Ancient Aliens s18e03 Episode Script
Beneath the Sacred Temples
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The Dome of the Rock.
The Temple of Jupiter.
Puma Punku.
They are sites sacred
to millions of people,
and they are all built
atop the ruins of structures
that are far more ancient.
Some of the most
iconic temples sites around the world
are built on the exact
same location as former temples.
And the question is, why?
What compelled
early humans to build and rebuild
in the same place,
again and again?
It seems they were not only
doing it for practical purposes
but also for religious
and spiritual reasons.
Are there locations on Earth
that hold special power?
The local population say,
"It was not us who built this.
It was the gods."
And might we
find that they were once occupied
by extraterrestrials?
There is no question in my mind
that these are much older sites
than we think,
and that they were spots for
extraterrestrial communication
a long, long time ago.
There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
It demands
we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is
right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
Cuzco, Peru.
Nestled in a high river valley
of the Andes Mountains,
among peaks towering
over 20,000 feet,
this once great city served
as the capital
of the Inca Empire
from the 13th
to 16th centuries AD.
In 1533, Spanish conquistadors
arrived in Cuzco
and were astonished
by the incredible stonework
found at a site just north
of the city called Sacsayhuamán.
Above the city of Cuzco
we find the megalithic site
and huge ceremonial Inca complex
called Sacsayhuamán.
Its most prominent feature is
a zigzag wall of three levels.
Some of the stones there weigh
as much as 125 tons
and were moved from the quarry
at least three miles away.
Sacsayhuamán is one of the most
beautiful ancient structures
you will ever see in your life.
There are massive,
gigantic megalithic blocks,
and you find the most amazing
of masonry style
where you can't even fit
a dollar bill
in between the fittings
of any of the blocks.
Sacsayhuamán
served both as a fortress
and a ceremonial center.
A circular structure that lies
within the megalithic walls,
called Muyuq Marka,
was the base of a tower
where the Inca worshipped
the sun god Inti.
However, many experts suggest
that while the Inca
certainly utilized
this megalithic structure,
they were not the ones
to build it.
Standard belief is that the Inca
constructed Sacsayhuamán
less than a thousand years ago.
But in some of the earliest
Spanish chronicles
it is said that the Spanish
were completely astounded
by seeing this site,
and they asked the local Inca,
"Did you build this?"
And the Inca replied,
"No. This was here
when we arrived 500 years ago."
Many experts believe
Sacsayhuamán predates the Inca
by thousands of years,
and that the Inca built on top
of what came before.
The Inca were
a Bronze Age civilization,
and the stones at Sacsayhuamán
are metamorphosed limestone,
which is much harder than bronze
and could not be cut or shaped
using bronze tools.
Inca built on top 'cause
you can tell a major difference
between megalithic construction,
where the stones fit
perfectly together,
and the Inca, which is stones
piled on top of stones
with mortar as filler.
But if Sacsayhuamán
really does predate the Inca
As the Inca themselves claimed
How could an even earlier
civilization have possessed
far superior technology?
The ancient Inca talk
about celestial beings
who descended from the sky
a long time ago
and imparted
the first knowledge of anything
toward people of Earth.
The ancient astronaut theory
suggests
it was human beings
who built Sacsayhuamán
but under the tutelage
of the extraterrestrials.
Is it possible that
the astonishing megalithic stonework
at Sacsayhuamán was achieved
with the help of
alien technology, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest?
And if so, might the Inca
have built on top of it
And established it
as a place of worship
Because they were somehow
aware of this?
Sacsayhuamán is only
one of many places
where ancient civilizations
have felt compelled
to repeatedly build
their most sacred sites.
In fact, there are locations
all around the world
where successive cultures have
rebuilt over and over again.
This has been going on since
the end of the last ice age
with places like Gobekli Tepe
in Southeast Turkey,
where the oldest
and most sophisticated monuments
were built first on the bedrock.
And then, eventually,
they would be covered over,
and a new structure, new
enclosure built on top of them.
Some of the most iconic
temple sites around the world,
from Baalbek in Lebanon
to the Temple of Horus
at Edfu in Egypt,
are built on
the exact same location
as former temples
that were reputed to be there.
And the question is, why?
It is not uncommon for
people to repurpose an old structure
or rebuild on its foundation
for practical purposes.
But what ancient astronaut
theorists find intriguing
is how the most sacred sites
tend to remain sacred
over thousands of years.
And of all the places
in the world
where this phenomenon is found,
perhaps there is none
more universally revered
than the 35-acre platform in
Jerusalem known as Temple Mount.
KATHLEEN McGOWAN:
The Temple Mount is arguably
the most important
spiritual site in the world.
All three of the primary
monotheistic religions have
a connection to the events
of history that occurred
on top of the Temple Mount.
It's believed that,
"Is this the stone
from which the world
originates?"
It's a crucial element
in the Jewish tradition.
When Isaac is offered up
for sacrifice by Abraham,
this happens on the exposed
surface of Mount Moriah.
That's the Temple Mount.
For Muslims, this is where
the Prophet Muhammad
ascends up to heaven.
That stone is now covered over
by the Dome of the Rock,
this very important
Islamic monument.
The Dome of the Rock
has stood at Temple Mount
for more than 1,300 years,
but the very first temple
to occupy this sacred space
was the legendary
Solomon's Temple,
constructed upon order
of the Israelite king
in the tenth century BC.
According to the Hebrew Bible,
King Solomon received a message
from the heavens to build
his temple on this spot.
Its primary purpose was to house
the Ark of the Covenant,
the golden box which carried
the two stone tablets
inscribed with
the Ten Commandments,
and which was said
to be God's earthly throne.
Solomon has a communication
with the angel Michael,
who comes and helps Solomon
to build this.
And so, not only is this the
presence of God on this spot,
it's God who's helping
in the building of this.
And so that's part of what makes
that place so special.
So literally divine.
Solomon's Temple was
destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC.
But 70 years later, Jewish
exiles returning to Jerusalem
built a new temple
on the exact same location.
That's what
we call the Second Temple.
And that temple survives
until the year 70 AD,
when it's destroyed
by the Romans.
Then, in the seventh century,
Muslims conquered Jerusalem.
They build
the Dome of the Rock there.
And, so, there's been
a long history
of different people coming in,
taking control, building,
rebuilding, uh, places there.
McGOWAN: Solomon was
instructed to build the temple
on this incredibly
important space.
So why is this space important?
Is it an energetic space?
Is it a portal?
What we see over and over again
with these profound religious
sites all over the world
is, we see this reverence
for power places endures.
From the earliest
human history to today,
we're constantly building
on top of these places.
If a higher
power instructed King Solomon
to build on Temple Mount,
could there be something special
about this particular
location on Earth?
And could the same be true
for other places
around the world
where successive cultures
built again and again?
