diagrams car ved into the surface of the Earth. GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: There
are over 800 straight lines. One has to wonder,
what was it for? NARRATOR: Massive depictions
of animals and strange beings, seen only from the sky. M.J. EVANS: There's an
enormous amount of mystery about the Nazca lines. Who could have
done this, and why? NARRATOR: And bizarre,
elongated skulls found all over the world. DAVID CHILDRESS: This is
an unusual cranial kind of elongated head, and we
don't know whether it's really natural or was it
some kind of deformation that they did. NARRATOR: Are the mysterious
geoglyphs of Nazca really just artistic
creations by ancient man? Or are they evidence of
otherworldly visitors in the remote past? I am absolutely
sure, long time ago, the extraterrestrials, they
were seeking for raw material for energy of all kind. They found Nazca. NARRATOR: Millions of
people around the world believe we have been
visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. What if it were true? Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history? And if so, might the proof
be found when we explore the mystery beyond Nazca? [music playing] Southern Peru, 1927-- while
hiking in the foothills of the arid Nazca Desert,
archaeologist Toribio Mejia Xesspe discovers
what appears to be a large network of ancient
roads carved into the earth. Years later, as airplane
travel to the region becomes more frequent,
aerial flyovers reveal nearly 100 other designs
in the nearby landscape. Known as geoglyphs, they depict
animals, flowers, and even a mysterious human-like being. Scattered over a nearly
200 square mile area, these lines and figures
have become collectively known as the Nazca lines. The Nazca lines consist
of these massive drawings or carvings, if you
like, on the ground. Everything from geometric
symbols, lines, to animals-- fish, birds. But the intriguing
thing about them is, you know, number
one, they're massive. And they can really only be
seen properly from the sky. There are over
800 straight lines. There are over 70
animal figures. There are over 150
geometrical shapes. JASON MARTELL: We have
glyphs of different figurines on the ground. We have these intricate lines
and what appear to be runways spread all around the desert. Some of these actually show
mathematical diagrams built thousands of years ago, which
really raises the question, why? M.J. EVANS: There's an
enormous amount of unanswered, and perhaps
unanswerable, questions that arise from the phenomena. NARRATOR: The largest
of the figures is nearly 1,000 feet, or the
size of three football fields. While the longest line
extends almost nine miles, according to mainstream
archaeologists, these mysterious earth drawings
were created by the Nazca, an ancient people
that flourished in the region between the
first and eighth century AD. The lines were formed
by the careful removal of the reddish iron oxide
pebbles that make up the desert surface. Once exposed, the
underlying dirt, which contains high
amounts of lime, hardened and was
resistant to erosion. HUGH NEWMAN: The
Nazca plain is made up of layers of
light-colored kind of rock and dirt with dark-colored
rock and dirt just on top. It's very simple. And they just remove
dark-colored stuff to reveal these kind
of white-looking lines over the landscape. Like a canvas that
isn't being disturbed, it's maintained its integrity
for hundreds or even thousands of years. PHILIP COPPENS: The reason
why they have survived is because of the
desert conditions. Truly, if you make a geoglyph
at the Nazca Desert environment today, it will be found
hundreds of years from now. There is hardly any
rain, hardly any wind. Anything you make here
will last for eternity. NARRATOR: But why
did the Nazca people feel it necessary to make these
elaborate and massive drawings in the earth? What purpose were they
intended to serve? And why were they
designed in such a way and that they could have only
been seen and appreciated from the sky, at a time when
aircraft didn't even exist? The only place you can see
them above is that somehow you're floating in mid-air. GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: It has
been suggested that whoever inhabited the Nazca plateau,
that they had access to some type of balloon flight
so that they could appreciate what they had created
on the ground. If the Nazca population had
access to balloon flight, the Spanish chroniclers would
have most certainly recorded that in their reports. But there is not a single word
that describes that the Nazcans had access to hot air balloons. They would have
written that down, but they didn't,
so it didn't exist. PHILIP COPPENS:
By default, we're in the bailiwick
of highly advanced terrestrial technology. And that is really the
anomaly of the Nazca lines. They really are easy to make
when you look at it, because it is only really removing
the top layer of a surface. But the magnitude
of the figures is what makes this such
a complex undertaking. DAVID CHILDRESS: Many
of the lines at Nazca go for miles, perfectly
straight, through the desert. There are various trapezoids and
spirals and other glyphs that are so large that the surveyors
would need some direction from the sky. And this is where aliens or
some kind of people with flight had to be involved with the
