laughs [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] at Mount Palomar almost six thousand feet above sea level in the California mountains is equipped with the world's largest reflecting telescope its immense concave mirror intensifies the light from the farthest star a thousand times a special Road bed 45 miles long had to be laid to transport to the observatory this mirror which measures more than 16 feet across [Music] [Applause] the Mount Palomar telescope can probe the universe to a point four billion light years away one light year is expressed in terms of Miles by a six followed by twelve zeros the nebulae photographed here are 2 billion light years from the earth or in Miles the figure 12 followed by 21 zeros the Giant Eye of Mount Palomar can see billions of stars in the heavens today scientific investigators the world over are absorbed by a fascinating question on how many of these Stars could life exist we know for instance that in our galaxy alone as many as 50 million stars could support a highly developed form of life it's quite possible that our own Planet at some remote moment in its past had a visitor from one of these 50 million stars [Music] [Laughter] noun rocketry expert Werner Von Brown has stated I hold as a definite probability the existence of not only animal and vegetal life in the infinite reaches of the universe but also that of intelligent beings Professor Hermann oberth the father of interplanetary travel told us this I believe that it's possible for unknown foreign beings of a superior intelligence to have visited our planet at a remote point in time scientists are quick to adopt a negative attitude towards new ideas when the railroad was invented they protested that humans were incapable of withstanding speeds of over 20 miles an hour the Russian scientist kazansev member of the Moscow Academy of Natural Science asserts to the question of whether extraterrestrial beings gifted with intelligence have ever visited the earth I would reply in the affirmative at the Academy of Science in Minsk Dr vashislav setseff has declared personally I'm absolutely convinced that extraterrestrial creatures have stopped on our planet because of the many traces they left behind we have not yet learned how to interpret their traces only as we reach for the stars ourselves does the idea of earlier interplanetary contact with Earth become conceivable foreign has always dreamed of rising above the Earth early in the age of science he learned to fly but it wasn't enough he reached for the moon and found it within his grasp the stunning advancement of Rocket technology has put the entire Heavens within our reach in the course of this Century man will land on Mars in the next one on Venus [Music] [Music] how will our astronauts be welcomed when they set foot on another populated Star as enemies or as gods we know from recent history how primitive people react to their first confrontation with modern technology during the second world war American soldiers were sent to certain isolated islands in the South Pacific to build airfields and military installations when the war was over they went home and a very curious thing happened the natives of these islands isolated from the outside world lived virtually in the Stone Age until the Americans came and went very soon afterwards the natives began making straw and bamboo fetishes resembling airplanes crude Landing surfaces on their Islands to tempt the visitors back [Music] [Applause] [Music] The Strangers had brought fabulous treasure with them from the skies tools fantastic weapons Sky machines they'd never dreamed of what else but Gods could possess such Superior knowledge [Music] they didn't hunt or fish yet they never lacked food they came from heaven they had to be gods they must be lured back [Music] natives offered fiery sacrifices they scanned the heavens day and night watching and waiting [Music] [Music] however the Islanders had a new religion a new cult was born from the encounter between a primitive people and visitors from a highly developed technically Superior Society the Russian Scholars cassan Seth and seitzsef proposed that all religions began in just this manner assistant [Music] in Mexico and South America from Egypt to India throughout the world people have fables Legends and even religions which center around visits from foreign astronauts of course they don't call them astronauts but Gods who came to Earth in miraculous Sky Vehicles we could easily accept these tales as mere fantasy were they not reported among people the world over [Music] written accounts of god-like visitors abound for example in the books of the Tibetan Khan sure the cons sure consists of over a thousand volumes containing the holy texts of islamism the secret code of these texts is the most complex devised by man [Music] thank you only one 100th of the country has been discipled [Music] the resulting texts which we can now read are full of references to Gods appearing in the sky of the Luminous pearls and transparent spheres that these Gods lived in once these books have been completely deciphered they are bound to yield much more information about these mysterious space visitors [Music] in India the wisdom of the Mahabharata commands great respect it is the national epic poem much loved by the people it's eighty thousand verses are six thousand years old this is a part of the Mahabharata in which we also come upon stupefying evidence of God's come to Earth the poems speak repeatedly of vimanas these are Vehicles which fly to Great Heights by means of mercury and Powerful upward wind currents this reconstruction of the Mana was made by DR kazansev according to the description in the Mahabharata the author of