GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
An island of giant statues.
A vast plateau covered
in enormous geoglyphs.
A megalithic settlement
that dates back
more than 12,000 years.
On Ancient Aliens,
we've trekked across deserts,
hacked through jungles,
flown to remote islands,
and climbed rugged mountains
in order to investigate
extraordinary sites
that seem to defy
any conventional explanation.
We're going to look back
at what I consider
to be the top ten ancient sites
we've visited.
And you can decide for yourself,
do these places hold the proof
that Earth has been visited
by extraterrestrials?
♪
When I think
of all the mysterious sites
we've investigated
on Ancient Aliens,
it's really tough to narrow them
down to the top ten
and even tougher to rank them.
Each of these sites offers
compelling evidence
that extraterrestrials
visited our ancestors.
And at one particular site
in Peru,
that evidence is imprinted right
on the vast desert floor.
And what makes it
even more incredible
is that you can only see it
from high above the Earth.
At number ten on my list
of top ten mysterious sites,
the Nazca Lines.
♪
NARRATOR:
Southern Peru. 1927.
While hiking in the foothills
of the arid Nazca Desert,
archaeologist
Toribio Mejía 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.
NICK REDFERN:
The Nazca Lines consist
of these massive drawings
or carvings, if you like,
on the ground.
Everything
from geometric symbols, lines
to animals, even fish, birds.
But the intriguing thing
about them is, you know,
that, number one,
they're massive.
And they can really only be seen
properly from the sky.
NARRATOR:
According to
mainstream archaeologists,
these mysterious earth drawings
were created by the Nazca,
an ancient people
that flourished in the region
between the first century
and eighth century AD.
But what was their purpose?
ERICH VON DANIKEN:
Archaeology has still no answer.
In my opinion,
it has something to do
with the extraterrestrials.
Our ancestor made these
gigantic signs in the ground
because they want to signalize
to the beings up there,
"We are here. Come down here."
If you leave Nazca
and travel due west
some 2,400 miles out
into the Pacific Ocean,
you'll eventually reach one
of the most remote islands
on Earth.
It was discovered by
Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen
on Easter Sunday, 1722,
and he was amazed
by the gigantic stone statues
he found all over the island.
They've become one of
archaeology's greatest riddles.
Mysterious site number nine,
Easter Island.
♪
NARRATOR:
April 5, 1722.
Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen
and his crew
are 2,400 miles
off the coast of Chile
when they spot a small landmass
completely isolated
in the Pacific Ocean.
As they draw closer,
they are surprised to find
that the remote island
is inhabited.
But even more unexpected
are the giant stone figures
staring out at them
from the shore.
PAUL BAHN:
The statues on Easter Island,
which we call moai,
are one of the great
archaeological wonders
of the world.
We know they carved
something like
a thousand of them
over a period of probably
roughly about 500 years,
weighing tens of tons.
No other culture in the world
has ever done this,
certainly not on this scale.
In many ways, we still don't
know exactly how they did it.
NARRATOR:
The moai were found
to have been carved
from the volcanic bedrock
at the center of the island.
But exactly how the native
people managed to move
such enormous statues out
to Easter Island's shoreline,
in some cases more
than 11 miles from the quarry,
has been the subject
of endless debate.
There have been many theories
over the years
as to how they were moved.
The first theory is thought
that they must have been
dragged horizontally
on sledges or rollers
or something of that kind.
It was tried again recently
for a TV film,
and, again,
they moved it a few meters,
but it really doesn't prove
anything.
You're talking
about several hundred statues.
And it would depend on the size
and weight of the statue,
the number of people
you had available to help,
the distance
you were going to go,
the kind of terrain.
So, basically,
we don't really know.
According with the oral
tradition and the legends...
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
TSOUKALOS:
So one has to wonder
if mana was some type
of extraterrestrial technology
that allowed these stones
to be levitated into place.
Some have suggested
that sound technology was used
in order to move
some of these rocks.