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
one of the most astonishing
megalithic sites in the world,
and stories about
its connection to the stars.
Baalbek, Lebanon.
Here, in the fertile
Bekaa Valley,
stands what many consider
to be the greatest ruin
of Roman antiquity
the colossal Temple of Jupiter.
But the imposing remains
that tower over the site today
are only the latest
in a long line of structures
erected on this spot.
Archaeologists say the area
has been continually inhabited
for at least 10,000 years,
and no one knows who built
the first place of worship here.
But according to legend,
both Egyptian
and Assyrian conquerors
erected sanctuaries on the site,
followed by the Canaanites
and Phoenicians,
who built a great temple here to
their god Baal around 2500 BC.
Baalbek is one of those places
where you have different people
over millennia
building their shrines,
their temples,
to their particular,
you know, gods or goddesses.
You've got this temple
that's built by the Phoenicians
for one of their deities Baal.
Then Alexander the Great
conquers this area
and surprise, surprise
Builds a temple
to the Greek gods.
In the first century BC,
roughly 300 years
after Alexander the Great,
the Romans conquer Lebanon and
decide to erect a temple here
to their chief god Jupiter.
The main Roman temple
once boasted 54 columns,
each a staggering 65 feet
in height.
But while visitors to the ruins
may first notice
the towering Roman columns,
the most impressive feature
at Baalbek
is its massive foundation.
To this day,
Baalbek, Lebanon has remained
one of the most enduring
mysteries on planet Earth,
because the masonry
that we find there
is unparalleled compared
to the rest of the world.
In fact, there are three stone
blocks called the trilithons,
each weighing approximately
800 metric tons,
which is 1.6 million pounds.
Each of these blocks
is approximately 62 feet in length
by about 14 feet in depth
and 12 feet in breadth.
And they're not even
on the ground.
So whoever placed them there
in ancient times
would have had
to have raised them
up to a height of about 20 feet.
Each of the stones
were quarried two miles away
and put perfectly into place
with such precision that you
can't even put a credit card
or a needle in between
those massive blocks.
How ancient
people carved and moved
such massive stones
is a question
that baffles archaeologists
to this day.
And equally as mysterious
is who placed them there.
The giant blocks
in the foundation
are clearly of a different
building style
than the temples that sit above.
And in my opinion, that platform
is not just ancient,
it is prehistoric.
But if the platform
at Baalbek was constructed
thousands of years
before the Romans arrived
in the Bekaa Valley,
why did they choose this
as the site
to build their most
magnificent temple?
One pioneering Russian scholar
has proposed
that humans may have
been drawn to this location
because it was the site
of one of Earth's
earliest
extraterrestrial events.
Scientist and mathematician
Dr. Matest Agrest
sends shockwaves
through the world of academia
with an article in which
he poses a new theory
called "paleocontact,"
a precursor
to what is known today
as the ancient astronaut theory,
suggesting that certain
biblical texts
could be interpreted as evidence
of alien visitation.
And according to Agrest,
one place where such visitations
occurred was Baalbek.
Dr. Matest Agrest
went into the ancient record,
the Book of Enoch
and other Hebrew texts, and
noticed that there were beings
coming from the sky or the stars
that came to Earth,
and he came up
with a theory that they
were extraterrestrial beings
who came to Earth
to assist humanity in developing
advanced technology
to build stone constructions
such as what we see
at Baalbek in Lebanon.
Agrest wrote about the watchers,
a group of fallen angels
who, according
to the biblical account,
descended to Earth
at Mount Hermon,
very near the site of Baalbek.
Agrest suggested
that the watchers were, in fact,
visitors from another planet,
who built the megalithic
platform at Baalbek
as a launchpad.
He thought it was
a giant stone platform
that spaceships could land on
and take off from.
And this makes a lot of sense,
because it's
so incredibly solid,
with these huge stone
blocks in it,
that even huge vehicles,
such as rockets,
could land and take off
from this huge platform.
Two
decades after the publication
of Agrest's
controversial article,
author and researcher
Zecharia Sitchin
came to the same conclusion
about Baalbek
based on a 5,000-year-old
Sumerian text.
The Epic of Gilgamesh tells
of a hero of superhuman strength
who embarks
on an impossible quest.
In the course of his journeys,
Gilgamesh arrives at a site
where he encounters
otherworldly gods,
a site that sounds suspiciously
like Baalbek.
In the Sumerian
Epic of Gilgamesh,
which is one of the great
and important legends,
um, of human history,
we have the hero arriving
in a place known
as the Landing Place.
A space which allows the ascent
and the descent of beings
from the heavens to the Earth.
Zecharia Sitchin
in the 1970s proposed,
based on his reading
of the Epic of Gilgamesh,
that Gilgamesh himself had seen
some sort of a spacecraft
take off from a landing site and
pinpointed that site as Baalbek.
Is it possible that Baalbek
was a landing pad
for alien visitors?
And that it remained so
for thousands of years?
Could that be why
so many ancient peoples,
such as the Egyptians,
Assyrians, Canaanites,
Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans,
all chose to build and rebuild
some of their greatest temples
on this spot?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining new discoveries
made at a mysterious
ancient site
on the other side of the world.
While searching
for the southern capital
of the Inca Empire, Spanish
conquistador Pedro Cieza de León
comes upon something
far stranger
A vast, abandoned city
near the shore of Lake Titicaca
that the locals call Tiahuanaco.
The ruined city
contains temples,
huge megalithic structures,
and vast ceremonial buildings.
Tiahuanaco was huge.
It spanned for miles and miles,
and had a population of perhaps
as many as 20,000 people.
Among
Tiahuanaco's most impressive ruins
is a carved monolith called
the Gateway to the Sun
and a terraced mound
called Puma Punku,
containing stone blocks cut
with extraordinary precision.
According to archaeologists,
the Tiahuanaco complex
once served as the capital
of a sprawling empire
that rose and fell
centuries before the Inca.
This is why we
have the term called the pre-Inca.
But who were the pre-Inca?
And this is where
it gets interesting,
because pre-Inca construction
is more sophisticated
than Inca construction.
While some mainstream
historians say the site dates back
only to the Bronze Age,
others maintain it is far older.
Arthur Posnanski
spent an exorbitant amount of time
at Tiahuanaco, and he calculated
an actual origin date
of Tiahuanaco,
which he based
to be around 12,500 BC,
which is an incredible time,
because at that time,
according to mainstream
archaeology,
we were munching on bananas.
So, it opens up
the possibility that this site
is vastly more ancient
than we're led to believe.
And we're only just now
beginning to discover
the complete history
of that site.
Some experts
believe that the builders of Tiahuanaco
were the ancestors
of the local Aymara people
who still live
in the area today.
But many of the Aymara
themselves disagree.
The local population,
the ancient Aymara culture, say,
"It was not us who built this.
