Ancient Aliens

A tribe gone missing.

it was some kind of harvest.

It was an experiment.

A city mysteriously abandoned.

All of a sudden they disappear. We don't know where they have gone.

And an entire culture...

that dropped off the face of the Earth.

Have they been abducted? Have they been beamed up?

Throughout history and across the globe...

there have been accounts of mass disappearances...

that defy explanation.

But did these people suffer some horrible fate?

Or might they have been taken...

by extraterrestrial visitors?

Ultimately, they vanished.

And we don't know what happened to them.

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 they be responsible...

for mankind's most mysterious disappearances?

Nunavut Territory, Canada.

Located at the northernmost point of the country...

and stretching across most of the Canadian Arctic...

the Nunavut Territory...

is among the most sparsely populated regions on Earth.

Yet Inuit tribes have continuously inhabited the region...

for at least 4,000 years.

Because of its remoteness...

most people had not heard of the region until 1930...

when it first made headlines across North American newspapers...

with the report of the mysterious disappearance...

of an entire Inuit tribe.

A fur trapper by the name of Joe Labelle...

comes upon a small village...

and it's empty.

There are tents. There are shelters.

There's a fire. There's stew in a pot on the fire.

But there's nobody around.

There were graves in this village...

where every top of every grave...

had been lifted off...

and every dead person was gone.

There was no sign of violence or disturbance...

in the Anjikuni village...

to explain how an estimated 25 men, women and children...

would have vanished.

After the disappearance was first publicized...

other details began to emerge.

When the Royal Canadian Mounted Police got to the village...

and they went around and talked with locals...

they were hearing all about strange things in the sky.

The Mounties themselves saw blue lights...

twinkling and hovering and moving around on the horizon...

as if being watched by something in the sky.

One thing that makes the Anjikuni case really stand out...

is the fact that the entire village was just gone.

And that is something that we don't see too often...

but we do see it now and again.

Possibly that demonstrates a very disturbing aspect of the UFO phenomenon.

Could it be that the Anjikuni tribe...

actually disappeared from the face of the Earth?

Some ancient astronaut theorists...

claim that accounts of mass disappearances...

can be traced back thousands of years...

to some of our earliest civilizations.

What is happening on all of the mass disappearances?

Nobody knows.

In the mass disappearances...

where cultures or towns or villages have disappeared in Earth history...

nobody has come back.

Throughout ancient history...

there are various reports of large amounts of people...

just completely disappearing from the Earth...

and going to some unknown place.

We don't know, but it's possible that this is connected...

in fact, to extraterrestrials.

Is it possible that there ls a common thread...

linking mass disappearances throughout history?

And if extraterrestrials have, in fact, been removing...

entire groups of people from the planet since ancient times...

what might their purpose be?

Perhaps further evidence can be found...

by examining recently discovered artifacts...

left behind by a lost ancient civilization.

Guanghan City, China, 1986.

Construction workers unearth two sacrificial pits...

that contain the relics of a long-lost civilization.

The cache contains hundreds of bronze and gold masks...

statues and figurines...

in addition to numerous marble and jade artifacts.

Chinese historians consider the discovery...

one of the most important finds of the 20th century...

and date the site back between 3,000 and 5,000 years...

to the very start of Chinese civilization.

Before the Sanxingdui discovery...

Chinese civilization was understood to have arisen...

from the Yellow River basin- basically, one spot in China.

This discovery showed that there were other very advanced cultures...

on the periphery of the Yellow River basin...

that also heavily contributed to the formation of Chinese civilization.

Nobody wrote about the culture at Sanxingdui.

There's nothing that comes up in Chinese texts...

and the Chinese are very good at documenting their history.

So one of the most surprising things...

is how a culture that was so sophisticated...

could slide under the radar of history.

The Sanxingdui culture left no written record.

No human remains have been found.

And according to their artifacts...

they appear to have only existed for 350 years.

For some unknown reason...

the artifacts were broken, burned...

and placed into two pits...

and covered up...

rendering them useless.

So it's very curious as to why that happened.

Adding to the intrigue of the vanished civilization-

they left behind dozens of bronze heads...

with odd features.

On November 1, 2007...

the official press agency of China...

asked the question...

whether or not what we're looking at here are ancestors...

or, in fact, extraterrestrials.

And my question is...

what if what we have here is both?

If you check out this one right here-

Look at the eyes.

Now, why would any artisan carve or create something like this?

Because our eyes don't look like this.

The whole thing is very bizarre-looking.

It is not necessarily human.

It is something else.

The masks look very unusual.

They have big ears, big eyes.

They don't look like normal human beings of today.

Could it be that the masks found...

at the Sanxingdui site...

are depicting ancient astronauts who visited our planet in the remote past?

And if so...

could this help explain the abrupt disappearance...

of a seemingly advanced civilization?

Ultimately, they vanish...

and we don't know what happened to them.

So were they some kind of extraterrestrial civilization...

or human hybrid civilization?

Then were ultimately airlifted out at some point in time...

and perhaps moved to another place?

Is it possible that the Sanxingdui...

as well as other ancient civilizations...

were literally taken off the face of the Earth?

And if so, why?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest...

that clues can be found by examining the stories of Easter Island...

and a lost tribe of giants.

The Southeast Pacific Ocean.

Rape Nui, or Easter Island, as it has become known...

is one of the most remote places on the planet.

The nearest inhabited island is 1,100 miles to the west...

and its nearest continental country, Chile, is over 2,000 miles away.

Scattered around the perimeter of the island...

most with their backs to the sea...

stand nearly 300 massive stone figures...

known as the moan.

Most are between 75 to 20 feel tall.

But the tallest stands over 70 feet...

and the heaviest weighs up to 165 tons.

Why did these people go to such great effort...

to build these giant statues?

No one else in Polynesia was doing that.

When you talk to the people of Easter Island today...

the Rapa Nui people...

they say they were doing them to honor...

certain important ancestral ariki or rulers.

These moais are images of great ancestors.

Some ancient astronaut theorists have suggested...

that the moai may have been erected by a lost race of giants...

that once inhabited the island.

Interestingly, C.F. Behrens...

a member of the Dutch expedition team...

that first discovered the island in 1722...

described some of the priestly class of inhabitants...

as Goliaths.

C.F. Behrens reported that he saw giant people.

Someone had rode up to their boat that was some 15 foot tall.

He really made a big deal of these giants on the island.

When the first explorers landed on Easter Island...

what they found was that there were two types of people there-

there were the short ears and the long ears.

The long ears were often described as giants...

and they were a different race from the short ears.

Presumably they had these very, very long ears and earlobes.

And they were the priestly caste.

They were directing the creation and the movement of these statues...

around the islands.

They were said to be so tall...