this passage witnessed what today would be called a blast off bhima flew away in his Vimana on a gigantic beam of Light which shones the Sun and whose noise was like the Thunder of a thunderstorm so visitors from other worlds takes us to Baghdad the capital of Iraq the land between two rivers [Music] [Music] the museum here provides us with many A Link to the Past including accounts written on clay tablets at least five thousand years ago their Stony Pages tell the mysterious creatures which came to Earth in bursts of smoke and Noise [Music] at the turn of the century a dozen clay tablets were found upon which the Gilgamesh was engraved in cuneiform characters these are fragments of the Gilgamesh a creation story in the form of an epic poem is inscribed here it Bears a striking resemblance to the Book of Genesis yet the authors of the Gilgamesh lived two thousand years before the men who wrote the Bible Gilgamesh the hero of the Epic was part god part man the seventh tablet described some amazing travels enkidu a friend of ours here gives us the first eyewitness report of the space Voyage in the stone Chronicle after Rising Skyward in a space Chariot for 12 hours he records gaze down upon the land what do you see look upon the Seas what do they look like and the Earth looked like a meal Pap and the Sea like a water trough the American moonmen used very much the same words to describe their impressions of Earth from high in space [Music] we are flying over the Dead Sea among these forbidding rock formations near qumran two young shepherds looking for lost goats found something quite different in these caves in 1947 They Came Upon the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls they were inscribed on leather about two thousand years ago the qumran texts also speak of stranger Sky vehicles and of the sons of Heaven who came to Earth in them their arrival and departure were accompanied by clouds of smoke and Fire [Music] hardly more than a thousandth of these ancient sources has given up its secrets there are too few Scholars at work deciphering the mountains of parchment bark or clay documents Gathering dust in museums and libraries moreover what little has been decoded calls for careful study to determine just what verifiable facts they contain we should no longer permit ourselves to dismiss accounts of Sky vehicles and traveling deities as sheer imagination there is a lesson in the reaction of those South Sea Islanders to their first experience with white men and airplanes if they'd know how to write surely their Impressions would make fantastic reading we would be wise to discover what truths lie behind the Legends and myths of ancient times to take them seriously one man did just that a hundred years ago here on the shores of Asia Minor in 1864 a man came searching for the legendary city of Troy [Music] he found it beneath this hill Mann had made up his mind to take the tales of Homer The Iliad and the Odyssey literally what other nonsense said the wise men of his day Homer's stories were written eight centuries before Christ and Charming as they are we all know they are only poetry had faith in the factual historical side of the blind Bard's accounts at last his faith was rewarded following the poet's lead he found ancient Troy imagine his pleasure in giving his wife jewelry he had Unearthed in priam's Royal Treasure House imagine his satisfaction in locating Troy exactly where Homer said it was schliemann was ridiculed in his own day today he is considered one of the greatest archaeologists of all times [Music] following his example let's take another great document literally the Bible says then the Lord reigned on Sodom and Gomorrah Brimstone and fire what actually happened certainly the 19th Chapter of the first book of Moses describes a dramatic event God sent his Messengers to warn lot's family of impending disaster the Angels told lot Flee for Your Life do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley flee to the hills lest you be consumed today of course we know that a mountain offers protection from radioactivity The Messengers were insistent that he leave the city immediately we might well wonder if they had foreknowledge of an atomic explosion foreign [Music] thing is certain the flourishing cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were leveled laid waste at a single stroke the kind of power to deliver such a devastating blow was not in man's hands in those days the report of the catastrophe ends then he looked down and beheld and lo the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace Mount Horeb in the Sinai range Rises more than 6500 feet above sea level here Moses received the Ten Commandments here also the lord gave him the blueprints for the Ark of the Covenant chapter 25 of the second book of Moses he gives directions for the erection of this amazing structure and they shall make an arc of acacia wood two cubits and a half shall be its length a cubit and a half inch spread and a cubital half its height and you shall overlay it with pure gold within and without shall you overlay it and you shall make upon it a molding of gold round about the Lord was extremely precise about the building of the Ark he warned that no one should come near the structure it represented Immortal danger and though he himself would speak to Moses from the covering plate he could not be seen Moses was even to provide special shoes and clothing to protect his workmen shoes and clothing that would insulate them properly if we were to build a replica of the Ark today according to Moses instructions we would have a condenser charged with several hundred volts one side of the plates carrying a negative charge the other a positive one