Ancient Aliens

The mass destruction of an ancient culture.

Their art, their philosophy,

their scientific findings... he burned the whole thing.

Lost texts that could have offered evidence

of extraterrestrial contact from across the globe.

Literally, people were coming

from all over the world to Mexico at this time.

Here we are in the middle

of South America in a remote site

that looks exactly like Hindu carvings.

-How is that possible? -It’s amazing.

Could the Vatican still be hiding proof

of mankind’s ancient alien origins?

I predict thousands

as-of-yet undiscovered sites

will finally show that our ancestors

made contact with extraterrestrials.

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.

The Yucatán Peninsula.

1549.

A fleet of Spanish galleons arrive

on the coast of the New World.

And with them is a small army of Roman Catholic priests,

who, during what is the height of the Inquisition,

are determined to rescue the pagan souls

of the natives for Almighty God.

And leading them... direct from the Vatican...

is the fanatical Franciscan friar Diego de Landa.

During the Spanish colonial period

in what we call Mexico Yucatán,

the cradle of Mayan civilization,

it was the priests who had a lot of power because the Vatican

was one of the most powerful nations on the Earth.

Diego de Landa came over

wanting to teach Christian understandings

and principles to the Mayans,

but was probably intimidated by the vast wealth of knowledge

that he actually saw that they had tapped into.

The Mayan civilization that Friar Diego de Landa came upon

had thrived in the rain-drenched jungles

and fertile plains of Central America

for more than 2,000 years.

The Spanish conquerors found pyramids,

they found temples, they found paved roads

and they found thousands and thousands of Maya handwritings,

thousands of it.

We have a lot of very interesting information

that comes out of this culture we call the Maya.

They have been revered for many things in their knowledge base,

especially around time and concepts of math and science,

and the movements of the solar system.

But while the Maya were in many ways culturally advanced,

their religious beliefs were notoriously bloodthirsty.

They believed in human sacrifice,

and as far as Friar Diego de Landa was concerned,

did so at the expense of their eternal souls.

It was a clash of cultures

that would not end well for the Maya people.

Diego de Landa, later, when he was back in Spain again,

he wrote down, "We found thousands of handwritings

"of the Indians.

But they all contained just a Devil’s thing."

A new teaching, a new religion comes into a place

where there is a very strong adherence to a body of ideas.

We have a competitive situation.

One maneuver is to destroy

as much evidence of the old way as you can,

and that will help reduce its grip.

"It’s not sacred anymore, this is just stuff,

so we can burn it with impunity."

On July 12, 1562,

the Catholic priests,

with the armed assistance of the Spanish military,

executed what was known during the Inquisition

as an auto-da-fé, or "act of faith,"

whereby the Maya population

was forced to declare their religious conversion

to Christianity or be put to death.

It was also a day that reportedly saw the destruction

of all of the Maya sacred scrolls

and more than 5,000 priceless images,

an entire historical record.

There were thousands of books called codices,

probably scrolls, burned.

All their art, their philosophy, their scientific findings,

the accumulative knowledge of this great civilization,

they burned the whole thing.

But by burning the vast knowledge accumulated

by the Maya, did Friar Diego de Landa

also destroy something of even greater historical value?

Might he have erased all traces

of the Maya’s extraterrestrial ancestors?

There’s very interesting information told to us

by the Mayan elders that still exist today.

They speak of a time that they were led to this land

by the sky people.

Could they be referencing some type of lost race,

even possibly extraterrestrial in nature?

They seemed to have knowledge of math and science,

which we can’t explain how they got this information.

When you ask them, "How did they gain

all of this amazing information?"

they always reference, "We learned it from the sky people."

There were traditions in ancient Mexico

of a great teacher arriving on the Gulf Coast.

And when he arrived, he brought with him

the arts of civilization.

We know the tradition may have originated

with a great civilization

who were around long before the Maya,

but no one knows who they really were,

or where they really came from.

Tres Zapotes, Mexico,

1938.

Archeologist Matthew Stirling,

chief of the Smithsonian’s Bureau of American Ethnology,

follows up on a report that had gone unexamined

for more than 70 years, the discovery by a local farmer

of an ancient megalithic sculpture.

Stirling’s investigation results in a remarkable find:

a giant stone head buried in the ground.

It was the first in what, to date,

has become a total of 17 such heads,

each weighing a staggering eight tons,

and all estimated to be some 3,000 years old.

It is a date which suggests that the heads were carved

not by the Maya,

but by an even older civilization, the Olmecs.

The Olmecs, uh,

they’re often called the mother culture of Mesoamerica.

They are the first complex culture

of any size and significance in that part of the world.

The Olmec people come into existence

probably about 1400 BC

in the Tabasco region of what is today Mexico.

But then, very suddenly, you have the rise

of a full-blown society and civilization.

And the question becomes "Where did the Olmec come from?"

The controversy is that many of the beautifully carved statues

and stelae seemed to show African men.

They appear to be not native to the New World,

but are native to sub-Saharan Africa.

This is not scientific physical anthropology,

but just the appearance of these things is pretty suggestive.

And they also show Chinese, Vietnamese, possibly Polynesian

and even Caucasian people carved into solid rock.

So, there’s big mystery about the Olmecs.

Where are all these people coming from?

Early archeologists were dumbfounded by all of these

different racial characteristics

that we’re seeing in the Olmec figurines and statues.

Literally, people were coming from all over the world

to Mexico at this time.

And how did they do that?

Do the Olmec heads and artifacts

present evidence that this ancient civilization

had its genetic origins not in South America,

as many mainstream archeologists believe,

but thousands of miles away, and on the other side of the Earth?

But how?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

the answer may be found after a careful examination

of a number of extraordinary Olmec artifacts

found in La Venta, Mexico.

In La Venta, we have carvings

that show the Olmecs in very bizarre scenes.

One of them is this plumed serpent,

this snake that appears to be floating in the sky,

and then down below, you actually see a person

sitting inside this flying snake.

And so you have to wonder if somehow the Olmecs

had access to aviation technology,

and I personally think they did,

because at the Museum of Natural History in New York City,

there is a Olmec figurine.

He is clearly wearing some type of a pressurized suit.

He has some type of controls with tubes on his chest.

On the side, you have six wings coming out of him.

In my opinion, it is the smoking gun of our ancestors

having access to aviation technology

thousands of years ago.

Is it possible that the ancestors of the Olmec people

had come to South America from far across the ocean?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and believe the way they got there

may not have been in ships, but across the skies,

in extraterrestrially-designed spacecraft.

San Agustín, Colombia.

March 27, 2019.

Ancient astronaut theorist David Childress

has come to this remote mountain town

to explore and study a site that has baffled