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NARRATOR: Ancient megalithic stones
cut with astonishing precision.
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What some people suggest
is is that they were using
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electricity and power tools.
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NARRATOR: Mysterious sculptures
depicting beings from
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around the world and beyond.
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There are all the races here.
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Even the grey aliens.
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NARRATOR: And legends of
otherworldly giants creating an
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entire civilization in a single night.
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If there's one place that
shows evidence of ancient
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aliens, it's Puma Punku.
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NARRATOR: Are the ancient ruins
of Puma Punku the result
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of primitive man's
incredible ingenuity?
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Or are they they product
of a much higher power?
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Puma Punku is the only site
on planet Earth that, in my
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opinion, was built directly
by extraterrestrials.
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NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world believe we have
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been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
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And if so, might there be evidence
here on Earth of a lost alien city?
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NARRATOR: Bolivia, South America.
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Here, 45 miles west of La
Paz, isolated high in the
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Andes mountains, lie the mysterious
ancient ruins of Puma Punku.
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Spread across a desert plateau,
at an altitude over 12,000 feet,
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the megalithic stones found here
are among the largest on the planet,
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measuring up to 26 feet long and
weighing more than 100 tons each.
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DAVID CHILDRESS: These are
the mysterious ruins of Puma
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Punku, nearly 13,000 feet in
the altiplano of Bolivia.
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What you have here are massive
blocks of granite scattered like
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some kid's toy blocks around the site.
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It's like some giant cataclysm
just wiped out this entire area.
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Archeologists are baffled by
what Puma Punku was, how it
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looked, and what the purpose of
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this enormous structure
would have been.
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NARRATOR: Mainstream scientists
believe the site was
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originally constructed
about 2,000 years ago.
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But in 1945, archeologist
Arthur Posnansky proposed that
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Puma Punku was much, much older.
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By examining the structures and
what he believed were their
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original alignment with the stars,
he dated the ruins to 15,000 BC.
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HUGH NEWMAN: Arthur Posnansky
was a researcher who was part
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Bolivian, and he worked at the
site for many decades, and he
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concluded that the site must have
been built about 17,000 years
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ago by studying the archeoastronomy
of that particular site.
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PHILIP COPPENS: We don't
know how old Puma Punku is.
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We have had some circumstantial
dating, but we have been unable
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to date the stones of
Puma Punku themselves.
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They could be thousands, if not
hundreds of thousands of years
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old, we don't know.
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GEORGE NOORY: I think the
fascinating thing about Puma
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Punku is how did these
structures get built?
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We're talking about stone
that is 25 feet high.
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Stone that is hundreds of tons.
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BRIEN FOERSTER: Puma Punku is so
unique in the way that it was
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constructed and shaped and
positioned, that it is the most
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intriguing ancient
site on the planet.
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Of all the places I've ever
visited, Puma Punku is the one
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that I go back to time and again
because no one can solve the mystery.
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NARRATOR: Mainstream scholars
believe the andesite blocks
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found at Puma Punku were formed by
hand with primitive stone tools.
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But some researchers point to
the intricate stonework as
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evidence of the use of
advanced precision technology.
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CHILDRESS: One of the amazing
things here at Puma Punku is the
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precision of the blocks.
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You can see with this block of
granite, that it's really been
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cut at very accurate right angles.
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Not only do these granite blocks
have precision corners, but they
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also have these difficult drill
holes that are going right
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through the rock.
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NARRATOR: But how could such
primitive people, living perhaps
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tens of thousands of years ago, have
produced such flawless stonework?
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Might the ancient builders of
Puma Punku have fabricated the
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megalithic stones with
advanced technology?
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Technology of an otherworldly
origin, as ancient astronaut
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theorists believe?
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NEWMAN: If you look at the
stones carefully, and you get a
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magnifying glass on some of them,
you can see some intricate
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stonework, as though they used
machine tools or even lasers.
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It's absolutely incredible.
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I've seen nothing like it
anywhere on the planet.
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GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: When an
architect or an engineer looks
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at Puma Punku, one thing jumps
out immediately, that whoever
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built this place had knowledge
of planning, of logistics and
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had access to advanced technology.
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CHILDRESS: You know, Brien,
this is one of the most
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interesting and unusual
stones here at Puma Punku.
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It's got these perfect right
angles, and each of these small
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drill holes are basically evenly
spaced along this routered groove.
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To me, it's clear that power
tools have been used on this
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unusual block of stone here.
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FOERSTER: Well, exactly, and
this surface is as smooth as a
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table top, like in your kitchen.
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There's no wave to
it or anything.
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This was machined.
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But who machined it?