the Bible says the ark bristled with Sparks and bright flashes as in these old paintings indeed when Moses had erected the ark the Lord would speak to him through it could the gold sheath have been a form of loudspeaker reproducing the Lord's voice from afar in 1961 a group of Minnesota college students took Moses seriously enough to construct an ark according to his directions their instructor however had to have the model destroyed because of the dangerously High electrical charge it developed viewed from the 20th century the Bible is full of astonishing accounts like that of Moses no less surprising is the Ascension of Elijah a Chronicle of the purest fantasy unless of course the Storyteller was eyewitness to an unprecedented actual event a fiery Chariot drawn by flaming horses came from Heaven to take Elijah away [Music] many an artist has recreated the story of Ezekiel the prophet in the 30th year in the fourth month on the fifth day of the month the heavens were opened as I looked Behold a stormy wind came out of the North and a great cloud with brightness round about it and fire flashing forth continually and in the midst of the fire as it Were Gleaming bronze and from the midst of it came the likeness of living creatures and this was their appearance they had the form of men but each had four faces and each of them had four wings as for the likeness of their faces each had the face of a man in front a lion on the right an ox on the left and a needle at the back wood Ezekiel have described the landing of visitors from space in very different terms now as I looked I saw a wheel upon the Earth beside the living creatures one for each of them it was like the gleaming of a chrysolite their construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel when they went they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went the four wheels had rims and they had Spokes and their rims were full of eyes round about were these the engines of a spaceship and when they went I heard the sound of their wings like the Thunder of the Almighty a sound of tumult like the sound of a host the prophet had witnessed a dazzling sight how closely it resembles the launching of a multi-stage rocket even to the scream of its engines had blast off these pictures speak for themselves this is how early biblical illustrators represented the angels of Promise a creature with metal legs and Landing discs doesn't that look familiar look carefully at the right side of this picture [Music] this is the monastery of Dasani in the peaceful Countryside of Southern Yugoslavia [Music] no friends [Music] the church was decorated with frescoes in the middle of the 14th century recently the question has been asked do the frescoes of Dasani represent spaceships foreign [Music] yes they do look a bit like spaceships in the first ship we see a man seated his hand on a stick shift he is definitely observing the second spaceship please note the aerodynamic form jets are clearly seen [Music] [Music] others are protecting their faces with their hands they are obviously terrified [Music] there is no explanation for the origin or purpose of these fantastic pictures nor for the prehistoric Rock paintings discovered at valcamonica near brescia in Italy there are portrayals of strange gods in bulky primitive overalls their helmets seem to carry antenna Istanbul the city on the Golden Horn here stands the Palace of topcapi a curious set of maps are kept here which were found in the orient by the Turkish Admiral Peri rise during the 18th century the oldest of these Maps dates back to the First Century A.D they are most likely copies of still earlier Maps the ornamentation of ships and animals is of a later date here is one of them it shows part of Europe and Africa as well as Central and South America let us imagine ourselves astronauts in a Space Capsule in orbit high above Cairo we would see the Earth in this configuration of continents the most amazing thing about the map superiorize is that they show exactly what we would see from only one point in space high above Cairo another remarkable thing this map shows a region which is still largely unexplored the Antarctic in fact the existence of Antarctica has a continent was only established in the 19th century ha however this map dates from 1532. we can only conclude that these ancient charts represent What was seen by someone at a great distance from the Earth itself [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] Cairo a city of three million inhabitants on the Nile [Music] 12 miles from Cairo is Giza the site of the most enigmatic structures known to mankind the pyramids the area of the base of the Pyramid of kievs is about 570 000 square feet a small town of 500 dwellings could be erected in that space at its completion the pyramid was 477 feet high has lost only 32 feet of its original height passages lead to its interior the total weight of the pyramid is six and a half million tons roughly the weight of 65 000 locomotives two million three hundred thousand stone blocks were used to build the seventh wonder of the world Each of which weighs a crushing two and a half tons these Stone masses were transported from a quarry in the makadam mountains on the far banks of the Nile at a time when men had mother cranes nor trucks ha on wooden rollers of course not very likely in those days as today only date palms grew in the region a soft wood whose fruit was a necessary part of the workers diet and how could workmen succeed in hauling these colossal stone blocks to a height of over 400 feet let's try the following figures on for size twenty thousand workmen closely scheduled to haul and install ten blocks a day would need 664 years or more than 30 