Egypt's Greatest Secrets and Alien Theories - Ancient Aliens

The Sun Temple at Abu Ghurab, Memphis, Egypt. In 1898, an excavation team with the Berlin Museum discovered the base of a massive obelisk, estimated to have once stood at over 160 feet tall. According to the ancient Egyptian building texts from Edfu, Abu Ghurab was known as the place of the gods. Egyptologists know it as a place where the ancients connected with divine energies. It is said that this is the very place where pharaohs and priests experienced heightened awareness through the use of vibrations transmitted through the obelisk. This ancient obelisk was used as a geodetic marker, pinpointing the source of some type of ancient energy. Maybe not spiritual energy, but actual physical energy that they were able to harness. While scholars believe Abu Ghurab was home to one of the largest obelisks ever constructed, similar-shaped monoliths have been found in hundreds of variations all over the world. Unsuitable for shelter, storage, or a higher vantage point, could obelisks have served another more powerful purpose? There's evidence that obelisks are tapping into this natural energy that's part of the Earth. The whole concept is to take these natural energies of the Earth and manipulate them. It's a subtle energy. But for those who have the devices and technology to see and measure this energy, it's something that can be used. I believe obelisks are kind of like acupuncture needles for the Earth, focusing and possibly healing Earth energy meridians that are not balanced. And the ancient cultures knew how to do that. A vast number of obelisks are constructed from granite, a stone containing high concentrations of energy-responsive quartz crystal. Because of its crystalline structure, quartz has the ability to convert the Earth's natural electrical vibrations into usable energy by a property known as piezoelectricity. The piezo is for the vibrating or oscillating, and the electric is for electric. What this means is that you can use electricity to make them vibrate mechanically. And when they vibrate mechanically, they can generate electricity. Crystals have been used throughout all of history for various inventions, various technologies, and for getting things done. Your watch that you wear on your wrist could be a technology that uses crystals. Crystals are literally a tool and a technology that's essentially for transducing energy. And that is taking energy in one state and essentially converting it to another state. Is it possible the ancient cultures that erected obelisks had some understanding of the high-tech properties of quartz? And if so, could they have used obelisks to transmit energy over vast distances? Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer is yes and that evidence can be found by studying the work of Nikola Tesla. In July 1899, the famed scientist claimed to have invented a way to transmit electricity through the air wirelessly all over the world. By harnessing the Earth's natural conductivity, or what Tesla called standing waves, giant transmitters could send and receive limitless amounts of electricity flowing like invisible water. And one of the key components in his system was quartz crystal. Typically, when we deal with the energy of electromagnetic waves, it's in what we call a propagating form. It's like the flashlight, you turn it on, and it moves. It propagates through space and goes from one place to another. A standing wave is kind of a different phenomena because the wave just oscillates in one place up and down, and the energy goes in between two different regions back and forth. Tesla was proposing and tried to build this system of wireless power. He built the Wardenclyffe Tower on Long Island in New York. Tesla was going to then hook this tower up to a power plant, and he was going to broadcast electricity. According to him, anti-gravity airships would draw power from these towers. Ships, cars, and other power plants could also draw from this broadcast power. Was Tesla's technological breakthrough a modern scientific innovation? Or could it have been a rediscovery of a lost alien technology? Some researchers believe that, like Tesla, ancient builders discovered the ability to harness and broadcast Earth's power. And the ancient equivalent to Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower may have been the Great Pyramid. The walls of this massive monument contain a high concentration of quartz crystal. And some believe the Great Pyramid, in conjunction with the obelisks, made up what may have been a global wireless energy network. The pyramids were actually geomechanical devices. In other words, they were attached to the Earth. They were tuned to vibrate with the frequencies of the Earth, and they converted the energies of the Earth into electromagnetic energy. The obelisks themselves, particularly the ones we find in Egypt, are, in fact, giant crystal antennas. And they can broadcast power in the way that Nikola Tesla, the great American inventor, wanted to broadcast power. The Giza Necropolis, Egypt, 1993. A team of engineers uses a remotely operated camera in an attempt to discover the true function of what is believed to be an airshaft. Leading from the supposed Queen's Chamber of the Great Pyramid. First discovered in 1872, archaeologists long