San Agustín Archaeological
Park in Colombia
is located along the west bank
of the Magdalena River, near a place
where it converges with two other rivers.
It is a location that ancient astronaut theorists believe
has a startling, and not accidental, significance.
MOHAN: They could have set up this site anywhere,
but why did they choose San Agustín in Colombia?
In India, we have this place called Triveni Sangam
where three great rivers meet,
and that site is chosen as a sacred site.
We have a lot of temples in this place.
Whoever came from India to here
chose this place,
because this is where all these three rivers meet.
And to find a place like this,
you needed to have aerial survey.
They were using the vimanas,
which is why they set up this ancient Shiva temple here.
NARRATOR: Vimanas?
The extraterrestrial flying machines
that are described in the Mahabharata,
the ancient Hindu text?
Is it possible that Hindu explorers
made the journey from India to South America
and then settled in this region centuries ago?
And could they have made that journey--
a distance of some 12,000 miles--
by means of a vimana?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and they believe that the answer
to what compelled them to come there
can be found by examining
one of the ancient stone statues
located in San Agustín Archaeological Park.
This was the final statue that I wanted you to look at.
-Pretty curious, huh? -Yeah.
I don't know what to call this except a spaceman.
You can see that he's wearing
some kind of a helmet.
It looks like he has a visor, he's got two rectangular eyes
and a rectangular mouth. He has no nose.
He's holding this,
what they call a power staff.
MOHAN: But what's really fascinating about that
is he's holding that long cylinder,
and, if you look carefully, it's going even below his feet.
He's using that cylinder
to go into the ground.
Now, this is very interesting because, in Hindu culture,
there's a god called Swarna Kala Bhairava,
and he's the god of gold,
And he uses a tool called keyla,
and he uses it to go into the ground
and mine gold.
It could be a special probe that you can
put in the ground and detect gold and minerals.
So perhaps he is
the extraterrestrial that is guiding them.
He's a spaceman in a spacesuit
with his gold mining tools.
NARRATOR: A spaceman mining gold?
In 1976, author and researcher Zecharia Sitchin
published a book called
in which he translated and interpreted
the writings of humanity's earliest known civilization:
the Sumerians.
According to Sitchin,
the beings described in the texts-- the Anunnaki--
were, in fact, visitors from another planet.
They created humankind as slaves
that could be forced to mine the gold
the Anunnaki needed to power their spacecraft.
CHILDRESS: San Agustín is still
a remote mountain area today,
and coming here in ancient times
would have been extremely difficult.
But this was a gold-bearing area,
and if you're looking for gold, this is the place to come.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the strange carvings found in the area
can be proof that Sitchin's incredible theory is true?
And that an ancient race of people
traveled from Asia to South America
in pursuit of a metal they had been taught
to consider not just essential but sacred?
When you talk about how this place
was used for gold, you know,
how they were mining gold as offerings to gods,
that's exactly what Hindus do, even today.
And Colombia, and right here,
in this remote spot, is land of gold.
So much of the gold in South America
-came from right here. -Mm-hmm.
So, this is what they were looking for-- gold.
And they came here and they found it.
They're flying here, they're creating a place like this,
they're also sending ships across the Pacific Ocean.
-They're bringing power tools. -Mm-hmm.
And when they're not mining,
they're creating these amazing statues,
and there are hundreds of them all over here.
MOHAN: Your theory about people
and Maya's moving from South India
and coming here all the way to South America,
this is all tying together.
We have an extraterrestrial god
who comes down and he mines for gold,
and he builds an entire civilization.
Think that makes a lot of sense.