Because scientists have proposed
that levitation technology
can be achieved with one thing,
sound frequencies.
This mana is an energy
that no one understands today.
Is it some kind
of extraterrestrial energy?
We just don't know.
You know, what's really curious
is that so many
of the world's most massive
megaliths are found on islands,
where, in ancient times,
resources and manpower
were extremely limited.
And on one island nation in the
middle of the Mediterranean Sea,
you'll find some of the oldest
and most enormous structures
anywhere on Earth.
Number eight in our countdown
of mysterious sites,
the islands of Malta.
♪
NARRATOR:
The Maltese islands lie in the
center of the Mediterranean Sea,
just south of Italy.
Scholars believe the first
inhabitants migrated here
from the nearby island of Sicily
in 5200 BC.
Today, stone structures
on two of the islands,
Malta and Gozo, are considered
by archaeologists
to be among
the greatest achievements
by ancient builders
anywhere in the world.
There are engineering features
in these temples
that are just astonishing.
We're talking about walls
enclosing space,
paved walkways.
They were ceilinged at one time.
Definitely much more complex
than anything else
that was appearing on Earth
for a very long time.
♪
In 2014, Giorgio Tsoukalos
traveled to Malta
to get an up close look
at its incredible
megalithic structures.
At the temple of Hagar Qim,
he met with Dr. Anthony Bonanno,
a professor of archaeology
and classical literature.
- What does "Hagar Qim"
actually mean?
- So-- Oh, well,
"stones of worship"
or "standing stones."
- Like this one.
- There you are, yes.
- That's right.
- Check this out. This is huge.
- Wow.
- Yes, uh, three meters high
by six meters, 50 wide
and about another meter thick.
That makes about 20-odd tons.
- Minimum?
- Minimum, yes.
- That's right.
- TSOUKALOS: This is incredible.
So, this is one of the largest
- freestanding stones?
- It is.
I mean, you know,
when I see stuff like this,
- that's when I wonder,
you know, how...
- Yeah, h-how did they carry it?
-Was...
-How did they--
They quarried it, in this case.
- Yes,
they must have quarried it.
- And put upright.
And then put it upright, yes.
NARRATOR:
While visitors to these islands
are immediately struck
by the massive megaliths,
one of Malta's most incredible
structures remained hidden
for centuries.
In 1902,
construction workers
accidentally discovered
one of Malta's
most curious features,
a mysterious underground
sanctuary dating to 2500 BC.
Called the Hypogeum,
the subterranean structure
was revealed
to be three levels deep,
all hewn from solid stone.
JEFF WILLIAMS:
How could people
from that far back,
how could they know
how to construct such a thing?
But if you look
at some of the chambers,
it looks like
it's actually been carved
with some type of a laser.
So I don't-- I don't know
exactly how it was done,
but I do know
that they had a technology
that far exceeds what we have
today as far as stonecutting.
TSOUKALOS:
If you look at the way some
of these walls have been cut,
there had to have been
a type of plan
or construction plan beforehand.
And one has to wonder
if that engineering knowledge
was imparted upon the builders,
which were our ancestors,
by extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR:
Could the incredible stonework
found at the Hypogeum
have been achieved using
extraterrestrial technology?
Curiously, the first
archaeological investigations
performed at the site in 1907
turned up
more than 7,000 skeletons.
And according to a National
Geographic Magazine article
from May 1920,
many were found
to have unusually long skulls.
In 2014,
I had the great privilege
of looking at five
of these elongated skulls,
and they were very interesting
because one of those skulls
that I looked at
had a missing sagittal suture.
NARRATOR:
The sagittal suture
connects to the sides
and roof of the cranium.
This suture is open
when a person is born
and closes around the age of 35.
As you can see,
even from the inside,
there's no sign
of the middle suture.
- Right.
- Completely fused.
TSOUKALOS:
That's fascinating.
Even if you have a suture
that ossifies or fuses together,
you still have a fine line
that you can discover or detect.
