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Space ships over Los Angeles...
body snatchers controlling our minds...

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E.T.'s making contact.

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These and other alien-based scenarios
have been the plotlines of countless

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science-fiction movies
and television shows.

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But what if extraterrestrial
beings came to Earth tomorrow?

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Would they signal the birth
of a new age of peace and

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prosperity, or trigger
a war of the worlds?

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The day that it's announced
we're not alone is the day that

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this planet changes forever.

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The very structures of
government and the very

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structures of religion will crumble.

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Everybody wants to meet an alien.

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But we have to start small.

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We have to learn how to
walk before we can run.

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Millions of people around
the world believe we have

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been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.

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What if it were true?

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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

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And if so, what might happen...
when they return?

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Sync by kuniva for addic7ed.com

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Throughout human history,
man has gazed up at the

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stars in awe and with wonder.

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Our ancient ancestors charted
their movements, identified

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constellations, and marked time by
creating celestial-based calendars.

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The stars also became the source
of countless myths and legends.

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Many of these describe visitors
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somewhere out there.

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Others speak of entire civilizations
existing out in the cosmos.

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The ancient Sanskrit writings of India
tell us, for example, there are

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400,000 human-like species
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in different planets, different solar
systems, even different dimensions.

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But where are these alien beings?

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Did they come to Earth in the
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theory suggests, and then leave?

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If so, will they ever come back?

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Today, scientists around the
world have stopped waiting

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around and are taking steps to find
intelligent extraterrestrial life.

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Will technology finally be
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ancestors believed
thousands of years ago?

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In 1960, astronomer and
physicist Frank Drake set up an

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unusual telescope in the
hills of West Virginia.

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The strange device was made
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equipment, but rather than
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optical lens, it housed a
directional radio antenna.

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A few simple calculations showed that
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transmit and receive across
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We're talking many light-years.

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So Frank Drake turned a radio
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stars and tuned in to see if he could
pick up a message from the aliens.

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So this was a sort of
crazy thing to do.

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Drake failed to pick up
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the science of radio
astronomy was born.

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If we couldn't see aliens in
space, maybe we could hear them.

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The things we've focused on in the past
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life is really passively trying
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that if they were technologically
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electricity like we do, and all
electricity generates radiation.

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And it sends out the signals,
and hopefully we detect it.

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In 1961, Frank Drake and a group
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biologists formed a privately
funded organization called SETI:

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The Search for Extra-Terrestrial
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Their goal was to focus massive radio
telescopes towards space and listen.

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Drake estimated the probability
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out in the universe in a formula that
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The Drake equation is like a
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non-scientists, because it
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know to give a number about how
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There are multiple factors
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Like the fraction of stars that
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fraction of those planets that
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fraction of those that might
have liquid water; and how many

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could have evolved intelligent life?

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And then one important factor
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civilizations, and
that is a big unknown.

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We only know of one--
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<i>And how long are we gonna be</i>

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around?

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That's to be determined.

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Using his equation, Drake estimated
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civilizations could exist in
just the Milky Way galaxy.

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SETI presupposes that if you've got
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traveling that's developed electronics,
they have a fingerprint.

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That fingerprint is a
repetitive signal.

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A repetitive signal will tell
them that it's not just noise,

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junk frequencies out there, but a
real attempt at communicating,

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maybe not with us,
but with each other.

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On August 15, 1977, astronomer Dr.
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was working on a SETI project at
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recorded an intermittent signal
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constellation Sagittarius.

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The signal lasted 72
seconds before being lost.

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Ehman believed that it was
of extraterrestrial origin.

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But despite repeated searches
and increasingly larger

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telescopes, the signal has
never again been detected.

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But what if SETI intercepts a
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What would happen next?

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According to SETI's
Post-Detection Protocols, once

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an extraterrestrial radio signal
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should be kept secret until the
authorities have been notified.

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The government will then decide whether
or not to try and make contact.

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I think all bets are off.

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Because here's this message.

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It could contain enormously
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would transform our society
and maybe destabilize it.

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What is it gonna mean for the
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These are momentous questions.

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Today, SETI continues to scan the
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artificially produced signals
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largest telescopes.

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In the next several years, when
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SETI's new Allen Telescope
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reconnaissance of up
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SETI has to search a huge, huge area.

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They'll tell you that now they
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like, a glass of water compared
to the entire ocean on Earth.

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They have a long way to go.

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While SETI listens passively
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space, NASA has attempted to
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through messages sent
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It's a long shot, but
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mind, not to expect that
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What's harder to predict, or
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likely is it that it happened
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someone we could actually
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In 1972, NASA agreed to attach small
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Pioneer space probes, the first
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NASA contacted Cornell
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Carl Sagan, to craft the message.

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Carl Sagan was one of the
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the search for life
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He was a very prominent
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astronomer, and he really did a
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we might contact other life or detect
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Sagan, along with SETI founder Frank
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aluminum plaque, measuring
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contained a collection of symbolic
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The man and the woman were nude, and
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like this in what was intended to be
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A schematic design of the solar system
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trajectory of the Pioneer
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diagram of 14 pulsar stars
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might help someone work out
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We tried to give them an idea of
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interesting problem, is to
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someone where you're located in
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where they're gonna find it.

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And it was all in a very stylistic
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communicate at least
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Five years later, in 1977, Dr.
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interstellar message when NASA
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the Voyager space probes.

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This time, Sagan created
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gold-plated copper, along with
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in how to make it work.

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Sagan estimated that the
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space for at least a billion years.

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One of the challenges with
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figure out one that can do what
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encode audio, and even some video
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that almost any other technologically
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And the advantage of a record
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and electrical.

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The grooves are obvious.

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And so, they actually put on the cover
instructions on how to play it.

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The recording included a wide variety
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Surf and rain, animal noises,
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cultural music from around the world.

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One interesting song selection
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hit, "Johnny B. Goode."

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Music is a good choice 'cause almost
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So I would have bet that almost
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I believe it's Bach who gets
the most time on the record.

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I don't know why they picked
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one of the more mathematical
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been one of the reasons, because
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Sagan also included a wide
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well-known man-made structures and
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I think the most important one
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Now, why would they include
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Well, according to the ancient
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the first place where we made contact
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At this point, we obviously haven't
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extraterrestrial life, because
we haven't been contacted back.

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But I think for our own
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go and figure out how you want
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pushes your boundaries and
understanding of communication itself.

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We all want to find aliens.

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Whether it's the planetary
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life on another distant planet.

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Whether it's the ancient alien
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signs of life of aliens
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And whether it's people today
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with UFOs and aliens that
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All of us are trying
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While the search for extraterrestrial
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telescope is hunting for
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Are there other earths out there?

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And if so, how will we find them?

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Ignition.

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Lift off.

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Lift off... On March 6, 2009, NASA
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On board was a new telescope
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astronomer, Johannes Kepler.

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The space-based telescope was
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discover the existence of
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outside our own solar system.

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The Kepler search is focused on
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Way known as Orion's Spur.

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Kepler's job is to answer the question,
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To do this, Kepler's looking at
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and-a-half years.

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Imagine, like, keeping your eyes
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part of the sky.

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And what they're doing is
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And then, as a planet goes
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planet gets in front of the
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a little bit, from our vantage
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And so, you look for that
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And then that's how you're
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So far, the Kepler telescope has
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outside our own solar system.

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NASA officials expect to find
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like these before their
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Once a planet has been located,
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if it might contain water.

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We know from Earth that all life
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So that is the approach that
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for life elsewhere in the
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And so, that is the step one.

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On Earth, wherever we find
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And it's true.

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Life on Earth can exist under an
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There are extreme organisms that
live in the scalding effluent

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coming out of the Earth's
crust deep beneath the ocean.

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There are other remarkable
organisms living in the waste

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pools of nuclear reactors of extreme
radiation environments and so on.

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But the one thing that seems to
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as we know it is liquid water.

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To determine if a planet contains water
and possibly life, scientists use

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special telescopes to
analyze its atmosphere.

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We look at the light
coming from the planet.

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And we split that light
up, like a rainbow.

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Now if you look at a rainbow in
the sky, and you look really,

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really carefully, you
will see some dark lines.

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You'll see some colors
missing from the rainbow.

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And those colors are missing
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in Earth's atmosphere.

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So effectively, we're getting a
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we're looking for dark lines
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are in the atmosphere.

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To better understand how life affects
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study microbial mats at California's
Moss Landing Wildlife Area.

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Microbial mats are important to
NASA for a whole bunch of reasons.

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The organisms that are in
microbial mats have been on

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Earth just about longer than
any other kind of organism.

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They make a number of things
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are important in our search
for life on other planets.

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So, there are textural
biomarkers, so when you pull up

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a piece of microbial mat and
look at the surface-- what does

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that look like?

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One of the things that we're
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is, we're measuring the
fluxes of methane.

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Methane is a gas that's
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organisms that use the organic
matter that's in these mats.

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And when that methane goes
into our atmosphere, it can be

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detected by other missions, such
as terrestrial planet finder, is

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one of NASA's concept missions
for looking for gases that arere

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produced by life on exoplanets.

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We can look for the signature
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a planet, and at least that
would give us an idea of

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life-forms like ourselves-- ones
that are carbon-based, and use

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oxygen and carbon dioxide cycles.

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Our atmosphere is not stable
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It would have evaporated away by now.

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And so, if you're looking out in
space, and you detect around a

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star a signature of the chemicals
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life, that's very strong
evidence that life is there.

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That doesn't help you know if
it's intelligent life, but it

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does give you an evidence for life.

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With a universe literally
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planet hunters focus their search on
an area they call a Goldilocks Zone.

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The Goldilocks Zone for
planets is the place where

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a planet is not too hot, not
too cold, but just the right

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temperature for life.

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Right now, we know of no planets
like Earth in a Goldilocks Zone.

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One planet comes close.

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It's called Gliese 581D.

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But we're not entirely sure if
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Goldilocks Zone or not.

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In recent years, it's been
recognized that there's

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more than one Goldilocks Zone.

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For example, there could be
life inside icy planetesimals,

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these like small planets
or large moons.

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The moon of Jupiter, Europa,
is a very good example.

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Europa is liquid beneath an ice cap.

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It's liquid underneath because
of tidal heating and friction

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going on inside the planet.

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So it could be that there is
life, microbial probably only,

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deep down under the ice on Europa.

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It's a very challenging question-- if
there is life elsewhere in our solar

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system.

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You have so many components
that have to come together.

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We have to have an
understanding on the science.

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We have to ask the right questions.

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I wish I had a tricorder that I
could just go and, like, point,

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and it would say: life,
or no life, right?

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But we don't have that.

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So, we have to be smart, and we
have to be clever, and, we have

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to develop instruments that can
actually address the questions

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we're trying to answer.

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It's inevitable.

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There are so many planets out
there, it's inevitable that

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we'll find one in the
Goldilocks Zone any day.

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But while the Kepler
telescope has only just

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begun scanning the horizon, NASA
is already planning the next

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step in its search for
extraterrestrial life: the 2014

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launch of the James
Webb Space Telescope.

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People always ask me, "Do you expect
to find an Earth in your lifetime?"

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And I say, "Yes, absolutely."

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When I was a student, there was almost
nobody prepared to argue that way.

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The feeling back in the '60s and
'70s was that even if there

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were other Earth-like planets,
life is such an improbable freak

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event that it would never
ever happen anywhere else.

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Now the prevailing view is, yes,
the universe is teeming with life.

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Everybody wants to meet an alien.

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But we have to start small,
we have to learn how to walk

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before we can run.

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The fascinating thing for
me is that we're only

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four-and-a-half billion years
old in a universe that's close

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to 14 billion years old.

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What would happen with some of
these Earth-like planets that

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had a five- or ten-billion-year
head start on us?

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Gosh, you can only imagine.

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But what if humans are
not the only intelligent

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creatures searching for
life in the universe?

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What if there are beings on
other planets conducting a

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search of their own?

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And what if, in their search,
they find us before we find them?

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Some believe they already have.

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On October 30, 1938, radio
listeners across the

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United States sat stunned as
a series of news bulletins

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described Martians invading Earth.

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Martian cylinders are falling
all over the country.

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This is the end now.

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While the broadcast sounded
real, it was a fictional

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production, directed and
narrated by Orson Welles.

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Incredibly, many of those listening
believed it to be true, and panicked.

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Newspaper reports described
families fleeing their homes

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for the mountains, while others
armed themselves with weapons

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and prepared to fight
off the alien invaders.

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It was just presented, maybe, with a
brief introduction saying it was not

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really happening.

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But from then on, it was played
as if it was really

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happening.

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Well, most people who heard that
thought that it was really happening.

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People became upset.

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Some of those literally
headed for the hills.

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They drove places to try to, uh, pick
up other people, family and friends.

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They reported to the army for duty.

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<i>The response to this fictional alien
attack resulted in many people</i>

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<i>preparing for the worst.</i>

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<i>But if the public's reaction to
a radio dramatization resulted</i>

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<i>in a nationwide wave of terror, what
would happen if they really came?</i>

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<i>Los Angeles, California.</i>

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<i>In the early months of 1942,
the city was on edge.</i>

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<i>The recent surprise attack on
Pearl Harbor had propelled</i>

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<i>America into World War II...
and the threat of a Japanese</i>

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<i>invasion, by sea or by air, kept
the military on full alert.</i>

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Pearl Harbor was a very
recent memory for people.

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People were in high alert.

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There was a great deal of suspicion.

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Japanese-Americans were being
put in internment camps.

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There were German U-boats
in the Atlantic, Japanese

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submarines in the Pacific, and
people were very fearful.

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In a well-organized defense
operation, air-raid

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wardens and the coast guard
were monitoring the Pacific

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shoreline as never before.

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The war had started.

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I was a 13-year-old kid, and
this one night, which was

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February 1942, the sirens started
wailing in the middle of the night.

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Blackout.

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And we'd had several
blackouts before this.

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<i>On February 25, between the hours of
3:12 and 4:15 a.m., the 37th Coast</i>

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<i>Artillery Brigade in Los
Angeles fired off a barrage of</i>

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<i>antiaircraft shells at an
unidentified flying object.</i>

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<i>Watchers on the rooftop of the
Columbia Broadcasting Building in the</i>

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<i>heart of Hollywood could plainly
see the flashes of guns</i>

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<i>and searchlights sweeping the skies
in a wide arc along the coastal area.</i>

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I think what woke me up initially
was the sound of antiaircraft guns.

