NARRATOR: Unexplained sightings in space...
SETH SHOSTAK: Shuttle astronauts will report that they've seen things
that might be due to an alien presence.
NARRATOR: strange formations on the surface of Mars...
ERICH VON DANIKEN: Now, some NASA scientists say this is all
just a light and shadow game.
NARRATOR: ..and lunar missions rumored to have secret agendas.
LOGAN HAWKES: The race for the Moon, was it a race to
reach technology that was left behind by an extraterrestrial race?
NARRATOR: Is NASA sharing all that it knows about the universe?
Or are they protecting us from the truth?
MICHAEL BARA: The Brookings Report says very specifically,
number one, don't tell anybody.
If you tell anybody, it will shatter the fabric of our civilization.
NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world believe we have
been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?
And, if so, might our extraterrestrial origins be revealed through
the NASA connection?
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NARRATOR: July 20, 1969.
Okay, engine stop.
We copy you down, Eagle.
Tranquility Base here.
The Eagle has landed.
NARRATOR: American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz"
Aldrin become the first humans to land on the Moon.
"That's one small step for man, but one giant leap for mankind."
BUZZ ALDRIN: We aliens who happened to go down the ladder on July 20,
1969, were certainly part of a magnificent race that was able
to all of sudden appear in the garden of Eden.
STORY MUSGRAVE: Landing on the Moon happened because of courage.
We had the courage.
We were willing to take the risk.
We had a president who was behind us and said you're gonna do it.
DAVID MORRISON: I look at those people from the Apollo era
as heroes, not just the astronauts that went, but the
hundred thousand people on the ground that made it possible.
They worked on an exact plan.
They knew where they wanted to go.
They developed the technology, And, by golly, they pulled it off.
It was a tremendous accomplishment, perhaps the
greatest scientific technical accomplishment in human history.
Houston, it's Tranquility, how do you read?
Tranquility Base, this is Houston, loud and clear.
NARRATOR: For more than two and a half hours, Armstrong and
Aldrin stood on the surface of the Moon.
Video transmissions showed the two astronauts collecting rock
samples, taking photographs, and planting an American flag
in the lunar soil.
But what might these men have done away from the camera?
Could there have been another, perhaps, top-secret mission,
as ancient astronaut theorists believe?
DAVID CHILDRESS: When Apollo 11 first landed on the Moon,
there were certain sites that they were to look at.
And even as they orbited the Moon there were certain areas of
the Moon that they were to examine carefully and photograph.
And you have to ask yourself if NASA already had certain parts
of the Moon picked out, and the reason they had picked
out these areas was because there was artificial structures
on the Moon and they knew it.
NARRATOR: According to NASA records, the area of the Moon
called the Sea of Tranquility was chosen for the first lunar
landing based on its flat surface.
But some researchers suggest this site was chosen because on
that date, its coordinates lined up directly under Orion's Belt.
BARA: The way they picked the landing sites was that they first chose the
specific date, the specific latitude and longitude, the
specific time that they would land.
And then you have to work your way back from that to create
what's called the launch window.
The person who picked all of the Apollo landing dates and landing
times, including the mission for Apollo 11, was a man named Farouk El-Baz.
His father just happened to be an expert on the ancient
Egyptian stellar religion.
NARRATOR: According to ancient Egyptian beliefs,
ceremonies performed directly under Orion's Belt produce a
sacred alignment, one through which humans could communicate with Osiris.
BARA: To the ancient Egyptians, that constellation
actually was a literal living embodiment of the great god Osiris.
Sirius was the same representation of his wife, sister and consort, Isis.
Together, those two essentially ruled the skies, and the life of
the Egyptian people themselves was dictated by the rotation,
the movement and the placement of those two celestial objects
in the heavens.
BARA: Apollo 11 had landed at a specific day and a
specific time where the three belt stars of Orion were on the horizon.
