Throughout the ancient world, we find mysterious structures,
carvings, and symbols that defy explanation.
For ancient astronaut theorists like me,
these are signs that our ancestors
were influenced by extraterrestrial visitors
and they represent a code
left for future generations to decipher.
One of my most favorite places to explore is India.
Its mythology is chock-full of stories
of powerful gods who came from the sky
and possessed astonishing technology,
like flying craft called
And there is evidence that the secret to this technology
has been encoded within complex geometric symbols
that are said to have been designed by the gods.
Number three on our countdown
of the top ten alien codes... mandalas.
[large bells tolling]
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the Indus Valley civilization emerged
in the Punjab Region of modern-day India and Pakistan.
Its people produced the foundational texts
for Hinduism,
which is widely regarded as the world's oldest religion,
and today has more than one billion followers.
The earliest of these texts, called the Vedas,
describe how the gods provided humankind
with a visual guide to sacred sounds.
They are represented in elaborate patterns
called mandalas.
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how to chant, how to pray,
and to sing in order to communicate with the gods.
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used to aid meditation,
often in tandem with chanting.
So what they're doing is they're
essentially translating sound into visual patterns.
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in both Hindu and Buddhist faiths.
For ancient astronaut theorists,
what is most intriguing about mandalas
is that the visual patterns do, in fact,
have a scientific connection
to the sacred sounds they are set to represent.
This was discovered, thanks to an 18th century
German physicist named Ernst Chladni
who is known as the Father of Acoustics.
In 1787, Chladni's book,
Discoveries in the Theory of Sound,
revealed that the application of sound vibrations
to grains of sand on a metal plate
creates complex geometric shapes
now known as cymatic patterns.
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and we've got a transducer attached to the bottom of it.
And they spread sand over the top of this plate,
and we start playing certain tones,
and those sand particles start to bounce around
and dance around, and they start to form
these mathematical, circular patterns.
And as we move up through these frequencies,
the sand goes into kind of a chaos in between state,
and then it arrives at this next pattern.
And the higher the frequency you go,
the more these patterns become more complex.
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the most important sacred sound is om.
For centuries, this sound has been depicted in mandalas
by a circle with a dot in the middle.
Incredibly, the sound om produces a cymatic pattern
that perfectly matches this depiction.
Other sounds also create patterns
that are found in ancient mandalas.
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that the writers of the ancient Vedic texts
were given advanced knowledge
on how sound frequencies
can be converted into visual patterns.
-[voices chanting]
that sound is an important means
of communication
with such higher intelligences?
[dong]
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contain an otherworldly message for humanity
that is based on sacred sounds?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and suggest evidence can be found
at the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in Southern India.
Standing in the temple's courtyard
are 40 ornate statues that depict
that, according to Sanskrit texts,
were navigated by the gods.
The word
means flying machines.
In Hinduism, what is clearly established--
that the gods come down from the sky using
And in the temple of Srirangam,
these carvings show
many different types of
And what's really unique is that under these
we are able to see some very interesting
patterns of mandala.
According to legend, each type of
can be activated with a specific type of mandala.
I believe that much of ancient ecology
was activated with specific types of frequencies.
And if we crack this visual code,
if we crack this cymatic pattern,
we might actually unlock the secret
to power these
[Giorgio]
crop circles.
[edgy music plays]
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April 24, 2022.
A mysterious geometric pattern
emerges in a field of mustard plants.
The perfectly symmetrical design
is a phenomenon known as a crop circle.
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basically, um, features, designs,
illustrations of high complexity in crops.
They tend to be complicated designs of unknown origin.
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to elaborate pictograms hundreds of feet across.
They have been found in various crops
including wheat, barley, oilseed rape,
and corn.
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they've been undergoing this amazing
sort of ramp-up in sophistication.
You can find these huge what they call pictographs
that span hundreds of feet across a whole field
and feature multiple components,
and they're arranged with mathematical precision.
Crop circles appear in more than 50 countries.
And there literally have been thousands of them,
maybe over 10,000 crop circles
that we're aware of in the modern era.