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I jumped out of bed, and
my parents were up.

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My father was an air-raid warden.

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He figured, this has to be
the real thing. (chuckles)

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My mother was telling my brother and
I, "Get under the bed, get under the

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bed! Stay there!"

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And, of course, we got
out and we peeked.

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There was all this firing.

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It was almost like a Fourth of July.

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I started hearing a lot
of loud explosions.

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My brother and I looked out the
bedroom window, saw searchlights

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twisting and turning in the sky.

403
00:26:22,007 --> 00:26:27,578
<i>But what was the strange UFO that
the searchlights were focused on?</i>

404
00:26:27,646 --> 00:26:30,181
<i>Where had it come from?</i>

405
00:26:30,215 --> 00:26:31,382
<i>Japan?</i>

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00:26:31,416 --> 00:26:35,653
<i>Or somewhere from out of this world?</i>

407
00:26:35,721 --> 00:26:38,656
<i>Could this incredible
photograph, published the</i>

408
00:26:38,690 --> 00:26:40,024
<i>next morning in the Los Angeles</i>

409
00:26:40,058 --> 00:26:42,893
<i>Times, provide the proof?</i>

410
00:26:42,961 --> 00:26:47,365
<i>Could Ancient Astronaut theorists
have been right all along?</i>

411
00:26:47,399 --> 00:26:50,801
It was practically overhead--
and I mean overhead.

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Retired anthropology professor C.

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Scott Littleton, was nine years
old and growing up in Hermosa

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Beach when he spotted the strange
object hovering right over his house.

415
00:27:04,282 --> 00:27:09,687
We saw what my mother always
called a "silver bug."

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00:27:09,721 --> 00:27:14,825
I'd characterize it today
as a lozenge, a long oval.

417
00:27:14,893 --> 00:27:18,062
It was something I'll
never, ever forget.

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It was caught in searchlight
beams, and antiaircraft shells

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were exploding all around it.

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It gradually went like this, and
then began to lose altitude

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a little bit as it moved over what
had to have been Redondo Beach.

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We lost track of it, but
the banging continued.

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And very quickly afterward, I
saw-- we all saw-- a flight of

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planes following the track of
the object going overhead,

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anywhere from three to
five interceptors, clearly

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piston-driven U.S. planes.

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00:28:04,976 --> 00:28:11,182
No one has ever admitted that
those planes were in the sky.

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Our first thought immediately was
a Japanese observation plane.

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00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:20,691
Later, the Japanese records
definitively prove there were

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no Japanese planes over Southern
California that night, or indeed ever.

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00:28:26,898 --> 00:28:30,234
After ruling out the
possibility that a Japanese

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plane had invaded American
airspace, Secretary of the

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Navy Frank Knox attributed the
incident to "war nerves."

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00:28:41,746 --> 00:28:45,716
But Secretary of War Henry
Stimson quickly refuted this

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00:28:45,750 --> 00:28:49,253
explanation, defensively
declaring that an actual

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aircraft had been the
target of the assault.

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00:28:53,758 --> 00:28:58,696
To this day, no one seems to
know just what-- or who-- was

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hovering over Los Angeles that night.

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00:29:06,771 --> 00:29:10,141
Some claimed that the Los
Angeles air raid was nothing

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more than an elaborate training
exercise, a show put on by the

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military to keep citizens on the
ready in case of a real attack.

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00:29:19,818 --> 00:29:23,787
Others alleged that the
unidentified flying object was,

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in fact, a barrage balloon that
had broken loose from its tether.

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00:29:28,860 --> 00:29:32,796
But even that explanation
doesn't seem credible to those

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who witnessed the actual event.

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00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,436
One place where there were barrage
balloons that were anchored

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above the aircraft plants in El
Segundo, Douglas North American.

448
00:29:44,176 --> 00:29:47,978
It would have to have slipped
its tether, floated north up

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to the Santa Monica Mountains,
and then back down this way.

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00:29:51,583 --> 00:29:55,386
Barrage balloons don't
maneuver like that.

451
00:29:55,420 --> 00:30:02,793
Regardless of the controversy,
one fact is an estimated 14,000

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00:30:02,827 --> 00:30:06,597
shells were fired at the
strange object, and shrapnel

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00:30:06,665 --> 00:30:11,602
rained from the sky for over an hour.

454
00:30:11,670 --> 00:30:14,972
But what were the guns aimed at?

455
00:30:15,006 --> 00:30:20,844
Would the army really have put
civilian lives in danger for a drill?

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00:30:20,845 --> 00:30:22,246
Major panic.

457
00:30:22,314 --> 00:30:25,849
Six people got killed, uh, due
to car accidents and hit by

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falling shrapnel in all.

459
00:30:28,253 --> 00:30:32,656
A friend of mine said he witnessed
a piece of shrapnel go through his

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00:30:32,691 --> 00:30:34,225
neighbor's garage roof.

461
00:30:34,292 --> 00:30:39,396
So, oh, yeah, there were some
damage from falling shrapnel.

462
00:30:39,431 --> 00:30:43,567
The next morning, there was something
in our backyard my mother told me to

463
00:30:43,602 --> 00:30:46,337
go roll up-- it was, like,
a tarp or something.

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00:30:46,404 --> 00:30:50,574
And when I bent down...
or kneeled down in the grass, I cut

465
00:30:50,609 --> 00:30:54,211
my knee, and I have
my piece of shrapnel.

466
00:30:54,246 --> 00:30:55,846
I've kept it all these years.

467
00:30:55,880 --> 00:31:00,217
There's my shrapnel,
and it's very sharp.

468
00:31:03,121 --> 00:31:08,926
By a process of elimination, the
most efficient-- and I say this as a

469
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:14,031
scholar-- the most efficient
explanation is that it was what

470
00:31:14,065 --> 00:31:19,937
we would call today a UFO--
something not of this world,

471
00:31:19,971 --> 00:31:23,407
something that belonged
to another technology.

472
00:31:23,475 --> 00:31:27,878
If that's true, then this event
was one of the largest mass UFO

473
00:31:27,946 --> 00:31:30,114
sightings in history.

474
00:31:30,148 --> 00:31:32,549
Over a million people saw it.

475
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:39,590
<i>But whether it was a UFO
or not, the memories</i>

476
00:31:39,624 --> 00:31:42,860
<i>remain vivid for those who saw
something in the sky that</i>

477
00:31:42,927 --> 00:31:44,395
<i>night.</i>

478
00:31:44,429 --> 00:31:48,732
<i>So vivid, in fact, that many of
them gather each year at Fort</i>

479
00:31:48,767 --> 00:31:55,939
<i>MacArthur, in San Pedro, California,
to reenact this mysterious event.</i>

480
00:31:56,007 --> 00:31:58,042
The city went crazy.

481
00:31:58,109 --> 00:32:01,912
They thought it was we were being
attacked by Japanese planes.

482
00:32:01,946 --> 00:32:04,315
Some theories said weather balloon.

483
00:32:04,382 --> 00:32:07,117
Others said, you know, "Oh, I
saw a plane, I know I saw a

484
00:32:07,185 --> 00:32:09,486
plane," and others say,
"Nope, no such plane."

485
00:32:09,554 --> 00:32:11,889
Back then it was a scary thing.

486
00:32:11,923 --> 00:32:14,625
I think to this day they don't
know what they were firing at.

487
00:32:14,693 --> 00:32:18,629
If it was a weather balloon
or a flying saucer.

488
00:32:18,697 --> 00:32:21,899
But for those who believe
they saw an alien craft

489
00:32:21,933 --> 00:32:27,104
that night, one important
question remains:

490
00:32:27,172 --> 00:32:31,375
What happened to it?

491
00:32:31,443 --> 00:32:34,912
The rumor is that it finally
crashed in the water

492
00:32:34,946 --> 00:32:38,716
and was recovered by navy divers.

493
00:32:38,783 --> 00:32:45,456
So maybe it was wounded, and it
crashed, and this might explain

494
00:32:45,490 --> 00:32:52,229
why the military was so quick to
react to Roswell five years later.

495
00:32:52,297 --> 00:32:55,966
Because they may already have
had at least some inkling of

496
00:32:56,034 --> 00:32:58,869
what they would find there.

497
00:32:58,937 --> 00:33:02,573
<i>Was Earth really visited
by an alien spacecraft</i>

498
00:33:02,607 --> 00:33:07,144
<i>on the morning of February 25, 1942?</i>

499
00:33:07,178 --> 00:33:11,048
<i>And could the global threats
posed by World War II have</i>

500
00:33:11,116 --> 00:33:14,051
<i>provided a trigger?</i>

501
00:33:14,119 --> 00:33:20,157
<i>Perhaps the idea is not as
farfetched as some would think.</i>

502
00:33:20,225 --> 00:33:24,027
<i>Is it possible that alien
spacecraft could have been</i>

503
00:33:24,062 --> 00:33:30,067
<i>mistaken for enemy fighter planes
in Adolf Hitler's Germany?</i>

504
00:33:32,669 --> 00:33:36,271
<i>In his 1993 book, The
Gods of Eden, author</i>

505
00:33:36,306 --> 00:33:41,910
<i>William Bramley theorized that
extraterrestrials played a part</i>

506
00:33:41,945 --> 00:33:46,582
<i>in nearly every catastrophe in
human history, and have even</i>

507
00:33:46,616 --> 00:33:54,123
<i>used war as a means to control the
growth of the human population.</i>

508
00:33:54,190 --> 00:33:58,727
<i>But while many are skeptic about
Bramley's claims, there is</i>

509
00:33:58,762 --> 00:34:04,633
<i>one thing on which they agree--
that the number of reported UFO</i>

510
00:34:04,701 --> 00:34:09,171
<i>sightings always increases
during wartime.</i>

511
00:34:09,172 --> 00:34:13,342
In times of war, when
vast civilizations are in

512
00:34:13,410 --> 00:34:18,147
conflict, and in c c conflict
so terrible that it seems as

513
00:34:18,248 --> 00:34:21,717
though the civilizations will
wipe themselves out, suddenly

514
00:34:21,785 --> 00:34:25,454
out of nowhere, UFOs appear.

515
00:34:25,522 --> 00:34:29,458
<i>While skeptics and military
historians attribute</i>

516
00:34:29,526 --> 00:34:33,362
<i>these alleged sightings to war
nerves or stress, those who</i>

517
00:34:33,463 --> 00:34:39,168
<i>believe in UFOs find the number
of instances hard to dismiss.</i>

518
00:34:40,804 --> 00:34:47,709
<i>When World War II broke out in
September of 1939, there were</i>

519
00:34:47,744 --> 00:34:51,814
<i>numerous reports of unidentified
flying objects spotted over</i>

520
00:34:51,881 --> 00:34:53,182
<i>Hitler's Germany.</i>

521
00:34:53,216 --> 00:34:58,520
<i>Although the term UFO had not
yet been coined, the Allies</i>

522
00:34:58,555 --> 00:35:01,890
<i>believed the bogeys, as they
were then known, were new</i>

523
00:35:01,991 --> 00:35:06,862
<i>fighter planes being
developed by the Nazis.</i>

524
00:35:06,896 --> 00:35:11,700
<i>But the first combat bomber
jets, the German Messerschmitt</i>

525
00:35:11,734 --> 00:35:19,708
<i>ME-262, weren't deployed by the
German Air Force until 1943.</i>

526
00:35:19,776 --> 00:35:24,079
It certainly doesn't escape
notice just how advanced

527
00:35:24,180 --> 00:35:29,852
the Nazi propulsion systems and their
aeronautics technology really was.

528
00:35:29,919 --> 00:35:35,691
They had the first operational
jet fighter to see combat.

529
00:35:35,758 --> 00:35:39,695
They were building and
test-flying aircraft that look

530
00:35:39,762 --> 00:35:46,368
incredibly similar to UFOs
that are reported even today.

531
00:35:46,402 --> 00:35:50,038
They had greatly advanced
rocket technology.

532
00:35:50,106 --> 00:35:54,743
There have long been rumors
about Nazi projects to build

533
00:35:54,777 --> 00:35:59,381
aircraft using UFO technology.

534
00:35:59,382 --> 00:36:03,318
At the end of the 19th
century, there was Aleister

535
00:36:03,386 --> 00:36:09,258
Crowley, H.G. Wells, Bram Stoker,
who wrote Dracula, avd

536
00:36:09,292 --> 00:36:10,826
Jules Verne, who wrote From

537
00:36:10,860 --> 00:36:12,528
Earth to the Moon.

538
00:36:12,562 --> 00:36:14,162
They were in a society called

539
00:36:14,197 --> 00:36:15,731
The Golden Dawn.

540
00:36:15,765 --> 00:36:17,533
In that society, they actually

541
00:36:17,567 --> 00:36:19,735
believed in the existence, not

542
00:36:19,769 --> 00:36:21,904
only of UFOs, but

543
00:36:21,938 --> 00:36:23,272
extraterrestrials.

544
00:36:23,339 --> 00:36:26,909
That culture influenced Hitler

545
00:36:27,010 --> 00:36:29,244
in the late 1920s, early into

546
00:36:29,279 --> 00:36:30,812
the 1930s.

547
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,549
In looking for the origins of

548
00:36:33,616 --> 00:36:35,918
the Aryan Race, they went all

549
00:36:35,985 --> 00:36:37,719
the way to India and the Vedic

550
00:36:37,787 --> 00:36:41,557
texts, which talk about UFOs.

551
00:36:41,591 --> 00:36:43,892
So Hitler, in his own way, was a

552
00:36:43,927 --> 00:36:46,562
UFO believer, and sought to

553
00:36:46,629 --> 00:36:48,530
develop his own version of a

554
00:36:48,598 --> 00:36:51,600
UFO, based on the Vedic texts.

555
00:36:51,634 --> 00:36:53,735
To have a dramatic wunderwaffen,

556
00:36:53,803 --> 00:36:55,270
a wonder weapon, that would end

557
00:36:55,371 --> 00:36:58,073
the war.

