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NARRATOR: Unexplained
sightings in space...

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SETH SHOSTAK: Shuttle astronauts will
report that they've seen things

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that might be due to an alien presence.

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NARRATOR: strange formations
on the surface of Mars...

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ERICH VON DANIKEN: Now, some
NASA scientists say this is all

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just a light and shadow game.

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NARRATOR: ..and lunar missions
rumored to have secret agendas.

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LOGAN HAWKES: The race for
the Moon, was it a race to

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reach technology that was left
behind by an extraterrestrial race?

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NARRATOR: Is NASA sharing all
that it knows about the universe?

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Or are they protecting
us from the truth?

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MICHAEL BARA: The Brookings
Report says very specifically,

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number one, don't tell anybody.

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If you tell anybody, it will shatter
the fabric of our civilization.

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NARRATOR: 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, might our extraterrestrial
origins be revealed through

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the NASA connection?

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www.addic7ed.com

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NARRATOR: July 20, 1969.

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Okay, engine stop.

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We copy you down, Eagle.

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Tranquility Base here.

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The Eagle has landed.

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NARRATOR: American astronauts
Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz"

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Aldrin become the first
humans to land on the Moon.

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"That's one small step for man,
but one giant leap for mankind."

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BUZZ ALDRIN: We aliens who happened
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1969, were certainly part of a
magnificent race that was able

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to all of sudden appear
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STORY MUSGRAVE: Landing on the
Moon happened because of courage.

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We had the courage.

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We were willing to take the risk.

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We had a president who was behind
us and said you're gonna do it.

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DAVID MORRISON: I look at those
people from the Apollo era

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as heroes, not just the
astronauts that went, but the

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hundred thousand people on the
ground that made it possible.

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They worked on an exact plan.

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They knew where they wanted to go.

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They developed the technology, And,
by golly, they pulled it off.

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It was a tremendous
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greatest scientific technical
accomplishment in human history.

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Houston, it's Tranquility,
how do you read?

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Tranquility Base, this is
Houston, loud and clear.

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NARRATOR: For more than two and
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Aldrin stood on the
surface of the Moon.

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Video transmissions showed the
two astronauts collecting rock

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samples, taking photographs,
and planting an American flag

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in the lunar soil.

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But what might these men have
done away from the camera?

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Could there have been another,
perhaps, top-secret mission,

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as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

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DAVID CHILDRESS: When Apollo
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there were certain sites
that they were to look at.

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And even as they orbited the
Moon there were certain areas of

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the Moon that they were to examine
carefully and photograph.

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And you have to ask yourself if
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of the Moon picked out, and
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out these areas was because
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on the Moon and they knew it.

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NARRATOR: According to NASA
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called the Sea of Tranquility
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landing based on its flat surface.

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But some researchers suggest
this site was chosen because on

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that date, its coordinates lined
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BARA: The way they picked the landing
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specific date, the specific
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specific time that they would land.

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And then you have to work your
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what's called the launch window.

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The person who picked all of the
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times, including the mission for Apollo
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His father just happened to
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Egyptian stellar religion.

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NARRATOR: According to
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ceremonies performed directly
under Orion's Belt produce a

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sacred alignment, one through which
humans could communicate with Osiris.

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BARA: To the ancient Egyptians,
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actually was a literal living
embodiment of the great god Osiris.

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Sirius was the same representation of
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Together, those two essentially
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the Egyptian people themselves
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the movement and the placement
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BARA: Apollo 11 had landed
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specific time where the three belt
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At that time, 33 minutes after
landing, Buzz Aldrin, the second

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man to walk on the Moon, a 33 Degree
Scottish Rite Freemason was, in fact,

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performing a ceremony on board the
lunar module with Neil Armstrong.

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What they were doing was pouring
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bread and doing what essentially
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although its Catholic, it
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much deeper, farther back
ritual which was an offering to

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the god Osiris himself.

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So they are performing, essentially,
an offering to Osiris himself.

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So I think that's why that they landed
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PHILIP COPPENS: Certain rituals
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certain moments in time, whereby
this link with this nonhuman

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intelligence will happen.

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The priestly class of our
ancestors, either through

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technology or through certain
means, really were very much the

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class which sought out contact
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And they were the ones who were
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like the scientists of today,
which we have trained to be the

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people who are going to
go into outer space.

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NARRATOR: Left behind on
the Moon were scientific

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instruments, an American flag,
and a small plaque commemorating

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the Apollo 11 mission.