creation of the Nazca lines. LINDA MOULTON HOWE: I was
in Peru for a month in 1987. I went with a pilot over
the plains of Nazca. The first pattern
that the pilot said, well, let's aim for that
long, six-mile triangle. And there have been
laser surveys done, and it is remarkably
accurate, this triangle. And it looked like something had
pressed the whole ground down at least 24 inches. How would you press down a
six-mile-long perfect triangle into the desert of Nazca? What kind of
technology can do that? Not the feat of ancient people. NARRATOR: How could the
ancient people of Nazca have created such
massive geoglyphs without the capability of flight
or the use of advanced tools? Might these mysterious
lines have actually been created with the help
of otherworldly beings, as ancient astronaut
theorists believed? The fact that these designs
can only be seen from above, from the sky, is an
indication that they were used as navigational
markers for the gods when they were actually here. So the question then
becomes, you know, were they drawn in this
way as navigational markers for the gods to actually
fly their vehicles in? GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Let's assume for a moment that extraterrestrials sent down
some type of an unmanned craft, like a Rover that we
have on Mars right now that is collecting samples
and is driving around a desert plateau. It, of course, leaves
behind some type of tracks. And then the natives just
witnessed this, would look at each other and say, wow,
we were just visited by god. When, in reality, no
such thing happened. NICK REDFERN: Now,
could it be the case that the gods directed
the building of them to the people below? Could it be that there was
some sort of teaching process involved? The fact that we're talking
about geometric lines and things like this, was it
a teaching process by somebody up there for the so-called
lesser perceived people down below? We're still asking
questions 1,500 years later, but you know, to this day,
they fascinate people and just provoke endless controversy. NARRATOR: Were the
Nazca lines really navigational markers for
otherworldly beings visiting Earth? Or were they meant
to commemorate an extraterrestrial
encounter, one that happened tens of thousands of years ago? Modern-day historians
and anthropologists believe the Nazca people
were one of several ancestors of the Inca civilization,
the largest empire in pre-Colombian America. In the 13th century,
the Inca empire thrived in the Andes Mountain
region of South America. According to legend, the
mysterious Incan creator god Viracocha commissioned
the Nazca lines and glyphs in the remote past. HUGH NEWMAN: And these were said
to be created by the Viracocha himself, who was the great
teacher god of the Andes. And so where he came
from is still a mystery. He could have been from Sumeria. He could have been connected
somehow with the Anunnaki. No one really knows. But the same legends
and the same stories of these great gods appear
throughout the world, especially all the way
through the Americas. PHILIP COPPENS: We know that
they are part of a creation mythology in which some of the
figurines which are depicted here are said to be deities, are
said to be part of the creation mythology as to how the
people who lived in that area and who made these
glyphs came about. They are messages to be seen
from above, to basically say that the people on the ground
still live in accordance with the rules established by
the deities who came from above to teach the people on the
ground about civilization and various other
aspects of culture. NARRATOR: Could the
lines and glyphs of Nazca really have been the work
of the Inca god Viracocha, as their legends suggest? If so, what was the purpose of
carving these strange geoglyphs into the earth? Perhaps the answers can be found
by taking a closer look at one of Nazca's most
mysterious figures, one that has become
known as El Astronauta. Switzerland, 1968-- researcher
and writer Erich von Daniken publishes his first book,
"Chariots of the Gods." In it, he introduces
the revolutionary notion that the Nazca lines were
created by the Nazca people after witnessing
extraterrestrials using advanced technology and
a sophisticated knowledge of mathematics. Erich von Daniken
was one of the first to actually do aerial
flyovers of the Nazca region and was one of the
first researchers to not only look at the
diagrams on the plain floor. But also, in the
hills of Nazca, we find intricate mathematical
diagrams that have never been documented before. When you fly over the desert,
you see down gigantic lines. Seen from the air, they
give you the imagination of airstrips, because they
start abruptly, end abruptly. Sometimes they cross. They look like air strips. PHILIP COPPENS: When Erich drew
the comparison as to how this looks like a network
of runways, this to draw a visual comparison to
what they look like from above. They are not runways. They would not support the
weight of anything physically landing there. KEN STORCH: And some theorize
that they were runways. I don't believe
that for a moment. Hell, I was in the Air
Force for six years, and none of the aircraft that we
had would be capable of landing on that as a runway. I think it's more of
a attention-getter. You can see them from space. So I think that it's a signal. NARRATOR: In the more than four
