Ancient Aliens

He is the man who harnessed lightning.

He really is the quintessential wizard.

He envisioned new technologies far before their time.

These images would burst into his mind.

He also claimed to have contact with otherworldly beings.

You have to wonder if extraterrestrials

themselves weren't feeding him information.

Nikola Tesla is considered one of the most

innovative and mysterious men

who ever lived, but was he simply a mad genius, or might

his brilliance have had extraterrestrial origins?

He was actually being communicated with

by extraterrestrials, and publicly proclaimed this.

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, is there a connection

to the genius of Nikola Tesla?

Ancient Aliens

The Tesla Experiment

New York City.

January 7, 1943.

Famed inventor Nikola Tesla dies of a heart attack on the

thirty-third floor of the Hotel New Yorker.

Within hours of his body being discovered, his nephew arrives

at room 3327, and discovers Tesla's remains, as well as his

technical papers and notebooks, have already been removed.

Speculation spreads that the Federal Bureau of Investigation

had seized the items and quickly designated them "top secret."

Nikola Tesla was completely paranoid about

someone trying to kill him, and as soon as he died, U.S.

government agents swooped in and confiscated all of his scientific papers.

In a very short time, everything

that he had been guarding with this life was gone.

The official story is that nothing of any great significance was found.

It was just a lot of scientific papers and documents.

However, there have been a lot of rumors over the years that

the materials recovered was profoundly significant in terms

of a lot of highly-advanced scientific concepts.

Just who was this mysterious figure known as

"Tesla", and why would his notebooks elicit so much

interest from the United States government?

The life of Nikola Tesla was a

dramatic one from the very beginning.

He was born at the stroke of midnight on July 10, 1856,

during a violent lightning storm in what is now Croatia.

It was during an electrical storm, and the

midwife saw this as a bad omen.

But there was a flash of lightning, and Tesla's mother

said, "No, this will be a child of light."

At an early age, Nikola Tesla showed a superior mind.

He was already inventing things.

He invented toys that used insects to power them.

But he was fascinated by thunderstorms.

And, but he would see the lightning.

He became fascinated with electricity.

And he was determined that he was going to harness the power

of the earth and the universe for the benefit of mankind.

In 1881, after eight years studying physics,

math and engineering at universities in Graz, Austria

and Prague, Tesla became an

electrical engineer for a telephone company in Budapest.

Three years later, the

28-year-old moved to the United States, and took a job in New

York City, working for Thomas Edison.

But very quickly, the two would become rivals in what became

known as "the war of the currents."

In a sense, you have dueling wizards.

Edison was performing with

direct current, Tesla came along with alternating current,

competing to win the right to harness Niagara Falls.

That was the big prize.

If you harness Niagara Falls,

you control all the power for the entire Northeast.

In Edison's direct current distribution system, the

steady stream of electricity

would lose potency as it traveled down the line.

This required power plants every

half mile, and could only supply

enough power to lightbulbs.

Tesla designed a far more

sophisticated system, utilizing

alternating current, which could

easily be manipulated along

the way, allowing for not only

lightbulbs to be powered,

but also other electric devices.

Using Niagara Falls as a hydroelectric power source,

Tesla's system could illuminate the entire Northeast.

It would be like comparing a horse and buggy to a jet plane.

Tesla had the jet plane.

Edison had the horse and buggy.

There is no comparison at all.

Tesla had a quantum leap ahead.

Edison criticized Tesla's model as highly

dangerous in an effort to ensure that his system won out.

He even went so far as holding public demonstrations using

alternating current to electrocute cats and dogs...

...and even a rogue elephant.

But Nikola Tesla's superior A/C power system ultimately

prevailed, and today, it still remains the foundation of the world's power grid.

Tesla allowed the world to be electrified, and not only that,

he brought electricity from being kind of a useful thing to

being a universal thing that could be used all throughout society.

Nikola Tesla is one of the most amazing geniuses mankind has ever known.

