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NARRATOR: Ancient megalithic
stones cut with astonishing
precision.
What some people suggest is
is that they were using
electricity and power tools.
NARRATOR: Mysterious
sculptures depicting beings from
around the world and beyond.
There are all the races here.
Even the grey aliens.
NARRATOR: And legends of
otherworldly giants creating an
entire civilization in a single
night.
If there's one place that
shows evidence of ancient
aliens, it's Puma Punku.
NARRATOR: Are the ancient
ruins of Puma Punku the result
of primitive man's incredible
ingenuity?
Or are they they product of a
much higher power?
Puma Punku is the only site
on planet Earth that, in my
opinion, was built directly
by extraterrestrials.
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 there be
evidence here on Earth of a lost
alien city?
NARRATOR: Bolivia. South
America.
Here, 45 miles west of
La Pal, isolated high in the
Andes mountains, he the
mysterious ancient ruins of Puma
Punku.
Spread across a desert plateau,
plateau, at an altitude over
12,000 feet, the megalithic
stones found here are among the
largest on the planet, measuring
up to 26 feet long and weighing
more than 100 tons each.
DAVID CHILDRESS: These are
the mysterious ruins of Puma
Punku, nearly 13,000 feet in the
altiplano of Bolivia.
What you have here are massive
blocks of granite scattered like
some kid's toy blocks around the
site.
It's like some giant cataclysm
just wiped out this entire area.
Archeologists are baffled by
what Puma Punku was, how n
baked, and what the purpose of
this enormous structure would
have been.
NARRATOR: Mainstream
scientists believe the site was
originally constructed about
2,000 years ago.
But in 1945, archeologist
Arthur Posnansky proposed that
Puma Punku was much, much older.
By examining the structures and
what he believed were their
original alignment with the
stars, he dated the rums to
15,000 BC.
HUGH NEWMAN: Arthur Posnansky
was a researcher who was part
Bolivian, and he worked at the
site for many decades, and he
concluded that the site must
have been built about 17,000
Years ago by studying the
archeoastronomy of that
particular site.
PHILIP COPPENS: We don't know
how old Puma Punku is.
We have had some circumstantial
dating, but we have been unable
to date the stones of Puma Punku
themselves.
They could be thousands, if not
hundreds of thousands of years
old, we don't know.
GEORGE NOORY: I think the
fascinating thing about Puma
Punku is how did these
structures get built?
We're taking about stone that
is 25 feet high.
Stone that is hundreds of tons.
BRIEN FOERSTER: Puma Punku is
so unique in the way that it was
constructed and shaped and
positioned, that it is the most
intriguing ancient site on the
planet.
Of all the places I've ever
visited, Puma Punku is the one
that I go back to lime and again
because no one can solve the
mystery.
NARRATOR: Mainstream scholars
believe the andesite blocks
found at Puma Punku were formed
by hand with primitive stone
tools.
But some researchers point to
the intricate stonework as
evidence of the use of advanced
precision technology.
CHILDRESS: One of the amazing
things here at Puma Punku is the
precision of the blocks.
You can see with this block of
granite, that it's really been
cut at very accurate right
angles.
Not only do these granite mocks
have precision corners, but they
also have these difficult drill
holes that are going right
through the rock.
NARRATOR: But how could such
primitive people, living perhaps
tens of thousands of years ago,
have produced such flawless
stonework?
Might the ancient builders of
Puma Punku have fabricated the
megalithic stones with advanced
technology?
Technology of an otherworldly
origin, as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?
NEWMAN: If you look at the
stones carefully, and you get a
magnifying glass on some of
them, you can see some intricate
stonework, as though they used
machine tools or even lasers.
It's absolutely incredible.
I've seen nothing like it
anywhere on the planet.
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: When an
architect or an engineer looks
at Puma Punku, one thing jumps
out immediately, that whoever
built this place had knowledge
of planning, of logistics and
had access to advanced
technology.
CHILDRESS: You know, Brien.
This is one of the most
interesting and unusual stones
here at Puma Punku.
