1 00:00:00,490 --> 00:00:10,497 This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture. 2 00:00:10,497 --> 00:00:17,141 The producer's purpose is to suggest some possible explanations, but not necessarily 3 00:00:17,141 --> 00:00:22,745 the only ones to the mysteries we will examine. 4 00:00:22,745 --> 00:00:26,307 Former NASA space scientist Maurice Shatelain says, 5 00:00:26,307 --> 00:00:32,312 there is no doubt that aliens have walked among us. 6 00:00:32,312 --> 00:00:38,316 By connecting the sites of ancient Greek temples, Shatelain has interpreted a pattern so complex 7 00:00:38,316 --> 00:00:44,320 he is convinced it could only be the result of an alien influence. 8 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:50,324 Another scientist says that prehistoric Indian rock carvings found in the western United States 9 00:00:50,324 --> 00:00:58,329 are actually electronic symbols known to every physics student today. 10 00:00:58,329 --> 00:01:10,337 Is it possible that our planet was an early destination for Earth visitors? 11 00:01:10,337 --> 00:01:16,341 Death Valley, California. One of the most inhospitable areas on Earth. 12 00:01:16,341 --> 00:01:26,348 Ground temperatures can reach 170 degrees. Dehydration can occur in minutes. 13 00:01:26,348 --> 00:01:37,356 It's the sort of place where life should not exist. Yet one form of life now dominates this area. 14 00:01:37,356 --> 00:01:43,360 The burrow. Left here to die by miners nearly a century ago. 15 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:51,365 An incredibly adaptable beast. The burrow not only survived, but even multiplied. 16 00:01:51,365 --> 00:01:57,369 Is there an analogy between the burrow in Death Valley and man on the Earth? 17 00:01:57,369 --> 00:02:03,373 Was life left on Earth by an alien exploration millions of years ago? 18 00:02:03,373 --> 00:02:08,377 How can we account for an unusual discovery made in recent years? 19 00:02:08,377 --> 00:02:15,381 From Utah, a fossil. A shellfish that has been extinct for 400 million years. 20 00:02:15,381 --> 00:02:25,388 Nothing surprising about it, except it was found embedded in what appear to be shoe prints. 21 00:02:25,388 --> 00:02:31,392 Could these prints have been left behind by Earth visitors? 22 00:02:31,392 --> 00:02:37,396 Maurice Shadalane, the former NASA space scientist who helped man reach the moon, 23 00:02:37,396 --> 00:02:45,402 and author of Our Ancestors Came from Outer Space, definitely believes that aliens have visited the Earth. 24 00:02:45,402 --> 00:02:50,405 It seems that the first landing occurred about 300,000 years ago. 25 00:02:50,405 --> 00:02:57,410 Shadalane believes that ancient cuneiform tablets discovered in Iraq and only recently deciphered 26 00:02:57,410 --> 00:03:04,415 give detailed accounts of aliens arriving on Earth and engaging in cross-breeding experiments with humans. 27 00:03:04,415 --> 00:03:08,417 And in the beginning the experiments were not very successful. 28 00:03:08,417 --> 00:03:15,422 They obtained the Neanderthal man, which was a very big man, but not very intelligent. 29 00:03:15,422 --> 00:03:21,426 And they had to make many, many experiments before they could succeed. 30 00:03:21,426 --> 00:03:28,431 And this occurred about 60,000 years ago. At that time they obtained the Homo sapiens man, 31 00:03:28,431 --> 00:03:32,434 or modern man, which you can also call the Chromagnon man. 32 00:03:32,434 --> 00:03:41,440 And this was a very bright success because it was almost exactly like modern man today. 33 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:48,444 Some people ask me how it could be that a scientist like me who has been trained in physics and mathematics 34 00:03:48,444 --> 00:03:59,452 and who is working on the Apollo program on the moon could believe in stories of astronauts coming from outer space and landing on the Earth. 35 00:03:59,452 --> 00:04:03,455 Actually it's very simple because in the beginning I was very skeptical. 