Ep 10: A Rational Approach to Ancient Aliens [Pt. 3]: Non-Human Intervention & Cataclysms

Welcome back to The UFO Rabbit Hole Podcast. I’m your host, Kelly Chase.

Today we’re going to take on what will be the third and final installment in our series about the ancient astronaut theory. We’ve covered a lot of ground to get here, and we have a very full episode to get through, so I’m just going to jump right into it —

When we last left off, we’d established that sites like Gobekli Tepe and the Great Sphinx present major challenges to the current narrative of the emergence of human civilization, pushing back the advent of high civilization by thousands of years. And while mainstream academia has thus far been reluctant to embrace this reality, there is more than sufficient evidence to make the case that human high civilization has its origins sometimes before the Younger Dryas, more than 12,000 years ago.

This brings to light the astounding possibility that human civilization was in some way seeded, or at the very least guided, by a highly advanced non-human intelligence in our distant past. 

But what other evidence is there to support this, admittedly, audacious claim?

The Evidence

Sunken City Of Cuba

In my mind, one of the most flabbergasting archeological discoveries of our times is one that has gotten very little attention, and has been almost entirely dismissed by mainstream academics.

In 2001, Pauline Zalitzki, a marine engineer, and her husband Paul Weinzweig, owners of a Canadian company called Advanced Digital Communications (or ADC), were working on a survey mission in partnership with the Cuban government off eastern the tip of Cuba. The area is known to have been the site of several treasure-laden shipwrecks, and ADC was one of a handful of agencies that was working with Fidel Castro’s government in an attempt to locate these riches. 

The team was using advanced sonar equipment to scan a 2 square kilometer area of the sea floor when they noticed a series of symmetrical and geometric stone structures resembling an urban complex. There, lurking below the waters, were symmetrical pyramids, the foundations of vast structures, and wide, grid-like boulevards. 

In my mind at least, the man made nature of these structures is undeniable and evocative of the complexes built by the Myans and the Aztecs, but as always, I don’t think you should take my word for it. Seriously. Go look at the pictures for yourself right now and decide for yourself. You can find them in the full episode brief that is linked in the description. 

So unless you’re driving, go look at them right now. If you’re driving I’m going to need you to keep your eyes on the road and your hands at ten and two. You can see them later.

Once you’ve seen the pictures, I think you’ll see what I mean. It looks like the ruins of a city. And as far as I could tell in my research, no one has so much as ventured a guess as to how these structures could be the result of natural geological processes.

In July 2001, they returned to the site with geologist Manuel Iturralde, senior researcher of Cuba’s Natural History Museum, this time equipped with a Remotely Operated Vehicle to examine and film the structures. The cameras revealed even more astonishing evidence including large, perfectly cut stones of granite measuring 8 ft by 10 ft  stacked on top of each other.

Despite these findings, Iturralde — who has studied countless underwater formations — was reluctant to draw any conclusions, saying only, “These are extremely peculiar structures, and they have captured our imagination. But if I had to explain this geologically, I would have a hard time.”

So why the reluctance to call this submerged city what it so clearly is?

The answer is that, according to the mainstream narrative of human history, it shouldn’t be there. Because the last time that particular area was above water was 50,000 years ago — approximately 40,000 years before the end of the last Ice Age and the building of Gobekli Tepe. Which, as you’ll recall, is itself a megalithic structure that has been definitively dated to 7000 years before humans were supposed to have been advanced enough to build something of that scale.

At this point, it’s glaringly obvious that we don’t just have the history of human civilization wrong, but we’ve undershot its true age by literally thousands, if not tens of thousands of years. And yet, mainstream academia simply refuses to engage with this reality, dismissing and discrediting any archeological find that contradicts their dogma.

In the case of the underwater city off the coast of Cuba, the response of mainstream academia has been to rewrite history. After initially refusing to acknowledge the site because it’s existence was impossible, it seems that some academics have found a workaround. It has now been accepted by some that the ruins are legitimate, but that they are 6,000 years old, not 50,000 years old.

