Ancient Aliens

A mysterious formation...

carved out of the Earth...

gone unnoticed for thousands of years.

It’s really, really striking

when you first see it.

It looks so much like a human face.

Is it an ancient megalithic structure

made to be seen from the sky?

The Badlands Guardian looks artificial.

It doesn’t look like a trick of nature.

And could it be

not only a link to mankind’s extraterrestrial ancestors...

So you have to ask yourself,

who were they emulating?

...but one that holds the key

to their return?

We learned their codes

and their secret symbolism,

and what we’re seeing probably holds...

a key to our legacy.

There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan.

2005.

53-year-old grandmother Lynn Hickox

is scanning GPS driving directions

to a local museum on satellite view

when something catches her eye:

a geographical feature that bears a striking resemblance

to a human face.

It looks so much like a man-made structure

that she posts the image on a message board.

Almost overnight, the image goes viral

and becomes known far and wide

as the "Badlands Guardian."

It is quite striking. It is clearly a face.

The brow, the nose, the lips, the chin are well formed.

The headdress a little less so,

but clearly could be seen as feathers.

The Badlands Guardian appears to be a huge geoglyph

near Alberta, Canada.

And to see it from Google Earth or from satellite imagery,

you would think it was created by people many, many years ago.

"Geo" means Earth, and glyphs are symbols,

so "geoglyph" means symbols on the Earth.

They can be geometric designs, they can be...

animals, they can be faces.

Some of them are carved

into the ground, like we find in Nazca.

And in some places they’re built up,

mounds built up on the Earth.

The Badlands Guardian

is a bust, or a head and shoulders presentation,

of a male indigenous person.

It is so striking,

because that is the indigenous people of the area.

It doesn’t look like a Scotsman wearing a kilt.

It doesn’t look like an African warrior.

It looks like an indigenous, uh, native to the area.

Is it possible that the likeness of a human face

naturally formed in the Earth?

Many who have examined the Badlands Guardian

suggest that, based on the amount of detail it displays,

this is highly unlikely.

When the mainstream scientific community

looks at the Badlands Guardian,

their first explanation is that it was created by weathering,

uh, rain and water runoff.

But there’s just so much detail

that we’re seeing in this formation

that it goes way beyond anything nature could make.

It not only has basic facial features,

it has secondary facial features, such as the eyelid.

The only thing missing from the Badlands Guardian

is an ear feature.

Now, the interesting thing about that is,

the local government in Canada,

they had found a gas deposit there,

right where the ear should be.

There might have been an ear there at one time,

but now, because they put an access road there

and they built this gas feature, that was all erased.

Archaeologists are often mistaken about ancient sites.

And what is actually a pyramid that’s now, say,

covered in soil and has a forest on it

can be mistaken for just a natural hill.

This has happened in... in South America, in China,

Archaeologists are continually finding

that things they think are natural

are actually artificial.

Some of the geoglyphs found around the world

were formed simply by removing the top layer of soil

to expose the lighter colored dirt underneath.

But if the Badlands Guardian is also a geoglyph,

creating it would have been an enormous undertaking.

The massive concave formation is almost half a mile long

and it is over 1,100 feet wide.

For comparison,

the Mount Rushmore National Monument in South Dakota,

which was completed in 1941,

is approximately 80 feet tall

and 200 feet wide.

And while it is only a fraction of the size

of the Badlands Guardian,

constructing it required an enormous amount of work,

even with modern technology.

The carving officially started in 1927,

and it was considered complete in 1941.

My grandfather was on the mountain

approximately from 1933 to 1941.

He was chief carver on Mount Rushmore.

It took about 400 workers.

It took 14 years.

And when I think about the amount of time and effort

that it took for people in the ’30s

to create Mount Rushmore,

I can’t even begin to imagine

what the person or persons had to do,

working on something the size of the Badlands Guardian.

I-I can’t even wrap my head around it.

How was it possible that the people that carved this

thousands of years ago

were able to see what they were doing

or know what they were doing?

They must have had assistance by extraterrestrial beings.

The Badlands Guardian can only be

fully appreciated from the sky.

So you have to wonder why.

Well, then the answer is:

people on the ground wanted

to signal someone up in the sky.

For ancient astronaut theorists,

the Badlands Guardian could offer

some of the most compelling new evidence

that extraterrestrial intervention occurred on Earth

in the distant past--

that is, if it really is an artificial structure.

Boston, Massachusetts.

February 2019.

Aerospace engineer

and satellite imaging expert Mark Carlotto

has spent countless hours examining

the Badlands Guardian to see if he can determine for certain

whether it is something other than a natural formation.

The image of the Badlands Guardian

is very striking as this Native American figure,

and there are some properties that are unusual.

So I did some analysis,

uh, using some imaging software

and the height map of the feature.

We’ll start with an overview

of the Badlands Guardian image here.

We see the figure in the middle of the image here,

and notice the surrounding landform’s

very similar in morphology.

So, now what we’ll do is we’ll zoom up on the figure.

You can see it a little bit more clearly,

the, um, this iconic face, so...

what can we do to bring out, you know, some information?

Well, we ran a program that extracts the height,

or elevation, uh, from the figure.

And the way it’s depicted here is... is: dark is low

and bright is high.

So now, after we’ve taken the image and texture-mapped it

onto the elevation surface, we can view it in 3D.

And, um, now I’m moving around it

and viewing it like we might see it in a drone.

And as you can see, when you’re looking straight down

on the Badlands Guardian,

it’s, uh, this uncanny resemblance

to a Native American.

But as we look off angle,

and as we look at it from ground level,

simulated ground level, you see the illusion disappears.

So clearly this feature, if it was created,

was meant to be viewed from above.

One important factor for Mark

is how information looks when the lighting changes.

If the Badlands Guardian still appears as a face

under different conditions, it could strengthen the argument

that it’s an artificial structure.

And as you can see, what we’ve simulated here in these views

are noontime views, so the Sun is at noon,

in the summer...

the spring or fall and the winter.

Notice in the winter the shadows are longer.

The Sun is lower in the sky.

And in all three, you definitely get this impression of a face.

It implies it’s very interesting,

and if it’s not, uh, artificially created,

nature is having a great joke on us.

To me, the Badlands Guardian looks artificial.

It doesn’t look like a trick of nature