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It's an astonishing piece of
work, and how anyone could think
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that primitive human beings
could have done this...
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You know, it's just crazy.
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If anything looks like ancient
aliens, it's this stone.
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NARRATOR: But if
otherworldly technology was
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used at Puma Punku, where is the proof?
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In Danville, Illinois, machinist
and toolmaker Chris Dunn has
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put the Puma Punku stone to the
ultimate cutting test, using
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both laser technology and
a modern diamond saw.
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DUNN: We've got a sample
of the laser cut.
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This is the diamond wheel cut.
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And the top surface is the original
cut surface from Puma Punku.
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So, now we can compare the
difference between all three cuts.
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NARRATOR: Looking at the stone
under a microscope, Dunn
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compares the two modern cutting
techniques with the part of the
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stone cut thousands of years ago.
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Though age has worn the surface
of the ancient example, the
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comparison reveals
distinct differences.
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DUNN: You've got vitrification
on the laser-cut
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side, and then, of course,
you've got circular tool marks
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on the side cut with the diamond saw.
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And then, whatever tool they
used to cut the ancient surface
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must have been a different method.
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TSOUKALOS: Now, do you think
it's possible that some type of
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a diamond precision tool was
used on the old surface, but
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because it was such a long time
ago, that over time, the surface
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became a bit more rough, and we're
talking ten or even 15,000 years ago?
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DUNN: That is a
reasonable speculation.
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I think we have to start
examining, um, a little more
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sophisticated tools
that no longer exist.
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NARRATOR: What did the ancients
use to cut the andesite
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stone so precisely?
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Might evidence of advanced
technology be found by further
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study of the construction
of the Puma Punku stones?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say
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yes, and point to what
they call H blocks.
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FOERSTER: It seems like every
one of these H blocks is
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exactly the same, so it's like
a prefabrication process where
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they needed X-hundred of these,
and whatever machinery it is
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that they had was able, with
amazing accuracy, to replicate
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one after another after another.
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That's very sophisticated.
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CHILDRESS: Yeah, it's an
ingenious way of building a
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huge granite wall.
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And again, the whole thing is
just so incredibly precise.
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Doing these kind of inside
corners like this... this just
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can't be done, really, with
copper chisels and stone hammers.
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The whole thing is-is just
so incredibly high-tech,
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even beyond what we would do today.
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NARRATOR: But how could
the ancients have managed
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to move the incredibly heavy
andesite stones to the site?
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After years of research,
mainstream archaeologists have
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said the massive stones were
hewn at quarries over 60 miles
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away and then rolled
to Puma Punku on logs.
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TSOUKALOS: What nobody talks
about is the irrefutable fact
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that we are at an altitude of
12,800 feet, which means we are
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above the natural tree line.
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No trees ever grew in that area,
meaning, no trees were cut down
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in order to use wooden rollers.
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The wooden roller theory
falls by the wayside.
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NARRATOR: Could there have
been another more profound
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method of moving these
megalithic stones into place?
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And if so, how could such an
advanced engineering feat have
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been accomplished without the
help of modern machinery?
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CHILDRESS: How these massive
blocks of granite were moved
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from their quarries and brought
here to Puma Punku would have
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required some kind of super
technology, levitation and
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antigravity, huge lifting
vehicles, something that ancient
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aliens would have had.
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NARRATOR: Might the ancient
city of Puma Punku really have
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been built by alien beings, as
ancient astronaut theorists contend?
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Some researchers believe the
ultimate proof can be found
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nearby, and also, carved in stone.
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NARRATOR: Southern Peru. 1549.
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While searching for the capital
of the Inca Empire, Spanish
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conquistadors, led by Pedro
Cieza de León, cross into
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Bolivia and discover the
ruins of Tiahuanaco.
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Less than a quarter mile
northeast of Puma Punku,
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mainstream scientists believe
Tiahuanaco was once the center
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of a civilization with more
than 40,000 inhabitants.
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PAUL GOLDSTEIN, Ph.D:
Tiahuanaco is probably the
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greatest Native American
civilization that many people
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haven't heard of.
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It was one of the most important
antecedents of the Inca.
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It was long gone by the time the
Spaniards came on the scene.
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Yet, its level of achievement
in architecture, in political
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development, in agriculture, in
many craft industries are on a
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very high level.
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NARRATOR: Most scholars agree
that Tiahuanaco was mysteriously
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abandoned around 1100 AD.
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But why?
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Local legends suggest that
Tiahuanaco was built as a site
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of religious pilgrimage to
celebrate the arrival of sky
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gods at nearby Puma Punku.
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According to ancient astronaut
theorists, the two sites were
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not only built at different
times, but also by beings from
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different worlds.