generations to build one pyramid thus it couldn't have been built in the time of one Pharaoh for his tomb if you multiply the height of the Pyramid of key Ops by 1 billion it equals almost exactly the distance from the Earth to the Sun a mere coincidence the longitude which runs through the center of the Pyramid of chaops divides continents and oceans into two equal halves just mere coincidence at the end of the 16th century the Dutch mathematician ludolf arrived at the figure Pie by which one can determine the circumference of a circle if we divide the perimeter of the base of the Pyramid of kiops by twice the height we get exactly the figure pie which ludolf only found four thousand years later could it still be mere coincidence it's almost impossible to brush off the vast body of mathematical and astronomical values embodied in the pyramid's construction as just coincidence [Music] foreign [Music] this is the Pyramid of Catherine in 1967 a team of Scholars scanned the interior of this pyramid with radar in hopes of finding hidden cavities but without results their efforts shed no light on its construction an old Egyptian proverb says the world fears time but time fears only the pyramids [Music] the Sphinx symbol of the riddle the Eternal enigma 65 feet high 237 feet long its age is unknown the Nile Valley near Luxor a narrow strip of fertile land in the middle of the desert [Music] [Music] before I stretches the Valley of the Kings this Valley was a royal burial ground at the time of the Pharaohs Behind These K black entrances are steep stairs and endless crooked passages leading to the stone crypts the Crypt of King sethos II is 300 feet deep in the interior his burial chamber its rectangular columns and decorative reliefs are carved directly out of the Rock here as in other tombs we find fascinating wall paintings they were achieved without daylight [Music] because the Dome shows no trace of soot no torches or oil lamps were used [Music] Scholars have suggested that these ancient artists brought sunlight into the cribs by means of a complicated system of mirrors the silver mirrors of that early period reflected only 40 percent of the light which is why they needed so many mirrors [Applause] [Music] these creatures all bear symbolic reference to their relationship with the heavens with the universe thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] the tomb of Tatum common is the smallest but most famous of these Royal grave sites foreign all the others had been looted in the course of centuries only this one retained its Treasures until modern times a 19 year old God King was laid to rest here to await the day of his resurrection from the dead this mummy was embalmed at least three thousand years ago prepared for a physical rising from the dead mummies were consigned to the most secure resting places that could be designed until recently embalming was thought to be a religious custom the theory has been Advanced that embalming was a skillful imitation of a physical conservation method employed by extraterrestrial visitors attempted unsuccessfully by the Egyptians thank you [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] the enigmatic statue of Ramses II Wars have destroyed it three thousand years old he owned from a single Rock weighing 1 200 tons was brought from the quarries of makadam 370 miles away no one knows how [Music] the memnan colossi 3500 years old 52 feet high carved from solid Sandstone each weighing a thousand tons [Music] they too came from the makadam mountains no one knows how there is a present-day example of the enormous engineering effort required to move similar stone sculpture for a distance of only 600 feet the temple Abu symbol and its monuments on the banks of the Nile had to make way for the Aswan Dam three thousand years after the building of this Temple it took a pool of talented resources from over a hundred Nations to solve the problems of its relocation the latest equipment was employed cranes whose bearing strength was reinforced by hydraulic presses three hundred thousand precise measurements were taken because the statues of Abu symbol had to be sawn to Pieces a task that took three years modern engineering was faced with an undertaking of unprecedented dimensions how did the Egyptians tackle the same problems without these techniques 30 centuries earlier foreign 500 years old 85 feet high carved from one piece of red granite brought from us one 185 miles away the Obelisk of Karnak Rises 96 feet making it the tallest column in Egypt weighs 400 tons [Applause] [Music] The Unfinished Obelisk lying in Aswan over 135 feet long it is the largest in the world 1 200 staggering tons of red granite no crane in the world could lift it much less move it [Music] the famous stone of the South is the largest block cut and carried by man it weighs 2 000 tons it was destined for balbec in Lebanon two hours by car from Beirut [Music] the temples were built by the Greeks and Romans in historical times but they were erected on a skillfully constructed Foundation composed of the largest stone masses ever trimmed and positioned on Earth the largest of these blocks are 65 feet long 15 feet high and over 12 feet wide and weigh almost 2 000 tons this Terrace was ancient when the temples were built on it archaeologists still have no explanation for the Terrace nor for the transport of its components the Russian research scientists aggressed submits that it served as a launching pad for travelers from outer space thank you [Music] our next stop is far to the Southwest the Oasis of Janet in the middle of the Sahara 1200 miles south of Algiers [Music] everything [Music] from Janet we can reach the plateau of tasiri [Music] the terrain resembles