At that time, 33 minutes after landing, Buzz Aldrin, the second
man to walk on the Moon, a 33 Degree Scottish Rite Freemason was, in fact,
performing a ceremony on board the lunar module with Neil Armstrong.
What they were doing was pouring wine into chalices, breaking
bread and doing what essentially is called a communion ceremony.
Now the interesting thing about the communion ceremony is that
although its Catholic, it actually has its origins in a
much deeper, farther back ritual which was an offering to
the god Osiris himself.
So they are performing, essentially, an offering to Osiris himself.
So I think that's why that they landed on the Moon at that date and time.
PHILIP COPPENS: Certain rituals have to be performed at
certain moments in time, whereby this link with this nonhuman
intelligence will happen.
The priestly class of our ancestors, either through
technology or through certain means, really were very much the
class which sought out contact with this nonhuman intelligence.
And they were the ones who were trained to do this, very much
like the scientists of today, which we have trained to be the
people who are going to go into outer space.
NARRATOR: Left behind on the Moon were scientific
instruments, an American flag, and a small plaque commemorating
the Apollo 11 mission.
But there were other items left as well, a bag containing
a gold replica of an olive branch, and a silicon disk with recorded
messages of peace and goodwill from 73 world leaders.
Why were these symbolic messages sent up into space?
Who was NASA expecting to meet on the Moon?
HAWKES: When we talk about the Apollo Moon mission, there's some theory
that suggest that massive cities may exist on the dark side of the Moon,
cities that NASA was aware of, that the Moon missions were all
about and that artifacts from these ancient ruin sites have
been brought back to Earth.
Is it possible it wasn't Moon rocks we were picking up and
bringing back as specimens, but perhaps alien technology?
VON DANIKEN: If extraterrestrials were here on
planet, I'm sure they were here, we should also find evidence
on the Moon because the Moon is the place for a stopover.
You have a mother spaceship.
You need some sort of refuel.
Whatever this refuel is, could be raw material, could be stone,
could be uranium, could be whatever is in the surface of the Moon.
So it would make sense that we find some indications on the
Moon, technological indications, that somebody was here.
NARRATOR: Over the past several years, officials with
NASA's space program have admitted to misplacing original
recordings of some Moon landings, and losing rocks
collected from the lunar surface.
Could this be, as ancient astronaut theorists believe,
lost evidence of possible alien contact?
Some claim that photos NASA has taken of both the Moon and Mars
indicate they know more than they are telling us.
DAVID ICKE: We're going to have to come to terms with the
with the fact that we have been told the most monumental
collective lie, all our lives, about technologically-advanced,
nonhuman groups that are fundamentally impacting upon life on Earth.
And you will find the evidence for that on the far side of the Moon,
and no doubt, Mars, too.
BARA: Every time you look at a photograph from an unmanned
probe of the planet Mars, there's almost always something
truly weird that doesn't belong there that looks structural.
Carl Sagan himself used to talk about the pyramids of Elysium,
which were these very large, tetrahedral pyramids on Mars.
VON DANIKEN: We have some strange pictures from the
surface of the back of the Moon and from the surface of Mars.
Some strange pictures which seems to show artificial stuff,
some ancient buildings.
On Mars, we had one day photograph by Mariner, we had a face on Mars.
And in later picture, the face did not exist anymore.
But around the face, there was still something like a gate.
Now, some NASA scientists say this is all just a light and shadow game.
Others, also from NASA, say the pyramids are real on Mars.
So, at this moment, I don't know what is true.
BARA: There are some people that think that with the Roswell
crash, that the US government established communications with
extraterrestrial beings.
There are some who think that we did not establish such contact
until the Apollo missions themselves.
And there are other people who think that we really don't have
any direct contact with extraterrestrial species.
My personal belief is that at some point along the way, NASA
did have a direct pipeline to the ETs.
NARRATOR: But if NASA has possessed evidence of extraterrestrial life, as
ancient astronaut theorists believe, what are they hiding?
