19x12 - The Top Ten Mysterious Devices

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A sophisticated device

for tracking the stars

recovered from

a 2,000-year-old shipwreck.

A mysterious energy source

that powered ancient Egypt.

And a magical ring used

to summon otherworldly beings.

For more than a decade, Ancient

Aliens has traveled the globe

and investigated

extraordinary ancient technology

found on every continent.

Now, we're examining

the Top Ten Mysterious Devices

that just may hold the proof

that Earth has been visited

by extraterrestrials.

People ask me all the time

for proof that

extraterrestrial beings

visited Earth

thousands of years ago.

While we have countless stories

and depictions of visitations,

we also have evidence

of mysterious devices

that just may have

been alien technology.

One compelling example is

a symbol of ancient Egypt

that was said to represent

a powerful energy source.

Number ten on our countdown

of the Top Ten Mysterious

Devices: The Djed Pillar.

Abydos, Egypt.

300 miles south of

the Giza plateau stands

the Temple of Seti the First.

This monument is

more than 3,000 years old,

and is elaborately decorated

with curious images,

including one that is

of particular interest

to ancient astronaut theorists.

It is a stone relief

that depicts the god Osiris

holding an object that is

known as the "djed pillar."

The djed pillar resembles a column,

and it's meant

to represent stability.

Carrying the djed pillar

was to keep you stable,

and to protect you from chaos.

The symbol of

the djed pillar, uh,

was very common in

ancient Egyptian architecture.

It is the symbol

of stability for a king.

But scholars are actually

not completely

in agreement about

what the djed pillar

actually is a symbol of.

Depictions of djed pillars

can be found

throughout ancient Egypt.

But some researchers believe

the djed pillar

was more than

just an important symbol.

They suggest

it actually represents

a powerful technological device.

What is curious about

the djed pillar

is its resemblance

to a Tesla coil,

or an electrical conductor.

The djed pillar looks very much

like an electrical device.

Researchers now believe

that the ancient Egyptians

apparently had electricity.

And so, therefore,

it may be, then,

that these djed pillars,

which people would

carry around as amulets

and things like that,

were actual electrical devices.

If you look at the carvings

and pictures that were painted

inside some of these

ancient tombs and temples,

there's no evidence that torches

were used in the process.

So, we're left to wonder just

how these areas were lit.

So, there's

a good possibility that, uh,

that electricity was being

used by the ancient Egyptians.

Is it possible

that ancient Egyptians

were able to harness

the power of electricity?

Ancient astronaut theorists

say yes, and as evidence,

they point to another

remarkable carving in Egypt.

In Dendera,

inside the Hathor Temple

in a subterranean crypt

underneath the temple,

there is a carving

that looks like a light bulb,

and there's a cable

at the bottom that

culminates in a box.

And the actual bulb

rests on a djed pillar.

And a djed pillar

is always referred to as

something to do with

significant power.

And so, in my opinion,

the ancient Egyptians

witnessed advanced technology

that they then

misinterpreted as magic,

and therefore, the djed pillar

were actual

technological components

that our ancestors

clearly witnessed after

the visit of the flesh and blood

extraterrestrials.

Ancient carvings of djed pillars

are easy to find

throughout Egypt.

But not every device

on our countdown

can be seen by the public.

In fact, some seem to have

been deliberately hidden.

Number nine: The Dropa Stones.

The Bayan-Kara-Ula Mountains.

Qinghai Province, China.

In 1936,

archaeologist Dr. Chi Pu Tai was

exploring a cave

in this remote area

when he made

a peculiar discovery.

He reported finding

multiple ancient graves,

and among them were

hundreds of strange stone discs.

There's a fascinating story

in China

where, allegedly,

a cave was found

with hundreds of discs.

And these discs were

about this wide.

And it seemed that they had

some type of a groove in them

reminding of modern-day

vinyl records.

And what's interesting

is that, allegedly,

some of these grooves contained

really tiny types of writing.

And when archaeologists

finally deciphered

or translated this writing,

it told this incredible story

of extraterrestrial beings

called the Dropas.

Those hieroglyphs told

about the crash landing,

in this remote mountain area,

of some people that flew

through the universe

and came upon the third planet

of our solar system.

Unfortunately,

after the initial research,

the discs, known today

as the Dropa stones,

were removed from public view.

But mysteriously, in 1974,

photographs surfaced

of what were alleged to be

two Dropa stones

on display at the Banpo Museum

in Xi'An City, China.