36 00:04:03,455 --> 00:04:10,459 But little by little I started discovering my own evidence and I was convinced there's no doubt about it. 37 00:04:10,459 --> 00:04:13,461 Astronauts from outer space have landed on the Earth. 38 00:04:14,462 --> 00:04:21,467 One of Shadalane's discoveries was made while examining satellite photos of the Aegean Sea. 39 00:04:21,467 --> 00:04:26,470 At first there didn't seem to be anything significant. 40 00:04:26,470 --> 00:04:30,473 But then Shadalane began to see a pattern emerge. 41 00:04:30,473 --> 00:04:39,479 By connecting the locations of 12 sacred Greek temples, Shadalane formed the giant Maltese cross more than 300 miles wide. 42 00:04:39,479 --> 00:04:48,485 Shadalane says the Greeks didn't know of the cross and its perfectly formed dimensions could have only been laid out with the use of an orbiting satellite. 43 00:04:48,485 --> 00:04:53,489 Like the one used to photograph the area you are now looking at. 44 00:04:58,492 --> 00:05:04,496 Throughout history civilization builds on top of civilization. 45 00:05:05,497 --> 00:05:12,501 This we know once a site is sacred it remains sacred for succeeding generations. 46 00:05:12,501 --> 00:05:18,505 Did the ancients build on these sites because Earth visitors had selected them? 47 00:05:18,505 --> 00:05:29,513 I think the cross was left there as a hint to show a modern man that there are powers beyond his own. 48 00:05:30,514 --> 00:05:43,522 To find out we presented the mystery to Dr. Lawrence Clevenson, a statistical mathematician with California State University Northridge. 49 00:05:43,522 --> 00:05:51,528 What I've done is to program this computer to randomly place 12 points on the screen. 50 00:05:51,528 --> 00:06:02,535 In a sense then the screen represents that area of the A, G and C where the 12 temples are and each point that the computer randomly chooses represents a random choice of a temple. 51 00:06:02,535 --> 00:06:18,546 I also asked the computer to count the number of symmetric patterns like the cross and the odds against getting a symmetric pattern are approximately 3 quadrillion to 1. 52 00:06:18,546 --> 00:06:30,554 So that if the computer produced a pattern, a randomly chosen pattern, every single second it would take approximately 95 million years for it to produce a symmetric pattern. 53 00:06:32,556 --> 00:06:37,559 Another discovery of shadow lanes is tied to the enigmatic Egyptian pyramids. 54 00:06:37,559 --> 00:06:44,564 Why were they laid out astronomically so that passageways are lined with certain stars? 55 00:06:45,564 --> 00:06:50,568 Could the pyramids like the Maltese Cross have some connection to Earth visitors? 56 00:06:54,571 --> 00:07:08,580 This satellite photo of France reveals another pyramid. It's not yet visible, but when you connect the locations of three prehistoric stone temples like the one at Stonehenge, it magically appears. 57 00:07:08,580 --> 00:07:15,585 A giant triangle hundreds of miles across that is proportional to the pyramid of kiosks in Egypt. 58 00:07:16,585 --> 00:07:26,592 Another unexplained phenomenon of the French triangle. When you superimpose the locations of known modern uranium mines, they align themselves along the sides. 59 00:07:27,593 --> 00:07:39,601 Could Earth visitors have had the same need for the precious metal uranium as we have today? Could France have been the site of an extraterrestrial mining operation? 60 00:07:40,602 --> 00:07:59,615 I think there might be another use for the French triangle because the sides of the triangle could have been used as beacons for landing of the spacecraft like reentry corridors. 61 00:07:59,615 --> 00:08:10,622 Similar to those we were using in the Apollo program, it was called a footprint too. It was the area on the surface of the Earth where the spacecraft could land. 62 00:08:11,623 --> 00:08:21,630 There's another interesting point about the triangle. It is that if you follow one of the lines, it leads you halfway across the world to the Nusca plain. 