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COPPENS: Puma Punku, I think,
is very of-the-gods.
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And I think mankind did
very little with that site.
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And then, nearby, our ancestors
built Tiahuanaco as a place
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where people could come to
explore these places, but also,
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I think, as a tribute site
where a god had once been
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physically present on planet Earth.
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ERICH VON DANIKEN: You have
to differentiate two different
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styles of construction:
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the old style, which I call the
extraterrestrial style, and
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then, the later style, which
was made by the humans.
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TSOUKALOS: Tiahuanaco is
nothing else but a place of
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pilgrimage for people to
congregate and remember the
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time when something significant
happened at Puma Punku.
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And the thing that was
significant about it was an
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extraterrestrial visit by ancient
aliens in the remote past.
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NARRATOR: But if Tiahuanaco
was built to honor
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extraterrestrial contact, as
ancient astronaut theorists
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contend, might there
be tangible evidence?
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In the 1960s, the Bolivian
government excavated and
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unearthed the Subterranean
Temple at Tiahuanaco.
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Within the walls of the square
sunken courtyard are hundreds of
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stone heads with a diverse
range of features.
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CHILDRESS: Here at the famous
Sunken Temple at Tiahuanaco, we
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have all of the different heads
that have been inserted into the
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walls.
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It's sometimes said that there
are all the races of mankind
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represented here, even elongated
skulls, people wearing turbans,
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people with broad noses, people
with thin noses, people with
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thick lips, people with thin
lips, and some of the statues
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are particularly unusual.
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FOERSTER: They don't seem to
represent the local people.
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They seem to represent every
type and shape of human head
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existing on the planet.
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Two of them, which are very
intriguing, are white in color,
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and they look very much
like grey alien heads.
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COPPENS: When we're looking
at the carved heads of the
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Tiahuanaco complex, you really
see that it's almost as if this
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is a UN headquarters, whereby
everybody was able to come there
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because all cultures on planet
Earth accepted that Tiahuanaco
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was so special because this was
a place where contact with the
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divine had been made.
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NARRATOR: Some researchers
believe a large statue at the
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center of the sunken temple
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depicts the creator god,
known as Viracocha.
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But why would the inhabitants of
Tiahuanaco have depicted their
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most prominent god with
features unlike their own?
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CHILDRESS: He has got a
beard and a moustache.
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And that is an unusual thing,
because American Indians do not
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have beards and moustaches.
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FOERSTER: Exactly.
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The fact, also, that the beard and
the moustache are so pronounced.
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They're not little wispy ones.
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They're major, so, that
indicates that this person was
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not a South American native, but
clearly came from another land.
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CHILDRESS: And an important
person, too, who's somehow one
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of the founders, here, of Tiahuanaco.
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Maybe even somebody who's come
from Sumeria to South America.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the Sumerians... a civilization
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established in 4,000 BC and
located nearly 8,000 miles
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away... could be connected to the
early inhabitants of Tiahuanaco?
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If so, how?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer can be found
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at the Precious Metals
Museum in La Paz, Bolivia.
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CHILDRESS: This is perhaps
one of the most important
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archaeological artifacts ever
discovered in Tiahuanaco or Puma Punku.
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This is the famous Fuente Magna
Bowl discovered near Tiahuanaco.
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It's a ceramic bowl, and it
has written on it Sumerian
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cuneiform, plus Proto-Sumerian
hieroglyphic script.
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This script is coming
from circa 3,000 BC.
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It draws a direct connection
between the ancient Sumerians
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and Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku.
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NARRATOR: Discovered near Lake
Titicaca by a local farmer
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in the 1950s, researchers
believe the vessel provides
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proof of extraterrestrial
intervention at Puma Punku.
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CHILDRESS: The idea of
Sumerian writing being here
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at Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco
would seem to relate to the
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late Zecharia Sitchin, and his
ideas that the Sumerians were
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also interacting with these space
beings called the Annunaki.
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So, in that case, the Annunaki
were there in Sumeria, but also
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here at Puma Punku and
Tiahuanaco in South America.
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NARRATOR: Could the stone
sculptures found at Tiahuanaco
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really be evidence of interaction
with extraterrestrial beings, as
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ancient astronaut
theorists believe?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the legends of the
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creator god, Viracocha,
and his mysterious origins.
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NARRATOR: The Andes
Mountains, Peru.
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Here, 12 miles north of Puma
Punku, lie the murky waters
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of Lake Titicaca, the largest
lake in South America.
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According to local legends, the
god Viracocha rose up from the
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depths of this lake to create
the sun, the stars and mankind.
