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We don't know what
protocols governments might have
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for how we interact with our
extraterrestrial visitors.
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Two, one, let it go!
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We've never found
an official sanctioned document
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that says, if we're invaded
by aliens, this is what we do.
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Doesn't mean
that there isn't one.
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In we go, huh?
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I believe that these protocols
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are already established,
and, in fact,
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we are already in contact
with extraterrestrials.
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What we actually
could be looking at here
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is a genuine alien life-form.
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The question I have is,
what are we gonna do?
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October 19, 2017.
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The Hawaiian island of Maui.
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Here, perched atop
a 10,000-foot summit,
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stands
the Haleakala Observatory.
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Astronomers using
The Panoramic Survey Telescope
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and Rapid Response System,
or Pan-STARRS,
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detect a mysterious object
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traveling at high speed
through our solar system.
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The trajectory of this object
is unlike any
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that has ever been seen before.
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I was in charge
of coordinating the observing
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to characterize the object.
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The object was discovered.
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And, at that point,
there were images taken
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that showed an object
moving rapidly
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with respect to the stars.
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The stars are individual dots
of light,
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and this object was a streak,
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so they knew it was moving fast.
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At that point,
they started to compute
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an orbit to try and understand
what this object was.
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This was
a really dramatic difference
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from what
had been seen previously.
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The object was found
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to have a highly unusual
hyperbolic orbit,
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suggesting that it was traveling
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at such a high rate of speed
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that it was not being pulled
into a more circular orbit
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by the force of gravity.
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Everything in the solar system
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is either on a circular
or an elliptical orbit.
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This was a particularly
exciting observation,
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because we had never seen
anything like this
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come through the solar system.
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The object, which was classified
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as an asteroid
and named 'Oumuamua,
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a Hawaiian word
meaning "scout" or "messenger,"
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is the first object of its kind
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to be officially recognized
as interstellar.
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An asteroid was discovered
coming into our solar system.
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Let that sink in.
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An asteroid was discovered
coming into our solar system.
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From where we don't know.
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It just came from outside
our solar system,
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meaning it's from a different
star system, somewhere else.
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That's historic,
that we've actually seen it.
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We now know objects can travel
from one star system to another.
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Researchers
engaged in the Search
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for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence, or SETI,
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were intrigued not only
by 'Oumuamua's origins,
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but also by its unusual shape.
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It had a very funny shape.
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It's shaped like a cigar.
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You know, it's maybe five or ten
times as long as it is across.
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No asteroid that we know of
looks like a cigar.
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Inevitably,
there were people saying,
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"Well, are you sure it's a rock?
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"Maybe there's somebody
inside this thing.
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Maybe they've come to visit."
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Now, if I were gonna build
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a spaceship that was gonna take
hundreds of years,
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or maybe thousands
or millions of years to go
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from one star to another,
I would start by finding
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a big asteroid that I like,
that had all the minerals on it.
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And I would use that and just
turn it into the ship I wanted.
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Mainstream astronomers
such as Avi Loeb, the chair
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of Harvard University's
astronomy department,
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noted that the cigar shape
of 'Oumuamua
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is the optimal design for a
vessel to travel through space.
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This has led
ancient astronaut theorists
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and even some astronomers
to question
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if the so-called asteroid
is actually
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an extraterrestrial vessel.
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What I think is interesting is
that 'Oumuamua is cigar-shaped.
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Because there are stories
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and eyewitness reports
of cigar-shaped UFOs.
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So is it possible that there
is some type of a connection?
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Reports of strange,
cigar-shaped UFOs
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date back hundreds of years.
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This famous woodcut from 1561,
for example,
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is based on a firsthand account
by someone
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who claimed that a number
of round and tubular objects
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could be seen battling
in the sky
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over the town
of Nuremberg, Germany.
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This first documented UFO
photograph captured
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what looks like a long,
cylindrical craft
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hovering over Mount Washington,
New Hampshire in 1870.
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And in modern times, sightings
of cigar-shaped UFOs
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are commonly reported,
as are those which are described
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as so-called "flying saucers."
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It is possible that an asteroid
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has been taken, hollowed out,
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made into a spaceship,
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and then put into
a special orbit or trajectory.
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And what might be inside of
'Oumuamua is anyone's guess.
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Discoveries like 'Oumuamua
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certainly have swayed
the scientific community
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towards our ideas,
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because for the first time
in my life
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have I heard an astronomer say
that this object
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that is floating through
our solar system right now,
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may be
an extraterrestrial craft.
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That doesn't come from me;
it comes from an astronomer.
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Maybe 'Oumuamua
was a false alarm,
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but maybe it was the real thing.
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However, it does inform us
that we need a protocol.
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We need steps in place
that will help us
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to determine what we
are actually seeing
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and what the response should be.
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This was a tremendous wake-up
call, because it started
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to give us a sense
of how would we respond
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if there were such
an intrusion, if you will.
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Does humanity have a
plan for what to do in the event
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that a spacecraft carrying
extraterrestrial beings
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comes to our planet?
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And, if so,
what are the protocols?
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And who is responsible
for implementing them?
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The International
Academy of Astronautics
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set up something called
the Post Detection Task Group,
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and I chaired that
for some years.
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And it was just an informal,
uh, collection of people
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who, uh, whose job was
to simply deliberate on
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if there should be some
sort of putative signal,
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or detection
of alien technology, what next?
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What do we do?
Who do we tell?
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How do we respond?
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What would the impact be
on society?
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In 1989,
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the International Academy of
Astronautics, working with SETI,
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published the "Declaration of
Principles Concerning Activities"
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Following the Detection of
Extraterrestrial Intelligence."