In 1994, a colleague of mine,

Hartwig Hausdorf,

and his colleague Peter Crusa,

went to China

to ask the whereabouts

of these stone discs.

I got to speak with

the present curator

of the museum.

I showed him the photographs

that were taken

20 years ago in his museum,

and he told me

the two stone discs

that were on display,

they have disappeared

without any trace.

I think the moment

an archaeological artifact

is hidden,

there's something there.

So, the fact

that they used to be on display

and now you can't

find them anymore,

leads me to think

that part of that story is true.

And I think

it had something to do

with an extraterrestrial craft.

Is it possible

that the Dropa stones are

a record of extraterrestrial

visitation in the distant past?

Whenever I am researching

ancient legends,

one word always piques

my interest, and that's "magic."

Because, more often than not,

myths about magical objects are

describing what I believe could

be misunderstood technology.

Like the next item on our list

of the Top Ten

Mysterious Devices.

At number eight:

Pachacuti's Mirror.

Cuzco, Peru.

In the 15th century,

this ancient city

was home to perhaps the most

influential Incan leader

Pachacuti.

Pachacuti rose to prominence

after he defeated

an invading army

by using a mysterious mirror

that had magical powers.

Pachacuti decided to stay behind

and die defending the city.

Just before the battle,

he's walking out in

his territory by a lake,

trying to figure out what to do

to try to get some inspiration.

And just at that moment,

a mirrored disc fell

from the sky, and it dropped

into the lake.

And he wades in

and he pulls it out.

In the reflection of this

mirror was a young Indian boy.

But he wasn't just any

kind of boy.

He had snake arms,

and he had a puma face.

And he had these rays

coming off of his head.

And he tells Pachacuti,

"You are going to be

a great ruler someday."

Aided by this mysterious object,

Pachacuti grew his small kingdom

into a vast empire

that spanned more than

2,500 miles.

Pachacuti always keeps

that disc with him.

And the myth is that he would

always look to that disc

to ask them how he was going

to defeat his enemies or expand

the empire, and that the disc

was giving him this magical

information and inspiration

that created the Inca Empire.

With this magic mirror,

Pachacuti had special powers.

Supposedly he could communicate

with the gods

through this disc

and presumably even

receive instructions

from the gods on

how to expand his empire.

Pachacuti's mirror

is depicted in Incan art

and statues to this day.

Historians have been

unable to determine

just what the mysterious disc

was that Pachacuti possessed.

But ancient astronaut

theorists believe

it was a device

that came from another world.

You have to wonder, was it some

kind of extraterrestrial

object that Pachacuti

was now carrying around

with him that allowed

him to communicate

with these extraterrestrial

gods that were guiding him?

Every now and then,

an artifact is discovered

that completely defies

conventional explanation.

That's exactly what

happened when scientists

set out to study

this next object.

They were so astonished

by what they saw

that they declared

it simply should not exist.

Number seven

on our list of the Top Ten

Mysterious Devices:

The Mitchell-Hedges Skull.

Mysterious Devices:

The Mitchell-Hedges Skull.

Lubaantun, Belize.

Here, in the jungles

of the Yucatán Peninsula,

lie the ruins of

an ancient Mayan city.

In 1924, explorer

Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges

and his daughter Anna discovered

a human-sized skull

made of clear crystal.

The anatomically perfect object

has a detachable jaw,

weighs 11 pounds, seven ounces,

and is carved out of

a single piece of quartz.

Mitchell-Hedges

was told by the Mayans

that his skull

was over 3,600 years old.

This is fascinating because

this would predate

Mayan civilization.

According to the legend,

crystal skulls are containers

of great knowledge,

great wisdom, information.

And are said to have been left

behind by the earliest ancestors

way back in the mists of time.

When Mitchell-Hedges

passed away in 1959,

the skull was bestowed

to his daughter Anna.

She guarded the skull

for more than a decade

before allowing it

to be studied.

It was studied by a guy named

Frank Dorland, and what he found

was that the skull was

completely baffling to him.

He would come down at night

to find the room

completely glowing,

and the crystal skull was

literally lighting up,

like it was a light.

People would hear strange sounds

in the room with no explanation

but that it was

coming from the skull.

And so when you look

at all that,

you've just got to conclude

at some point that there

is something unusual going on.

This skull has been

subjected to a number of

detailed scientific analyses.

