ETs? Time travelers? Trying to explain the unexplained

Are you intrigued by the thought of aliens visiting Earth and leaving behind signs like cave drawings and pyramids and geoglyphs? Did you know that many of these ancient sites are part of what’s called the Great Circle, appearing along an exact circle within a tenth of a degree of each other?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, this is just between you and me. Are
you just a little bit embarrassed to admit that you
are fascinated by the thought of aliens visiting Earth? Did
you ever wonder how the pyramids were built and why
they appeared in ancient cultures all over the world? Did
you know most of them or part of what's called
the Great Circle? And what about the thought of time travel? Now?

(00:23):
Could all of these things be connected? I love this stuff.
I'm Patty Steele trying to explain the unexplained. Next on
the backstory. We're back to the backstory. So who is
out there? Have they been visiting us maybe for thousands

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of years? Are they responsible for the Pyramids and other
ancient sites and their placement on the Great Circle? Some
folks even claim those visitors are actually human time travelers.
There's a lot we just don't understand. It's been all
over the news lately, military and government big shots kind
of spilling the beans, claiming they've had or know about

(01:07):
encounters with ets. Now. Recently, three retired military vets backed
by members of Congress, spoke at a congressional hearing claiming
the government has possession of not only wrecked UFOs, but
maybe the remains of what they called non human life
forms from those wrecks. Yikes. The thing is, our fascination

(01:28):
with ets is thousands of years old. It's just finally
getting some serious attention. Did you know that a bunch
of ancient sites, including the Pyramids of Giza and Machu
Picchu on the other side of the world in Peru,
the stone statues at Easter Island, as well as African
statues and cave drawings in Algeria, are all aligned on

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what's called the Great Circle. It encircles the Earth in
the upper northern Hemisphere. It's a quarter of the Earth's circumference,
about eight thousand miles around. And all these sites were
constructed on that circle within a tenth of a degree
of latitude of one another. How the heck did they
do that? And more importantly, did they each know the

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other one was doing it? And look at Stonehenge, built
five thousand years ago. Were some of the stones weigh
as much as eighty thousand pounds and most of them
were mined and transported from up to two hundred and
fifty miles away that long ago. It's said to be
an ancient map of the solar system, possibly, but how

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is it built and why in that place in the
English countryside. Plus, think about the construction of the pyramids,
from the materials that also weighed tens of thousands of pounds,
to the mathematical knowledge it would take to build such
a structure. Studies show each of the four edges of
the pyramid's bases point towards what's called a cardinal direction north, south, east,

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and west to within a quarter of a degree. Thousands
of years before these societies had any way of connecting,
pyramids could be found all over the world. Yet the
design of those found in the Middle East, Asia, and
South America, to name a few, share similar methods of construction.

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Where did that knowledge come from? Some say these folks
were way smarter than we gave them credit for, and
some say aliens gave them the knowledge. Then there are
the geoglyphs. You know what those are. There's those massive drawings,
some as much as twelve hundred feet long, scraped into stone.
They look like nothing on the ground, but from thousands

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of feet up in the sky, they depict monkeys and
other animals, as well as plants and geometric figures. There's
a ton of them in Peru, and there are also
perfectly straight lines that are up to thirty miles long,
one of which is in direct alignment with the winter solstice.
Discoveries such as ten thousand year old cave drawings in

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North America, Europe in India depicting ets are being studied.
But are those drawings just another form of art or
did our ancestors really encounter something. Drawings in India show
unusual beings, and stories passed down refer to them as
small what they call rohilla people or travelers. They wore

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uniforms that looked amazingly like spacesuits. Archaeologists say the UFOs
depicted in these paintings had fan like antennas and three
long legs perching it well off the ground. Stories say
they would arrive in this flying object and sometimes kidnap
one or two people at a time from a village
that those men and women were never seen again. A

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fast forward An American history is filled with records of
ET encounters from as early as sixteen thirty nine in
the Massachusetts Bay Colony and really ramping up in the
mid nineteen hundreds, with sightings that included the nineteen forty
seven Roswell incident in New Mexic. But here's one more
twist on a discussion. There are some who think that

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these visitors are not aliens at all, but actually human
time travelers. The renowned Navy commander George W. Hoover, who
was a member of the investigation team that collected debris
at the Roswell crash site in the fifties, shared this
claim towards the end of his life. He said these
ets were in fact advanced humans with the power to

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modify reality and travel through space and time. And a
book written by doctor Michael Masters, professor of biological anthropology,
says given the evolution of human beings as well as technology,
is very possible that time travel explains the visitors. He says,
the simplest explanation is that it's us. The thought of

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alien visitors has of course, really impacted American culture. There
are tons of movies that highlight the equally exciting and
terrifying reality of aliens even walking among us. Maybe Hollywood
has raked in billions of dollars with movies like Star Wars,
Star trek Et or The Worlds, as well as the
merch to go along with them. I bought some of that,

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and now this is thought provoking. Whenever a new spaceflick
comes out of Hollywood, sightings in English speaking countries where
they run increase exponentially. Question is is that our imaginations
kicking into high gear or are we just paying more
attention to the sky at those moments. I'm Patty Steele.

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