It was the gods. Los dioses."
Recently, the
mystery of who built Tiahuanaco
only deepened
with a staggering discovery
not within the city
but beneath it.
Researchers from UNESCO,
working with local
archaeologists at Tiahuanaco,
announce findings
that send shockwaves
through the world
of archaeology.
While analyzing
satellite imagery
and ground-penetrating radar
of the Tiahuanaco site,
they find dozens
of previously unknown structures
buried virtually everywhere
they look.
What this aerial technology
has found
is 34 acres of terraced mounds,
underground platforms,
and elements
of a pyramid complex.
Undated constructions
reveal that temples
may have taken the form of
industrial-strength platforms,
and this begs the question,
why are the bases,
these platforms,
so industrial-strength?
It's as though they were built
to support extreme weight.
So, originally, there could have
been one large mega-platform,
similar to what we find
at Baalbek.
This could have belonged
to a much earlier civilization.
If Tiahuanaco
is yet another sacred site
where successive cultures
built temples atop the ruins
of far earlier structures,
is it possible
that there is a connection
to extraterrestrial visitation?
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
Tiahuanaco's most
mysterious ruins,
at Puma Punku,
provide the best evidence
that the site was
not only significant
to the native people
but also
to otherworldly visitors.
Puma Punku is, to me, the most
important place on Earth
as far as an extraterrestrial
visitation would be concerned.
The construction style
at Puma Punku
does not exist
anywhere else on Earth.
These stones, some
of them weighing a hundred tons,
are made of andesite
and other hard materials
that today we would use
a diamond-tip drill
in order to shape or mold
such stones.
How did they do it
with hammers and chisels?
Like the
foundation stones beneath Baalbek
and the megalithic blocks
of Sacsayhuamán,
the buried platforms
beneath Puma Punku
raise a provocative question:
Why were the largest, heaviest
and most sophisticated parts
of these sites
those that date back
farthest in time?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists,
more than 12,000 years ago,
human civilizations
existed on Earth
that possessed
incredible technology
given to them
by extraterrestrial beings.
The ancient Egyptians
referred to
a-a time called
the "First Time,"
when the gods, extraterrestrial
beings, walked among men.
Pre-10,000 BC.
We have authentic legends
about these lost lands
and lost worlds.
And that extraterrestrials
were here at the same time.
We have these
all over the world.
We have the stories
of Atlantis and Lemuria.
Many cultures around the world
have, also, these same legends
and lores and myths
of cataclysms.
The Scandinavians have this.
Also, we have the flood of Noah.
We have the Greeks
also have tales of a flood.
What we now know
from incredible amount
of evidence
coming from every part
of the world,
is around 10,800 BC,
the Earth suffered a terrible,
uh, catastrophe
in the form of a comet impact
known as
the Younger Dryas event.
And this devastated every
continent of the world
with fires and floods.
So, now it looks like
we're looking at a-a secret history
of planet Earth,
one where there's
extraterrestrial intervention.
And there were civilizations
and activities going on then,
and they were destroyed
in a cataclysmic flood.
From Baalbek in Lebanon
to the Temple Mount to Puma Punku,
some of these sites
are thought to be the locations
where pre-flood temples
once existed.
So, after the cataclysm, people
are regaining civilization,
and they go back
to the exact same location
as previous temples and-and
rebuild the temple there.
Could it be
that the most ancient structures
found at sacred sites
all over the world
belonged to civilizations
that have been lost to history?
Civilizations
where extraterrestrials
once lived among humans
before falling victim
to a cataclysmic event?
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
a site in Peru where the Inca
claimed to have had
a direct line of communication
with the gods.
Cuzco, Peru.
In the heart
of the ancient Incan capital
stands the Convent
of Santo Domingo,
a Spanish church constructed
roughly 400 years ago.
But still visible beneath
the church are the remnants
of an older and far more
impressive structure:
the Incan temple of Coricancha.
Coricancha
is probably the premier site
for the ancient
Incan civilization.
This was the crowning jewel
of their empire.
Um, it, uh, reflected
the Incan, uh, political power.
As well as the religious power.
It had gold plating
all along its walls, inside and out.
So it glowed in the Sun.
And it was a very
imposing structure.
It had a base that was
a curved wall
with a big garden at the bottom.
And inside,
it had a number of temples.
After the Spanish conquistadors
sacked Cuzco
in November of 1533,
they demolished the Coricancha
and built a convent and church
on its monumental foundation.
All that's left
of the original structure
is the impressive stonework
of the base
and some underground rooms.
But some experts believe
the surviving stonework
of the Coricancha is too
monumental and sophisticated
to have been achieved with the
Bronze Age tools of the Inca,
and was built instead by an
earlier, unknown civilization.
So, with the Coricancha, we have
good evidence that when the Inca
arrived in this area,
there was already an earlier
megalithic temple there.
They were actually
building on something
that was already there,
like, possibly
an ancient platform,
possibly an underground temple,
because there's evidence
of tunnels in this area.
For ancient astronaut theorists,
this raises the same question
posed by Baalbek and Tiahuanaco:
why did ancient people
repeatedly build
temple after temple
on the same sacred spot?
And some believe that
in the case of the Coricancha,
Inca legends may provide
a pivotal clue.
Because tradition states
that a special spot
within the Coricancha
allowed communication
directly with the heavens,
but only when it was activated
by the most sacred relic
in the Inca world,
a mysterious golden disc
called the Inti Punchaco.
The most legendary relic
of any Peruvian era
was said to have been kept
in the original Coricancha.
This was the Inti Punchaco.
This sun disc,
this golden artifact,
allowed whoever possessed it
to commune directly
with the gods.
According to
the Inca, within the Coricancha,
the Inti Punchaco disc
allowed direct contact
with their creator god
Viracocha.
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
that the specific placement
of it
was important because it
may have been receiving a signal
from beyond Earth.
And they believe the exact spot
where it was activated
still exists in a chamber
of the Coricancha
that was spared destruction
by the Spanish.
In the Coricancha
is this special niche,
and today they've covered it
with a Plexiglas sheet,
but it has blocks
that are perfectly cut
and articulated in unusual ways,
little notches and things,
plus drilled holes that go
through it,
which seem to be for
electric cables or something.
So it would appear
that some device
was placed into this niche
in the wall
that was like a monitor
of some kind.
And they've chosen this spot.
And all for reasons
that we do not understand.
So, could it
be that at the Coricancha,
there was a sacred kind of
part of the site there
where they were connecting
with the gods?
Actually something in the land,
like a-a magnetic hot spot
or a vortex that the Inca
and then later the Spanish
became aware of.
Is it possible that
ancient Peruvians possessed a device
that allowed them to communicate
with beings from beyond Earth?