It's got these perfect right
angles, and each of these small
drill holes are basically evenly
spaced along this routered
groove.
To me it's clear that power
tools have been used on this
unusual block of stone here.
FOERSTER: Well, exactly, and
this surface is as smooth as a
table top, like in your kitchen.
There's no wave to it or
anything.
This was machined.
But who machined it?
It's an astonishing piece of
work, and how anyone could Mink
that primitive human beings
could have done this...
You know, it's just crazy.
If anything looks like ancient
aliens, it's this stone.
NARRATOR: But if
otherworldly technology was
used at Puma Punku, where is the
proof?
In Danville, Illinois, machinist
and toolmaker Chris Dunn has
put the Puma Punku stone to the
ultimate cutting test, using
both laser technology and a
modern diamond saw.
DUNN: We've got a
sample of the laser cut.
This is the diamond wheel cut.
And the top surface is the
original cut surface from Puma
Punku.
Se, now we can compare the
difference between all three
cuts.
NARRATOR: Looking at the
stone under a microscope, Dunn
compares the two modern culling
techniques with the part of the
stone cut thousands of years
ago.
Though age has worn the surface
of the ancient example, the
comparison reveals distinct
differences.
DUNN: You've got
vitrification on the laser-cut
side, and then. of course.
You've got circular tool marks
on the side cut with the diamond
saw.
And then, whatever tool they
used to cut the ancient surface
must have been a different
method.
TSOUKALOS: Now, do you think
it's possible that some type of
a diamond precision tool was
used on the old surface, but
because it was such a long time
ago, that over time, the surface
became a bit more rough, and
we're talking ten or even 15,000
years ago?
DUNN: That is a reasonable
speculation.
I think we have to start
examining, um, a little more
sophisticated tools that no
Manger exist.
NARRATOR: What did the
ancients use to cut the andesite
stone so precisely?
Might evidence of advanced
technology be found by further
study of the construction of the
Puma Punku stones?
Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and point to what they call
H blocks.
FOERSTER: It seems like
every one of these H blocks is
exactly the same, so it's like a
prefabrication process where
they needed X-hundred of these,
and whatever machinery it is
that they had was able, with
amazing accuracy, to replicate
one after another after another.
That's very sophisticated.
CHILDRESS: Yeah. it's
an ingenious way of building a
huge granite wall.
And again, the whole thing is
just so incredibly precise.
Doing these kind of inside
corners like this-this just
can't be done, really, with
copper chisels and stone
hammers.
The whole thing is-is just
so incredibly high-tech,
even beyond what we would
do today.
NARRATOR: But how could
the ancients have managed
to move the incredibly heavy
andesite stones to the site?
After years of research,
mainstream archaeologists have
said the massive stones were
hewn at quarries over 60 miles
away and then rolled lo Puma
Punku on logs.
TSOUKALOS: What nobody talks
about is the irrefutable fact
that we are at an altitude of
12,800 feet, which means we are
above the natural tree line.
No trees ever grew m that area,
meaning, no trees were cut down
in order to use wooden rollers.
The wooden roller theory falls
by the wayside.
NARRATOR: Could there have
been another more profound
method of moving these
megalithic stones into place?
And if so, how would such an
advanced engineering feat have
been accomplished without the
hem of modem machinery?
CHILDRESS: How these massive
blocks of granite were moved
from their quarries and brought
here to Puma Punku would have
required some kind of super
technology, levitation and
anti-gravity, huge lifting
vehicles, something that ancient
aliens would have had.
NARRATOR: Might the ancient
city of Puma Punku really have
been built by alien beings, as
ancient astronaut theorists
contend?
Some researchers believe the
ultimate proof can be found
nearby, and also, carved in
stone.
NARRATOR: Southern Peru.
1549.
While searching for the capital
of the Inca Empire, Spanish
conquistadors, led by Pedro
Cieza de León, cross into
Bolivia and discover the ruins
of Tiahuanaco.
Less than a quarter mile
northeast of Puma Punku.
