NARRATOR: Mysterious
stone heads.
GEORGE NOORY: How in the heck
did they make these?
Where did they come from?
And how did they move them?
NARRATOR: Ancient monuments
containing 100-ton blocks.
PHILIP COPPENS: Some of the
stones are of such magnitude,
modern machinery is incapable of
putting them there.
NARRATOR: And solid granite
cut with incredible precision.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: We
ourselves today could not
replicate what our ancestors
allegedly accomplished
with stonemasonry.
NARRATOR: Throughout the
world, there are giant
structures that have baffled
archaeologists.
Could they really have been
constructed using
primitive tools?
Or might they be the product of
alien technology?
ERICH VON DANIKEN:
Extraterrestrials would not have
left without any proof.
They wanted that in the far
future we start to reflect,
have we been visited
by outer space?
NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world believe we have
been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history?
And if so, might they have a
connection to the world's most
mysterious structures?
On the northwest coast of
France, just south of Brittany,
lies one of the most important
prehistoric sites in Europe.
At the seaside village of
Carnac, over 3,000 megalithic
stones are placed in rows over
two miles long.
The Carnac stones were hewn from
local rock formations and
erected between 4500 to 2500 BC,
at the end of the Stone Age.
They are the largest collection
of standing stones in the world.
DAVID CHILDRESS:
Archaeologists are baffled by
the many megaliths
at Carnac here.
It's clearly a massive
construction project with blocks
of granite weighing 50 to 100,
to even up to 350 tons.
Legends here say that
giants built Carnac.
But you have to wonder, what is
the real purpose of these giant
megaliths, and why would
prehistoric people have moved
all of these massive stones and
placed them in the many
alignments here at Carnac?
MICHAEL CREMO: Thousands
of large stones have been
arranged in very
interesting patterns.
They're arranged in intersecting
lines that form triangles that
could only be visible
from above the earth.
These arrangements of stones may
have been a way of communicating
with extraterrestrial beings.
NARRATOR: The ancient Greek
poet Pindar spoke of a mystical
land called Hyperborea, far to
the north, where the sun shined
24 hours a day.
Legends claim that Apollo
visited Hyperborea, traveling in
his chariot of fire every 20
years.
TSOUKALOS: Apollo would tell
to the Greeks, okay, I'm gonna
go see some other people, I've
got to go and teach them.
And they're like, well, where
are you off to?
And he's like, well, I'm
actually going to a place that's
beyond where the
north wind comes.
It's the land of
the Hyperboreans.
NARRATOR: Although mainstream
archaeologists speculate that
the Carnac stones are most
likely tomb markers, ancient
astronaut theorists believe
these stones are intentionally
laid out in a unique
geometric formation.
VON DANIKEN: Many
speculations existed
since centuries.
And only a few years ago, in
France, they started to
photograph this whole French
Brittany by helicopters.
And when they put the pictures
together, all of a sudden
someone realized, hey, this is
not coincidence.
The distances of the lines are
always the same- 2,860 meters,
or exactly the half of 2,860
meters.
The angles are always the same.
It's Pythagorean triangles.
It's all a gigantic geometrical
pattern from Stone Age, which is
impossible.
Our Stone Age people had no idea
of Pythagoras' triangles.
Pythagoras was about 420 BC.
NARRATOR: Even though the
geometric arrangement of the
Carnac stones predates the
Pythagorean theorem by more than
2,000 years, one
question remains.
Why were the stones arranged in
such a precise pattern?
CHILDRESS: The Carnac Stones
are one of the few things on the
planet that can actually be seen
from space.
And they're a perfect marker for
any kind of aerial vehicle
looking down on the earth.
Many of the tourists who come
here to Carnac claim that they
can actually feel the energy
emanating from these
granite megaliths.
How did these ancient people
know about this energy?
And is it possible that they
were able to use this energy to
even move and erect
these giant stones?
VON DANIKEN: I am of the
opinion that they
were made on purpose.