And that the location
of the Coricancha
was essential to activating
this technology?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
and suggest that clues
as to just how such a technology
might have worked can be found
by examining
mysterious magnetic
anomalies detected
at one of the most remote
ancient sites in the world.
In the middle
of the Pacific Ocean,
roughly 2,500 miles
northeast of Australia,
lie the ruins of a once
great ancient city Nan Madol.
Consisting of hundreds
of man-made islets
off the eastern coast
of Micronesia,
it has been dubbed the
"Eighth Wonder of the World."
The site of Nan Madol on the
island of Pohnpei in Micronesia
is one of the strangest places
on the planet.
It's an 11-square-mile complex
composed of over 250 million
tons of basalt logs
floating on a submerged
coral reef.
They are 18 feet long,
four feet in diameter,
and are stacked
40 feet up in the air.
Why did they do this?
And how did they do this?
Today, the site
lies abandoned and shunned
by the local Micronesians,
who consider it haunted.
Nan Madol is one
of these disappeared civilizations.
It's fascinatingly interesting.
This seemed to have been
the center of power
of a, uh, major civilization.
And yet it also seems
that it might have been built
on earlier civilizations
that are lost in time.
Since stone
is difficult to accurately date,
no one knows for certain
when it was constructed
or how it was built.
When you
ask the local population,
"Where were
these blocks quarried?"
In unison, they will tell you,
from across the island
and that they were flown
across the island.
According to legend,
twin sorcerers
of giant proportions
came down from the sky
and floated above the site
and positioned the basalt
columns as they desired,
a legend that's very similar
to the same story at Puma Punku.
But when
I hear stories like that,
I wonder, well,
perhaps we have another example
of what I refer to
as misunderstood technology.
As with
other sites like Puma Punku,
Baalbek and the Coricancha,
legend says
that these structures were not
the first to exist here,
but instead were built
above a much older city.
The mystery of Nan Madol
is even more intriguing when
we factor in the local legend
that states that it was built
on an earlier civilization
called the Kanamwayso,
which is submerged below water
but still has those
same basalt megaliths.
Objects that
appear to be basalt columns
have in fact been found
beneath the ocean at Nan Madol,
and those who have studied
the columns
both above and below the water
have discovered a curious
electromagnetic anomaly.
There's a strong
magnetic field in every single one
of the 250 million tons
of basalt there.
You can take a compass and run
it along these basalt blocks,
and your compass will just spin
as you move it along the blocks.
Also, it's thought that the site
itself is a special power spot
and an energy vortex, and that's
why Nan Madol is built there.
And this legendary sunken city
called Kanamwayso as well.
The local population
also reports many, many sightings
of orbs and lights
that have been seen
hovering around Nan Madol.
Is it because of the magnetic
spectrum of Earth?
And you have to wonder
if, through magnetism,
the stones were transported
in the first place,
'cause they were transported
through the air.
Some ancient
astronaut theorists suggest
that elevated electromagnetic
energy present at Nan Madol
was not only a powerful tool
used to move
the giant basalt columns,
but that it may also
have been the reason
that extraterrestrials
helped the locals
to build here
in the first place.
Could it be that there was
a sacred kind of part
of the site there,
where they were
connecting with the gods?
You know, not just through
visionary experiences,
but actually something
in the land,
like a-a magnetic hot spot
or a vortex?
We hear the word
"vortex" in science fiction,
popular culture all the time.
And a vortex is just
a mathematical thing
that describes
a swirling motion.
An electromagnetic field
can be formed in a vortex.
You could create a vortex
that would enable
transporting information
from somewhere else to here
at the speed of light or faster
than the speed of light.
And if there are places
on the Earth
where these types of vortexes
may be stronger than others,
you could see people going there
to build structures
that maybe altered
the electromagnetic field
of the local environment.
Was there even
some kind of portal or vortex present
in some of these sacred places?
If that's the case,
we have to question
these principles of oracle
sites, megalithic temples.
Were they built to harness this,
to be these
communication portals
between these different places?
There is no question in my mind
that these are much older sites
than we think,
and that they were spots for
extraterrestrial communication
a long, long time ago.
Is it possible that
certain locations around the world
act as vortexes
of electromagnetic energy?
And that ancient people built
their most sacred sites
in these very spots
in order to communicate
with otherworldly beings?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
that although this notion
may sound far-fetched,
scientists at NASA recently
found evidence
that such portals
really do exist.
NASA makes a
groundbreaking announcement,
that there is indisputable
evidence of magnetic portals
connecting the Earth
and the Sun.
These portals open
every eight minutes
and allow the transfer
of high-energy particles
between the two
celestial bodies.
So, you have these
two really powerful magnets,
the Earth and the Sun,
and their field lines
are crossing each other.
But every now and then,
for whatever reason,
we have these flux transfer
events where the field lines
will actually connect
to each other
and they create a pathway for
the magnetic field of the Sun
to literally be connected to
the magnetic field of the Earth.
And it's even been referred to
in the scientific literature
as magnetic portals.
We actually have a connection
that could be a transit
to or a pathway for information
to travel from the Sun
to the Earth or vice versa.
Ancient astronaut
theorists have long been intrigued
by the concept
of electromagnetic portals,
since in theory
they could provide
a means of communicating,
or even traveling rapidly,
across the vast distances
of space.
The NASA discovery poses
an intriguing question:
could sites around the world,
where successive cultures
built their most sacred temples,
be locations that facilitate
the creation
of magnetic portals?
Could a civilization
with a more advanced knowledge
of physics
than we have currently
make use of this flux transfer,
of these magnetic field lines
connecting between their star
and other planets?
Could it create a means
of traveling quickly
from one point to the other
between them?
Or maybe even something else
that we just haven't
discovered yet.
Maybe these sites
were kind of manipulating
the energies
of the cosmos and the Earth
to open these portals up
for this kind of purpose.
And what or who were they
really communicating with?
Was it really the gods?
Was it the ancestors?
Or was it otherworldly beings?
Could Baalbek, Temple Mount,
Puma Punku, the Coricancha,
and other sites around the world
where sacred structures
have been built again and again
have electromagnetic properties
similar to Nan Madol?
Properties that could be
harnessed to create gateways
to connect
with otherworldly beings?
McGOWAN:
Over and over, around the world,
from the beginning of time
to now,
we see that sacred sites
and power points
have been marked by humankind.
Temples have been built
to communicate
from Earth to heaven.
Quite clearly,
these places are somewhere
that we keep coming back to.
We call them portals,
we call them vortexes.
They are gateways
onto another world,
and they are
very, very important
not just for human experience
but for evolution itself.
Are humans
drawn to certain locations on Earth
by a magnetic force?
Do we build
our most sacred temples
on the same sites
again and again
because these locations
connect us to the cosmos?
Perhaps, as we continue to
unearth even more ancient ruins,
we will come
to better understand
our connection to the universe
and the truth about
our extraterrestrial past.
