Ancient Aliens - The Top Ten Mysterious Devices

Episode Date: January 1, 2026

Ancient Aliens is counting down the world’s top ten mysterious devices, from strange, grooved disks found in a cave in China to an ancient Greek computer to an incredible crystal skull unearthed in Mexico. Might these sensational artifacts provide evidence of extraterrestrial visitation?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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For more than a decade, ancient aliens has traveled the globe and investigated extraordinary ancient technology found on every continent. Now, we're examining the top 10 mysterious devices that just may hold the proof that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials. There is a doorway in the universe. Beyond it is the promise of truth. It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. The evidence is all around us. The future is right before our eyes. We are not alone. We have never been alone. Here is ancient astronaut theorist, Giorgio Suclos. People ask me all the time for proof that extraterrestrial beings visited Earth thousands of years ago. While we have countless stories and depictions of visitations,

we also have evidence of mysterious devices that just may have been alien technology. One compelling example is a symbol of ancient Egypt that was said to represent a powerful energy source. Number 10 on our countdown of the top 10 mysterious devices, the Jet Pillar. Abidos, Egypt. 300 miles south of the Giza Plateau stands the Temple of Setti I. This monument is more than 3,000 years old and is elaborately decorated with curious images, including one that is of particular interest to ancient astronaut theorists.

It is a stone relief that depicts the god Osiris holding an object that is known as the Jed Pillar. Here is author and researcher Kathleen McGowan. The Jet Pillar resembles a column and it's meant to represent stability. Carrying the Jet Pillar was to keep you stable and to protect you from chaos. Rami Romani is an Egyptologist. The symbol of the Jed pillar was very common in ancient Egyptian architecture. It is the symbol of stability for a king. But scholars are actually not completely an agreement about what the Jed pillar actually is a symbol of.

Depictions of the Jed pillars can be found throughout ancient Egypt. But some researchers believe the Jed pillar was more more than just an important symbol. They suggest it actually represents a powerful, technological device. Here is Andrew Collins, author of Beneath the Pyramids, Egypt's Greatest Secret, Uncovered. What is curious about the Jed Pillar is its resemblance to a Tesla coil or an electrical conductor.

This is David Childress, author of Technology of the Gods. The Jed Pillar looks very much like an electrical device. Researchers now believe that the ancient Egyptians barely had electricity. And so, therefore, it may be then that these Jed pillars, which people would carry around as amulets and things like that, were actual electrical devices. Tim Schwartz is the author of The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla. If you look at the carvings and pictures that were painted inside some of these ancient tombs and temples,

there's no evidence that torches were used in the process. So we're left to wonder just how these areas were lit. So there's a good possibility that electricity was being used by the ancient Egyptians. Is it possible that ancient Egyptians were able to harness the power, of electricity. Ancient astronaut theorists say yes. And as evidence, they point to another

remarkable carving in Egypt. In Dendera, inside the Hawthor Temple, in a subterranean crypt underneath the temple, there is a carving that looks like a light bulb, and there's a cable at the bottom that culminates

in a box, and the actual bulb rests on a jet pillar. And a jet pillar is always referred to as something to do with significant power. And so, in my opinion, the ancient Egyptians witnessed advanced technology that they then misinterpreted as magic. And therefore, the jet pillar were actual technological components that our ancestors clearly

witnessed after the visit of the flesh and blood extraterrestials. Ancient carvings of jet pillars are easy to find throughout Egypt, but not every device in our countdown can be seen by the public. In fact, some seem to have been deliberately hidden. Number nine, the Dropa stones. The Bayankara-Ula Mountains, Qinghai Province, China. In 1936, archaeologist Dr. Dr. Chi Pu-Tai was exploring a cave in this remote area when he made a peculiar discovery. He reported finding multiple ancient graves, and among them were hundreds of strange stone disks.

There's a fascinating story in China where allegedly a cave was found with hundreds of discs, and these disks were about this wide, and it seemed that they had some type of of a groove in them reminding of modern day vinyl records. And what's interesting is that allegedly, some of these grooves contained really tiny types of writing. And when archaeologists finally deciphered or translated this writing, it told this incredible story of extraterrestrial beings called the Dropas.