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It stated that if proof of
an alien presence is confirmed,
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the next consideration should be
to decide which government
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or scientific entity should
begin communication,
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so that the situation
does not quickly turn
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into an international
free-for-all.
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The SETI protocols, however,
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are only binding on the
astronomical community.
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There are many more players
in the equation.
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The SETI protocols
may cover astronomers,
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but they don't cover governments
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and they're not even
legally binding.
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Nobody can tell a radio
astronomer, or anybody else,
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that they're not allowed
to transmit.
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And even if the United States
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and other major nations decided
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that there should be some sort
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of moratorium on using radio
telescopes for that purpose,
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there's nothing
to prevent North Korea,
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for example, from doing it.
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I think it's totally
"unpoliceable,"
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which is why we have to think
through rather carefully
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what the consequences would be,
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in the event that there was
this exciting discovery.
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Considering
the enormous global impact
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of any first communication
or contact between someone
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from Earth and an intelligent
being from another planet,
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wouldn't world governments
already have their own protocols
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in place to handle
such a situation?
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Protocols that would govern...
Not just individual countries...
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But everyone in the world?
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I spent the better part
of about four years researching,
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uh, a book that myself
and, uh, and some colleagues
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were working on
to create a protocol:
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if we were invaded by aliens,
what would we do?
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And we searched
everywhere we could,
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and we had several databases
available to us,
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and we've never found
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an official sanctioned
government document
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that says if we're invaded
by aliens, this is what we do.
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Doesn't mean
that there isn't one.
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With my experience of the
British Ministry of Defence,
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I'd be surprised if there wasn't
a protocol for this.
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So I suspect that somewhere,
deep in the bowels
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of the Ministry of Defence
and the Department of Defense,
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there is a plan.
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But I also suspect
that it's highly classified.
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But while many of the
world's top governments continue
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to deny the existence
of any plans or protocols
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that would be used in the event
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of an extraterrestrial
encounter,
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many ancient astronaut
theorists believe
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that not only do
such plans exist,
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but that they have been
in place for decades.
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And that contact
between Earth governments
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and extraterrestrial visitors
has been happening...
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In secret...
For thousands of years.
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December 2017.
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The New York Times
publishes a bombshell story.
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It reveals the existence
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of a $22 million
black budget program
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within the Pentagon
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created to investigate whether
unidentified flying objects
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pose a threat
to national security.
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From 2007 until 2012,
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the Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program
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collected a compilation
of videos
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that show inexplicable
aerial phenomena,
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some of which have been released
to the public.
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One of these videos, at least,
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comes from the gun camera
of an F-18.
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And you don't just jump out
in your plane
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and fly out and chase something
because you saw it go by.
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You were told to do so,
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and it took a lot of people
to know this was going on.
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Although the complete
findings of the program
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otherwise known as AATIP
are still considered
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highly classified
and may never be released,
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its very existence
provides proof
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that the United States military
had protocols in place
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for how to investigate
unidentified flying objects.
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But do the videos
imply something else?
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Something of even greater
significance?
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Could they be evidence not
only that UFOs exist,
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but that the government
has been studying them
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and not shooting them down
for a reason?
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We simulate
all sorts of scenarios
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in war gaming simulations.
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I've seen these simulations
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where they can teleport
their soldiers
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from one place to another
instantaneously.
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Or they have shields
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that keep anything below
extremely high-caliber weapons
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from penetrating their armor.
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A lot of times this is called
an engagement for 2075.
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Now, think about that.
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We can prepare and plan
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for engagements against forces
in the future.
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That's almost like preparing
for a force
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that's just that much
more advanced than us.
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Is it possible
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that by gathering
and then studying evidence
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of UFO activity,
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the U.S. military
is developing protocols
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which will prepare
future soldiers
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to face what could be
extraterrestrial forces?
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And if not here on Earth,
on other planets?
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We've got to have
space capabilities.
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We've got to be able
to run out into our vehicle,
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turn it on,
and fly up into space.
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Right now it takes months
to prepare to go into space.
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We need to have bases
on the Moon
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and on Mars and Europa,
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various other places
in the solar system
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so that we don't have to play
on one staging ground: Earth.
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We can't fight
wearing a space suit.
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We're gonna have to have
some other type
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of environment capability,
like powered armor suits,
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like in Iron Man,
that improves your abilities
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instead of hinders them.
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So we need some other technology
for that.
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But if
the United States military
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has secret protocols
for how to identify
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and combat
extraterrestrial threats,
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could they also have protocols
for more peaceful encounters?
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And if so, could these protocols
also be part
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of a global strategy,
one secretly shared
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with other nations
around the world?
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Vatican City, May 2014.
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In a sermon dedicated
to concepts of inclusion,
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Pope Francis shocks his
congregation when he declares
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that if alien life-forms
ever arrive on Earth,
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he would welcome them
into the Catholic Church.
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The pontiff's remarks
stun the world,
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as it is the first time
that a sitting pope acknowledges
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not only that
extraterrestrial life exists,
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but that it could be intelligent
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and capable
of interplanetary travel.
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The Pope's action
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is one little example
of the broad shift in attitudes
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toward the possibility
of visitation.
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Religious authorities
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around the world,
leaders of the world religions
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are having to deal
with the possibility,
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if not the already known
reality,
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of the existence
of extraterrestrial beings.
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Whether a secretly held belief
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or a recently evolved position,
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faith-based organizations
around the globe
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have recently embraced
a more open
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and transparent view
that intelligent life
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beyond Earth is possible.
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The Catholic Church's statements
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are allied with the statements
of the Dalai Lama,
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who has recently been talking
about openness and oneness
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and the sameness of all
the creatures in creation,
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that we shouldn't treat
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extraterrestrial beings
as strangers,
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but rather as similar to us.
