NARRATOR: Megalithic
monuments linked together by
electromagnetic energy.
Prehistoric ruins
arranged across vast distances
in straight lines.
And advanced mathematics
carved into landmarks more than
5,000 years ago.
Were ancient man's spectacular
structures built by humans
alone?
Or do they bear evidence of
being designed, and
interconnected, by otherworldly
visitors?
PHILIP COPPENS: These
cultures were doing something on
a global scale interacting,
creating a pattern.
BILL BIRNES: The layout of
these ancient monuments could be
a secret code that the ancients
created for later societies.
DAVID CHILDRESS: The ancients
placed pyramids and obelisks,
and other standing stones at key
places.
And they were somehow being used
as navigational beacons by the
ancients and the
extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world believe we have
been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history?
And if so, did they leave behind
a secret code, one which
reveals mankind's
extraterrestrial origins?
NARRATOR: Stonehenge,
England... The Great Pyramid
of Egypt... Teotihuacan, Mexico
and Machu Picchu, Peru.
All around the world, ancient
man built extraordinary
monuments.
And although separated by vast
distances and thousands of
years, researchers believe that
a secret code, embedded in
megalithic monuments, may
reveal the truth behind the
connections between numerous
ancient civilizations.
COPPENS: When you look at
where the ancients built their
monuments it is clear that they
were marking the places where
the power of the Earth could be
harnessed.
So the question really is can we
still maintain that all of these
sites were simply chosen by
accident?
Or is there far more to it than
that?
The evidence clearly suggests
that these cultures were doing
something on a global scale
interacting, creating a pattern,
which is really unique and lost
to us right now.
NARRATOR: Some researchers
have discovered a strong
connection between sacred
structures and powerfully
charged areas of the globe,
where the Earth's
electromagnetic energy gathers.
Today electromagnetic energy
waves provide for all visible
light, radio and cellular
communication, as well as
microwaves and X-rays.
MICHAEL DENNIN: Energy
scientifically is a property
that things have that we say
technically allows it to do
work or make things move.
So you think of things like
magnetic fields, electric
fields, gravity, things moving,
heating things up, those are all
forms of energy.
And the one thing we do know is
the Earth has a magnetic field
and the magnetic field connects
different parts on the Earth.
HUGH NEWMAN: And these
strange anomalies occur, like
gravitational anomalies and
magnetic anomalies.
And even like anomalies to do
with distortions of vision.
And if you sort of mark them on
a map where they all are they
seem to form into these
geometric grids.
CHILDRESS: It seems that
ancient people, possibly with
the help of ancient aliens,
early on mapped the entire
Earth, and noted these special
power spots, and vortex areas
that occur on islands, and
mountain areas, and jungles all
around the planet.
It was important to them, and
these places are related by
geometry, and latitude, and
longitude.
NARRATOR: Known as "the world
grid", ancient astronaut
theorists believe our ancestors
purposely constructed their
monuments on energy lines that,
when mapped and connected,
create a significant pattern.
CHILDRESS: The concept of the
world grid is that the Earth is
like a giant crystal and energy
is flowing around it at little
nodules, and energy paths are
intersecting and moving all over
the world.
NARRATOR: In the 4th century
BC, Greek philosopher and
mathematician Plato taught that
the basic structure of the Earth
evolved from geometric shapes
now known as Platonic Solids.
NEWMAN: Plato left a
tantalizing clue as to possibly
the first mention of the world
grid.
He basically described the Earth
as being created from 12
pentagonal faces, and 20 points,
or vertices, on the surface.
And when you join these together
and mark them on a map, you
realize that there's kind of
geometrical formations that
appear between them.
BETHE HAGENS: Plato wrote
that there was a world soul and
this world soul he described as
a sphere that was composed of
120 equal identical triangles.
I believed that that model
actually could be applied to the
Earth.
NARRATOR: To illustrate
Plato's "Sphere of Triangles,"
anthropologist Bethe Hagens
designed a model of the Earth,
divided by 15 circles.
HAGENS: Here you can see a
cluster of ten of the triangles
of the 120 that Plato mentioned.