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NEWMAN: Legend states that
Viracocha, the great creator god
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of the Inca and the prehistoric
civilization of the area,
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emerged from Lake Titicaca,
and he went to Tiahuanaco and
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brought civilization to
that part of the world.
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He then went to Puma Punku, and
this is where he said he made
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men and women from stone and
took them to the four corners of
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the Earth to spread their seed.
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VON DANIKEN: The Spanish
conqueror asked the Inca, the
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people living there, including
the king of the Inca, "What is
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this Puma Punku?"
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And they all said, "It's not us.
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It's not our forefather who make this.
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"These were made by the
gods in one single night."
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Usually, a king is proud about
what his people did, about the
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precision, and so on.
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In that case, the chief and the
people said, "No, it was not us.
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It was the gods who made it."
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NEWMAN: One of the legends of
Puma Punku states that it was
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built by a race of giants in one
night after a great cataclysm
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and flood had destroyed the whole area.
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But what's really interesting
is that, who were these giants?
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Where did they come from?
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Was it Viracocha and
his band of followers?
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Was it some other beings
from some other place?
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TSOUKALOS: One of the earliest
chronicles that we have
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in regards to Puma Punku talks
about that these giant platforms
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we moved through the air
by the sound of a trumpet.
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They basically floated into place.
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So, do we have some type
of sound technology here?
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And the answer is a potential yes.
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NARRATOR: Might the legends
of giants...and stones floating
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through the air...
have been inspired by some sort of
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mysterious events in the distant past?
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Or were they the result of
alien beings visiting Earth in
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prehistoric times, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe?
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VON DANIKEN: Now,
I come with the speculation.
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Extraterrestrials arrive.
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The spaceship stands in orbit.
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Only a smaller space vehicle comes
down, like a space shuttle.
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So, just to protect their
instruments, they make,
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overnight, with their
technology, what we call a base
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camp... of course, made out of
stones found on Earth, because
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you don't transport granite or
diorite from another solar system.
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And then, they disappear.
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But the wall of their
base camp is still there.
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Now the natives come.
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They see these ruins.
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They touch it with their fingers.
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They say, "Look at this.
It's so smooth, it's so sharp.
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The gods did it."
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The place becomes a holy place.
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And now, the natives start to
construct temples, altars in
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honor of the gods.
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So you have two technologies.
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One was an extraterrestrial
technology, and the other was
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the humans with their
altars and their temples.
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NARRATOR: In the center of the
temples at Tiahuanaco lie
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the ruins of a stone arch
called the Gateway of the Sun.
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Cut and shaped from a single
andesite stone weighing more
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than ten tons, archaeologists
believe the ten-foot tall,
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13-foot wide megalith was once the
gateway leading to Puma Punku.
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GOLDSTEIN: The Gateway of the
Sun is probably the entrance, or
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one of the entrances, to
the Puma Punku temple.
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And as such, it's very
important, because this is how
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the people of Tiahuanaco
conducted their ritual, by
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funneling people through
increasingly smaller gateways
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and stairways to more and
more sacred precincts.
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NARRATOR: On the upper
portion of the arch, intricate
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carvings can be found of nearly
50 winged beings on either side
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of what is believed to be the
great creator god, Viracocha.
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Interpretations of the
engravings suggest they refer to
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a calendar describing a time
as far back as 27,000 BC
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CHILDRESS: So, here we are at the
famous Gate of the Sun, with
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Viracocha right in the middle,
holding two scepters, surrounded
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by bird men.
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FOERSTER: That's a common
depiction in ancient societies,
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is a man who's able to fly.
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That would have probably been
an interpretation by the native
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people of someone coming from
the sky or from the heavens.
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CHILDRESS: It's part of our
idea, too, that some giant
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airship that was a factory with
power tools and power saws and
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routers and drills just landed
here and began processing these
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giant blocks of stone, and then
ultimately, created Puma Punku.
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NEWMAN: It seems like the whole
complex was some kind of
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technological kind of factory.
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And if my research is correct,
it looks like they were using it
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to create energy of some sort.
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So, what some people suggest
is is that they were using
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electricity and power tools,
which sounds incredible when we
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think about it because they
were modern inventions.
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But actually, if you look at the
quality of the stone work, you
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have to admit something like
that was going on there.
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CHILDRESS: When you look at
the complexity of Puma Punku,
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the huge platforms, the
interlocking blocks that was
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made into what they thought
were indestructible walls,
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what you could have is the kind
of perfectly made granite space
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port that extraterrestrials would want.
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NARRATOR: Might Puma Punku be
the remains of an intergalactic
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outpost built by otherworldly
beings tens of thousands of
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years ago, as ancient
astronaut theorists contend?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
using modern technology to
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examine the purpose for which the
site was built in the first place.