And how did they come to this date?

On the coast near the site is another megalithic structure that was first excavated in 1966 which is believed to be 6000 years old, therefore, the underwater city must also be 6000 years old. However, thus far no explanation has been given as to how the city could have been built on a site that was underwater at the time it was alleged to have been built. 

To be clear, I’m not saying that the city is definitely 50,000 years old. There is still a lot of work to do before anyone could say that conclusively. However, I don’t know how anyone could argue that general proximity is a better method of dating than, say, determining the last time that the site wasn’t underwater. Especially when your entire basis for choosing that younger date is to make it align to your preconceived notions of what must or must not be true. 

At any rate, at least this commitment to cognitive dissonance has meant that the site has begun to be explored. And through these explorations they’ve found structures within the complex as long as 400 meters wide and as much as 40 meters tall. And an anthropologist affiliated with the Cuban Academy of Sciences has said that still photos taken from the videotape clearly show “symbols and inscriptions”, though the language has not yet been identified. 

Puma Punku

Another archeological anomaly that contradicts the mainstream narrative of human history is Puma Punku in Bolivia. 

High in the Andes Mountains, in the Altiplano Desert, just southeast of Lake Titicaca, in what is undoubtedly one of the most rugged and desolate places on Earth, lies the ruins of Tiwanaku. Discovered by westerners in 1549 by Pedro Sierra De Leone while looking for the capital of the Incan Empire, Tiwanaku is a massive ancient temple complex.

Within the complex is a large, walled courtyard with carved faces scattered intermittently between the other stones. Interestingly, many of these faces appear to look like humans from different cultures around the world, although supposedly such ancient peoples shouldn’t have had any way to be exposed to cultures on the other side of the ocean. And stranger still, some of the faces look humanoid, but still far from human, including one face that looks very much like a gray alien. 

And listen, Tiwanaku is cool and all, but what we’re really here for is its mysterious neighbor lying just a half of a mile away — Puma Punku.

Puma Punku means “Gateway of the Puma”, a name given to it by the local Aymara people who found artifacts depicting warriors wearing masks made out of puma skulls at the site.

So let’s start with what’s strange about Puma Punka, because the answer is “basically everything.” (First of all…)

1. The site has been destroyed — we’re just not sure how.

Puma Punka looks like the ruins of what was once perhaps a large temple complex. What remains are scattered stone blocks and monoliths made from red sandstone and andesite. And these ruins truly are ruined. Despite the fact that the largest of these stones weigh up to nearly 150 tons, they are scattered about like a Lego city that just got Gozilla-ed by a toddler.

The site was further corrupted by a misguided and ultimately unsuccessful attempt in 2004 to reassemble the site, so some of the blocks have been haphazardly moved around, making it more difficult to piece together what used to go where.

And it’s hard to imagine what kind of force could have strewn these megaliths about like they were children’s toys. Due to evidence that some of the stones may have at one time been entirely covered in mud, it’s been speculated that perhaps a massive and catastrophic flood could have saturated the ground causing the stone foundations to become unstable before a deluge consumed it, scattering the blocks. But at 12,000 feet above sea level that scenario seems unlikely.

But that’s not all that’s strange about the ruins of Puma Punku. There’s also the fact that

2. We don’t know how the builders of Puma Punku got the stones to this site.

Based on detailed petrographic and chemical analyses of samples from individual stones and known quarry sites, archaeologists have determined that the red sandstone blocks at the site were transported up a steep incline from a quarry near Lake Titicaca roughly 10 km (5or 6.2 miles) away. And if that wasn’t daunting enough, the andesite blocks were determined to have come from quarries within the Copacabana Peninsula about 90 km (or 56 miles) away.

Archeologists still don’t have a definite answer on how this was done.

However, I will note that I’m always a little less swayed by the arguments that megalithic blocks were too big to be moved great distances. It’s interesting, for sure. And I would say that the size and the distance of the blocks being moved could speak to the advancement and wealth of that culture because the resources needed to undertake such a thing would be incredible. 