Besides seeing this as
triangles, you can see it as 15
equators that actually cut the
Earth in half.
You can see they all go around
whichever way you look.
They're all great circles.
It's a geometric model of the
Earth energy grid of what Plato
discovered 2,500 years ago.
NARRATOR: But is it possible,
as ancient astronaut theorists
believe, that man was able to
capture and use the Earth's
energy at power centers around
the world to help build their
megalithic monuments?
NEWMAN: There's fascinating
ideas that they were actually
using this for
anti-gravitational purposes.
And they were actually able to
lift, and quarry, and move the
huge megalithic blocks great
distances around the planet.
And so we have to question, was
there something to do with this
grid that they were actually
harnessing, and they were able
to use the energies from it to
move and construct these sites?
NARRATOR: But how could
ancient civilizations tap into
Earth's energy?
And how could the Earth's
electro-magnetic energy fields
have even been known to ancient
man?
MIKE BARA: The ancients
clearly understood that, if they
located their sacred sites at
these places, they would get
some sort of powerful alignment
with the Earth, the universe,
everything would come into flow,
and it would be a great place
for their places of worship.
The question is: Where did they
get the information?
Is it something that was passed
down to them from a higher human
civilization?
Or, was it passed down to them
from somebody even higher than
that?
BILL BIRNES: The layout of
these ancient monuments and
these celebratory places,
because they lie on the Earth's
magnetic grid, well could be a
secret code that the ancients
created for later societies
containing a secret about the
relationship of those
civilizations to ancient aliens.
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
Extraterrestrials told our
ancestors, hey, here, create
this on that particular point
and they did that all around the
world and now when we connect
all those places, when we plot
them on a globe, they create
this perfect pattern that
would've been impossible by
chance.
It's a huge mystery how it was
done unless you take into
consideration that this might've
been a "message" for our
generation that was left behind
by extraterrestrials who visited
our ancestors in the remote
past.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
early man learned how to harness
the Earth's own powerful energy
from extraterrestrial beings?
And, if so, might the finding by
researchers of a so-called world
energy grid provide proof of
contact with alien visitors?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer, on both
counts is a resounding yes.
CHILDRESS: The world grid
could've been used as a source
of free and inexhaustible energy
that was flowing continuously
around our planet.
And they were somehow being used
by the ancients and the
extraterrestrials for energy,
and as even navigational beacons
for their spaceships.
BARA: A lot of these ancient
sites on the world grid are
always associated with UFO
sightings.
The UFOs themselves seem to
understand that these are
important places.
And, it's almost as if they are
kind of feeding off the energy
of these places, when they come
to visit the Earth.
NARRATOR: Did ancient
cultures around the world really
build their monuments using
powerful Earth energy under the
guidance of star travelers, as
ancient astronaut theorists
believe?
Perhaps further evidence can be
found by taking a closer look at
the strange link between some of
the oldest monuments on Earth
and their connection to the
stars.
NARRATOR: The Boyne River
Valley, 30 miles north of
Dublin, Ireland.
Here, within this archaeological
site, lie the ruins of the
Newgrange Passage Tomb, built
around 3150 BC.
ANTONY MURPHY: This is
Newgrange, which is Ireland’s
foremost monument in terms of
mythical and historic
significance.
It was constructed by a
community of farmers and
astronomers who inhabited this
valley.
And together they enshrined
their spiritual and scientific
beliefs, monumentally in stone.
NARRATOR: Constructed with
over 200,000 tons of stone
quarried 75 miles away,
Newgrange is known as a passage
tomb because the enormous mound
has one passageway that leads to
a centralized chamber in which
bone fragments have been found.
MURPHY: This is the central
chamber of Newgrange, with its
massive corbelled ceiling, which
has kept the chamber dry,
completely bone dry, for 5,000
years.
At the end of the chamber here,
it opens up into this opening
with the three recesses and
there are three very large basin
stones in each of the recesses.
And it was in these basins that
the remains of the dead would
have been placed.
The amazing thing about
Newgrange is what they've
managed to do with these giant
stones is create an opening
in the chamber which accepts
sunlight on the dawn of the
winter solstice.
