This is true, but they loaded the ancient alien onto Captain Nemo's U-1999 and transported it via the Pillars of Hercules to their secret Atlantean base in the Bermuda Triangle.
From there they used the transdimensional portal to the secret Nazi base in Antarctica where, having been revived using secret processes developed by Grigor Rasputin, the ancient alien was heard to say, "where is my galactofrangeadoohickey? I last had it at Antikythera."
The alien then produced a device that looked rather like an IPHONE 3, and summoned a ride from Zontar. Upon being picked up, the assembled scientists asked the ancient alien, "are you responsible for western civilization?"
"No," the alien replied, "but I think it's a marvelous idea. You should get to work on it."
Using a tiny fragment of DNA, the Nazis cloned the alien, producing Giorgio Tsoukalos.
