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NARRATOR:
England is home
to many iconic structures
that stand testament
to a once-great empire,
like Buckingham Palace,
Big Ben
and Windsor Castle.
But perhaps the most famous site
in all of Great Britain
is the ancient
megalithic stone circle
known as Stonehenge.
Constructed roughly
5,000 years ago,
the mysterious monument
consists of massive monoliths
that each weigh over 30 tons.
It's an astonishing feat
of engineering,
and exactly how it was built
remains unknown.
NEWMAN:
Stonehenge is unique,
it's perfectly circular,
it's designed with
precision-engineered carving
and astronomical alignments,
and it really stands out
as the kind of symbol
of ancient Britain.
NARRATOR: Stonehenge
is one of more than 1,300
ancient stone circles
that can be found
throughout the British Isles.
But why they were built
remains a mystery.
Some believe the stone circles
were meant to act as calendars
and track celestial events,
but some researchers suggest
they served a far more
profound purpose.
In 1979,
engineer Michael W. Saunders
proposed that Stonehenge
is a cosmic map
that is encoded with advanced
knowledge of our solar system.
TSOUKALOS:
With Stonehenge,
we have a representation
of our entire solar system.
Each circle corresponds
with one of our planets
inside our solar system.
In fact,
in the position of Pluto,
there is a stone monument there.
So, how is that possible?
The ancient astronaut theory
proposes
this knowledge was given
by visiting extraterrestrials
that descended from the sky
in glowing orbs at that time.
NARRATOR:
Do ancient stone circles
like Stonehenge
have a connection
to extraterrestrials?
Curiously, visitors
to these mysterious sites
often report encountering
otherworldly phenomena.
What we find is that
these prehistoric sites
seem to be located
where mysterious lights,
plasma orbs, UFOs,
are seen on a regular basis.
Not just in the modern day,
but historically, as well.
So, it seems very clear
that places like Stonehenge
were constructed
with this phenomena in mind.
In other words,
the ancients may well have built
these monuments
to actually connect
with this type of phenomena
and the intelligences
involved with them.
NARRATOR:
Could Great Britain's
many megalithic stone circles
be somehow facilitating contact
with otherworldly beings?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining
other mysterious circles,
the kind that suddenly appear
in fields overnight.
COLLINS:
Crop circles is a subject
that is very much
associated with Britain.
From the 1980s
through to the present day,
hundreds of them
appear across the country,
most of them focused in the area
around the stone circles
of Stonehenge and also Avebury.
But this is a historical
phenomenon as well.
There are accounts
from the 17th century
of the so-called
"devil circles" appearing.
RICHARD TAYLOR:
In terms of the patterns
themselves,
they've been undergoing
this amazing sort of ramp-up
in sophistication.
You can find these huge,
what they call pictographs,
that span hundreds of feet
across a whole field
and feature multiple components,
and they're arranged
with mathematical precision.
NARRATOR:
While some crop circles
are man-made,
many defy such
a simple explanation.
NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the phenomena
reported at stone circles,
along with modern
crop circle accounts,
provide evidence that Britain
has long been a place
of alien visitation.
TSOUKALOS:
The fact that you have
Stonehenge,
you have the Warminster Thing...
TSOUKALOS: ...you have the
events happening in Yorkshire,
to me, indicates
that something is going on,
and it's been going on
for thousands of years,
and our ancestors misinterpreted
these visitors as gods.
They were not gods,
they were just space travelers.
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