And with the one skull that
I was able to look at in Malta,
that suture
was completely missing.
NARRATOR:
Enormous megalithic structures
built more than 5,000 years ago.
A mysterious underground
sanctuary hidden for centuries.
Ancient skulls
of abnormal size and shape.
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
the evidence all points
to one conclusion,
that the islands of Malta
were once home
to extraterrestrial beings.
There aren't many places
on Earthind-blowing.
that can turn modern archaeology
on its head
like the next mysterious site
on our countdown.
It's a place
that mainstream science says
can't possibly exist.
But not only does it exist,
it may even provide evidence
of the Great Flood described
in the Bible.
Number seven on our countdown
of the top ten mysterious sites,
Gobekli Tepe.
♪
NARRATOR:
Sanliurfa, Turkey.
October 1994.
While plowing his field,
shepherd Savak Yildiz spots
a strangely shaped stone
protruding from the ground.
After brushing away the dirt,
he realizes that it may be part
of a much larger object.
It wasn't until German
archaeologist Klaus Schmidt
visited the site
and began digging
when they realized
what was really at this site.
WILLIAM HENRY:
What he discovered
was mind-blowing.
After discovering
the first T-shaped pillar
buried at the site,
he soon found more
of these massive structures.
NARRATOR:
Klaus Schmidt had
the sediment layers
of the site radiocarbon-dated.
The results indicated
that the stone structures
could be as much
as 12,000 years old,
more than 5,000 years older
than mankind's first known
civilization in Mesopotamia.
Some researchers propose,
the megalithic structures
provide evidence that
an advanced civilization existed
on Earth many thousands
of years ago,
one that was assisted
by otherworldly visitors
before falling victim
to a deadly cataclysm.
There is evidence
of a great cataclysm
that took place
around 12,900 years ago.
It's called the Younger Dryas
impact event...
...where comets and air bursts
impacted the land
and the ice sheets,
causing massive flooding.
I mean, Gobekli Tepe
dates to the time
of the Younger Dryas events
that were taking place
over a few thousand-year period.
ANDREW COLLINS: Gobekli Tepe
could be the smoking g*n
of a lost civilization,
'cause it confirms that,
at the time of the last ice age,
there was high culture
existing in the world.
This is something that had
been speculated for many years.
If you think Gobekli Tepe is one
of the most mysterious sites
on Earth,
there's another that I think
is even more baffling.
It's a series of massive stones
in Northern France
that have been arranged
in a very deliberate
and perplexing
geometric pattern.
Even modern archaeology
can't explain their purpose.
At number six on our countdown
of the top ten mysterious sites,
the standing stones of Carnac.
♪
NARRATOR:
On the northwest coast
of France,
just south of Brittany,
lies one of the most important
prehistoric sites
in Europe.
At the seaside village
of Carnac,
over 3,000 megalithic stones
are placed in rows
over two miles long.
The Carnac stones were hewn
from local rock formations
and erected between 4500
to 2500 BC,
at the end of the Stone Age.
They are the largest collection
of standing stones in the world.
Archaeologists are baffled
by the many megaliths
at Carnac here.
It's clearly
a massive construction project,
with blocks of granite
weighing 50 to 100
to even up to 350 tons.
NARRATOR:
Although mainstream
archaeologists speculate
that the Carnac stones
are most likely tomb markers,
ancient astronaut theorists
believe
these stones
are intentionally laid out
in a unique geometric formation.
ROBERT SCHOCH:
The Carnac stones were laid out
incredibly precisely
using standard units
of measurement
that show
very sophisticated mathematics.
It's been suggested
that they were using
the Pythagorean theorem
thousands of years ago.
It may elude us now,
exactly what they were trying
to accomplish,
but it seems
like they were encoding
some kind of information.
NARRATOR:
The Pythagorean theorem
wasn't established
until 2,000 years
after the last Carnac stones
were erected.
So how could the builders
have possessed this knowledge?