The extraterrestrials told our
ancestor, do this, and this.
It's not the extraterrestrials
who made the stone lines.
It's the humans who made it, but
by the order of the
extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: But were the Carnac
stones a signpost for an ancient
astronaut called Apollo as he
flew his spacecraft
high above the land?
CHILDRESS: If the Greek god
Apollo was really some kind of
ancient astronaut, it's possible
that the stones here at Carnac
were a directional finder
pointing the way to the far
north, to the Hyperborea of the
ancient gods.
NARRATOR: Over 1,000 miles
north of Carnac lies
Scandinavia, home to an ancient
people called the Norse.
The Norse were tribal Germanic
people who lived in what is now
known as Sweden, Denmark,
Iceland and Norway.
Norse legends record the
triumphs of great warriors with
advanced weaponry, sophisticated
combat techniques, and
navigational prowess.
Like the Greeks, Norse mythology
includes supernatural beings,
other worlds and powerful gods.
But like the Romans, could the
Norse myths refer not to
different gods, but the same
gods as those depicted by the
ancient Greeks?
CHILDRESS: There are a
number of similarities between
Greek mythology and Norse
mythology, and many of the gods
are, uh, almost identical.
And they do much the same thing.
NARRATOR: Descriptions of the
Viking god Odin- the god of
w*r, death and knowledge- and
the Greek god Zeus, bear
striking similarities.
JONATHAN YOUNG: Zeus and Odin
are both sky father gods.
They travel through the skies in
chariots because they are akin
to the solar, uh, divinities.
The precursor to many, uh,
religious beliefs
is sun worship.
The ancients knew that life came
from the sun.
So that is a great mystery and
a source of great awe.
COPPENS: What you're getting
there is not just some minor
deity, but you really are
nailing it down to one of the
chief deities.
This is a very
important character.
And so whoever is behind Odin or
Zeus is obviously a person or a
divine entity, which is shared
by these cultures.
And it's clear that whoever
inspired the myth of-of Zeus or
Odin is somehow somebody who had
an extremely important
contribution to make
to both civilizations.
So this entity was definitely
known throughout Europe.
NARRATOR: Could the Norse and
Greek gods really have been the
same extraterrestrial beings?
Did they use the megalithic
stones at Carnac as a
directional marker that could be
seen from high above the earth?
And if so, is it possible that
this site- and other megalithic
structures around the world-
really were built with the help
of otherworldly technology?
Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and claim further proof can
be found by examining megalithic
rocks in Bolivia cut with
incredible precision.
NARRATOR: Palm
Springs, California.
Master stonemason and sculptor
Roger Hopkins uses a variety of
advanced tools to cut and shape
hard stones.
Powered implements such as
diamond-tipped wires and
polishers enable him to fashion
works of art out of huge granite
blocks obtained from
nearby quarries.
Yet even with these high-tech
tools, Hopkins cannot replicate
what ancient civilizations
accomplished thousands
of years ago.
Could these advanced engineering
methods be the smoking g*n that
proves humans had help
from alien beings?
ROGER HOPKINS: The precision
on some of the work that I've
seen is just incredible.
It's possible to do by hand,
but it'd take an
incredible amount of time.
Plus, you have to have years of
experience to be
able to pull it off.
TSOUKALOS: In my opinion, the
most tangible pieces of evidence
that we have regarding possible
extraterrestrial technology is
when we look at the ancient
stonecutting techniques.
Because, in some instances, we
ourselves today could not
replicate what our ancestors
allegedly accomplished
with stonemasonry.
NARRATOR: Puma Punku is a
large temple complex located on
a high plateau in Bolivia.
Mainstream archaeologists date
the site from
approximately 200 BC.
The people who lived here had
neither a written language nor
the wheel, yet somehow they
built one of the world's most
complex structures.
Ancient alien theorists view
Puma Punku as clear proof of
extraterrestrial influence.
TSOUKALOS: The ruins we find
at Puma Punku are
simply extraordinary.