However, there are two reasons that I hesitate to assume an advanced technological answer to explain megaliths being moved over large distances:

The first is that there have been various studies and experiments that have shown that there are some pretty ingenious ways of moving these megaliths, albeit very slowly, including using log rollers and other basic materials that would have been available — and we can’t rule out that ancient people were able to figure it out. And the second is that I think we tend to underestimate what can be accomplished by a civilization that is willing to throw endless amounts of human suffering at a problem.

So while it’s certainly an interesting data point, I’m not convinced that it can be used as decisive proof of the use of advanced technology or the possession of special knowledge.

However, that point may be irrelevant, because 

3. The stonework at Puma Punka shows evidence of having been done by advanced tools.

The stonework at Puma Punku is bananas. It fucks me up. I seriously don’t even know how else to say it. 

Red sandstone and andesite are both very hard kinds of rock. To put that into context, we use a scale called the mohs scale to measure the hardness of different minerals on a scale from 1-to-10, with 1 being the softest and 10 being the hardest. Diamonds are a 10 on the mohs scale. Granite is a 6. By comparison, red sandstone is a 6 or 7 and andesite is a 7.

Given the hardness of these stones, the stone work at Puma Punk defies any traditional explanation. The stones were cut in such a precise way that they fit perfectly together, locking into place without the use of mortar. Not even a razor blade can slide between the rocks. To accomplish this would not just require astounding technical precision and finesse, but an understanding of descriptive geometry.

The architectural historians Jean-Pierre and Stella Nair who conducted the first professional field study on the stones of Puma Punku concluded about these stones that:

[…] to obtain the smooth finishes, the perfectly planar faces and exact interior and exterior right angles on the finely dressed stones, they resorted to techniques unknown to the Incas and to us at this time. […] The sharp and precise 90° interior angles observed on various decorative motifs most likely were not made with hammerstones. No matter how fine the hammerstone’s point, it could never produce the crisp right interior angles seen on Tiahuanaco stonework. Comparable cuts in Inca masonry all have rounded interior angles typical of the pounding technique […]. The construction tools of the Tiahuanacans, with perhaps the possible exception of hammerstones, remain essentially unknown and have yet to be discovered.[12] 

And those tools remain undiscovered until this day.

Even more astounding is the fact that many of these blocks are finished to ‘machine’ quality and with tiny holes drilled to perfection. And these holes don’t look like decoration, but like utilitarian means of construction and joining these pieces together. The machined appearance of these stones is all the more compelling because to create stonework with a similar level of precision out of the same materials today, we’d need to use advanced equipment like lasers and diamond-edged circular saws.

Further adding to the mystery is that many of these stones aren’t just precisely cut into complex, multi-faceted blocks, but they are done so precisely as to be completely identical, allowing one block to be perfectly interchanged with another, almost like the pre-fabricated building materials we use today. 

And interchangeability of parts, as seen in the blocks of Puma Punku, is something that on its own is suggestive of a more advanced society. While there are a few isolated examples of interchangeable parts being used in the ancient past (almost always in weapons to make warring easier — go figure), for the most part, interchangeable parts weren’t something that was commonly used before the early 1800s. 

Even stranger is that..

4. Many of the stones are magnetized. 

Apparently if you hold a compass to the stones the needle will spin and spin. Why would this be? What would cause this? Could it have been some result of the construction process, or the result of a natural phenomenon? We simply don’t know.

And what’s extra frustrating is that we will likely never know how the builders of Puma Punku did it, because we don’t even know who they are for sure.

5. No one knows who built it.

While Puma Punku was an important site for the Incan people, they didn’t build it. Mainstream archeologists have offered several different potential dates for the creation of the site, with the most commonly accepted date being around 500 A.D., which predates the Incan empire by more than half a millenia. When the earlier Spanish conquistadors asked the Incan ruler who built Puma Punku they claimed that it had been built by the gods in only one night.