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But there were other items
left as well, a bag containing

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a gold replica of an olive branch,
and a silicon disk with recorded

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messages of peace and goodwill
from 73 world leaders.

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Why were these symbolic
messages sent up into space?

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Who was NASA expecting
to meet on the Moon?

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HAWKES: When we talk about the Apollo
Moon mission, there's some theory

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that suggest that massive cities may
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cities that NASA was aware of,
that the Moon missions were all

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about and that artifacts from
these ancient ruin sites have

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been brought back to Earth.

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Is it possible it wasn't Moon
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bringing back as specimens,
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VON DANIKEN: If
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planet, I'm sure they were here,
we should also find evidence

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on the Moon because the Moon
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You have a mother spaceship.

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You need some sort of refuel.

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Whatever this refuel is, could
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could be uranium, could be whatever
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Moon, technological indications,
that somebody was here.

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NARRATOR: Over the past
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NASA's space program have
admitted to misplacing original

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recordings of some Moon
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collected from the lunar surface.

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Could this be, as ancient
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lost evidence of
possible alien contact?

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Some claim that photos NASA has
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indicate they know more
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DAVID ICKE: We're going to
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with the fact that we have
been told the most monumental

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collective lie, all our lives,
about technologically-advanced,

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nonhuman groups that are fundamentally
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And you will find the evidence for
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and no doubt, Mars, too.

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BARA: Every time you look at a
photograph from an unmanned

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probe of the planet Mars,
there's almost always something

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truly weird that doesn't belong
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Carl Sagan himself used to talk
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which were these very large,
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VON DANIKEN: We have some
strange pictures from the

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surface of the back of the Moon
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Some strange pictures which
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some ancient buildings.

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On Mars, we had one day photograph
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And in later picture, the
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But around the face, there was
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Now, some NASA scientists say this
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Others, also from NASA, say the
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So, at this moment, I
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BARA: There are some people that
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crash, that the US government
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extraterrestrial beings.

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until the Apollo missions themselves.

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And there are other people who
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any direct contact with
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My personal belief is that at
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did have a direct pipeline to the ETs.

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NARRATOR: But if NASA has possessed
evidence of extraterrestrial life, as

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ancient astronaut theorists
believe, what are they hiding?

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NARRATOR: Might NASA really
have found evidence of the

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existence of extraterrestrial
life on the Moon?

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And could there be further
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witnessed by astronauts on
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International Space Station?

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NARRATOR: NASA Ames Research
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On December 5, 2011, astronomers
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telescope announced the
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called Kepler-22b, orbiting
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habitable zone of a distant star.

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SIMON P. WORDEN: Today's
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indication that, with time, Kepler
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SETH SHOSTAK: Kepler-22b is
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Earth, so that's a long way.

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But it is, in fact, in an orbit
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temperatures on that planet
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in San Francisco, so that's the
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that might have liquid oceans, maybe
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DAVID MORRISON, PH.D.: What
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first, is just understand how other
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Planets in the habitable
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NARRATOR: But is it possible
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searching for life they
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Some believe previous voyages
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evidence of an
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Houston, Discovery,
how do you read? Over.

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Discovery, Houston,
read you loud and clear.

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Go for main engines start.

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Main engines up and burning.

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Three, two, one, zero and liftoff!

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Roger. Roll, Discovery.

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NARRATOR: On September 12,
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Discovery STS-48 flew nearly 350 miles
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Its crew, led by Captain John
Creighton, performed several

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missions, including the
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atmosphere research satellite.

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He is go for free drift.

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NARRATOR: But while the
astronauts occupied themselves

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with various tasks, a video
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door captured footage that
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But a number of amateurs who
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transmissions have produced what
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The video shows what appears
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glowing objects and flashing
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CHILDRESS: Apparently, the space
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some kind of UFO, flying saucer
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shield, at one point, was
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shuttle briefly, and then, the
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BARA: One of the astronauts
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channel, "Hey, we're being
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And I think what happened was,
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was on the public channel, not
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probably very, very quickly
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channel to describe what
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MUSGRAVE: I knew everyone, and
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Nobody brought me any evidence.

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So, one side of the coin...
it's everywhere out there.

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Has it been here?

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I have no evidence.

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particles glinting in the sun.

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But is it possible that video
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shuttle captured more than what
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SHOSTAK: Occasionally,
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will report that they've seen
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space that they can't explain and that
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Ever since
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into space, there have been
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describe something that they saw
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And we have to remind ourselves
that those stories were reported

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by astronauts, and not by
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reportedly shows a number of fast-moving
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These unidentified objects
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Analysis of their speeds and
directions have prompted some

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researchers to dismiss the
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shuttle debris or meteors.