Puma Punku defies logic.
COPPENS: The interest of Puma
Punku is not so much that the
individual stones sorted
together perfectly but the fact
that the stones, as such, are of
such tremendous design that it
requires concepts of mathematics
which are far beyond anything we
are actually using right now.
Yet somehow in the past,
somebody has made that for a
specific purpose, and in a way
which even computer programs
today would kind of go,
how is this possible?
TSOUKALOS: In the highlands
of Bolivia, Puma Punku.
Some of these blocks are over 40
to 50 tons each.
What can you tell us about this?
HOPKINS: Boy, they... they
had their, uh, stonecutting
abilities, you know, pretty well
fine-tuned for 5,000 years old.
I mean, uh, it's
almost unbelievable.
But the... these cutting planes
that they have on here
are very impressive.
And some of the incise cuts.
See like in-in here, all these
interior cuts, very hard to do.
I mean, it would be difficult
for us- with the...
our equipment- to get that kind
of precision.
TSOUKALOS: Let's
talk a little bit...
HOPKINS: God.
TSOUKALOS: ...about
inside boxes.
HOPKINS: Ooh, I was afraid
you were gonna pull something
like this on me.
That is a hell of
a piece of work.
I mean, if we were to do
something like that today, we'd
use what they have these, uh,
computer-driven CNC
machines which are...
have diamond tips and, uh, you
have a template that, you know,
the computer follows.
And even then, it may not come
out as perfect.
TSOUKALOS: Because, even
though you can tell that
obviously, this
piece broke off...
HOPKINS: Mm-hmm.
TSOUKALOS: ...nowhere in here
can you see any imperfection.
It's like... and by the way,
when you're there, if you go
with your finger over these
edges and you put a little
pressure on your fingertip, you
can cut yourself.
This is how sharp the edges are.
NARRATOR: But where could the
ancient peoples have developed
such technology?
Is it really possible that
extraterrestrial visitors
provided different construction
methods and tools?
MIKE DUNN: When I saw these
blocks, I didn't really think
that they were cut.
The first thing really that I
thought of was this appears very
similar to Frank Lloyd Wright's
textile block system of
construction which he used in
his California houses
in the early 1920s.
Now, what he did was he took
concrete, poured it into molds.
TSOUKALOS: There actually are
ancient Incan legends that
suggest that they had the
capability of
softening the stone.
At Sacsayhuam疣, for example, we
find these gigantic stone
blocks, gigantic stone walls
where it looks as if those
stones were molten, put into
place, and then the
stone hardened again.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the precision-cut stones at Puma
Punku are really the product of
extraterrestrial technology?
Perhaps further clues can be
found halfway around the world,
with an ancient civilization
that was found buried
beneath the earth.
NARRATOR: Located more than
500 miles away from the crowded
streets of Istanbul is
Sanliurfa, in
southeastern Turkey.
There, in 1994, on a dusty
hilltop, a local shepherd
noticed the tip of a stone
sticking out of his field.
He began to dig, eventually
unearthing a 19-foot pillar.
Its edges were precise, and
rising from its center was a
relief carving of
a strange animal.
Upon closer examination, it
appeared that the finely
chiseled stone had been
fashioned by talented
stonemasons, working
with advanced tools.
When word of the discovery
reached the scientific
community, one fact became
obvious: a Kurdish shepherd had
stumbled upon what is perhaps
the most astonishing
archaeological discovery in
modern times- a site
known as Gobekli Tepe.
LINDA HOWE: For 13 years, a
German archaeology team has been
meticulously going into a hill.
And they have been doing carbon
dating, as deep as they go.
It has taken them 13 years
to uncover only five percent of
a gigantic civilization.
They know what's
under the ground.
Circles upon circles upon
circles, perfect
circles in stone.
And rising up out of those stone
circles are huge sculpted
columns- 19 feet high,
15 tons per column.
