEN A LANDING GEAR OR A RAMP
COMING DOWN OFF OF IT.
TO ME, THIS IS
VERY STRONG EVIDENCE
THAT WE'VE BEEN VISITED
IN THE PAST BY ANCIENT VISITORS.
Narrator: BUT, ACCORDING
TO UFO RESEARCHERS,
ONE KEY QUESTION REMAINS.
ARE THESE
MAYA ARTIFACTS AUTHENTIC?
THE FACT THAT THE GOVERNMENT
RELEASED THESE ARTIFACTS
THAT CLEARLY DEPICT UFOs,
SOME KIND OF ADVANCED
ALIEN TECHNOLOGY,
THAT'S KIND OF A BIG DEAL
BECAUSE YOU DON'T NECESSARILY
HAVE WORLD GOVERNMENTS
THAT ARE WILLING TO RELEASE
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.
BUT, ARE THEY REAL?
WE DON'T KNOW.
Narrator: ALTHOUGH THE CONCEPT
OF FLYING SAUCERS
OR FLYING DISCS
AND THEIR IMAGES ONLY BEGAN
IN THE MID-20th CENTURY,
OFFICIALS AT THE MEXICAN
INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY
AND HISTORY HAVE DETERMINED
THE ARTIFACTS PREDATE FLYING
SAUCER IMAGERY BY CENTURIES.
Bara: THE DISCS,
THEY WERE FOUND 80 YEARS AGO.
80 YEARS AGO, THERE WAS NO
SUCH THING AS A FLYING SAUCER.
SO, WHATEVER THESE OBJECTS ARE,
THEY CLEARLY EXISTED
80 YEARS AGO, BEFORE
THERE WAS ANY SORT OF
FLYING SAUCER CULTURE
OR TV INTERVIEWS
OR ANY OF THESE
KINDS OF PROGRAMS.
SO THE IDEA THAT
THEY'RE NOT AUTHENTIC
KIND OF BLOWS UP RIGHT THERE.
BECAUSE TO ME, CLEARLY,
IF THEY WERE FOUND,
AND THIS IS WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE,
IT'S NOW UP TO US
TO MAKE A MODERN INTERPRETATION
OF WHAT THEY WERE
SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT.
Narrator: ACCORDING TO
UFO RESEARCHERS,
EVIDENCE OF
EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS
FOUND 60 MILES FARTHER SOUTH
IN THE ANCIENT CITY OF TIKAL
IS MORE DIFFICULT TO DISPUTE.
SURROUNDED BY DENSE RAINFORESTS,
TIKAL IS BELIEVED TO BE
THE OLDEST URBAN CENTER
OF THE MAYA CIVILIZATION.
French: TIKAL'S LOCATED
IN NORTHERN GUATEMALA,
VERY LARGE SITE, COVERED ABOUT
SEVEN OR EIGHT SQUARE MILES.
ABOUT 50,000 PEOPLE.
EARLIEST BEGINNINGS
AROUND 400 B.C.
Narrator: EVIDENCE OF
ASTONISHING MAYA ARCHITECTURAL
AND ASTRONOMICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
CAN BE FOUND IN WHAT WAS
ONCE TIKAL'S GRAND PLAZA.
SEVEN PYRAMIDS STAND
IN PERFECT ALIGNMENT,
AND IN THE SAME
GEOMETRIC PATTERN
AS THE PLEIADES STAR CLUSTER
WHICH IS VISIBLE
TO THE NAKED EYE.
Rosenfeld: FOR THE MAYANS
TO LAY OUT THEIR PYRAMIDS
IN THE FORMATION
OF THE PLEIADES CONSTELLATION
TOOK GREAT CARE AND EFFORT, AND
WHY WOULD THEY DO SUCH A THING?
IT HAS TO HAVE BEEN
OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THEM.
Bara: THE MAYANS ACTUALLY
SAY THAT THEY DID THIS
BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE
THEY COME FROM.
THAT THEY HAVE ACTUALLY
COME FROM THE PLEIADES,
AND THEY ACKNOWLEDGED IT
BY THE CONSTRUCTION
OF THESE VERY UNIQUE PYRAMIDS
ON THIS SITE
COMPLETELY ALIGNED
WITH THE PLEIADES.
Narrator: MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS
BELIEVE THAT SUCH ACHIEVEMENTS
IN COMPLEX CONSTRUCTION
WERE MADE POSSIBLE
BECAUSE OF A UNIQUE
AND SOPHISTICATED
NUMBERS SYSTEMS
DEVELOPED BY THE MAYA.
BUT UFO RESEARCHERS CONTEND
THAT EVEN THIS WAS THE RESULT
OF CONTACT
WITH SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES.
THE MAYAN SAY THEIR GODS
COME FROM THE PLEIADES,
AS DO MANY OTHER
NATIVE CULTURES.
THE QUESTION BECOMES,
NOT ONLY WHERE ARE THEY GETTING
THE INFORMATION, BUT WHERE
ARE THEY GETTING
THE MATHEMATICAL
INTELLECTUAL ACUITY.
TO ME, IT LENDS ITSELF TO
EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCES,
EITHER DEEPLY, DEEPLY CONNECTED
WITH THIS CIVILIZATION,
OR AT LEAST
BEING VISITED BY THEM
TO GIVE THEM THIS INFORMATION.
BUT PERHAPS THE MOST COMPELLING
EVIDENCE OF CONTACT WITH UFOs
AT TIKAL, SAY UFO EXPERTS, IS
THIS ASTONISHING STONE CARVING
KNOWN AS THE TIKAL ASTRONAUT.
ONE STONE FIGURE FOUND AT TIKAL
IS PARTICULARLY INTRIGUING.
NOW, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT SAY THAT
IT JUST SHOWS A REPRESENTATION
OF SOMEONE IN A CEREMONIAL
HEADDRESS OF SOME SORT.
BUT OTHERS LOOK AT IT AND SAY,
WAIT A MINUTE, THAT'S
AN ASTRONAUT'S HELMET.
Rosenfeld: THIS MAYAN FIGURINE
WEARING WHAT LOOKS TO ME
LIKE AN ASTRONAUT'S HELMET
WITH BREATHING APPARATUS
AND KIND OF A PRESSURE SUIT,
LOOKS TO ME LIKE
AN ANCIENT VISITOR.
Lukes:
WE HAVE TO POSE THE QUESTION,
ARE THESE CIVILIZATIONS
LEAVING A MESSAGE HERE?