And why were the stones arranged
in such precise
geometrical patterns?
CHILDRESS:
The Carnac stones are
a perfect marker for any kind
of aerial vehicle
looking down on the Earth.
VON DANIKEN:
The extraterrestrials
told our ancestor,
"Do this. Move stones.
Put it exactly in this pattern.
We order you."
It was on purpose.
The idea was that generations
in the far future
will start to ask questions.
That's the situation
we have today.
NARRATOR:
Could the Carnac stones
contain a mathematical message
left by extraterrestrials?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
and suggest further evidence
can be found
by examining a famous
megalithic site to the north.
We're nearly halfway is,
we through our countdown
of my top ten
most mysterious sites
that we've investigated
on Ancient Aliens.
And the next site on my list
is one that some believe
has the power to heal,
while others say it was once
a portal through space and time.
But what's most amazing to me
is that ancient people
arranged these stones
to be an exact replica
of our solar system.
Number five, Stonehenge.
♪
NARRATOR:
Wiltshire, England.
The Neolithic monument
known as Stonehenge
has dominated the landscape here
for no less than 5,000 years.
The iconic stone circle consists
of vertical standing stones
towering 13 feet tall
and weighing 25 tons each,
topped by connecting
horizontal lintel stones
and surrounding a smaller ring
of stones in the center.
NEWMAN:
Stonehenge is unlike any stone
circle anywhere on the planet.
It's perfectly circular.
It has lintels above it.
It's designed
with precision-engineered
astronomical alignments.
How could the ancient
Stone Age people of Britain
move these stones into place?
NARRATOR:
However Stonehenge
was constructed,
it involved moving much more
than just the stone blocks
that stand today.
According to researchers,
this is just 25%
of the original monument...
...the center
of a much larger structure
that was surrounded
by multiple concentric circles
constructed over a period
of more than a thousand years.
JOHN MARTINEAU: So,
Stonehenge is very interesting
in that it evolves
over a very long period of time.
And the first thing
that goes up at Stonehenge
is not there anymore.
It's the 56 holes that today
are known as the Aubrey circle.
It used to be filled with 56
stones in a big stone circle
just inside the henge.
TSOUKALOS:
Stonehenge is a replica
of our solar system on Earth.
Each circle corresponds
with one of our planets
inside our solar system,
including Pluto.
So, now we have a structure
that's at least 4,000 years old,
and our ancestors knew
about Pluto?
Without telescopes?
Someone told them about Pluto
and all of our planets
in our solar system,
and that is the message.
Because, in Neolithic time,
there is no way
that they knew about this.
As amazing
as Stonehenge looks today,
remember, what's still standing
is only a fraction
of the original structure.
But 2,400 miles to the south
is an even more extraordinary
ancient site
that remains
almost perfectly intact.
The number four site
on my countdown,
Egypt's Giza Plateau.
♪
NARRATOR:
In April 2018,
ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos,
Egyptologist Ramy Romany,
and archaeoastronomer
Dr. Giulio Magli
traveled to Cairo to investigate
what is perhaps
the most impressive structure
ever constructed on Earth,
the Great Pyramid of Giza.
[grunts]
This is...
- Look at the size of this thing.
- ...incredible.
ROMANY:
Every single block
is bigger than this car.
TSOUKALOS:
Yeah. It is insane.
It really is.
ROMANY:
Are you ready for some climbing?
TSOUKALOS:
I have goose bumps
on my calves right now.
NARRATOR:
Built from more than
two million limestone blocks
each weighing
thousands of pounds,
the pyramid is aligned perfectly
to the cardinal points
of the compass--
north, south, east and west--
suggesting
that its builders possessed
extraordinary
geographical knowledge.
According to
mainstream Egyptologists,
the Great Pyramid was built
sometime around 2500 BC
as the burial tomb
of the Pharaoh Khufu.
But this claim
has yet to be proven.