The Dome of the Rock.
The Temple of Jupiter.
Puma Punku.
They are sites sacred
to millions of people,
and they are all built
atop the ruins of structures
that are far more ancient.
Some of the most
iconic temples sites around the world
are built on the exact
same location as former temples.
And the question is, why?
What compelled
early humans to build and rebuild
in the same place,
again and again?
It seems they were not only
doing it for practical purposes
but also for religious
and spiritual reasons.
Are there locations on Earth
that hold special power?
The local population say,
"It was not us who built this.
It was the gods."
And might we
find that they were once occupied
by extraterrestrials?
There is no question in my mind
that these are much older sites
than we think,
and that they were spots for
extraterrestrial communication
a long, long time ago.
There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
It demands
we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is
right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
Cuzco, Peru.
Nestled in a high river valley
of the Andes Mountains,
among peaks towering
over 20,000 feet,
this once great city served
as the capital
of the Inca Empire
from the 13th
to 16th centuries AD.
In 1533, Spanish conquistadors
arrived in Cuzco
and were astonished
by the incredible stonework
found at a site just north
of the city called Sacsayhuamán.
Above the city of Cuzco
we find the megalithic site
and huge ceremonial Inca complex
called Sacsayhuamán.
Its most prominent feature is
a zigzag wall of three levels.
Some of the stones there weigh
as much as 125 tons
and were moved from the quarry
at least three miles away.
Sacsayhuamán is one of the most
beautiful ancient structures
you will ever see in your life.
There are massive,
gigantic megalithic blocks,
and you find the most amazing
of masonry style
where you can't even fit
a dollar bill
in between the fittings
of any of the blocks.
Sacsayhuamán
served both as a fortress
and a ceremonial center.
A circular structure that lies
within the megalithic walls,
called Muyuq Marka,
was the base of a tower
where the Inca worshipped
the sun god Inti.
However, many experts suggest
that while the Inca
certainly utilized
this megalithic structure,
they were not the ones
to build it.
Standard belief is that the Inca
constructed Sacsayhuamán
less than a thousand years ago.
But in some of the earliest
Spanish chronicles
it is said that the Spanish
were completely astounded
by seeing this site,
and they asked the local Inca,
"Did you build this?"
And the Inca replied,
"No. This was here
when we arrived 500 years ago."
Many experts believe
Sacsayhuamán predates the Inca
by thousands of years,
and that the Inca built on top
of what came before.
The Inca were
a Bronze Age civilization,
and the stones at Sacsayhuamán
are metamorphosed limestone,
which is much harder than bronze
and could not be cut or shaped
using bronze tools.
Inca built on top 'cause
you can tell a major difference
between megalithic construction,
where the stones fit
perfectly together,
and the Inca, which is stones
piled on top of stones
with mortar as filler.
But if Sacsayhuamán
really does predate the Inca
As the Inca themselves claimed
How could an even earlier
civilization have possessed
far superior technology?
The ancient Inca talk
about celestial beings
who descended from the sky
a long time ago
and imparted
the first knowledge of anything
toward people of Earth.
The ancient astronaut theory
suggests
it was human beings
who built Sacsayhuamán
but under the tutelage
of the extraterrestrials.
Is it possible that
the astonishing megalithic stonework
at Sacsayhuamán was achieved
with the help of
alien technology, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest?
And if so, might the Inca
have built on top of it
And established it
as a place of worship
Because they were somehow
aware of this?
Sacsayhuamán is only
one of many places
where ancient civilizations
have felt compelled
to repeatedly build
their most sacred sites.
In fact, there are locations
all around the world
where successive cultures have
rebuilt over and over again.
This has been going on since
the end of the last ice age
with places like Gobekli Tepe
in Southeast Turkey,
where the oldest
and most sophisticated monuments
were built first on the bedrock.
And then, eventually,
they would be covered over,
and a new structure, new
enclosure built on top of them.
Some of the most iconic
temple sites around the world,
from Baalbek in Lebanon
to the Temple of Horus
at Edfu in Egypt,
are built on
the exact same location
as former temples
that were reputed to be there.
And the question is, why?
It is not uncommon for
people to repurpose an old structure
or rebuild on its foundation
for practical purposes.
But what ancient astronaut
theorists find intriguing
is how the most sacred sites
tend to remain sacred
over thousands of years.
And of all the places
in the world
where this phenomenon is found,
perhaps there is none
more universally revered
than the 35-acre platform in
Jerusalem known as Temple Mount.
KATHLEEN McGOWAN:
The Temple Mount is arguably
the most important
spiritual site in the world.
All three of the primary
monotheistic religions have
a connection to the events
of history that occurred
on top of the Temple Mount.
It's believed that,
"Is this the stone
from which the world
originates?"
It's a crucial element
in the Jewish tradition.
When Isaac is offered up
for sacrifice by Abraham,
this happens on the exposed
surface of Mount Moriah.
That's the Temple Mount.
For Muslims, this is where
the Prophet Muhammad
ascends up to heaven.
That stone is now covered over
by the Dome of the Rock,
this very important
Islamic monument.
The Dome of the Rock
has stood at Temple Mount
for more than 1,300 years,
but the very first temple
to occupy this sacred space
was the legendary
Solomon's Temple,
constructed upon order
of the Israelite king
in the tenth century BC.
According to the Hebrew Bible,
King Solomon received a message
from the heavens to build
his temple on this spot.
Its primary purpose was to house
the Ark of the Covenant,
the golden box which carried
the two stone tablets
inscribed with
the Ten Commandments,
and which was said
to be God's earthly throne.
Solomon has a communication
with the angel Michael,
who comes and helps Solomon
to build this.
And so, not only is this the
presence of God on this spot,
it's God who's helping
in the building of this.
And so that's part of what makes
that place so special.
So literally divine.
Solomon's Temple was
destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC.
But 70 years later, Jewish
exiles returning to Jerusalem
built a new temple
on the exact same location.
That's what
we call the Second Temple.
And that temple survives
until the year 70 AD,
when it's destroyed
by the Romans.
Then, in the seventh century,
Muslims conquered Jerusalem.
They build
the Dome of the Rock there.
And, so, there's been
a long history
of different people coming in,
taking control, building,
rebuilding, uh, places there.
McGOWAN: Solomon was
instructed to build the temple
on this incredibly
important space.
So why is this space important?
Is it an energetic space?
Is it a portal?
What we see over and over again
with these profound religious
sites all over the world
is, we see this reverence
for power places endures.
From the earliest
human history to today,
we're constantly building
on top of these places.
If a higher
power instructed King Solomon
to build on Temple Mount,
could there be something special
about this particular
location on Earth?
And could the same be true
for other places
around the world
where successive cultures
built again and again?
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
one of the most astonishing
megalithic sites in the world,
and stories about
its connection to the stars.