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When they will encounter us
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or we will encounter them,
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it does not have to be conflict
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if we do not allow it to be so.
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As far as
ancient astronaut theorists
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are concerned, the willingness
of world religions
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to embrace the notion
of visitations
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by extraterrestrial beings
is not new
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but dates back hundreds,
if not thousands, of years.
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They argue that most religions,
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if not all,
are based on the idea
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that not only do
otherworldly beings exist,
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but that their purpose
in coming to Earth
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has been to provide everything
from spiritual enlightenment
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to scientific knowledge.
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In 1999, NASA published a study
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called "The Societal
Implications of Astrobiology."
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What this study
was designed to do at its core
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was evaluate the impact
of disclosure on religion.
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NASA views religion
as an adaptive tool
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that can help people
to answer questions
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that science can't answer
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because, in their view,
religion has been dealing
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with extraterrestrials
for a long time.
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People have been told to have
faith in otherworldly beings.
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All of the major religions
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have prophecies
of the return of a Christ,
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a messiah, a savior figure.
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And very often
these returns involve
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what appear to be,
in the description,
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some method
of cosmic transportation.
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The Messiah comes
with an army of angels.
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And the angels we know
from biblical definition
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are certainly not human
by any standards.
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They are by every standard
of definition extraterrestrial.
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The shock
of extraterrestrials being here
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and having been here
for thousands of years
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will really change society.
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Eventually, everyone
on planet Earth will realize
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that we are not alone.
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Is it possible
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that the religious concept
of a messiah
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who returns to Earth
for the betterment of mankind
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was based on a message
given to our ancestors
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by otherworldly beings?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
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that the answer
is a resounding yes
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and that not only
was such a visitation promised,
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but that it is
already occurring.
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March 2018.
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Author and researcher
Andrew Collins
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travels to Sheffield, England,
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to witness
a remarkable demonstration.
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- Hi, guys.
- Hello.
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- Andrew, how are you?
- Ah, Chris.
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- Pleasure.
- I'm Milton.
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He is meeting
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with microbiologist
Milton Wainwright
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and engineer Chris Rose,
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two members of the research team
who are convinced
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that life on Earth
may have originated in space
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through a process
known as panspermia,
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a theory that dates as far back
as the fifth century BC.
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According to the theory,
microbial life
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is capable of traveling
through the universe
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and may on occasion survive
entry into Earth's atmosphere.
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I understand you've made
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some incredible discoveries.
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Please tell me all about it.
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In the early 2000s, my colleague
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Chandra Wickramasinghe,
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um, we were launching balloons
from India.
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And these were sampling the air
at 41 kilometers.
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And they showed that organisms
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are continually arriving
all the time.
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Panspermia
is extremely simple idea.
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Basically, it's the idea
that life came from space.
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Instead of being formed on this
planet, it came from space.
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My findings
relate to panspermia simply,
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and they show
that organisms are coming in
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at this very moment from space.
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Tell me how you actually collect
these samples.
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This is our, our balloon
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that's gonna give us
the buoyancy from the...
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the hydrogen gas here.
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Now, our capture mechanism
is right here.
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Let me show you this.
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This exposes little metal
stubs to the environment.
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And you're looking to see
if you can get microbes
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coming from the upper atmosphere
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- and not from the Earth itself?
- That's right.
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All the critics say
they're coming from Earth
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because we're surrounded
by life.
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But we have lots of evidence
that this material
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is not coming from Earth.
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It's incoming from space.
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I mean, it sounds incredible.
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I mean, have you ever lost
any of these?
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No, and we're not
about to start today.
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- So fingers crossed, guys.
- Brilliant.
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The team moves the balloon
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into launch position,
from which it will ascend
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more than 37 kilometers,
or 23 miles, into the air.
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Okay, guys. Ready?
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Andrew, on you. Countdown, please.
Okay.
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Five, four, three, two, one.
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Let it go! Oh, there it goes.
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Once the balloon
reaches its target altitude
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within the Earth's stratosphere,
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the capture mechanism
will hopefully collect samples
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of non-Earth-based
microbial life.
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After the sampling is
complete, the balloon bursts,
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and the capture mechanism
descends back to Earth
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under the safety of a parachute.
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The team uses GPS tracking
to locate
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where the mechanism lands.
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Once retrieved,
the sample is quickly secured
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in a sealed container
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so that it does not
become contaminated
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with microbes from Earth.
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Moments later,
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Andrew joins Milton and Chris
at a nearby laboratory.
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Here they will extract
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the microbes
inside a sterilized clean room
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and then analyze them
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to make sure no Earth microbes
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have contaminated the sample.
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A clean room.
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- Mm-hmm.
- How can you ensure the sterilization?
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What are the protocols
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- behind this process?
- Right.
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It's really all about
sterilizing the air inside,
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to make sure the air inside
contains no microorganisms.
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So all the air is filtered.
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Milton and Chris
remove the carbon tabs
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from the capture mechanism
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and place them
into vacuum-sealed containers.
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This will further prevent
contamination while they view
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the samples with
a scanning electron microscope.
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Wow. What on earth is that?
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I can tell
that this is biological.
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If you analyze this,
I'm pretty certain
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this will show
as carbon, oxygen,
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and a little bit of nitrogen.
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Now, that's the signature
for life.
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We're saying that this piece
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of biological life could
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- potentially be extraterrestrial in origin?
- Right.
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There's nothing from Earth
around it. It's pristine.
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So it's incoming.
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Now, if we do a bit of,
um, modeling studies,
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we come to the conclusion
that nothing bigger
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than six microns can go out.
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And this is 200.
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So it's a very large particle,
and it's coming in.
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What we actually could be
looking at here
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is a genuine alien life-form?