the lunar surface bear reddish outcroppings of rock in a sandy desert the Sahara was once a fertile area fifteen thousand years ago it was the most densely populated corner of the world were eaten Away by Sun and storm the icy Northern wind lashes through the Canyons 6500 feet above the scorching desert floor [Music] thousands of wall drawings were found here in tessili the earliest were done eight to ten thousand years before Christ during the Neolithic period the artists were hunters and farmers their themes are always the same animals Hunters and what is this strange creature with the bulbous head [Music] who are the figures at his feet helmeted in the fashion of today's divers or astronauts no eyes no nose no mouth only peepholes round little apertures [Music] a body that seems to be floating effortlessly in space in space [Music] the puzzle here is that our prehistoric artists represented the men and animals around them with great Fidelity as to shape and proportion only these balloon-headed creatures seem to be disproportionate why could it be that the artists didn't see them clearly or long enough for six days we Trek onward sleeping beneath the sparkling Starry Desert Sky we are curious to learn as much as we can over the fascinating world around us [Music] is this the sketch of a space module what is this lumpy disc with a figure separating from it and there they are again unreal floating creatures their heads indistinct wearing light-colored Garb could they be dressed for space travel to be sure there are other explanations [Music] foreign [Music] the last of our drinking water is sprinkled on the rocks to bring out the ancient drawings now we can make out the figures with our odd headgear the coveralls with padded joints [Music] after ten thousand years the Contours have become blurred with painstakingly copy them for reference down to the Last Detail [Music] all reluct the French archaeologist found the image of a 19-foot Giant on this steep curved wall protected by a rocky ledge he called him the great God Mars foreign didn't know about astronauts but we do [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] beneath us lies darkest Africa the bushlands of Southern Rhodesia [Music] and at last the ruins of Zimbabwe a forgotten ghost town of the past no one knows who the builders were purple was constructed of brick-shaped granite blocks all exactly alike as if produced in a factory twenty thousand tons of identical building stones they were laid to a height of over 30 feet to form walls which have stood for thousands of years [Music] what Masons trimmed and piled these stones with such astonishing Perfection were they the ancestors of these Bushmen whose straw Huts around the ruins a visiting race of Master Builders [Music] oh [Music] [Music] Mexico [Applause] [Music] a land where gods were once quite at home [Music] [Applause] [Music] we pay a visit to the Museo Nacional [Music] here we find this huge Aztec calendar Stone it is more than 11 feet across weighs 24 tons originally it was brightly painted and stood before the Temple of the sun god the stylized symbols expressed the results of astronomical observations the Precision of which is astonishing the Aztecs calculated their Year by the Sun and the Moon and came up with a period consisting of 365 and one-quarter days they arrived at this exact figure without telescopes or mathematical instruments could their knowledge have come from extraterrestrial sources [Music] [Music] this ancient object has little significance unless seen Through The Eyes of a generation newly accustomed to the world of outer space [Music] hidden beneath this hill lies yet another wonder of the world the Pyramid of salula by volume the largest construction made by man it took six centuries to build its base measures one thousand by 1170 feet it is 178 feet high the Pyramid of Cholula has a volume of over 3 million cubic yards by comparison the Pyramid of key UPS is smaller by half a million cubic yards in the 16th century the Spaniards built a church on top of it [Music] systematic excavations have only begun in this century 12 miles of subterranean passages have been discovered thus far their purpose remains obscure [Music] the form of the pyramid is common to many widely separated civilizations could there be a link between them as yet unknown to us [Music] [Music] a vast expanse of ruins in Central America it lies in hours drive from Mexico City at an altitude of 6500 feet only a small part of the ruins has been excavated the name teotuacan means where the gods reside the gods is dominated by the Pyramid of the Sun its base measures 760 by 720 feet and rising to a height of 216 feet it forms a small Mountain weighing two and a half million tons [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] and the age of the structures where the gods reside are shrouded in mystery but there are Clues a mile to the south of these pyramids is the Temple of Quetzalcoatl the great feathered serpent Legend tells us he was a light-skinned bearded man who came from the Stars he taught men law the Arts the cultivation of corn and cotton his symbol is seen everywhere The Feathered head of a serpent when quetzal kotel finished his mission on Earth he returned to the Morning Star promising to come back to earth again [Applause] are about 20 miles from TaoTao according to an old myth the towns of the Tula Koba Chichen Itza and ushmal were linked by a ladder hung in the sky [Music] thank you [Music] these Monumental sculptures stand a silent Watch Guardians of Mystery they are warriors dressed alike wearing unusual helmets they carry some sort of box-like unit on their chests the tools or controls clasped in their hands are unrecognizable