ARE THE ANCIENT MAYANS
TRYING TO POINT TO THEIR GODS?
ARE THEY TRYING TO POINT TO
THEIR OWN ORIGINS THAT COULD,
PERHAPS, BE EXTRATERRESTRIAL?
Narrator: COULD THIS
ANCIENT ARTIFACT REPRESENT
A SO-CALLED SKY GOD
THAT TRAVELED FROM
THE PLEIADES STAR CLUSTER,
AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?
AND IF SO, WHY HAS THE MEXICAN
GOVERNMENT KEPT THEIR KNOWLEDGE
OF THESE ARTIFACTS
SECRET FOR SO LONG?
INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE
FURTHER EVIDENCE LONG-HIDDEN
IN THE MEXICAN JUNGLE,
COULD FINALLY PROVIDE PROOF
OF WHAT THE GOVERNMENT
HAS KNOWN ALL ALONG
ABOUT ALIEN CONTACT
IN THE DISTANT PAST.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO RESEARCHERS,
NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
COULD REVEAL CLUES
TO THE QUESTION OF EARLY MAN'S
INTERACTION WITH UFOs.
AFTER WITHHOLDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL
EVIDENCE FOR 80 YEARS,
THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT
HAS FINALLY COME FORWARD
WITH WHAT MANY BELIEVE IS PROOF
OF UFO CONTACT
WITH THE ANCIENT MAYA.
WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, AND INDEED,
CONTINUE TO LEARN AS WE STUDY
IS THAT THEY WERE
PRETTY ADVANCED.
MATHEMATICS, ASTRONOMY,
WRITTEN LANGUAGE.
HOW THEY ACQUIRED
THAT KNOWLEDGE IS FASCINATING,
BUT IT'S AN UNANSWERED QUESTION.
Narrator: FOR UFO RESEARCHERS,
THE ANSWER LIES IN A FRESH LOOK
AT EVIDENCE LONG HIDDEN
IN THE MIST-SHROUDED JUNGLES
OF SOUTHERN MEXICO
AT THE MAYA RUINS OF PALENQUE.
HERE AT ONE OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES
OF THE AMERICAS
LIES THE TEMPLE OF INSCRIPTIONS.
INSIDE, IN 1952, ARCHAEOLOGISTS
UNCOVERED THE BURIAL TOMB
OF PAKAL THE GREAT --
A MAYAN KING WHO RULED
IN THE 6th CENTURY A.D.
HIS MOTHER HANDED OVER THE
THRONE TO HIM AT THE AGE OF 12,
AND HE RULED FOR
THE NEXT 68 YEARS.
AND THAT IS THE TIME
THAT PALENQUE DEFINITELY
HAS ITS RENAISSANCE.
MORE BUILDINGS,
MORE CONSTRUCTION GOES ON
DURING THAT TIME PERIOD.
WE ALSO KNOW THAT KING PAKAL
LIVED TO BE 80 YEARS OLD
BECAUSE WE'VE DONE AGE ANALYSIS
ON HIS SKELETAL REMAINS.
Narrator: IN ADDITION
TO THE KING'S REMAINS,
ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVERED
PERHAPS THE MOST STUDIED
AND CONTROVERSIAL
ANCIENT MAYA ARTIFACT --
KING PAKAL'S SARCOPHAGUS LID.
ONE OF THE IMPRESSIVE ELEMENTS
OF PAKAL HAS SOMETHING TO DO
WITH HIS SARCOPHAGUS WITH
THIS ENORMOUS LID
WHICH MEASURES ABOUT
4 METERS BY 3 METERS.
SOLID PIECE OF LIMESTONE,
AND IT HAS AN IMAGE
OF PAKAL HIMSELF BEING
SWALLOWED UP BY AN EARTH MONSTER
AS HE'S ENTERING XIBALBA.
IT'S WHAT THEY REFER TO
AS THE UNDERWORLD.
Narrator: BUT UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVE KING PAKAL'S
SARCOPHAGUS LID REPRESENTS
SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY,
SOMETHING THEY CALL
THE MAYA ASTRONAUT.
I'M A MECHANICAL ENGINEER.
I WORKED IN THE AEROSPACE
INDUSTRY FOR YEARS.
I SEE MECHANICAL DEVICES.
SOME SORT OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY
BEING CONTROLLED AND PILOTED
BY I WOULD ASSUME KING PAKAL.
HE'S TURNING DIALS.
HE'S OPERATING GUIDANCE SYSTEMS.
THERE ARE FOOT PEDALS BEING USED
OUT OF THE BACK OF THIS
SORT OF ROCKET SHIP SHAPE.
THERE ARE FLAMES COMING OUT.
Pope:
THE SARCOPHAGUS OF KING PAKAL,
IT SHOWS A FIGURE WHO LOOKS,
FOR ALL THE WORLD, AS IF HE'S
ACTUALLY IN WHAT CAN ONLY BE
DESCRIBED AS A SPACE CAPSULE.
NOW, IS THIS IMAGE
ON THE PALENQUE LID,
AS SOME BELIEVE,
THE MAYANS HOMAGE
TO THEIR CREATOR GODS
WHO CAME FROM THE STARS?
PERHAPS KING PAKAL
BELIEVED THAT AFTER DEATH,
HE WOULD JOURNEY
BACK TO THE STARS HIMSELF,
AND HIS SARCOPHAGUS WOULD BE THE
VEHICLE IN WHICH HE TRAVELED.
Bara: THERE'S BEEN
A LOT OF SPECULATION
THAT EITHER KING PAKAL
WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED
WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS
OR, IN FACT,
HE WAS AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL
HIMSELF.
AND THE IDEA IS THAT THIS
LID WAS ACTUALLY DEPICTING HIM
RETURNING HOME AFTER HIS DEATH,
RETURNING BACK TO THE STARS
FROM WHENCE HE CAME.
THIS IS VERY UNIQUE, AND IT HAS
RAISED A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
IS, IN FACT, THIS KING
IN SOME SORT OF OXYGEN CHAMBER
OR PERHAPS
SOME SORT OF SPACE POD?
WE DON'T KNOW, BUT IT IS
AN INTRIGUING IMAGE.
Rosenfeld: WE KNOW THAT
THE MAYANS HAVE TALKED
ABOUT SKY GODS, AND THAT
TECHNOLOGY THAT THEY USED
TO COME DOWN TO EARTH
AND SHARE THEIR TEACHINGS.
IT GOES TO SHOW YOU THAT
THESE VISITORS HAVE BEEN HERE
FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME.
