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? 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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. The Backstory is a production of iHeartMedia and Steel Trap Productions. Our producer is Doug Fraser. Our executive producer is Steve Goldstein of Amplify Media. We're out with new episodes twice a week. Thanks for listening to the Backstory, the pieces of history you didn't know you needed to know.

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? 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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. The Backstory is a production of iHeartMedia and Steel Trap Productions. Our producer is Doug Fraser. Our executive producer is Steve Goldstein of Amplify Media. We're out with new episodes twice a week. Thanks for listening to the Backstory, the pieces of history you didn't know you needed to know.