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NARRATOR: January, 2011.
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Researchers survey and measure
the monolithic stones and
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H-blocks scattered around the
archeological site of Puma
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Punku, hoping to solve the
mystery of what these structures
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were used for and why.
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TSOUKALOS: The evidence that
something extraordinary happened
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at Puma Punku is in
front of our very eyes.
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Because at Puma Punku, we find
evidence of stone cuts that we
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today could only replicate if we
used the most sophisticated of
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technologies.
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FOERSTER: That is part of the
great mystery of Puma Punku.
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It seems as though some kind of
factory was set up there to make
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these almost exactly the same.
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It's almost like a Lego system
of interconnecting blocks, and
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that is unique on this Earth.
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VON DANIKEN: Many of the blocks
were prefabricated blocks.
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Prefabricated blocks means planning.
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You have to make a design.
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Planning means writing.
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Now the archaeologists say that
Puma Punku are the ruins of
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temples made by the Aymara.
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Aymara are the highland
Indians up there.
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But the Aymara were Stone Age people.
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They had not even writing.
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So not planning, it's
absolutely impossible.
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Prefabricated blocks in Stone
Age doesn't fit with Stone Age.
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And the precision of the
blocks is absolutely baffling.
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NARRATOR: In Danville,
Illinois, toolmaker Chris Dunn
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uses measurements taken
at Puma Punku to create a
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one-eighth-scale model of an
H-block to better understand
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how they may have
originally fit together.
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TSOUKALOS: So you actually went to
Puma Punku to measure the H-blocks.
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What was your conclusion?
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What did you find?
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DUNN: For me, it was important
to find out what the
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measurements were.
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What I found was that the
internal cavities were not
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parallel to each other.
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TSOUKALOS: And by internal
cavities, you're referring to
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these two parts
right here, right?
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DUNN: Exactly.
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TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.
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DUNN: These two surfaces right
here, both top and bottom,
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uh, they are smaller at the front
than they are at the back.
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TSOUKALOS: Essentially
suggesting a dovetail.
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DUNN: Creating a dovetail.
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TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.
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Why do you think a dovetail
shape was carved or used?
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DUNN: Really, if we look at the
way we have used dovetails,
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we use them for mechanical purposes...
to hold things together.
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So, essentially, what I'm saying
is that they were using these
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H-blocks for a mechanical purpose.
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Probably to hold, uh,
hinges for a door.
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NARRATOR: To test his theory,
Dunn created a door hinge that
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would connect to a
small-scale model H-block.
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DUNN: So if we put this together,
we put the one in the bottom.
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Like so.
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One in the top part.
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Like so.
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And then this piece
fits in there.
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Put a hinge pin in it.
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And now you have your hinge.
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TSOUKALOS: Yeah, it's
absolutely spectacular.
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And of course, the most
fascinating question is, what
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tools were used 5,000 years ago?
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Because something very sophistited
was used and not chicken bones.
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DUNN: Not chicken bones, not
copper chisels, not stone chisels.
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The tools that were used to
create these blocks at Puma
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Punku do not exist in the
archaeological record.
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NARRATOR: According to Dunn, the
H-blocks may have been used
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to mount hinges for a massive
door, perhaps for one of the
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largest temple complexes
in the ancient world.
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00:32:56,204 --> 00:32:59,639
TSOUKALOS: It's a spectacular
discovery that Chris Dunn made.
460
00:32:59,707 --> 00:33:04,644
This lends a whole new meaning
to the H-blocks at Puma Punku
461
00:33:04,712 --> 00:33:08,414
because, possibly, they
held something in place.
462
00:33:08,883 --> 00:33:11,283
The question is: What?
463
00:33:14,254 --> 00:33:17,290
NARRATOR: But Dunn's theory on
the purpose of the H-blocks
464
00:33:17,358 --> 00:33:21,127
is only one of several recent
hypotheses concerning the
465
00:33:21,195 --> 00:33:24,129
complex engineering
found at Puma Punku.
466
00:33:25,099 --> 00:33:26,498
PAUL FRANCIS: These had a purpose.
467
00:33:27,068 --> 00:33:29,502
NARRATOR: Model maker Paul
Francis from Dandridge,
468
00:33:29,570 --> 00:33:31,903
Tennessee, offers another theory.
469
00:33:32,407 --> 00:33:35,341
TSOUKALOS: So you've recreated
these H-blocks that we
470
00:33:35,410 --> 00:33:38,844
can find at Puma Punku, and you
came up with a very interesting
471
00:33:38,946 --> 00:33:44,817
idea where you put these blocks
together, creating what looks
472
00:33:44,886 --> 00:33:46,686
like to be some type of a track.