Hartwig Hausdorf is the author of Chinese Roswell. Those hieroglyphs told about the crash landing in this remote mountain area of some people that flew through the universe and came upon the third planet of our solar system. Unfortunately, after the initial research, the disks, known today as the Dropa stones, were removed from public view. But mysteriously, in 1974, photographs surface. of what were alleged to be two dropa stones on display at the Bonpo Museum in Shian City, China. In 1994, a colleague of mine, Hartwig Hausdorff,

and his colleague Peter Krusa, went to China to ask the whereabouts of these stone discs. I got to speak with the present curator of the museum. I showed him the photographs that were taken 20 years ago in his museum and he told me the two stone disks that were on display, they have disappeared without any trace. I think the moment an archaeological artifact is hidden, there's something there. So the fact that they used to be on display and now you can't find them anymore leads me to think that

parts of that story is true and I think it had something to do with an ex-exhares. extraterrestrial craft. Is it possible that the Dropa stones are a record of extraterrestrial visitation in the distant past? Whenever I'm researching ancient legends, one word always piques my interest, and that's magic, because more often than not, myths about magical objects are describing what I believe could be misunderstood technology. Like the next item on our list of the top ten mysterious devices, At number eight, Pachacchacudy's mirror. Cusco, Peru. In the 15th century, this ancient city was home to perhaps the most influential Incan leader, Pachuccici.

Pachuccici, rose to prominence after he defeated an invading army by using a mysterious mirror that had magical powers. Ed Barnhart, Ph.D. is the director at the Maya Exploration Center. Pachacute decided to stay behind and die defending the city. Just before the battle, he's walking out in his territory by a lake, trying to figure out what to do, try to get some inspiration. And just at that moment, a mirror disc fell from the sky and it dropped into the lake. And he wades in and he pulls it out. In the reflection of this mirror was a young,

Indian boy. But he wasn't just any kind of boy. He had snake arms and he had a puma face and he had these rays coming off of his head and he tells Pachukute, you are going to be a great ruler someday. Aided by this mysterious object, Pachucucati grew his small kingdom into a vast empire that spanned more than 2,500 miles. Pachukute always keeps that disc with him and the The myth is that he would always look to that disc to ask them how he was going to defeat his enemies or expand the empire, and that the disc was giving him this magical information and inspiration that created the Inca Empire. With this magic mirror, Pachicudy had special powers, supposedly you could communicate

with the gods through this disk, and presumably even receive instruments. instructions from the gods on how to expand his empire. Pachacchacuti's mirror is depicted in Incan art and statues to this day. Historians have been unable to determine just what the mysterious disk was that Pachucati possessed. But ancient astronaut theorists believe it was a device that came from another world. And you have to wonder, was it some kind of extraterrestrial object that Pachuccicici. was now caring around with him that allowed him to communicate with these extraterrestrial gods that were guiding him?

Every now and then, an artifact is discovered that completely defies conventional explanation. That's exactly what happened when scientists set out to study this next object. They were so astonished by what they saw that they declared it simply should not exist. Number seven on our list, of the top ten mysterious devices, the Mitchell Hedges skull. Lubontun, Belize.

Here in the jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula lie the ruins of an ancient Mayan city. In 1924, explorer Frederick Albert Mitchell Hedges and his daughter Anna discover a human-sized skull made of clear crystal. The anatomically perfect object has a detachable, touchable jaw weighs 11 pounds, 7 ounces, and is carved out of a single piece of quartz. Mitchell Hedges was told by the Mayans that his skull was over 3,600 years old.

This is fascinating because this would predate Mayan civilization. Here is Chris Morton, author of The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls. According to the legend, crystal skulls, are containers of great knowledge. great wisdom, information, and are said to have been left behind by the earliest ancestors way back in the midst of time. When Mitchell Hedges passed away in 1959, the skull was bestowed to his daughter, Anna.