NARRATOR: Might NASA really have found evidence of the
existence of extraterrestrial life on the Moon?
And could there be further proof of an alien presence as
witnessed by astronauts on the space shuttle and the
International Space Station?
NARRATOR: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
On December 5, 2011, astronomers working with the Kepler space
telescope announced the discovery of a planet they
called Kepler-22b, orbiting within what's known as the
habitable zone of a distant star.
SIMON P. WORDEN: Today's discovery is a tantalizing
indication that, with time, Kepler may find true earth analogs.
SETH SHOSTAK: Kepler-22b is about 600 light-years away from
Earth, so that's a long way.
But it is, in fact, in an orbit that means that the daytime
temperatures on that planet might be comparable to a summer
in San Francisco, so that's the first time we found a planet
that might have liquid oceans, maybe a thick atmosphere, maybe even life.
DAVID MORRISON, PH.D.: What we'd ultimately like to do,
first, is just understand how other planetary systems are made up.
But then, we really would like to find Earth-like planets.
Planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars.
NARRATOR: But is it possible that NASA scientists have been
searching for life they already know exists?
Some believe previous voyages into space have uncovered
evidence of an extraterrestrial presence.
Houston, Discovery, how do you read? Over.
Discovery, Houston, read you loud and clear.
Go for main engines start.
Main engines up and burning.
Three, two, one, zero and liftoff!
Roger. Roll, Discovery.
NARRATOR: On September 12, 1991, the space shuttle
Discovery STS-48 flew nearly 350 miles above the surface of the Earth.
Its crew, led by Captain John Creighton, performed several
missions, including the deployment of an upper
atmosphere research satellite.
He is go for free drift.
Okay, we're in free drift.
NARRATOR: But while the astronauts occupied themselves
with various tasks, a video camera at the rear cargo bay
door captured footage that NASA claims no longer exists.
But a number of amateurs who were directly monitoring the
transmissions have produced what they allege is genuine footage
from STS-48.
The video shows what appears to be a series of unidentified
glowing objects and flashing lights that change direction
and accelerate rapidly.
CHILDRESS: Apparently, the space shuttle was surrounded by
some kind of UFO, flying saucer type of craft, some kind of a
shield, at one point, was supposedly put around the
shuttle briefly, and then, the UFO and everything disappeared.
BARA: One of the astronauts openly states over an open
channel, "Hey, we're being tracked by an alien spacecraft."
(rhythmic beeping)
Then all of a sudden, all the transmission just ceases.
And I think what happened was, is that he must have realized he
was on the public channel, not the private channel, and he
probably very, very quickly switched over to the private
channel to describe what it was he was seeing.
MUSGRAVE: I knew everyone, and I heard stories from everyone.
Nobody brought me any evidence.
So, one side of the coin... it's everywhere out there.
Has it been here?
I have no evidence.
NARRATOR: NASA officials claim the video images show ice
particles glinting in the sun.
But is it possible that video transmissions from the space
shuttle captured more than what NASA officials want to admit?
SHOSTAK: Occasionally, astronauts, shuttle astronauts,
will report that they've seen things or experienced things in
space that they can't explain and that might be due to an alien presence.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Ever since humankind launched itself
into space, there have been reports where astronauts
describe something that they saw while being up in the spaceship.
And we have to remind ourselves that those stories were reported
by astronauts, and not by some kind of crazy people.
NARRATOR: In 1996, video captured aboard the space shuttle Columbia STS-80
reportedly shows a number of fast-moving objects just outside the craft.
These unidentified objects appear as bright streaks.
Analysis of their speeds and directions have prompted some
researchers to dismiss the claims that the objects were
shuttle debris or meteors.
BARA: There's space shuttle video of two very specific
missions... STS-48 and STS-80... which clearly show what appear
to be powered vehicles operating in low earth orbit, defying all
the laws of physics and clearly performing the way UFOs or
extraterrestrial spacecraft are supposedly able to perform.
