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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.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
stone /stoʊn/ A1	noun - a hard, solid substance found in the ground
circle /ˈsɜːrkl/ A1	noun - a round shape or arrangement
ancient /ˈeɪnʃənt/ A2	adjective - very old
monument /ˈmɒnjuːmənt/ A2	noun - a structure built to honor a person or event
mysterious /mɪˈstɪəriəs/ B1	adjective - difficult or impossible to understand or explain
construct /kənˈstrʌkt/ B1	verb - to build or create something
astronomic /ˌæstrəˈnɒmɪk/ B2	adjective - relating to astronomy or the stars
align /əˈlaɪn/ B2	verb - to place or arrange things in a straight line
celestial /səˈlɛstʃəl/ B2	adjective - relating to the sky or visible heavens
profound /prəˈfaʊnd/ C1	adjective - very great or intense
extraterrestrial /ˌɛkstrətəˈrɛstriəl/ C1	adjective - coming from outside Earth
phenomenon /fɪˈnɒmɪnən/ C1	noun - an observable event or occurrence
sophistication /ˌsɒfɪstɪˈkeɪʃən/ C1	noun - the quality of being complex or intricate
pictograph /ˈpɪktəɡræf/ C2	noun - a picture or symbol representing a word or idea
misinterpret /ˌmɪsɪnˈtɜːrprɪt/ C2	verb - to understand something incorrectly