She guarded the skull for more than a decade before allowing it to be studied. It was studied by a guy named Frank Dorland. And what he found was that the skull was completely baffling to him. He would come down at night to find the room completely glowing, and the crystal skull was literally lighting up like it was a light. People would hear strange sounds in the room with no explanation, but that it was coming from the skull. And so when you look at all that, you've just got to conclude at some point that there is something unusual going

on. This skull has been subjected to a number of details. detailed scientific analyses. In all of those occasions, what was found was that it was almost impossible for a human being to make this. Why did they say that? Because it was milled or worked in a way that went counterclockwise

to the creation of the crystal. Crystal grows in a certain direction. And if you don't mill or work the crystal in that particular direction, it'll shatter. So how was it done? One of the scientists that examined the skull actually said, this skull shouldn't even exist. And that's really what led to the idea

that perhaps these crystal skulls were not made by humans at all. If you look at the Mayan civilization, their entire mythology is based on extraterrestrial encounters in the past. Mitchell Hedges was told by the locals that their ancestors gave that skull to them. My question is, who were those ancestors and is their origin out there? And the answer to that, in my opinion, is a resounding yes.

Next on our list of mysterious devices is a group of objects so sacred they have been kept hidden from public view for hundreds of years. Number six, the Royal Regalia of Japan. Tokyo, Japan, May 1, 2019 Hundreds of dignitaries from around the world have descended upon the imperial palace for a historic occasion.

In an elaborate series of rituals, Crown Prince Hieronomia Narohito ascends the Constantum throne and becomes the 126th emperor of the island nation. As part of the ceremony, Naruhito is presented with several boxes that are filled with treasures so secret they've never been seen in public. They contain Japan's royal regalia. The imperial regalia of Japan was composed of a sword, of a mirror, and a jewel that was utilized by all the Japanese emperors and exists to this day. Dominic Steyavu is an assistant professor of Chinese religions, University of the United States. University of California, Santa Barbara.

According to tradition, the divine mirror is a symbol of wisdom. The sword represents valor or courage. And the third one is the curved jewel or curved bead, which represents benevolence. Now, these three sacred imperial regalia of Japan have never been shown to anyone outside of the imperial lineage. lineage, with the exception, of course, of high-ranking Shinto priests. The imperial regalia can be traced back to Japan's first emperor, Jemu, who ruled almost

2,700 years ago. Emperor Jimu was born in 771 BCE according to tradition, and he was a descendant, actually the great-great-grandson of Amaterasu, the sun goddess. All emperors in the history of Japan have claimed descent from Emperor Jimu and indirectly then from Amaterasu as well. The most interesting part of the story is that Jimu is a descendant of Amaterasu, this celestial being. And for nearly 2,000 years after that, all who ruled Japan claimed the same lineage. So the imperial family of Japan allegedly is a direct descendant of celestial beings that visited Japan in ancient times. It is said that Jima received the three pieces of regalia from the sun goddess Amatarasu

before uniting the islands of Japan under his rule. Ancient astronaut theorists believe these artifacts might be extraterrestrial technology. Jima got a celestial mirror with which the emperor could see anything that they desired. Well, what does that mean a magical mirror? If you don't have the terminology for it, isn't a computer screen, a magical mirror with which you can see everything? See, the point is that our ancestors didn't have the terminology for these objects, but they used the terminology that they had with which they could best describe what they saw or had in their possession. I think that there are sacred objects in Japan in Tokyo's Imperial Palace