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What you're looking at there
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is an organism
or a clump of organisms
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that is incoming
from space to Earth.
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Nothing bigger than six microns
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can go from the surface
of the Earth
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to these altitudes
that we sample at.
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And yet we are finding particles
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all the way up to 200.
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They can't be coming up
from Earth.
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Absolutely amazing.
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It's blown my head off.
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Biological organisms
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not from Earth
but from somewhere in space?
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Could we be looking
at actual evidence
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of a living organism
from a world other than our own?
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We've actually found
evidence of what could be
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extraterrestrial
biological entities.
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To see those images
was extraordinary,
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and it's convinced me
that the Earth
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is surrounded by life
that almost certainly came
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from outer space.
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This is one we took earlier,
as they say.
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This is the most amazing image
I've ever seen in my life.
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It's got biological material
here.
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And this material
we know contains
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carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen.
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So this is biological.
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When we analyzed the ball,
we found it contained titanium
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and a small amount of vanadium.
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So this is a titanium sphere
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with life inside
and life on the outside.
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Now, what on earth is it?
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One possibility is that
this is directed panspermia.
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Some civilization has put
biological material
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inside and just on the outside
of this thing
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and they've spewed it out.
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And this suggests
that some alien
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civilization is seeding planets.
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This smoking gun
of, uh, panspermia
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or even directed panspermia
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could give us
the best evidence yet
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that aliens, in some form,
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seeded life on this Earth,
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which is an incredible thought.
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NASA have, uh,
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a department known as the Office
of Planetary Protection
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- to safeguard, uh, the Earth
- Right.
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From extraterrestrial
biological entities...
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- whatever you want to call them...
- Yeah.
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From actually penetrating
into the Earth's atmosphere.
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There are extremely detailed
plans and protocols
511
00:25:48,129 --> 00:25:50,881
for bringing back any probe
512
00:25:50,882 --> 00:25:54,385
that we send to another planet
or moon
513
00:25:54,386 --> 00:25:55,886
or asteroid.
514
00:25:55,887 --> 00:25:58,055
The protocols that are in place
515
00:25:58,056 --> 00:26:03,102
shut out the possibility
of us studying
516
00:26:03,103 --> 00:26:06,689
actual biological entities
that may exist
517
00:26:06,690 --> 00:26:10,025
on the edge
of our own stratosphere
518
00:26:10,026 --> 00:26:13,070
that have arrived here
from deep space themself.
519
00:26:13,071 --> 00:26:16,532
Uh, and I find that very sad,
very tragic.
520
00:26:16,533 --> 00:26:18,492
If extraterrestrial microbes
521
00:26:18,493 --> 00:26:20,369
are landing on our planet,
522
00:26:20,370 --> 00:26:23,831
can NASA's strict protocols
really protect us
523
00:26:23,832 --> 00:26:26,542
from biological contamination?
524
00:26:26,543 --> 00:26:29,253
Or could it be
that the contamination
525
00:26:29,254 --> 00:26:33,173
is not only unstoppable
but it is the very method
526
00:26:33,174 --> 00:26:35,843
by which life on Earth
began to evolve
527
00:26:35,844 --> 00:26:38,805
millions of years ago?
528
00:26:42,976 --> 00:26:46,645
October 4, 1957.
529
00:26:46,646 --> 00:26:49,815
The Soviet Union launches
Sputnik 1,
530
00:26:49,816 --> 00:26:53,068
the first satellite
to orbit the Earth.
531
00:26:53,069 --> 00:26:55,988
Its success stunned the world
532
00:26:55,989 --> 00:26:59,116
and shocked the United States
into action.
533
00:26:59,117 --> 00:27:02,119
The space race was on.
534
00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:05,414
And with it
came the creation of NASA,
535
00:27:05,415 --> 00:27:08,584
the government's first
fully funded agency charged
536
00:27:08,585 --> 00:27:11,211
with not only putting humans
into space
537
00:27:11,212 --> 00:27:15,716
but to have a man land
on the Moon by 1969.
538
00:27:15,717 --> 00:27:19,219
In fact,
so thorough was NASA's focus
539
00:27:19,220 --> 00:27:22,306
on all aspects
of space exploration
540
00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:25,100
that it commissioned a study
on "the implications"
541
00:27:25,101 --> 00:27:28,270
of a discovery
of extraterrestrial life,"
542
00:27:28,271 --> 00:27:32,524
otherwise known
as the Brookings Report.
543
00:27:32,525 --> 00:27:36,111
The Brookings Institute
report didn't just ask,
544
00:27:36,112 --> 00:27:37,780
are there aliens out there?
545
00:27:37,781 --> 00:27:39,907
It took it to the next level
and said,
546
00:27:39,908 --> 00:27:41,867
what happens when we find them?
547
00:27:41,868 --> 00:27:44,536
The implications
548
00:27:44,537 --> 00:27:48,791
of discovering extraterrestrial
life are profound,
549
00:27:48,792 --> 00:27:53,337
and they're implications that go
across all levels of society.
550
00:27:53,338 --> 00:27:58,717
Politics, economics, religion,
technology, science.
551
00:27:58,718 --> 00:28:01,470
Everything will be affected.
552
00:28:01,471 --> 00:28:03,806
The Brookings Report
specifically says
553
00:28:03,807 --> 00:28:05,432
you should release information,
554
00:28:05,433 --> 00:28:07,768
little by little, bit by bit,
555
00:28:07,769 --> 00:28:09,978
so that people
get culturally acclimated
556
00:28:09,979 --> 00:28:12,606
to the idea of aliens
and extraterrestrials.