NARRATOR: Test results have
supported the idea that Gobekli
Tepe is nearly 12,000 years old,
almost 7,000 years older than
Mesopotamia's Fertile Crescent,
long heralded as the cradle of
civilization.
HOWE: In Gobekli Tepe, the
oldest advanced site
now on our planet.
We know of no other site that is
this advanced.
And it has now doubled the
history of humanity.
GRAHAM HANCOCK: And right
there is this gigantic site with
huge megalithic
circular structures.
It just stands there, a mystery,
asking us to go figure-
how was this done?
What's the background to this?
We don't know who made them.
They just come out of the
darkness of the last ice age-
where we know nothing- and
enter the stage of history
already fully formed.
And to my mind, this is
indicative of a major forgotten
episode in human history.
NARRATOR: Curiously, after 13
years of digging, archaeologists
investigating the ancient site
have failed to recover a single
stonecutting tool.
Nor have they found any
agricultural implements.
HOWE: How in the world can
you contemplate 19-foot-tall,
perfectly sculpted columns that
are 11,000 to 12,000 years old,
and no tools.
NARRATOR: The mystery of
Gobekli Tepe is further
compounded by the ancient stone
carvings found
throughout the site.
They depict creatures like wild
boars and geese.
ANDREW COLLINS: We see
various types of creatures-
different animals, birds,
insects and even abstract human
forms that seem to come together
to create this very weird
menagerie which has totally
baffled the archaeologists who
have uncovered this site.
Now, what they represent is a
matter of speculation, but it's
my intuition that they may even
represent a... ark in stone.
NARRATOR: Located less than
350 miles from Mount Ararat-
the site many biblical scholars
believe to be the resting place
of Noah's Ark- the animal
carvings of Gobekli Tepe suggest
a time in the region's history
when the indigenous animal
population may have been of a
totally different origin.
But do these carvings actually
provide historical proof of the
great flood that was described
in the Bible?
HANCOCK: Archaeologists are
aware that there are more than
2,000 myths of a-a great flood,
which destroyed an
earlier civilization.
NARRATOR: Some researchers
theorize that the events of a
cataclysmic flood and a story
similar to that told of Noah's
Ark was recorded on the stone
pillars of Gobekli Tepe.
If true, that would push the
date of the great flood back to
the end of the last ice age, far
earlier than the
biblical period.
COLLINS: There is evidence
that this may have ended quite
catastrophically.
There was a lot of things
happening, um, a lot of
migrations, possibly waters
rising up very quickly, uh, a
lot of rapid changes
in lifestyles.
NARRATOR: But another perhaps
even more profound
question remains.
Who built Gobekli Tepe?
For what purpose?
And how did such an ancient site
remain in nearly pristine
condition for more than 10,000
years?
COPPENS: In the case of
Gobekli Tepe, we find that the
site was carefully
placed underneath sand.
This site was buried.
It appears as if somehow the
usage of Gobekli Tepe was no
longer there and that people
moved on but had such a
reverence to this important site
that rather than destroy it,
they put it to peace
by burying it.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the people at Gobekli Tepe had
such reverence for the site
because it really was built with
the help of alien technology?
Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes and claim further evidence
that extraterrestrials were
behind the construction of the
world's most mysterious
structures can be found in
Lebanon, with a site that dates
back nearly 9,000 years.
NARRATOR: Eastern Lebanon,
the Bekaa Valley.
Here at this archaeological site
stand the ruins of Heliopolis,
built in the fourth century BC.
by Alexander the
Great to honor Zeus.
But beneath the Corinthian
columns and remnants of both
Greek and Roman architecture lie
the ruins of a site that is
much, much older.
According to archaeologists, it
dates back nearly 9,000 years:
the ancient city of Baalbek,
named after the early Canaanite
deity, Baal.
HANAN CHARAF: Baal is the god
of life, the god of the sky, the
god of the sun.
He was the god that was
venerated on the site of Baalbek
during the Canaanite and the
Phoenician times.
ROBERT MULLINS: And so,
because it was already sacred to
the god Baal, then later the
Greeks and the Romans then would
build temples on
this very same spot.