NARRATOR: In fact, the
structure's main chamber remains
in darkness, except for one day,
at winter solstice, when the
sunrise illuminates
the 60-foot long passageway
and central chamber for a mere
17 minutes.
MURPHY: They saw the other
world as lying amongst the stars
and they believed that in
placing the bones of their
deceased relatives in the
chamber, that the souls of the
dead would be brought into the
other world on the dawn of the
winter solstice when the light
of the sun came in and perhaps
drew the spirit out into the
other world.
NARRATOR: The remarkable
layout of the tomb's ground plan
is an achievement many
researchers believe could only
have been accomplished with
advanced knowledge of
constellations.
MURPHY: The passage and
chamber are cruciform in shape.
They're shaped like a cross,
which we think is very
significant because it seems to
be based on the shape of the
constellation, Cygnus, which is
the swan constellation of the
sky.
ANDREW COLLINS: Cygnus is one
of the most important
constellations to the ancients.
We know it probably better as
the Northern Cross.
And these set of stars seem to
mark where the Milky Way
actually breaks into two.
And universally for prehistoric
societies around the world, this
point in the sky, known as the
Cygnus rift, has been seen as an
entrance and exit into some kind
of sky world.
We call it Heaven today and it
was seen as the point in the sky
of cosmic creation.
NARRATOR: Is it possible the
ancient people at Newgrange
received knowledge of our solar
system and distant galaxies from
another, more otherworldly,
source, as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?
And might the ancient builders
have intentionally left a code
for future civilizations to
decipher?
If so, what were they trying to
tell us?
GEORGE NOORY: They were
experts in astronomy.
They were also experts in
building.
How they possessed both I find
to be very uncanny.
Because they are supposedly
doing this without high tech
equipment and instruments.
But they did look toward the
heavens, and they tried to copy
the heavens.
COPPENS: When we look at the
ancient people themselves, and
ask why they did it, they are
quite straightforward in
answering this question.
And that answer is simply
because this has to do with the
gods and figuring out when the
gods would come in the future.
NARRATOR: Throughout the
world there are numerous ancient
sites that were built in precise
alignment with constellations,
primarily Cygnus and Orion.
Perhaps the most famous example
can be found at the Giza Plateau
in the layout of the three
great pyramids of Egypt.
BAUVAL: I discovered in the
early '80s that there was a
correlation between Orion's belt
and the layout of the three
pyramids.
You have two large pyramids,
aligned with each other, and the
third smaller one offset from
that alignment.
Well that's the same way you
have the stars.
You have two bright stars and a
third less bright star offset
from the line of the other two.
The correlation is evident.
NARRATOR: Other ancient sites
built in close alignment with
the constellation of Orion
include: The ancient city of
Teotihuacán in Central Mexico,
established in 100 BC,
the layout of ancient Hopi
villages in the American
Southwest,
and the Thornborough Henges, a
Neolithic landscape complex in
Yorkshire, Northern England,
dating to between 3500 and 2500
BC.
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT: The
Thornborough Henges are
believed to be a copy of the
stars of Orion's belt.
Their accuracy is just stunning.
Now, is that coincidence?
I mean, it really is exact.
NARRATOR: But why were so
many civilizations all around
the world focused on Orion?
ADRIAN GILBERT: The
constellation of Orion has a
special magnetism for us, partly
is because it does look like a
man.
And certainly the Egyptians
claimed that their gods came
from there, and there is a sense
that this is where we come from,
that somehow the human race has
been implanted on this planet
and that that's where our father
lives.
NARRATOR: Some researchers
believe, in addition to
mirroring the three stars in
Orion's belt, the pyramids at
Giza also encode, in their
placement, a significant
message about the origin of
their culture.
BAUVAL: The position of
Orion's belt relative to the
Milky Way is the same as the
pyramids relative to the Nile.
When you look at the two images,
they look the same, except one
is stellar and one is earthly.
What adds to this is that the
alignment, the pattern of
Orion's belt, matches what is on
the ground, not at the time that
Egyptologists tell us, but in
10500 B.C.
When you look at the sky in
10500 B.C., the lock is almost
perfect.