decades since the publication of "Chariots of the
Gods," Erich von Daniken's controversial theories
concerning the Nazca lines have continued to
spark widespread study. Some scholars, after
discovering curious patterns in the numerous designs, suggest
that the Nazca lines might actually be one of
the earliest known examples of applied geometry. MICHEAL DENNIN: They were
interesting geometric figures. They could draw a figure,
and then they could envision making it even bigger. You're making angles. You're approximating distances. And that innate skill of us to
deal with geometry, I think, translates to our
earliest art forms. MIKE BARA: It's interesting,
as you look at these designs on the plains of Nazca. Some of them have very, very
interesting relationships to the skies overhead. There's a very famous glyph
of a spider with one leg that extends way, way out. And if you take that and
flip it into sort of a mirror situation, what
you can plainly see is that the spider is meant
to represent the constellation of Orion. And the spider's
leg, the extension, is meant to represent
the star Sirius. So whoever put these designs
on the plains of Nebraska understood the
same thing that all of the other ancient cultures
before them understood, which is that there's
some critical importance to understanding Orion and
Sirius and their relationship to the Earth. NARRATOR: But could the Nazca
figures really have had a more profound purpose? Some ancient astronaut
theorists believe they were created as a means
of communicating messages to the gods-- messages that may have also
included a plea for them to return. Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the mysterious figure known as El Astronauta could
hold a clue to the Nazca mystery. DAVID CHILDRESS: And they
call him the space man, and he appears to have a
space helmet or something on his head. And he's got one arm
up, and he's waving. And it would seem this
is one of the sky gods. Or if he's not one of
the sky gods himself, he's one of the Nazca people
who's waving to the sky gods and saying, hi. We're here. Come and land. We know you came here before. Come back. GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
You have a figure that looks like ET, with the
big eyes and the big head. And one hand is
pointing to the sky, and the other is pointing
to earth, as if it was some type of a message. Hey, something happened here. We were visited by
beings from above. NARRATOR: Is the
mysterious figure known as El Astronauta
evidence of an extraterrestrial visitation in the distant past,
as some researchers believe? And if so, might
this suggest a reason why extraterrestrial visitors
may have landed at Nazca in the first place? ERICH VON DANIKEN: We sent
scientists from the University of Dresden to Nazca. They measured the
magnetic field, and they found a change
in the magnetic field under some of the lines. And also, we measured
the conduction, electricity along the lines. And right next to it, the
ability to conduct currency was 8,000 time
higher on the lines. And they found that eight
feet below one of these lines, the magnetic field
definitely changes. So we have the result there
is something in the ground, but we don't know what it is. [electricity crackling] NARRATOR: Is it really possible
that something in the earth might have attracted an
otherworldly species to Nazca? Could it have been an outpost
for a mining operation of precious metals,
or perhaps minerals needed for rocket fuel? JASON MARTELL: It's been said
that if any extraterrestrial wanted to come to Earth, Nazca
would be a great place for them to land. Nitrates and various things that
we use in our modern propulsion are found in abundance. Maybe it's possible
that extraterrestrials were aware of this location
as an energy source. An ancient man left these
depictions and runways as a way to entice those
beings to come back. We find that the Nazca
civilization was placed in nitrate-rich environment. They had no purpose
for these nitrates. The question might be
whether nitrate was, indeed, of importance to the people
who came to this area, maybe in prehistoric times. Maybe an extraterrestrial
civilization somehow had a purpose for this nitrate. Because nitrate is
used in an awful lot of interesting technological
applications today, such applications
as space travel. NARRATOR: But might the
extraterrestrial contact at Nazca have been designed
to support an even greater presence that we have
yet to recognize? And could Nazca have, in
time, served its purpose, only to be abandoned? With any visit or
with any project, the time arrives when
something is finished. And that is why some
of these contacts have ended, because the
extraterrestrials went on to different places. DAVID CHILDRESS: So why
would extraterrestrials be coming to Nazca? Some of the lines at
Nazca are going straight through the Andes. The lines themselves
directed you farther east. NARRATOR: But if Nazca was
used as an ancient mining site by extraterrestrials,
might there be evidence of other similar
sites around the globe? According to ancient astronaut
theorists, there are. And they can be found
hundreds of miles away at the ruins of
another lost civilization. Western Bolivia, 400 miles
east of the Nazca plain, near Lake Titicaca, lay the
ancient ruins of Tiahuanaco. According to archaeologists,