Mainstream scientists believe
Tiahuanaco was once the center
of a civilization with more than
40,000 inhabitants.
PAUL GOLDSTEIN, Ph.D:
Tiahuanaco is probably the
greatest Native American
civilization that many people
haven't heard of.
It was one of the most important
antecedents of the Inca.
It was long gone by the time the
Spaniards came on the scene.
Yet, its level of achievement in
architecture, in political
development, in agriculture, in
many craft industries are on a
very high level.
NARRATOR: Most scholars agree
that Tiahuanaco was mysteriously
abandoned around 1100 AD.
But why?
Local legends suggest that
Tiahuanaco was built as a site
of religious pilgrimage to
celebrate the arrival of sky
gods at nearby Puma Punku.
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, the two sites were
not only built at different
times, but also by beings from
different worlds.
COPPENS: Puma Punku, I
Think, is very of-the-gods.
And I think mankind did very
little with that site.
And then, nearby, our ancestors
built Tiahuanaco as a place
where people could come to
explore these places, but also,
I think, as a tribute sue
where a god had once been
physically present on planet
Earth.
ERICH VON DANIKEN: You have
to differentiate two different
styles of construction: the old
style, which I call the
extraterrestrial style, and
then, the later style, which was
made by the humans.
TSOUKALOS: Tiahuanaco is
nothing else but a mace of
pilgrimage for people to
congregate and remember the
time when something significant
happened at Puma Punku.
And the thing that was
significant about it was an
extraterrestrial visit by
ancient aliens m the remote
past.
NARRATOR: But if Tiahuanaco
was built to honor
extraterrestrial contact, as
ancient astronaut theorists
contend, might there be tangible
evidence?
In the 1960s, the Bolivian
government excavated and
unearthed the Subterranean
Temple at Tiahuanaco.
Within the walls of the square
sunken courtyard are hundreds of
stone heads with a diverse range
of features.
CHILDRESS: Here at the famous
Sunken Temple at Tiahuanaco, we
have all of the different heads
that have been inserted into the
walls.
It's sometimes said that there
are all the races of mankind
represented here, even elongated
skulls, people wearing turbans,
people with broad noses, people
with thin noses, people with
thick lips, people with thin
lips, and some of the statues
are particularly unusual.
FOERSTER: They don't seem to
represent the local people.
They seem to represent every
type and shape of human head
existing on the planet.
Two of them, which are very
intriguing, are white in color,
and they look very much like
grey alien heads.
COPPENS: When we're looking
at the carved heads of the
Tiahuanaco complex, you really
see that it's almost as if this
is a UN headquarters, whereby
everybody was able to come there
because all cultures on planet
Earth accepted that Tiahuanaco
was so special because this was
a place where contact with the
divine had been made.
NARRATOR: Some researchers
behave a large statue at the
center of the sunken temple
depicts the creator god, known
As Viracocha.
Bu! why would the inhabitants of
Tiahuanaco have depicted their
most prominent god with features
unlike their own?
CHILDRESS: He has got a beard
and a moustache.
And that is an unusual thing,
because American Indians do not
have beards and moustaches.
FOERSTER: Exactly.
The fact, also, that the beard
and the moustache are so
pronounced.
They're not little wispy ones.
They're major, so, that
indicates that this person was
not a South American native, but
dearly came from another land.
CHILDRESS: And an important
person, too, who's somehow one
of the founders, here, of
Tiahuanaco.
Maybe even somebody who's come
from Sumeria to South America.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the Sumerians-a civilization
established in 4,000 BC and
located nearly 8,000 miles
away-could be connected to the
early inhabitants of Tiahuanaco?
If so, how?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer can be found
at the Precious Metals Museum in
La Paz, Bolivia.
CHILDRESS: This is perhaps
one of the most important
archaeological artifacts ever
discovered in Tiahuanaco or
Puma Punku.
This is the famous Fuente Magma
Bowl discovered near Tiahuanaco.
It's a ceramic bowl, and it has
written on it Sumerian
cuneiform, plus Prom-Sumerian
hieroglyphic script.