JASON MARTELL: At that
same date, Leo is aligned
perfectly with the gaze
of the Sphinx.
So at 10500 BC, even though the
pyramids were built in 2500 BC,
we see a terrestrial alignment
of the monuments on the Earth
mimicking the stars in the sky.
BAUVAL: So you have two
constellations locking
themselves with two sets of
monuments, the Sphinx and the
three pyramids, in 10500 B.C.
it cannot be a coincidence.
BARA: Was it something they
intuitively channeled?
Or, did somebody else... someone
from higher up... teach them
all of this stuff and help them
to build these monuments, and
help them to create these
messages from ancient times, to
try to get us to appreciate who
we really are, where we really
came from, and why we're really
here.
NARRATOR: Might the builders
of Egypt's pyramids and
of the Newgrange Passage Tomb,
really have embedded in their
structures a secret code telling
us about the otherworldly
origins of the elite rulers of
their societies, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe?
If so, might there be hidden
messages contained in other
ancient monuments around the
world?
Perhaps answers can be found by
examining what some researchers
call "ancient flight paths."
NARRATOR: Herefordshire,
England. June 30, 1921.
While horseback riding through
the British countryside, amateur
archaeologist Alfred Watkins
notices that ancient features
and structures across the
landscape appear to be arranged
along straight lines.
Four years later, in 1925,
Watkins publishes The Old
Straight Track. a book in
which he proposes that man's
earliest monuments and megaliths
were linked by a network of long
straight tracks.
COLLINS: And he referred to
them as ley lines, but as to
what these were he could only
really say that perhaps they
were lines that were used by the
ancients to communicate from one
place to the next.
In other words they were simply
markers on a journey.
HAGENS: Ley lines are mostly
found in England and France.
They're literally geographic
markings between sacred sites.
They might be old churches, they
might be churches built on top
of megalithic ruins.
But you'll see dead straight
lines between these sites that
have been maintained.
LINDA HOWE: The Michael Line
in England is a straight line
and it is measurable.
It's a magnetic field line that
you can measure and it will be
higher than other areas around
it geographically.
NARRATOR: In his book,
Watkins further theorized that
ancient landmarks along ley
lines were deliberately placed
by early man for the purpose of
line-of-sight navigation.
NEWMAN: Watkins believed they
were trade routes originally.
But later it was noticed that
some of them went over really
obscure terrain, like mountains,
and bogs, and streams, and all
this kind of stuff so they
couldn't really have been
walking.
Seems more like they were a
survey, or a mapping system.
NARRATOR: Some researchers
believe that ley lines are
magnetic in nature, and
delineate the lines of Earth's
unseen energy fields.
But if ley lines were useful for
overland navigation to the
ancients, might they also have
been useful for aerial
navigation by extraterrestrial
visitors, as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?
TSOUKALOS: Something
extraordinary happened along
those ley lines because the once
very physical and real visit of
extraterrestrial beings has been
forgotten.
NARRATOR: Trelleborg,
Denmark.
Here, along the northern reaches
of the European continent, lie
the archaeological ruins of a
Viking fortress dating to 900
A.D.
For decades, mainstream
historians have been baffled by
the precise nature of
Trelleborg's perfectly circular
design... with a courtyard
divided into four zones, each
with four longhouses and
gateways open precisely to the
four cardinal directions: north,
south, east and west.
Some believe such a strict
geometric design would have
required extensive knowledge of
advanced engineering.
The mystery deepened in 1982
when pilot Preben Hansson
discovered a direct line of
flight from Trelleborg to three
other Viking fortresses... all
constructed with a similar
design.
PETER FIEBAG (translated):
Trelleborg was the starting
point.
134 miles farther, and another
fort appeared.
He found more forts so that
there was a line of four forts
in Denmark.
BARA: Given that the Vikings
were basically seafaring people,
and these sites are spread out
so far, over land and great
distances, it implies that,
maybe they had some other way of
getting to these places.
Perhaps they even were able to
fly.
Now, how they would fly, what
the technology was... it's a good
question.