63 00:08:22,630 --> 00:08:31,636 In search of teams have explored the Nusca plain in Peru and have yet to fully understand these drawings and patterns. 64 00:08:34,638 --> 00:08:50,649 Certainly this does not appear to be a landing base. Many believe Earth Base 1 was in the Western Hemisphere, not here, but in the Southwestern United States. 65 00:08:52,651 --> 00:09:02,657 The life of the American Indian has been well documented by modern archaeologists. Indians are a proud people who adapted well to a harsh environment. 66 00:09:04,659 --> 00:09:10,663 A people with primitive beliefs based on what experts considered superstition and myth. 67 00:09:11,663 --> 00:09:25,673 We have long been taught that the Indian was the first man in the Western Hemisphere, that he came here from Asia having crossed the land bridge that once connected Alaska and Siberia. 68 00:09:28,675 --> 00:09:32,678 The crossing was supposed to have taken place 20,000 years ago. 69 00:09:33,678 --> 00:09:43,685 If this is true, then how can we explain a skull found in California? It has been dated back at least 48,000 years. 70 00:09:45,687 --> 00:09:51,691 Some believe the presence of man in America goes back a quarter of a million years. 71 00:09:52,691 --> 00:09:58,695 If the American Indian did not enter this continent by way of a land bridge, then how did he get here? 72 00:09:59,696 --> 00:10:08,702 If we look to Indian legends, which have been passed down from generation to generation, we find a possible answer. 73 00:10:12,705 --> 00:10:15,707 In many tribes, a common story is told. 74 00:10:16,708 --> 00:10:21,711 That Indians came from other worlds, traveling to Earth to find a better life. 75 00:10:29,716 --> 00:10:34,720 We cannot easily dismiss such folklore. 76 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:40,724 For no matter what the language or where the tribe is from, the story is the same. 77 00:10:42,725 --> 00:10:48,729 In one tribe, all things were said to have begun on the first world, a great rock in a sea of mist. 78 00:10:51,731 --> 00:10:56,735 Is this a reference to the planet Venus, which is recorded in the legends of many different peoples? 79 00:10:58,736 --> 00:11:02,739 From the misty world, the spirits traveled to the blue world. 80 00:11:04,740 --> 00:11:06,741 Is this the blue world the legend refers to? 81 00:11:07,742 --> 00:11:13,746 Modern man didn't call the Earth blue until he had the benefit of photos taken from space. 82 00:11:14,747 --> 00:11:21,752 And how is it that the Apache God and Egyptian God, Amun Ra, are similar in name and appearance? 83 00:11:22,752 --> 00:11:27,756 Could Amun Ra have been a space traveler who visited both peoples? 84 00:11:28,756 --> 00:11:32,759 There are also identical references to the boat of the sun. 85 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:37,762 Might not a spaceship be referred to as a boat of the sun? 86 00:11:38,763 --> 00:11:45,768 And how is it that the Hopi symbol for Earth is identical to symbols found in the Mediterranean? 87 00:11:46,769 --> 00:11:55,775 At the end of this hall in the Arizona State Museum, an artifact so unusual, scientists are uncertain what to do with it. 88 00:11:59,777 --> 00:12:02,779 It's called elephant slab. 89 00:12:04,781 --> 00:12:09,784 And carved on it strange markings that resemble some alien alphabet. 90 00:12:10,785 --> 00:12:14,788 Among the mysterious symbols, one clear figure. 91 00:12:16,789 --> 00:12:18,790 An elephant? 92 00:12:18,790 --> 00:12:23,794 If an Indian carved this stone, how did he know what an elephant looked like? 93 00:12:24,794 --> 00:12:27,796 An animal only found in Africa and Asia. 94 00:12:29,798 --> 00:12:34,801 To the Hopi Indian, the Kachina dolls are representations of spirits. 95 00:12:39,805 --> 00:12:44,808 The Hopis claim that some of the Kachinas are spirits from other worlds 96 00:12:44,808 --> 00:12:50,812 who came to Earth to teach the Indians agriculture, weaving and the necessary arts. 97 00:12:53,814 --> 00:12:56,816 Are they spirits or space travelers? 