NARRATOR: But American astronauts are not the only
space travelers reporting otherworldly encounters.
In 1985, Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Salyut 7 reported
seeing seven celestial beings orbiting Earth.
CHILDRESS: Six cosmonauts claimed that, as they looked out
of the window of the space station, they saw what they
described as winged angels surrounding their ship, and that
these were luminous beings looking like people but also
having... bizarrely... wings on them, and they're in space.
So you have to wonder, what's going on here, and were these
angels some kind of extraterrestrials in special
space suits or with fields around them, and they were
investigating the Soviet space station?
And then suddenly, bang, they just vanished.
NARRATOR: If reports from trained scientists are true, is
this proof that extraterrestrial intelligence has been trying to
contact us?
SEAN DAVID MORTON: Gordon Cooper approached the United
Nations about them actually setting up a bureau at the United Nations for
extraterrestrial contact.
EDGAR MITCHELL: This is not unknown knowledge.
There are people that know and there seems to be perhaps
several different species of aliens visiting here, and it
looks like, likely, they have been for a long, long time.
NARRATOR: Might NASA really be withholding classified
information regarding the existence of extraterrestrial beings?
Perhaps the answer can be found by taking a look at NASA's
curious origins.
NARRATOR: July 29, 1958.
Responding to the successful launch of the Soviet space
satellite Sputnik, President Dwight Eisenhower signs the
National Aeronautics and Space Act, officially establishing NASA.
MORRISON: NASA was formed in 1958 partly out of a previously
existing government agency called NACA that just dealt with
aeronautics and then with the early space program that was
being developed by the army and the air force.
MITCHELL: NASA was established to take the United
States into space and to be a contender in the new direction
that humanity was moving of exploring space and out into our solar system.
NARRATOR: The president and congress established NASA as
part of the Department of Defense.
The official reason was to prevent the Soviets from
stealing U.S. technology, but some believe the real motive for
this classification was not to hide information from the
Soviets but to keep it secret from the American public.
BARA: A lot of people have the idea that NASA is a civilian
science agency, and it's not.
It says right there in the act of Congress that created it,
anything that they discover is subject to classification and
being kept secret and being kept from the American people.
The Brookings Report, which was commissioned by NASA right after
NASA itself was created, essentially was commissioned for
the purpose of deciding what NASA should do if in fact they
made some sort of extraterrestrial contact... if
they either found artifacts on the Moon or on Mars or if they
had direct contact with a superior intelligence, what they
should do, and the Brookings Report says very specifically,
number one, don't tell anybody.
If you tell anybody, it will shatter the fabric of our civilization.
It will destroy us.
NARRATOR: Some researchers believe the evidence of NASA's
hidden agenda can be found in the close ties between its
founding scientists and secret societies.
BARA: These secret societies had at their core essentially a
belief that they were directly descended from these great gods
of ancient Egypt, Isis, Osiris, and Horus, and they considered
these gods to be truly the source of their bloodline but
also that these gods themselves came from space.
At the very top, you had the Freemasons.
You had James Webb, who was a director of NASA.
You had a man named Kenneth Kleinknecht, who was the head of
the Mercury Program, the Apollo Program, the Gemini Program.
He was a 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Freemason.
Below them, you had the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, or
followers of Aleister Crowley.
People like Jack Parsons down at JPL were all put together, and
so they all ended up under the very same roof with the very
same agenda and the very same belief system.
HAWKES: We see this practice of passing knowledge down
through a secret society go back all the way to the days of the
Illuminati... who believed that a select few of the elite were
smart enough, were capable of handling this secret knowledge
but not the population at large.
So the question remains, has this knowledge been passed down
through secret societies for generations?
And this may predate the secret societies that we know about in
modern times all the way back to the days of the pharaohs.
NARRATOR: Like the ancient Egyptians, could NASA's founding
fathers have shared the belief that humans descended from
extraterrestrial beings?
