Ancient Civilizations

>> In 2015, astrophysicists Duncan Lorimer and Maura

McLaughlin stumbled upon a strangely-flickering star.

Its radiation pulsed so brightly,

they were unable to match it to any known

object in the universe.

As the story made the headlines, scientists around the world

were baffled.

Then, astronomers at the Green Bank Telescope

confirmed that these light signals

were emanating from a star in the Cygnus constellation

1,200 light years away.

This fluctuating star was cataloged KIC 8462852

and named Tabby's Star in honor of Tabetha Suzanne

Boyajian, the first astronomer who wrote about it.

>> Amongst the 100,000 stars that was dipping its light,

or flux as they call it, periodically.

Now, this is something which happens if a planet moves

in front of a star.

You get a very slight dip in the amount of light

that's reaching us.

In this case, the dips were anything up to 22%.

Now if I can put this into perspective, if, let's say,

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system,

crosses in front of the sun.

If you were looking at it from afar,

it would dip the lights only about 1%.

So something that was dipping the light, anything up to 22%,

is going to be huge, massive, something

that is totally different.

Something that we've not encountered

before in astronomy.

So what was going on?

>> Since 2015, the answer to this question has garnered

the attention of astronomers, scientists,

and space enthusiasts alike.

And a myriad of explanations have been offered,

but none have been conclusive.

What is really odd about this mystery is that,

uncharacteristically, even the most staunch scientists

have not discounted a popular hypothesis

that the expansive object interrupting Tabby star's

brightness could be built by an advanced space-faring

civilization.

Astoundingly, the BBC have even released a documentary

advocating this theory.

Could it really be true?

>> Then in 2016, a new burst was detected.

The distinctive pulse of radio waves

released as the neutron stars collided and were destroyed.

Followed by nothing.

Silence.

>> The BBC have shown for the first time a documentary,

not just about this star, but the fact that it almost

certainly has an ET vessel, alien mega-structure around it.

We're not just talking about bacteria.

We are talking about advanced civilizations.

Thousands of years more advanced than us down here on Earth.

The question comes is that, if there really

is a structure around this star, how does it affect us down

here?

I mean, is it possible that these aliens

have been in touch with us in some way in the recent past,

or perhaps even in the distant past?

And the question comes down to communication.

The star is approximately 1,300 light years

from our solar system, which means

that when we're looking towards it, anything we see

happened 1,300 years ago.

So that's around 700 AD.

The Maya civilization was still full flight.

When they look at us, of course they

are also looking at that same timeframe around 700 AD.

>> Linda Moulton Howe's theory suggests that the Mayan

civilization was created in a hybridized program,

and then simply disappeared, possibly off-planet.

Oddly enough, this connects to the same timeframe

with the Tabby star.

Could there be an ancient civilization

that once lived on Earth trying to connect with us?

>> I will be sought out by some people who have worked

for the CIA, NSA, DIA.

There was a man who had said that he

had worked for the Central Intelligence Agency.

And he said that was the Mayan civilization created

in a hybridized program.

That there was a collaboration teaching

tall of the mathematical skills from history.

Then in 850 AD, it wasn't drought.

It wasn't human war.

This man said to me, for reasons unknown,

the Ebens came in 850 AD, and they

took the majority of their hybridized Mayans

in a large craft and left Earth.

>> Could the Mayan disappearance and the Tabby star anomaly be

linked?

Or could this mystery in the sky actually have

a more ancient connection?

An ancient connection that some believe

taps into the codes of our planet.

>> Those astronomers, they also said that these dips

in the lights could also be used to broadcast information.

Whether this information be binary.

Whether it be prime numbers or some other form

of attention-seeking information,

which a species like ourself-- humanity--

could recognize as intelligent, as universal information.

The work that I'm carrying out suggests

that there is intelligence in the broadcasts.

And that it may well be that it is giving us not just

prime numbers or binary, but very specific

mathematical formula.

What I have determined is that there

are certain cycles associated with the Kepler data.

They are all interlinked.

And they all reflect certain key numbers.

All of them are multiples of 11.

Now, this may be just a very simple piece of information.

But what's so interesting is that we

find that this is associated with the most

complex mathematical formula that we have down here

on Earth.

For instance, Pascal's Triangle is made up of multiples of 11.

It's like a pyramid of numbers.

The first number being 1, the second number being 11,

the third number being 121, the fourth number being 1,331.

11 squared, 11 cubed, et cetera, et cetera.

These are exactly the same numbers

that are being broadcast from the KIC star right

at this moment.

This is where it gets weird, because the Great Pyramid is

obviously one of the greatest enigmas of the ancient world.

Certain researchers, colleagues have found within it

certain key numbers that keep cropping up again and again.

And those numbers are the exact numbers

that are being broadcast by this star KIC 8462852.

Is this a coincidence?

The Great Pyramid and its two neighbors

are aligned to exactly the same constellation as where

this star is, which is Cygnus.

>> And yet, just 1,000 miles Northeast,

another megalithic site that is much older also points

to the Cygnus constellation.

In fact, it's the largest and oldest megalithic site

on Earth, Gobekli Tepe.

>> Is it also a coincidence that the oldest complex of stone

monuments in the world at Gobekli Tepe in Southeast

Turkey is also aligned to the constellation of Cygnus?

Is it also a coincidence that in some of the oldest cave

art around the world, we find evidence

of this same constellation represented by celestial birds,

by bird men, birds on poles, that all pointed and directed

towards this constellation?

>> I wish we could get into the minds and into the heads

of the people who made these sites.

All over the world in megalithic structures,

they are all concerned with lining themselves up

to the rising point of the sun at certain times of the year.

They're telling us something about our connection

to the cosmos and our place on Earth.

>> Could Gobekli Tepe, the oldest megalithic structure

on the planet, be revealing a code that would connect us not

only to this anomaly in the sky, but also to other ancient sites

around the world?

Translated into English, Gobekli Tepe means "potbellied hill."

In 1994, Klaus Schmidt, an archaeologist from Germany,

began digging into this unnatural-looking bluff.

A few feet below the surface, he discovered stone ruins.

Further investigation revealed that this ancient formation

in Southern Turkey was 7,000 years older than Stonehenge,

throwing into question much of what

has been written in the history books.

Klaus Schmidt dedicated his life's work

to uncovering what might lie below the surface,

and continued to excavate until he mysteriously died in 2014.

95% of the ruins are still buried.

And the true purpose of Gobekli Tepe

and its relationship to the galaxy

is still an unsolved mystery.

>> Most archaeologists believe the site is about 13,000 years

old.

And they believe it existed for a couple of thousand years,

and then it was deliberately buried.

Now, as far as I'm concerned, it could date back much further

than that.

Because there is evidence in Turkey that humans like

us existed millions of years ago.

>> Gregg Braden points out that more evidence is being

uncovered, pushing back the date of antiquity.

Could Gobekli Tepe be even older?

>> One of the consequences of global warming is that the ice

on the poles has receded tremendously,

including Antarctica.

And the thickness of the ice as it is reduced

allows greater visibility from Earth-penetrating radar

so we can see what's underneath the ice.

One of the surprises is that the satellite images

are sending back now what appear to be

large-scale, complex archaeological sites.

So they're not small hunting villages and pit houses.

These look like advanced technological civilizations