6. We don’t know how old it is — but there is evidence that its much older than believed.

And while mainstream archeologists insist that the site is no more than 1500 or so years old, there are many who question this date. Not the least of which is the local Aymara people, whose local elders and historians who claim that the site is 10 times older than that, having been built 15,000 years ago — or 3000 years before the end of the last ice age.

Austrian archaeologist Arthur Posnansky who was one of the first archeologists to study Puma Punku and who spent decades at the site also advocated for the date of 15,000 years ago citing various astrological alignments that would have tied it to that time.

And while I find the evidence that Puma Punku pre-dates the ice age to be compelling, it doesn’t need to be true for Puma Punku to be unexplainable within the current narrative. Whether it was 1500 years ago or 15,000 years ago, humans simply didn’t have the tools or the knowledge to create megaliths of such complexity and precision. 

So who built it and how are the questions that really matter. The when is just an interesting detail.

Baalbek

On the other side of the world, in Baalbek, Lebanon lies another archeological site that defies explanation.

We don’t know for sure who ordered the construction of the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, nor do we know exactly when it was built. However, most archaeologists date it to either the first century B.C. or the first century A.D. The style of the temple with its towering columns and its dedication to the Roman god Jupiter, make it undoubtedly a Roman construction though, hazy though its origins may be.

However, what’s interesting about Baalbek isn’t so much the Temple of Jupiter, but the massive stone platform on which it sits. And although mainstream archeologists date this platform to first century B.C., more or less aligning with the building of the Temple of Jupiter, I’d argue that it’s pretty obvious that is not accurate. 

First of all, the foundation of the temple itself appears to have been built on the foundation of an older temple. And both weathering and logic would suggest that the massive stone platform that it sits upon must be even older than that. 

But once again, whether you date this structure to the 1st century B.C. or the 10th century B.C., it doesn’t matter — because at either time humans should not have had the ability to build it. 

Now, I’ve already mentioned that I tend to not find the “rock too big, can’t lift” argument to be very compelling. But the megaliths at Baalbek are a clear exception. Integrated into the back wall of this massive platform are three of the biggest megaliths known to humankind. Each of these stones weighs at least 800 tons. To put that into perspective, that is the same weight as 5 average adult blue whales. It’s insane.

And not only were these monstrous megaliths quarried and moved to the site, but they were then somehow lifted 20 feet in the air to rest in their current positions. As with all the sites I’ll mention today, you can find pictures of these stones in the episode brief link in the episode description — and all you really need to do is look at them to understand that something we don’t understand happened at Baalbek.

But those megaliths aren’t even the largest found in the area. Three megaliths, conventionally known as the “Stone of the Pregnant Woman” , the “Stone of the South”, and the “Forgotten Stone”, lie nearby and are the largest stones ever to have been quarried. At a staggering 1000, 1200, and 1600 tons respectively, the size of these megaliths boggles the mind.

Now granted, the location of these three massive stones gives every indication that they were simply too big. All 3 of them still lie in the quarry where they were cut, and there they shall likely remain for millions of years. Even now our ability to move them would be extremely limited and would require an insane amount of time and resources.

The Most Impressive Parts Of Megalithic Structures Are Usually The Oldest Parts

And what we see at Baalbek is a perfect example of something very surprising that we see a lot with megalithic structures, which is that the oldest parts of the construction are by far the most advanced. 

We see it at Gobekli Tepe where the oldest parts of the construction are the most sophisticated. We see it at Tiwanaku where Puma Punku, though agreed to be the oldest construction on the site, shows signs of advanced technology far beyond what would have been needed to build the more recent sites. 

And there are particularly stunning examples of this in Peru.

The ruins of Coricancha — which means, The Golden Temple — can be found in Cusco, Peru. In many places, all that remains of this ancient Incan holy site is its massive megalithic foundation, upon which a Spanish church was built in the 16th century — because colonizers. 