98 00:12:57,817 --> 00:13:01,819 Some Hopis claim these could actually represent alien beings. 99 00:13:05,822 --> 00:13:11,826 In the ceremonies of the Zuni tribe, it was customary to cover the body with a thick layer of mud. 100 00:13:11,826 --> 00:13:16,830 Another part of the ceremonial costume was a rather unique head mask. 101 00:13:18,831 --> 00:13:24,835 No one can satisfactorily explain why it resembles a space-helmeted astronaut. 102 00:13:26,836 --> 00:13:31,840 In another tradition, gourds were fashioned into peculiar shapes. 103 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:36,843 Was it merely a coincidence that some of the gourds resembled UFOs? 104 00:13:38,845 --> 00:13:43,848 The Indians referred to them as such and used them in their ceremonies. 105 00:13:49,852 --> 00:13:52,854 The Indian's are the same. 106 00:13:53,855 --> 00:13:56,857 The Indian's are the same. 107 00:13:57,857 --> 00:14:02,861 Not normally associated with the American Indian is the boomerang. 108 00:14:03,861 --> 00:14:08,865 Yet it was a part of their culture as it was of the Aborigines of Australia. 109 00:14:11,867 --> 00:14:18,872 Seemingly simple, the boomerang is a highly sophisticated aerodynamic foil, a flying wing. 110 00:14:19,872 --> 00:14:25,876 The Indians say they were taught to use the boomerang by gods who came from the stars. 111 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:35,883 If the Indians had left us written records, we might have the answers to some of these mysteries. 112 00:14:35,883 --> 00:14:38,885 Obviously, that is not the case. 113 00:14:38,885 --> 00:14:43,889 Yet, in their own way, the Indians did leave us valuable information. 114 00:14:43,889 --> 00:14:48,892 It's what we call their art, where they chiseled at stone, painted on rocks, and scraped the earth. 115 00:14:51,894 --> 00:14:57,898 Many of the Indians were accomplished artists, as evidenced by these accurate representations of wildlife. 116 00:15:14,910 --> 00:15:18,912 Which makes it difficult to explain these pictures. 117 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:38,926 And from all over the western United States, strange figures that bear uncanny resemblances to spacemen. 118 00:15:43,929 --> 00:15:50,934 Could these drawings indicate a connection between the Indians of the American West and travelers from other worlds? 119 00:15:51,935 --> 00:15:57,939 Hoping for an answer, we spoke with Preston Mononghi, member of the secretive Hopi-Kachina Society. 120 00:15:57,939 --> 00:16:04,944 The legends definitely tell of the spacecraft and the history of the spacecraft. 121 00:16:04,944 --> 00:16:09,947 I would like to really go into it more, but I cannot go into it more because it's our religion for visit. 122 00:16:09,947 --> 00:16:13,950 And so, therefore, I can't go into it more. 123 00:16:13,950 --> 00:16:18,953 But I would like to say that I'm a member of the secretive Hopi-Kachina Society. 124 00:16:18,953 --> 00:16:22,956 I'm a member of the secretive Hopi-Kachina Society. 125 00:16:22,956 --> 00:16:26,958 The legends definitely tell of the spacecraft and people riding in them. 126 00:16:26,958 --> 00:16:33,963 And making contact with this, which they have several times in the past. Not too long ago. 127 00:16:33,963 --> 00:16:37,966 I'll go into it any further than I've already gone into it. 128 00:16:40,968 --> 00:16:45,971 Of all the Indian petroglyphs, none perhaps is quite so unexplainable as these. 129 00:16:45,971 --> 00:16:48,973 No one has been able to decipher them. 130 00:16:48,973 --> 00:17:03,984 Los Angeles engineer Charles Ruggles thinks he has discovered the key to the mysterious petroglyphs. 131 00:17:03,984 --> 00:17:06,986 These are scientific drawings. 132 00:17:06,986 --> 00:17:10,988 They could be taken right out of a physics textbook. 133 00:17:10,988 --> 00:17:12,990 They show sine waves. 134 00:17:12,990 --> 00:17:14,991 They show triangle waves. 135 00:17:14,991 --> 00:17:16,992 They show square waves. 136 00:17:17,993 --> 00:17:20,995 They show electromagnetic circuitry. 