NARRATOR: Archaeological
surveys have revealed that the
enormous stone foundation that
lies at the base of the site
dates back tens of
thousands of years.
CHARAF: Baalbek, as we know
from the archaeological
evidence, must have existed
during the Neolithic Period,
between 6000 to 8000 years or
even 9000 years BC.
NARRATOR: But even more
significant to ancient astronaut
theorists is their belief that
the colossal stone platform may
once have served as a landing
pad for space travelers.
CHILDRESS: We don't know why
Baalbek was chosen as
this specific site.
Uh, it may well be some kind of
special power place.
But what was originally there
before the Roman temple was this
spaceport platform that was
apparently used for
extraterrestrials coming and
going on planet Earth.
NARRATOR: As evidence,
researchers point to the
gigantic megalithic stones
incorporated into the
foundation, each weighing
between 800 to 1,200 tons and
perfectly fitted together.
COPPENS: This is the real
mystery of Baalbek, how these
stones came to be there, why
they were placed there and
specifically how they were
transported into place, because
some of the stones are of such
magnitude that modern machinery
is incapable of putting them
there, but somehow our ancestors
were able to do this.
TSOUKALOS: Some have
suggested that this stone alone
weighs in excess of 1,200 tons.
How was it moved there?
Because obviously it's situated
on top of these stone rows that
we can find down here, which
means that this stone had to be
lifted and then set on top of
these stones down here.
CHARAF: And because these
stones were gigantic, ancient
people assumed that
extraterrestrial or unknown
forces brought them
to the site itself.
BILL BIRNES: It is one of the
oldest, oldest megalithic sites
on the planet, and it has these
huge stones laid out in a
precise geometrical shape at a
time when the prehistoric people
who would have lived there, who
would have gone to the Bekaa
Valley in Lebanon, would have no
concept of how to move stones of
that nature.
NARRATOR: But if the moving,
hoisting and setting of such
massive stones was so incredibly
difficult, then who or what
placed them there?
And perhaps more importantly:
Why?
COPPENS: We know that the
ancients always went to power
places, and Baalbek
clearly is one of them.
It is a place where the gods
were worshipped, where the gods
were said to be present.
And so when it comes to Baalbek,
this platform was built
there for a reason.
For what purpose it was used is
a question we can't answer at
this moment in time.
But what we do know is that
whatever was happening there had
a great religious significance
to them and was linked with
worshipping deities, deities
which clearly are of an
otherworldly origin.
NARRATOR: Is it possible, as
ancient astronaut theorists
believe, that Baalbek had been
considered a sacred place for
tens of thousands of years
because it was where
extraterrestrial beings first
arrived on Earth?
Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining other megalithic
stones on Easter Island.
NARRATOR: The South
Pacific Ocean.
2,300 miles west of South
America, in one of the most
remote places on Earth, giant
stone figures stand with their
backs to the sea.
Called moai by the native
inhabitants, they are the silent
sentinels of Easter Island.
CHRIS STEVENSON: The moais
are scattered throughout the
island, and they're positioned
on top of-of platforms,
for the most part.
A moai is a... is a stone
sculpture of a
deceased ancestor.
They were once living
individuals who ruled the
society or led the society.
They were chiefs, and then, upon
their death, we believe that
they've become
represented in stone.
NARRATOR: Nearly 900 moai
were carved between the 12th and
18th centuries.
Hewn with stone tools from
volcanic rock, the tallest
stands a towering 33 feet high
and weighs a staggering 75 tons.
STEVENSON: They were probably
even more unique-looking,
uh, in the past.
They may have been painted.
And they also had large white
coral eyes with obsidian pupils.
So it's a very effective way of
kind of telling people, not
verbally but symbolically, that
someone's watching you and you
should toe the line.
You should do what
you're supposed to do.