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Crete, the most populous of the Greek islands. It is home to more than 600,000 people. And according to Greek mythology, it has been a place of great significance since antiquity when it was protected by an enormous bronze guardian called Talos. This is Andrew Goff, author of Lost Ancient Wisdom. The legend of Talos is quite fascinating. for not only was he a giant some 30 meters tall,

but he appears to have been made of bronze for the purpose of protecting the island of Crete. It was said that he would go around the island three times a day and that if anybody tried to attack the island, he had like this fiery breath that he would shoot out and destroy any ships on. individual. So what was Talos? Mainstream scholars considered Talos to be a creation of fiction. But some researchers point out that the descriptions of how this bronze humanoid

functioned are eerily reminiscent of modern technology. Tenas Vimbos is a Greek journalist. Supposedly Talos was indestructible because in his veins Talos had the blood of the gods, Ihor, which was called, and this was giving me the special superpowers that he had. Talos had, effectively, an Achilles heel, and that is, he had a vein that ran from his neck down to his ankle, and it had one nail that, if that nail was removed, he would be switched off. And sure enough, a sorceress convinced him that if she could remove that nail, then he would have immortality. And when she removed it, he bled death. in the Argonautica Talos bled to death by releasing this black liquid.

And one could argue that if this thing was a mechanical device, then perhaps the synthetic oil or the hydraulic fuel seeped out and thus rendered the machine inoperable. As we look at it today, that is very clearly a description of a robot, maybe even an artificially intelligent being. Leading to this idea that some extraterrestrial engineer or robotics developer created this extraordinary being. According to Greek mythology, the engineer who created Talos was a god named Hephaestus, who lived among humans on the island of Limnos.

Hyfeistos was the Greek god of Smithcraft, alchemy, and technology. He was most known for creating the first human, Pandora, but also for developing magical weapons, the flying chariot of Helios, the breastplate of Athena, the thunderbolts of Zeus. Rick Rader, Ph.D., is the author of Written in the Cosmos. Hephaestus was a blacksmith god, and when we meet him late in the story of the Iliad, the goddess Thetis has come to him and asked him to make some armor for her son Achilles. He's about to go back into battle. And when she comes to see him, he's going to see him. And when she comes to him in his workshop, what she discovers is that a lot of the work is being done by automated

machines that Hephaestus has created, tripods which can move around themselves, bellows and pincers and things, doing their own work. The suggestion here is that these are fully thinking, fully automated, artificial intelligences, as it were. The basic premise of the ancient astronaut theory is that the the Greek pantheon of gods existed in real life made of physical beings. So one has to wonder, was Hephaistus one of the extraterrestrials, or did he receive the engineering knowledge with which to build these synthetic creatures by the extraterrestials? Could it be that Talos was a highly advanced machine developed by extraterrestrials?

For ancient astronaut theorists, it is a deceit. distinct possibility, and one that becomes even more compelling when considering the fact that similar stories of human-like machines can be found in other ancient cultures around the world. Like the Jewish tale of a clay figure called the Gollum that could be brought to life by inserting a spell into its mouth, descriptions of spirit movement machines in ancient Sanskrit texts of India, and the Chinese story of a humanoid robot being presented to King Mu three thousand years ago. There are stories from many cultures from all over the planet of people who have either

created other humans or machines that were very much like humans. When we look at the story of Telos, we match them up to other figures in human history, the common denominator, the thread running through all their stories is that there was a technology transfer, beings came from elsewhere, brought this technology to Earth and taught humans to utilize it. As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the story of Talos provides strong evidence that our ancestors were in possession of extraterrestrial technology. And they say an even more powerful technology can be found in an ancient story involving the biblical King Solomon and a device given to him by an angel.

On ancient aliens, we have investigated many accounts of technology being given to humans by the so-called gods. One powerful object was described as being able to actually summon otherworldly beings. Number four on our countdown of the top ten mysterious devices, King Solomon's Ring. Jerusalem. In the 10th century BC. This city was ruled by one of the ancient world's most famous leaders, King Solomon. According to ancient Israelite accounts, King Solomon was tasked by Almighty God with building a spectacular temple,

one that could not be built by man alone. Solomon prays to God and instantly the Archangel Michael manifests as if out of thin air. And Michael says that he's going to give Solomon a power that has never before been seen on Earth and never again shall be. And he produces for him a golden ring with a signet seal. There are different descriptions of what Solomon's magical ring looked like. One description of the ring talks about it as the seal of Solomon. What we think of today is the Star of David as the two intersecting triangles. Another story around the ring is that the ring contained four special stones,