This script is coming from circa
3,000 BC.
It draws a direct connection
between the ancient Sumerians
and Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku.
NARRATOR: Discovered near
Lake Titicaca by a local farmer
in the 1950s, researchers
behave the vessel provides
proof of extraterrestrial
Intervention at Puma Punku.
CHILDRESS: The idea of
Sumerian writing being here
at Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco
would seem to relate to the
late Zecharia Sitchin, and his
ideas that the Sumerians were
also interacting with these
space beings called the
Annunaki.
So, in that case, the Annunaki
were there in Sumeria, but also
here at Puma Punku and
Tiahuanaco in South America.
NARRATOR: Could the stone
sculptures found at Tiahuanaco
really be evidence of
interaction with
extraterrestrial beings, as
ancient astronaut theorists
believe?
Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the legends of the
creator god, Viracocha, and his
mysterious origins.
NARRATOR: The Andes
Mountains, Peru.
Here, 12 miles north of Puma
Punku, he the murky waters
of Lake Titicaca, the largest
lake in South America.
According to local legends, the
god Viracocha rose up from the
depths of this lake to create
the sun, the stars and mankind.
NEWMAN: Legend stales that
Viracocha, the great creator god
of the Inca and the prehistoric
civilization of the area,
emerged from Lake Titicaca, and
he went to Tiahuanaco and
brought civilization to that
part of the world.
He then went to Puma Punku, and
this is where he said he made
men and women from stone and
took them to the four comers of
the Earth to spread their seed.
VON DANIKEN: The Spanish
conqueror asked the Inca, the
people living there, including
the king of the Inca, "What is
this Puma Punku?“
And they all said, "It's not us.
It's not our forefather who make
this.
"These were made by the gods in
one single night"
Usually, a king is proud about
what his people did, about the
precision, and so on.
In that case, the chief and the
people said, "No, it was not us.
It was the gods who made it."
NEWMAN: One of the legends of
Puma Punku slates that it was
built by a race of giants in one
night after a great cataclysm
and flood had destroyed the
whole area.
But what's really interesting is
that, who were these giants?
Where did they come from?
Was it Viracocha and his band of
followers?
Was it some other beings from
some other place?
TSOUKALOS: One of the
earliest chronicles that we have
in regards to Puma Punku talks
about that these giant platforms
were moved through the aw by
the sound of a trumpet.
They basically floated into
place.
So, do we have some type of
sound technology here?
And the answer is a potential
yes.
NARRATOR: Might the legends
of giants-and stones floating
through the air-have been
inspired by some son of
mysterious events in the distant
past?
Or were they the result of alien
beings visiting Earth in
prehistoric times, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe?
VON DANIKEN: Now, I come with
the speculation.
Extraterrestrials arrive.
The spaceship stands in orbit.
Only a smaller space vehicle
comes down, like a space
shuttle.
So, just to protect their
instruments, they make,
overnight, with their
technology, what we call a base
camp... of course, made out of
stones found on Earth, because
you don't transport granite or
diorite from another solar
system.
And then, they disappear.
But the wall of their base camp
is still there.
Now the natives come.
They see these ruins.
They touch it with their
fingers.
They say, "Look at this.
It's so smooth, it's so sharp.
The gods did it."
The place becomes a holy place.
And now, the natives start to
construct temples, altars in
honor of the gods.
So you have two technologies.
One was an extraterrestrial
technology, and the other was
the humans with their altars and
their temples.
NARRATOR: In the center of
the temples at Tiahuanaco lie
the ruins of a stone arch called
the Gateway of the Sun.
Cut and shaped from a single
andesite stone weighing more
than lemons, archaeologists
believe the ten-foot tall.
13-foot wide megalith was once
the gateway leading to Puma
Punku.
GOLDSTEIN: The Gateway of the
Sun is probably the entrance, or
one of the entrances, to the
Puma Punku temple.