NARRATOR: The people who
created the moai called
themselves the Rapa Nui, and
mainstream historians believe
their Polynesian ancestors came
to the island in canoes from
across the vast Pacific Ocean
between 700 and 1100 A.D.
But over several centuries, for
reasons that are still unclear,
what was once an island paradise
withered into a treeless desert
stalked by famine, v*olence and,
some say, cannibalism.
When the first Europeans arrived
in 1722, the Rapa Nui culture
had already been nearly wiped
out, and few could imagine how
such primitive people could have
created the moai.
NOORY: How in the heck
did they make these?
Where did they come from?
And how did they move them?
Nobody has the answer.
NARRATOR: Modern scientists
have tried and so far have
failed to duplicate the feats of
the ancient Rapa Nui.
In 1987, anthropologist Charles
Love used rollers to move a
nine-ton moai replica at Western
Wyoming Community College.
Ready? On three.
One, two, three.
Come on. Come on.
Good!
Thank you. Whoa.
Only able to budge it
about half an inch.
NARRATOR: Other researchers
have tried pulling
moai with sleds.
But there is a unique problem
with the idea of moving moai
with sleds or rollers.
CHARLES LOVE: When you go to
Easter Island, you don't get the
impression they had enough wood
to have rollers.
And, in fact, in the 1700s, the
first four expeditions to Easter
Island never really saw a tree.
And so that's the real mystery
of Easter Island.
How can you move a multi-ton
statue if you have no
trees for rollers?
NARRATOR: According to the
oral history of the Rapa Nui,
the moai were moved in
a very unusual way.
LOVE: They all reply
basically the same thing.
The moai walked to the ahu, and
that's the only explanation
that they give.
NARRATOR: But who or what had
the power to make multi-ton moai
appear to walk to their ahu, or
stone platforms?
In 1919, British archaeologist
Katherine Routledge, who lived
on Easter Island for a year,
recorded the legends and
testimony of an old woman who
said the moai were moved with a
mystical energy called mana.
And, according to the oral
histories of the Rapa Nui, mana
came from the gods.
TSOUKALOS: Mana was a direct
gift of the gods given to the
Easter Islanders.
Was this mana really a type of
magical force?
Of course not.
It was some type of
misunderstood technology, some
type of a device, an
extraterrestrial tool with which
you could move those massive
Easter Island heads
rather easily.
NARRATOR: Did early
inhabitants of Easter Island
really know how to unlock the
secrets of gravity using mana?
And, if so, where might such
power over the physical world
have come from?
Might these astounding
abilities, forever lost to time,
have been made possible by
extraterrestrial visitors?
Perhaps further evidence can be
found with a mysterious
structure in southern Florida
built from 30-ton coral blocks.
NARRATOR: Homestead, Florida,
30 miles south of Miami.
This former agricultural town is
home to one of the most
mysterious structures in North
America, a stone garden made of
sculpted blocks of ancient
coral, some weighing 30 tons.
It's called the Coral Castle.
Spread over several acres, the
complex formations and intricate
designs of the stone walls and
sculptures marvel tourists.
But unlike other great
structures around the world,
this site is not ancient.
CHILDRESS: Coral Castle in
Florida is often said to be, uh,
the only modern megalithic
structure ever built.
NARRATOR: In 1923, Ed
Leedskalnin, a Latvian
immigrant, began building what
he originally called
Rock Gate Park.
But believe it or not,
Leedskalnin insisted that he was
not using modern machinery to
build the impressive structure.
He also claimed that
he was working alone.
RUSTY McCLURE: Well, Ed was a
hermit and Ed was a loner and he
was a foreigner and he was a
recluse and a scientist.
NOORY: He was in love with a
woman, and he wanted to build
this facility in memory of her.
And he waited for her to come
from Europe, and he waited and
he waited, and she never did.
But the big question is, is how
did this frail little man move
these thousands of pounds of
block by himself.
NARRATOR: Barely over five
feet tall and weighing just
100 pounds, Leedskalnin is said
to have carved, moved and
hoisted huge multi-ton stones
using only a makeshift tripod.
