Ancient Aliens

Ancient calendars forecasting a deadly countdown.

The Maya have this opinion that what's

happened in the past will happen again.

A galactic alignment,

triggering a wave of natural disasters.

It's like having a whole bunch of massive

earthquakes at the same time.

Could our planet really be headed for extinction?

These changes could be life-changing or they

could be life-ending.

Or is there another agenda, one even more profound?

Each age for the Mayans was clearly defined.

And it was defined by the gods returning.

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 evidence of alien contact help to unlock the

mystery behind the Mayan prophecies of doom?

Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula.

For over 2,000 years, rain-drenched jungles and

fertile plains served as the home of one of the ancient

world's greatest civilizations.

The Maya.

Scholars estimate that between 250 and 900 A.D., the Mayan

population consisted of between 15 to 20 million people,

and extended as far south as Costa Rica and Guatemala.

Archeological evidence suggests the Maya were one of the first

ancient people to develop a written language, use modern

mathematical methods, and build massive, multi-story celestial

observatories.

All at a time when Europeans were struggling through the

so-called Dark Ages.

The Maya are considered one of the great

advanced civilizations with hyper-advanced astronomy,

astronomy, trigonometry, architecture, all of these

things while the Europeans were at the time rolling around in the mud.

But perhaps the most amazing Mayan achievement

was their system of charting the stars and planets in the form of

a calendar.

The Mayans were timekeepers above and beyond all other things.

Keeping up with time was magic, it was power to the Mayans.

They were tracking, in particular, Venus,

the phases of the moon, eclipses, but they also tracked

precession, which is an extraordinarily long cycle.

What it means is that every year on, say, March 15, the Pleiades

rise for the first time in the sky.

If you wait 72 years, the day of the rising of the Pleiades will

be one day earlier.

If you wait another 72 years, it'll be a day earlier still.

And if you wait 26,000 years, the Pleiades will move back to

that same day.

According to scholars, the Maya believed that

time, like the stars, moved in repeating patterns called

calendar cycles and that these cycles could be used to predict future events.

One of these calendar cycles, the Mayan Long Count, lasts for

5,125 years and will end on December 21, 2012.

But why?

Why did the Maya choose this date?

And what did they believe would happen to our world?

Perhaps a clue can be found in an astronomical phenomenon

located at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, an area where

there are no stars.

The Mayans knew.

Not only did they know where the center of the galaxy was, but

they understood that it was a light-year-across black hole

that they called the Great Rift.

The Maya believed this was the birth canal of the

universe, and that all things came from the birth canal of the universe.

And on December 21, 2012, the Earth, the sun, and this birth

canal, the Dark Rift, are all in perfect alignment.

And this only happens every 26,000 years.

Could the fact that the Maya Long Count calendar

ends on the same day as this rare alignment in the Milky Way

Galaxy be a mere coincidence?

And did this advanced understanding of celestial

cycles really come from ancient Mayan astronomers observing the

stars with only their naked eyes?

The Mayans believed that this knowledge came to them

from their gods, and their gods then existed in the stars.

So, is it possible that these gods could have been extraterrestrials?

The answer to that question is yes, it's possible.

According to the Maya

themselves, this knowledge was

not something that they came up with, but it was given to them

as a gift from the gods.

The gift back then was not material stuff.

It was knowledge.

Knowledge is the currency of the universe.

But even if the information pertaining to the

Long Count calendar comes from an otherworldly or

extraterrestrial source, why 2012?

What is it about this date that has a special significance?

Researchers believe a clue may recently have been found among

the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Tortuguero.

One that was pieced together from broken fragments of a panel

of hieroglyphs known as Monument Number Six.

In my opinion, the one and only clear

reference to the date in the Long Count that arrives in 2012

is on Tortuguero Monument Six.

Basically, the inscription in Tortuguero

was half destroyed, and everybody assumed that what it

was saying was that the nine gods would return on December

21, 2012, but because there was some destruction on that

inscription, certain things were implied.