However, as beautiful as this 16th century church is, it looks somehow sad and small on top of the foundation of Coricancha. The precision with which the megaliths are cut and fitted together, including a perfectly curved retaining wall is enough to take your breath away. Once again, I’d recommend that you look at the pictures to get the full impact.

We can see something similar at the Peruvian site of Machu Picchu. The oldest and most foundational parts of the site, once again, show the most advanced knowledge and the largest megaliths, with subsequent rounds of building being done on top with much smaller stones and far less precision. This has caused some to suggest that Machu Picchu may not have been originally built by the Incan people, but rather repurposed and rebuilt by them on a far more ancient site. 

And whether or not that is the case, it defies logic that the Incan people would start out with such a high-level ability to create megalithic structures of this scale and precision, only to be rebuilding the walls a few hundred years later with much smaller blocks of stone. 

Much like Gobekli Tepe, we’re again and again confronted with an odd situation. An advanced civilization of megalithic builders pops out of obscurity with little to no evidence of ramp up time, does their most breathtaking and awe-inspiring work, before the civilization begins a long, slow decline, each new wave of building being only a shadow of what came before.

This doesn’t make sense. We know that it doesn’t make sense.

What Does It Mean?

So what does this all mean? What conclusions are we to draw from these anomalous archeological sites that can be found around the world?

The examples that we’ve explored are just a handful of examples, but they are representative of the four main problems that these sites present.

The first, is that many of them — like Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, the Sphinx in Egypt, and the sunken underwater city off the coast of Cuba — are simply way too old. They show a level of sophistication — not just in construction and engineering, but in art, geometry, and astronomy — that are thousands, if not tens of thousands, of years ahead of their time. 

The second, is that some sites, like Puma Punku in Bolivia, show clear evidence of machining and perhaps even prefabrication. We simply have no way to explain how ancient peoples could have achieved with primitive tools what it would take advanced, laser guided and diamond tipped tools to accomplish now. 

The third, is that some of these sites have megaliths that are far too big to have plausibly been moved without some form of advanced technology. As I’ve said, I generally don’t find arguments about megaliths being too large for ancient peoples to have quarried and moved to be particularly compelling. If you don’t care how long it takes and you don’t care how many people die, humans can do some pretty unbelievable things.

However, there are exceptions. The enormous megaliths of Baalbek are one example, but there are others of nearly equally gargantuan proportions in Egypt and Peru. There’s even a site in Southern Siberia called Gornaya Shoria that — if it can be proven that they are, in fact, man made and not a naturally occurring geological structure — has megaliths that outweigh even the monsters found at Baalbek. I’m less convinced on that one, but the photos are in the episode brief so you can check them out for yourself.

And finally, we have the mystery that we see all over the world — from Gobekli Tepe to Egypt and from Baalbek to Machu Picchu — where the earliest megalithic structures that a culture creates seems to be, by far, its most advanced and sophisticated with subsequent builds and restorations never coming close to rivaling that of the first builders. Again and again with megaliths we see advanced high culture seemingly appearing out of nowhere at the very height of its power and sophistication with little evidence of a ramp up period.

So who were they?

Two Other Complicating Factors

Answering that question only gets more complicated when we layer on two more puzzling observations:

The first is that, paradoxically…

These pockets of civilization were both relatively isolated and anomalous and spread all over the planet. 

Regardless of what any of the archeological evidence surrounding these megalithic sites may suggest, there are still certain facts that we can’t deny. And the most glaring of these is that prior to 6000 years ago — and certainly prior to the last Ice Age over 12,000 years ago —  most humans were still hunter gatherers. We have found their camps, their tools, their clothes, and their art everywhere on the planet where evidence of homo sapiens can be found.

And this only makes these megalithic sites that hint at advanced civilization in our distant past  more mysterious. It raises the startling possibility that while most of humanity were still living a lifestyle that was akin to that of our early hominin ancestors, there existed pockets of civilization where humans had attained a dazzling level of understanding of engineering, geometry, astronomy, and more that rivaled — and in some cases may have exceeded — our modern understanding.