Archaeologists
and Egyptologists claim
that they were tombs
for the pharaohs,
and yet no Egyptian pharaoh
was ever found
in a pyramid in Egypt.
We have found the mummies
of many Egyptian pharaohs,
but they're found in vaults
deep underground
at the Valley of the Kings
in Luxor,
hundreds of miles away
from the pyramids.
The pyramids have
no real explanation
of what their purpose was.
NARRATOR:
But if the pyramids at Giza
were not intended
to house the remains
of dead pharaohs,
then why were
these towering monuments built?
In his 1998 book
The Giza Power Plant,
noted machinist and engineer
Christopher Dunn
proposed that the shape,
positions of chambers,
and proximity
to underground rivers indicate
the pyramids of Giza functioned
as ancient power plants.
This incredible hypothesis,
which has since been adopted
by other scientists
and researchers,
may be impossible to ever prove.
But ancient astronaut theorists
believe new information
about the Great Pyramid
may soon be revealed.
In March 2016,
archaeologists examining
the ancient structure
with a new technology
known as muography
made a shocking discovery,
a mysterious chamber
inside the structure
that is as large
as the Statue of Liberty.
This new room
is only the beginning of it.
I'm sure, within the next months
or at least two years,
they will discover more rooms
in the Great Pyramid.
I personally think
that the Great Pyramid in Egypt
holds some sort of time capsule.
NARRATOR:
Perhaps what lies
within the Great Pyramid
will reveal not only incredible
truths about ancient Egypt
but about the history
of humankind.
Could there be clues that reveal
that Egypt was once home to an
extraterrestrial civilization?
High in the mountains of Peru
lies a city
with monumental walls
so tightly joined
that modern engineers admit
that they couldn't replicate it
today.
Which begs the question,
how did ancient people
accomplish this
without the help
of modern technology?
And at an altitude
of 12,000 feet?
Number three on my countdown
of the world's
top ten mysterious sites,
Sacsayhuamán.
♪
NARRATOR:
Cuzco, Peru.
On the northern outskirts
of what was once
the capital city of the Inca,
at an elevation
of more than 12,000 feet,
looms the ancient fortress
of Sacsayhuamán.
Mainstream archaeologists
suggest
the Inca built this megalithic
site in the 15th century AD,
but many researchers now believe
that the foundation
of Sacsayhuamán
dates back centuries earlier.
My feeling is
that we're looking
at a two-phase, uh,
construction site
in many of the so-called,
uh, Inca stone monuments
and that the Inca structures
sit on top
of much more ancient
rock-cut structures
and megalithic structures
that we just don't know
who built them.
And this actually fits
with the Incas' own view.
NARRATOR:
Like many Inca sites,
Sacsayhuamán features
astonishing stonework
but not all of it credited
to the Inca.
According to
conventional archaeology,
the Killke culture built
the older sections of the site
approximately 1,000 years ago.
But the Inca themselves believed
the site was constructed by an
earlier, unnamed race of people
led by a powerful god
who descended from the skies.
Throughout time,
there has been witness
to a god named Viracocha
that visited
the South American people
and blessed them and gave them
all types of technology.
Some of his
physical characteristics
make him stand out
from the indigenous population,
because he was
not at all similar
to the indigenous people.
Viracocha was
the primary deity of the Andes,
going back
many thousands of years.
He was thought to be the founder
of all the ancient sites we see
in Peru and Bolivia today.
NARRATOR:
But did Viracocha
actually exist?
Could he have been, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest,
a visitor from an alien world?
If so, it might help to explain
just how the ancient site
was constructed.
It's amazing, all these, uh...
the-the weight of the stones.
HANCOCK:
The walls are put together
with blocks of stone
weighing 50 or 100 tons...
...cut and shaped like
the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle
so that they lock together
so tightly
that you can't even get
a sheet of paper between them.
NARRATOR:
According to local legend,
a bird was responsible
for the seamless construction.
Legends say
the winged creature carried
a powerful chemical in its beak,
a substance capable
of melting stone.