For years, scholars dismissed the evidence

found at the Tortuguero monument as a solitary anomaly without

any special significance.

But on November 24, 2011, the Mexican National Institute of

Archeology and History revealed to the world the existence of a

second artifact.

A sun-dried mud brick that was discovered at the ancient Mayan

city of Comalcalco with an inscription many believe refers

to an exact date, December 21, 2012.

It's one of thousands of mud bricks that

we've found at Comalcalco.

A very few of them have hieroglyphs on them.

One of them has a date inscribed on it, which is very rare, and

it says Four Ahau, Three Konkin, which is the calendar round date

that's gonna occur in 2012.

Well, the Comalcalco brick is important because it is

verification of an inscription in Tortuguero.

The brick has shown that the people who thought that it meant

the nine gods were going to return were right.

An extraterrestrial visitation?

One which signals the end of the world?

For most archeologists and researchers, the concept is not

just a little far-fetched, they consider it to be more a

curiosity than a prophecy.

But one feature of the brick hieroglyph is not so easy to dismiss.

The inscriptions on the brick were apparently carved on the

inner-facing side, hidden from view.

Why would they write a date on a brick and then turn

it around so no one could see it and put it into the wall?

We can only speculate as to why, but we believe it's because the

ruling king or the priest or whoever commissioned the

building site at Comalcalco didn't want that to be public knowledge.

Why would the Maya conspire to keep this date secret?

Was it to avoid global panic?

If there is some kind of... (loud boom)

doomsday at the end of the Mayan calendar, it could be a

combination of... of pole shifts... (rumbling)

of volcanoes and earthquakes...

and super tidal waves all over the Earth.

It would be a catastrophic event for the planet.

Is it really possible, as ancient astronaut

theorists believe, that the Maya actually received detailed

astronomical knowledge from ancient alien visitors?

And could this help explain why their calendar, which accurately

predicts an extraordinary galactic alignment, apparently

ends on December 21, 2012?

Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the doomsday

prophecies of other ancient cultures.

For if the Maya were attempting to warn us of a future

cataclysm, could there be other evidence that they were not alone?

December 21, 2012.

According to some researchers and scholars, this is the day

when the Mayan calendar suggests the world will come to an end.

But there is another equally curious aspect to the Mayan

calendar...not when it ends, but when it begins:

More than 3,000 years before the Mayan civilization even existed.

The origin of the Long Count Calendar... why they

created day one to be August 13, 3114 BC, is still a mystery.

It's obviously back-dated.

There were no Maya back then, so why did they backward project

3,000 years into the past?

Based on the things we have learned about the Maya, it

should be something astronomical.

One of the ideas about why they back-dated it to

3114 BC is because some kind of cataclysm happened then.

Recent research has discovered an asteroid or multiple

asteroids did hit an area around Austria in Europe.

And that could have caused a blackout of the sky for several

years, and this is, then, when the calendar began.

Scientists at Harvard and Princeton have said that

this massive global worldwide catastrophe... a mass glaciation

of the planet, occurred when this age of the Mayan calendar begins.

This happened not within tens of thousands of years or hundreds

of years, but within weeks, within days, literally.

This took everyone by surprise.

According to the Mayans, we are coming to the end

of the fifth age.

There have been four catastrophes before us.

Each one ended up with a destruction of the Earth.

And now we are just coming to the end of the fifth age of the

Mayans, which will end now in December of 2012.

According to the Mayan predictions, this will also end

in a giant catastrophe.

The Western view of time is very linear.

When we think about... life...

we see it as this linear projection heading out into the future.

For the Maya, they viewed life very cyclically.

Is it possible the Mayan calendar ends on December

21, 2012 because they expected that the fifth age of man will

end much in the same way as it began?

Were they privy to some ancient knowledge that has been lost in time?

And if so, can proof be found by examining similar doomsday

predictions from other ancient cultures?

Egyptian time-coding in the Great Pyramid of Giza is

telling us that there will be a series of water-based