Narrator: IS KING PAKAL'S
SARCOPHAGUS LID
THE ULTIMATE PROOF
OF UFO LANDINGS
IN THE ANCIENT PAST
AS RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?
AND WHY WOULD THE MEXICAN
GOVERNMENT BE HIDING THIS?
ACCORDING TO UFO INVESTIGATORS,
SIMILAR ARTIFACTS
RESEMBLING ASTRONAUTS HAVE BEEN
FOUND IN OTHER CULTURES
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
IN ECUADOR, SOUTH AMERICA,
IN A REGION ONCE DOMINATED
BY THE ANCIENT INCA PEOPLE,
UFO RESEARCHERS HAVE TAKEN
RENEWED INTEREST IN CLAY FIGURES
HANDCRAFTED AROUND 1500 B.C.
IN ECUADOR, YOU FIND
THESE SCULPTURES
OF WHAT CLEARLY APPEAR TO BE
BEINGS IN SPACE SUITS.
THEY HAVE HELMETS.
THEY HAVE
FULLY PRESSURIZED SUITS.
THEY HAVE BOOTS ON.
SO CLEARLY WHAT THE INCA
ARE REPRODUCING,
THE SAME THINGS THAT
THE MAYANS HAD ALREADY SEEN
AND ALREADY REPRODUCED IN THEIR
VARIOUS ARTWORKS AND SCULPTURES.
IF YOU COMPARE IT SIDE BY SIDE,
YOU CAN DEFINITELY SEE
THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN
MODERN-DAY ASTRONAUTS.
THE HELMET SIZE, THE WHOLE
LAYOUT OF THE SUITS, THE BELTS.
IT LOOKS LIKE A PRESSURE SUIT.
EVEN IT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS SOME
KIND OF APPARATUS ON THE BACK,
LIKE OUR PRESENT-DAY
ASTRONAUTS WOULD HAVE.
GIVEN THAT THESE ARE ARTIFACTS
FROM ANCIENT TIMES,
WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?
IT TELLS ME THAT
THESE ARE DEPICTIONS
OF CONTACT WITH
AN ANCIENT VISITOR.
Bara: IN ECUADOR, IT'S VERY HOT,
IT'S VERY HUMID,
YOU DON'T WEAR A LOT OF CLOTHES.
THE IDEA THAT THEY WOULD WEAR
SOME SORT OF CEREMONIAL CLOTHES
THAT LOOK EXACTLY LIKE
A HEAVY, PRESSURIZED SPACE SUIT
WITH A SPACE HELMET
IS PRETTY LUDICROUS.
YOU WOULDN'T DO THAT
FOR ANY REASON OTHER THAN
TO COMMEMORATE, PERHAPS,
SOMETHING YOU'D SEEN
SOMEBODY ELSE WEAR LIKE,
PERHAPS, ONE OF YOUR GODS.
Narrator: MORE STRANGE ARTIFACTS
HAVE BEEN UNEARTHED
HALFWAY AROUND THE GLOBE.
IN JAPAN,
THE ANCIENT JOMON PEOPLE,
A CIVILIZATION DATING
AS FAR BACK AS 1200 B.C.
CREATED 12-INCH CLAY FIGURES
KNOWN AS THE DOGU.
Pope: THE DOGU FIGURINES
FROM JAPAN ARE INTERESTING.
SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT
THEY ARE REPRESENTATIONS
OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS.
THERE'S NO GETTING AWAY FROM
THE FACT THAT IT'S CLEARLY NOT
A LITERAL REPRESENTATION
OF A HUMAN BEING.
BUT DOES THAT MEAN
THAT THESE PEOPLE
WERE CARVING VISITORS
FROM THE STARS?
WE SIMPLY DON'T KNOW.
Bara: NOW, IT SEEMS TO ME
WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT
IS SOME SORT OF HUMANOID BEING
IN A PRESSURIZED SUIT,
LIKE A SPACE SUIT.
THEY HAVE HELMETS,
THEY HAVE THE WIDE,
PUFFY SLEEVES LIKE WE'RE USED TO
SEEING ON THE APOLLO ASTRONAUTS.
THEY EVEN HAVE
THE VERY LARGE, SORT OF
ALIEN GRAY TYPE OF EYES ON THEM.
I MEAN, CLEARLY, YOU'RE LOOKING
AT SOME SORT OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL
WHO'S NOT ABLE TO SURVIVE
IN THE ATMOSPHERE
OF THE PLANET EARTH WITHOUT
THE ASSISTANCE
OF THIS PRESSURIZED SUIT.
Narrator: FOR MODERN MAN,
DEPICTIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN
IN SPACE SUITS AND ALIEN BEINGS
WITH BULGING EYES
ARE IMAGES UNDERSTOOD AS NORMAL
IN OUR EVERYDAY CULTURE.
BUT PRIOR TO
THE 1950s, RESEARCHERS ASK,
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
ANCIENT MAN WAS ABLE TO DEPICT
OR EVEN IMAGINE BEINGS
THAT APPEAR TO BE OUTFITTED
LIKE MODERN ASTRONAUTS?
LIKE THE EVIDENCE
UNCOVERED AT MAYA RUINS.
COULD THESE
STONE CARVINGS REPRESENT
OUR ANCESTORS'
SPIRITUAL BELIEFS,
OR CONTACT WITH
OTHERWORLDLY VISITORS?
THEY SEEM TO BE
TIED UP WITH WORSHIP,
BUT WORSHIP OF WHAT?
ANCIENT GODS?
BUT WHAT IF THOSE GODS
WERE VISITING EXTRATERRESTRIALS?
Lukes: COULD THIS BE EVIDENCE
OF ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS?
WE DON'T KNOW, BUT WHEN YOU HAVE
ALL OF THESE REFERENCES
ACROSS CONTINENTS,
THROUGH DIFFERENT CULTURES,
AND THEY'RE REMARKABLY SIMILAR,
ONE HAS TO ASK THAT QUESTION.
Rosenfeld: SOMETHING
THAT'S BEEN PASSED DOWN
THROUGH HISTORY,
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD,
DIFFERENT CULTURES
THAT DON'T HAVE ANY CONTACT
WITH EACH OTHER
SHARED THE SAME IDEA.
I THINK THAT WE'VE BEEN
VISITED ON THIS PLANET
FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME.
AND THE ANCIENT PEOPLES
HAVE DOCUMENTED THIS VISITATION.