In all of those occasions,

what was found was that it was

almost impossible for

a human being to make this.

Why did they say that?

Because it was

milled or worked in a way

that went counterclockwise

to the creation of the crystal.

Crystal grows in

a certain direction.

And if you don't

mill or work the crystal in

that particular direction,

it'll shatter.

So, how was it done?

One of the scientists

that examined the skull

actually said,

"This skull

shouldn't even exist."

And that is really what led

to the idea that perhaps

these crystal skulls

were not made by humans at all.

If you look

at the Mayan civilization,

their entire mythology is based

on extraterrestrial

encounters in the past.

Mitchell-Hedges was told by

the locals that their ancestors

gave that skull to them.

My question is,

who were those ancestors,

and is their origin out there?

And the answer to that, in

my opinion, is a resounding yes.

Next on our list of

mysterious devices is a group

of objects so sacred,

they have been kept hidden from

public view

for hundreds of years.

Number six:

The Royal Regalia of Japan.

Tokyo, Japan. May 1, 2019.

Hundreds of dignitaries from

around the world have descended

upon the Imperial Palace

for a historic occasion.

In an elaborate series

of rituals, crown prince

Hironomiya Naruhito,

ascends the Chrysanthemum Throne

and becomes the 126th

emperor of the island nation.

As part of the ceremony,

Naruhito is presented with

several boxes that are filled

with treasures so secret,

they've never been seen

in public.

They contain

Japan's royal regalia.

The imperial regalia of Japan

was composed of a sword,

of a mirror and a jewel

that was utilized

by all the Japanese emperors,

and exists to this day.

According to tradition,

the divine mirror

is a symbol of wisdom.

The sword represents valor,

or courage.

And the third one is

the curved jewel,

or curved bead,

which represents benevolence.

Now, these three sacred

imperial regalia of Japan

have never been shown to anyone

outside of the imperial lineage,

with the exception, of course,

of high-ranking Shinto priests.

The imperial regalia

can be traced back

to Japan's first emperor Jimmu,

who ruled

almost 2,700 years ago.

Emperor Jimmu was born

in 771 BCE,

according to tradition.

And he was a descendant

actually

the great, great grandson

of Amaterasu, the sun goddess.

All emperors

in the history of Japan have

claimed descent

from Emperor Jimmu

and indirectly, then,

from Amaterasu as well.

The most interesting part

of the story is that Jimmu

is a descendant of Amaterasu,

this celestial being.

And for nearly

2,000 years after that,

all who ruled Japan

claimed the same lineage.

So the imperial family

of Japan, allegedly,

is a direct descendant

of celestial beings

that visited Japan

in ancient times.

It is said that Jimmu

received the three

pieces of regalia from

the sun goddess Amaterasu

before uniting the islands

of Japan under his rule.

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe

these artifacts might be

extraterrestrial technology.

Jimmu got a celestial mirror

with which the emperor could

see anything that they desired.

Well, what does that mean,

a magical mirror?

If you don't have

the terminology for it,

isn't a computer screen

a magical mirror with

which you can see everything?

See, the point is

that our ancestors didn't have

the terminology for

these objects, but they used

the terminology that they had

with which they could best

describe what they saw

or had in their possession.

I think that there are

sacred objects

in Japan, in Tokyo's

Imperial Palace,

that were directly given

by the celestial beings

to humans.

We're coming up on the halfway

mark in our countdown of the Top

Ten Mysterious Devices, and this

next one is truly extraordinary.

According to the accounts

of the ancient Greeks,

thousands of years ago,

there was a giant robot

built by a god.

At number five: Talos.

At number five: Talos.

Crete, the most populous

of the Greek islands.

It is home to more

than 600,000 people.

And according

to Greek mythology,

it has been a place of great

significance since antiquity,

when it was

protected by an enormous

bronze guardian called Talos.

The legend of Talos

is quite fascinating,

for not only was he a giant,

some 30 meters tall,

but he appears to

have been made of bronze

for the purpose of

protecting the island of Crete.

It was said that he would

go around the island

three times a day,

and that if anybody tried

to att*ck the island,

he had, like, this fiery breath

that he would sh**t out

and destroy any ships

or individuals.

So, what was Talos?

Mainstream scholars

consider Talos

to be a creation of fiction,

but some researchers point out

that the descriptions of how

this bronze humanoid functioned

are eerily reminiscent

of modern technology.