In some ways, this is almost the inverse of what we see on Earth today. Today most of the world is at least somewhat modernized. 86% of people worldwide can read and write, and an almost identical proportion have access to electricity. However, there are estimated to be between 100 – 200 uncontacted tribes on the planet who have had little to no interaction with the modern world and who are still essentially living the way that our ancestors did hundreds and even thousands of years ago.

And while it can initially be shocking to realize that there can be so much variability in how humans living at the same time might be living their lives, the situation in which we find ourselves in our modern world at least makes some level of intuitive sense. We understand how it could be that our modern lifestyle hasn’t reached people living in remote places. And when we look at the history of colonialism, it makes sense that there are tribes in places like the Amazon who may have gone far out of their way to avoid interacting with outsiders with strange new weapons and diseases. 

But looking into our distant past, it’s frankly confounding that such a sophisticated level of high civilization could be achieved by a few while the vast majority of humans were still living as hunter-gatherers. What accounts for this difference? How did they get so far ahead? What happened to them that was so fundamentally different than what happened to everyone else to account for such a massive disparity?

And this mystery only deepens further when we recognize that this level of advanced civilization didn’t just appear in one corner or region of the world — but in pockets scattered across nearly every continent. And, for reasons that we still don’t understand, in each of these far flung cultures the attainment of this knowledge seems to coincide almost exactly with the building of megaliths. 

And as if things weren’t confusing enough, we have one added layer of nuance and complication which is that

These civilizations show evidence of advanced technology that does not fit within our known paradigm.

As we discussed previously in part one of this series, if humans were to entirely disappear tomorrow there would be surprisingly little left to tell the tale of our modern lives. Our cities and skyscrapers, while they look impressive, are not built to last. In fact, it would take less than a thousand years after the disappearance of humans for all of New York City to become a pristine forest again.

 And because we’ve only been at this relative level of advancement for around 100 years — barely a blip in terms of the dizzying scope of geological time — before long, it would be almost impossible to find anything of our way of life in the archeological record. It’s surprisingly easy for an entire civilization, even one as advanced and global as our own, to disappear without a trace.

But there is one form of evidence that we will leave behind that will leave an indelible mark on the planet for hundreds of millions of years, and that is our use of plastics. 

Plastic never biodegrades, which means that every single piece of plastic that has ever been created — unless it got shot up into space at some point — is still here on the planet. And it will be. Forever. The Empire state building may vanish without a trace in a matter of centuries, but your tooth brush and the grocery bag you use when you clean out your cat’s litter box could be discovered virtually intact by someone millions of years in the future.

We use around 100 million tons of plastic every year, at least 10% of which ends up in the ocean. This means that our current time period will be marked forever in the geologic record with a layer that is basically speckled with plastic, even in the very deepest parts of our oceans. 

It’s already happening. In Hawaii they recently identified a new kind of rock that has been washing up the shores called a plastiglomerate, which is essentially rock that has become fused with melted plastic.

So if these civilizations were in many ways as advanced as we are, and if they perhaps persisted for thousands of years at a time, why don’t we see something similar in the geologic record?

It’s certainly difficult to imagine our modern lives without plastics. Beyond just convenience products, plastics play a critical role in healthcare, safe food storage and packaging, complex scientific equipment, the space program, and more. 

But what’s clear is that, whatever level of advancement may have been achieved by our ancestors in the distant past, it apparently lacked many of the trappings of our modern lives. And if their abilities and tools did truly reach the level of what we would call “technology”, as is suggested by megalithic sites like Puma Punku and others, it was likely of a fundamentally different kind than what we have today. 

These civilizations didn’t use plastics, and they almost certainly didn’t use fossil fuels. This begs the question of how their technology differed from our own, and it offers us a tantalizing hint at a potential technological paradigm that may have once existed that was perhaps in better harmony with the environment than the one we currently occupy.