473
00:33:46,788 --> 00:33:50,022
So tell me more about what
went on in your mind.
474
00:33:50,124 --> 00:33:52,692
FRANCIS: When I saw these laid
out on the table, I thought
475
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:57,697
it basically looks like some of
the World War II launch ramps
476
00:33:57,765 --> 00:34:01,867
that the Germans used in testing
rocket-propelled airplanes.
477
00:34:05,772 --> 00:34:09,041
When I saw this, the lightbulb
went off in my head and I said,
478
00:34:09,110 --> 00:34:12,545
yeah, with some wooden skids,
this would make a perfect
479
00:34:12,613 --> 00:34:16,349
launching platform for
an ancient spacecraft.
480
00:34:16,617 --> 00:34:20,720
So the skid would travel down
the H-blocks, and eventually at
481
00:34:20,788 --> 00:34:24,390
the end this would fall off, and
of course the airplane would
482
00:34:24,459 --> 00:34:26,392
continue to go on.
483
00:34:29,663 --> 00:34:33,899
And this is what I envision
an airplane looking like.
484
00:34:33,968 --> 00:34:37,469
And this plane... it has an intake.
485
00:34:37,538 --> 00:34:42,742
It has your control panels, your
control surfaces, and basically,
486
00:34:42,810 --> 00:34:46,412
I mean, this thing is ready
to go into outer space.
487
00:34:46,514 --> 00:34:48,982
TSOUKALOS: I mean, this
justlooks bad-ass.
488
00:34:48,983 --> 00:34:51,584
I mean, it looks really
unbelievable 'cause you've
489
00:34:51,686 --> 00:34:55,755
basically taken an object that
was created by an ancient
490
00:34:55,823 --> 00:34:59,925
artisan and turned it into
something from a modern-day
491
00:34:59,994 --> 00:35:06,264
perspective as it relates to space
travel, or at least aviation.
492
00:35:07,535 --> 00:35:12,271
NARRATOR: The concept for the
ancient spacecraft is based on
493
00:35:12,340 --> 00:35:16,807
gold jewelry found in tombs
near Bogotà, Colombia.
494
00:35:17,512 --> 00:35:21,447
After careful analysis
and modern testing of
495
00:35:21,516 --> 00:35:25,618
reproductions of the gold
object, ancient astronaut
496
00:35:25,686 --> 00:35:30,025
theorists suggest such artifacts...
nearly 1,500 years
497
00:35:30,026 --> 00:35:32,493
old... are proof of modern
498
00:35:32,495 --> 00:35:35,994
aerodynamic capabilities
in the ancient past.
499
00:35:36,063 --> 00:35:37,963
FRANCIS: You know, when
these original sculptures
500
00:35:38,032 --> 00:35:40,299
were produced, they're doing
a literal interpretation
501
00:35:40,368 --> 00:35:41,668
of what they saw.
502
00:35:41,669 --> 00:35:43,602
I have to take that
interpretation and I have to
503
00:35:43,671 --> 00:35:46,405
make it into something that
would actually work as a
504
00:35:46,474 --> 00:35:52,277
machine, so, in doing so, we've
added a cockpit, which the
505
00:35:52,346 --> 00:35:54,947
original model does not have.
506
00:35:55,049 --> 00:35:57,783
Also therere two small bumps
on the back of the original
507
00:35:57,852 --> 00:36:02,121
sculpture, which to me
indicate rocket thrusters.
508
00:36:02,223 --> 00:36:07,259
You have this cone-shaped piece,
which could have been an intake
509
00:36:07,294 --> 00:36:08,460
that this person saw.
510
00:36:08,562 --> 00:36:13,599
TSOUKALOS: And we know that
these objects truly fly.
511
00:36:13,667 --> 00:36:16,135
We know that 'cause these
experiments have been done
512
00:36:16,203 --> 00:36:19,271
before, and they were
experiments that were
513
00:36:19,340 --> 00:36:24,610
repeatable, meaning they satisfy
the scientific method, and so
514
00:36:24,678 --> 00:36:33,952
your idea of using the H-blocks
as a type of a launching ramp,
515
00:36:34,021 --> 00:36:35,788
to me, is ingenious.
516
00:36:35,856 --> 00:36:37,456
I've never heard it before, and
517
00:36:37,525 --> 00:36:43,826
it's always great to explore
new ideas in this field.
518
00:36:45,232 --> 00:36:49,168
NARRATOR: Might the H-blocks
at Puma Punku really have been
519
00:36:49,270 --> 00:36:52,770
used as launch ramps
for alien spacecraft?