considered these narrow tunnels to be ventilation ducts. This robot traveled up this small shaft, which was too small for a human or any type of device to go through. And all of a sudden, it finds a closed door hinged by two little metal clamps. According to mainstream archaeologists, the door and metal handles were intentionally built as a symbolic passageway that the Queen would travel through to the afterlife. But some researchers have questioned why this passageway would have been designed with a deliberate blockage. And why, on a plateau filled with monumental pyramids believed to serve as royal tombs, is the Great Pyramid the only one with such a door? Egyptologists are very much fond of saying that pyramids are tombs and that they have been robbed at some point in the past. But the fact is that we have found in the 20th century a number of pyramids whose central King's Chamber, so to speak, is intact. And when they opened the sarcophagus, they found that sarcophagus to be empty as well. If the Great Pyramid was not a tomb, what may have been its true purpose? In May 2011, another team of researchers set out to further explore the blocked airshaft in the Queen's Chamber. This time, the crew used a robot equipped with a micro snake camera to slip through a hole and reveal what was beyond the door. When they actually penetrated this small door, they found a hidden room within the pyramid. What they found was copper fittings or the metal fittings. Another feature of the back of these metal fittings was that on one side, the loop looked like it was corroded. The camera also looked down and scanned the floor. What we saw was red markings. My interpretation of those were they were electrical symbols. But why were they there? Could these artifacts be actual evidence that electricity once coursed through the structure? And if so, could the Great Pyramid of Giza have been built to serve as not a royal tomb, but a power plant, as some researchers contend? If we dismiss the tomb theory and we look at the pyramid itself, we see something that modern engineers can really tune into and understand. What we have is a very, very precise building that has the precision of a fraction of an inch. It's something that is very noteworthy and not indicative of a simple agrarian culture. So what we have is something that is almost like a machine. If the Great Pyramid was a sophisticated machine, potentially capable of creating energy, how could it have worked? Some researchers believe clues can be found by exploring underneath the structure. In 2000, maritime engineer John Cadman proposed a theory that the Egyptians pumped water from the nearby Nile River into a small chamber underneath the Great Pyramid. The pump could then create intense hydraulic pressure that would cause the entire pyramid to vibrate. In the subterranean chamber, there is some evidence that shows that there had been water present in it and that there's water erosion on the floor and then up in the fin area and then also because it was a hydraulic pulse generator. So you have a rarefaction wave. It's an extremely low-pressure wave, which would have struck the ceiling and the ceiling is actually chipped. And that would bend from the actual compression waves hitting the ceiling. That's very evident. If Cadman's theory proves true, what would have been the purpose of the hydraulic pulse? Engineer Chris Dunn believes the answer can be found by further examination of the shafts in what some call the Queen's Chamber, where traces of zinc and hydrochloric acid have been discovered. I believe the chemical coming in through the northern shaft was hydrated zinc. And the other chemical coming through the southern shaft and into the chamber was dilute hydrochloric acid. These are actually seen on the chamber walls. Dunn suggests that the two chemicals were poured down through the shafts and then mixed together inside the Queen's Chamber, triggering combustion. This vessel represents the Queen's Chamber. Into the tubes, we're going to pour hydrated zinc and then hydrochloric acid. When you bring these two liquids together, and a chemical reaction occurs, and a product of that chemical reaction is hydrogen. And you can see the vapor, the hydrogen, escaping through the chimney. And there you have the reaction. Dunn speculates that the hydrogen gas traveled from the Queen's Chamber into the King's Chamber. Then, the vibrations from the subterranean pool energized the hydrogen atoms into a microwave energy beam. The evidence that indicates the use of hydrogen can be found in the King's Chamber. There is a shaft in the King's Chamber has dimensions of 8.4 by 4.8, which would be suitable for a waveguide for a maser, or microwave amplification through stimulated emission radiation. And from there, we can actually propose many different ideas of what they did with it. Might the Great Pyramid of Giza actually have created power in the remote past? And is it possible that energy ran the advanced tools of early builders and devices like the Dendera bulb? We can use our imaginations and come up with all kinds of devices to power with that kind of energy, from simple domestic appliances to highly advanced spacecraft. I mean, both things are possible. The ancient Egyptians demonstrated an exceptional level of skill in everything that they created during the Old Kingdom. But the question remains, did they do it on their own? Or did they have some access to information or technology that was not of this earth? Television producer and UFO investigator Linda Howe has been tracking the mystery of animal mutilation for over 30 years. I began trying to get to the bottom of what was happening to all of these animals. There were horses, cows, other domestic animals found with the same pattern of bloodless excisions. The law enforcement called them animal mutilations. 