And as such' it's very
important, because this is how
the people of Tiahuanaco
conducted Meir ritual, by
funneling people through
increasingly smaller gateways
and Stairways to more and more
sacred precincts.
NARRATOR: On the upper
portion of the arch, intricate
carvings can be found of nearly
50 winged beings on either side
of what is believed to be the
great creator god, Viracocha.
Interpretations of the
engravings suggest they refer to
a calendar describing a time as
far back as 27,000 BC.
CHILDRESS: So. here we are at
the famous Gate of the Sun, with
Viracocha right in the middle,
homing two scepters, surrounded
by bird men.
FOERSTER: That's a summon
depiction in ancient societies,
is a man who's able to fly.
That would have probably been an
interpretation by the native
people of someone coming from
the sky or from the heavens.
CHILDRESS: It's pan of our
idea, too, that some giant
airship that was a factory with
power tools and power saws and
routers and drills just landed
here and began processing these
giant blocks of stone, and then
ultimately, created Puma Punku.
NEWMAN: It seems like the
whole complex was some kind of
technological kind of factory.
And if my research is correct,
it looks like they were using it
to create energy of some sort.
So, what some people suggest is
is that they were using
electricity and power tools,
which sounds incredible when we
think about it because they were
modern inventions.
Bu! actually, if you look at the
quality of the stone work, you
have to admit something like
that was going on there.
CHILDRESS: When you m at
the complexity of Puma Punku,
the huge platforms, the
interlocking blocks that was
made into what they thought were
indestructible walls,
what you could have is the kind
of perfectly made granite space
port that extraterrestrials
would want.
NARRATOR: Might Puma Punku be
the remains of an intergalactic
outpost built by otherworldly
beings tens of thousands of
years ago, as ancient astronaut
theorists contend?
Perhaps the answer can be found
using modern technology to
examine the purpose for which
the site was built in the first
place.
NARRATOR: January, 2011.
Researchers survey and measure
the monolithic stones and
H-blocks scattered around the
archeological site of Puma
Punku, hoping lo solve the
mystery of what these structures
were used for and why.
TSOUKALOS: The evidence that
something extraordinary happened
at Puma Punku is in front of our
very eyes.
Because at Puma Punku, we find
evidence of stone cuts that we
today could only replicate if we
used the most sophisticated of
technologies.
FOERSTER: That is part of the
great mystery of Puma Punku.
It seems as though some kind of
factory was set up there to make
these almost exactly the same.
It's almost like a Lego system
of interconnecting blocks, and
that is unique on this Earth.
VON DANIKEN: Many of the
blocks were prefabricated
blocks.
Prefabricated blocks means
planning.
You have to make a design.
Planning means writing.
Now the archaeologists say that
Puma Punku are the ruins of
temples made by the Aymara.
Aymara are the highland Indians
up there.
But the Aymara were Stone Age
people.
They had not even writing.
So not planning, it's absolutely
impossible.
Prefabricated blocks in Stone
Age doesn't fit with Stone Age.
And the precision of the blocks
is absolutely baffling.
NARRATOR: In Danville,
Illinois, toolmaker Chris Dunn
uses measurements taken at Puma
Punku to create a
one-eighth-scale model of an
H-block to better understand
how they may have originally fit
together.
TSOUKALOS: So you actually
went to Puma Punku to measure
the H-blocks.
What was your conclusion?
What did you find?
DUNN: For me, it was
important to find out what the
measurements were.
What I found was that the
internal cavities were not
parallel to each other.
TSOUKALOS: And by internal
cavities, you're referring to
these two parts right here,
right?
DUNN: Exactly.
TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.
DUNN: These two surfaces
right here, both lop and bottom,
uh, they are smaller at the
front than they are at the back.
TSOUKALOS: Essentially
suggesting a dovetail.
DUNN: Creating a dovetail.
TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.
Why do you think a dovetail
shape was carved or used?
DUNN: Really, if we look at
the way we have used dovetails,
we use them for mechanism
purposes-to hold things
together.
So, essentially, what I'm saying
is that they were using these
H-blocks for a mechanical
Purpose.