558
00:36:58,107 --> 00:36:59,374
<i>Although the Nazis</i>

559
00:36:59,442 --> 00:37:00,976
<i>never developed this so-called</i>

560
00:37:01,010 --> 00:37:03,445
<i>wonder weapon, reports of</i>

561
00:37:03,546 --> 00:37:04,813
<i>strange flying machines in</i>

562
00:37:04,881 --> 00:37:06,782
<i>German airspace continued</i>

563
00:37:06,816 --> 00:37:09,251
<i>throughout the war.</i>

564
00:37:09,285 --> 00:37:11,253
<i>But just what was it that the</i>

565
00:37:11,287 --> 00:37:13,455
<i>Allied pilots were reporting?</i>

566
00:37:13,556 --> 00:37:15,791
In the 1940s, as

567
00:37:15,825 --> 00:37:18,894
waves of American bombers were

568
00:37:18,928 --> 00:37:21,063
literally obliterating German

569
00:37:21,097 --> 00:37:26,602
cities-- Dresden, Hamburg,

570
00:37:26,636 --> 00:37:30,806
Berlin-- in these raids,

571
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,641
American fighter pilots saw

572
00:37:32,675 --> 00:37:33,976
these balls of light coming at

573
00:37:34,010 --> 00:37:34,910
their planes.

574
00:37:34,978 --> 00:37:36,612
They didn't know what they were.

575
00:37:36,646 --> 00:37:38,080
They thought they were German

576
00:37:38,147 --> 00:37:39,815
secret weapons at first.

577
00:37:39,849 --> 00:37:42,317
So they called them Foo

578
00:37:42,352 --> 00:37:43,185
Fighters.

579
00:37:43,252 --> 00:37:46,622
The word feu in French is fire,

580
00:37:46,656 --> 00:37:49,324
and these were balls
of fire coming out.

581
00:37:49,359 --> 00:37:52,995
So, instead of Feu Fighters,
they were Foo Fighters.

582
00:37:53,029 --> 00:37:56,531
They were seen in large
numbers over Germany and

583
00:37:56,599 --> 00:37:59,501
over Western Europe, where they
were described variously as

584
00:37:59,535 --> 00:38:03,138
structured craft, or
simply, balls of light.

585
00:38:03,139 --> 00:38:06,808
It was so important at the
time that the military began

586
00:38:06,876 --> 00:38:09,978
to notice it, and they began
to investigate these things.

587
00:38:10,013 --> 00:38:11,813
There were hundreds of cases.

588
00:38:11,881 --> 00:38:15,617
None seemed to be very
harmful to planes.

589
00:38:15,652 --> 00:38:18,053
But they were all over the place.!

590
00:38:18,087 --> 00:38:23,625
Curiously, when the Foo Fighters appeared,
Allied aircraft would sometimes

591
00:38:23,660 --> 00:38:25,861
experience mechanical failure.

592
00:38:25,895 --> 00:38:30,065
And perhaps most mystifying
of all was that some pilots

593
00:38:30,133 --> 00:38:39,875
reported flying right through the
UFOs, as if they had no mass.

594
00:38:39,909 --> 00:38:43,879
It was never discovered what the
Foo Fighters were or where they

595
00:38:43,980 --> 00:38:48,250
came from, but the theory that
they were some sort of German

596
00:38:48,317 --> 00:38:53,355
secret weapon was widely accepted
among Allied pilots at the time.

597
00:38:53,423 --> 00:38:57,592
But could the Third Reich have
possessed technology more

598
00:38:57,627 --> 00:39:00,896
advanced than even our
most modern aircraft?

599
00:39:00,930 --> 00:39:05,067
Some believe what the Nazis
had developed was an advanced

600
00:39:05,168 --> 00:39:09,071
mechanism that scientists are
still working on today--

601
00:39:09,105 --> 00:39:12,708
mercury-powered
anti-gravity technology.

602
00:39:12,742 --> 00:39:21,583
This involves mercury being in a
closed system, like a glass bulb.

603
00:39:21,584 --> 00:39:25,887
Once that mercury becomes
spinning in a gyroscopic manner

604
00:39:25,955 --> 00:39:29,958
within a closed system,
that creates a lift.

605
00:39:29,992 --> 00:39:33,895
It's electrified lift, it's
also a very bright light.

606
00:39:33,963 --> 00:39:38,700
And in fact, many UFOs are
described as exactly that.

607
00:39:38,735 --> 00:39:44,606
Towards the end of World War II,
the Germans started producing

608
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,142
massive amounts of mercury.

609
00:39:47,210 --> 00:39:51,313
And in fact, a number of the
U-boats that were later sunk--

610
00:39:51,347 --> 00:39:54,616
one was sunk near Singapore,
another in Norway-- only a few

611
00:39:54,650 --> 00:39:58,954
years ago, they actually found it,
and its entire cargo was mercury.

612
00:39:58,988 --> 00:40:02,591
What the few historians have
actually written about Foo

613
00:40:02,625 --> 00:40:06,962
Fighters, which is still
apparently a secret today, is

614
00:40:06,996 --> 00:40:10,065
they were a kind of
mercury plasma ball.

615
00:40:10,099 --> 00:40:16,138
And the purpose of the Foo
Fighters was to make a

616
00:40:16,172 --> 00:40:22,778
highly pulsed magnetic charge
and field around the bombers,

617
00:40:22,812 --> 00:40:27,048
which would then cut out the
engines and interfere with the

618
00:40:27,116 --> 00:40:32,587
electrical systems in the planes.

619
00:40:32,655 --> 00:40:37,959
Could Foo Fighters really have been
based on extraterrestrial technology?

620
00:40:38,027 --> 00:40:42,330
If so, where did the Germans get it?

621
00:40:42,365 --> 00:40:47,335
UFO theorists point to the
discovery of a flying saucer

622
00:40:47,370 --> 00:40:50,972
that allegedly crashed in the
Black Forest, near Freiburg,

623
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,975
Germany, in 1936.

624
00:40:54,043 --> 00:40:59,047
Some believe, German scientists
repaired the craft to test its

625
00:40:59,115 --> 00:41:03,985
energy and ppulsion systems, and
through reverse engineering,

626
00:41:04,020 --> 00:41:09,090
were able to replicate some of these
so-called alien technologies.

627
00:41:09,091 --> 00:41:12,994
Did the Nazis take this craft, and
was there some sort of a pact that

628
00:41:13,029 --> 00:41:14,196
happened there?

629
00:41:14,263 --> 00:41:17,165
Did the Nazis-- did
they retrieve bodies?

630
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,368
It's hard to pin down
how much they had.

631
00:41:20,436 --> 00:41:22,003
Was there contact?

632
00:41:22,038 --> 00:41:24,573
There's always been that
theory-- that they had a

633
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:28,643
captured craft, and that they
were reverse engineering it.

634
00:41:28,678 --> 00:41:30,011
It's very possible.

635
00:41:30,112 --> 00:41:35,417
They were truly way more advanced
than any culture at thtime.

636
00:41:35,451 --> 00:41:38,420
Thank God for the American
know-how, because we were

637
00:41:38,487 --> 00:41:42,791
combating them with our own kind of
knowledge and technology, as well.

638
00:41:42,825 --> 00:41:48,930
After World War II, there was an
exercise mounted by the Americans called

639
00:41:48,998 --> 00:41:51,766
Operation Paperclip.

640
00:41:51,767 --> 00:41:56,304
The Allies had been confronted
with all this amazing technology

641
00:41:56,405 --> 00:41:57,405
from Germany.

642
00:41:57,473 --> 00:42:02,477
The jet engines, airplanes, the
rocket engine airplanes, all

643
00:42:02,578 --> 00:42:04,946
these amazing devices.

644
00:42:05,014 --> 00:42:07,949
To give you an example of
some of the material that was

645
00:42:08,017 --> 00:42:12,420
collected by Operation
Paperclip, right at the end of

646
00:42:12,455 --> 00:42:17,959
the war, Von Braun and his team
had begun designing multistage

647
00:42:17,994 --> 00:42:21,596
rockets capable of reaching
the United States.

648
00:42:21,631 --> 00:42:26,635
They also had plans for a space
station, the classic circular

649
00:42:26,736 --> 00:42:31,506
sci-fi space station, and on
this, they had a huge sunlight

650
00:42:31,540 --> 00:42:35,443
collector, a mirror that was
designed to focus sunlight down

651
00:42:35,511 --> 00:42:38,980
on the Earth as a kind of death ray.

652
00:42:39,015 --> 00:42:44,686
There were all these wild ideas
coming out of that team that

653
00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:49,824
turned it into a very valuable
coup for the United States.

654
00:42:49,859 --> 00:42:55,163
Ultimately, it was Von Braun who
built the Saturn Five rocket

655
00:42:55,197 --> 00:42:57,599
that took people to the moon.

656
00:43:03,606 --> 00:43:07,575
<i>The story of the World
War II Foo Fighters, muc</i>

657
00:43:07,610 --> 00:43:11,313
<i>like that of the Battle of Los
Angeles, has been largely</i>

658
00:43:11,347 --> 00:43:15,450
<i>forgotten or dismissed by
traditional historians.</i>

659
00:43:15,484 --> 00:43:20,722
<i>But an event that happened just
two years after the war had even</i>

660
00:43:20,756 --> 00:43:22,090
<i>the skeptics wondering.</i>

661
00:43:22,158 --> 00:43:26,795
<i>What if aliens really did exist?</i>

662
00:43:26,829 --> 00:43:32,567
<i>And could one of their craft
have crashed to Earth?</i>

663
00:43:38,261 --> 00:43:42,164
<i>Mainstream archeologists
have long rejected</i>

664
00:43:42,198 --> 00:43:46,234
<i>the notion that extraterrestrial
beings had a hand in creating</i>

665
00:43:46,269 --> 00:43:48,870
<i>the pyramids of Egypt.</i>

666
00:43:48,938 --> 00:43:53,875
<i>Theologians and religious
scholars refute the idea that</i>

667
00:43:53,943 --> 00:43:58,046
<i>stories of the Bible or the
Mahabharata could be describing</i>

668
00:43:58,114 --> 00:44:00,582
<i>alien encounters.</i>

669
00:44:00,616 --> 00:44:04,886
<i>And governments throughout
history have officially denied</i>

670
00:44:04,954 --> 00:44:09,891
<i>reports that the Earth has been
visited by flying saucers.</i>

671
00:44:09,959 --> 00:44:15,030
<i>But on July 8, 1947, a UFO
sighting was reported that even</i>

672
00:44:15,064 --> 00:44:18,333
<i>the United States government
had trouble denying.</i>

673
00:44:18,368 --> 00:44:19,301
<i>Why?</i>

674
00:44:19,335 --> 00:44:24,973
<i>Because this time, the report
was issued by the U.S. Army.</i>

675
00:44:25,041 --> 00:44:32,347
I'm walking on the Foster Ranch between
Corona and Roswell, New Mexico.

676
00:44:32,382 --> 00:44:36,451
Not far from what is called the
debris field right over that hill.

677
00:44:36,486 --> 00:44:42,991
And that debris field refers to
headlines back in July of 1947

678
00:44:43,025 --> 00:44:49,297
about a disc-- one of those
mysterious UFOs-- actually

679
00:44:49,365 --> 00:44:51,933
crashing right out here.

680
00:44:53,136 --> 00:44:58,907
One night in early July,
1947, a major thunderstorm

681
00:44:58,941 --> 00:45:01,476
rolled across New Mexico.

682
00:45:03,112 --> 00:45:07,916
The next morning, rancher Mac Brazel
went out to check on the damage.

683
00:45:07,984 --> 00:45:10,285
Mac Brazel went out to
make sure everything

684
00:45:10,353 --> 00:45:11,920
was where it was supposed to be.

685
00:45:11,988 --> 00:45:15,524
And he came across this really
extensive area of debris, stuff

686
00:45:15,558 --> 00:45:16,725
he had never seen before.

687
00:45:16,759 --> 00:45:20,362
He brought it to the
local sheriff's office.

688
00:45:20,430 --> 00:45:26,067
In 1947, Roswell was home
to Roswell Army Air Field.

689
00:45:26,102 --> 00:45:31,006
The sheriff called the base,
the base sent Major Jesse

690
00:45:31,073 --> 00:45:33,975
Marcel, and at that point, it
basically became a military site

691
00:45:34,010 --> 00:45:36,978
as they gathered up every bit
of debris they could find.

692
00:45:37,013 --> 00:45:39,548
In their initial report,
army officials made a

693
00:45:39,615 --> 00:45:43,385
vague claim of having started
the recovery of the debris

694
00:45:43,419 --> 00:45:46,521
"sometime last week."

695
00:45:46,556 --> 00:45:50,091
But why didn't the army report
their findings right away?

696
00:45:50,126 --> 00:45:55,430
And why were they so ambiguous
about the timeline?

697
00:45:55,465 --> 00:45:59,201
One of the biggest things
we have is the newspaper

698
00:45:59,268 --> 00:46:03,839
of July 8, 1947, where Colonel
Blanchard issued an order to

699
00:46:03,873 --> 00:46:06,475
Lieutenant Walter Haught, who
was a public information

700
00:46:06,542 --> 00:46:09,277
officer, saying basically, we
have in our possession a flying

701
00:46:09,312 --> 00:46:12,180
saucer, it's being taken to Fort
Worth, to higher headquarters.

702
00:46:12,248 --> 00:46:16,184
Roswell was a real turning
point for UFOlogy.

703
00:46:16,219 --> 00:46:20,789
I think that was because the
military, for the first time,

704
00:46:20,823 --> 00:46:24,259
admitted that they had a crashed disc.

705
00:46:24,293 --> 00:46:30,065
And because it was admitted at the time,
of course, it caused a sensation.

706
00:46:30,066 --> 00:46:33,001
But then, July 9, General
Ramey issued a press

707
00:46:33,069 --> 00:46:36,438
release saying, no, it
was a weather balloon.

708
00:46:36,472 --> 00:46:43,712
And that started the
best-documented UFO cover-up ever.

709
00:46:43,746 --> 00:46:48,984
Army officials referred to the debris
as being part of a flying disc.

710
00:46:49,051 --> 00:46:54,589
Internal memos even referenced the
crash site as having victims.

711
00:46:54,624 --> 00:46:59,160
So why, less than 24 hours later,
did they suddenly decide

712
00:46:59,228 --> 00:47:04,699
that what they had retrieved was
nothing more than a weather balloon?

713
00:47:04,734 --> 00:47:09,237
Although Blanchard and Ramey
stuck by the revised story,

714
00:47:09,272 --> 00:47:13,108
Lieutenant Haught stood by the
contents of his initial report

715
00:47:13,142 --> 00:47:15,176
his entire life.

716
00:47:15,211 --> 00:47:19,214
And those who believe him think
modern technology may have

717
00:47:19,248 --> 00:47:25,353
recently provided the irrefutable
evidence they have been looking for.