But, it seems unlikely that they
would be able to find all these
spots, survey them, and place
monuments and structures there,
if they were simply a seafaring
race.
ERICH VON DANIKEN: These
Viking fortresses are all on one
straight line.
You continue the one line
straight ahead, over the Alps,
for thousands and thousands of
kilometers, and under the line,
always holy places from
antiquity from Stone Age.
And the line points directly to
Delphi... Delphi in Greece.
Delphi was the place of the god
Apollo.
And mythology about Apollo says
every year, two times, Apollo
took his heavenly chariot,
disappeared in a faraway land in
the north.
Apollo flies on one straight
line.
At several points, he makes a
stop.
Wherever he makes a stop, the
Stone Age people start to create
a holy place of it because here
was a god.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the ley lines that connected
early civilizations were
actually flight paths, as
ancient astronaut theorists
believe?
And might such flight paths have
been used by extraterrestrial
spacecraft?
VON DANIKEN: The
extraterrestrials in the
past knew exactly that the
future generations would develop
technology, they would fly, they
would measure, they would
photograph their own land.
So by photographing their land,
they would realize something is
strange here on the ground.
BIRNES: How could a straight
line link ancient Egypt, the
pyramids, the Oracle of Delphi
in Greece, and Viking fortresses
that would've been established
thousands of years later.
It made no sense.
But it does make sense if these
installations are along straight
lines across the Earth's grid,
and if somehow those straight
lines marked navigation routes
for ancient extraterrestrials
that use them as markers to
navigate the globe from society
to society.
TSOUKALOS: Is it possible
that these ancient sites along
ley lines were nothing else but
refueling stations for ancient
astronaut craft?
And the answer is yes.
Because just like today, a plane
goes in straight lines.
And if a plane needs to refuel,
it lands at an airport that's on
its course and not, you know, a
thousand miles to the east or a
thousand miles to the west.
A plane flies straight.
COLLINS: it was suggested
that UFO's may be connected in
some way, because it could well
be that they are following the
paths of geomagnetic fields, the
different variations, the
different strengths that exist.
It was often seen that UFO's
seemed to either appear or
descend or rise in connection
with where the ley lines seem to
intersect.
And this has been seen time
and time again around the world
at different UFO hot spots.
NARRATOR: Might the sacred
sites along ancient flight paths
really have been landing points,
or perhaps fueling stations for
extraterrestrial space vehicles?
Perhaps further evidence can be
found by examining the ancient
civilizations that are
connected from opposite
sides of the globe.
R: Cusco, Pe.
Here, lie the impressive ruins
of the ancient capital of the
Inca empire that thrived from
the 13th to 15th century.
Long suspected by ancient
astronaut theorists to have
been a place visited by
extraterrestrial beings in the
distant past... Cusco is
considered to be an axis mundi,
which in religion or mythology
means the "center" or "navel of
the world"
COPPENS: They are very
important sites.
And quite often when you start
looking into some sites, like
Cusco... Cusco literally means
navel of the world.
It was the navel of the empire
of the Inca.
So Cusco isn't unique.
We really find navel sites
everywhere.
And the navel sites are quite
often the most important sites
of a culture.
Jerusalem is one, Giza Plateau
is another.
BIRNES: World navels, because
they lie along the Earth's
magnetic grid were places where
the ancients created what could
only be called heaven's gates,
altars, places where human
beings could communicate with
otherworldly entities.
NARRATOR: Evidence can also
be found connecting Cusco with
another world navel over 2,000
miles away in the South
Pacific... Easter island.
Although mainstream historians
and archeologists believe the
two places were never in contact
in ancient times, Cusco and
Easter island feature strikingly
similar styles of stonework...
with colossal multi-sided stones
precisely fitted as if each
joint was welded together.
TSOUKALOS: The walls at Cusco
are identical to the walls we
can find in the base foundations
of some of the Moat's on Easter
island.
And those two places are so far
apart, I wonder, how was it
done?
Either the builders travelled
from one place to the other or
the builders in each culture
were visited by the same
teachers.
The teachers from the stars,
extraterrestrials.
FIEBAG: These navels of the
world might have been geodesic
points, which you could use to
navigate from the air.
