Ancient Aliens

Strange symbols found on opposite sides of the Earth.

What a mandala is doing in remote

desert of Peru is very interesting.

Binary code appearing in crop formations.

Can we see it as a reply?

Indeed, it was.

And geographical alignments that defy explanation.

These settlements that are 5,000 years old,

how are they all lined up?

Is it possible that throughout the world there are

messages concealed within ancient texts, symbols and structures?

And if so, might they have been left for us to uncover

by extraterrestrial beings?

KATHLEEN McGOWAN COPPENS: These messages were left to us

a long, long time ago so that we could remember who we are.

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 we find the proof in alien messages?

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Arecibo Observatory. Puerto Rico.

November 16, 1974.

Early pioneers of SETI the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

aim the world's largest radio telescope at a cluster of stars 25,000 light-years away

to send a transmission out into the cosmos.

The coded signal consists of binary digits zeros and ones

that form a message designed

to notify other potentially advanced beings of our existence.

This message into space, it was encoded

in what's called binary code, cause it's the simplest around.

Listen, we're trying to send a message to the aliens, and

because you don't know anything about them, you have to make

this as obvious as possible.

Now, here's the message over here that was actually sent in 1974,

and it starts off with teaching the ABC's to the aliens.

Well, not ABC's, the 1-2-3's.

Because right up here are the numbers from one to ten, but in binary.

And anybody who has thought about binary should be able

to figure that out, including the aliens.

Right underneath that is... this funny thing here has the numbers

one, six, seven and so forth.

Those are the atomic numbers of the elements that make up

our bodies hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and phosphorus.

The coded message also contained information about our DNA...

the figure of a human... a graphic of the solar system...

and a graphic of a radio telescope.

For decades, SETI scientists wondered if their cosmic message

would ever be received, or answered.

Then, nearly 27 years later, there appeared to be a response.

Hampshire, England. August 2001.

Next to the Chilbolton Radio Observatory, two crop formations appeared in a field.

Both are unlike any other ever found.

They were both pixilated, meaning that

when you're on the ground, you couldn't perceive what

the crop circle was, but once from the air you could readily

identify the pattern.

One of the crop formations that appeared

at Chilbolton in 2001 was a face, but the other one was far,

far more interesting, because it

greatly resembled the message

that had been sent in 1974.

There were very, very subtle differences between the two.

They looked identical, but when you actually looked at them,

the differences gave a key

that seemed to be, uh, almost like an answer.

One of them was the fact that the human being

that we sent out, when it came back, it had what appeared

to look like some kind of grey alien with a large head and a small body.

It also had a different system

of planets, which is suggesting it's a different solar system.

And it also had a different DNA sequence as well.

And so just these three things really caught my attention,

because either it was a brilliant hoax or it was

actually a message that came back and was a response

to that original SETI message way back in the 1970s.

And all of these suggested to the crop circle community,

and the media, that we really had received a reply

to the Arecibo message of 1974.

Can we see it as a reply?

Yes, indeed, it was.

But actually who created it, and their exact purpose, will remain a mystery.

Some think the reply may have been to tell us

that we're on the right track,

communicating in the universal language of the cosmos binary code.

A German mathematician, Gottfried Leibniz, is credited

with defining binary code in the 17th century.

In turn, Leibniz is said to have credited his inspiration

to the 5,000-year-old Chinese text of I Ching, an ancient oracle code

used to communicate divine guidance.

The I Ching is a kind of cryptic

oracular inscription that you're supposed to decipher,

and it was heavily used in divination in early China.

The numerical symbols, or values, are actually tied

to a semi-mythical figure by the name of Fu Xi...

who is perhaps the earliest legendary ruler of China.

The history, or origin, of the I Ching

is very interesting because it is said that this knowledge was imparted

on Fu Xi by an otherworldly being.

According to ancient Chinese myth, Fu Xi lived around 3000 B.C.

He and his sister were the sole survivors of a great flood,

and together they repopulated the Earth.