What did the members of these secret societies know about space travel?
And how did the ancient past influence their work?
Those who suspect these NASA officials operated a hidden
agenda point to the repeated use of the number 33... an extremely
important symbolic figure in secret societies.
BARA: If you look at the very first landing strip at Cape
Canaveral, where we would be landing aircraft and eventually
bringing the space shuttle back, it was runway 33.
If you look at the launchpad at White Sands, New Mexico, the
only launchpad is launchpad number 33.
So it seems to permeate throughout NASA, this number
over and over again, and the fact that it's connected to
Freemasonry makes you kind of wonder if maybe there was some
other deeper symbolism working.
Houston.
You are a go for landing.
Over.
700 feet, 21 down, 33 degrees.
NARRATOR: Researchers believe the connection to ancient
Egyptian beliefs can also be found in the emblem of NASA's
Apollo Space Program.
They claim that the large "A" in the star field stands not for
the Greek god Apollo but for Asar... the Egyptian god more
commonly known as Osiris.
This is indicated by the cluster of three stars in the center of
the "A," which represent the stars of Orion's Belt.
CHILDRESS: You have to wonder if stars like Orion and Sirius
are very important to NASA, because this is where the...
ancient traditions, including Egyptian, have said that the
space gods came from, this is our origins.
NARRATOR: Similarly, researchers point out that the
symbol on the Mercury Mission patches is nearly identical to a
major icon of ancient Egypt.
BARA: If you look at the mission patches, the symbol for
Mercury is really similar to the Egyptian ankh, and it's kind of
ironic that you have this sort of Egyptian symbolism in what's
supposed to be a representation of Mercury the Messenger.
It's supposed to be a Greek mythology rather than an Egyptian mythology.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that, like ancient alien
theorists, NASA scientists believe extraterrestrials
visited Earth in the distant past?
Perhaps further evidence can be found in the inventions of the
unlikely mastermind behind NASA's space program... former
Nazi SS officer Wernher Von Braun.
NARRATOR: London, England.
September 8, 1944.
(missile whistling through air)
(explosion)
A 13-ton ballistic missile explodes on impact...
killing three and wounding 17.
The Vengeance Weapon 2, more commonly known as the V-2
rocket, had been fired from deep within Nazi Germany.
The liquid-propellant weapon proved to be the world's first
long-range computer-guided missile, and the first man-made
object to enter outer space.
This incredible technology was the brainchild of a man who
would eventually become the face of NASA, a 32-year-old
engineering genius named Wernher Von Braun.
HENRY STEVENS: Dr. Von Braun was acknowledged by everyone as
the greatest scientific mind in Germany.
He found a way to steer a rocket at 4,000 miles an hour.
He put a combustion chamber that was cooled by the liquid fuel
itself, and redesigned the fuel
chamber, and he put a guidance system on it.
He was an expert at every facet of rocketry, which is really unheard of.
NARRATOR: Von Braun's passion for rocketry began at an early age.
As a youth, he read science fiction novels by H.G. Wells and
Jules Verne, and was exposed to mythical stories of the Norse
god Tyr, a sky god that ruled over Mars and provided knowledge
and technology to humans.
COPPENS: Wernher Von Braun, from childhood, was absolutely
convinced that we had to go "out there."
It possessed him.
And so he was absolutely convinced that mankind had a
mission, and also that he had a role to perform.
He feels absolutely confident that he will be able to go to
Mars, find evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization
there, and from then onwards,
will actually go further into space to do this.
MUSGRAVE: Von Braun wanted to go into space.
He wanted to go to the stars.
But then, of course, he got so good at rocketry, the Germans
wanted him dropping V-2's on London.
He was very good at that.
NARRATOR: During World War II Von Braun worked as the
technical director at Germany's Peenemunde Research Center,
where he built rockets not for space travel but as weapons of war.
His brilliance as a rocket scientist earned him a spot in
the SS, among Hitler's most trusted scientists and officers.