His ideas went far and beyond what was accepted at the time.

If it hadn't been for Tesla, we would be living in very different times.

But Nikola Tesla not only officially electrified the world.

His legacy includes groundbreaking work on

electric railroads, fluorescent and neon lights,

wireless radio communications, X-ray...

remote control... turbine engines...

speedometers... helicopters... and even torpedoes.

By the time of his death, Tesla held nearly 700 worldwide patents.

Nikola Tesla was one of the world's greatest inventors.

Tesla was like Leonardo da Vinci.

He had the mind of a futurist,

and he was able to do incredible things.

During Nikola Tesla's time, the Industrial

Revolution was firmly taking hold.

Factories, using steam and coal power, replaced manual labor.

Hundreds of thousands of miles of railway and roads were built,

dramatically changing the landscape of society.

But this extraordinary innovation came at a price- a

complete disregard for the environment.

Nikola Tesla said that there was a difference

between progress and technology. Progress benefits mankind.

Technology does not necessarily do that.

If you have a technology that is

polluting the planet, that's not progress.

But just how is it that Nikola Tesla was so far ahead of his time?

For decades, the forward-thinking inventor-

a man shrouded in mystery- has fascinated scholars and researchers.

Tesla came from a very strange area- actually

wasn't too far from Transylvania.

He was tall and thin.

He spoke 11 or 12 different languages.

And he does these fantastic inventions and fantastic

performances, so he had this mystique about him.

Nikola Tesla is born at a time which, coincidentally,

coincides with an ancient Zoharic prophecy that speaks

about the opening of the gates of wisdom upon the earth.

And who's born at this time?

Nikola Tesla.

Albert Einstein.

This is the beginning of so many things.

But could there really be something more to the

prophecies, rumors and wild speculations surrounding Nikola Tesla?

Something, perhaps, even otherworldly?

Throughout history, there have been various

prophets and scientists that have really affected the human evolution.

Like Einstein, Galileo, Copernicus, and Tesla's

definitely one of these type of people.

We have to wonder if these people aren't somehow involved

in some larger plan of influence on humanity as a whole.

Some researchers into Tesla think that he was

some kind of special human receiver, and if that's the

case, then we have someone who the ETs were helping to move

along and develop the amazing inventions that light the world today.

Is it possible that Tesla knew he was on a mission?

Was he attempting to uplevel our technology to the point at which

we would be capable of having all of the abilities of those

who, in ancient times, were called the gods?

Is it possible, as some ancient astronaut theorists

suggest, that Nikola Tesla was being influenced by extraterrestrials?

Extraterrestrials on a mission to advance mankind?

Perhaps answers can be found by further examining the

inspiration behind one of Tesla's greatest achievements.

Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is home to some of

the world's greatest minds.

M.I.T. researchers are on the forefront of innovation,

including the development of wireless transmission of power.

Efficient wireless transmission

of electricity has eluded scientists for years.

Radio waves, microwaves and even

laser-beam transmission of power have fallen short.

But in 2007, M.I.T. researchers were able to safely transmit

power wirelessly seven feet across a room...

a feat heralded as a first step to cutting the power cord.

Incredibly, a word in which all electrical devices would be

automatically powered at all times, requiring no charging or

wires, was envisioned more than

a century earlier by inventor Nikola Tesla.

And by some accounts, he was close to actually achieving that goal.

The ideas of Tesla for wireless power have

only been, um, briefly investigated by various scientists.

And the tests that were done by Tesla in 1899 to 1900

in Colorado Springs verify the fact that the use of wireless was actually possible.

Tesla went out to Colorado Springs to see if he could send electricity several miles,

which is a tremendous achievement, but he had a huge tower.

It was 200 feet to the top.

His assistant was located at the

laboratory and Tesla said, "When I give you the signal, I want

you to throw the switch and fire up the wireless system.

And Tesla probably walked four miles away.

Tesla inserted lightbulbs into the earth to

see if his tower was in fact

creating a wireless circuit with the ground.