NARRATOR:
But is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest,
that the mythical bird might
actually have been a spacecraft,
piloted by alien visitors known
to the locals as space brothers?
Many of the sites we've featured
on my countdown are famousweight
because they were constructed
with stone blocks
of the most extraordinary size
and weight.
And no megalithic construction
on Earth is more staggering
than my number two
most mysterious site,
the ruins of Baalbek.
♪
NARRATOR:
Eastern Lebanon.
The Bekaa Valley.
Here at this archaeological site
stand the ruins of Heliopolis...
...built in the fourth century
BC by Alexander the Great
to honor Zeus.
But beneath
the Corinthian columns
and remnants of both Greek
and Roman architecture
lie the ruins of a site
that is much, much older.
According to archaeologists,
it dates back
nearly 9,000 years.
The ancient city of Baalbek,
named after the early Canaanite
deity Baal.
HANAN CHARAF:
Baal is the god of life, the god
of the sky, the god of the sun.
He was the god that was
venerated on the site of Baalbek
during the Canaanite
and the Phoenician times.
ROBERT MULLINS: And so,
because it was already sacred
to the god Baal,
then later the Greeks
and the Romans
then would build temples
on this very same spot.
NARRATOR:
Archaeological surveys
have revealed
that the enormous
stone foundation that lies
at the base of the site
dates back thousands of years.
Baalbek, as we know from
the archaeological evidence,
must have existed
during Neolithic period,
between 6,000 to 8,000 years
or even 9,000 years BC.
NARRATOR:
But even more significant
to ancient astronaut theorists
is their belief
that the colossal stone platform
may have been built using
extraterrestrial technology.
As evidence, researchers point
to the gigantic
megalithic stones
incorporated
into the foundation,
each weighing
between 800 to 1,600 tons
and perfectly fitted together.
In Baalbek,
stone blocks were transported
which have a weight
of over 1,500 tons.
And this not in a flat land.
It's all mountain.
We have absolutely no idea
how such heavy loads
could have been transported
in the mountain.
I have nothing
but a speculation to this.
But for sure it does never fit
into the prehistoric knowledge
of our ancestors.
This is the real mystery
of Baalbek--
how these stones
came to be there,
why they were placed there,
and specifically
how they were transported
into place.
Because some of the stones
are of such magnitude
that modern machinery is
incapable of putting them there.
But somehow our ancestors
were able to do this.
BIRNES:
It is one of the oldest, oldest
megalithic sites on the planet.
And it has these huge stones
laid out
in a precise geometrical shape
at a time
when the prehistoric people
who would have lived there
would have no concept of how
to move stones of that nature.
NARRATOR:
But if the moving,
hoisting and setting
of such massive stones
was so incredibly difficult,
then who, or what,
helped to place them there?
And, perhaps
more importantly, why?
We know that the ancients
always went to power places,
and Baalbek
clearly is one of them.
It is a place where the gods
were worshipped,
where the gods were said
to be present.
And so,
when it comes to Baalbek,
this platform was built there
for a reason.
For what purpose it was used
is a question we can't answer
at this moment in time.
But what we do know is that
whatever was happening there
had a great
religious significance to them
and was linked
with worshipping deities,
deities which clearly are
of an otherworldly origin.
Hopefully, at one point,
archaeology
will be so open-minded
that they actually want
to explore this further.
We're just moments away
from the top site on my list.
And in my opinion,
we've definitely saved
the best for last.
Can you guess what it is?
We've finally reached number one
on my top ten countdown
of Ancient Aliens'
most mysterious sites.
Lying in ruins atop a vast
plateau in the Andes Mountains
at an altitude
of over 12,000 feet,
the megalithic stones found
at this incredible location
are among the largest
on planet Earth.
But even more impressive
is how they were cut
with such exact precision.
And, to me, they provide
the strongest evidence
that extraterrestrials
visited our planet
and changed the course
of human history.