and each of these stones had a type of power. And it is said that this ring had the name of God engraved upon it in a very secret and cryptic way. Rabbi Ariel Bar-Sidok is the founder of the Kosher Torah School. The ring was representative of the authority from beyond this world. The wielder of that ring would be able to compel any and all who recognized that source of extraterrestrial power to do whatever he wished. According to the Talmud, King Solomon used the ring to control a group of otherworldly beings, known as demons. Today in modern times, we tend to think of demons as something related to the devil, something satanic. But the way that demons were looked at in the time of Solomon based on the literature is very different.

Demons in the ancient world were a different kind of being. They were mischievous, sometimes they were industrious, but they weren't necessarily evil. It is said that with this ring, Solomon entrapped these demons and used them to help him build the temple. Solomon, like any other human being, would not have had access to this power. The only way Solomon could have had a ring like this is it was given to him from an extraterrestrial source. King Solomon's ring is a compelling example of extraterrestrials providing our ancestors with advanced technology. But curiously, he was also given a device that was described as a magic worm. And that brings us to number three on our countdown, the Shamir.

The Temple Mount, Jerusalem. It was here that King Solomon constructed a temple to house the holiest of Jewish relics. Today, nothing of the temple remains, but according to mystical Hebrew texts, when it was constructed in the 10th century BC, it wasn't built with human hands. God commanded Solomon to build a temple, but the laws of the Torah required that the building of the temple, did not use any kind of hammer or chisel to cut and grind stone. Solomon was in need of a higher technology in order to build his temple. He knew that he had to contact Ashmodai, the king of the demons, who had this technology.

Using the power of his ring, King Solomon compelled Ashmodai to give him a divine. that would help him build the temple. A mysterious object called a Shamir. Now the Shamir is described in traditional literature, is this little worm you'd put on the stone and would cut it precisely. The Shamir was barely bigger than the size of a barley corn, which is about a third of an inch. Apparently, Solomon was in complete control of this worm

and obeyed each and every one of his commands. To ancient astronaut theorists, the Shamir is yet another example of misunderstood technology. The Shamir was a quote-unquote worm that could cut and drill through even the hardest of stones rather with ease. What if the Shamir was some type of laser-cutting device? Ancient man did not understand things like lasers or a high-energy beam. To them, the idea that it was a magical worm cutting the stone is a very interesting description. What if this was actually extraterrestrial somehow getting involved and using advanced technology to assist in the building? Many of the devices featured on our countdown have been lost to time,

which is why the discovery of our next object is so fascinating. When it was examined, archaeologists called it an ancient Greek computer. Number two, the Antikythera mechanism. The Aegean Sea, April 1900. Off the coast of the small Greek island of Antigathera, divers discover the remains of a 2,000-year-old shipwreck. Inside, they find something extraordinary, a bronze box containing the workings of a complex device.

The Antikythra device is what looks to be a complex machine of gears, cranks, and levers. That's the best way to describe what it is. If you were to look at it, it looks like a box. Wooden on the outside with a crank. And what the crank would have done was moved a series of levers and gears around on the inside. So it was a really amazing device. Archaeologists dated this contraption to the second century BC, but were unable to determine what it was or what purpose it served.

That is, until 1959, when physicist Derek John DeSola Price published an article in the Journal Scientific American that made an astonishing claim. He described the Anticathera mechanism as an ancient Greek computer. He realized that it was a sophisticated computer that could dial up astronomical configurations. And at the time the American scientists were so shocked at how advanced this device was. And they actually said that discovering the Anticathera device was like finding a jet plane in the tomb of King Tut. To operate the device, a user would enter information into the mechanism using the complex

system of gears and levers. turn the crank to determine specific astronomical positions. What we can tell from the inscriptions on it, and what we can tell from the way the device works, is that it was a very mathematically sophisticated machine for showing, even predicting where the stars, the sun, the planets, and the moon were all going to be on a particular date that you were looking for. Really, for several thousand years ago,

this is a remarkably Promethean invention to put together this machine in order to give the user of the box in a sense a vision of the future. It was so amazing to them. They had never, ever conceived that the ancient Greeks at 200 BC would have had the knowledge of mechanical devices like this. And it's completely changed the way we perceive ancient history.