718
00:47:25,388 --> 00:47:29,758
When Major Marcel took the
debris to Fort Worth,

719
00:47:29,792 --> 00:47:32,827
and General Ramey spread it out
to give this press conference

720
00:47:32,895 --> 00:47:36,031
that it was a weather balloon,
there was a picture taken, and

721
00:47:36,065 --> 00:47:37,666
in his hand is a piece of paper.

722
00:47:37,733 --> 00:47:40,101
It's a very little piece of paper.

723
00:47:40,169 --> 00:47:43,004
I mean, and this has been blown up.

724
00:47:43,072 --> 00:47:44,272
And it is a memo.

725
00:47:44,307 --> 00:47:48,276
There is a leading researcher
in the field who is pulling the

726
00:47:48,344 --> 00:47:50,278
words out of this.

727
00:47:50,346 --> 00:47:53,815
And they include things
like "team at Fort Worth,"

728
00:47:53,849 --> 00:47:58,386
"forwarded victims of the
wreck," "pod or pan."

729
00:47:58,421 --> 00:48:01,890
And so, every year that the
technology improves, General

730
00:48:01,924 --> 00:48:06,494
Ramey may be the one to solve it.

731
00:48:06,495 --> 00:48:13,735
Bob Wood, a researcher in UFOs, had
received leaked documents in 1996, and

732
00:48:13,803 --> 00:48:17,339
shared them with me and a few others.

733
00:48:17,373 --> 00:48:21,376
This document called the
Interplanetary Phenomena Unit,

734
00:48:21,444 --> 00:48:30,118
with a war department stamp
dated July 22nd, 1947.

735
00:48:30,119 --> 00:48:34,189
"The most disturbing aspect of
this investigation was that"

736
00:48:34,223 --> 00:48:38,193
there were other bodies found
not far from landing zone one,

737
00:48:38,227 --> 00:48:42,731
the Mac Brazel site between
Corona and Roswell that looked

738
00:48:42,798 --> 00:48:47,535
"as if they had been dissected
as you would a frog."

739
00:48:47,570 --> 00:48:51,606
It does not define, were
those bodies human?

740
00:48:51,641 --> 00:48:54,476
Were those bodies non-human?

741
00:48:54,543 --> 00:49:00,081
But suddenly, for me, this
electric jolt that came into

742
00:49:00,149 --> 00:49:05,353
holding that document and
reading at the end of the '90s

743
00:49:05,421 --> 00:49:10,625
what would explain finally
that our government knew that

744
00:49:10,660 --> 00:49:15,163
extraterrestrial biological
entities from somewhere else in

745
00:49:15,197 --> 00:49:21,469
the cosmos was interacting with
our planet for a very long time.

746
00:49:24,006 --> 00:49:30,178
<i>Five years after Roswell, the United
States Air Force coined the term</i>

747
00:49:30,246 --> 00:49:32,000
<i>Unidentified Flying Object or UFO.</i>

748
00:49:33,617 --> 00:49:38,388
<i>In the decades since, thousands
of UFOs have been reported</i>

749
00:49:38,422 --> 00:49:41,858
<i>photographed and videotaped
all over the world.</i>

750
00:49:41,892 --> 00:49:44,093
Oh, my God.

751
00:49:44,094 --> 00:49:47,964
Perhaps one of the biggest,
most revolutionary

752
00:49:47,998 --> 00:49:52,301
pieces of technology to change
our view of UFOs and flying

753
00:49:52,336 --> 00:49:54,904
saucers is the videocam.

754
00:49:54,905 --> 00:49:57,507
Whoa, I'm getting a series
of lights right there.

755
00:49:57,574 --> 00:49:58,975
I got it, I got it, I got it.

756
00:49:59,009 --> 00:50:01,344
You only have to look at
what happened in Phoenix,

757
00:50:01,412 --> 00:50:07,550
Arizona, in March of 1997, when
these huge flying boomerangs

758
00:50:07,584 --> 00:50:11,454
went right across Phoenix, right
through the whole valley,

759
00:50:11,488 --> 00:50:13,823
heading south to the Mexico border.

760
00:50:13,857 --> 00:50:15,825
These were all caught on cameras.

761
00:50:15,893 --> 00:50:17,193
Network news caught these;

762
00:50:17,261 --> 00:50:18,394
Local news caught these.

763
00:50:18,429 --> 00:50:20,830
You saw these on CNN; you
saw these on Larry King.

764
00:50:20,898 --> 00:50:23,833
Oh, there it is, over to the left.

765
00:50:23,901 --> 00:50:27,570
And yes, people called them
flares-- of course they did.

766
00:50:27,604 --> 00:50:32,875
But, the fact is, when you see something
with your own eyes... Look, dude.

767
00:50:32,910 --> 00:50:33,576
Pat, you got it?

768
00:50:33,644 --> 00:50:34,577
I see it.

769
00:50:34,611 --> 00:50:39,015
...even if it's on a video camera,
suddenly your perspective changes.

770
00:50:39,049 --> 00:50:41,484
And that middle one is moving quick.

771
00:50:41,518 --> 00:50:43,920
It's only the beginning, you guys.

772
00:50:43,987 --> 00:50:48,458
So now, according to recent
polls-- Gallup polls and

773
00:50:48,525 --> 00:50:52,728
Roper polls-- well over 50%

774
00:50:52,763 --> 00:50:58,634
of Americans believe that
flying saucers exist, and close

775
00:50:58,669 --> 00:51:01,904
to 50% believe that, the
government knows that

776
00:51:01,939 --> 00:51:08,277
flying saucers exist, and that the
government is hiding that fact.

777
00:51:08,312 --> 00:51:12,348
But why so many UFO
sightings after Roswell?

778
00:51:12,382 --> 00:51:14,550
Is it a coincidence?

779
00:51:14,618 --> 00:51:17,920
Or is the world's growing
belief in aliens providing

780
00:51:17,955 --> 00:51:21,157
cover for those who might
previously have been too afraid

781
00:51:21,191 --> 00:51:23,926
of ridicule to come forward?

782
00:51:23,961 --> 00:51:26,929
Perhaps there is another reason.

783
00:51:26,964 --> 00:51:29,932
Perhaps there are more
sightings because there is a

784
00:51:29,967 --> 00:51:35,538
genuine increase in alien
visitations-- ever since the

785
00:51:35,572 --> 00:51:38,207
dawn of the Space Age.

786
00:51:38,208 --> 00:51:43,679
There had been plenty of stories of
UFOs and aliens, prior to that-- a

787
00:51:43,714 --> 00:51:44,881
lot of sightings.

788
00:51:44,948 --> 00:51:47,884
They weren't as widely reported,
somewhat also because

789
00:51:47,951 --> 00:51:51,687
World War II had been
going on, prior to that.

790
00:51:51,688 --> 00:51:55,591
But because now we had a crash
and there was more room in the

791
00:51:55,626 --> 00:52:01,397
newspaper, so to speak, I think that
really helped the subject take off.

792
00:52:01,431 --> 00:52:05,935
<i>If, as some suggest aliens
from other worlds truly</i>

793
00:52:05,969 --> 00:52:09,939
<i>are among us and have done
their best to keep themselves</i>

794
00:52:09,973 --> 00:52:16,312
<i>hidden for thousands of years-- will
they ever reveal their presence?</i>

795
00:52:16,346 --> 00:52:21,250
<i>More importantly, what
happens if they do?</i>

796
00:52:21,318 --> 00:52:25,955
<i>And what if it is already happening?</i>

797
00:52:27,516 --> 00:52:35,656
<i>In March 2010, a mysterious pulsating
light floated over Cleveland, Ohio,</i>

798
00:52:35,691 --> 00:52:38,593
<i>for 11 consecutive nights.</i>

799
00:52:38,594 --> 00:52:41,929
<i>We're having a sighting
right now over the lake.</i>

800
00:52:41,997 --> 00:52:46,000
<i>I'm going to say 270 degrees south.</i>

801
00:52:46,001 --> 00:52:47,268
<i>There are two objects.</i>

802
00:52:47,302 --> 00:52:48,770
<i>One is coming up from the left.</i>

803
00:52:48,804 --> 00:52:50,938
<i>These are extremely
close to each other.</i>

804
00:52:51,006 --> 00:52:53,775
<i>There's absolutely no
way these are planes.</i>

805
00:52:53,809 --> 00:52:56,844
<i>Right now what's happening is
the initial object that came</i>

806
00:52:56,945 --> 00:53:00,581
<i>out-- it's sitting there, it's hovering,
it's getting extremely bright.</i>

807
00:53:00,649 --> 00:53:02,583
<i>It's illuminating different colors.</i>

808
00:53:02,651 --> 00:53:06,821
<i>And the second object appeared from,
I'm going to say the top left of it.</i>

809
00:53:06,855 --> 00:53:10,858
<i>And now it looks like
it's moving around it.</i>

810
00:53:10,893 --> 00:53:11,759
<i>Wow!</i>

811
00:53:11,827 --> 00:53:15,029
They just completely
just switched spots.

812
00:53:15,130 --> 00:53:17,198
Oh, my God, this is beautiful!

813
00:53:17,299 --> 00:53:18,499
It knows we're watching!

814
00:53:18,567 --> 00:53:20,668
It knows we're watching!

815
00:53:20,736 --> 00:53:25,039
The Cleveland sighting is one of
thousands reported each year.

816
00:53:25,107 --> 00:53:28,209
And while many are proved to be
false alarms, others are not so

817
00:53:28,243 --> 00:53:30,845
easily discredited.

818
00:53:30,879 --> 00:53:32,313
Right below it.

819
00:53:32,347 --> 00:53:35,283
A big bright white
flash just occurred.

820
00:53:35,317 --> 00:53:38,953
In 1991, Britain's Ministry
of Defense assigned

821
00:53:39,021 --> 00:53:42,557
author and journalist, Nick
Pope, to track the hundreds of

822
00:53:42,591 --> 00:53:47,562
sightings reported over England,
Scotland and Wales every year.

823
00:53:47,596 --> 00:53:55,203
The Ministry of Defence has been looking
at the UFO issue since the 1950s.

824
00:53:55,204 --> 00:53:58,940
And the whole reason for
looking at these UFO sightings

825
00:53:59,007 --> 00:54:02,376
is not necessarily because the
department corporately believes

826
00:54:02,444 --> 00:54:04,846
in extraterrestrial visitation.

827
00:54:04,847 --> 00:54:07,715
It's more to do with keeping a
watchful eye on any unusual

828
00:54:07,749 --> 00:54:10,218
activity in British airspace.

829
00:54:10,252 --> 00:54:12,620
Clearly if there's something
there that's a little bit out

830
00:54:12,654 --> 00:54:16,023
of the ordinary, we
want to know about it.

831
00:54:19,094 --> 00:54:23,731
My beliefs when I was given
this job were, I think, what on

832
00:54:23,765 --> 00:54:26,100
earth have I let myself in for here?

833
00:54:26,201 --> 00:54:30,371
I had no particular knowledge or
interest in the UFO phenomenon.

834
00:54:30,405 --> 00:54:34,208
Certainly no belief
in anything unusual.

835
00:54:34,243 --> 00:54:37,078
But the more I looked back
through the archive of old

836
00:54:37,112 --> 00:54:39,981
files, and the more I began to
investigate the ones that were

837
00:54:40,015 --> 00:54:43,651
being reported to me on a daily
basis, I began to change my

838
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:47,922
mind, and realized that some of
these UFO sightings couldn't be

839
00:54:47,956 --> 00:54:50,825
explained in conventional terms.

840
00:54:50,893 --> 00:54:52,727
It's definitely moving.

841
00:54:52,761 --> 00:54:57,365
Many of the most intriguing cases
Pope researched involved eyewitness

842
00:54:57,432 --> 00:55:02,637
reports from pilots, police
and military officers-- while

843
00:55:02,671 --> 00:55:09,911
others featured classified radar,
video or photographic evidence.

844
00:55:12,347 --> 00:55:15,283
One case that was a
particular turning point for

845
00:55:15,350 --> 00:55:18,920
me was the so-called Cosford Incident.

846
00:55:18,921 --> 00:55:23,291
Now, Cosford is a military
base in the United Kingdom.

847
00:55:23,325 --> 00:55:27,828
And on the particular night in
question, which was 30th of

848
00:55:27,863 --> 00:55:32,266
March, 1993, there was a wave
of sightings over a period of

849
00:55:32,301 --> 00:55:34,001
about six hours.

850
00:55:34,036 --> 00:55:36,804
And there were many police
and military witnesses.

851
00:55:36,838 --> 00:55:40,808
And two air force bases,
Cosford and Shawbury, were

852
00:55:40,842 --> 00:55:45,646
directly overflown by a vast
triangular shaped craft.

853
00:55:47,716 --> 00:55:51,285
Now, the meteorological officer
at one of these bases described

854
00:55:51,353 --> 00:55:55,990
this to me as the size of a
jumbo jet hovering, or moving

855
00:55:56,024 --> 00:56:00,261
very, very slowly, and then
accelerating away to the

856
00:56:00,295 --> 00:56:02,363
horizon at incredible speed.

857
00:56:02,464 --> 00:56:07,068
He said many times faster
than a military jet.

858
00:56:07,102 --> 00:56:11,739
And this was a man with eight years
experience in the air force.

859
00:56:11,740 --> 00:56:16,377
This sighting was thoroughly
investigated not only by private UFO

860
00:56:16,411 --> 00:56:19,547
investigators, but also by the
British government, who were

861
00:56:19,581 --> 00:56:26,354
unable to explain all of the sightings
reported during this incident.

862
00:56:26,421 --> 00:56:32,326
Another intriguing British UFO
sighting took place in December 1980.

863
00:56:32,361 --> 00:56:35,997
U.S. Air Force personnel
stationed in Suffolk, England,

864
00:56:36,064 --> 00:56:39,533
reported seeing a brilliantly
illuminated spaceship that

865
00:56:39,601 --> 00:56:43,871
landed in Rendlesham Forest
on two consecutive nights.

866
00:56:53,982 --> 00:56:57,518
What made this case
particularly unusual is that

867
00:56:57,552 --> 00:57:01,088
this was not vague lights in the sky.

868
00:57:01,123 --> 00:57:03,991
This was a landed metallic
craft that some of the

869
00:57:04,059 --> 00:57:07,161
witnesses claimed they got so
close to, they could actually

870
00:57:07,195 --> 00:57:09,530
touch the side of it.

