1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: All right, this is just between you and me. Are 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: you just a little bit embarrassed to admit that you 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 1: are fascinated by the thought of aliens visiting Earth? Did 4 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: you ever wonder how the pyramids were built and why 5 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: they appeared in ancient cultures all over the world? Did 6 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: you know most of them or part of what's called 7 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:23,120 Speaker 1: the Great Circle? And what about the thought of time travel? Now? 8 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: Could all of these things be connected? I love this stuff. 9 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:31,479 Speaker 1: I'm Patty Steele trying to explain the unexplained. Next on 10 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: the backstory. We're back to the backstory. So who is 11 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:44,480 Speaker 1: out there? Have they been visiting us maybe for thousands 12 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: of years? Are they responsible for the Pyramids and other 13 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: ancient sites and their placement on the Great Circle? Some 14 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: folks even claim those visitors are actually human time travelers. 15 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: There's a lot we just don't understand. It's been all 16 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: over the news lately, military and government big shots kind 17 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,839 Speaker 1: of spilling the beans, claiming they've had or know about 18 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 1: encounters with ets. Now. Recently, three retired military vets backed 19 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: by members of Congress, spoke at a congressional hearing claiming 20 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: the government has possession of not only wrecked UFOs, but 21 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: maybe the remains of what they called non human life 22 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: forms from those wrecks. Yikes. The thing is, our fascination 23 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: with ets is thousands of years old. It's just finally 24 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: getting some serious attention. Did you know that a bunch 25 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: of ancient sites, including the Pyramids of Giza and Machu 26 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,759 Speaker 1: Picchu on the other side of the world in Peru, 27 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: the stone statues at Easter Island, as well as African 28 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: statues and cave drawings in Algeria, are all aligned on 29 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: what's called the Great Circle. It encircles the Earth in 30 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: the upper northern Hemisphere. It's a quarter of the Earth's circumference, 31 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: about eight thousand miles around. And all these sites were 32 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: constructed on that circle within a tenth of a degree 33 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: of latitude of one another. How the heck did they 34 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: do that? And more importantly, did they each know the 35 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: other one was doing it? And look at Stonehenge, built 36 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: five thousand years ago. Were some of the stones weigh 37 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: as much as eighty thousand pounds and most of them 38 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: were mined and transported from up to two hundred and 39 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: fifty miles away that long ago. It's said to be 40 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,679 Speaker 1: an ancient map of the solar system, possibly, but how 41 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: is it built and why in that place in the 42 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: English countryside. Plus, think about the construction of the pyramids, 43 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: from the materials that also weighed tens of thousands of pounds, 44 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: to the mathematical knowledge it would take to build such 45 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 1: a structure. Studies show each of the four edges of 46 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: the pyramid's bases point towards what's called a cardinal direction north, south, east, 47 00:02:55,320 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 1: and west to within a quarter of a degree. Thousands 48 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: of years before these societies had any way of connecting, 49 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: pyramids could be found all over the world. Yet the 50 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 1: design of those found in the Middle East, Asia, and 51 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: South America, to name a few, share similar methods of construction. 52 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 1: Where did that knowledge come from? Some say these folks 53 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: were way smarter than we gave them credit for, and 54 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 1: some say aliens gave them the knowledge. Then there are 55 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: the geoglyphs. You know what those are. There's those massive drawings, 56 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: some as much as twelve hundred feet long, scraped into stone. 57 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 1: They look like nothing on the ground, but from thousands 58 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: of feet up in the sky, they depict monkeys and 59 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: other animals, as well as plants and geometric figures. There's 60 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: a ton of them in Peru, and there are also 61 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: perfectly straight lines that are up to thirty miles long, 62 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: one of which is in direct alignment with the winter solstice. 63 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: Discoveries such as ten thousand year old cave drawings in 64 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: North America, Europe in India depicting ets are being studied. 65 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: But are those drawings just another form of art or 66 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 1: did our ancestors really encounter something. Drawings in India show 67 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: unusual beings, and stories passed down refer to them as 68 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: small what they call rohilla people or travelers. They wore 69 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: uniforms that looked amazingly like spacesuits. Archaeologists say the UFOs 70 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: depicted in these paintings had fan like antennas and three 71 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: long legs perching it well off the ground. Stories say 72 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: they would arrive in this flying object and sometimes kidnap 73 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: one or two people at a time from a village 74 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: that those men and women were never seen again. A 75 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 1: fast forward An American history is filled with records of 76 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: ET encounters from as early as sixteen thirty nine in 77 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: the Massachusetts Bay Colony and really ramping up in the 78 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: mid nineteen hundreds, with sightings that included the nineteen forty 79 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: seven Roswell incident in New Mexic. But here's one more 80 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: twist on a discussion. There are some who think that 81 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: these visitors are not aliens at all, but actually human 82 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: time travelers. The renowned Navy commander George W. Hoover, who 83 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:17,359 Speaker 1: was a member of the investigation team that collected debris 84 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: at the Roswell crash site in the fifties, shared this 85 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: claim towards the end of his life. He said these 86 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 1: ets were in fact advanced humans with the power to 87 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: modify reality and travel through space and time. And a 88 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: book written by doctor Michael Masters, professor of biological anthropology, 89 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 1: says given the evolution of human beings as well as technology, 90 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: is very possible that time travel explains the visitors. He says, 91 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: the simplest explanation is that it's us. The thought of 92 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: alien visitors has of course, really impacted American culture. There 93 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: are tons of movies that highlight the equally exciting and 94 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 1: terrifying reality of aliens even walking among us. Maybe Hollywood 95 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: has raked in billions of dollars with movies like Star Wars, 96 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 1: Star trek Et or The Worlds, as well as the 97 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: merch to go along with them. I bought some of that, 98 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 1: and now this is thought provoking. Whenever a new spaceflick 99 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: comes out of Hollywood, sightings in English speaking countries where 100 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: they run increase exponentially. Question is is that our imaginations 101 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: kicking into high gear or are we just paying more 102 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: attention to the sky at those moments. I'm Patty Steele. 103 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 1: The Backstory is a production of iHeartMedia and Steel Trap Productions. 104 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,839 Speaker 1: Our producer is Doug Fraser. Our executive producer is Steve 105 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: Goldstein of Amplify Media. We're out with new episodes twice 106 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: a week. Thanks for listening to the Backstory, the pieces 107 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: of history you didn't know you needed to know.