266 some Polaroids in so many cases. And the first thing I felt was anger. And then I felt nervous, and then I felt afraid. I sat across from sheriffs who told me, Linda, we're not dealing with predators, disease, and satanic cults. We're dealing with creatures from outer space. There are several explanations for why aliens would want to experiment on cows. One is that they're just looking for food. One, that they're looking for some kind of information about vertebrate organisms. Another one is that they're looking for some kind of genetic material for some reason. The closest answer I've ever gotten was from a man who had had very upfront and close and personal observations of non-humans in his work for the government. He told me, he said, the best answer I can give you, Linda, is it's a genetic harvest. But once you have said a genetic harvest from Earth, there's even a bigger question. Why a genetic harvest from Earth? What is being made with this genetic harvest? To what end? The answer to these questions might be found in our ancient past, in the bizarre, almost Frankenstein-like experiments that were practiced by early civilizations. We have ancient descriptions from Egypt where it says specifically that the gods created these chimeras, mixed beings or hybrids. We find paintings where you have a human body with a cutoff head and a red tube coming out of it. And next to it, you have just the head of some animal. And in the next picture, because they look like comic strips almost, and in the next picture, you see the same human body with the animal head attached to the human neck. Incredibly, examples of strange human-animal hybrid beings date back to a time even older than ancient Egypt. According to mainstream archaeology, ancient Sumeria is the earliest civilization of humankind. And the interesting part is the fact that their earliest writings are filled with references of these bizarre beings that descended from the sky called the Anunnaki. Anunnaki means those who from the heavens came. But is there any physical evidence of these human-animal hybrids? If so, wouldn't we have found skeletal remains? The answer may have been found in Saqqara, Egypt, home to that country's oldest pyramid. In 1851, French scholar and Egyptologist Auguste Mariette explored a deep tomb dedicated to the sacred apis bull. Inside were two sealed and intact sarcophagi. But when Mariette opened them, what they contained was shocking. They opened the sarcophagus, and they didn't find a bull. Instead, they found this black mass of what's called bitumen, a type of asphalt. And inside this stinking mass, they found the bone fragments of seven different types of animals crushed up. According to the accompanying texts, some type of monsters existed during the time of the Egyptians. And so who knows whether or not the priests instructed the people to destroy these beings, to rip them apart, to crush their bones, and put them inside this stinking mass and put them underneath a lid in the sarcophagus weighing 80 tons. I mean, in all of Egypt, we can find mummified remains of every single animal. But we find these sarcophagi that contain these crushed up bones. Doesn't that mean the ancient Egyptians did not want for those creatures to ever return after their death? Of course, mainstream scientists and archaeologists believe ancient Greek and Egyptian stories of animal and human hybrids are just fanciful products of the imagination. But are they? There is this period in pre-dynastic Egypt where these demigods ruled. We have not found human remains. We do not know who they were. But we do have scientific evidence that at least the ancient Egyptians believed firmly that they ruled. As to whether they are just human beings like you or I, or whether they come from somewhere else, or whether they are a hybrid being, we have no idea. What if ancient civilizations possessed the advanced scientific knowledge of our own modern day scientists? What if they, too, had unlocked the mysteries of DNA, cloning, and gene splicing? Why is this so fascinating? Well, because if you look at this from a genetics aspect, we're in the process right now, today, of being able to recreate creatures like that. I mean, this is Frankenstein. This is science fiction stuff. Yet, in ancient Egypt, we have the exact same descriptions, the exact same depictions of some very bizarre hybridization program which took place thousands of years ago. They are mixing alien animals and human DNA not just for 10 years or 20 years, but for thousands and thousands of years. And that's why there are so many alien abductions. And that's why each generation is psychically more advanced than the next until we get to the complete union of two cultures, the ultimate hybrid. I think the answer clearly is we're not alone in this