perhaps they are weapons or Communications equipment brought from a distant star foreign [Music] flight from the capitol is Monte Alban in the valley of Oaxaca another testimony to the Brilliance of the ancient Mexican civilization how was it conceived who were its architects [Music] oh [Music] our flight Wings over the mountains of Mexico to another complex of temples and pyramids Chichen Itza Chichen Itza is an ancient Mayan settlement in the Yucatan Peninsula its structures were built according to astrological data foreign [Music] Observatory stands on three Terraces its shape is virtually identical to that of a modern Observatory foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] a man in the confines of a small room seems to be operating a lever there are strange projections on his helmet resembling antenna [Music] [Applause] huge calendar in stone each of the 365 steps on its four stairs represents one day thank you [Music] [Music] here we see the winged god we are told that he too came from the stars and returned to them he was supplanted by the bloody Warrior God shakmal he carried a tray before him to receive offerings of human hearts [Music] in times of drought the people were LED in a pilgrimage to the sacred well called cinotti young maidens were sacrificed here to the Rain God flung into the deep murky Waters there was no escape from this Sinister at well [Music] it is a perfectly round crater in the rock it couldn't possibly have been formed naturally nor could human hands alone had scooped it out it resembles a crater made by the exhaust gases of a very powerful rocket engine among the many unanswered questions posed by the traces of Mayan culture is the following 600 years after Christ the entire Mayan population departed leaving towns temples and pyramids the fruits of great Labor behind and move northward to start from scratch however there is no trace of War plague famine or sudden climate change at that time to account for the move [Music] There are 16 cities in Mexico with a population of more than one hundred thousand one of these is Merida the descendants of the Maya live here they still have their own language derived from the ancient Mayan tongue they're perhaps the most peaceful people in Latin America their faces today still have the haunting beauty of their ancestors preserved for us in stone [Music] oh leaving Merida we fly over a vast swampland to arrive at laventa this is where we find dozens of these Stone heads right in the middle of the swamps each weighs about 200 tons there is no Quarry within 80 miles only jungle the same question arises again how were these Mammoth statues carried over the marshy Terrain [Music] days of delay precede our audience with the winged god of Palenque it's not an easy gentleman to see a dome of sweltering humidity hangs over the Virgin Forest of Palenque along our path to the Sacred City of the Maya we pass the cadavers of cattle with swarms of patient vultures Wheeling overhead thank you [Music] after eight refusals we are finally granted official permission to film this ancient celebrity sealed of sepoker is open to us for a brief half hour a steep flight of stairs and down into the even more stifling dampness of the interior of the Tomb foreign [Music] and there he is captured for the first time on film the winged guard of Palenque [Music] what the lens sees is so stunning that we must examine the details separately [Music] we see a man seated in a capsule intently watching something his hands seem to be operating some undefinable controls his foot is pressing a pedal at the rear of the capsule we see jets trailing planes behind them [Music] isn't this a typical position for an astronaut as we so well know it today he seems to be dressed for the job in trousers with a broad belt [Music] a sort of jacket tight fitting at the wrists like coveralls the chair is well upholstered to absorb the shock of acceleration a figure before controls also dressed like an astronaut another jet trailing flames this Stone deity say the Maya represents kukul Khan who came from the stars and returned there [Music] Easter Island emerges from clouds of smoke and rain [Music] today the natives still call their Island mataki tirani which means eyes looking up to heaven neighboring at all is called the island of the bird people here we see them creatures with human bodies and the heads of birds [Music] oh [Music] are these really Birds heads or do they just themed that way to the natives they could also be helmets equipped with oxygen masks [Music] Legend has it that in prehistoric times flying people came to the island amidst fire this is makimaki the god of the island [Music] today about 2 000 people live here there were never more than four thousand natives at one time all Scholars agree on this point this being established a tangle of mixing questions arises of the total population 70 are women children or the elderly the majority of able-bodied men is needed for the production of food thus the number of workmen is so small that it would have been impossible for them to create the more than 600 gigantic Stone figures found everywhere on the island the stone is so hard that repeated hammering with a steel chisel hardly scratches it many of these Stone colossi Stand 65 feet high and weigh nearly 400 tons most of the sculptures aren't partly exposed only excavation will reveal their true size [Music] the figures are all the same unusual type of human wearing the same haughty taciturn expression one after the other as if cast from the same mold [Music] only the statue which was Unearthed by a Thor hiredal is an exception it has a round head and is kneeling this was the stonecutter's workshop of the volcanic