There are interesting accounts
about this, for example from
Apollonius, who lived in Rome in
4 AD, that he descended with
Thunderbirds, that he had
visited the city of the gods.
There he was given talismans,
which he was supposed to bury.
There is a similar legend from
Cusco.
There the children of the sun
god are supposed to have plunged
a rod into the Earth.
And there are similar legends on
Easter island.
NARRATOR: But if Cusco and
Easter island were linked in
ancient times by space
travelers, what might this say
about other "centers of the
world"?
Strangely, some ancient
civilizations are located on the
exact opposite sides of the
planet.
A line drawn from Easter island
through the center of the
Earth, points to Mohenjo-Daro,
Pakistan, a once great empire
believed by ancient astronaut
theorists to have been destroyed
by a nuclear blast thousands of
years ago.
And, from Nazca, Peru, a line
through the Earth points to
Angkor Wat, Cambodia... a site of
great religious significance...
known in ancient myths to have
been built as a landing zone for
sky beings.
And, astonishingly, these four
sites lie on one circle around
the globe... a circle that also
includes the location of the
Great Pyramids of Egypt.
COPPENS: This is really the
underlying mystery I think,
which is not necessarily why
were they monuments built, for
what purpose?
But also why were they built
on those specific places?
Because really what we
are beginning to understand is
that all of these monuments from
the past were not just built
haphazardly on the surface of
the Earth, but were built in
very specific locations.
MARTELL: it appears that
ancient people either mapped the
Earth in some esoteric way that
we can't comprehend yet, or it
was sacred knowledge handed down
over thousands of years.
NARRATOR: Might such
connections between ancient
sites around the world suggest
that there was some sort of
strategic link between these
civilizations, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe?
And, if so, what could this
mean?
Before the advent of
satellite-guided global
positioning systems, the science
of geodesy was used to determine
the exact position of geographic
points on the globe.
One of the oldest of Earth
sciences, the use of geodesy
dates back thousands of years.
MARTELL: There's clear
records that geodesy was used by
the Sumerians in ancient times.
Several of the landing spots
used by the gods were actually
triangulation points to the
landing corridor.
Things like Baalbek in Lebanon,
or Jerusalem were actually
extensive megalithic monuments
with platforms that were used to
launch spacecraft.
And ancient man recorded stories
around these locations of seeing
great smoke, fire, and loud
noise as these ships ascended or
descended from these locations.
DENNIN: it's probably highly
reasonable that the ancients had
systems of navigation.
I mean, we know the Romans did
effectively that.
And that was why they were so
efficient at getting around
their empire in addition to
their roads and keeping track of
things.
CHILDRESS: In the early era
of our own flight, pilots used
markers which would be church
steeples or mountains, and
obvious physical monuments that
they could see.
Just like that, the ancient
aliens they were able to also
use this world grid and the
pyramids and obelisks, and other
monuments that were built at
these special power places to
navigate.
NEWMAN: it's almost like the
ancients were building these
sites and they were mapping the
planet in vast antiquity,
possibly up to 10,000 or more
years ago.
BIRNES: Because of the
interaction between ancient
civilization and ancient aliens,
these ancient societies,
recognizing the importance of
these spots, and the presence of
ancient aliens, place these
monuments as a map for the star
people, for the ancient aliens
to follow and to direct them to
the civilizations they might
well have started by themselves
as colonies.
NARRATOR: Is it really
possible that many of the
world's most famous ancient
sites were part of an
interconnected network whose
placement on the globe was
planned tens of thousands of
years ago by visitors from other
galaxies, as ancient astronaut
theorists contend?
Perhaps more evidence can be
found among numerous strange
symbols hidden in plain view
along the northwest coast of
France.
Morbihan.
Along the rocky coast of French
Brittany is the small island of
Gavrinis.
Here, lie the remains of a
passage grave known as Gavrinis
tomb... built around 3500 BC.
TSOUKALOS: Gavrinis is an
extraordinary passage grave that
illustrates highly advanced
mathematical knowledge dating
back to prehistoric times.