Probably to hold, uh, hinges for
a door.
NARRATOR: To test his theory,
Dunn created a door hinge that
would conned to a small-scab
model H-block.
DUNN: So if we put this
together, we put the one in
the bottom.
Like so.
One in the top part.
Like so.
And then this piece fits in
there.
Put a hinge pin in it.
And now you have your hinge.
TSOUKALOS: Yeah, it's
absolutely spectacular.
And of course, the most
fascinating question is, what
tools were used 5,000 years ago?
Because something very
sophisticated was used and not
chicken bones.
DUNN: Not chicken bones, not
copper chisels, not stone
chisels.
The tools that were used to
create these blocks at Puma
Punku do not exist in the
archaeological record.
NARRATOR: According to Dunn,
the H-blocks may have been used
to mount hinges for a massive
door, perhaps for one of the
largest temple complexes in the
ancient world.
TSOUKALOS: It's a spectacular
discovery that Chris Dunn made.
This lends a whole new meaning
to the H-blocks at Puma Punku
because, possibly, they held
something in place.
The question is: What?
NARRATOR: But Dunn's theory
on the purpose of the H-blocks
is only one of several recent
hypotheses concerning the
complex engineering found at
Puma Punku.
PAUL FRANCIS: These had a
purpose.
NARRATOR: Model maker Paul
Francis from Dandridge,
Tennessee, offers another
theory.
TSOUKALOS: So you've
recreated these H-blocks that we
can find at Puma Punku, and you
came up with a very interesting
idea where you put these blocks
together, creating what looks
like to be some type of a track.
So tell me more about what went
on in your mind.
FRANCIS: When I saw these
laid out on the table, I thought
it basically looks like some of
the World War II launch ramps
that the Germans used in testing
rocket-propelled airplanes.
When I saw this, the lightbulb
went off in my head and I said,
yeah, with some wooden skids,
this would make a perfect
launching platform for an
ancient spacecraft.
So the skid would travel down
the H-blocks, and eventually at
the end this would fall off, and
of course the airplane would
continue to go on.
And this is what I envision an
airplane looking like.
And this plane... it has an
intake.
It has your control panels, your
control surfaces, and basically,
I mean, this thing is ready to
go into outer space.
TSOUKALOS: I mean, this just
looks bad-***.
I mean, it looks really
unbelievable 'cause you've
basically taken an object that
was created by an ancient
artist and turned it into
something from a modem-day
perspective as it relates to
space travel, or at least
aviation.
NARRATOR: The concept for the
ancient spacecraft is based on
gold jewelry found in tombs near
Bogotá, Colombia.
After careful analysis and
modern testing of
reproductions of the gold
object, ancient astronaut
theorists suggest such
artifacts... nearly 1,500 years
old... are proof of modern
aerodynamic capabilities in the
ancient past.
FRANCIS: You know, when
these original sculptures
were produced, they're doing
a literal interpretation
of what they saw.
I have to take that
interpretation and I have to
make it into something that
would actually work as a
machine, so, in doing so, we've
added a cockpit, which the
original model does not have.
Also there are two small bumps
on the back of the original
sculpture, which to me indicate
rocket thrusters.
You have this cone-shaped piece,
which could have been an intake
that this person saw.
TSOUKALOS: And we know that
these objects truly fly.
We know that 'cause these
experiments have been done
before, and they were
experiments that were
repeatable, meaning they satisfy
the scientific method, and so
your idea of using the H-blocks
as a type of a launching ramp,
to me, is ingenious.
I've never heard it before, and
it's always great to explore new
ideas in this field.
NARRATOR: Might the H-blocks
at Puma Punku really have been
used as launch ramps for alien
spacecraft?
If so, what happened to these
massive, seemingly
indestructible structures?
NARRATOR: Puma Punku.
For centuries, researchers have
been unable to explain what may
have caused the total
destruction of this ancient
site.
Some believe a massive
earthquake in prehistoric times
may have scattered its megaton
stones like toy blocks.