137 00:17:20,995 --> 00:17:22,996 They show switching. 138 00:17:22,996 --> 00:17:32,003 They show almost everything that we could think of in a modern electronics and electromagnetic laboratory. 139 00:17:32,003 --> 00:17:37,006 These petroglyphs tell a very intriguing story. 140 00:17:37,006 --> 00:17:40,008 And it's very much worth investigating. 141 00:17:40,008 --> 00:17:47,013 The Indian folklore tells about two flying objects that collided in space over Death Valley. 142 00:17:47,013 --> 00:17:50,015 And one of them fell in Mustard Canyon. 143 00:17:50,015 --> 00:17:53,017 The folklore doesn't tell where the other one fell. 144 00:17:53,017 --> 00:18:01,022 Now, with these two objects, which made forest landings or actually fell, there was damage. 145 00:18:01,022 --> 00:18:05,025 And someone came to repair them. 146 00:18:06,026 --> 00:18:12,030 When these alien people disassembled these spacecraft, 147 00:18:12,030 --> 00:18:18,034 they did it in such a way that they could hopefully reassemble them. 148 00:18:18,034 --> 00:18:28,040 And as they disassembled it, it was recorded on apparatus such as this or other forms of communication. 149 00:18:29,041 --> 00:18:43,051 To the Indians, these symbols which these aliens made were the symbols of the gods and magic to them. 150 00:18:43,051 --> 00:18:46,053 And that's why they reproduced them in the area. 151 00:18:48,054 --> 00:18:56,059 One of the most unusual reports in recent years tells of a discovery made near the Coso Mountain Range in Southern California. 152 00:18:56,059 --> 00:19:04,065 As represented here for in search of, three rockhounds were out looking for interesting samples to add to their collection. 153 00:19:12,070 --> 00:19:17,074 They had already been looking for hours that hot day in July. 154 00:19:17,074 --> 00:19:20,076 What they found looked innocent enough. 155 00:19:20,076 --> 00:19:23,078 A geode common to that area. 156 00:19:23,078 --> 00:19:26,080 Yet, it somehow seemed different. 157 00:19:31,083 --> 00:19:37,087 Later, after they saw the rock in half, they felt they had made a unique discovery. 158 00:19:40,089 --> 00:19:49,095 That inside was a strange ceramic-like material resembling some electrical device, like the spark plug. 159 00:19:49,095 --> 00:19:51,097 How old was it? 160 00:19:51,097 --> 00:20:02,104 While the findings have never been verified, the rockhounds claimed that a geologist placed the age of the object at 500,000 years. 161 00:20:03,105 --> 00:20:07,108 X-ray results were published and they were astonishing. 162 00:20:10,110 --> 00:20:14,112 The object did not appear to be naturally formed. 163 00:20:15,113 --> 00:20:18,115 No one today can explain its existence. 164 00:20:21,117 --> 00:20:27,121 Is this confirmation that Earth Base 1 was located in the southwestern United States? 165 00:20:39,129 --> 00:20:45,133 There have been many theories which say that life has been deliberately sent to Earth from another planet. 166 00:20:46,134 --> 00:20:52,138 Some experts ridicule these ideas and such theories might have remained unbelievable, 167 00:20:52,138 --> 00:20:59,143 except for disclosures such as these which continue to be found year after year. 168 00:21:16,154 --> 00:21:19,156 All day today on the History Channel. 169 00:21:19,156 --> 00:21:21,158 Enter a world of the unknown. 170 00:21:21,158 --> 00:21:23,159 We're really not sure what we encountered. 171 00:21:23,159 --> 00:21:25,160 As we go in search of the unusual. 172 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:29,163 A man was swimming across the river and this great serpent appeared. 173 00:21:29,163 --> 00:21:31,165 Facts or fiction. 174 00:21:31,165 --> 00:21:33,166 Their bodies were buried into the wall. 175 00:21:33,166 --> 00:21:35,167 Natural or supernatural. 176 00:21:35,167 --> 00:21:39,170 Two flying objects collided in space over a death valley. 177 00:21:39,170 --> 00:21:41,171 And in search of history-a-thon. 178 00:21:41,171 --> 00:21:44,173 All day today on the History Channel.