universe. And we have non-human intelligences interacting with this planet for reasons that are still unknown to most of us. It leaves you feeling a little nervous. Saqqara, Egypt. Located roughly 20 miles south of Cairo, it is home to the world-famous step pyramid of King Djoser. Dating back more than 4,000 years, it is the oldest of Egypt's 97 pyramids. Saqqara is also famous for being one of Egypt's oldest burial grounds, earning it the nickname City of the Dead. It was here in 1891 that French archaeologists unearthed an ancient tomb containing the burial remains of Padi Iman, an official from the third century BC. Among the various items discovered was a small wooden model of what appeared to be a bird lying beside a papyrus bearing the inscription, I want to fly. The artifact was later sent to the Cairo Museum, where authorities placed it alongside several other bird figurines. The model sat largely unnoticed until 1969, when Egyptologist Dr. Khalil Massiah was examining the bird collection and noticed that there was something very different about the Saqqara bird. It's interesting because, on one hand, clearly it should look like a bird because it has eyes and has a typical nose of a bird. On the other hand, the wings are clearly not bird wings. To the middle of the rump, you see is the wing a bit thicker. In this region, the lift up is the highest. The whole thing becomes thinner to the end of the wings, and those wings are modeled down. And this is a very modern aerodynamic design. Then the other point is birds have no rudders because a bird does not need a rudder because of its aerodynamic architecture. And so there is the idea that they are not representing birds, but flying machines or aircraft. Could the ancient Egyptians have possessed the power of flight? In 2006, aviation and aerodynamics expert Simon Sanderson built a scale model of the Saqqara bird, five times larger than the original, to test that possibility. We're running at a constant speed, slowly increasing the angle of attack, and then measuring the forces which it's producing. That way, we can learn about its flight characteristics. At 10 degrees, we're producing four times weight in lift, so it actually would be flying now. That's good. Tests shows the Saqqara bird is a highly developed glider. And this is a design we use today. During the Sanderson tests, it was discovered that the only thing preventing the Saqqara bird from achieving flight was the lack of a rear stabilizing rudder or elevator needed to maintain balance. Is it possible that the Saqqara bird ever possessed this critical component? What is missing is something like an elevator. But if you look at this feature here, then we may interpret that something like an elevator was connected here, but was lost during the history. Computer models seem to confirm that the Saqqara bird is certainly airworthy. But there is another problem to consider, launching a glider. Modern methods require the use of a tow plane that pulls the glider into the air, then releases it when a proper altitude is reached. So how might the ancient Egyptians have launched the Saqqara bird? The scientifics of Egyptology told us that such a bird could be powered off by catapults to fly. And we had a high acceptance by Egyptian scientists. The idea of using a catapult does have a contemporary parallel. Many of today's glider enthusiasts employ a bungee cord system to launch their sailcraft into the air. But if the Saqqara bird is capable of flight, where would ancient Egyptians have acquired such technology? I think that people in ancient times were visited by beings coming not from this earth. And they gave us culture and scientific technologies to improve our life on earth, coming from the primitive to a higher developed culture. If ancient cultures would be able to produce any really flyable machine, they would be far more advanced than we believe today. It changes our viewpoint of ancient societies. It's a fact that our ancestors were more intelligent and had more technological superiority capabilities than our history books give them credit for. You begin to have to ask yourself, are we missing part of the story? And honestly, I think we are. I think there has been a forgotten episode in human history. And we're a species with amnesia. We don't really remember who or what we are. I haven't been convinced that there is evidence that supports an ancient visitation. But there is no reason why not. And I think to shut oneself to that possibility is a mistake, mainly because there are so many anomalies that we can't explain. 7,000 miles from Egypt, the dense jungles and rugged mountains of Columbia contain a vast number of archaeological sites. Many treasure hunters believe the legendary city of gold, El Dorado, lies hidden here, somewhere under a thick canopy of trees. While the mythical metropolis has never been found, early in the 20th century, tomb robbers searching along the Magdalena River stumbled upon a gravesite dating back 1,500 years to a pre-Columbian civilization known as the Tolima. Among the funerary objects found there were hundreds of small two to three inch gold figurines. Many of those looked like insects and fish. However, out of those hundreds that they found, they also found about a dozen that are eerily reminiscent of modern day fighter jets.