557
00:28:12,607 --> 00:28:14,441
We've always speculated,
558
00:28:14,442 --> 00:28:16,485
those of us in broadcasting,
559
00:28:16,486 --> 00:28:18,237
why isn't government
coming forward,
560
00:28:18,238 --> 00:28:20,906
telling us what's going on,
telling us the truth?
561
00:28:20,907 --> 00:28:23,659
And a lot of people cite
the old Brookings Report
562
00:28:23,660 --> 00:28:26,870
that basically said
we can't handle the truth.
563
00:28:26,871 --> 00:28:28,580
There'd be mass chaos.
564
00:28:28,581 --> 00:28:30,582
Religions would collapse.
565
00:28:30,583 --> 00:28:32,209
Governments would collapse.
566
00:28:32,210 --> 00:28:34,586
So the government has decided,
567
00:28:34,587 --> 00:28:36,713
we're not saying anything.
568
00:28:36,714 --> 00:28:39,675
Does the existence
of the Brookings Report
569
00:28:39,676 --> 00:28:42,428
provide evidence that not only
570
00:28:42,429 --> 00:28:45,097
does the United States
have protocols and procedures
571
00:28:45,098 --> 00:28:49,101
in place in the event
of extraterrestrial contact
572
00:28:49,102 --> 00:28:52,396
but that such protocols have
deliberately been kept a secret
573
00:28:52,397 --> 00:28:55,899
from the American public
for nearly 60 years?
574
00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:58,444
But if so, why?
575
00:28:58,445 --> 00:29:02,781
I do not believe
that government, essentially,
576
00:29:02,782 --> 00:29:06,326
is negative, evil and harmful,
deceptive or lying.
577
00:29:06,327 --> 00:29:09,204
We should look back to 1938,
578
00:29:09,205 --> 00:29:13,459
when Orson Welles did his famous
radio program on Halloween night
579
00:29:13,460 --> 00:29:15,210
called War of the Worlds,
580
00:29:15,211 --> 00:29:17,671
wherein which,
through an enactment,
581
00:29:17,672 --> 00:29:20,090
New York was to be invaded.
582
00:29:20,091 --> 00:29:24,136
People around the country
listening to this radio program
583
00:29:24,137 --> 00:29:25,888
were terrified.
584
00:29:25,889 --> 00:29:27,514
The
machines are close together now,
585
00:29:27,515 --> 00:29:28,891
and we're ready to attack.
586
00:29:28,892 --> 00:29:31,143
Planes circling,
ready to strike.
587
00:29:31,144 --> 00:29:34,563
Our government's
learned from this.
588
00:29:34,564 --> 00:29:37,691
People will panic.
589
00:29:37,692 --> 00:29:40,360
Some people have thought that
590
00:29:40,361 --> 00:29:42,821
it's important
to-to prepare the public.
591
00:29:42,822 --> 00:29:44,448
You know,
I've always said I think
592
00:29:44,449 --> 00:29:46,366
the American public
can handle the truth.
593
00:29:46,367 --> 00:29:49,620
The government would do well
to be more open
594
00:29:49,621 --> 00:29:51,705
about what it's done
in the past,
595
00:29:51,706 --> 00:29:53,582
what it learned in the past,
596
00:29:53,583 --> 00:29:56,793
what it's doing today, uh,
and what it'll do in the future.
597
00:29:56,794 --> 00:30:00,047
But while the U.S.
government does not acknowledge
598
00:30:00,048 --> 00:30:02,966
having any official protocols
for first contact,
599
00:30:02,967 --> 00:30:05,886
it makes no secret
of its ongoing efforts
600
00:30:05,887 --> 00:30:10,808
to explore the possibilities of
extraterrestrial communication.
601
00:30:12,644 --> 00:30:15,187
Cape Canaveral, Florida.
602
00:30:15,188 --> 00:30:19,733
September 5, 1977.
603
00:30:19,734 --> 00:30:23,278
NASA launches
the Voyager 1 probe.
604
00:30:23,279 --> 00:30:26,615
Its mission is to journey
to Jupiter, Saturn,
605
00:30:26,616 --> 00:30:31,328
Uranus, and Neptune and send
back important information.
606
00:30:31,329 --> 00:30:34,206
But perhaps more interesting
than the information
607
00:30:34,207 --> 00:30:36,833
Voyager 1 was programmed
to collect
608
00:30:36,834 --> 00:30:40,170
was the information
it was carrying with it.
609
00:30:40,171 --> 00:30:43,382
The two Voyager
spacecraft were each launched
610
00:30:43,383 --> 00:30:46,552
in 1977 on a mission
of exploration
611
00:30:46,553 --> 00:30:48,637
of the outer solar system.
612
00:30:48,638 --> 00:30:50,639
And both of them kept on going,
613
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,308
to leave the solar system,
uh, forever.
614
00:30:53,309 --> 00:30:55,143
They weren't coming back.
615
00:30:55,144 --> 00:30:57,980
And as a result of this,
NASA invited Carl
616
00:30:57,981 --> 00:31:01,608
to put a message on both
of the Voyager spacecraft.
617
00:31:01,609 --> 00:31:04,486
As conceived
by a team of experts
618
00:31:04,487 --> 00:31:06,947
led by famed astronomer
Carl Sagan,
619
00:31:06,948 --> 00:31:09,575
Voyager's so-called
Golden Record
620
00:31:09,576 --> 00:31:13,161
was designed to send greetings
from the people of planet Earth
621
00:31:13,162 --> 00:31:16,290
to whatever form of alien life
it might encounter
622
00:31:16,291 --> 00:31:19,751
that had intelligence enough
to decode it.
623
00:31:19,752 --> 00:31:22,796
I'd been collaborating with Carl
for about five years.
624
00:31:22,797 --> 00:31:26,216
We shared a passion
for this topic...