871
00:57:09,564 --> 00:57:14,735
One witness saw strange symbols
on the hull, which he likened to

872
00:57:14,803 --> 00:57:16,604
Egyptian hieroglyphs.

873
00:57:16,638 --> 00:57:19,340
He made a sketch of this in his
police notebook and took some

874
00:57:19,374 --> 00:57:23,077
photos, though he was subsequently
told they didn't come out.

875
00:57:23,111 --> 00:57:27,548
The Ministry of Defence looked
at this, and the Defence

876
00:57:27,582 --> 00:57:32,253
intelligence staff assessed
radiation readings that had

877
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:36,457
been taken at the landing site
as being "significantly higher

878
00:57:36,525 --> 00:57:37,792
than background."

879
00:57:37,826 --> 00:57:40,895
And that's a direct quote from
the government's own assessment.

880
00:57:40,929 --> 00:57:45,900
The British government generated a
massive file of information about this

881
00:57:45,934 --> 00:57:48,069
sighting report.

882
00:57:48,136 --> 00:57:51,405
But at this date, it's very
unlikely that the actual truth

883
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:55,276
about the sighting will ever be known.

884
00:57:59,014 --> 00:58:02,516
But in spite of the compelling
eyewitness testimony, the Ministry of

885
00:58:02,584 --> 00:58:07,588
Defence soon declared the case closed.

886
00:58:07,622 --> 00:58:12,793
22 years later, when the government
declassified files on the Rendlesham

887
00:58:12,861 --> 00:58:16,797
incident, the evidence
was inconclusive.

888
00:58:16,865 --> 00:58:19,800
But what stood out was the
credibility of the main

889
00:58:19,868 --> 00:58:22,970
witnesses, who were trained
military personnel.

890
00:58:23,004 --> 00:58:26,874
Obviously, as a UFO hunter,
I've met a lot of people

891
00:58:26,908 --> 00:58:29,210
who've encountered UFOs.

892
00:58:29,211 --> 00:58:32,980
Just flying on a plane for
example: You're on a plane, and

893
00:58:33,048 --> 00:58:35,449
suddenly the pilot comes out
of the cockpit, and this has

894
00:58:35,517 --> 00:58:38,519
happened on five separate occasions.

895
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:42,623
And he'll say to me, "I saw a
UFO over Phoenix, I saw a UFO

896
00:58:42,691 --> 00:58:46,227
over Texas, half my crew saw a UFO.

897
00:58:46,261 --> 00:58:49,063
And you'll say to the pilot,
"Well, well, do you report it?"

898
00:58:49,131 --> 00:58:52,533
And they say when the flight
controller says at the airport,

899
00:58:52,567 --> 00:58:55,169
"Do you want to report a UFO
sighting," and then bursts out

900
00:58:55,203 --> 00:58:58,539
laughing, what you say is, "No."

901
00:58:58,607 --> 00:59:02,042
There are UFO sightings
every single day.

902
00:59:02,077 --> 00:59:07,581
Real people with real
sightings of real UFOs.

903
00:59:07,616 --> 00:59:11,886
It is very prevalent as more
and more people talk about it.

904
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:14,989
Something is going on.

905
00:59:15,023 --> 00:59:20,261
In terms of the government response to
all this, certainly in Britain, the

906
00:59:20,328 --> 00:59:25,166
Ministry of Defence policy for
many years has been to try and

907
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:27,668
downplay this subject.

908
00:59:27,702 --> 00:59:31,038
Not really in any great
sinister attempt to cover up

909
00:59:31,072 --> 00:59:34,508
the truth about UFOs, whatever
that might be, but more out of

910
00:59:34,543 --> 00:59:35,509
embarrassment.

911
00:59:35,577 --> 00:59:37,411
There are things in our
airspace, we don't know what

912
00:59:37,512 --> 00:59:39,880
they are, and that's not a good
place for the government and

913
00:59:39,948 --> 00:59:41,415
the military to be.

914
00:59:41,449 --> 00:59:47,188
On December 1, 2009, the British Ministry
o Defence quietly terminated its

915
00:59:47,222 --> 00:59:51,992
UFO project, citing that there
had been no credible evidence

916
00:59:52,027 --> 00:59:57,665
that UFOs posed "a potential
threat to the United Kingdom."

917
00:59:57,732 --> 01:00:03,270
There are a number of aspects
of this decision that

918
01:00:03,305 --> 01:00:05,105
were particularly controversial.

919
01:00:05,173 --> 01:00:10,477
Firstly, UFO sightings are at a
ten-year high in the United Kingdom.

920
01:00:10,545 --> 01:00:13,681
So, it seemed the most
inopportune moment to pull the

921
01:00:13,715 --> 01:00:18,652
plug on 50 years of research and
investigation into the UFO mystery.

922
01:00:18,687 --> 01:00:22,489
The other point that made this
particularly controversial was

923
01:00:22,557 --> 01:00:25,492
the way in which the
decision was announced.

924
01:00:25,527 --> 01:00:30,331
There was no proactive
statement issued on this.

925
01:00:30,365 --> 01:00:33,400
It simply said: The department
will not respond to any

926
01:00:33,468 --> 01:00:39,506
inquiries on this subject and will
no longer investigate sightings.

927
01:00:41,710 --> 01:00:45,946
One hurdle confronting those in favor
of fully disclosing classified

928
01:00:46,014 --> 01:00:50,651
information related to UFOs is
the fact that most mainstream

929
01:00:50,685 --> 01:00:54,688
scientists believe that the
study of alien phenomena is

930
01:00:54,756 --> 01:00:58,559
little more than just fringe science.

931
01:00:58,593 --> 01:01:02,396
It is this fear of dismissal
or ridicule that keeps many

932
01:01:02,430 --> 01:01:05,966
scientists hidden in the shadows.

933
01:01:05,967 --> 01:01:10,671
Our best scientists, who communicate
with one another, around the world,

934
01:01:10,705 --> 01:01:16,310
have rules of protocol, which
include-- they cannot appear to

935
01:01:16,378 --> 01:01:21,582
be religious...
(laughs), they cannot believe in flying

936
01:01:21,616 --> 01:01:23,751
saucers, and they certainly
shouldn't hang around with

937
01:01:23,785 --> 01:01:28,088
anybody who believes
in flying saucers.

938
01:01:28,123 --> 01:01:31,025
But it's all done, you
might say, behind closed

939
01:01:31,059 --> 01:01:35,663
doors, because nobody really
wants to draw attention to it.

940
01:01:35,730 --> 01:01:38,933
You know that they understand,
you know, that there is a

941
01:01:38,967 --> 01:01:42,036
penalty associated with this
kind of research, and so

942
01:01:42,103 --> 01:01:46,373
consequently, it's done,
it's done "invisibly."

943
01:01:46,408 --> 01:01:50,678
To be blockaded and stopped by
worries about peer reviews and

944
01:01:50,745 --> 01:01:52,212
so forth, to me, is wrong.

945
01:01:52,247 --> 01:01:55,115
We can speculate whether there
is life outside this planet.

946
01:01:55,150 --> 01:01:58,085
We can speculate whether there
has been a contact with, with

947
01:01:58,119 --> 01:01:58,953
other civilizations.

948
01:01:58,987 --> 01:02:00,988
Why not?

949
01:02:00,989 --> 01:02:06,393
But as more scientists openly embrace
the probability that there is

950
01:02:06,428 --> 01:02:10,097
intelligent life existing
elsewhere in the universe,

951
01:02:10,131 --> 01:02:15,002
 Will the belief that alien beings are
visiting us also become more accepted?

952
01:02:19,270 --> 01:02:24,474
What might be the reaction today
if extraterrestrials were to

953
01:02:24,509 --> 01:02:30,447
actually arrive on Earth, and
make themselves known to us?

954
01:02:30,448 --> 01:02:34,618
Countless science fiction books
and films tend to portray

955
01:02:34,652 --> 01:02:39,289
aliens coming either to
warn us or destroy us.

956
01:02:39,357 --> 01:02:44,194
Since the 1960s, people have been
thinking about: Well, what do we do?

957
01:02:44,229 --> 01:02:45,362
<i>Do we have a Day the Earth</i>

958
01:02:45,396 --> 01:02:47,030
<i>Stood Still scenario, if aliens</i>

959
01:02:47,098 --> 01:02:48,465
come?

960
01:02:48,533 --> 01:02:52,369
Do they warn us that our
planet is facing disaster?

961
01:02:52,403 --> 01:02:55,205
<i>Do they attack us, the way the
Martians did in War of the</i>

962
01:02:55,240 --> 01:02:56,473
<i>Worlds?</i>

963
01:02:56,507 --> 01:02:59,109
<i>Well, the answer is more</i>

964
01:02:59,177 --> 01:03:00,911
<i>complicated than it seems.</i>

965
01:03:00,979 --> 01:03:01,912
<i>It's not just somebody landing,</i>

966
01:03:01,980 --> 01:03:03,180
<i>and saying, "Take me to your</i>

967
01:03:03,214 --> 01:03:05,549
<i>leader."</i>

968
01:03:10,021 --> 01:03:11,021
<i>The general</i>

969
01:03:11,089 --> 01:03:12,189
<i>consensus today is that if</i>

970
01:03:12,257 --> 01:03:13,523
<i>extraterrestrials were to show</i>

971
01:03:13,558 --> 01:03:16,093
<i>up tomorrow, they'd be hostile,</i>

972
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:17,561
<i>and they would want to enslave</i>

973
01:03:17,595 --> 01:03:20,731
<i>us and, and battle us and, and</i>

974
01:03:20,832 --> 01:03:21,898
<i>destroy us and all this crazy</i>

975
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:23,166
<i>stuff.</i>

976
01:03:23,201 --> 01:03:25,902
<i>In my opinion, that won't be</i>

977
01:03:26,004 --> 01:03:27,904
<i>the case because any</i>

978
01:03:28,006 --> 01:03:29,706
<i>civilization that's mastered to</i>

979
01:03:29,741 --> 01:03:32,276
<i>travel interstellar space would</i>

980
01:03:32,343 --> 01:03:35,545
<i>be benevolent to a lesser</i>

981
01:03:35,580 --> 01:03:36,913
<i>advanced society</i>

982
01:03:37,015 --> 01:03:39,182
<i>technologically speaking.</i>

983
01:03:40,184 --> 01:03:41,785
<i>A simple statistic</i>

984
01:03:41,819 --> 01:03:43,920
<i>shows that if we make contact</i>

985
01:03:43,988 --> 01:03:45,355
<i>with extraterrestrial</i>

986
01:03:45,423 --> 01:03:47,057
<i>civilization, we are the new</i>

987
01:03:47,091 --> 01:03:48,258
<i>kids on the block.</i>

988
01:03:48,359 --> 01:03:50,627
<i>We're the ones who are at the</i>

989
01:03:50,695 --> 01:03:52,629
<i>back of the queue when it comes</i>

990
01:03:52,697 --> 01:03:53,563
<i>to intelligence.</i>

991
01:03:53,631 --> 01:03:55,198
<i>So, they'll be teaching us</i>

992
01:03:55,266 --> 01:03:55,966
<i>stuff.</i>

993
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:57,601
<i>We won't have a great deal to</i>

994
01:03:57,635 --> 01:03:59,269
<i>teach them.</i>

995
01:03:59,370 --> 01:04:00,470
<i>There are a</i>

996
01:04:00,538 --> 01:04:01,972
<i>wide range of benefits that can</i>

997
01:04:02,006 --> 01:04:04,174
<i>be derived from accepting that</i>

998
01:04:04,242 --> 01:04:05,976
<i>we have neighbors in the galaxy</i>

999
01:04:06,010 --> 01:04:06,977
<i>that are visiting us.</i>

1000
01:04:07,011 --> 01:04:07,978
<i>There are reports of medical</i>

1001
01:04:08,012 --> 01:04:08,979
<i>treatments that have been</i>

1002
01:04:09,013 --> 01:04:10,013
<i>performed for the benefit of</i>

1003
01:04:10,081 --> 01:04:11,148
<i>several people who have had</i>

1004
01:04:11,182 --> 01:04:13,183
<i>contact.</i>

1005
01:04:13,184 --> 01:04:14,117
<i>There are advanced energy</i>

1006
01:04:14,185 --> 01:04:15,285
<i>technologies.</i>

1007
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:16,553
<i>Reports are that some of these</i>

1008
01:04:16,621 --> 01:04:17,621
<i>have been reverse-engineered</i>

1009
01:04:17,655 --> 01:04:18,622
<i>already and are used in</i>

1010
01:04:18,723 --> 01:04:21,458
<i>military craft.</i>

1011
01:04:21,492 --> 01:04:22,726
<i>There are communications</i>

1012
01:04:22,794 --> 01:04:25,362
<i>technology.</i>

1013
01:04:25,430 --> 01:04:26,730
<i>So, really, any area of life</i>

1014
01:04:26,798 --> 01:04:27,998
<i>that we have could be</i>

1015
01:04:28,066 --> 01:04:29,633
<i>beneficially impacted by</i>

1016
01:04:29,667 --> 01:04:31,735
<i>acknowledging that there are</i>

1017
01:04:31,769 --> 01:04:33,370
<i>these other people out there</i>

1018
01:04:33,404 --> 01:04:35,272
<i>that they have information,</i>

1019
01:04:35,306 --> 01:04:36,707
<i>knowledge that they can share</i>

1020
01:04:36,741 --> 01:04:38,608
<i>with us that would benefit us.</i>

1021
01:04:38,643 --> 01:04:39,576
<i>It's going to</i>

1022
01:04:39,610 --> 01:04:40,977
<i>depend how the discovery</i>

1023
01:04:41,079 --> 01:04:41,545
<i>comes about.</i>

1024
01:04:41,579 --> 01:04:42,979
<i>If, in fact, it's a</i>

1025
01:04:43,081 --> 01:04:44,548
<i>distant radio broadcast,</i>

1026
01:04:44,615 --> 01:04:46,249
<i>we might expect one thing.</i>

1027
01:04:46,284 --> 01:04:48,985
<i>If in fact, there's, uh,</i>

1028
01:04:49,087 --> 01:04:50,320
<i>some type of visitations that</i>

1029
01:04:50,355 --> 01:04:52,255
<i>fits in with beliefs about UFOs,</i>

1030
01:04:52,323 --> 01:04:53,724
<i>that might be something else.</i>

1031
01:04:53,758 --> 01:04:55,359
<i>But on the whole, I think</i>

1032
01:04:55,426 --> 01:04:57,461
<i>people are much more prepared</i>

1033
01:04:57,528 --> 01:05:00,997
<i>for, uh, shall we say "contact"?</i>

1034
01:05:04,068 --> 01:05:05,135
<i>Many who believe</i>

1035
01:05:05,169 --> 01:05:07,137
<i>contact with extraterrestrials</i>

1036
01:05:07,171 --> 01:05:09,272
<i>is inevitable suggest</i>

1037
01:05:09,307 --> 01:05:10,273
<i>governments need to prepare</i>

1038
01:05:10,341 --> 01:05:11,007
<i>themselves.</i>

1039
01:05:11,075 --> 01:05:13,143
<i>It's a field of study known as</i>

1040
01:05:13,177 --> 01:05:15,178
<i>"exopolitics."</i>

1041
01:05:15,179 --> 01:05:17,047
<i>Exopolitics poses</i>

1042
01:05:17,081 --> 01:05:18,148
<i>the question: "What should our</i>

1043
01:05:18,182 --> 01:05:20,183
<i>response be to that situation</i>

1044
01:05:20,218 --> 01:05:22,285
<i>at a societal level?"</i>

1045
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:24,121
<i>Not necessarily at a</i>