Talos had, effectively,

an Achilles heel,

and that is he had a vein

that ran from his neck down to

his ankle, and it had one nail

that, if that nail was removed,

he would be switched off.

And sure enough, a sorceress

convinced him that if she could

remove that nail,

then he would have immortality.

And when she removed it,

he bled to death.

In the Argonautica,

Talos "bled to death" by

releasing this black liquid.

And one could argue that if this

thing was a mechanical device,

then perhaps the synthetic oil

or the hydraulic fuel

seeped out, and thus

rendered the machine inoperable.

As we look at it today,

that is very clearly

a description of a robot,

maybe even an artificially

intelligent being,

leading to this idea that

some extraterrestrial engineer

or robotics developer created

this extraordinary being.

According to Greek mythology,

the engineer who created

Talos was a god named

Hephaestus, who lived among

humans on the island of Lemnos.

Hephaestus was the Greek god

of smithcraft,

alchemy and technology.

He was most known for creating

the first human Pandora

but also for developing

magical weapons, the flying

chariot of Helios,

the breastplate of Athena,

the thunderbolts of Zeus.

Hephaestus was a blacksmith god,

and when we meet him late in

the story of the Iliad,

the goddess Thetis has come

to him and asked him to make

some armor for her son Achilles,

because he's about

to go back into battle.

And when she comes to

see him in his workshop,

what she discovers is that a lot

of the work is being done by

automated machines

that Hephaestus has created

tripods which can

move around themselves,

bellows and pincers and

things doing their own work.

The suggestion here is

that these are

fully thinking, fully automated

artificial intelligences,

as it were.

The basic premise of

the ancient astronaut theory

is that the Greek

pantheon of gods existed

in real life,

made of physical beings.

So, one has to wonder,

was Hephaestus one of

the extraterrestrials, or

did he receive the engineering

knowledge with which

to build these

synthetic creatures

by the extraterrestrials?

Could it be that Talos

was a highly advanced machine

developed by extraterrestrials?

For ancient astronaut theorists,

it is a distinct possibility,

and one that becomes even

more compelling when considering

the fact that similar

stories of humanlike machines

can be found in other ancient

cultures around the world

like the Jewish tale

of a clay figure called

the Golem, that could be

brought to life

by inserting a spell

into its mouth

descriptions of

"spirit movement machines"

in the ancient

Sanskrit texts of India,

and the Chinese story

of a humanoid robot

being presented to

King Mu 3,000 years ago.

There are stories

from many cultures,

from all over the planet, of

people who have either created

other humans, or machines

that were very much like humans.

When we look at

the story of Talos,

and we match him up to

other figures in human history,

the common denominator,

the thread running through all

their stories is that there

was a technology transfer.

Beings came from elsewhere,

brought this technology

to Earth, and taught humans

to utilize it.

As far as ancient astronaut

theorists are concerned,

the story of Talos provides

strong evidence

that our ancestors were

in possession of

extraterrestrial technology.

And they say an even more

powerful technology can be found

in an ancient story involving

the biblical King Solomon

and a device

given to him by an angel.

On Ancient Aliens, we have

investigated many accounts of

technology being given to

humans by the so-called "gods."

One powerful object

was described as being

able to actually summon

otherworldly beings.

Number four

on our countdown of the Top

Ten Mysterious Devices:

King Solomon's Ring.

Jerusalem.

In the tenth century BC,

this city was ruled by one of

the ancient world's most

famous leaders: King Solomon.

According to the ancient

Israelite accounts, King Solomon

was tasked by Almighty God with

building a spectacular temple

one that could

not be built by man alone.

Solomon prays to God, and

instantly the Archangel Michael

manifests,

as if out of thin air.

And Michael says that he's going

to give Solomon a power that has

never before been seen on

Earth and never again shall be.

And he produces for him a golden

ring with a signet seal.

There are different descriptions

of what Solomon's

magical ring looked like.

One description of the ring

talks about it

as the seal of Solomon.

What we think of today

as the Star of David,

as the two

intersecting triangles.

Another story around

the ring is that the ring

contained four special stones,

and each of these stones

had a type of power.

And it is said that this ring

had the name of God

engraved upon it in

a very secret and cryptic way.

The ring was representative

of the authority

from beyond this world.

The wielder of that ring

would be able to compel

any and all

who recognized that source

of extraterrestrial power

to do whatever he wished.