crater ranoraku the colossae which were carved here were removed to distances of as much as 12 miles there was no Army of slaves for labor no wood for rollers nor the slightest traces to suggest that the sculptures were dragged across the island the legends of Easter Island claimed that the stone giants moved themselves with the help of Mana a mysterious Force which only two priests could invoke and that one day the priests disappeared with the Mana was that the day their work was completed in the Quarry of Rana raraku or is that why there is an army of Unfinished statues [Music] what was Mana were there strangers from other planets possessed of electromagnetic Powers did they have the ability to defy the laws of gravity to this day Easter Island exerts an unusually strong magnetism the report of a French expedition in 1964 ends as follows since there are inexplicable magnetic forces and unusual geological phenomena on Easter Island one cannot exclude the possibility of extraterrestrial contacts thank you [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] leads us back to South America to Cusco the capital of the Inca Empire 11 380 feet above sea level in the Peruvian Andes the city was founded by messengers of the Sun God we are told [Music] the walls bordering these narrow streets date from the time of the Incas the passage of centuries has had little effect on the stonecutter's artistry these expertly trimmed Stones were set in place without mortar yet a knife blade will not enter the joints [Music] parity is the 12-sided block so precisely executed that only the most modern equipment could equal its perfection [Music] [Applause] [Music] Harrison this war constructed in the same manner is found in quite a different spot three thousand miles to the West in the Pacific on Easter Island [Music] where the Masons of Easter Island and those of the Andes apprenticed to the same Master Builders [Applause] [Music] high above Cusco are the impressive ruins of the Fortress of saksahuaman used by the Incas to protect their Royal City like pieces of a puzzle as though they were lightest matchboxes huge Boulders form a wall 1200 feet long The Fortress existed long before the Inca's time when Pizarro the Spanish conquistador inquired about the builders he was told they were a light-skinned bearded red-headed race of men the descendants of viricochas [Music] foreign s weigh 500 tons [Applause] [Applause] [Music] the Indians come to the market of pizzac [Music] all right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] they returned to the sacred Valley of the Incas the Valley of the urubamba [Music] defeat above sea level lies mashupishu a citadel also said to have been built by the Divine race of light-skinned auburn-haired descendants of viracochas [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] the capital of Bolivia at an altitude of 12 350 feet the highest capital in the world [Music] [Applause] thank you [Applause] [Music] Lake Titicaca thirteen thousand feet above sea level is the highest lake in the world Spanx is the Indian market [Music] everybody yeah [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign hangs over the lake of a thousand Secrets the traces of an ancient culture are found along its Shores we learn from Legend that Ohana the Earth Mother landed here in a golden chariot she brought wisdom and knowledge of the Arts and Crafts to the people then returned to the Stars tijuanaco was built in her honor the oldest religious Oedipus in the world [Applause] giwanaco stands 18 miles from the shores of Lake Titicaca today but it is said that at one time the lake Latt at the very foot of the Temple this is how it was the small ports below the sacred Lake above the lake bed dried up long ago it is still surrounded by the ruins of once enormous buildings it is true that the waters recede about 1 8 of an inch per year however if the shore is now 18 miles away how long has it been since the lake washed around the temple certainly long before recorded history [Laughter] [Music] the most impressive relic of this vanished era is the door of the Sun chiseled from a single rock it weighs 10 tons three rows of stylized figures flank an inscrutable creature another God come from the Stars [Music] [Applause] [Music] the mysteries of the past manifest themselves on all continents thank you [Applause] [Music] in the rough hilly country of Northwest Australia there are scores of rock paintings which date back far in time drawings which are probably the earliest messages from prehistoric man this sketch represents one Gina Juan Gina was the legendary goddess of the Milky Way she too came from Heaven to instruct the children of Earth surely there were models one is tempted to say one model for these deities found on all continents in Australia in America in Africa in Europe [Music] in Asia this is one of the famous dogus of Japan these figurines were found on the island of hansu they are at least five thousand years old the Russian collector and expert gave us his explanation of them in my opinion these figures represent astral beings seen on Earth their sealed helmets are equipped with a breathing apparatus vision is afforded by glasses with narrow slits like the eskimos were to avoid snow blindness probably they were accustomed to weaker light on their home planet the cosmic clothing they wear seems inflated as though to compensate for the higher atmospheric pressure on Earth their hands are not at all like human hands but like mechanical claws if you suggest they were but images of gods I would ask you how their creators could have portrayed their technical accessories so accurately without having seen a model kasansif made one further point he drew our