McCLURE: He has a tripod,
three pieces of Florida Pine
and he's got some chains, and
he's now gonna lift 30 tons,
ten tons of rock- can't be done.
No one could do that.
NOORY: He would work at
night- he wouldn't let
anybody watch him.
And he said that he knew the
secrets of the pyramids.
NARRATOR: But what exactly
was Leedskalnin referring to?
Had he rediscovered the same
advanced technology used to
build megalithic structures like
Carnac and Gobekli Tepe?
McCLURE: Ed over and over
again would tell people that he
knew the secrets that helped the
Egyptians build the pyramids.
What was he talking about?
Why was he constantly harking
back to the Egyptians?
We don't know.
NARRATOR: Leedskalnin
continued work on the Coral
Castle until his death in 1951.
In the journals he left behind,
the builder explained that he
had discovered the ancient
secret of transforming stones
into weightless objects.
McCLURE: Ed says this in his
pamphlet, Magnetic Current, that
real gravity is
actually real magnet.
So if you reverse the magnet
forces with a force of some kind
of electromagnetic radio,
perhaps, frequency, you can then
make these rocks not as heavy as
they seem otherwise and
therefore you can lift them.
NARRATOR: But if Leedskalnin
had developed a device that
could modify gravity,
what was his secret?
Some suggest the answer lies in
a mysterious black box that can
be seen in various photographs,
a box that has
since disappeared.
McCLURE: The black box
sitting on top is the element
that no one has ever seen except
in those pictures, and
no one has today.
We believe that black box has
something to do with how he got
these massive, heavy, brittle
pieces of rock up in the air in
a way that no one can duplicate.
NOORY: He had some kind of
magnetic machine down in one of
his other house areas that has
since been dismantled, but it
had a revolving ability.
He may have been having
that thing spin.
The whole place could have been
antigravity.
He probably just pushed
these into place.
SARA SEAGER: Levitation is
the only way that I know of to
hold up very heavy objects.
Very, very high-speed trains are
magnetically levitated.
These high-speed trains don't
have wheels that
touch any tracks.
They're literally suspended
above the track using
magnetic forces.
JOHN BRANDENBURG: We can
speculate at this time that
there are techniques for using
electromagnetism to
nullify gravity.
Uh, this was the great
quest of Einstein.
The motivation for such
technology is, of course, to
lift a large spaceship out into
space and across space.
All right.
(chuckles)
NARRATOR: Could it be that Ed
Leedskalnin utilized antigravity
to levitate and distribute the
enormous rocks used to
build Coral Castle?
If so, where did this incredible
knowledge come from?
COPPENS: And he died, taking
this secret to his grave.
The question is, did he invent
it, or did he himself somehow
inherit it or learn it from a
tradition or maybe from some
visitor from another realm?
McCLURE: The only thing that
is explainable is that someone
with a higher form of physics
and understanding of gravity has
created the ability of one
person to lift stones that
modern technology could not do,
the way he did it.
It had to come from a different
place in this galaxy.
TSOUKALOS: The fact that one
guy created these massive
structures is
absolutely fascinating.
Am I suggesting that he did this
with extraterrestrial
technology?
No, because I don't know.
Am I excluding that possibility?
No.
NARRATOR: If aliens visited
Earth in ancient times, perhaps
the world's mysterious stone
structures can provide clues not
only to mankind's past
but to its future.
VON DANIKEN: I think that
extraterrestrials would not have
left our solar system some
thousands of years ago
without any proof.
They wanted that in the far
future we start to reflect,
"Have we been visited
by outer space?"
NARRATOR: Could additional
evidence still lie hidden right
before our eyes?
Evidence that, when found, will
prove once and for all that we
are not alone?
08x02 - Mysterious Structures
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Explores the pseudoscientific hypothesis of ancient astronauts in a non-critical, documentary format.
Explores the pseudoscientific hypothesis of ancient astronauts in a non-critical, documentary format.