According to the Talmud,

King Solomon used the ring to

control a group of otherworldly

beings known as demons.

Today in modern times

we tend to think of demons as

something related to the devil,

something satanic.

But the way that demons

were looked at

in the time of Solomon,

based on the literature,

is very different.

Demons in the ancient world

were a different kind of being.

They were mischievous.

Sometimes they were

industrious, but they weren't

necessarily evil.

It is said that with this ring

Solomon entrapped these demons

and used them to

help him build the temple.

Solomon, like any other

human being,

would not have had

access to this power.

The only way Solomon could have

had a ring like this is,

it was given to him

from an extraterrestrial source.

King Solomon's ring

is a compelling example

of extraterrestrials

providing our ancestors

with advanced technology.

But, curiously,

he was also given a device

that was described as

"a magic worm."

And that brings us

to number three

on our countdown:

The Shamir.

The Temple Mount, Jerusalem.

It was here that

King Solomon constructed

a temple to house

the holiest of Jewish relics.

Today, nothing of

the temple remains.

But according to mystical Hebrew

texts, when it was constructed

in the tenth century BC, it

wasn't built with human hands.

God commanded Solomon

to build a temple.

But the laws of the Torah

required that the building

of the temple

did not use any kind

of hammer or chisel

to cut and grind stone.

Solomon was in need

of a higher technology

in order to build his temple.

He knew that he had

to contact Ashmodai,

the king of the demons,

who had this technology.

Using the power of his ring,

King Solomon compelled Ashmodai

to give him a device that would

help him build the temple.

A mysterious object

called a Shamir.

Now, the Shamir is

described in traditional

literature as this

little worm that you put

on the stone and

it would cut it precisely.

The Shamir was barely bigger

than the size of a barleycorn,

which is about

a third of an inch.

Apparently,

Solomon was in complete control

of this worm and obeyed each

and every one of its commands.

To ancient astronaut theorists,

the Shamir is yet another

example of

misunderstood technology.

The Shamir was a "worm"

that could cut and drill

through even the hardest

of stones rather with ease.

What if the Shamir was some

type of laser-cutting device?

Ancient man did not

understand things like

lasers or a high-energy beam.

To them, the idea

that it was a magical worm

cutting the stone is

a very interesting description.

What if this was actually

extraterrestrials somehow

getting involved and

using advanced technology

getting involved and

using advanced technology

to assist in the building?

Many of the devices

featured on our countdown

have been lost to time.

Which is why the discovery

of our next object

is so fascinating.

When it was examined,

archaeologists called it

"an ancient Greek computer."

Number two:

The Antikythera Mechanism.

Number two:

The Antikythera Mechanism.

The Aegean Sea. April 1900.

Off the coast of the small

Greek island of Antikythera,

divers discover the remains

of a 2,000-year-old shipwreck.

Inside, they find

something extraordinary

a bronze box containing the

workings of a complex device.

The Antikythera device is

what looks to be

a complex machine

of gears, cranks and levers.

That's the best way

to describe what it is.

If you were to look at it,

it looks like a box.

Wooden on the outside,

with a crank.

And what the crank

would have done was moved

a series of levers and

gears around on the inside.

So it was a really

amazing device.

Archaeologists dated

this contraption

to the second century BC

but were unable

to determine what it was

or what purpose it served.

That is, until 1959,

when physicist

Derek John de Solla Price

published an article

in the journal

Scientific American

that made an astonishing claim.

He described

the Antikythera mechanism

as "an ancient Greek computer."

He realized that

it was a sophisticated

computer that could dial

up astronomical configurations.

And at the time

the American scientists

were so shocked at how

advanced this device was.

And they actually said

that discovering

the Antikythera device

was like finding a jet plane

in the tomb of King Tut.

To operate the device, a user

would enter information into

the mechanism using the complex

system of gears and levers,

and turn the crank to determine

specific astronomical positions.

What we can tell from

the inscriptions on it

and what we can tell

from the way the device works

is that it was a very

mathematically sophisticated

machine for showing,

even predicting,

where the stars, the Sun,

the planets and the Moon were

all going to be on a particular

date that you were looking for.

Really, for several thousand

years ago, this is a remarkably

Promethean invention, to put

together this machine in order

to give the user of the box, in

a sense, a vision of the future.

It was so amazing to them.

They had never, ever conceived

that the ancient Greeks,

at 200 BC,

would have had the knowledge

of mechanical devices like this.