BARA: Hitler's SS was nothing more than a secret society.
What the SS believed was that the Aryan himself was this
direct, pure bloodline that came from Isis and Osiris and Horus and Seth.
Von Braun learned about the myths of the superiority of the
Aryan race and their rightful place in the stars and where
they had come from.
So it makes complete sense that
Von Braun would become fascinated with space.
The mission became to get back up to the stars, to rejoin the
gods, to show them that we could do as they had done and travel
to the stars, travel to the planets, and basically go back
and reclaim our proper place in the universe.
NARRATOR: Although the V-2 rocket was far more advanced
than any other fired during World War II, it was not enough
to prevent Germany's defeat.
Six weeks after the last V-2 fell on England, Von Braun
surrendered to the advancing American forces.
VON BRAUN: I myself, and everybody you see here, have decided to go west.
NARRATOR: Von Braun and his team of scientists were brought
to the United States under a controversial classified program
known as Operation Paperclip.
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JIM MARRS: After the war, we decided that we were gonna be
adversaries with the Soviet Union and that we needed to have
the technological jump on them, so we brought these Nazi
scientists over, whitewashed their Nazi background and rolled
them into our military industrial complex.
NARRATOR: While continuing his work designing military
missiles, Von Braun published a series of books and magazine
articles that described his concepts for a lunar landing...
a manned mission to Mars... and even an orbiting space station.
VON BRAUN: The entire wheel will slowly rotate at three
revolutions per minute.
The resulting centrifugal force will produce an artificial
gravity for the men in the rim.
Notice that the floors are placed so that the men stand
with their heads towards the hub.
NARRATOR: But why was Von Braun so intent on traveling into space?
MORTON: Wernher Von Braun was very much the public scientific
face of the American space program.
He was obsessed, by the way, with not just going to the Moon
but also going beyond that and eventually building colonies on Mars.
SHOSTAK: The deal was to build a rocket that didn't just
go up a couple of hundred miles, but a rocket that could make it
a quarter of a million miles, all the way to the Moon.
VON BRAUN: If we were to start today on an organized and
well-supported space program, I believe a practical passenger
rocket could be built and tested within ten years.
MUSGRAVE: Von Braun went to work on a Jupiter-C, which was
an upgraded V-2.
But what is unbelievable is, he went from an upgraded V-2 to a
Saturn F-1, which is even today, 45 years later, still the most
powerful and the most reliable and the best rocket engine
that's ever existed, even though he did that 45 years ago.
NARRATOR: On May 5, 1961, less than three years after
joining NASA, Von Braun stood watch as one of his rockets
rockets carried Alan Shepard up into space.
20 days later, on May 25, 1961, President Kennedy announced his
goal to send a man to the Moon.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY: We choose to go to the Moon in this decade
and do the other things, not because they are easy but
because they are hard.
Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of
our energies and skills.
NARRATOR: But then, according to the National Security Action
Memorandum number 271, JFK followed up his dramatic
announcement by secretly proposing to merge NASA's space
program with that of the Soviets.
But why, when it appeared that Americans were finally moving
ahead in the race for space, would JFK offer to share
technologies with America's rival?
HAWKES: According to conspiracy theorists, it's
because something was discovered along the way, and that
discovery was alien visitation did exist, and they already knew about it.
The race for the Moon, was it a race between two nations, or was
it a race by two nations to reach technology on the Moon
that was left behind by an extraterrestrial race?
NARRATOR: Is it possible Von Braun's rockets had drawn the
attention of otherworldly beings, as some ancient
astronaut theorists believe?
What did NASA's scientists expect to find on the Moon?
And might they also have been looking for evidence of life on Mars?
NARRATOR: The Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Three, two, one.
Engines start.
NARRATOR: On November 26, 2011, scientists with NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory launched their 19th unmanned mission to Mars.
The Mars Science Laboratory is expected to enter the Martian
atmosphere in August 2012.