The Possibilities

So as we can see, each piece of this puzzle is baffling in its own right, and when we put it all together the path to the truth becomes even more labyrinthian. So what could explain all of this bizarre evidence of advanced civilization in our distant past?

If we’re willing to put aside the established narrative of human civilization as told by mainstream academia and consider the evidence with an open mind, a surprising narrative begins to emerge.

First of all, it seems clear that

Human Civilization is far more ancient than we thought.

At this point, I don’t think that’s even up for debate anymore, though mainstream academia may not yet be ready to accept it. As we discussed in Part 2, Gobekli Tepe alone presents enough evidence to prove that we’ve underestimated the dawn of human civilization by, at minimum, 7000 years. And the sunken city in Cuba hints that we may still be off by tens of thousands years more.

This revelation is astonishing on its own, but it unfortunately creates more questions than answers. 

The reality is that the further we push back the start of human civilization, the more unlikely it becomes that any group of people could have risen to that level of sophistication on their own. It just doesn’t make sense. 

After all, as we discussed in the last episode, the oldest sections of Gobekli Tepe were built approximately 12,000 years ago, near the end of the last Ice Age, also known as the Younger Dryas. And, as with many other megalithic structures, the oldest sections are the most sophisticated. Gobekli Tepe also clearly shows evidence that its builders had a complex understanding of engineering, mathematics, geometry, and astronomy. That kind of knowledge doesn’t just come out of nowhere and it should have taken thousands of years to achieve that level of mastery.

The Younger Dryas, which lasted around 1300 years, was a horribly tumultuous time for the planet with over 82% of mammals over 40 kg dying off in North America and suffering similarly massive losses elsewhere around the globe. It seems unlikely humans could have made those sorts of advancements during such a chaotic and dangerous time period, which strongly suggests that the origins of high civilization lie somewhere before the Younger Dryas. 

But how could this possibly be?

This suggests that while the vast majority of our early human ancestors were still living in caves and hunting mammoths with spears, that someone, somewhere was inventing geometry and astronomy and written language. And honestly, I can understand why mainstream academia has been so resistant to embracing this reality, because it simply doesn’t make sense. It’s not possible.

Unless…

Unless we are willing to admit the possibility that we may have been gifted this knowledge and that early human civilization may have been intentionally seeded. 

But by whom?

I’m not saying it was aliens, but…

It could have been aliens.

And, as I’m sure you’ve already guessed, when I say “aliens” I’m speaking broadly about a non-human or alien intelligence that could have a number of potential origins whether it be extraterrestrial, ultraterrestrial, interdimensional, or temporal. Where they came from and who they were is a matter of debate, but there seems to be no way around the fact that at some point in the distant past humans were helped by a very advanced and intelligent someone.

It would explain the sudden emergence of mathematics, science, and high civilization long before such things ought to have been possible.

It would explain how these advanced megalithic civilizations seem to continually spring out of nothingness and into the height of their power only to slowly degrade over time, each new iteration a copy of a copy of a copy until its original glory is lost. 

It would explain the seemingly impossible megalithic sites like Puma Punku where the stones are cut too perfectly and Baalbek where the stones are far too big. 

It could even explain an advanced technological paradigm that is fundamentally different than the one in which we currently live, and which seemed to exist without the vast networks of infrastructure and resources that are required to support technology in our modern world.

And, perhaps most tellingly, it would explain the eerily similar myths, legends, and religious texts from around the world — dating back to the oldest records that we have — that tell the tale of powerful beings who came down from the sky and gifted humans with wisdom and built mighty civilizations that they ruled over for thousands of years. 

And might it also explain that startling claim made by Tom Delonge about the idea that he believed was responsible for not just gaining his advisors attention, but gaining entrance into their shadowy world? If you’ll recall, Delonge said multiple times in those early and unguarded 2016-2017 interviews that while it was his pitch that got him in the door with his advisors, it was something else that made them take him seriously — and that was the idea that the UFO phenomenon represents multiple “gods with a little g” who war with each other, and who have, for millennia, controlled and influenced humanity.