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BARA: There's space shuttle
video of two very specific

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missions... STS-48 and STS-80...
which clearly show what appear

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to be powered vehicles operating
in low earth orbit, defying all

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the laws of physics and clearly
performing the way UFOs or

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extraterrestrial spacecraft are
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NARRATOR: But American
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space travelers reporting
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In 1985, Soviet cosmonauts
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seeing seven celestial
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CHILDRESS: Six cosmonauts claimed
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of the window of the space
station, they saw what they

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described as winged angels
surrounding their ship, and that

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these were luminous beings
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having... bizarrely...
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So you have to wonder, what's
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angels some kind of
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space suits or with fields
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investigating the
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And then suddenly, bang,
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this proof that extraterrestrial
intelligence has been trying to

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contact us?

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SEAN DAVID MORTON: Gordon
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Nations about them actually setting
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extraterrestrial contact.

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EDGAR MITCHELL: This is
not unknown knowledge.

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There are people that know and
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several different species of
aliens visiting here, and it

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looks like, likely, they have
been for a long, long time.

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NARRATOR: Might NASA really
be withholding classified

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information regarding the existence
of extraterrestrial beings?

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Perhaps the answer can be found
by taking a look at NASA's

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curious origins.

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NARRATOR: July 29, 1958.

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Responding to the successful
launch of the Soviet space

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satellite Sputnik, President
Dwight Eisenhower signs the

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National Aeronautics and Space Act,
officially establishing NASA.

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MORRISON: NASA was formed in
1958 partly out of a previously

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existing government agency
called NACA that just dealt with

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aeronautics and then with the
early space program that was

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being developed by the
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MITCHELL: NASA was established
to take the United

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States into space and to be a
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that humanity was moving of exploring
space and out into our solar system.

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NARRATOR: The president and
congress established NASA as

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part of the Department of Defense.

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The official reason was to
prevent the Soviets from

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stealing U.S. technology, but
some believe the real motive for

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this classification was not
to hide information from the

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Soviets but to keep it secret
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BARA: A lot of people have the
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science agency, and it's not.

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anything that they discover is
subject to classification and

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being kept secret and being
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The Brookings Report, which was
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NASA itself was created,
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the purpose of deciding what
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made some sort of
extraterrestrial contact... if

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they either found artifacts on
the Moon or on Mars or if they

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had direct contact with a
superior intelligence, what they

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should do, and the Brookings
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number one, don't tell anybody.

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If you tell anybody, it will shatter
the fabric of our civilization.

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It will destroy us.

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NARRATOR: Some researchers
believe the evidence of NASA's

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hidden agenda can be found in
the close ties between its

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founding scientists
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BARA: These secret societies had
at their core essentially a

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belief that they were directly
descended from these great gods

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of ancient Egypt, Isis, Osiris,
and Horus, and they considered

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these gods to be truly the
source of their bloodline but

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also that these gods
themselves came from space.

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At the very top, you
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You had James Webb, who
was a director of NASA.

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You had a man named Kenneth
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the Mercury Program, the Apollo
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He was a 33rd Degree
Scottish Rite Freemason.

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Below them, you had the Hermetic
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followers of Aleister Crowley.

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People like Jack Parsons down at
JPL were all put together, and

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so they all ended up under the
very same roof with the very

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same agenda and the very
same belief system.

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HAWKES: We see this practice
of passing knowledge down

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through a secret society go back
all the way to the days of the

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Illuminati... who believed that
a select few of the elite were

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smart enough, were capable of
handling this secret knowledge

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but not the population at large.

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So the question remains, has
this knowledge been passed down

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through secret societies
for generations?

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And this may predate the secret
societies that we know about in

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modern times all the way back
to the days of the pharaohs.

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NARRATOR: Like the ancient
Egyptians, could NASA's founding

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fathers have shared the belief
that humans descended from

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extraterrestrial beings?

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What did the members of these secret
societies know about space travel?

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And how did the ancient
past influence their work?

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Those who suspect these NASA
officials operated a hidden

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agenda point to the repeated use
of the number 33... an extremely

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important symbolic figure
in secret societies.

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BARA: If you look at the very
first landing strip at Cape

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Canaveral, where we would be
landing aircraft and eventually

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bringing the space shuttle
back, it was runway 33.

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If you look at the launchpad at
White Sands, New Mexico, the

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only launchpad is launchpad number 33.