this ancient city was the capital of
the Tiahuanaco culture that thrived more
than 1,000 years ago. But ancient astronaut theorists
believed that Tiahuanaco is also the place where the
mysterious Nazca lines seem to be pointing to. But if so, why? When we consider the
Nazca lines in Peru, we have to consider
them in their context. They are not isolated phenomena. There might not be other
examples exactly like the Nazca lines, but they would
be embedded in a larger ritualized or ceremonial
landscape that might include other famous places from ancient
cultures, such as Tiahuanaco. At Tiahuanaco, we can
find hundreds of glyphs. We can find faces. We can find carvings of all
sorts of different things. NARRATOR: According
to legend, Tiahuanaco was created as a tribute
to beings called Sky People under the direction of
Viracocha, the Inca god linked to Nazca. But might these Sky People
be the same extraterrestrials who helped create the Nazca
lines thousands of years ago? According to ancient astronaut
theorists, the answer is yes. Nazca, in a sense,
is really a way station along the coast of Peru. There's an indication there
that once you arrived in Nazca with your airship, the lines
themselves directed you into the Andes to the giant
megalithic cities of Tiahuanaco and Pumapunku. NARRATOR: But is
there other evidence of an extraterrestrial presence
at Tiahuanaco, evidence that may give us insight
into the true nature of the ancient aliens who
allegedly visited Nazca in the remote past? HUGH NEWMAN: There are many
connections between the Nazca culture along the
west coast of Peru and the inland cultures,
the Andean cultures, of Tiahuanaco,
Pumapunku, and Cusco. All throughout this
area, they found evidence of these unusual
elongated skulls in all these different
places-- not just in one area. And so it seems like they were
the builders of these sites. NARRATOR: Found in numerous
grave sites in the region, these elongated skulls have
a cranial capacity 25% larger than human skulls. But where did they come from? You will find
academic critics who will say it was because there
were some Incas who wrapped their babies' heads in some
kind of blankets or cloths to make them grow long, a
kind of cosmetic procedure. There's a lot of argument
on the other side that there is not one single
piece of cultural evidence that the Incas ever
bound the heads. So you've got a conflict there
among archaeologists even looking at the Peruvian heads. I suggest the
extraterrestrials who were here thousands of years ago,
they had elongated heads, and our ancestors simply
wanted to copy it. They mated in the beginning. They hoped that
they would become similar to the extraterrestrials
they have seen long time ago. They are physically
changing the appearance of their children to resemble
the physical appearance of the deities. For the Nazca people
to have done that, it means that these
people somehow preserve the memory of such
physical contact with a deity. NARRATOR: But if there is no
evidence of the skulls being created by means of binding
or other man-made means, then how can they be explained? Could there be another,
perhaps more extraterrestrial, explanation? Might they be
evidence of some kind of human-alien hybrid race,
a race that not only lived in Western Peru but who may have
also inhabited ancient Egypt? According to ancient
astronaut theorists, the answer is a profound yes. And they also cite a link
between the people of Nazca and the god Viracocha. HUGH NEWMAN: What's
most interesting is the fact that
Viracocha was also said to be the builder
of all these sites. So was he part of the race of
the elongated skull people that came to this land and built
all these amazing megalithic temples as well as
the Nazca lines? NARRATOR: What is
perhaps as mysterious as the origin of
the elongated skulls is the fate of the Nazca people. According to most
archaeologists, both Nazca and Tiahuanaco
were suddenly abandoned at about the same time-- approximately 1,000 years ago. Those civilizations,
I think, are connected to what was going on in the
Peruvian desert with the Nazca. To what extent, I
don't think we know. There's not enough information
that has been gleaned from those civilizations. But they both disappeared
around the same time, for whatever reasons. DAVID CHILDRESS: There was some
shift in the earth right then. Either it was a massive
earthquake that even caused Lake Titicaca to
flood the whole area, or perhaps it was some
kind of cosmic war between the extraterrestrials. [explosions booming] But once the mining center-- in a sense, the
capital of this area-- was destroyed and no
longer functioning, Nazca became this backwater,
where nothing was really happening anymore. And it was during
that period, probably, that many of the
lines were drawn and the figures trying to
attract the extraterrestrials. NARRATOR: Might the elongated
skulls found at sites surrounding Nazca
really be evidence that extraterrestrial beings
once visited earth thousands of years ago? And if so, is it also possible
that these otherworldly beings came to mine precious minerals
until they were mysteriously destroyed, as some ancient
astronaut theorists contend? Perhaps further evidence can
be found hidden in plain sight at mysterious mounds
and crop circles found all over the world. Pleasant Hill, Ohio, 1848-- the Smithsonian Institute
