In the rough rocky countryside of north-west Australia there are scores of cave paintings which date back far in time. Drawings which are probably some of the earlier messages from prehistoric man. In Search of … s1e1 Pilot: Ancient Astronauts, History 1973
The Temple of Quetzalcoatl: legend tells us that he was a light-skinned bearded man who came from the stars. Supposedly, he taught men law, the arts, and the cultivation of corn. The head of a great feathered serpent represents the god Quetzalcoatl. When Quetzalcoatl finished his mission on earth he departed to his native star promising to come back some day. ibid.
Cholula, Mexico, is home to the largest pyramid in the world. More than 3,000 years old it is estimated it took approximately 1,400 years to complete. ibid.
Van Daniken suggests that these bird-heads could also be helmets equipped with a type of mask. The island’s ancient legends tell of flying people who arrived amid thundering noise. ibid.
A stone relief portrays a god in a helmet with projections resembling antennae. ibid.
Van Daniken came upon a stone relief of what is apparently a man seated in a capsule watching something intently. His hands seem to be operating some indefinable controls. His foot pressing a lever. And at the rear of the capsule are flames trailing behind him. He seems to be dressed for the job. ibid.
Nazca: a remote desert plain in the Peruvian Andes may hold the key to an ancient puzzle. On January 5th 1973 we reported the possibility that the lines and figures etched on the mysterious plain market the site of a landing made by astronauts thousands of years ago. Since then, the strange drawings visible only from the air have been photographed by aerial survey, satellite and the Skylab astronauts. In Search of … s1e2 Pilot: Ancient Mysteries
There are marks that have been left by past civilisations to indicate the presence on Earth of explorers who came across the divide of space. Did those colonists inspire the legends of gods who came from the skies? ibid.
Could Tiahuanaco have been built by colonists possessed by a technology far more advanced than man? ibid.
No-one has even a clue as to how these blocks, some weighing more than 100 tons, were quarried, shaped, transported and set into place. ibid.
More than 100 ships and aeroplanes have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle taking with them 1,000 lives. There is no explanation for the disappearances. ibid.
They have been Earth and left their mark in many ways in many places. Figures etched on the plain of Nazca tell a story of explorers from outer space. In Search of … s1e3 Pilot: The Outer Space Connection
We have evidence that a landing was made in the Andes near a lake called Titicaca. ibid.
How then can we account for primitive drawings in the rocks of Indio County California? ibid.
On a desolate plain near the Peruvian Andes is evidence that thousands of years ago man may have known how to fly. Huge drawings are etched in the ground; they make sense only when viewed from a great height. Miles of what look like modern runways score the desert. In Search of … s1e3: Ancient Aviators, History 1977
Former NASA space scientist Maurice Chatelain says there is no doubt that aliens have walked among us. In Search of s4e19 … s4e19: Earth Visitors
Is it possible that our planet was an early destination for earth visitors? ibid.
Erich is now convinced that all over the world ancient man has mistaken aliens for gods ... Erich von Daniken has an explanation for the whole of human development. Creatures from outer space, he says, not only designed and built ancient monuments, they inspired all great religions too. This is heady stuff. But there are two small problems. Not a single expert agrees. And none of his evidence stacks up. The World’s Strangest UFO Stories, Discovery 2005
Before the dawn of civilisation an alien force descended on planet Earth. Nothing would ever be the same. Millions of people believe we are the creation of extraterrestrials. Ancient Astronauts
Perhaps the truth will be found in ancient cave drawings: the earliest evidence we have of a human search for something outside ourselves. When archaeologists began studying the stories our ancestors left carved in stones and caves, some people noticed images and artefacts that didn’t seem to fit with our assumptions of history. Many people found it difficult to explain images like these – depicting what appear to be men in spacesuits with helmets and antennae. ibid.
So who were these Anunnaki and where did they come from? Six thousand years ago, the world’s oldest known civilisation, the Sumerians of Mesopotamia, carved tablets that told stories of how deities called the Anunnaki descended to earth from a place they called Nibiru. They gifted us with new technologies and shared their wisdom about our place in the solar system. Most scholars consider the Sumerian’s writings as myths, but not everyone. ibid.
It’s quite possible that our own planet at some remote moment in its past had a visitor from one of these fifty million starts. Chariots of the Gods, 1970
We know from recent history how primitive people react to their first confrontation with modern technology. ibid.
Throughout the world people have fables, legends and even religions which centre around visits from ancient astronauts. ibid.
Gilgamesh, the hero of the epic, was part God, part man. ibid.
Thousands of years ago when our forefathers were still stone-age people some extraterrestrials arrived. Erich von Daniken, author Chariots of the Gods
In Europe lines, sometimes thousands of kilometres long, exist from antiquity. In Europe they are called Ley Lines. All the antique places are linked together. Every point is on one line, it’s an archaeological point, and every town has the same core of the word – the word is always star. Erich von Daniken
We have the legends, and of course in some cases we have cave paintings, from giant-looking beings, and even footsteps. I would say something was in the past. Something was much bigger than our normal Earthlings. Erich von Daniken
All over the world ... you see all of these blocks that are not only enormous but impossible to move them around with anything but even our best technology today. Michael Bara, author The Choice
Valhalla: It might have been some type of an orbiting space-station. Giorgio A Tsoukalos, editor Legendary Times magazine
We’ve always been their pet project. Giorgio A Tsoukalos
The story of the Ark of the Covenant is one of the most fascinating and unexplored stories of the Bible. The Ark of the Covenant had some very mysterious powers. Giorgio Tsoukalos
It was a storage container that housed some type of nuclear device. Giorgio Tsoukalos
Our ancestors thought they were visited by gods – when in reality they were visited by none other than ancient aliens. Physical beings. Giorgio A Tsoukalos
Ancient texts talk about the fact that whoever visited the Earth in the remote past – the gods – thought that Earth women were quite beautiful. So on many occasions we find stories where those visitors essentially mated with earth women. Giorgio A Tsoukalos
What is evidence is the fact that visitations occurred from before recorded history all the way to today. Giorgio A Tsoukalos
All these descriptions of sophisticated weaponry sounds almost like science fiction. But is it really? Because we have those weapons today! And I think it merely a reinvention of history that all this stuff we have has been around before, and our past is not science fiction but science fact. Giorgio A Tsoukalos
One day these gods will return. Giorgio A Tsoukalos
One of the main tenets of ancient astronaut theory suggests that a long time ago extraterrestrials changed our genetic make-up through a targeted mutation of our genes essentially in the lab. Giorgio A Tsoukalos
The whole pantheon of gods that we have in ancient Greece consists of nothing else but flesh and blood extraterrestrials who were misinterpreted as being these divine creatures by our ancestors. Giorgio Tsoukalos
Our ancestors misinterpreted extraterrestrials as god because that was the only way they could explain away what they had witnessed. Giorgio A Tsoukalos
According to legend, this Stargate was activated by the help of a golden disc. And this golden disc fell from the sky. Giorgio A Tsoukalos