625
00:31:26,217 --> 00:31:29,469
Extraterrestrial intelligence
and how to communicate with it...
626
00:31:29,470 --> 00:31:32,806
And I happened to be at the
right place at the right time
627
00:31:32,807 --> 00:31:34,975
when he was trying to form
a small team
628
00:31:34,976 --> 00:31:36,268
to actually make the message.
629
00:31:36,269 --> 00:31:39,313
I was a design director
on the project,
630
00:31:39,314 --> 00:31:41,898
and my main role was designing,
631
00:31:41,899 --> 00:31:45,485
with Frank Drake,
the series of photographs
632
00:31:45,486 --> 00:31:49,364
and diagrams that show what the
Earth and human beings are like.
633
00:31:49,365 --> 00:31:51,325
The Golden Record kick-started
634
00:31:51,326 --> 00:31:54,536
this thought process,
this approach to philosophy of,
635
00:31:54,537 --> 00:31:56,371
how do we define who we are
636
00:31:56,372 --> 00:31:59,249
if we came across
an intelligent civilization?
637
00:31:59,250 --> 00:32:01,627
How would we represent
ourselves?
638
00:32:01,628 --> 00:32:04,630
The Golden Record
shows Earth on a good day.
639
00:32:04,631 --> 00:32:06,715
Some of our best music,
640
00:32:06,716 --> 00:32:09,843
a lot of pleasant-looking people
saying hello.
641
00:32:09,844 --> 00:32:13,305
No war, no poverty,
no injustice.
642
00:32:13,306 --> 00:32:15,641
And this was by design.
643
00:32:15,642 --> 00:32:19,478
First of all, it's not obvious
how you would show these things
644
00:32:19,479 --> 00:32:21,480
to an extraterrestrial.
645
00:32:21,481 --> 00:32:26,276
I mean, a starving baby evokes a
huge emotional reaction from us.
646
00:32:26,277 --> 00:32:29,613
Maybe a baby is supposed to look
that way. They wouldn't know.
647
00:32:29,614 --> 00:32:31,865
It seemed important to me,
648
00:32:31,866 --> 00:32:34,493
in being asked
to design this thing,
649
00:32:34,494 --> 00:32:36,828
that it should tell a story.
650
00:32:36,829 --> 00:32:39,331
And the story is,
of course, our story.
651
00:32:39,332 --> 00:32:44,211
It's a story of our planet,
it's a story of life,
652
00:32:44,212 --> 00:32:49,132
it's a story of humans,
and it's a story of our future.
653
00:32:49,133 --> 00:32:51,009
In terms of the protocols
654
00:32:51,010 --> 00:32:53,387
that we would use
in actually replying back
655
00:32:53,388 --> 00:32:56,390
to a message that we got from
an intelligent civilization,
656
00:32:56,391 --> 00:32:58,600
different experts
have different opinions.
657
00:32:58,601 --> 00:33:00,394
Some people believe
that we should try
658
00:33:00,395 --> 00:33:02,562
and represent the best version
of ourselves.
659
00:33:02,563 --> 00:33:04,314
On the other end
of the spectrum,
660
00:33:04,315 --> 00:33:07,025
you could potentially upload
the entire Internet,
661
00:33:07,026 --> 00:33:08,652
along with all
of our dark sides,
662
00:33:08,653 --> 00:33:11,071
so that you could have a full
and complete picture
663
00:33:11,072 --> 00:33:13,032
of who we are as a species.
664
00:33:14,951 --> 00:33:18,161
Does NASA's
involvement in the design
665
00:33:18,162 --> 00:33:21,456
and implementation
of Carl Sagan's Golden Record
666
00:33:21,457 --> 00:33:24,251
provide evidence
of the government's belief
667
00:33:24,252 --> 00:33:27,879
that intelligent life exists
in the universe?
668
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,007
If so,
is that belief the product
669
00:33:31,008 --> 00:33:34,594
of mere scientific speculation,
or a conviction
670
00:33:34,595 --> 00:33:38,974
based on previous
extraterrestrial encounters?
671
00:33:38,975 --> 00:33:42,936
For the answer, ancient
astronaut theorists point
672
00:33:42,937 --> 00:33:45,355
to the government's long history
673
00:33:45,356 --> 00:33:49,485
of trying to establish
secret alien communications.
674
00:33:56,075 --> 00:33:58,076
Washington, D.C.
675
00:33:58,077 --> 00:34:01,413
March 24, 1961.
676
00:34:01,414 --> 00:34:05,292
The Brookings Report, the first
official government document
677
00:34:05,293 --> 00:34:07,836
to suggest protocols
for what to do
678
00:34:07,837 --> 00:34:11,465
in the event of alien contact,
is submitted
679
00:34:11,466 --> 00:34:14,009
to the House Committee
on Science and Astronautics
680
00:34:14,010 --> 00:34:17,763
and entered
into the Congressional Record.
681
00:34:17,764 --> 00:34:20,015
But ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
682
00:34:20,016 --> 00:34:24,436
that those protocols
weren't new,
683
00:34:24,437 --> 00:34:26,938
but, in fact, had been in place
684
00:34:26,939 --> 00:34:30,650
ever since President Harry
Truman ordered an investigation
685
00:34:30,651 --> 00:34:34,405
into the famed Roswell incident
in 1947.
686
00:34:36,157 --> 00:34:39,409
Truman,
inside of his administration,
687
00:34:39,410 --> 00:34:41,703
reached out to scientists,
688
00:34:41,704 --> 00:34:45,081
reached out to military people,
reached out to businessmen,
689
00:34:45,082 --> 00:34:48,960
formed this group called
Majestic 12... MJ-12...
690
00:34:48,961 --> 00:34:52,214
To do research
and report to him.