Baalbek, Lebanon.
Here, in the fertile
Bekaa Valley,
stands what many consider
to be the greatest ruin
of Roman antiquity
the colossal Temple of Jupiter.
But the imposing remains
that tower over the site today
are only the latest
in a long line of structures
erected on this spot.
Archaeologists say the area
has been continually inhabited
for at least 10,000 years,
and no one knows who built
the first place of worship here.
But according to legend,
both Egyptian
and Assyrian conquerors
erected sanctuaries on the site,
followed by the Canaanites
and Phoenicians,
who built a great temple here to
their god Baal around 2500 BC.
Baalbek is one of those places
where you have different people
over millennia
building their shrines,
their temples,
to their particular,
you know, gods or goddesses.
You've got this temple
that's built by the Phoenicians
for one of their deities Baal.
Then Alexander the Great
conquers this area
and surprise, surprise
Builds a temple
to the Greek gods.
In the first century BC,
roughly 300 years
after Alexander the Great,
the Romans conquer Lebanon and
decide to erect a temple here
to their chief god Jupiter.
The main Roman temple
once boasted 54 columns,
each a staggering 65 feet
in height.
But while visitors to the ruins
may first notice
the towering Roman columns,
the most impressive feature
at Baalbek
is its massive foundation.
To this day,
Baalbek, Lebanon has remained
one of the most enduring
mysteries on planet Earth,
because the masonry
that we find there
is unparalleled compared
to the rest of the world.
In fact, there are three stone
blocks called the trilithons,
each weighing approximately
800 metric tons,
which is 1.6 million pounds.
Each of these blocks
is approximately 62 feet in length
by about 14 feet in depth
and 12 feet in breadth.
And they're not even
on the ground.
So whoever placed them there
in ancient times
would have had
to have raised them
up to a height of about 20 feet.
Each of the stones
were quarried two miles away
and put perfectly into place
with such precision that you
can't even put a credit card
or a needle in between
those massive blocks.
How ancient
people carved and moved
such massive stones
is a question
that baffles archaeologists
to this day.
And equally as mysterious
is who placed them there.
The giant blocks
in the foundation
are clearly of a different
building style
than the temples that sit above.
And in my opinion, that platform
is not just ancient,
it is prehistoric.
But if the platform
at Baalbek was constructed
thousands of years
before the Romans arrived
in the Bekaa Valley,
why did they choose this
as the site
to build their most
magnificent temple?
One pioneering Russian scholar
has proposed
that humans may have
been drawn to this location
because it was the site
of one of Earth's
earliest
extraterrestrial events.
Scientist and mathematician
Dr. Matest Agrest
sends shockwaves
through the world of academia
with an article in which
he poses a new theory
called "paleocontact,"
a precursor
to what is known today
as the ancient astronaut theory,
suggesting that certain
biblical texts
could be interpreted as evidence
of alien visitation.
And according to Agrest,
one place where such visitations
occurred was Baalbek.
Dr. Matest Agrest
went into the ancient record,
the Book of Enoch
and other Hebrew texts, and
noticed that there were beings
coming from the sky or the stars
that came to Earth,
and he came up
with a theory that they
were extraterrestrial beings
who came to Earth
to assist humanity in developing
advanced technology
to build stone constructions
such as what we see
at Baalbek in Lebanon.
Agrest wrote about the watchers,
a group of fallen angels
who, according
to the biblical account,
descended to Earth
at Mount Hermon,
very near the site of Baalbek.
Agrest suggested
that the watchers were, in fact,
visitors from another planet,
who built the megalithic
platform at Baalbek
as a launchpad.
He thought it was
a giant stone platform
that spaceships could land on
and take off from.
And this makes a lot of sense,
because it's
so incredibly solid,
with these huge stone
blocks in it,
that even huge vehicles,
such as rockets,
could land and take off
from this huge platform.
Two
decades after the publication
of Agrest's
controversial article,
author and researcher
Zecharia Sitchin
came to the same conclusion
about Baalbek
based on a 5,000-year-old
Sumerian text.
The Epic of Gilgamesh tells
of a hero of superhuman strength
who embarks
on an impossible quest.
In the course of his journeys,
Gilgamesh arrives at a site
where he encounters
otherworldly gods,
a site that sounds suspiciously
like Baalbek.
In the Sumerian
Epic of Gilgamesh,
which is one of the great
and important legends,
um, of human history,
we have the hero arriving
in a place known
as the Landing Place.
A space which allows the ascent
and the descent of beings
from the heavens to the Earth.
Zecharia Sitchin
in the 1970s proposed,
based on his reading
of the Epic of Gilgamesh,
that Gilgamesh himself had seen
some sort of a spacecraft
take off from a landing site and
pinpointed that site as Baalbek.
Is it possible that Baalbek
was a landing pad
for alien visitors?
And that it remained so
for thousands of years?
Could that be why
so many ancient peoples,
such as the Egyptians,
Assyrians, Canaanites,
Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans,
all chose to build and rebuild
some of their greatest temples
on this spot?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining new discoveries
made at a mysterious
ancient site
on the other side of the world.
While searching
for the southern capital
of the Inca Empire, Spanish
conquistador Pedro Cieza de León
comes upon something
far stranger
A vast, abandoned city
near the shore of Lake Titicaca
that the locals call Tiahuanaco.
The ruined city
contains temples,
huge megalithic structures,
and vast ceremonial buildings.
Tiahuanaco was huge.
It spanned for miles and miles,
and had a population of perhaps
as many as 20,000 people.
Among
Tiahuanaco's most impressive ruins
is a carved monolith called
the Gateway to the Sun
and a terraced mound
called Puma Punku,
containing stone blocks cut
with extraordinary precision.
According to archaeologists,
the Tiahuanaco complex
once served as the capital
of a sprawling empire
that rose and fell
centuries before the Inca.
This is why we
have the term called the pre-Inca.
But who were the pre-Inca?
And this is where
it gets interesting,
because pre-Inca construction
is more sophisticated
than Inca construction.
While some mainstream
historians say the site dates back
only to the Bronze Age,
others maintain it is far older.
Arthur Posnanski
spent an exorbitant amount of time
at Tiahuanaco, and he calculated
an actual origin date
of Tiahuanaco,
which he based
to be around 12,500 BC,
which is an incredible time,
because at that time,
according to mainstream
archaeology,
we were munching on bananas.
So, it opens up
the possibility that this site
is vastly more ancient
than we're led to believe.
And we're only just now
beginning to discover
the complete history
of that site.
Some experts
believe that the builders of Tiahuanaco
were the ancestors
of the local Aymara people
who still live
in the area today.
But many of the Aymara
themselves disagree.
The local population,
the ancient Aymara culture, say,
"It was not us who built this.
It was the gods. Los dioses."