1046
01:05:24,155 --> 01:05:25,222
<i>governmental level, but</i>

1047
01:05:25,289 --> 01:05:27,324
<i>actually individuals-- how can</i>

1048
01:05:27,358 --> 01:05:29,226
<i>we reach o with the hand</i>

1049
01:05:29,260 --> 01:05:30,260
<i>of friendship?</i>

1050
01:05:30,294 --> 01:05:31,728
<i>Exopolitics has</i>

1051
01:05:31,763 --> 01:05:33,263
<i>really been a grassroots</i>

1052
01:05:33,297 --> 01:05:34,197
<i>movement of people concerned</i>

1053
01:05:34,265 --> 01:05:35,999
<i>about this issue and want</i>

1054
01:05:36,067 --> 01:05:38,001
<i>disclosure on the UFO subject,</i>

1055
01:05:38,069 --> 01:05:39,403
<i>and also want to help organize</i>

1056
01:05:39,437 --> 01:05:41,471
<i>people locally to get the</i>

1057
01:05:41,539 --> 01:05:43,006
<i>information out to their</i>

1058
01:05:43,074 --> 01:05:44,374
<i>governments and make this big</i>

1059
01:05:44,442 --> 01:05:46,276
<i>change happen.</i>

1060
01:05:46,344 --> 01:05:47,744
<i>But if we reach out</i>

1061
01:05:47,812 --> 01:05:50,080
<i>in friendship, what guarantee do</i>

1062
01:05:50,114 --> 01:05:51,815
<i>we have that it will be</i>

1063
01:05:51,916 --> 01:05:56,153
<i>returned in kind?</i>

1064
01:05:56,187 --> 01:05:57,721
<i>Many scientists, including</i>

1065
01:05:57,789 --> 01:05:59,990
<i>famed theoretical physicist</i>

1066
01:06:00,091 --> 01:06:02,426
<i>Stephen Hawking, believe alien</i>

1067
01:06:02,460 --> 01:06:04,261
<i>beings could pose a threat and</i>

1068
01:06:04,295 --> 01:06:06,830
<i>suggest we do everything</i>

1069
01:06:06,864 --> 01:06:09,199
<i>possible to prevent contact.</i>

1070
01:06:09,267 --> 01:06:11,334
<i>If extraterrestrials,</i>

1071
01:06:11,369 --> 01:06:13,170
<i>or aliens, were aggressive, were</i>

1072
01:06:13,271 --> 01:06:15,005
<i>warlike, and they came here, is</i>

1073
01:06:15,106 --> 01:06:17,174
<i>it a case where resistance</i>

1074
01:06:17,275 --> 01:06:17,841
<i>is futile?</i>

1075
01:06:17,942 --> 01:06:19,643
<i>How do you wipe out life on</i>

1076
01:06:19,710 --> 01:06:20,644
<i>planet Earth?</i>

1077
01:06:20,678 --> 01:06:23,180
<i>That's easy-- a plague.</i>

1078
01:06:23,181 --> 01:06:27,350
<i>Simple-- no UFOs, no zorching</i>

1079
01:06:27,452 --> 01:06:29,085
<i>beams from the sky, no</i>

1080
01:06:29,153 --> 01:06:31,021
<i>explosions, no Empire State</i>

1081
01:06:31,122 --> 01:06:32,456
<i>Building collapsing,</i>

1082
01:06:32,490 --> 01:06:33,356
<i>none of that.</i>

1083
01:06:33,391 --> 01:06:34,458
<i>We can do that.</i>

1084
01:06:34,492 --> 01:06:36,827
<i>Why can't aliens do that?</i>

1085
01:06:38,463 --> 01:06:40,063
<i>To think that</i>

1086
01:06:40,097 --> 01:06:41,465
<i>we would be able to come up</i>

1087
01:06:41,532 --> 01:06:43,166
<i>with some type of a defense</i>

1088
01:06:43,201 --> 01:06:45,168
<i>mechanism or have defenses</i>

1089
01:06:45,203 --> 01:06:47,370
<i>against interstellar traveling</i>

1090
01:06:47,405 --> 01:06:51,441
<i>society is ludicrous.</i>

1091
01:06:51,509 --> 01:06:52,909
<i>Whethercame</i>

1092
01:06:52,977 --> 01:06:55,345
<i>as friend or foe, if</i>

1093
01:06:55,379 --> 01:06:57,080
<i>extraterrestrials did land</i>

1094
01:06:57,148 --> 01:06:59,082
<i>somewhere in the United States,</i>

1095
01:06:59,150 --> 01:07:01,251
<i>it's possible the aliens would</i>

1096
01:07:01,285 --> 01:07:03,086
<i>be greeted by government or</i>

1097
01:07:03,154 --> 01:07:05,088
<i>military personnel wearing</i>

1098
01:07:05,156 --> 01:07:06,556
<i>Hazmat suits and testing for</i>

1099
01:07:06,624 --> 01:07:11,895
<i>harmful pathogens and radiation.</i>

1100
01:07:11,996 --> 01:07:14,097
<i>Many conspiracy theorists</i>

1101
01:07:14,165 --> 01:07:16,266
<i>suspect the government's next</i>

1102
01:07:16,334 --> 01:07:18,602
<i>step would be to cover up</i>

1103
01:07:18,636 --> 01:07:20,070
<i>the visitation.</i>

1104
01:07:20,171 --> 01:07:22,539
<i>They cite as evidence a reputed</i>

1105
01:07:22,607 --> 01:07:23,907
<i>sighting that took place over</i>

1106
01:07:24,008 --> 01:07:27,344
<i>Washington, D.C. in 1952.</i>

1107
01:07:27,378 --> 01:07:28,879
<i>In full view of the</i>

1108
01:07:28,913 --> 01:07:32,249
<i>entire world, a squadron,</i>

1109
01:07:32,350 --> 01:07:34,084
<i>a formation of UFOs buzzed</i>

1110
01:07:34,185 --> 01:07:37,087
<i>Washington and fought our own</i>

1111
01:07:37,188 --> 01:07:39,689
<i>F-93 jet fighters.</i>

1112
01:07:39,724 --> 01:07:42,325
<i>General Samford willingly and</i>

1113
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:44,327
<i>deliberately-- maybe on</i>

1114
01:07:44,395 --> 01:07:45,862
<i>instructions from Harry Truman,</i>

1115
01:07:45,930 --> 01:07:47,931
<i>who was president-- lied to the</i>

1116
01:07:47,965 --> 01:07:49,566
<i>American people.</i>

1117
01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:50,667
<i>We have received</i>

1118
01:07:50,701 --> 01:07:52,102
<i>and analyzed between one and</i>

1119
01:07:52,136 --> 01:07:53,770
<i>two thousand reports.</i>

1120
01:07:53,838 --> 01:07:55,605
<i>Of this great mass of reports,</i>

1121
01:07:55,673 --> 01:07:58,108
<i>we have been able, adequately,</i>

1122
01:07:58,142 --> 01:08:00,110
<i>to explain the great bulk</i>

1123
01:08:00,144 --> 01:08:01,511
<i>of them.</i>

1124
01:08:01,579 --> 01:08:02,779
<i>His own Captain</i>

1125
01:08:02,847 --> 01:08:04,581
<i>Ruppelt, in his own book on</i>

1126
01:08:04,682 --> 01:08:05,282
<i>flying saucers, says</i>

1127
01:08:05,316 --> 01:08:08,852
<i>Samford was lying.</i>

1128
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:10,320
<i>We have the letter from the air</i>

1129
01:08:10,388 --> 01:08:13,490
<i>force to Dean Condon, saying</i>

1130
01:08:13,558 --> 01:08:15,559
<i>"Deep-six UFOs."</i>

1131
01:08:15,593 --> 01:08:17,127
<i>So, have UFOs come to planet</i>

1132
01:08:17,194 --> 01:08:18,762
<i>Earth in full view, have</i>

1133
01:08:18,863 --> 01:08:20,130
<i>manifested themselves, have</i>

1134
01:08:20,197 --> 01:08:21,131
<i>shown themselves?</i>

1135
01:08:21,198 --> 01:08:23,133
<i>Yes.</i>

1136
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:24,134
<i>Did we see it?</i>

1137
01:08:24,201 --> 01:08:25,135
<i>Yes.</i>

1138
01:08:25,202 --> 01:08:26,603
<i>Was there a protocol for</i>

1139
01:08:26,637 --> 01:08:27,504
<i>handling it?</i>

1140
01:08:27,572 --> 01:08:28,505
<i>Yes.</i>

1141
01:08:28,573 --> 01:08:31,308
<i>That protocol was called "deny."</i>

1142
01:08:31,375 --> 01:08:33,577
<i>But if an alien</i>

1143
01:08:33,611 --> 01:08:35,946
<i>visitation proved undeniable,</i>

1144
01:08:36,047 --> 01:08:38,114
<i>who might be chosen to then</i>

1145
01:08:38,215 --> 01:08:39,583
<i>speak to those inside the</i>

1146
01:08:39,650 --> 01:08:42,118
<i>spacecraft?</i>

1147
01:08:42,219 --> 01:08:43,119
<i>Who could best represent all</i>

1148
01:08:43,220 --> 01:08:44,321
<i>the nations and interests</i>

1149
01:08:44,388 --> 01:08:46,356
<i>of Earth?</i>

1150
01:08:46,357 --> 01:08:47,624
<i>If aliens do land</i>

1151
01:08:47,658 --> 01:08:49,092
<i>on Earth, I think we should</i>

1152
01:08:49,193 --> 01:08:50,927
<i>send our best world leaders who</i>

1153
01:08:50,995 --> 01:08:52,562
<i>are the most open-minded</i>

1154
01:08:52,630 --> 01:08:53,797
<i>and reasonable, but who also</i>

1155
01:08:53,831 --> 01:08:56,099
<i>have the ability to defend</i>

1156
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:59,269
<i>themselves against those aliens.</i>

1157
01:08:59,370 --> 01:09:00,837
<i>In my opinion,</i>

1158
01:09:00,905 --> 01:09:02,539
<i>that's one of the reasons we</i>

1159
01:09:02,607 --> 01:09:03,607
<i>have a United Nations.</i>

1160
01:09:03,641 --> 01:09:05,742
<i>Yes, it prevents wars and</i>

1161
01:09:05,810 --> 01:09:07,711
<i>delivers food, but on the other</i>

1162
01:09:07,745 --> 01:09:10,146
<i>hand, just imagine the Security</i>

1163
01:09:10,181 --> 01:09:12,148
<i>Council itself convening to</i>

1164
01:09:12,183 --> 01:09:14,618
<i>deal with aliens-- an image</i>

1165
01:09:14,652 --> 01:09:15,919
<i>on a big screen at the</i>

1166
01:09:15,987 --> 01:09:17,153
<i>United Nations.</i>

1167
01:09:17,188 --> 01:09:18,555
<i>The answer is I think it all</i>

1168
01:09:18,623 --> 01:09:20,457
<i>happened back in the 1940s,</i>

1169
01:09:20,558 --> 01:09:22,359
<i>and that was one of the reasons</i>

1170
01:09:22,426 --> 01:09:24,260
<i>that Roosevelt and Eleanor</i>

1171
01:09:24,328 --> 01:09:26,463
<i>Roosevelt pushed so hard for</i>

1172
01:09:26,530 --> 01:09:28,431
<i>the formation of a United</i>

1173
01:09:28,466 --> 01:09:30,166
<i>Nations to replace the League</i>

1174
01:09:30,234 --> 01:09:32,168
<i>of Nations.</i>

1175
01:09:32,236 --> 01:09:33,003
<i>Somebody had to confront</i>

1176
01:09:33,070 --> 01:09:35,171
<i>the aliens.</i>

1177
01:09:35,239 --> 01:09:36,606
<i>The notion that</i>

1178
01:09:36,641 --> 01:09:38,808
<i>our leaders-- elected or</i>

1179
01:09:38,909 --> 01:09:39,909
<i>otherwise-- should speak on our</i>

1180
01:09:39,944 --> 01:09:41,911
<i>behalf, I don't necessarily</i>

1181
01:09:41,946 --> 01:09:44,180
<i>think that makes sense.</i>

1182
01:09:44,248 --> 01:09:46,182
<i>There are a lot of people who</i>

1183
01:09:46,250 --> 01:09:47,450
<i>might have better ideas than</i>

1184
01:09:47,485 --> 01:09:48,685
<i>the people who are in</i>

1185
01:09:48,719 --> 01:09:49,452
<i>government.</i>

1186
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:52,355
<i>I'd like to see a profoundly</i>