surveys a 1,350-foot-long, three-foot-high effigy mound
built in the shape of a coiling serpent. Like the lines and
geoglyphs of Nazca, this reptilian motif
known as the Serpent Mound can only be seen from
high above the earth. DAVID CHILDRESS:
Similar to Nazca, what we have with
these earth mounds is that they're put into
easily recognizable symbols. But unless you're looking
at them from some altitude, they don't look like anything. CLIFFORD MAHOOTY: In the
Native American legend, we call it the Plume Serpent,
which is probably the same as a Quetzalcoatl down
in the tribes in Mexico. The Plume Serpent theory is
probably related to something that came from the sky. It came from the
extraterrestrial territory. The Serpent Mound and other
places of what the Indians used to call places of worship
are very important to study these things. There are certain things
that are connected for the well-being
of the planet, whether it be the magnetics
system, whether it be the lay lines, whether it
be observance of points from other worlds that
existed here before. NARRATOR: According to
historians and anthropologists, an indigenous Native
American culture called the Fort Ancient
people built the mounds nearly 1,000 years ago. But if so, why? Serpent Mound is an
extraordinary site. It is one of the most important
sites in North America. It's almost as if somebody's
trying to point out that for anybody passing
from above, he or she or it is about to
approach a site of importance. NARRATOR: Why would a
so-called primitive people have constructed a
massive earth-work that, like the geoglyphs
and lines at Nazca, went unnoticed and undetected
by those on the ground for hundreds of years? Perhaps a clue can
be found in the fact that the Serpent
Mound was constructed on the edge of a meteor crater
that was formed approximately 300 million years ago. Coincidence? Or was the mound's proximity
to a meteor site intended to mark the presence of a very
rare and precious element often found in meteors-- iridium? MICHAEL DENNIN: Iridium has
great conductive abilities. It's one of the rarest
elements we have, and it tends to be concentrated
in unique areas for two reasons, be there
a meteorite crash at some point in the
past or volcanic activity in lava floats. Looking at locations
like the Serpent Mound in Ohio and various
other sites, we see some type of energy source
that either was powering these locations or is still
offering some type of energy source today, like iridium
and other exotic elements. And if extraterrestrials are
aware of these locations, were they tapping
into this energy? The concentration of
iridium on that site is 10 times higher than
what would be expected. Serpent Mound is some kind
of memorial to the presence of another world involved
in mining of this iridium at some point in the remote-- or maybe not so remote-- past. There's even gravitational
anomalies, such as you get at the Serpent
Mound, in Ohio, which has magnetic and gravitational
effects that can really affect your consciousness. The whole preponderance of
possibilities for these sites were built on these
particular spots. NARRATOR: Could
the Serpent Mound be a marker where
extraterrestrial beings mined iridium as an energy source,
as some ancient astronaut researchers believe? And if so, might there be
a connection between energy in the ground here and that
found in the Nazca plain? Perhaps more clues can
be found by examining the mysterious crop
circles discovered throughout the world. Wiltshire, England, 1978-- here,
in this tranquil countryside, 90 miles west of London,
strange crop circles begin to appear overnight
in fields of wheat and corn. Like the geoglyphs
found at Nazca, the designs are geometric
shapes seen only from above. JASON MARTELL:
Crop circles, they are described as some
type of energy ball that whiz through the field. And all of a sudden, there's
this intricate diagram. We also have to wonder, if
extraterrestrials potentially were involved in Nazca,
maybe they're also trying to get us messages
today through crop circles. There is a correlation
between the ancient glyphs and the modern crop circles
in that they're both being presented to the Earth
from what we would call star peoples using a
higher technology. NARRATOR: Mainstream
scientists have yet to acknowledge an
extraterrestrial connection to crop circles. But ancient astronaut
theorists remain convinced that there is more here than
what meets the skeptical eye. While some crop circles are
undoubtedly the work of farmers and others trying
to pull off a hoax, many cannot be
explained so easily. They appear to be made too
quickly, too perfectly. Some magically appear within
a few hours, accompanied by strange lights in the sky. Could there be a connection
between these unusual shapes and the mysterious
designs found at Nazca? NICK REDFERN: Now, people
suggest that crop circles are made by either
extraterrestrials or some sort of non-human
intelligence, some sort of non-human entity,
that's possibly trying to give us a message. If we draw the parallel
between the crop circles and the Nazca lines, one, yes,
is made in like a sandy desert type terrain, the
other is made in corn. But the actual designs
are somewhat similar, and maybe even the
message is a similar one. But it's just been
upgraded for a new era and a different country. In the past, we set the