What's really amazing about
Gavrinis is that there are
spirals and hand axes and almost
things that look like
fingerprints that have been
carved onto the megalithic
slabs.
And mathematicians have
determined that there are hidden
messages, hidden mathematical
messages.
COPPENS: When people came to
Gavrinis and they began to make
measurements as to how these
stones were placed, they began
to realize that these stones
weren't just placed haphazardly
in some kind of coincidental
form, but actually displayed
extraordinary understanding
and knowledge of mathematics.
NARRATOR: 52 megalithic
stones were used in the
construction of the passage
grave, of which 26 are engraved
with unique symbols.
By adding, dividing and
multiplying the numbers of
symbols with significant stones
or groups of stones, researchers
have discovered the correct
spherical size of the Earth, the
number of days in a year, and
the mathematical constant... Pi.
SARA SEAGER: Pi is a very
special number in mathematics.
Pi is a fundamental property of
all circles.
It's the ratio of a circle's
circumference to its diameter.
TSOUKALOS: These
mathematicians have not only
determined the numerical Pi way,
way, way before it was ever
discovered, quote, unquote, but
also the exact longitude and
latitude of the island.
Now that is sensational because
why would Stone Age people know
about the longitude and latitude
of that particular island?
NARRATOR: But do such
findings of precise mathematical
knowledge at Gavrinis,
engraved there more than 5,000
years ago, suggest that its
builders were leaving a secret
code for future generations, as
ancient astronaut theorists
contend?
If so, what might they have
wanted to tell us?
NICK REDFERN: We do see
evidence of profound
mathematical knowledge at work.
The big question is did we
develop that ourselves or is
this an important aspect of the
energy grid issue, that was
instilled upon us by ancient
aliens, teaching us about
mathematics because it was
important in the very clear,
precise construction
of these huge structures.
TSOUKALOS: None of this makes
any sense unless the
construction was directly
commissioned by
extraterrestrials because they
knew that we'd have the
wherewithal to decipher the
message.
NARRATOR: But is it really
possible that the principles of
advanced mathematics were
brought to Earth and given to
man by alien visitors?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, the idea is not only
possible... but probable.
BARA: There is no way that
we could have achieved the moon
landings, for instance, without
a very advanced knowledge of
higher mathematics, that these
ancient cultures seemed to know,
way, way back, many, many
thousands of years.
CHILDRESS: This may be the
reason that extraterrestrials
wanted us to develop
mathematical knowledge ourselves
because it's only with that
special knowledge that we're
able to advance into the skies
and to the stars.
HOWE: if you go back through
history, let's say to Greece,
Mesopotamia, Sumeria, Egypt
where there was clearly some of
the most advanced astronomy, and
emergence of advanced
mathematics.
When these ancient civilizations
were building hugely complex
pyramids, and beautiful Doric
columns in Greece and the
ziggurats of Mesopotamia, is it
possible that none of those
had anything to do with the
minds of humans at the time?
But were actually the creation
by nonhumans who have
interacted with this planet for
thousands of years?
MARTELL: The Anunnaki that
came here as gods to the
Sumerian culture gave them a
math system based on the number
12.
And we see this number 12
being repeated throughout time.
12 hours in a day, 12 inches in
a foot, 12 in a dozen.
It spans very much into
different parts of our culture.
BARA: There seems to be a
single, universal, mathematical
geometric code for how the
universe works.
And, somebody has been trying to
get us to wake up to this fact
for thousands, and thousands,
and thousands of years.
TSOUKALOS: Because ancient
astronauts were aware that our
development one day would reach
a highly advanced technological
status, they wanted to leave
behind some type of a message, a
type of secret code that needed
to be deciphered by a future
generation that understood, or
would understand what really
happened in the past, and that
generation is us.
NARRATOR: The world energy
grid... star alignments...
ancient flight paths...
and mathematics.
Did ancient astronauts really
leave behind a secret code
embedded in the stone monuments
of early man?
One that reveals the
extraterrestrial origins of our
world?
If so, why?
Was it to test us, to see if we
could figure the code out for
ourselves?
Was it simply to communicate
with us?
Or was it to prepare us
for the day they will return?
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