Outer Space Connection, The (1974)

This motion picture continues the theory that life on Earth was carried here by a highly advanced civilization of intergalactic travelers thousands of years ago and that the return of these ancient visitors is predicted to occur on December 24, 2011 A.D. In the search for man's origin, this film takes the audience on a sojourn around the world and into the vast reaches of outer space. This film theorizes that these inter-galactic travelers set up their “Earth Base One” high in the isolated jungles of the Peruvian Andes. It was here that the Mayans created a civilization so advanced that they were performing brain surgery while the rest of the world still lived in the Stone Age. They constructed landing fields for alien spacecraft and knew astronomy thousands of years before the telescope. Narrated by Rod Serling.

After suffering two heart attacks, Rod Serling was subjected to a 10-hour long open-heart procedure, carried out on June 26, 1975, but Serling suffered a heart attack on the operating table and died two days later at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York. He was 50 years old.