1187
01:09:52,423 --> 01:09:54,891
<i>democratic-- with a small d--</i>

1188
01:09:54,959 --> 01:09:57,460
<i>unauthoritarian interaction</i>

1189
01:09:57,495 --> 01:09:59,896
<i>with aliens.</i>

1190
01:09:59,964 --> 01:10:01,331
<i>Currently, there</i>

1191
01:10:01,365 --> 01:10:02,866
<i>are no known official protocols</i>

1192
01:10:02,900 --> 01:10:04,634
<i>in place for an alien</i>

1193
01:10:04,702 --> 01:10:05,902
<i>visitation.</i>

1194
01:10:05,970 --> 01:10:07,270
<i>But there are those</i>

1195
01:10:07,338 --> 01:10:08,638
<i>who think that contact with</i>

1196
01:10:08,706 --> 01:10:11,174
<i>extraterrestrials is imminent,</i>

1197
01:10:11,275 --> 01:10:12,876
<i>and that our world leaders must</i>

1198
01:10:12,910 --> 01:10:14,444
<i>plan for the event now.</i>

1199
01:10:14,512 --> 01:10:15,979
<i>We are not alone</i>

1200
01:10:16,013 --> 01:10:16,913
<i>in the universe.</i>

1201
01:10:16,981 --> 01:10:18,815
<i>We have friends and relatives</i>

1202
01:10:18,883 --> 01:10:20,884
<i>out there in the galaxies.</i>

1203
01:10:22,787 --> 01:10:25,622
<i>And we need to take on this</i>

1204
01:10:25,690 --> 01:10:27,190
<i>task, one way or the other, of</i>

1205
01:10:27,258 --> 01:10:28,958
<i>just getting the job done, and</i>

1206
01:10:28,993 --> 01:10:30,527
<i>getting to the point where we're</i>

1207
01:10:30,561 --> 01:10:31,961
<i>considering the practical</i>

1208
01:10:31,996 --> 01:10:33,630
<i>details of interacting with</i>

1209
01:10:33,698 --> 01:10:35,065
<i>these friends and neighbors</i>

1210
01:10:35,099 --> 01:10:36,332
<i>out there.</i>

1211
01:10:36,367 --> 01:10:37,867
<i>Who is responsle</i>

1212
01:10:37,935 --> 01:10:39,302
<i>for that relationship?</i>

1213
01:10:39,336 --> 01:10:41,237
<i>Well, the State Department</i>

1214
01:10:41,305 --> 01:10:42,205
<i>isn't.</i>

1215
01:10:42,239 --> 01:10:43,239
<i>The United Nations isn't.</i>

1216
01:10:43,307 --> 01:10:45,208
<i>And I think this is a very big</i>

1217
01:10:45,242 --> 01:10:45,508
<i>problem.</i>

1218
01:10:45,543 --> 01:10:46,509
<i>So where there needs to</i>

1219
01:10:46,577 --> 01:10:49,212
<i>be a diplomatic effort to make</i>

1220
01:10:49,280 --> 01:10:50,780
<i>contact with these interstellar</i>

1221
01:10:50,815 --> 01:10:52,215
<i>civilizations in such a way</i>

1222
01:10:52,283 --> 01:10:54,918
<i>that it puts wiser people in</i>

1223
01:10:54,952 --> 01:10:56,653
<i>charge of that.</i>

1224
01:10:56,687 --> 01:10:58,555
<i>Even if you don't</i>

1225
01:10:58,589 --> 01:10:59,489
<i>corporately believe in</i>

1226
01:10:59,523 --> 01:11:00,690
<i>extraterrestrials, if you think</i>

1227
01:11:00,725 --> 01:11:04,828
<i>the possibility of alien</i>

1228
01:11:04,862 --> 01:11:05,829
<i>visitation is vanishingly</i>

1229
01:11:05,863 --> 01:11:07,330
<i>small, the consequences if it</i>

1230
01:11:07,398 --> 01:11:10,033
<i>does happen are immense, and</i>

1231
01:11:10,067 --> 01:11:11,234
<i>therefore, it's prudent to have</i>

1232
01:11:11,302 --> 01:11:12,502
<i>something in place to deal</i>

1233
01:11:12,570 --> 01:11:13,303
<i>with it.</i>

1234
01:11:13,370 --> 01:11:14,304
<i>Personally, I think</i>

1235
01:11:14,371 --> 01:11:15,772
<i>it would be very, very exciting.</i>

1236
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:17,273
<i>I mean, it would be just like</i>

1237
01:11:17,308 --> 01:11:18,575
<i>the first time, you know, the</i>

1238
01:11:18,642 --> 01:11:20,210
<i>explorers came from Europe to</i>

1239
01:11:20,311 --> 01:11:21,511
<i>the Americas and discovered a</i>

1240
01:11:21,579 --> 01:11:22,946
<i>whole new culture, and they had</i>

1241
01:11:22,947 --> 01:11:23,913
<i>to interact.</i>

1242
01:11:23,981 --> 01:11:25,181
<i>Hopefully, it won't work out as</i>

1243
01:11:25,282 --> 01:11:26,649
<i>some of the bad things that</i>

1244
01:11:26,684 --> 01:11:27,917
<i>occurred then, it would be a</i>

1245
01:11:27,985 --> 01:11:28,918
<i>more positive experience, and</i>

1246
01:11:28,986 --> 01:11:30,019
<i>maybe we've learned from that</i>

1247
01:11:30,054 --> 01:11:32,021
<i>and we can go forward.</i>

1248
01:11:32,022 --> 01:11:32,989
<i>What would happen</i>

1249
01:11:33,023 --> 01:11:33,990
<i>after any potential</i>

1250
01:11:34,058 --> 01:11:34,991
<i>extraterrestrial contact is</i>

1251
01:11:35,059 --> 01:11:37,193
<i>open to much speculation.</i>

1252
01:11:37,261 --> 01:11:38,628
<i>But most people concede one</i>

1253
01:11:38,696 --> 01:11:41,364
<i>thing: The world as we know it</i>

1254
01:11:41,398 --> 01:11:44,834
<i>would change dramatically.</i>

1255
01:11:44,869 --> 01:11:46,970
<i>The result would</i>

1256
01:11:47,004 --> 01:11:48,338
<i>be that the fundamentalist</i>

1257
01:11:48,372 --> 01:11:49,639
<i>orthodox belief systems of</i>

1258
01:11:49,707 --> 01:11:52,008
<i>every organized religion on</i>

1259
01:11:52,042 --> 01:11:54,244
<i>Earth would collapse.</i>

1260
01:11:54,278 --> 01:11:56,346
<i>Meaning that it would really</i>

1261
01:11:56,380 --> 01:11:57,814
<i>bring into question the origins</i>

1262
01:11:57,882 --> 01:12:00,350
<i>of the human race, uh, the</i>

1263
01:12:00,384 --> 01:12:02,719
<i>genesis stories and a whole lot</i>

1264
01:12:02,820 --> 01:12:04,287
<i>of other issues.</i>

1265
01:12:04,355 --> 01:12:05,355
<i>The very structures</i>

1266
01:12:05,389 --> 01:12:06,723
<i>of government and the very</i>

1267
01:12:06,757 --> 01:12:09,559
<i>structures of religion</i>

1268
01:12:09,593 --> 01:12:11,995
<i>will crumble.</i>

1269
01:12:12,062 --> 01:12:14,831
<i>But in 2008, a</i>

1270
01:12:14,865 --> 01:12:17,267
<i>stunning announcement was made</i>

1271
01:12:17,334 --> 01:12:20,904
<i>from a very surprising source.</i>

1272
01:12:20,938 --> 01:12:23,339
<i>Proof to some that miracles,</i>

1273
01:12:23,374 --> 01:12:27,377
<i>like aliens, do indeed exist.</i>

1274
01:12:31,512 --> 01:12:33,947
<i>The Vatican, Rome.</i>

1275
01:12:34,014 --> 01:12:37,317
<i>This walled enclave has been
the center of power for the</i>

1276
01:12:37,351 --> 01:12:40,653
<i>Catholic Church since
the fifth century.</i>

1277
01:12:40,688 --> 01:12:45,959
<i>It's not only the Pope's residence,
but a place of homage for one billion</i>

1278
01:12:46,026 --> 01:12:51,564
<i>Catholics, and represents
nearly 2,000 years of Christian</i>

1279
01:12:51,599 --> 01:12:53,566
<i>teaching and tradition.</i>

1280
01:12:53,601 --> 01:12:59,773
<i>But in 2008, the Vatican made
an announcement that some say</i>

1281
01:12:59,807 --> 01:13:04,410
<i>might threaten its own existence.</i>

1282
01:13:08,516 --> 01:13:12,018
<i>The Chief Astronomer of the
Vatican Observatory, Father</i>

1283
01:13:12,052 --> 01:13:17,190
<i>Gabriel Funes, acknowledged the
possibility alien life exists</i>

1284
01:13:17,224 --> 01:13:20,393
<i>on other planets.</i>

1285
01:13:20,394 --> 01:13:23,029
They basically said that
belief in planetary

1286
01:13:23,063 --> 01:13:27,467
life outside of Earth does not
negate one's belief in God.

1287
01:13:27,501 --> 01:13:30,870
Now, 500 years ago, if the
Vatican would have said that,

1288
01:13:30,905 --> 01:13:35,475
they would've burned
everybody on the stake.

1289
01:13:35,509 --> 01:13:39,746
The present Pope, Benedict, of course,
has a very scientific bent, and he

1290
01:13:39,780 --> 01:13:45,084
respects intellectual life in, in a
way that is, is quite extraordinary.

1291
01:13:45,085 --> 01:13:47,587
He seemed quite open to
entertain the idea: What if

1292
01:13:47,621 --> 01:13:49,055
there is life on other planets?

1293
01:13:49,123 --> 01:13:51,658
It's certainly an interesting
question for a Christian to

1294
01:13:51,692 --> 01:13:54,294
approach it scientifically, and
challenges your belief of how

1295
01:13:54,328 --> 01:13:58,598
much of this you attribute to God.

1296
01:14:02,837 --> 01:14:09,042
Many wondered about the
church's motives and timing.

1297
01:14:09,109 --> 01:14:12,745
Why, after centuries of belief
in man as God's supreme

1298
01:14:12,780 --> 01:14:16,583
creation and the only
intelligent life in the

1299
01:14:16,617 --> 01:14:20,453
universe, did the Vatican make
an announcement that could tn

1300
01:14:20,521 --> 01:14:23,289
Christianity on its head?

1301
01:14:23,357 --> 01:14:27,093
Did they know something
the rest of us did not?

1302
01:14:29,163 --> 01:14:34,234
This is something that is completely
new in the history of the

1303
01:14:34,268 --> 01:14:39,172
church that the
extraterrestrial question is

1304
01:14:39,206 --> 01:14:45,178
not only addressed, but at
the same time, it's okay.

1305
01:14:45,212 --> 01:14:50,450
I mean, that is a major
change in opinion.

1306
01:14:50,517 --> 01:14:54,320
A major change in the status quo.

1307
01:14:54,355 --> 01:14:57,624
And I ask: Why?

1308
01:14:57,691 --> 01:15:00,727
Would it have huge ramifications?

1309
01:15:00,794 --> 01:15:02,262
Of course.

1310
01:15:02,329 --> 01:15:04,097
Does it change anything?

1311
01:15:04,131 --> 01:15:05,365
Of course.

1312
01:15:05,399 --> 01:15:10,069
But at the same time, would that
change religion or belief in God?

1313
01:15:10,137 --> 01:15:12,071
Not really.

1314
01:15:12,139 --> 01:15:15,808
Some people say, well, the Catholic
Church must know something.

1315
01:15:15,843 --> 01:15:19,812
Maybe they're trying to get
ahead of the game here.

1316
01:15:21,882 --> 01:15:26,085
On the other hand, it may just
be that they're being very

1317
01:15:26,153 --> 01:15:30,089
clever and simply trying to
cover all the bases in case

1318
01:15:30,157 --> 01:15:35,995
there is some great announcement
or discovery about alien life.

1319
01:15:35,996 --> 01:15:39,165
Because make no mistake about
it, if it is announced that

1320
01:15:39,199 --> 01:15:45,505
alien life has been discovered,
people are going to look to

1321
01:15:45,539 --> 01:15:48,341
their religious leaders for
some sort of guidance about

1322
01:15:48,409 --> 01:15:55,882
this, whether it's Christians,
Jews, Muslims, Hindus.

1323
01:15:55,883 --> 01:16:03,156
If extraterrestrial life was found,
then the church would react

1324
01:16:03,190 --> 01:16:08,161
presumably as it does with any
data-- see what there is.

1325
01:16:10,931 --> 01:16:13,967
I don't think there would be any
conflict in the way that we

1326
01:16:14,001 --> 01:16:16,536
look on our humanity.

1327
01:16:16,603 --> 01:16:21,541
What we would find is that
God creates intelligent life

1328
01:16:21,575 --> 01:16:23,676
in a variety of ways.

1329
01:16:23,711 --> 01:16:27,981
And I think what we would learn
from that is, we can't restrtrtt

1330
01:16:28,015 --> 01:16:34,053
God to any one mode of
making intelligent life.

1331
01:16:34,088 --> 01:16:38,791
The idea that intelligent life
exists elsewhere in the universe has

1332
01:16:38,826 --> 01:16:43,262
been debated by religious
leaders, historians and

1333
01:16:43,330 --> 01:16:47,967
scientists, but not everyone
agrees how its proof would

1334
01:16:48,002 --> 01:16:53,039
affect human spirituality or the
many religious institutions.

1335
01:16:53,073 --> 01:16:57,744
What would happen to our
interpretation of the Book of Genesis?

1336
01:16:57,745 --> 01:17:01,814
Well, the Book of Genesis looks
at the universe from the point

1337
01:17:01,849 --> 01:17:02,782
of view of Earth.

1338
01:17:02,816 --> 01:17:07,320
We look at the sun, we look at
the moon, we look at the stars.

1339
01:17:07,354 --> 01:17:12,992
So, to realize that the Earth
is just one small, pale-blue

1340
01:17:13,027 --> 01:17:17,630
dot in this immense universe,
I think it would only expand

1341
01:17:17,698 --> 01:17:19,499
our interpretation of Genesis.

1342
01:17:19,533 --> 01:17:23,703
I don't think it would change
it in any fundamental way.

1343
01:17:23,737 --> 01:17:26,773
It's an interesting question
for Christianity in

1344
01:17:26,807 --> 01:17:29,442
general, since Christianity would
teach that salvation comes

1345
01:17:29,476 --> 01:17:34,380
through Jesus who was
apparently an earthling.

1346
01:17:34,381 --> 01:17:36,516
Um, what do you do if
there are people on Mars?

1347
01:17:36,550 --> 01:17:38,084
Are they saved?