Narrator: BUT IF EARLY MAN
WAS AWARE OF SPACE TRAVELERS,
AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE,
IS THERE A TRUTH
YET TO BE REVEALED
ABOUT THE EXACT NATURE
OF MAN'S RELATIONSHIP
WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS?
Narrator: SEARCHING FOR PROOF
OF ANCIENT EARTH LANDINGS
BY EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS,
UFO RESEARCHERS TRACING
THE ORIGIN OF THE ANCIENT MAYA
ARE TAKING A RENEWED LOOK
AT EVIDENCE FOUND
IN WHAT MANY CONSIDER
TO BE THE OLDEST CIVILIZATION
OF THE AMERICANS -- THE OLMEC.
LOCATED 170 MILES
WEST OF PALENQUE
NEAR THE GULF OF MEXICO,
THE OLMEC PEOPLE THRIVED
IN AN AREA KNOWN AS LA VENTA.
French: THE OLMEC COME ABOUT
AROUND 1,400 B.C.
THEY EXIST IN A PRETTY SMALL
AREA OF THE GULF COAST,
IN WHAT'S
SOUTHERN VERACRUZ TODAY.
OFTEN, THE OLMEC
ARE REFERRED TO
AS THE MOTHER CULTURE
OF MESOAMERICA.
BUT REALLY, I THINK WHAT
THAT'S REFERRING TO IS
THEY'RE THE EARLIEST
STATE LEVEL SOCIETY
TO FORM IN MESOAMERICA.
THEY'RE THE FIRST ONES TO START
BUILDING MONUMENTAL
ARCHITECTURE,
TO START HAVING
A HIERARCHICAL GOVERNMENT
AND THAT TYPE OF THING.
OLMEC RELIGION WAS JUST WOVEN
INTO ALL ASPECTS
OF THEIR CULTURE.
THEY KNEW THE EARTH WAS ROUND.
THERE WAS A PRIESTLY CASTE
WHO MEDIATED BETWEEN THEIR GODS,
WHO THEY SAY CAME FROM THE SKY,
AND THE MAYANS BORROWED HEAVILY
FROM THAT COSMOLOGY.
Narrator: BUT WHILE THE OLMEC
DOMINATED CENTRAL AMERICA
FOR OVER 1,000 YEARS,
BY 300 B.C., THE OLMEC PEOPLE
SEEMED TO MYSTERIOUSLY VANISH
FROM HISTORY.
WHY?
UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE
ARTWORK DISCOVERED HERE
MAY PROVIDE CLUES TO THEIR FATE,
BEGINNING WITH THESE ARTIFACTS
OF WHAT IS KNOWN
AS THE OLMEC BIRD MONSTER.
French: WE SEE WITH ANCIENT ART,
WITH ANCIENT ARTIFACTS,
IF IT MIMICS ANYTHING,
IT ACTUALLY MIMICS
THE QUETZAL BIRD,
WHICH HAS AN EXTREMELY LONG
SERIES OF FEATHERS.
AND WHEN IT FLIES
THROUGH THE AIR,
IT HAS THESE VERY LONG
TAIL FEATHERS
THAT FLAP IN THE WIND.
Narrator:
BUT UFO RESEARCHERS DISAGREE.
Bara: THE OLMEC BIRD MONSTERS
LOOK EXACTLY LIKE MODERN-DAY
DELTA WING JET AIRCRAFT.
YOU CAN EVEN SEE ON
SOME OF THEM AIR INTAKES.
THEY HAVE TAILS.
THEY HAVE ELEVATORS.
THEY HAVE DELTA
WING-SHAPED AIR FOILS.
CLEARLY, THEY WERE
TRYING TO DEPICT THINGS
THAT THEY SAW IN THE SKY,
THESE AIR MONSTERS
THAT WERE ACTUALLY
PROBABLY AIRCRAFT
THAT THEY SIMPLY
DIDN'T UNDERSTAND.
THEY SIMPLY DIDN'T KNOW
WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING AT.
Pope: IF YOU LOOK AT
THE OLMEC BIRD MONSTER,
IT REALLY DOES LOOK LIKE
A MODERN JET AIRCRAFT
OR A SPACE SHUTTLE.
IT'S GOT ALL THE FEATURES --
THE FUSELAGE,
THE WINGS, THE TAIL.
I MEAN, IT REALLY COULD BE
ALMOST EXACT REPRESENTATION
OF SOMETHING MORE MODERN.
Rosenfeld: THESE THINGS
LOOK LIKE FLYING CRAFT,
ALMOST LIKE AIRCRAFT.
THEY DON'T FIT THE PERFECT
FLYING SAUCER TYPE UFO,
BUT IT'S DEFINITELY
A FLYING MACHINE.
BACK THEN, THEY WERE THINKING,
THIS IS SOME KIND OF BIRD,
AND IT'S SO MONSTROUS,
IT'S A BIRD MONSTER.
Narrator: UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVE FURTHER CLUES
TO THE FATE OF THE OLMEC
CAN BE FOUND
IN OTHER ARTIFACTS AT LA VENTA.
SOME DEPICTING WHAT
IS KNOWN AS THE OLMEC DRAGON.
IS A FIERY DRAGON SOME SORT OF
MYTHICAL SKY CREATURE?
THE ONLY WAY IN WHICH SOMEBODY
IN AN ANCIENT CULTURE
COULD FRAME A DESCRIPTION
OF WHAT WE WOULD
NOW CALL A SPACESHIP.
SOME PEOPLE HAVE SPECULATED
THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT,
FOR EXAMPLE, LEGENDS OF DRAGONS
FLYING IN THE SKY
AND BREATHING FIRE,
THAT THIS IS, IN FACT,
HOW SUCH ANCIENT PEOPLES
DESCRIBED
AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT
MAYBE WITH FIERY EXHAUST
COMING OUT OF THE REAR.
Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE
THE OLMEC DRAGON
AND THE BIRD MONSTER COULD BE
PRIMITIVE MAN'S INTERPRETATION
OF FIRE-EMITTING SPACECRAFT?
PERHAPS THE MOST
CONTROVERSIAL DEPICTION AMONG
THE OLMEC ARTWORK IS FOUND
ON A SCULPTURE
KNOWN BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS
AS "MONUMENT 19."
IT IS THE EARLIEST KNOWN
REPRESENTATION OF
THE FEATHERED SERPENT --
A GODLIKE FIGURE KNOWN
TO BOTH THE OLMEC AND THE MAYA.