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So it seems to permeate
throughout NASA, this number

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over and over again, and the
fact that it's connected to

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Freemasonry makes you kind of
wonder if maybe there was some

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other deeper symbolism working.

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Houston.

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You are a go for landing.

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Over.

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700 feet, 21 down, 33 degrees.

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NARRATOR: Researchers believe
the connection to ancient

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Egyptian beliefs can also be
found in the emblem of NASA's

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Apollo Space Program.

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They claim that the large "A" in
the star field stands not for

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the Greek god Apollo but for Asar...
the Egyptian god more

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commonly known as Osiris.

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This is indicated by the cluster
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the "A," which represent
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CHILDRESS: You have to wonder
if stars like Orion and Sirius

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are very important to NASA,
because this is where the...

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ancient traditions, including
Egyptian, have said that the

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space gods came from,
this is our origins.

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NARRATOR: Similarly,
researchers point out that the

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symbol on the Mercury Mission
patches is nearly identical to a

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major icon of ancient Egypt.

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BARA: If you look at the mission
patches, the symbol for

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Mercury is really similar to the
Egyptian ankh, and it's kind of

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ironic that you have this sort
of Egyptian symbolism in what's

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supposed to be a representation
of Mercury the Messenger.

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It's supposed to be a Greek mythology
rather than an Egyptian mythology.

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NARRATOR: Is it possible
that, like ancient alien

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theorists, NASA scientists
believe extraterrestrials

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visited Earth in the distant past?

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Perhaps further evidence can be
found in the inventions of the

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unlikely mastermind behind
NASA's space program... former

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Nazi SS officer Wernher Von Braun.

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NARRATOR: London, England.

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September 8, 1944.

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(missile whistling through air)

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(explosion)

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A 13-ton ballistic missile
explodes on impact...

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killing three and wounding 17.

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The Vengeance Weapon 2, more
commonly known as the V-2

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rocket, had been fired from
deep within Nazi Germany.

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The liquid-propellant weapon
proved to be the world's first

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long-range computer-guided
missile, and the first man-made

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object to enter outer space.

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This incredible technology was
the brainchild of a man who

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would eventually become the
face of NASA, a 32-year-old

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engineering genius named
Wernher Von Braun.

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HENRY STEVENS: Dr. Von Braun
was acknowledged by everyone as

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the greatest scientific
mind in Germany.

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He found a way to steer a
rocket at 4,000 miles an hour.

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He put a combustion chamber that
was cooled by the liquid fuel

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itself, and redesigned the fuel

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chamber, and he put a
guidance system on it.

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He was an expert at every facet of
rocketry, which is really unheard of.

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NARRATOR: Von Braun's passion for
rocketry began at an early age.

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As a youth, he read science
fiction novels by H.G. Wells and

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Jules Verne, and was exposed to
mythical stories of the Norse

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god Tyr, a sky god that ruled
over Mars and provided knowledge

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and technology to humans.

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COPPENS: Wernher Von Braun,
from childhood, was absolutely

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convinced that we had
to go "out there."

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It possessed him.

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And so he was absolutely
convinced that mankind had a

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mission, and also that he
had a role to perform.

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He feels absolutely confident
that he will be able to go to

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Mars, find evidence of an
extraterrestrial civilization

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there, and from then onwards,

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will actually go further
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MUSGRAVE: Von Braun
wanted to go into space.

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He wanted to go to the stars.

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But then, of course, he got so
good at rocketry, the Germans

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wanted him dropping V-2's on London.

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He was very good at that.

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NARRATOR: During World War
II Von Braun worked as the

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technical director at Germany's
Peenemunde Research Center,

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where he built rockets not for space
travel but as weapons of war.

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His brilliance as a rocket
scientist earned him a spot in

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the SS, among Hitler's most
trusted scientists and officers.

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BARA: Hitler's SS was nothing
more than a secret society.

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What the SS believed was that
the Aryan himself was this

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direct, pure bloodline that came from
Isis and Osiris and Horus and Seth.

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Von Braun learned about the
myths of the superiority of the

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Aryan race and their rightful
place in the stars and where

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they had come from.

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So it makes complete sense that

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Von Braun would become
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The mission became to get back
up to the stars, to rejoin the

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gods, to show them that we could
do as they had done and travel

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to the stars, travel to the
planets, and basically go back

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and reclaim our proper
place in the universe.

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NARRATOR: Although the V-2
rocket was far more advanced

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than any other fired during
World War II, it was not enough

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to prevent Germany's defeat.