520
00:36:53,941 --> 00:36:58,010
If so, what happened to
these massive, seemingly
521
00:36:58,078 --> 00:37:00,380
indestructible structures?
522
00:37:06,060 --> 00:37:08,895
NARRATOR: Puma Punku.
523
00:37:10,898 --> 00:37:15,467
For centuries, researchers have
been unable to explain what may
524
00:37:15,569 --> 00:37:18,903
have caused the total destruction
of this ancient site.
525
00:37:21,074 --> 00:37:24,809
Some believe a massive
earthquake in prehistoric times
526
00:37:24,912 --> 00:37:28,782
may have scattered its megaton
stones like toy blocks.
527
00:37:30,551 --> 00:37:34,653
TSOUKALOS: Puma Punku looks
like some type of a junkyard.
528
00:37:34,721 --> 00:37:39,824
It's as if the whole place, at
some point, got destroyed and
529
00:37:39,927 --> 00:37:44,695
ripped apart in some
type of an upheaval.
530
00:37:50,503 --> 00:37:54,472
FOERSTER: Puma Punku seems
to have become a victim of a
531
00:37:54,541 --> 00:37:58,811
massive flood of some kind,
several thousand years ago.
532
00:37:59,913 --> 00:38:04,516
There is evidence that a meteor
or a comet struck south of Lake
533
00:38:04,618 --> 00:38:10,689
Titicaca, creating a wall of mud
at least six or ten feet tall
534
00:38:10,757 --> 00:38:16,594
that covered the entire area, and
we can see evidence of that today.
535
00:38:17,130 --> 00:38:20,699
NARRATOR: At recent
excavations of Puma Punku,
536
00:38:20,801 --> 00:38:23,868
researchers have discovered that
bits of andesite stone from the
537
00:38:23,971 --> 00:38:28,373
structural blocks are thoroughly
mixed in with the soil.
538
00:38:30,977 --> 00:38:35,347
Might such findings of this
unusual soil composition be the
539
00:38:35,382 --> 00:38:39,718
result of a large-scale explosion
in the remote past, as
540
00:38:39,786 --> 00:38:42,219
ancient astronaut theorists believe?
541
00:38:43,323 --> 00:38:47,359
CHILDRESS: One possibility is
that Puma Punku was destroyed in
542
00:38:47,427 --> 00:38:53,031
some artificial blast that
literally blew these buildings
543
00:38:53,100 --> 00:38:58,870
apart, and then later, some
cataclysmic tidal wave also just
544
00:38:58,972 --> 00:39:00,973
covered it with mud and muck.
545
00:39:01,975 --> 00:39:06,211
FOERSTER: Some of these stones
are so smashed to pieces,
546
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,679
you can find them anywhere in the area.
547
00:39:08,682 --> 00:39:11,716
You'll find pieces of diorite
with the angles on it, so that
548
00:39:11,785 --> 00:39:13,018
was part of Puma Punku.
549
00:39:13,820 --> 00:39:16,220
So much of it is not simply broken.
550
00:39:16,290 --> 00:39:20,725
It's shattered to the point
where you can find little tiny
551
00:39:20,827 --> 00:39:25,063
pieces of diorite anywhere you
look, and that looks to me like
552
00:39:25,132 --> 00:39:26,634
an explosion happened.
553
00:39:29,303 --> 00:39:33,238
CHILDRESS: When you look at the
construction techniques, it
554
00:39:33,307 --> 00:39:37,311
would seem indestructible
and yet it was destroyed.
555
00:39:39,513 --> 00:39:43,548
NARRATOR: But if the
structures at Puma Punku were
556
00:39:43,617 --> 00:39:47,419
constructed with such precision
and with the heaviest, most
557
00:39:47,487 --> 00:39:52,458
durable materials available,
how did it end up in ruins?
558
00:39:53,827 --> 00:39:57,562
Is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,
559
00:39:57,631 --> 00:40:02,034
that Puma Punku may have been
struck by a devastating meteor?
560
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:14,075
Or could there be an even more
incredible explanation for its demise?
561
00:40:14,146 --> 00:40:16,614
NOORY: There could have been an
alien battle out there where
562
00:40:16,683 --> 00:40:18,584
they were using technology,
563
00:40:19,386 --> 00:40:20,787
perhaps nuclear...
564
00:40:24,023 --> 00:40:27,257
that blew up everything in the region.
565
00:40:27,327 --> 00:40:29,027
That's very possible.
566
00:40:29,029 --> 00:40:31,796
Something could have happened
with our Earth's shield where
567
00:40:31,865 --> 00:40:35,967
the sun's rays came through at
a certain time and just burned
568
00:40:36,069 --> 00:40:37,870
everything and obliterated it.