MONUMENT 19 IS JUST A DEPICTION
OF A WARRIOR WEARING A HELMET,
AND HE'S WITH
THE FEATHERED SERPENT,
WHICH IS A DEITY
ALL ACROSS MESOAMERICA.
AND THE FACT THAT HE HAS
THAT LITTLE KIT,
MAYBE WHAT THAT'S SYMBOLIZING
IS THIS PERSON
IS HEADING OFF
INTO THE AFTERLIFE.
Narrator: FOR INVESTIGATORS,
HOWEVER, MONUMENT 19
IS REGARDED AS EVIDENCE
SUGGESTING THAT THERE REALLY WAS
CONTACT WITH UFOs
IN THE ANCIENT PAST.
MONUMENT 19 AT LA VENTA SHOWS
WHAT MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE
IS A REPRESENTATION
OF A HUMAN FIGURE
IN A SPACESHIP OF SOME SORT.
AGAIN, THERE'S WHAT SEEMS
TO BE MACHINERY.
I MEAN, IT REALLY
DOES LOOK LIKE SOMETHING
THAT'S BEEN CONSTRUCTED.
Bara: I THINK THAT THE FEATHERED
SERPENT IS AN ANALOGY
FOR SOME SORT OF
FLYING CRAFT THAT THEY SAW.
BUT THERE IS ACTUALLY
A MAN INSIDE OF IT.
HE'S WEARING A HELMET,
A PRESSURE SUIT OF SOME KIND,
AND HE'S ALSO CARRYING A BAG
THAT LOOKS A LITTLE BIT
LIKE A PURSE,
BUT IT ALSO BEARS
A REALLY STRIKING RESEMBLANCE
TO AN ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
PACK LIKE THE ASTRONAUTS CARRY
BEFORE THEY WOULD GET ON
THE SPACE SHUTTLE
OR BEFORE THAT THEY WOULD
GET ON THE APOLLO MISSION.
IT LOOKS LIKE THE FIGURE
IS ACTUALLY MOVING LEVERS,
HAS SOME KIND OF APPARATUS
ON ITS HEAD,
MAYBE SOME BREATHING GEAR.
DEFINITELY NOT SOMETHING
THAT YOU WOULD SEE
SOMEONE DOING 5,000 YEARS AGO.
ANYTHING THAT FLEW TO THE OLMEC
WOULD HAVE BEEN FEATHERED.
SO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
SOME SORT OF BIRD.
SO AGAIN, IT APPEARS
THAT THEY ARE DEPICTING
EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAW,
WHICH IS A PILOT
OF A FEATHERED SERPENT,
AN AIRCRAFT,
A HIGH-ALTITUDE AIRCRAFT,
SPACECRAFT OF SOME TYPE
THAT PROBABLY WORE ONE OF THESE
PRESSURIZED SUITS WITH A HELMET
AND AN ENVIRONMENTAL
CONTROL PACK.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS,
THE IDEA THAT ANCIENT PEOPLE
COULD IMAGINE A TRAVEL SCENARIO
THAT WOULD REQUIRE A HELMET
AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
IS SIGNIFICANT EVIDENCE
IN AND OF ITSELF.
DID THE ANCIENTS REALLY BELIEVE
THEY WERE GOING SOME PLACE
ENTIRELY DIFFERENT AND HAZARDOUS
FOR THEIR HEALTH?
MORE TO THE POINT,
FROM WHO OR WHAT WERE
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
GETTING THE INSPIRATION
FOR SUCH ARTWORK
OVER 3,000 YEARS AGO?
FOR UFO EXPERTS,
THE ONLY POSSIBLE ANSWER LIES
IN ANCIENT CONTACT
WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS
IN THE DISTANT PAST.
Bara: IT'S JUST A NATURAL,
LOGICAL CONCLUSION
BASED ON THE VISUAL EVIDENCE.
I TEND TO THINK THAT THINGS ARE
EXACTLY WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE.
Narrator: THE ARTIFACTS
DISCOVERED AMONG THE RUINS
OF THE MAYA, THE OLMEC,
CRAFTED BY EARLY JAPANESE,
AND ANCIENT INCAS ALL GOING BACK
THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
IS THIS EVIDENCE
OF CONTACT WITH UFOs?
WHAT IF WE LOOK AT MAN'S
EARLIEST KNOWN CIVILIZATION --
THE SUMERIANS?
ARE THERE CONNECTIONS
TO ALIEN LIFE THERE, AS WELL?
AND WHAT STUNNING REVELATIONS
MIGHT THOSE CONNECTIONS REVEAL
ABOUT THE VERY ORIGINS
OF MANKIND?
Narrator: AFTER LOOKING BACK
OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS
TO FIND EVIDENCE
OF MAN'S INTERACTION
WITH ANCIENT EXTRATERRESTRIALS,
UFO RESEARCHERS ARE NOW
GOING ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE WORLD'S EARLIEST
KNOWN CIVILIZATION --
THE SUMERIANS.
DATING TO 6,000 B.C.
LOCATED IN THE SOUTHERNMOST
PART OF MESOPOTAMIA,
AN AREA OFTEN CALLED
THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION.
French:
MESOPOTAMIA'S REALLY THE AREA
BETWEEN THE TIGRIS
AND EUPHRATES RIVER VALLEYS.
THAT AREA STRETCHES
FROM PORTIONS OF SYRIA
ALL THROUGH IRAQ
AND A LITTLE BIT INTO KUWAIT.
VERY RICH, FERTILE AREA WHERE
SOME OF THE EARLIEST AGRICULTURE
IN THE WORLD CAME ABOUT.
THE SUMERIANS REALLY WERE
THE FIRST HUMAN CIVILIZATION.
THIS REALLY MARKED
THE TRANSITION
FROM HUNTER/GATHERER
SOCIETIES TO SOCIETIES
WITH MUCH MORE SOPHISTICATION
WHO WROTE DOWN
IN WRITTEN LANGUAGE,
WHO CONSTRUCTED CITIES.
Narrator: THE SUMERIANS
ARE ALSO WELL-KNOWN
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION
OF PYRAMID-LIKE STRUCTURES
KNOWN AS ZIGGURATS.
ZIGGURATS ARE JUST LARGE,
MONUMENTAL CONSTRUCTIONS
THAT THE ELITE WOULD USE
FOR A MULTITUDE OF PURPOSES --
FOR LIVING QUARTERS,
TO CONDUCT CEREMONIES,
AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
THEY'RE BUILT OVER
A LONG PERIOD OF TIME
LIKE MOST TEMPLES ARE.