691
00:34:52,215 --> 00:34:55,258
And no one outside
is to know anything
692
00:34:55,259 --> 00:34:59,429
about UFOs, E.T.s,
crash retrievals,
693
00:34:59,430 --> 00:35:02,265
bodies, any of it.
694
00:35:02,266 --> 00:35:05,310
There is actually
a document called
695
00:35:05,311 --> 00:35:08,146
The Majestic 12
Special Operations Manual,
696
00:35:08,147 --> 00:35:11,191
which actually describes
697
00:35:11,192 --> 00:35:15,320
what a military officer
or enlisted man should do
698
00:35:15,321 --> 00:35:19,825
should he encounter
a crashed UFO,
699
00:35:19,826 --> 00:35:22,160
should he encounter
an extraterrestrial being,
700
00:35:22,161 --> 00:35:25,080
alive or dead, and how the body
should be disposed of.
701
00:35:25,081 --> 00:35:29,376
And it's a very,
very detailed set of protocols,
702
00:35:29,377 --> 00:35:32,671
basically for how to handle it
if you run into E.T.
703
00:35:32,672 --> 00:35:36,925
Aerospace engineer
Dr. Robert Wood
704
00:35:36,926 --> 00:35:40,428
was one of the first people
to examine the MJ-12 documents.
705
00:35:40,429 --> 00:35:42,806
It is his opinion, based in part
706
00:35:42,807 --> 00:35:45,809
on the descriptions
of spacecraft in the documents,
707
00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:51,022
that the Special Operations
Manual is genuine.
708
00:35:51,023 --> 00:35:55,026
The Special Operations Manual is
remarkable in several ways.
709
00:35:55,027 --> 00:35:59,281
It gives detailed descriptions
of four shapes of UFOs.
710
00:35:59,282 --> 00:36:01,491
Another thing is that it talks
711
00:36:01,492 --> 00:36:04,202
about extraterrestrial
biological entities.
712
00:36:04,203 --> 00:36:07,455
The Majestic 12
talks very frankly
713
00:36:07,456 --> 00:36:10,792
about extraterrestrial
biological entities,
714
00:36:10,793 --> 00:36:13,003
and their protocols.
715
00:36:13,004 --> 00:36:16,382
There is under Chapter Five,
"Encounters..."
716
00:36:27,059 --> 00:36:30,604
And that is tied
717
00:36:30,605 --> 00:36:34,024
to what happened to
Lonnie Zamora down in Socorro.
718
00:36:34,025 --> 00:36:40,071
On April 24, 1964, there
was a New Mexico police officer
719
00:36:40,072 --> 00:36:43,575
in Socorro, New Mexico
named Lonnie Zamora who noticed
720
00:36:43,576 --> 00:36:46,161
what appeared to him to be
some sort of wrecked vehicle
721
00:36:46,162 --> 00:36:47,579
off the side of the road.
722
00:36:47,580 --> 00:36:49,748
So he pulled his police car over
723
00:36:49,749 --> 00:36:51,708
and he started
to walk towards it.
724
00:36:51,709 --> 00:36:53,919
When he got closer
to the vehicle,
725
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,588
he realized that it was
some sort of egg-shaped craft
726
00:36:56,589 --> 00:36:59,758
with these four landing legs
727
00:36:59,759 --> 00:37:02,052
that were stuck into the ground,
and he saw two beings
728
00:37:02,053 --> 00:37:05,472
who were in silver suits.
729
00:37:05,473 --> 00:37:07,515
And the two beings went back
inside the craft,
730
00:37:07,516 --> 00:37:09,768
and the object took off
and sped away.
731
00:37:09,769 --> 00:37:14,105
And when another officer
came back out to the site,
732
00:37:14,106 --> 00:37:18,026
they went to where the craft
had landed, and they discovered
733
00:37:18,027 --> 00:37:19,986
four holes in the ground
734
00:37:19,987 --> 00:37:23,156
where the landing legs had stuck
into the dirt.
735
00:37:23,157 --> 00:37:30,205
Lonnie Zamora's encounter
made headlines in 1964.
736
00:37:30,206 --> 00:37:32,540
Since then, further information
737
00:37:32,541 --> 00:37:35,168
about the incident
has become available online
738
00:37:35,169 --> 00:37:37,170
from leaked government files.
739
00:37:37,171 --> 00:37:40,799
Files, which, if genuine,
corroborate the protocols
740
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,970
that are described
in the MJ-12 documents.
741
00:37:47,348 --> 00:37:49,140
In the Serpo documents,
they talk
742
00:37:49,141 --> 00:37:51,977
about the Ebens, as they were
named, and arrangements
743
00:37:51,978 --> 00:37:55,981
for them to actually land
and have a diplomatic exchange
744
00:37:55,982 --> 00:37:57,732
with U.S. government officials
745
00:37:57,733 --> 00:38:00,235
at White Sands Missile Range
in New Mexico.
746
00:38:00,236 --> 00:38:02,153
What's explained
in the documents
747
00:38:02,154 --> 00:38:05,323
is that the Zamora sighting
is actually
748
00:38:05,324 --> 00:38:09,035
the two emissaries who had got
the coordinates wrong
749
00:38:09,036 --> 00:38:11,287
and had actually landed
in the wrong place.
750
00:38:11,288 --> 00:38:13,164
Is it possible
751
00:38:13,165 --> 00:38:16,167
that the United States
government is not only aware of,
752
00:38:16,168 --> 00:38:20,756
but possibly in contact with,
extraterrestrial beings?
753
00:38:22,341 --> 00:38:26,261
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes and suggest
754
00:38:26,262 --> 00:38:28,722
that the United Nations may even
have an ambassador
755
00:38:28,723 --> 00:38:31,308
to extraterrestrials.