One of the first, in 1966,
it was Tully, Queensland, Australia.
A farmer heard a buzzing sound,
and literally saw this big, round,
maybe 30-feet diameter craft, disc,
rising up out of what essentially
was marshy, reedy ground.
And it goes up and disappears.
Something keeps laying things down in sequence
as if it has a big picture
of how it is communicating with this planet,
but it is doing so in pieces.
What in the world is making these patterns and why?
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that the answer may be encoded
within the crop circles themselves
and might have critical implications for mankind.
As evidence, they point to an elaborate formation
that appeared in Wroughton, England in 2008.
One formation had everyone baffled,
and people were saying, "Well, what is this?"
Then a mathematician had a look at it and said,
"Wait a minute. That's a representation of pi,
and it's correct, down to ten decimal places."
It's a representation of pi in a geometric sense.
It's kind of interesting
because the way you get pi out of it
is the lengths of the different arcs in each segment.
And what happens is there's these little notches
in the spiral that let you know you're at the end of an arc.
So you have to measure the arc lengths as you go around,
and their lengths give you the digits of pi.
And there's a little circle to give you the decimal point.
So it's a really interesting example of using geometry
as a code for representing digits and numbers.
Many of the most famous crop circles
actually derive from fractal patterns,
which is a mathematical shape--
the Mandelbrot set.
The Julia set.
To make these, you have to have knowledge of math.
Mathematics is, of course, the universal language.
Could crop circles, as some believe,
be an attempt from an alien civilization
to reach out and communicate with us?
[Giorgio]
the genetic code.
[narrator]
Farmers digging a well come across a mysterious object
15 feet beneath the earth--
a six-foot long carved limestone egg.
Known as the Algarve egg, it has been dated
to at least 3,500 B.C.
And scientists conclude it could be even older.
But what interests ancient astronaut theorists the most
is a mysterious pattern etched on its surface.
[dramatic musical sting]
[Giorgio]
it had a symbol on it
that looked like intertwined serpents.
Or they can also be interpreted as DNA strands,
and the idea of the double helix
wasn't invented-- or wasn't discovered by us human beings
until well into the 20th century.
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found on the Algarve egg shows the DNA double helix?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and suggest that this genetic symbol
can be found throughout the ancient world.
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on different antique rocks and steles.
Just for example,
look at the Sumerian steles.
There you see so-called flying genies
or winged genies.
Between these winged genies
is something which archeology calls
the tree of life.
But if you look at the tree of life,
it's in reality a DNA spiral.
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appears in ancient carvings and artwork
when it wasn't discovered by modern scientists
until 1953?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
clues have been hidden within our own cells.
In 2013, Kazakhstani scientists
Vladimir Shcherbak and Maxim Makukov
published a shocking proposal:
that there is an intelligent code
that can be found in our own DNA.
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that there was a certain amount of mathematical precision
and what's known as a digital checking
built into our DNA like computer codes have,
checking codes to make sure all the other codes are right.
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was introduced by Charles Darwin in 1859,
scientists have searched for a so-called missing link
that connects humans to our hominid ancestors.
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
this evolutionary leap
was made by extraterrestrial manipulation of our DNA.
[Giorgio]
for the ancient astronaut theory
will not happen because
we'll discover a buried spaceship somewhere
or a ray gun in a tomb...
...but rather inside of our own DNA.
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looking for secret messages in our DNA.
And some of my friends take this to the nth degree
and say, "Maybe aliens from outer space
have left us a message.
Maybe there's a message there,
hidden by an advanced civilization
that says, 'Here we are, folks. We created you.
And to prove it, we left a code for you in
Well, we can't rule it out.
[dramatic musical sting]
The idea that extraterrestrials
placed a hidden message in our DNA
is not only sensational, but also entirely possible.
And one thing is clear--
whether they're standing stones,
elaborate mandalas,
or massive geoglyphs...
perhaps by deciphering these alien codes,
we will unlock the truth
about our extraterrestrial past.