After deploying its parachute and landing on the surface, an
automobile-sized remote... controlled rover named Curiosity
will probe the Red Planet's past and present ability to sustain
microbial life.
SHOSTAK: It's going to be able to roam around the surface of Mars.
It's pretty fast compared to our old rovers.
It can go the length of a football field in an hour.
But it can also analyze the surface of Mars and it's trying
to find out, look, was there ever liquid water here, lakes,
oceans, that kind of thing?
What about the chemical composition of the soil?
Is it the kind of thing that indicates that Mars was once a
kinder, gentler world?
It's not looking directly for life. We still don't do that.
MORRISON: We have evidence that, although Mars is very cold
now, has a very thin atmosphere, it once had a thick atmosphere,
blue sky, clouds, rain, liquid water... the ingredients we think
would be possible for life.
So it's quite reasonable to imagine that life formed there long ago.
The question is: could the life have survived as the planet got colder?
Could it have gone below the surface, for instance?
We think so.
NARRATOR: If Wernher Von Braun's visions of space travel
could become reality and land a man on the Moon, could his
concept of human travel to Mars become a fact as well?
And might NASA still be secretly developing his ideas... plans
first drawn up nearly 60 years ago?
BARA: If you look at the research that was being done in
field dynamics and very, very exotic physics back in the 1950s
and even into the early 1960s, it's pretty clear that we were
on a very exciting path towards very, very powerful breakthrough
propulsion systems that would essentially allow us to create
flying saucers that could travel very easily and very short
amounts of time between the Earth and the Moon and between
the Earth and Mars, so it makes complete sense that we do have
this secret private program that maybe even a lot of the guys
inside NASA themselves don't know about.
ROBERT H. FRISBEE: In the more near term, NASA and other
space agencies talk about moving out into the solar system, and
there we're looking at using a variety of extraterrestrial
materials to produce propellants for rockets, oxygen for life
support, even building materials.
CHILDRESS: Many researchers believe that the overt NASA
missions are really a cover for what they call a secret space
program and that the secret space program is using different
technology than rockets, more of an alien-type technology, some
kind of antigravity type of craft, and that those craft,
rather than rockets, could be going to bases on the Moon that
would be secret bases, also manned by the American
government or the secret space program, and that from those
bases on the Moon, we could even be journeying in these retro...
engineered spacecraft to Mars.
NARRATOR: According to scientists, the possibility of
transforming Mars into an Earth... like planet is theoretically possible.
MUSGRAVE: I think Mars is terraformable.
Terraforming means to take life to a place that has no life and
start growing the life there.
I think Mars is unbelievably terraformable.
MORRISON: I can't imagine we'll ever reach a destination
that answers all our questions, but as an astrobiologist, I
think in the next 25 or 30 years, we have a very good
chance of finding evidence of life beyond Earth.
There's a real prospect we'll be able to answer that fundamental
question: are we alone?
NARRATOR: Most NASA scientists agree that future exploration of space will
uncover life on other planets.
But could it also reveal proof that the gods of the ancient
world were, in fact, extraterrestrials, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe?
BARA: NASA'S real core mission in the beginning was
essentially to go to the Moon, retrieve evidence of the fact
that there was a prior advanced civilization in the solar
system, and bring it back.
In other words, prove that, in fact, we are descended from
these gods Isis, Osiris, Horus, and Seth.
Now that that goal has been accomplished, NASA's purpose
seems to be to be part of this very, very slow revelation of information.
TSOUKALOS: NASA asks the question of human origins.
Where did we come from, why are we here, and where are we going?
They're dealing with space.
And according to the ancient alien theory our origins are not
here on Earth... but up there.
Space truly is the final frontier.
NARRATOR: If ancient knowledge guided us to the Moon,
what might the ancient past reveal about our future here on Earth?
And with NASA's continuing explorations of space,
might we finally find proof of alien beings?
Or proof of our own alien origins?
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