Narrator: ALTHOUGH RELIGIOUS
SCHOLARS BELIEVE THE ZIGGURATS
WERE USED MOSTLY
FOR SPIRITUAL PURPOSES,
IS IT POSSIBLE
THESE MASSIVE TEMPLES SERVED
A VERY DIFFERENT PURPOSE?
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ZIGGURATS,
THEY HAVE A HUGE,
SOLID BASE AND A FLAT TOP.
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT
THIS THING RISING UP.
I MEAN, IT'S VAST.
IT'S EASY TO LOOK
AT THEM AND SAY,
WELL, THIS IS REMINISCENT
OF A LANDING PAD.
YOU CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING
COMING DOWN AND LANDING
ON THE TOP OF THIS THING.
I MEAN, IT'S VISIBLE
FROM THE SKY.
SOMEBODY FLYING IN COULD SEE IT
FROM A LONG WAY OFF,
COULD NAVIGATE BY IT,
AND THEN LAND ON TOP OF IT.
Narrator: IF ZIGGURATS
WERE, IN FACT,
USED AS NAVIGATIONAL SITES,
OR EVEN LANDING PADS
FOR INCOMING ALIEN CRAFT,
AS MOST UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE,
IS IT INCONCEIVABLE
THAT PRIMITIVE MAN
WOULD MISTAKE OTHERWORLDLY
BEINGS FOR STAR GODS?
FOR ME, IT'S HARD NOT
TO COME TO THE CONCLUSION
THAT THERE WAS SOME TECHNOLOGY
THAT WAS WITNESSED,
MAYBE EVEN EXPERIENCED.
AND I THINK FOR
EARLY HUMAN BEINGS,
THEIR TECHNOLOGY
WAS MAGIC TO US.
THIS IS WHY THESE BEINGS
WERE WORSHIPED AS GODS.
Bara: IF YOU'RE AN ANCIENT,
PRIMITIVE HUMAN CULTURE,
AND YOU SEE THESE
EXTRATERRESTRIALS COME IN
ON FIERY SLEDS
OR FIERY SHIELDS, ROCKETS,
LANDING NEAR YOUR VILLAGE
AND COMING OUT
OF THEIR SPACECRAFT
AND DISPLAYING ALL THIS
INCREDIBLE TECHNOLOGY,
THERE'S NO WAY YOU'RE GONNA LOOK
AT THEM AS ANYTHING BUT GODS
WHO CAN MANIPULATE
THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE IN WAYS
THAT YOU HADN'T EVEN
THOUGHT OF BEFORE THAT.
Narrator: BUT WHAT CAN
EXPLAIN WHY SUCH SIMILAR
PYRAMID STRUCTURES ARE FOUND
IN ANCIENT SITES
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD?
Dolan: PYRAMIDS IN EGYPT,
PYRAMIDS IN MEXICO,
PYRAMIDS IN BOSNIA.
THERE ARE ALLEGED
PYRAMIDS IN CHINA.
WE NEED TO
LOOK INTO THESE MORE.
IF THERE IS A SERIES OF PYRAMID
CREATIONS AROUND THE WORLD,
WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND
WHY THAT IS SO,
AND IF THERE IS
SOME KIND OF CULTURE
THAT IS RELATED TO ALL OF THEM.
MAYBE IT'S A COINCIDENCE,
BUT PYRAMID STRUCTURE
DOES SEEM TO BE A RECURRENT ONE
MORE THAN WE HAVE REALIZED
IN ANCIENT HUMAN HISTORY.
Bara: THE SIMPLE FACT
IS THAT PYRAMIDS
ARE EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE
TO DESIGN, CONSTRUCT,
AND EFFECTIVELY CREATE.
AND YET, ALL AROUND THE WORLD,
WE SEE THESE
BEAUTIFULLY PRECISE,
INCREDIBLY CALCULATED
PYRAMIDAL STRUCTURES.
AND THEY MAY NOT
LOOK EXACTLY LIKE,
BUT THEY ALL HAVE
THE SAME FUNCTION.
THEY ALL HAVE
MATHEMATICAL ALIGNMENTS --
ALIGNMENTS WITH THE STARS,
THE SUN, THE MOON.
THEY'RE ALL MEANT TO
SERVE A CERTAIN PURPOSE,
AND WHAT I SEE IS AN EXPRESSION
OF THE SAME CONCEPTS,
THE SAME SCIENTIFIC IDEAS
ALL ACROSS DIFFERENT CULTURES,
ALL SAYING THE SAME THING,
WHICH IS THAT WE CAME
FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Narrator: MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS
OFFER FEW CLUES
ABOUT HOW ANCIENT CULTURES
ARRIVED UPON
THE MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE
AND ENGINEERING SKILL NECESSARY
TO BUILD THESE
PRECISE STRUCTURES
AT SUCH AN EARLY STAGE
OF HUMAN EVOLUTION.
EVEN MORE ASTONISHING,
HOW COULD ANCIENT CULTURES
SEPARATED ACROSS TIME
AND VAST DISTANCES
WITH NO MEANS OF COMMUNICATION
BUILD PYRAMIDS SO SIMILAR
TO THOSE FIRST BUILT IN SUMER?
THE ODDS OF THESE
SEPARATE CULTURES ARRIVING
AT THE SAME EVOLUTIONARY POINT
INTELLECTUALLY
ARE REMARKABLY SLIM
ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS,
WHICH LEADS THEM TO BELIEVE
THAT THE KNOWLEDGE WAS SPREAD
BY WHAT WE CALL
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS.
NOT ONLY ARE WE SEEING
PYRAMIDS IN SUMER,
BUT WE ARE SEEING THEM
ALL OVER THE WORLD,
AND THEY ARE
VERY SIMILAR STRUCTURES.
WAS THERE SOME
EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE,
PERHAPS, GIVING INFORMATION
OR GUIDING THESE CIVILIZATIONS
TO BUILD OBJECTS
THAT ARE VERY SIMILAR?
Rosenfeld:
FOR THIS KNOWLEDGE
TO BE SPREAD
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD,
IT HAD TO HAVE
SOME KIND OF HELP.
AND HELP WOULD BE STAR VISITORS
WITH UFO TECHNOLOGY.
Pope: OBVIOUSLY,
WE CAN ONLY SPECULATE
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED
A MILLENNIA AGO IN RELATION
TO ALIEN VISITATION.