My number one most mysterious
site, Puma Punku.
♪
NARRATOR:
Bolivia, South America.
Here lie the mysterious
ancient ruins of Puma Punku.
Spread across a desert plateau
are dozens
of megalithic stone blocks
cut with extreme precision
and some weighing
more than 100 tons.
These are the mysterious ruins
of Puma Punku,
nearly 13,000 feet
in the Altiplano of Bolivia.
What you have here are
massive blocks of granite
scattered like some kid's
toy blocks around the site.
Archaeologists are baffled
by what Puma Punku was,
how it looked,
and what the purpose
of this enormous structure
would have been.
NARRATOR:
What sets Puma Punku apart from
other ancient megalithic sites
is the incredible stonework,
which some researchers suggest
is far too sophisticated
to have been accomplished
using primitive tools.
One of the amazing things here
at Puma Punku
is the precision of the blocks.
You can see with this block
of granite
that it's really been cut
at very accurate right angles.
Not only do these granite blocks
have precision corners
but they also have
these difficult drill holes
that are going
right through the rock.
NARRATOR:
Mainstream scientists believe
the site
was originally constructed
about 2,000 years ago.
But in 1945, archaeologist
Arthur Posnansky proposed
that Puma Punku
was much, much older.
By examining the structures
and what he believed
were their original alignment
with the stars,
he dated the ruins to 15,000 BC.
But how could
such primitive people,
living perhaps
over 10,000 years ago,
have produced
such flawless stonework?
VON DANIKEN:
The Spanish conqueror
asked the Inca,
the people living there,
including the king of the Inca,
"What is this Puma Punku?"
And they all said, "It's not us.
"It's not our forefather
who make this.
These were made by the gods
in one single night."
TSOUKALOS:
One of the earliest chronicles
that we have
in regards to Puma Punku talks
about that these giant platforms
were moved through the air
by the sound of a trumpet.
They basically floated
into place.
And here's another
very interesting thing that,
according to the myths,
this is exactly what happened
with the moai on Easter Island.
NARRATOR:
Could it be that the local
traditions of Easter Island
and Puma Punku tell nearly
identical stories of levitation
because the ancient people
at both sites witnessed
the same
extraterrestrial technology?
And if the stone blocks
of Puma Punku
were once part
of a megalithic structure,
how did it end up in ruins?
I honestly believe
that Puma Punku
is more than 12,000 years old.
12,000 years ago,
there was a global cataclysm
that destroyed a lot
of ancient sites that we find,
whether in Egypt
or the Altiplano of Bolivia.
We had, at the end
of the last ice age,
all kinds
of catastrophic flooding
due to the events
in the climate changes
and the melting of the glaciers
and increased precipitation.
There were incredible rises
in sea levels
since the end
of the last ice age.
More than 12,000 years ago,
Lake Titicaca was 100 feet
higher than it is today.
And I believe that Puma Punku
was literally on the shore
of the lake at that time,
whereas now
it's eight miles away.
12,000 years ago,
it was hit by a wave of mud
coming from Lake Titicaca
as a tsunami.
NARRATOR:
A megalithic structure built
more than 12,000 years ago
with the help
of extraterrestrial technology
destroyed by a great cataclysm.
If this incredible story
is true,
one question still remains.
What was Puma Punku?
CHILDRESS:
When you look at the complexity
of Puma Punku,
the huge platforms,
the interlocking blocks
that was made into
what they thought
were indestructible walls...
...what you could have is
a kind of perfectly made
granite spaceport
that extraterrestrials
would want.
Although the origins
of many of the incredible sites
we've featured on Ancient Aliens
continue to be debated,
to me,
Puma Punku is so extraordinary
that it is the one site
where I will say, yes,
this was likely built directly
by the aliens themselves.
But make no mistake,
each and every one of the sites
on our countdown
deserves to be investigated
with an open mind.
And it is only by asking
the questions
that we can finally uncover
the truth
of our extraterrestrial
origins.
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