Archaeologists have still not determined who built the Anticathera mechanism. But some researchers believe its origins might actually predate ancient Greece. Here is Phil Coppens, author of The Ancient Alien Question. There's widespread speculation as to who made this. Some people pinpoint towards the Greeks because obviously it was found off the coast of Greece. But other people highlighted the possibility that actually we need to go further back in time, back to ancient Babylon. And so it might actually be that the Greeks are just one in a longer tradition of people who were building these devices. Could the Antigathera device be proof that the ancient Greeks had technology far in advance of the times in which they lived?

And if so, where did this knowledge come from? Ancient astronaut theorists suggest the advanced mechanism is yet another example of extraterrestrial visitation. Clearly our ancestors understood that knowledge of the cosmos, knowledge of our solar system, was linked with the gods. Our ancestors actually told us that there were entities, gods, which actually informed us about astronomy, about our solar system. And so there are two possibilities when it comes to the Antikatera device. One is that our ancestors incorporated the knowledge of the gods into creating this device, or that this device is a piece of technology given to us by the gods. We finally reached the end of our countdown of the top 10 mysterious devices.

And for me, this one always gives me goosebumps. It is a wooden box that could part rivers, destroy armies, and communicate with otherworldly beings. Our number one alien device, the Ark of the Covenant. Mount Sinai, Egypt. According to the book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible, it was here that Moses was instructed by God to build one of the most important artifacts in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the Ark of the Covenant. This is Robert Cargill, Ph.D., professor of classics and religious studies at the University of Iowa. According to the Bible, it's a wooden box made of acacia wood that is overlaid in gold,

and then it has a cover, a top, and on that cover are two Kedobim, and they're human-like figures that have wings. God commands Moses to build this chest, which the original Ten Commandments, was to be placed, and the presence of God would then be seen. Sounds very simple, but yet there were properties to the Ark that made it far more than just a symbolic representation of something religious. Biblical accounts of the Ark portray it as possessing mysterious powers that aided the Israelites during their journey to the Promised Land, parting river.

leveling mountains and destroying armies. The most important thing about trying to understand how the Ark of the Covenant functioned is the fact that specific instructions were given by God to Moses about how it was to be manufactured, the exact size, how it was to be raised off the ground, how it's to be carried. And this tells us almost so,

certainly that we are dealing with technology. Is it possible that the baffling powers ascribed the Ark provide evidence that it contained highly advanced and perhaps extraterrestrial technology? Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, and suggest clues can be found in rabbinical texts that describe how the High Priest would interact with the Ark. We know that the only one

who could approach the ark was the high priest of Israel. The high priest was required by biblical law to wear a special type of a breastplate, which had special types of gemstones on it, and through the recitation of certain holy names, the stones upon the breastplate would start to move, vibrate, and light up. And this is the way that some type of actual communication was made between the high priest and whatever power was connected to connecting with through the ark.

The Ark of the Covenant is one of the greatest pieces in the ancient astronaut theory, because there was an actual physical object that had a connection to the so-called celestial realm. So, I mean, the Ark of the Covenant is one of the most enduring ancient mysteries of all time. According to religious texts, the Ark of the Covenant was placed inside Solomon's temple, and then it simply vanished. But ancient astronaut theorists believe that if the Ark is ever found,

it will have a profound effect on humanity. The Ark might actually be the proof that we have been seeking throughout human history. of contact with the greater universe and world. Indeed, if we could have the ark and operate it and make contact, who would we be talking to? What would we be opening up? The discovery of the Ark of the Covenant

would force even the biggest skeptics to reconsider the accepted history of this planet. And as far as I'm concerned, each of the devices on our human countdown deserves to be investigated with an open mind and could offer potential proof of alien visitation in the remote past.