756
00:38:37,356 --> 00:38:39,983
September 2010.
757
00:38:39,984 --> 00:38:44,154
News organizations
across the globe report
758
00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:48,325
that the United Nations Office
of Outer Space Affairs intends
759
00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:52,078
to draft a series of protocols
on what to do when first contact
760
00:38:52,079 --> 00:38:57,292
with an extraterrestrial
civilization is officially made.
761
00:38:57,293 --> 00:38:59,919
The story causes a sensation,
762
00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:02,630
but then, after a few days,
763
00:39:02,631 --> 00:39:06,051
the story mysteriously
disappears.
764
00:39:06,052 --> 00:39:09,262
When pressed
for further information,
765
00:39:09,263 --> 00:39:14,642
officials at the United Nations
have refused to comment.
766
00:39:14,643 --> 00:39:17,270
The United Nations announced
767
00:39:17,271 --> 00:39:19,481
that it would create
some protocols
768
00:39:19,482 --> 00:39:21,900
for extraterrestrial contact,
769
00:39:21,901 --> 00:39:24,819
but so far
they have not given those to us.
770
00:39:24,820 --> 00:39:28,156
Just because protocols
have not been announced
771
00:39:28,157 --> 00:39:30,408
doesn't mean
that they don't exist.
772
00:39:30,409 --> 00:39:33,578
I believe that these protocols
are already established,
773
00:39:33,579 --> 00:39:38,041
and, in fact, we are already in
contact with extraterrestrials.
774
00:39:38,042 --> 00:39:40,752
The United Nations have said,
775
00:39:40,753 --> 00:39:44,297
"Do not come to us
with questions like this
776
00:39:44,298 --> 00:39:47,425
until there's
an international consensus."
777
00:39:47,426 --> 00:39:50,720
Well, there is no international
consensus on this.
778
00:39:50,721 --> 00:39:53,306
Imagine if aliens
showed up here tomorrow
779
00:39:53,307 --> 00:39:55,350
and said,
"Take me to your leader,"
780
00:39:55,351 --> 00:39:57,477
like you always see in the
movies or hear in the stories.
781
00:39:57,478 --> 00:40:00,188
Well, who would that be?
A lot of people think,
782
00:40:00,189 --> 00:40:02,190
"Oh, it's the Secretary General
of the U.N."
783
00:40:02,191 --> 00:40:05,443
Uh, well, maybe, maybe not.
784
00:40:05,444 --> 00:40:07,278
What they would look at is
785
00:40:07,279 --> 00:40:10,698
who has the largest industrial
machine on the planet.
786
00:40:10,699 --> 00:40:13,493
And I would say
it would have to be
787
00:40:13,494 --> 00:40:16,037
the president
of the United States,
788
00:40:16,038 --> 00:40:17,997
the president of Russia
and of China.
789
00:40:17,998 --> 00:40:19,624
They'd have
to be there together.
790
00:40:19,625 --> 00:40:22,961
But if intelligent beings
791
00:40:22,962 --> 00:40:25,797
are technologically advanced
enough to travel to Earth,
792
00:40:25,798 --> 00:40:31,427
whose protocols will
matter more... ours or theirs?
793
00:40:31,428 --> 00:40:34,848
As we prepare
for this worldwide reality
794
00:40:34,849 --> 00:40:39,060
of extraterrestrial life being
known here on planet Earth,
795
00:40:39,061 --> 00:40:41,396
we have to see
that the extraterrestrials
796
00:40:41,397 --> 00:40:44,566
are gonna have different
protocols than we would have
797
00:40:44,567 --> 00:40:46,526
that will be
far more sophisticated
798
00:40:46,527 --> 00:40:49,195
than anything we can conceive.
799
00:40:49,196 --> 00:40:52,198
And we will have
to really follow their lead
800
00:40:52,199 --> 00:40:57,412
in how we interact with them
and other extraterrestrials
801
00:40:57,413 --> 00:41:00,039
as we go into space ourselves.
802
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,251
Are these two worlds
that are about to meet...
803
00:41:03,252 --> 00:41:05,086
Are they compatible?
804
00:41:05,087 --> 00:41:09,883
And I say yes
because we come from out there.
805
00:41:09,884 --> 00:41:14,012
Because in Native American
culture, there are legends
806
00:41:14,013 --> 00:41:18,558
of 13 inhabited worlds,
planets out there,
807
00:41:18,559 --> 00:41:20,602
and we are the youngest.
808
00:41:20,603 --> 00:41:23,938
This world is called
"the planet of the children."
809
00:41:23,939 --> 00:41:26,441
And what does a child do?
810
00:41:26,442 --> 00:41:29,694
I think children... they listen,
they soak up the knowledge.
811
00:41:29,695 --> 00:41:33,865
So I think it's time for us to
look more at our ancient past,
812
00:41:33,866 --> 00:41:35,575
look at the traditions,
813
00:41:35,576 --> 00:41:39,662
and see and learn
that we've never been alone.
814
00:41:39,663 --> 00:41:42,916
As NASA eagerly prepares
815
00:41:42,917 --> 00:41:44,918
to send astronauts to Mars,
816
00:41:44,919 --> 00:41:48,296
it must face the fact
that it will be humans
817
00:41:48,297 --> 00:41:52,133
that will become the alien
visitors to another planet.
818
00:41:52,134 --> 00:41:57,764
And what will we do if we come
face-to-face with living proof
819
00:41:57,765 --> 00:42:00,600
that we are not alone?
820
00:42:00,601 --> 00:42:06,314
Will we welcome them,
or will they welcome us?
821
00:42:06,315 --> 00:42:08,359
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