BUT THE EVIDENCE
IS INTRIGUING
AND OUGHT NOT TO BE
DISMISSED OUT OF HAND.
IF UFOs REALLY ARE HERE,
IT'S ABSOLUTELY LOGICAL TO THINK
THAT THEY'VE PROBABLY BEEN HERE
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
SO IT MAKES SENSE THAT
IF WE'RE SEEING IT TODAY,
AND IT REALLY IS A PHENOMENA
CONNECTED TO ALIENS,
THEN I'M GUESSING
THEY PROBABLY SAW IT
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, AS WELL.
Narrator:
DOES THE EVIDENCE SUGGEST
THAT THE SUMERIAN ZIGGURATS
AND OTHER PYRAMIDS
ALL AROUND THE WORLD
WERE REALLY USED AS LANDING
SITES FOR ANCIENT UFOs?
AND IF, AS SOME MAINSTREAM
SCHOLARS ADMIT,
QUESTIONS STILL EXIST ABOUT
THE ORIGIN OF LIFE ON EARTH,
IS IT POSSIBLE
THAT OTHERWORLDLY BEINGS
HAD A HAND IN SEEDING MANKIND?
I DEFINITELY THINK
THAT UFOs PLANTED THE SEED
FOR THE EXPANSION
AND TRANSFORMATION
OF OUR LIFE AS HUMAN BEINGS.
I THINK THIS IS WHERE
OUR RELIGIONS COME FROM.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS,
THE TRANSLATIONS
OF ANCIENT SUMERIAN TABLETS
MAY ACTUALLY REVEAL
THE TRUE ORIGIN OF MAN.
Narrator: WHILE INVESTIGATING
THE HISTORY
OF ANCIENT UFO CONTACT,
INVESTIGATORS DISCOVER
THE STUNNING IDEA
THAT EARLY UFOs
MAY NOT JUST BE ABOUT CONTACT,
BUT ABOUT THE BEGINNING
OF THE HUMAN SPECIES.
AND THEY SAY THE EVIDENCE LIES
ALONG THE EASTERN BANK
OF THE TIGRIS RIVER IN WHAT WAS
ONCE KNOWN AS UPPER MESOPOTAMIA,
NOW MODERN-DAY IRAQ,
IN THE RUINS OF THE GREAT
SUMERIAN CITY OF NINEVEH.
HERE IN 1849,
BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGIST
AUSTEN LAYARD DISCOVERS
ANCIENT CLAY TABLETS --
30,000 OF THEM DATING BACK
AN ESTIMATED 6,000 YEARS.
WHAT THEY DEPICTED
WAS REALLY THE ORIGIN
OF ONE OF MANKIND'S
GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS,
WHICH IS THE WRITTEN WORD.
THEY CONTAINED
WHAT'S NOW KNOWN
AS THE SUMERIAN CUNEIFORM TEXTS.
THE CUNEIFORM ITSELF WAS
A VERY INTRICATE TEXT
THAT WAS ACTUALLY PRESSED
INTO THE WET CLAY
TO CREATE AN IMPRESSION.
AND AT FIRST, IT WAS CONSIDERED
JUST DECORATION BY THE SCHOLARS
UNTIL THEY FIGURED OUT
THAT IT WAS ACTUALLY
A VERY, VERY INTRICATE
WRITTEN LANGUAGE.
Narrator: EARLY ATTEMPTS
TO TRANSLATE THE TEXTS
WERE LARGELY UNSUCCESSFUL,
AND AFTER A CENTURY PASSES,
THE TABLETS WERE
ALL BUT FORGOTTEN --
THEIR TRUE MEANING
SHROUDED IN MYSTERY.
THEN IN THE 20th CENTURY,
A NEW GENERATION OF SCHOLARS
ATTEMPTS TO TRANSLATE
THE TABLETS.
ONE IN PARTICULAR
WAS ZECHARIA SITCHIN.
PART OF WHAT HE WANTED TO DO
WITH HIS RESEARCH IS TO BE ABLE
TO READ THESE FOR HIMSELF
AND NOT JUST TAKE VERBATIM
THE WORD OF PEOPLE
WHO HAD TRANSLATED THEM
WITH A DIFFERENT WORLD VIEW.
AND HE LOOKED AT
THE DIFFERENT STORIES
OF THE ANCIENT PEOPLE TO SEE,
WHAT WERE THEY SAYING?
AND DOES IT REALLY
HOLD TOGETHER AS HISTORY?
AND DOES PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
CORRESPOND WITH THAT, TOO,
AND CORROBORATE IT?
WHAT HE FOUND WAS, YES, IT DID.
Narrator: WHAT SITCHIN'S
TRANSLATIONS REVEALED
SENT SHOCKWAVES THROUGH ACADEMIC
CIRCLES AND THE UFO COMMUNITY.
ZECHARIA SITCHIN PRODUCED
A CONTROVERSIAL TRANSLATION
OF SOME OF THE CLAY TABLETS.
AND HE SAID THAT THEY SPOKE
ABOUT THE ANUNNAKI.
ACCORDING TO
ZECHARIA SITCHIN'S TRANSLATION,
THESE CLAY TABLETS
ARE TALKING ABOUT CRAFT
THAT FLY IN THE AIR.
THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT
THE QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY.
THEY'RE TALKING
ABOUT WAR IN HEAVEN,
WAR AMONGST THE GODS.
IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE,
THE CONCLUSION IS INESCAPABLE.
WE REALLY WERE VISITED.
Narrator: BUT WHO WERE THESE
BEINGS KNOWN AS THE ANUNNAKI?
THE ANUNNAKI IS SUMERIAN
FOR "THOSE WHO FROM HEAVEN
TO EARTH CAME."
THEY ARE TALLER THAN US.
THEY WERE ABOUT
8 OR 10 FEET TALL,
AND SO TO US,
THEY WERE GIANTS.
SO, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT
THAT THE GODS CREATED MAN
IN THEIR IMAGE,
WE LOOK LIKE THEM.
Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE
THE EXPLOSIVE TRUTH DISCOVERED
IN THE CUNEIFORM TABLETS REVEALS
THAT THE SUMERIANS
WERE ACTUALLY VISITED BY
A RACE OF
EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS,
AND IF SO, WHY WERE THEY HERE?
ZECHARIA SITCHIN BELIEVED
THAT THE SUMERIANS
WERE TALKING ABOUT
EXTRATERRESTRIALS
WHO HAD VISITED
THE ANCIENT SUMERIANS,
HAD PERHAPS SHARED
KNOWLEDGE WITH THEM.