That's completely changed

the way we perceive

ancient history.

Archaeologists have still

not determined

who built

the Antikythera mechanism.

But some researchers believe

its origins might

actually predate ancient Greece.

There's widespread speculation

as to who made this.

Some people pinpoint towards

the Greeks because obviously

it was found

off the coast of Greece.

But other people highlighted

the possibility that actually

we need to go further back in

time, back to ancient Babylon.

And so it might actually be

that the Greeks are just one in

a longer tradition of people

who were building these devices.

Could the Antikythera device be

proof that the ancient Greeks

had technology far in advance of

the times in which they lived?

And if so, where did

this knowledge come from?

Ancient astronaut theorists

suggest the advanced mechanism

is yet another example of

extraterrestrial visitation.

Clearly our ancestors

understood that knowledge

of the cosmos,

knowledge of our solar system

was linked with the gods.

Our ancestors

actually told us that there

were entities, gods,

which actually informed us

about astronomy,

about our solar system.

And so there

are two possibilities when

it comes to

the Antikythera device.

One is that

our ancestors incorporated

the knowledge of the gods

into creating this device.

Or that this device

is a piece of technology

given to us by the gods.

There is only one device

left on our countdown,

and you will not want

to miss it.

Because as far as I'm concerned,

it provides undeniable

evidence that our ancestors

had access to

extraterrestrial technology.

We've finally reached

the end of our countdown

of the Top Ten

Mysterious Devices,

and for me this one

always gives me goose bumps.

It is a wooden box that could

part rivers, destroy armies,

and communicate

with otherworldly beings.

Our number one alien device:

The Ark of the Covenant.

Mount Sinai, Egypt.

According to the Book of

Exodus in the Hebrew Bible,

it was here that Moses was

instructed by God to build one

of the most important artifacts

in Judeo-Christian tradition.

The Ark of the Covenant.

According to the Bible,

it's a wooden box,

made of acacia wood,

that is overlaid in gold.

And then it has a cover,

a top, and on that cover are two

cherubim, and they're humanlike

figures that have wings.

God commands Moses to build this

chest, in which the original

Ten Commandments was to

be placed, and the presence

of God would then be seen.

Sounds very simple,

but yet there were properties

to the Ark that made it far more

than just a symbolic

representation

of something religious.

Biblical accounts of the Ark

portray it as possessing

mysterious powers

that aided the Israelites

during their journey

to the Promised Land.

Parting rivers,

leveling mountains,

and destroying armies.

The most important thing

about trying to understand

how the Ark

of the Covenant functioned

is the fact that specific

instructions were given by God

to Moses about how

it was to be manufactured.

The exact size.

How it is to

be raised off the ground,

how it is to be carried.

And this tells us

almost certainly

that we are dealing

with technology.

Is it possible

that the baffling powers

ascribed to the Ark provide

evidence that it contained

highly advanced and perhaps

extraterrestrial technology?

Ancient astronaut theorists

say yes

and suggest clues can

be found in rabbinical texts

that describe

how the high priest

would interact with the Ark.

We know that the only one

who could approach

the Ark was

the high priest of Israel.

The high priest was

required by biblical law

to wear a special type

of a breastplate

which had special types

of gemstones on it,

and through the recitation

of certain holy names,

the stones upon the breastplate

would start to move,

vibrate and light up.

And this is the way that some

type of actual

communication was made

between the high priest

and whatever power

was connected to,

connecting with,

through the Ark.

The Ark of the Covenant is

one of the greatest pieces

in the ancient astronaut theory

because there was an actual

physical object

that had a connection to

the so-called celestial realm.

So, I mean,

the Ark of the Covenant

is one of the most enduring

ancient mysteries of all time.

According to religious texts,

the Ark of the Covenant

was placed inside

Solomon's Temple.

And then it simply vanished.

But ancient astronaut theorists

believe that if the Ark is

ever found, it will have

a profound effect on humanity.

The Ark might actually be

the proof that we have

been seeking

throughout human history

of contact with

the greater universe and world.

Indeed, if we could have

the Ark and operate it

and make contact,

who would we be talking to?

What would we be opening up?

The discovery of the Ark

of the Covenant would force

even the biggest skeptics

to reconsider

the accepted history

of this planet.

And as far as I'm concerned,

each of the devices on

our countdown deserves to be

investigated with an open mind,

and could offer potential

proof of alien visitation

in the remote past.