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Six weeks after the last V-2
fell on England, Von Braun

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surrendered to the
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VON BRAUN: I myself, and everybody you
see here, have decided to go west.

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NARRATOR: Von Braun and his
team of scientists were brought

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to the United States under a
controversial classified program

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known as Operation Paperclip.

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(camera shutter clicks)

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JIM MARRS: After the war, we
decided that we were gonna be

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adversaries with the Soviet Union
and that we needed to have

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the technological jump on them,
so we brought these Nazi

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scientists over, whitewashed
their Nazi background and rolled

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them into our military
industrial complex.

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NARRATOR: While continuing
his work designing military

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missiles, Von Braun published a
series of books and magazine

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articles that described his
concepts for a lunar landing...

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a manned mission to Mars...
and even an orbiting space station.

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VON BRAUN: The entire wheel
will slowly rotate at three

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revolutions per minute.

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The resulting centrifugal force
will produce an artificial

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gravity for the men in the rim.

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Notice that the floors are
placed so that the men stand

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with their heads towards the hub.

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NARRATOR: But why was Von Braun so
intent on traveling into space?

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MORTON: Wernher Von Braun was
very much the public scientific

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face of the American space program.

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He was obsessed, by the way,
with not just going to the Moon

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but also going beyond that and
eventually building colonies on Mars.

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SHOSTAK: The deal was to build
a rocket that didn't just

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go up a couple of hundred miles,
but a rocket that could make it

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a quarter of a million miles,
all the way to the Moon.

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VON BRAUN: If we were to start
today on an organized and

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well-supported space program, I
believe a practical passenger

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rocket could be built and
tested within ten years.

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MUSGRAVE: Von Braun went to
work on a Jupiter-C, which was

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an upgraded V-2.

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But what is unbelievable is, he
went from an upgraded V-2 to a

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Saturn F-1, which is even today,
45 years later, still the most

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powerful and the most reliable
and the best rocket engine

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that's ever existed, even though
he did that 45 years ago.

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NARRATOR: On May 5, 1961,
less than three years after

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joining NASA, Von Braun stood
watch as one of his rockets

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rockets carried Alan
Shepard up into space.

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20 days later, on May 25, 1961,
President Kennedy announced his

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goal to send a man to the Moon.

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PRESIDENT KENNEDY: We choose to
go to the Moon in this decade

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and do the other things, not
because they are easy but

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because they are hard.

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Because that goal will serve to
organize and measure the best of

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our energies and skills.

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NARRATOR: But then, according
to the National Security Action

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Memorandum number 271, JFK
followed up his dramatic

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announcement by secretly
proposing to merge NASA's space

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program with that of the Soviets.

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00:35:45,513 --> 00:35:49,348
But why, when it appeared that
Americans were finally moving

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00:35:49,416 --> 00:35:53,652
ahead in the race for space,
would JFK offer to share

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technologies with America's rival?

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HAWKES: According to
conspiracy theorists, it's

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because something was discovered
along the way, and that

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00:36:03,297 --> 00:36:09,666
discovery was alien visitation did
exist, and they already knew about it.

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The race for the Moon, was it a
race between two nations, or was

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00:36:14,275 --> 00:36:18,710
it a race by two nations to
reach technology on the Moon

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00:36:18,746 --> 00:36:22,948
that was left behind by
an extraterrestrial race?

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NARRATOR: Is it possible Von
Braun's rockets had drawn the

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attention of otherworldly
beings, as some ancient

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00:36:33,227 --> 00:36:36,395
astronaut theorists believe?

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What did NASA's scientists
expect to find on the Moon?

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And might they also have been looking
for evidence of life on Mars?

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NARRATOR: The Kennedy Space Center,
Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Three, two, one.

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Engines start.

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NARRATOR: On November 26, 2011,
scientists with NASA's Jet

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Propulsion Laboratory launched their
19th unmanned mission to Mars.

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The Mars Science Laboratory is
expected to enter the Martian

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atmosphere in August 2012.

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After deploying its parachute
and landing on the surface, an

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automobile-sized remote...
controlled rover named Curiosity

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will probe the Red Planet's past
and present ability to sustain

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microbial life.

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SHOSTAK: It's going to be able to
roam around the surface of Mars.

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It's pretty fast compared
to our old rovers.

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It can go the length of a
football field in an hour.