AND PERHAPS EVEN SEEDED
HUMAN SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT
BY BREEDING WITH HUMANS
AND ACTUALLY PRODUCING
A HYBRID RACE.
Bara: ACCORDING TO SITCHIN,
THE ANUNNAKI CAME DOWN HERE
TO DO SOME WORK,
TO DO SOME MINING FOR GOLD,
TO FIND THINGS THAT THEY NEEDED
FOR THEIR CIVILIZATION.
WHEN THE WORK BECAME
TOO INTENSE FOR THEM,
WHEN THEY COULDN'T
HANDLE ALL THE WORK,
THEY DECIDED TO FASHION
A WORKER SPECIES,
AND THEY TOOK THE GENETICS
OF THEMSELVES,
AND THEY TOOK THE GENETICS
OF THE LOCAL INHABITANTS,
AND THEY MELDED THEM TOGETHER
AND APPARENTLY CREATED
THE PHYSICAL BODIES
OF WHAT WE NOW CALL MODERN MAN.
THE SUMERIANS BELIEVED THAT
THEY WERE MADE TO MINE GOLD.
THAT'S VERY, VERY INTERESTING
BECAUSE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT,
THEY BRED THAT INTO US.
WE STILL HAVE THAT FASCINATION
TO THIS DAY WITH GOLD.
THE REAL QUESTION THAT WE WANT
TO ASK ABOUT THE ANUNNAKI IS,
DO WE TAKE THESE STORIES
TO BE LITERALLY TRUE?
ALL RIGHT?
OR DO WE TAKE THEM
AS STORIES THAT THE SUMERIANS
JUST HAD ABOUT THEIR CULTURE?
IF WE'RE TO TAKE THEM
AS LITERALLY TRUE,
WE HAVE A LOT
OF QUESTIONS TO ASK.
Narrator: ONE QUESTION RELATES
TO EXTRAORDINARY SIMILARITIES
FOUND IN THE ARTWORK
OF THE SUMERIANS
AND THE OLMEC OF MESOAMERICA.
IN SUMERIAN DEPICTIONS,
THE ANUNNAKI GODS
HOLD WHAT APPEARS TO BE
A SMALL BAG WITH A HANDLE.
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE
THAT A STRANGELY SIMILAR BAG
IS BEING HELD BY THE OLMEC
ASTRONAUT AT LA VENTA?
Lukes:
SO, HERE YOU SEE THE ANUNNAKI.
THEY'RE CLEARLY HOLDING
SOMETHING IN THEIR HAND.
WHAT IS THIS OBJECT?
WE'RE SEEING THIS
WITH THE OLMEC CIVILIZATION.
IT IS AN OBJECT OR OBJECTS
THAT ARE ALMOST IDENTICAL.
DOES IT MEAN THAT THERE IS
A GREATER INTELLIGENCE AT WORK?
PERHAPS, AS SOME THEORIZE,
AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE
THAT IS SHARING THIS INFORMATION
WITH BOTH CIVILIZATIONS.
Narrator: COULD THERE REALLY BE
A DIRECT CONNECTION
BETWEEN THE OLMEC
AND SUMERIAN CIVILIZATIONS,
AS UFO RESEARCHERS THEORIZE?
Dolan: THEY HAD EXISTED IN
A VERY DIFFERENT PERIOD OF TIME.
BUT NONETHELESS, IS IT POSSIBLE
THAT THERE'S A TIE-IN?
MAYBE IT'S A COINCIDENCE.
Pope: IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE,
I MEAN, THIS CAN ONLY SUGGEST
THAT THESE REALLY ARE
TALKING ABOUT
THE SAME
EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS.
Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE
SUGGEST THAT THE OLMEC AND MAYA
WERE VISITED BY THE SAME
SO-CALLED STAR GODS
KNOWN TO THE SUMERIANS
AS THE ANUNNAKI?
AND IF SO, WHAT WOULD
EXTRATERRESTRIALS HAVE TO GAIN
BY THESE VISITATIONS?
IF UFOs ARE AN ADVANCED
ALIEN CIVILIZATION,
AND THEY ARE HERE
IN THE 21st CENTURY,
IT'S ABSOLUTELY LOGICAL TO THINK
THAT THEY'VE PROBABLY BEEN HERE
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
THEY COULD ESSENTIALLY BE
WATCHING THE GROWTH OF HUMANITY.
WOULD THEY STICK AROUND
AND RESEARCH US THAT LONG?
THAT'S A BIG QUESTION MARK.
MAYBE THEIR AGENDA
IS TO SEE THE NATURAL EVOLUTION
OF A YOUNG SPECIES.
MAYBE THAT IS THEIR MISSION.
Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD,
INCLUDING IN MEXICO,
HAVE KNOWN THAT OUR CIVILIZATION
MAY HAVE BEEN SEEDED
BY EXTRATERRESTRIAL LANDINGS
IN THE ANCIENT PAST?
IF SO, WHAT ELSE
ARE THEY NOT TELLING US?
IT'S NOT SIMPLY THAT
WE'RE DEALING WITH AN INHERENTLY
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENON,
WHICH WE ARE.
WE ARE ALSO DEALING
WITH GOVERNMENT
AND MILITARY OBFUSCATION
AND SECRECY,
AND THAT'S JUST A FACT.
WE LIVE IN AN ERA
IN WHICH THERE IS
A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF SECRECY.
Narrator:
STILL, ONE THING IS CLEAR.
THE SUMERIAN TABLETS
DO OFFER CLUES TO THE FUTURE
IF THEY ARE TO BE BELIEVED.
Bara: THERE IS A PROPHECY
THAT SOME DAY,
THE ANUNNAKI WILL COME BACK.
THEY WILL RETURN TO
CLAIM THEIR PROPERTY,
CLAIM THEIR STAKE,
AND LIVE IN HARMONY
WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH.
WE SHALL SEE IF
THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS.
Narrator: WHAT IS ABUNDANTLY
CLEAR IS THAT THE FASCINATION
OF OTHERWORLDLY VISITORS
AND THEIR LIKENESS
THROUGHOUT ANCIENT HISTORY
IS NOT SOMETHING THAT BEGAN
MERELY IN THE 20th CENTURY.
THERE ARE UNDENIABLE GAPS
IN OUR UNDERSTANDING
OF ANCIENT CULTURES,
GAPS WHICH MAY
ONLY BE EXPLAINED,
ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS,
IF WE LOOK TO THE SKIES
FOR ANSWERS.