Recently, the
mystery of who built Tiahuanaco
only deepened
with a staggering discovery
not within the city
but beneath it.
Researchers from UNESCO,
working with local
archaeologists at Tiahuanaco,
announce findings
that send shockwaves
through the world
of archaeology.
While analyzing
satellite imagery
and ground-penetrating radar
of the Tiahuanaco site,
they find dozens
of previously unknown structures
buried virtually everywhere
they look.
What this aerial technology
has found
is 34 acres of terraced mounds,
underground platforms,
and elements
of a pyramid complex.
Undated constructions
reveal that temples
may have taken the form of
industrial-strength platforms,
and this begs the question,
why are the bases,
these platforms,
so industrial-strength?
It's as though they were built
to support extreme weight.
So, originally, there could have
been one large mega-platform,
similar to what we find
at Baalbek.
This could have belonged
to a much earlier civilization.
If Tiahuanaco
is yet another sacred site
where successive cultures
built temples atop the ruins
of far earlier structures,
is it possible
that there is a connection
to extraterrestrial visitation?
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
Tiahuanaco's most
mysterious ruins,
at Puma Punku,
provide the best evidence
that the site was
not only significant
to the native people
but also
to otherworldly visitors.
Puma Punku is, to me, the most
important place on Earth
as far as an extraterrestrial
visitation would be concerned.
The construction style
at Puma Punku
does not exist
anywhere else on Earth.
These stones, some
of them weighing a hundred tons,
are made of andesite
and other hard materials
that today we would use
a diamond-tip drill
in order to shape or mold
such stones.
How did they do it
with hammers and chisels?
Like the
foundation stones beneath Baalbek
and the megalithic blocks
of Sacsayhuamán,
the buried platforms
beneath Puma Punku
raise a provocative question:
Why were the largest, heaviest
and most sophisticated parts
of these sites
those that date back
farthest in time?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists,
more than 12,000 years ago,
human civilizations
existed on Earth
that possessed
incredible technology
given to them
by extraterrestrial beings.
The ancient Egyptians
referred to
a-a time called
the "First Time,"
when the gods, extraterrestrial
beings, walked among men.
Pre-10,000 BC.
We have authentic legends
about these lost lands
and lost worlds.
And that extraterrestrials
were here at the same time.
We have these
all over the world.
We have the stories
of Atlantis and Lemuria.
Many cultures around the world
have, also, these same legends
and lores and myths
of cataclysms.
The Scandinavians have this.
Also, we have the flood of Noah.
We have the Greeks
also have tales of a flood.
What we now know
from incredible amount
of evidence
coming from every part
of the world,
is around 10,800 BC,
the Earth suffered a terrible,
uh, catastrophe
in the form of a comet impact
known as
the Younger Dryas event.
And this devastated every
continent of the world
with fires and floods.
So, now it looks like
we're looking at a-a secret history
of planet Earth,
one where there's
extraterrestrial intervention.
And there were civilizations
and activities going on then,
and they were destroyed
in a cataclysmic flood.
From Baalbek in Lebanon
to the Temple Mount to Puma Punku,
some of these sites
are thought to be the locations
where pre-flood temples
once existed.
So, after the cataclysm, people
are regaining civilization,
and they go back
to the exact same location
as previous temples and-and
rebuild the temple there.
Could it be
that the most ancient structures
found at sacred sites
all over the world
belonged to civilizations
that have been lost to history?
Civilizations
where extraterrestrials
once lived among humans
before falling victim
to a cataclysmic event?
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
a site in Peru where the Inca
claimed to have had
a direct line of communication
with the gods.
Cuzco, Peru.
In the heart
of the ancient Incan capital
stands the Convent
of Santo Domingo,
a Spanish church constructed
roughly 400 years ago.
But still visible beneath
the church are the remnants
of an older and far more
impressive structure:
the Incan temple of Coricancha.
Coricancha
is probably the premier site
for the ancient
Incan civilization.
This was the crowning jewel
of their empire.
Um, it, uh, reflected
the Incan, uh, political power.
As well as the religious power.
It had gold plating
all along its walls, inside and out.
So it glowed in the Sun.
And it was a very
imposing structure.
It had a base that was
a curved wall
with a big garden at the bottom.
And inside,
it had a number of temples.
After the Spanish conquistadors
sacked Cuzco
in November of 1533,
they demolished the Coricancha
and built a convent and church
on its monumental foundation.
All that's left
of the original structure
is the impressive stonework
of the base
and some underground rooms.
But some experts believe
the surviving stonework
of the Coricancha is too
monumental and sophisticated
to have been achieved with the
Bronze Age tools of the Inca,
and was built instead by an
earlier, unknown civilization.
So, with the Coricancha, we have
good evidence that when the Inca
arrived in this area,
there was already an earlier
megalithic temple there.
They were actually
building on something
that was already there,
like, possibly
an ancient platform,
possibly an underground temple,
because there's evidence
of tunnels in this area.
For ancient astronaut theorists,
this raises the same question
posed by Baalbek and Tiahuanaco:
why did ancient people
repeatedly build
temple after temple
on the same sacred spot?
And some believe that
in the case of the Coricancha,
Inca legends may provide
a pivotal clue.
Because tradition states
that a special spot
within the Coricancha
allowed communication
directly with the heavens,
but only when it was activated
by the most sacred relic
in the Inca world,
a mysterious golden disc
called the Inti Punchaco.
The most legendary relic
of any Peruvian era
was said to have been kept
in the original Coricancha.
This was the Inti Punchaco.
This sun disc,
this golden artifact,
allowed whoever possessed it
to commune directly
with the gods.
According to
the Inca, within the Coricancha,
the Inti Punchaco disc
allowed direct contact
with their creator god
Viracocha.
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
that the specific placement
of it
was important because it
may have been receiving a signal
from beyond Earth.
And they believe the exact spot
where it was activated
still exists in a chamber
of the Coricancha
that was spared destruction
by the Spanish.
In the Coricancha
is this special niche,
and today they've covered it
with a Plexiglas sheet,
but it has blocks
that are perfectly cut
and articulated in unusual ways,
little notches and things,
plus drilled holes that go
through it,
which seem to be for
electric cables or something.
So it would appear
that some device
was placed into this niche
in the wall
that was like a monitor
of some kind.
And they've chosen this spot.
And all for reasons
that we do not understand.
So, could it
be that at the Coricancha,
there was a sacred kind of
part of the site there
where they were connecting
with the gods?
Actually something in the land,
like a-a magnetic hot spot
or a vortex that the Inca
and then later the Spanish
became aware of.
Is it possible that
ancient Peruvians possessed a device
that allowed them to communicate
with beings from beyond Earth?
And that the location
of the Coricancha
was essential to activating
this technology?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
and suggest that clues
as to just how such a technology
might have worked can be found
by examining
mysterious magnetic
anomalies detected
at one of the most remote
ancient sites in the world.