1348
01:17:38,118 --> 01:17:42,422
According to our
viewpoint, I don't know.

1349
01:17:42,456 --> 01:17:44,690
Christians have always
had this problem that if

1350
01:17:44,725 --> 01:17:48,327
there are aliens out there,
are they not to be saved?

1351
01:17:48,395 --> 01:17:49,695
It's not a problem for Jews.

1352
01:17:49,763 --> 01:17:52,565
It's certainly not a problem
for Buddhists or Hindus.

1353
01:17:52,633 --> 01:17:55,034
But Christians are
in a particular fix.

1354
01:17:55,069 --> 01:17:57,437
For a very simple reason that
Christianity alone among the

1355
01:17:57,471 --> 01:18:00,506
world's religions has an incarnation.

1356
01:18:00,574 --> 01:18:03,409
What they mean by that is that
God became incarnate in the

1357
01:18:03,444 --> 01:18:09,782
form of Jesus Christ in
order to be the savior.

1358
01:18:09,783 --> 01:18:12,418
When you talk to Christians
they sort of say, oh, well,

1359
01:18:12,453 --> 01:18:15,054
there isn't a problem really
because, you know, we have

1360
01:18:15,089 --> 01:18:17,123
accommodated Galileo, we've
accommodated Darwin.

1361
01:18:17,157 --> 01:18:19,092
Why can't we accommodate E.T.?

1362
01:18:19,126 --> 01:18:22,762
Well, I think there
is a big difference.

1363
01:18:22,796 --> 01:18:27,967
I think science and religion have
more in common than perhaps the

1364
01:18:28,001 --> 01:18:31,771
popular perception suggests.

1365
01:18:31,772 --> 01:18:37,477
The one hand, we have science,
which deals with reason and fact.

1366
01:18:37,511 --> 01:18:42,248
On the other hand, we have
religion, which deals with faith.

1367
01:18:42,282 --> 01:18:46,419
Science is an evolving
proposition, and what we know

1368
01:18:46,453 --> 01:18:50,656
today will almost certainly
be reformed and maybe even

1369
01:18:50,691 --> 01:18:54,160
replaced at some point in the future.

1370
01:18:54,194 --> 01:18:57,964
So, to think that science
somehow provides the truth in

1371
01:18:57,998 --> 01:19:01,934
contrast to religion,
I think is a mistake.

1372
01:19:01,969 --> 01:19:04,770
<i>While scientists and
religious leaders may still</i>

1373
01:19:04,838 --> 01:19:08,674
<i>ponder the notion of aliens
visiting Earth, ancient</i>

1374
01:19:08,709 --> 01:19:12,879
<i>astronaut theorists claim that
the evidence exists in plain</i>

1375
01:19:12,913 --> 01:19:15,781
<i>sight around the world.</i>

1376
01:19:15,849 --> 01:19:19,018
<i>But if this theory was
accepted, would we have to</i>

1377
01:19:19,052 --> 01:19:23,422
<i>change our beliefs about our
knowledge, our history and the</i>

1378
01:19:23,490 --> 01:19:27,960
<i>very beginnings of human civilization?</i>

1379
01:19:34,808 --> 01:19:40,946
<i>For thousands of years, humans have
recorded events that seem to suggest</i>

1380
01:19:40,981 --> 01:19:46,752
<i>other-worldly beings came down
from the skies to visit Earth.</i>

1381
01:19:46,786 --> 01:19:51,123
<i>These ancient visitations
represent the foundations of</i>

1382
01:19:51,224 --> 01:19:54,960
<i>those who believe Earth was
visited in the past by advanced</i>

1383
01:19:55,028 --> 01:19:57,396
<i>beings from other planets.</i>

1384
01:19:57,464 --> 01:20:01,200
<i>These sightings are also said
to explain many mysteries</i>

1385
01:20:01,234 --> 01:20:04,303
<i>surrounding our past.</i>

1386
01:20:04,404 --> 01:20:07,039
The most important was religion.

1387
01:20:07,073 --> 01:20:09,408
The Gods have descended
to our ancestors' time.

1388
01:20:09,476 --> 01:20:10,943
Now it enters into the holy books.

1389
01:20:10,977 --> 01:20:13,379
Into mythology.

1390
01:20:13,380 --> 01:20:17,316
Now, later, people try, the
reason the people try to

1391
01:20:17,384 --> 01:20:20,653
understand this, they
make out religions of it.

1392
01:20:20,754 --> 01:20:24,757
But the core is, extraterrestrials
have come here.

1393
01:20:24,858 --> 01:20:27,593
That was the beginning of
all the big religions.

1394
01:20:27,661 --> 01:20:35,467
There are two main components why we
are who we are today as a species.

1395
01:20:35,468 --> 01:20:43,642
One, someone tampered with our
genetic make up and two, technology.

1396
01:20:43,677 --> 01:20:48,314
Because all of a sudden, we
were doing and building things

1397
01:20:48,348 --> 01:20:53,652
that we would still have
difficulties recreating today.

1398
01:20:55,989 --> 01:21:00,359
And the ancient texts are
very clear that many of our

1399
01:21:00,393 --> 01:21:06,832
achievements in the past happened
due to a direct intervention of

1400
01:21:06,866 --> 01:21:12,304
extraterrestrials that
arrived from the skies.

1401
01:21:12,339 --> 01:21:17,910
Ancient astronaut theorists also cite
as evidence the amazing similarities

1402
01:21:17,944 --> 01:21:21,914
between isolated cultures
all over the planet.

1403
01:21:21,948 --> 01:21:25,851
Why did different civilizations
build immense megalithic

1404
01:21:25,885 --> 01:21:29,755
structures to honor
other-worldly beings?

1405
01:21:29,823 --> 01:21:37,997
Why do so many ancient texts seem
to reference men flying in the sky?

1406
01:21:38,031 --> 01:21:41,734
And why do the ancient
Egyptians, Hopi Indians and

1407
01:21:41,835 --> 01:21:46,305
the Dogon tribe of North Africa
all believe their ancestors

1408
01:21:46,373 --> 01:21:50,442
came from what we know as
the constellation Sirius?

1409
01:21:50,477 --> 01:21:52,745
TSOUKALOS If the
extraterrestrials wanted to

1410
01:21:52,846 --> 01:21:57,716
leave behind a message of where
they came from, then it would

1411
01:21:57,751 --> 01:22:03,722
serve them very well to build
those structures with a

1412
01:22:03,757 --> 01:22:08,727
reference to their location of origin.

1413
01:22:08,762 --> 01:22:12,197
So, if we have connections to
the Sirius star system, well,

1414
01:22:12,232 --> 01:22:16,935
it would lend us to believe
that here we have a reference

1415
01:22:16,970 --> 01:22:19,738
of where they might come from.

1416
01:22:22,575 --> 01:22:29,014
The question of extraterrestrial life
is as old as civilization itself.

1417
01:22:29,082 --> 01:22:33,385
Ancient astronaut theorists, as
well as many noted scientists,

1418
01:22:33,420 --> 01:22:37,022
point to the immense size of
the universe and concede that

1419
01:22:37,090 --> 01:22:43,295
other beings must exist
somewhere else besides Earth.

1420
01:22:43,329 --> 01:22:49,468
But the question remains: Did
aliens visit us in the past?

1421
01:22:49,502 --> 01:22:53,572
And is it happening again?

1422
01:22:53,573 --> 01:22:56,809
The way we look at
history is very fragile.

1423
01:22:56,910 --> 01:22:59,745
Any discovery, which is made
somewhere, can change the way

1424
01:22:59,813 --> 01:23:02,247
we look upon history.

1425
01:23:02,248 --> 01:23:06,819
I think if we were to identify
that an alien presence has been

1426
01:23:06,853 --> 01:23:12,191
here on Earth in the past, I think there
are two very important questions.

1427
01:23:12,258 --> 01:23:15,928
Did E.T. just come by and
visit, and then disappear?

1428
01:23:15,962 --> 01:23:20,799
Or did E.T. come, stay and
contribute to civilization?

1429
01:23:20,834 --> 01:23:24,603
I think the second one is far
more important, because it

1430
01:23:24,637 --> 01:23:26,171
shows us far more.

1431
01:23:26,206 --> 01:23:29,908
It actually rewrites mankind's
identity rather than just

1432
01:23:29,976 --> 01:23:33,078
whether or not, you know, some
extraterrestrial being came

1433
01:23:33,113 --> 01:23:37,983
here on a holiday and then left without
really leaving something behind.

1434
01:23:38,017 --> 01:23:44,990
In all of the ancient texts, there
is one thing that is very clear, and

1435
01:23:45,058 --> 01:23:49,828
that is that these gods
one day will return.

1436
01:23:53,199 --> 01:23:58,170
But short of an alien spacecraft landing
on the White House lawn, ancient

1437
01:23:58,238 --> 01:24:03,575
astronaut theorists know there
will always be skeptics.

1438
01:24:03,576 --> 01:24:06,645
People are always looking for an
ultimate proof of the existence of

1439
01:24:06,679 --> 01:24:09,882
extraterrestrial intelligent beings.

1440
01:24:09,916 --> 01:24:14,987
But I think a more useful and
honest question is: how much

1441
01:24:15,021 --> 01:24:19,825
and what kind of evidence would
be enough for you to believe

1442
01:24:19,893 --> 01:24:21,827
that they are out there?

1443
01:24:21,895 --> 01:24:24,163
That they have been visiting us?

1444
01:24:24,230 --> 01:24:28,333
I believe through the experiences
that shamans have been documenting

1445
01:24:28,401 --> 01:24:31,904
and reporting for tens of
thousands of years, that we are

1446
01:24:31,971 --> 01:24:38,110
in contact with enentities and
beings that are not of this Earth.

1447
01:24:38,178 --> 01:24:40,179
But precisely what those
entities and beings are,

1448
01:24:40,213 --> 01:24:42,815
remains to be established.

1449
01:24:42,849 --> 01:24:47,820
There is evidence that indicates
that it's possible that humans were

1450
01:24:47,854 --> 01:24:51,290
visited by extraterrestrials
in the distant past.

1451
01:24:51,357 --> 01:24:55,828
And if we are too quick to
discard that possibility, then

1452
01:24:55,862 --> 01:24:58,163
we might be shutting ourselves
out from something that might

1453
01:24:58,198 --> 01:25:01,366
be really fascinating and might
take us to a next level that we

1454
01:25:01,401 --> 01:25:03,836
can't even imagine.

1455
01:25:05,104 --> 01:25:09,374
It's very possible that those
extraterrestrials who've

1456
01:25:09,475 --> 01:25:14,279
allegedly been coming here for thousands
of years, I mean, they are us.

1457
01:25:14,347 --> 01:25:16,081
They look like us.

1458
01:25:16,115 --> 01:25:22,187
And, in fact, that's part again
of the Bible in that the God,

1459
01:25:22,222 --> 01:25:26,892
or the Gods created us in their image.

1460
01:25:26,926 --> 01:25:30,462
I mean, we are to be like them.

1461
01:25:30,496 --> 01:25:32,531
We are to look like them.

1462
01:25:32,565 --> 01:25:36,535
We are to have the
technology they have.

1463
01:25:36,569 --> 01:25:40,005
We're to go into space
just like they did.

1464
01:25:40,073 --> 01:25:43,175
I think there is life,
simple life, bacterial

1465
01:25:43,209 --> 01:25:45,544
life, microbial life on other planets.

1466
01:25:45,612 --> 01:25:49,214
I think we're going to find that.

1467
01:25:49,215 --> 01:25:50,182
And who knows?

1468
01:25:50,216 --> 01:25:54,186
Maybe one day we'll find some
other planet that's capable of

1469
01:25:54,220 --> 01:25:57,890
sustaining life that has
evolved people over a long

1470
01:25:57,924 --> 01:26:00,926
period of time that are also
looking up at the stars,

1471
01:26:00,994 --> 01:26:04,897
wondering: Is there anybody else out there?
Are we the only ones?

1472
01:26:04,931 --> 01:26:08,066
We are a species of explorers.

1473
01:26:08,101 --> 01:26:10,435
<i>So, ultimately, we will come</i>

1474
01:26:10,470 --> 01:26:15,540
across some other
type of intelligence.

1475
01:26:15,575 --> 01:26:21,914
And when that happens, if that society,
technologically speaking, is

1476
01:26:21,981 --> 01:26:29,721
primitive, we'll become ancient
astronauts with that culture.

1477
01:26:29,789 --> 01:26:32,624
Human history has become
too much a matter of

1478
01:26:32,725 --> 01:26:40,532
dogma taught by professionals in ivory
towers as though it's all fact.

1479
01:26:40,600 --> 01:26:43,735
Actually, much of human
history is up for grabs.

1480
01:26:43,803 --> 01:26:46,905
The further back you go, the
more that the history that's

1481
01:26:46,973 --> 01:26:49,241
taught in the schools and
universities begins to look

1482
01:26:49,275 --> 01:26:52,010
like some kind of fairy story.

1483
01:26:52,078 --> 01:26:56,415
We have logic, we have
intuition, we have our senses.

1484
01:26:56,449 --> 01:27:00,519
And to limit ourselves to the
scientific route is a mistake.

1485
01:27:00,520 --> 01:27:05,524
We can send people on the moon,
we can plan journeys to Mars,

1486
01:27:05,558 --> 01:27:09,094
we can make cell phones, but
we haven't explained the

1487
01:27:09,162 --> 01:27:13,732
fundamental questions that
we should be dealing with.

1488
01:27:13,733 --> 01:27:15,167
Where do we come from?

1489
01:27:15,268 --> 01:27:17,970
What are we supposed to do here?

1490
01:27:18,004 --> 01:27:19,972
And where are we going?

1491
01:27:20,006 --> 01:27:22,808
We really have not come with
the answers, and we know no

1492
01:27:22,842 --> 01:27:27,145
better than the ancients that
we're trying to explain.

1493
01:27:27,180 --> 01:27:33,719
Exploring the ancient astronaut theory
is the ultimate quest to find out

1494
01:27:33,786 --> 01:27:35,354
where did we come from?

1495
01:27:35,388 --> 01:27:37,990
How did it all begin?

1496
01:27:38,057 --> 01:27:41,626
And most importantly, who are we?

1497
01:27:41,661 --> 01:27:46,264
And the ancient astronaut
theory has the capability of

1498
01:27:46,332 --> 01:27:49,501
answering all those questions.

1499
01:27:49,502 --> 01:27:55,502
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