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00:37:53,631 --> 00:37:56,699
But it can also analyze the
surface of Mars and it's trying

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00:37:56,734 --> 00:37:59,402
to find out, look, was there
ever liquid water here, lakes,

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oceans, that kind of thing?

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00:38:01,639 --> 00:38:03,705
What about the chemical
composition of the soil?

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Is it the kind of thing that
indicates that Mars was once a

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kinder, gentler world?

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It's not looking directly for life.
We still don't do that.

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MORRISON: We have evidence that,
although Mars is very cold

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now, has a very thin atmosphere,
it once had a thick atmosphere,

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blue sky, clouds, rain, liquid water...
the ingredients we think

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would be possible for life.

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So it's quite reasonable to imagine
that life formed there long ago.

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The question is: could the life have
survived as the planet got colder?

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Could it have gone below
the surface, for instance?

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We think so.

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NARRATOR: If Wernher Von Braun's
visions of space travel

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could become reality and land
a man on the Moon, could his

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00:38:59,364 --> 00:39:03,969
concept of human travel to
Mars become a fact as well?

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And might NASA still be secretly
developing his ideas... plans

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first drawn up nearly 60 years ago?

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BARA: If you look at the
research that was being done in

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field dynamics and very, very
exotic physics back in the 1950s

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and even into the early 1960s,
it's pretty clear that we were

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on a very exciting path towards
very, very powerful breakthrough

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propulsion systems that would
essentially allow us to create

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flying saucers that could travel
very easily and very short

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amounts of time between the
Earth and the Moon and between

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the Earth and Mars, so it makes
complete sense that we do have

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this secret private program that
maybe even a lot of the guys

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inside NASA themselves
don't know about.

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ROBERT H. FRISBEE: In the more
near term, NASA and other

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space agencies talk about moving
out into the solar system, and

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there we're looking at using a
variety of extraterrestrial

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materials to produce propellants
for rockets, oxygen for life

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support, even building materials.

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CHILDRESS: Many researchers
believe that the overt NASA

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missions are really a cover for
what they call a secret space

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program and that the secret space
program is using different

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technology than rockets, more of
an alien-type technology, some

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kind of antigravity type of
craft, and that those craft,

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rather than rockets, could be
going to bases on the Moon that

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would be secret bases, also
manned by the American

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government or the secret space
program, and that from those

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bases on the Moon, we could even
be journeying in these retro...

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engineered spacecraft to Mars.

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NARRATOR: According to
scientists, the possibility of

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transforming Mars into an Earth...
like planet is theoretically possible.

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MUSGRAVE: I think Mars
is terraformable.

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Terraforming means to take life
to a place that has no life and

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start growing the life there.

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I think Mars is
unbelievably terraformable.

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MORRISON: I can't imagine we'll
ever reach a destination

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that answers all our questions,
but as an astrobiologist, I

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think in the next 25 or 30
years, we have a very good

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chance of finding evidence
of life beyond Earth.

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There's a real prospect we'll be
able to answer that fundamental

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question: are we alone?

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NARRATOR: Most NASA scientists agree
that future exploration of space will

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uncover life on other planets.

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But could it also reveal proof
that the gods of the ancient

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world were, in fact,
extraterrestrials, as ancient

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00:42:25,336 --> 00:42:27,537
astronaut theorists believe?

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BARA: NASA'S real core
mission in the beginning was

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essentially to go to the Moon,
retrieve evidence of the fact

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that there was a prior advanced
civilization in the solar

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system, and bring it back.

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00:42:41,553 --> 00:42:44,854
In other words, prove that, in
fact, we are descended from

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00:42:44,889 --> 00:42:49,457
these gods Isis, Osiris,
Horus, and Seth.

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Now that that goal has been
accomplished, NASA's purpose

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00:42:52,730 --> 00:42:57,700
seems to be to be part of this very,
very slow revelation of information.

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TSOUKALOS: NASA asks the
question of human origins.

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00:43:04,342 --> 00:43:09,345
Where did we come from, why are
we here, and where are we going?

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They're dealing with space.

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00:43:12,016 --> 00:43:16,719
And according to the ancient
alien theory our origins are not

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00:43:16,754 --> 00:43:21,757
here on Earth... but up there.

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Space truly is the final frontier.

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NARRATOR: If ancient knowledge
guided us to the Moon,

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what might the ancient past reveal
about our future here on Earth?

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00:43:43,349 --> 00:43:46,881
And with NASA's continuing
explorations of space,

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might we finally find
proof of alien beings?

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00:43:51,375 --> 00:43:56,075
Or proof of our own alien origins?

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