attention to the amazing similarity between the dogu figurines and the wall painting of the great God Mars found halfway across the world the asymmetrical design of a piece of jewelry found in the Tomb of a Mexican high priest can also be interpreted with startling results if we superimpose a modern integral circuit on it what we thought of as pure design takes on a new dimension another example of Mexican ornamentation becomes on completion very much like a modern mechanical space claw [Music] once again in Iraq a museum in Baghdad we find these small clay cups dating to the time of Christ they may be even older a small copper tube was introduced into the narrow neck a rod made of an alloy of different Metals was inserted in the tube when filled with hydrochloric acid the device produces an electric current this was no doubt A Primitive electric cell yet count of water invented to the electric cell 1500 years later another technical Wonder from the same period in culture can be seen in the British museum it is a polished lens which could only be produced today with Precision cutting and polishing tools polished lenses weren't executed in Europe before the 16th century whereas this one was found in the near East and is 2 000 years old in Moscow near the monument to the astronauts we spoke with Dr vachuslav seitzer of the Academy of Science he called our attention to two prehistoric relics which simply cannot be explained by our present knowledge of History the first is the skull of a bison which roamed the Siberian Tundra forty thousand years ago he was shot by a bullet the proof is the whole ballistics experts have established that it could only have been pierced by a high-speed projectile and that the Beast was alive when killed a shot fired forty thousand years ago doctor's heads-off second example is equally startling outside of fergana in Uzbekistan near the Chinese border Soviet Scholars found a rock painting which they carefully copied we must look and look again to grasp the significance of this prehistoric drawing a creature wearing the headgear of an astronaut the helmet well attached to his spacesuit connecting tubes breathing apparatus the trappings of a space Voyager [Music] spend it in the void spaceship shaped like two saucers one Atop The Other only in Uzbekistan but around the world we've seen pictures of flying machines and flying creatures [Music] around the world Giants posed their silent questions [Music] thank you around the world we've seen architectural Marvels raised in honor of the Gods which came from the skies [Music] [Music] [Music] this flying machine was painted on a rock wall in Japan seven thousand years ago this tiny golden replica of an ancient flying machine is Colombian over a thousand years old it was tested in a wind tunnel the aerodynamic styling resembles that of a modern aircraft we thought it impossible that more compelling evidence for the visit of extraterrestrial beings to our planet existed but they do in the Pacific Ocean we approach the coast of Southern Peru the forest is the Bay of Pisco there pointing the way is a trident 300 feet high obviously a signal a signal for whom [Applause] we approach it once more this sign has shown the way to the interior of the country for 2 000 years shown the way to what let's follow it and see [Music] [Applause] [Applause] passing over the Runes of ancient civilizations at last we see before us the mysterious plain of mafica lines running toward us lines which would mean nothing from the ground long furrows cut into the parched soil cut there at least two thousand years ago scientists agree [Music] but do they really mean nothing from a great height from an aircraft for instance they fall into Focus we see a spider [Music] an eagle [Music] peacock [Music] hummingbird [Music] none of which can be recognized from the ground and no observation point no mountain nearby overlooking the plane the giant drawings must have been made for someone arriving by air these other lines make no sense from the ground either [Music] straight As arrows one huge geometric puzzle some parallel some intersecting cutting nowhere and ending nowhere [Applause] [Music] [Music] there's no doubt they are landing fields [Music] the plane of Nazca is a gigantic abandoned airport [Music] symbols these indications are only visible from a great height who could have followed them or were they roads roads which go nowhere which suddenly stop yet if it was an Airfield who was to land there do these figures answer our questions [Music] was Earth visited by gods from distant planets [Music] were the gods astronauts [Music] beautiful [Music] [Applause] we've accumulated a great deal of evidence to that effect around the world we may still doubt the conclusion but we dare not ignore the evidence for as long as such ancient Mysteries remain unexplained our questions are valid ones [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] were the gods astronauts do you suppose but once upon a time once upon a time once upon a time foreign [Music] Chariots of the Gods the international bestseller by Eric Von danigan that shattered conventional theories about history and Archeology now some International brings it to the screen in a startling new film Chariots of the Gods explores Von danigan's controversial and explosive theory that beings from other galaxies visited Earth in ancient times did a genius From Another World design the pyramids is there evidence of a prehistoric Airfield in the Andes and what about the giant Stone faces that brood over Easter Island all over the Earth the evidence is there for an intriguing fascinating mind-opening experience see Chariots of the Gods rated G thank you [Applause] [Music]
2023-06-05