And it was said that one day he was on the Yellow River,

um, and a water dragon appeared to him,

and that on the back of this water dragon was revealed to him the eight trigrams.

These eight trigrams are the foundation of the I Ching.

They are made up of a series of broken and unbroken lines,

a distinct binary code.

Fu Xi was given the information of the I Ching,

what was essentially a binary code.

It's basically proven that this kind of mathematical binary code

is what is going to drive all computers in the future.

And this is something that extraterrestrials

on other planets and other galaxies must also be using.

Some have surmised that the idea for the binary code

was gleaned from the I Ching.

It's a very curious thing.

Especially the idea that the basics of the I Ching

was imparted by another type of being.

Could the I Ching have been an attempt

by extraterrestrials to set up a common communication language

with mankind?

Might this also support the notion that the crop circles

in Chilbolton are an actual alien response to the signal that SETI

sent out into the cosmos in 1974?

And have extraterrestrials been leaving messages here on Earth

for us to discover for thousands of years, as ancient astronaut

theorists contend?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining other

mysterious symbols that have been discovered carved into

rock all over the world.

Washington, D.C., May 2014.

NASA researchers, in conjunction with SETI scientists,

publish a manual enlisting archaeologists and anthropologists

in the search for evidence of extraterrestrial communication.

The 330-page document, entitled "Archaeology,

Anthropology and Interstellar Communication,"

details means and methods, beyond binary code and radio signals,

that scientists should consider as potential

communication from extraterrestrials.

Singled out in the document are rock art and carvings,

including the Neolithic petroglyphs of Northumberland, England.

Although the document does not directly attribute the art

to extraterrestrials, it does propose the possibility

that it could be tied to otherworldly communication.

There are petroglyphs and other rock art

that are actually quite similar all over the Earth.

We have to wonder if there's not some parallel that's going on.

I think that we have to start looking at these

symbols and ask, how did it originate and from where?

Roswell, New Mexico.

September 4, 2004.

While tracking deer in the desert, just 11 miles

from the famous Roswell crash site, Robert Ridge came across

an object sticking out of the sand a small,

triangular-shaped rock that is completely uniform in color and

has a circular design on top of it that isn't etched

into the rock, but actually protrudes from it.

Thought it was really cool when I first picked it up.

Um, then got it to the truck,

brushed it off, and then I was, like, you know, in awe.

You know, I was, like, pinching myself. What is this?

I thought it was very unique and very special right off

the get-go, and I still do.

The Roswell Rock, as it has come to be known,

measures roughly one-and-a-half inches thick by two inches wide.

Meticulously etched out of the face of the triangular stone

are circles, and crescents.

Robert Ridge is convinced that this symbol is meant to convey

a message, and after studying the rock, he discovered an uncanny

correlation between the symbols and the magnetism of the stone.

We found the rock has magnetic properties.

A friend of mine kept hounding me about it, and he finally

brought a magnet of his own, and said, "Here, do this."

So, we did, and we found out that it has, uh...

It's pretty cool.

But with all the strange qualities

that the Roswell Rock possesses, what researchers find

most fascinating is that the design protruding from its surface

has also been found in England, nearly 5,000 miles away.

The pattern of the sun and moon inside

the circle that we see on the rock is precisely the same

as what we see in a crop circle formation dating to 1996 in southern England.

The crop circle appeared eight years before

Robert Ridge discovered the Roswell Rock, a fact that

has led some to suggest the rock is simply a manmade copy.

One of my best friends said it looks like

a hippie made it and threw it out in the desert.

So I wanted to examine it.

We did a 3-D CAT scan of the rock, and that's how we found out

it hasn't been painted.

This hasn't been stuck to the top of the rock.

It's not an appliqué. It's part of the rock.

It doesn't have a magnet inside.

Ancient astronaut theorists also contend

that if someone had made the rock as a hoax, it's unlikely they would

have left it half-buried in the middle of the desert where it may never be found.

But what has truly convinced Robert, and many others,

that the rock is not a manmade fabrication is a comparison

that was done under a microscope