TSOUKALOS: Puma Punku looks
like some type of a junkyard.
It's as if the whole place, at
some point, got destroyed and
ripped apart in some type of an
upheaval.
FOERSTER: Puma Punku seems to
have become a victim of a
massive flood of some kind.
Several thousand years ago.
There is evidence that a meteor
or a comet struck south of Lake
Titicaca, creating a wall of mud
at least six or ten feet tall
that covered the entire area,
and we can see evidence of that
today.
NARRATOR: At recent
excavations of Puma Punku,
researchers have discovered that
Bits of andesite stone from the
structural blocks are thoroughly
mixed in with the soil.
Might such findings of this
unusual sou composition be the
result of a large-scale
explosion in the remote past, as
ancient astronaut theorists
believe?
CHILDRESS: One possibility is
that Puma Punku was destroyed in
some artificial blast that
literally blew these buildings
apart, and then later, some
cataclysmic tidal wave also just
covered it with mud and muck.
FOERSTER: Some of these
stones are so smashed to pieces,
you can find them anywhere in
the area.
You'll find pieces of diorite
with the angles on it, so that
was part of Puma Punku.
So much of it is not simply
broken.
It's shattered to the point
where you can find little tiny
pieces of diorite anywhere you
look, and that looks to me like
an explosion happened.
CHILDRESS: When you look at
the construction techniques, it
would seem indestructible and
yet it was destroyed.
NARRATOR: But if the
structures at Puma Punku were
constructed with such precision
and with the heaviest, most
durable materials available, how
did it and up in ruins?
Is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,
that Puma Punku may have been
struck by a devastating meteor?
Or could there be an even more
incredible explanation for its
demise?
NOORY: There could have been
an alien battle out there where
they were using technology,
perhaps nuclear...
...that blew up everything in
the region.
That's very possible.
Something could have happened
with our Earth's shield where
the sun's rays came through at a
certain time and just burned
everything and obliterated it.
The only thing we know for sure
is, those people at Puma Punku
are gone.
We just don't know how or where
they went.
TSOUKALOS: I think that Puma
Punku was deliberately destroyed
by its builders...
extraterrestrials... right before
they decided to leave planet
Earth and go on lo thew next
mission.
CHILDRESS: It's hard to
imagine the devastating
destruction that occurred here.
It would seem like
extraterrestrials had some
cosmic battle on planet Earth
before they left.
COPPENS: There are various
sites across the planet where it
is said that there was contact
with nonhuman intelligences.
But when it comes to Puma Punku,
what you have is also the
archaeological remains, which
tells you something out of the
ordinary was happening here, and
when you lay upon the layer of
mythology, which says that the
gods were here, I think it is an
absolutely convincing case right
now, to conclude that Puma Punku
stands out as one of the
preeminent sites where ET will
have been in residence on this
planet.
And so the question then is,
Puma Punku being a base camp for
an ET civilization here on
planet Earth, if they left, does
that potentially mean that, when
they left, that somehow they
destroyed Puma Punku as well?
FOERSTER: If they made this
to be a factory or something, at
the end of its use they may have
simply blown it up... because
they didn't want anyone to use
the technology that they had
left behind.
CHILDRESS: The ancient Indian
epics... the Ramayana, the
Mahabharata... they're taking
about these horrific wars that
happened in the past with
airships, these vimanas,
spacecraft, huge destructive
weapons like atomic weapons, so
maybe Puma Punku was destroyed
in this ancient planetary war.
FOERSTER: Since it is unique
to the area, ii may have been an
outstation or something for
another civilization, possibly
from India, possibly from
Atlantis, possibly from...
CHILDRESS: Outer space.
FOERSTER: Exactly.
NARRATOR: Precision
stonework... unparalleled
engineering... and
incomprehensible destruction.
Was Puma Punku really built by
extraterrestrial travelers?
And if so, what was its purpose?
Was it an outpost ..
A battleground... or could it
have been a final destination?
Perhaps, one day, we will solve
the riddle and find out, once
and for all, just who we are and
why we're here.
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