communications in stone. And what's happening now, today,
in fields all over the world, but especially in
England, the crop circles are so much more complex
than the designs at Nazca. And there definitely seems to
be some sort of communications taking place. Somebody is trying
to communicate with us, and we are too stupid to
understand the communication. One morning, you have a
simple circle in a crop field. Now, the human's saying, OK,
circle, it happens by the wind or by animals
overnight or whatever. We all are too arrogant, so
we don't try a communication. NARRATOR: Is there really
a profound connection between the Nazca
lines and crop circles, as ancient astronaut
theorists believe? And might they contain messages
that we have yet to decode? If so, what are they
trying to tell us? Perhaps answers can be found by
examining other equally strange geoglyphs recently discovered
after nearly 2,000 years. 2011, the Middle East-- satellite and aerial
photography reveals high numbers of mysterious stone wheels
carved into the earth in Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. First discovered in 1927,
these stones circles are believed to number
in the thousands and date back more
than 2,000 years. Ranging in size from 80 to
more than 200 feet in width, ancient astronaut theorists
believe these designs fit a global pattern. It seems to me that
there was high intelligence behind everything that has
been constructed and built and that it has all
been built for a reason. Somebody decided to make these
amazing circles with spokes. The same thing in Peru, and
look at how far apart we are. Peru is in one hemisphere,
and Jordan and Syria and Saudi Arabia are
in another hemisphere. And they are on two
sides of the planet, but you're talking about a
similar kind of, shall we say, communication. Thanks to Google Earth, we
now have a vehicle by which we can see some of these glyphs. They're being called
Nazca-like phenomena. I think we are opening the
first page of a chapter that deals with glyphs and structures
which can be seen from the air. JASON MARTELL: It's
not only in Nazca that ancient man was trying
to communicate to the heavens, but around the world, we
are finding new monuments and glyphs that
raise the question, was there a connected
geodetic presence of sites that the extraterrestrials used
to navigate around our planet? NARRATOR: What is the
purpose of the strange shapes and geoglyphs found at Nazca
and all over the world? Were they used as
navigational markers intended to guide space travelers? Or might they contain a more
profound message for humanity? In 1972, cosmologist
Carl Sagan stated that if an extraterrestrial
intelligence exists in the universe, the means of
contact would be mathematics. If you think about
this as communication, as Carl Sagan was
quoted as saying, it is certainly true that this
would be the way we'd probably have to start. A circle is a circle, and
that's just a universal feature of geometry. And it would be the
same no matter where you are in the universe. NARRATOR: Is it possible that
otherworldly beings have been using basic mathematics
and geometry in an effort to communicate with us? And might the proof
of this be found in the many geoglyphs at Nazca
and throughout the world? Could mankind have
been receiving extraterrestrial messages for
hundreds and even thousands of years, messages that have
gone unread and undeciphered right before our eyes? Imagine you wanted to reveal
a truth about the higher worlds to humans. You would lay down
one card at a time. Each of these cards would be a
glyph or a crop circle image. And it would reveal something
about the spiritual world-- not just knowledge. It would provide an experience
of the actual reality it was describing. PHILIP COPPENS: What we
have in a Nazca culture is something which our ancestors
knew that what they were making was going to have
a lasting effect. Hundreds of years afterwards,
it is still there. And it might be very ironic to
realize that they were shouting out for the deity saying,
please come down and visit us. And that 100 years
later, the Nazca lines have become the billboard
for the ancient alien theory, whereby they really are
interpreted as, indeed, a landing place for the deities. And so we might find that across
time and space and culture, really the core of the
message of the Nazca lines is maintained, even though
maybe slightly placed in a different context. When you look at some
of the glyphs at Nazca, they would seem to be
just simple things-- animals, figures,
and things like that. But then other of the
figures and the lines see to be so incredibly
complicated, mathematical, and they're following
energy lines. So there seems to be a
much deeper meaning in all of the figures and the lines
and where they're going and why they intersect,
but we can't figure it out. NARRATOR: Is it possible, as
ancient astronaut theorists believe, that the lines
and geoglyphs of Nazca are part of a worldwide
communications network, a network that is directly
connected to otherworldly visitors from the remote past? And if so, might this form
of alien communication be intended for us or for
something or someone not of this world? Perhaps these strange
shapes and symbols provide clues to mankind's
not-so-distant future or serve as an invitation for
other alien visitors to return.