In the middle
of the Pacific Ocean,
roughly 2,500 miles
northeast of Australia,
lie the ruins of a once
great ancient city Nan Madol.
Consisting of hundreds
of man-made islets
off the eastern coast
of Micronesia,
it has been dubbed the
"Eighth Wonder of the World."
The site of Nan Madol on the
island of Pohnpei in Micronesia
is one of the strangest places
on the planet.
It's an 11-square-mile complex
composed of over 250 million
tons of basalt logs
floating on a submerged
coral reef.
They are 18 feet long,
four feet in diameter,
and are stacked
40 feet up in the air.
Why did they do this?
And how did they do this?
Today, the site
lies abandoned and shunned
by the local Micronesians,
who consider it haunted.
Nan Madol is one
of these disappeared civilizations.
It's fascinatingly interesting.
This seemed to have been
the center of power
of a, uh, major civilization.
And yet it also seems
that it might have been built
on earlier civilizations
that are lost in time.
Since stone
is difficult to accurately date,
no one knows for certain
when it was constructed
or how it was built.
When you
ask the local population,
"Where were
these blocks quarried?"
In unison, they will tell you,
from across the island
and that they were flown
across the island.
According to legend,
twin sorcerers
of giant proportions
came down from the sky
and floated above the site
and positioned the basalt
columns as they desired,
a legend that's very similar
to the same story at Puma Punku.
But when
I hear stories like that,
I wonder, well,
perhaps we have another example
of what I refer to
as misunderstood technology.
As with
other sites like Puma Punku,
Baalbek and the Coricancha,
legend says
that these structures were not
the first to exist here,
but instead were built
above a much older city.
The mystery of Nan Madol
is even more intriguing when
we factor in the local legend
that states that it was built
on an earlier civilization
called the Kanamwayso,
which is submerged below water
but still has those
same basalt megaliths.
Objects that
appear to be basalt columns
have in fact been found
beneath the ocean at Nan Madol,
and those who have studied
the columns
both above and below the water
have discovered a curious
electromagnetic anomaly.
There's a strong
magnetic field in every single one
of the 250 million tons
of basalt there.
You can take a compass and run
it along these basalt blocks,
and your compass will just spin
as you move it along the blocks.
Also, it's thought that the site
itself is a special power spot
and an energy vortex, and that's
why Nan Madol is built there.
And this legendary sunken city
called Kanamwayso as well.
The local population
also reports many, many sightings
of orbs and lights
that have been seen
hovering around Nan Madol.
Is it because of the magnetic
spectrum of Earth?
And you have to wonder
if, through magnetism,
the stones were transported
in the first place,
'cause they were transported
through the air.
Some ancient
astronaut theorists suggest
that elevated electromagnetic
energy present at Nan Madol
was not only a powerful tool
used to move
the giant basalt columns,
but that it may also
have been the reason
that extraterrestrials
helped the locals
to build here
in the first place.
Could it be that there was
a sacred kind of part
of the site there,
where they were
connecting with the gods?
You know, not just through
visionary experiences,
but actually something
in the land,
like a-a magnetic hot spot
or a vortex?
We hear the word
"vortex" in science fiction,
popular culture all the time.
And a vortex is just
a mathematical thing
that describes
a swirling motion.
An electromagnetic field
can be formed in a vortex.
You could create a vortex
that would enable
transporting information
from somewhere else to here
at the speed of light or faster
than the speed of light.
And if there are places
on the Earth
where these types of vortexes
may be stronger than others,
you could see people going there
to build structures
that maybe altered
the electromagnetic field
of the local environment.
Was there even
some kind of portal or vortex present
in some of these sacred places?
If that's the case,
we have to question
these principles of oracle
sites, megalithic temples.
Were they built to harness this,
to be these
communication portals
between these different places?
There is no question in my mind
that these are much older sites
than we think,
and that they were spots for
extraterrestrial communication
a long, long time ago.
Is it possible that
certain locations around the world
act as vortexes
of electromagnetic energy?
And that ancient people built
their most sacred sites
in these very spots
in order to communicate
with otherworldly beings?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
that although this notion
may sound far-fetched,
scientists at NASA recently
found evidence
that such portals
really do exist.
NASA makes a
groundbreaking announcement,
that there is indisputable
evidence of magnetic portals
connecting the Earth
and the Sun.
These portals open
every eight minutes
and allow the transfer
of high-energy particles
between the two
celestial bodies.
So, you have these
two really powerful magnets,
the Earth and the Sun,
and their field lines
are crossing each other.
But every now and then,
for whatever reason,
we have these flux transfer
events where the field lines
will actually connect
to each other
and they create a pathway for
the magnetic field of the Sun
to literally be connected to
the magnetic field of the Earth.
And it's even been referred to
in the scientific literature
as magnetic portals.
We actually have a connection
that could be a transit
to or a pathway for information
to travel from the Sun
to the Earth or vice versa.
Ancient astronaut
theorists have long been intrigued
by the concept
of electromagnetic portals,
since in theory
they could provide
a means of communicating,
or even traveling rapidly,
across the vast distances
of space.
The NASA discovery poses
an intriguing question:
could sites around the world,
where successive cultures
built their most sacred temples,
be locations that facilitate
the creation
of magnetic portals?
Could a civilization
with a more advanced knowledge
of physics
than we have currently
make use of this flux transfer,
of these magnetic field lines
connecting between their star
and other planets?
Could it create a means
of traveling quickly
from one point to the other
between them?
Or maybe even something else
that we just haven't
discovered yet.
Maybe these sites
were kind of manipulating
the energies
of the cosmos and the Earth
to open these portals up
for this kind of purpose.
And what or who were they
really communicating with?
Was it really the gods?
Was it the ancestors?
Or was it otherworldly beings?
Could Baalbek, Temple Mount,
Puma Punku, the Coricancha,
and other sites around the world
where sacred structures
have been built again and again
have electromagnetic properties
similar to Nan Madol?
Properties that could be
harnessed to create gateways
to connect
with otherworldly beings?
McGOWAN:
Over and over, around the world,
from the beginning of time
to now,
we see that sacred sites
and power points
have been marked by humankind.
Temples have been built
to communicate
from Earth to heaven.
Quite clearly,
these places are somewhere
that we keep coming back to.
We call them portals,
we call them vortexes.
They are gateways
onto another world,
and they are
very, very important
not just for human experience
but for evolution itself.
Are humans
drawn to certain locations on Earth
by a magnetic force?
Do we build
our most sacred temples
on the same sites
again and again
because these locations
connect us to the cosmos?
Perhaps, as we continue to
unearth even more ancient ruins,
we will come
to better understand
our connection to the universe
and the truth about
our extraterrestrial past.