569
00:40:39,072 --> 00:40:40,805
The only thing we know for sure
570
00:40:40,874 --> 00:40:43,707
is, those people at
Puma Punku are gone.
571
00:40:44,878 --> 00:40:48,378
We just don't know how
or where they went.
572
00:40:49,716 --> 00:40:51,816
TSOUKALOS: I think that Puma
573
00:40:51,885 --> 00:40:55,685
Punku was deliberately
destroyed by its builders...
574
00:40:55,889 --> 00:41:00,658
extraterrestrials...
right before they decided to leave planet
575
00:41:00,761 --> 00:41:04,028
Earth and go on to their next mission.
576
00:41:04,898 --> 00:41:08,500
CHILDRESS: It's hard to
imagine the devastating
577
00:41:08,568 --> 00:41:10,536
destruction that occurred here.
578
00:41:11,204 --> 00:41:13,838
It would seem like
extraterrestrials had some
579
00:41:13,940 --> 00:41:17,677
cosmic battle on planet
Earth before they left.
580
00:41:19,513 --> 00:41:22,514
COPPENS: There are various sites
across the planet where it
581
00:41:22,582 --> 00:41:26,519
is said that there was contact
with nonhuman intelligences.
582
00:41:27,621 --> 00:41:30,989
But when it comes to Puma Punku,
what you have is also the
583
00:41:31,057 --> 00:41:35,160
archaeological remains, which
tells you something out of the
584
00:41:35,228 --> 00:41:39,531
ordinary was happening here, and
when you lay upon the layer of
585
00:41:39,633 --> 00:41:43,868
mythology, which says that the
gods were here, I think it is an
586
00:41:43,970 --> 00:41:48,173
absolutely convincing case right
now, to conclude that Puma Punku
587
00:41:48,241 --> 00:41:52,210
stands out as one of the
preeminent sites where ET will
588
00:41:52,279 --> 00:41:54,578
have been in residence on this planet.
589
00:41:57,751 --> 00:42:01,886
And so the question then is,
Puma Punku being a base camp for
590
00:42:01,955 --> 00:42:06,391
an ET civilization here on
planet Earth, if they left, does
591
00:42:06,493 --> 00:42:09,894
that potentially mean that, when
they left, that somehow they
592
00:42:09,996 --> 00:42:11,863
destroyed Puma Punku as well?
593
00:42:12,399 --> 00:42:16,734
FOERSTER: If they made this to
be a factory or something, at
594
00:42:16,803 --> 00:42:22,707
the end of its use they may have
simply blown it up... because
595
00:42:22,742 --> 00:42:24,375
they didn't want anyone to use
596
00:42:24,444 --> 00:42:26,944
the technology that
they had left behind.
597
00:42:28,982 --> 00:42:33,218
CHILDRESS: The ancient Indian epics...
the Ramayana, the
598
00:42:33,286 --> 00:42:36,921
Mahabharata... they're talking
about these horrific wars that
599
00:42:37,023 --> 00:42:42,427
happened in the past with
airships, these vimanas,
600
00:42:42,529 --> 00:42:49,067
spacecraft, huge destructive
weapons like atomic weapons, so
601
00:42:49,102 --> 00:42:55,773
maybe Puma Punku was destroyed
in this ancient planetary war.
602
00:42:58,010 --> 00:43:02,614
FOERSTER: Since it is unique to
the area, it may have been an
603
00:43:02,682 --> 00:43:05,783
outstation or something for
another civilization, possibly
604
00:43:05,886 --> 00:43:10,121
from India, possibly from
Atlantis, possibly from...
605
00:43:10,223 --> 00:43:11,623
CHILDRESS: Outer space.
606
00:43:11,725 --> 00:43:15,593
FOERSTER: Exactly.
607
00:43:15,662 --> 00:43:18,895
NARRATOR: Precision stonework...
608
00:43:19,764 --> 00:43:22,065
unparalleled engineering...
609
00:43:23,236 --> 00:43:27,972
and incomprehensible destruction.
610
00:43:28,041 --> 00:43:32,977
Was Puma Punku really built by
extraterrestrial travelers?
611
00:43:33,046 --> 00:43:37,448
And if so, what was its purpose?
612
00:43:37,449 --> 00:43:41,349
Was is it an outpost?
A battle ground?
613
00:43:42,348 --> 00:43:45,748
Or could have it been
a final destination?
614
00:43:47,050 --> 00:43:49,950
Perhaps one day we will solve the
riddle
615
00:43:50,851 --> 00:43:57,851
and find out once and for all
just who we are and why we are here.