We don't know what protocols governments might have
for how we interact with our extraterrestrial visitors.
Two, one, let it go!
We've never found an official sanctioned document
that says, if we're invaded by aliens, this is what we do.
Doesn't mean that there isn't one.
In we go, huh?
I believe that these protocols
are already established, and, in fact,
we are already in contact with extraterrestrials.
What we actually could be looking at here
is a genuine alien life-form.
The question I have is, what are we gonna do?
October 19, 2017.
The Hawaiian island of Maui.
Here, perched atop a 10,000-foot summit,
stands the Haleakala Observatory.
Astronomers using The Panoramic Survey Telescope
and Rapid Response System, or Pan-STARRS,
detect a mysterious object
traveling at high speed through our solar system.
The trajectory of this object is unlike any
that has ever been seen before.
I was in charge of coordinating the observing
to characterize the object.
The object was discovered.
And, at that point, there were images taken
that showed an object moving rapidly
with respect to the stars.
The stars are individual dots of light,
and this object was a streak,
so they knew it was moving fast.
At that point, they started to compute
an orbit to try and understand what this object was.
This was a really dramatic difference
from what had been seen previously.
The object was found
to have a highly unusual hyperbolic orbit,
suggesting that it was traveling
at such a high rate of speed
that it was not being pulled into a more circular orbit
by the force of gravity.
Everything in the solar system
is either on a circular or an elliptical orbit.
This was a particularly exciting observation,
because we had never seen anything like this
come through the solar system.
The object, which was classified
as an asteroid and named 'Oumuamua,
a Hawaiian word meaning "scout" or "messenger,"
is the first object of its kind
to be officially recognized as interstellar.
An asteroid was discovered coming into our solar system.
Let that sink in.
An asteroid was discovered coming into our solar system.
From where we don't know.
It just came from outside our solar system,
meaning it's from a different star system, somewhere else.
That's historic, that we've actually seen it.
We now know objects can travel from one star system to another.
Researchers engaged in the Search
for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI,
were intrigued not only by 'Oumuamua's origins,
but also by its unusual shape.
It had a very funny shape.
It's shaped like a cigar.
You know, it's maybe five or ten times as long as it is across.
No asteroid that we know of looks like a cigar.
Inevitably, there were people saying,
"Well, are you sure it's a rock?
"Maybe there's somebody inside this thing.
Maybe they've come to visit."
Now, if I were gonna build
a spaceship that was gonna take hundreds of years,
or maybe thousands or millions of years to go
from one star to another, I would start by finding
a big asteroid that I like, that had all the minerals on it.
And I would use that and just turn it into the ship I wanted.
Mainstream astronomers such as Avi Loeb, the chair
of Harvard University's astronomy department,
noted that the cigar shape of 'Oumuamua
is the optimal design for a vessel to travel through space.
This has led ancient astronaut theorists
and even some astronomers to question
if the so-called asteroid is actually
an extraterrestrial vessel.
What I think is interesting is that 'Oumuamua is cigar-shaped.
Because there are stories
and eyewitness reports of cigar-shaped UFOs.
So is it possible that there is some type of a connection?
Reports of strange, cigar-shaped UFOs
date back hundreds of years.
This famous woodcut from 1561, for example,
is based on a firsthand account by someone
who claimed that a number of round and tubular objects
could be seen battling in the sky
over the town of Nuremberg, Germany.
This first documented UFO photograph captured
what looks like a long, cylindrical craft
hovering over Mount Washington, New Hampshire in 1870.
And in modern times, sightings of cigar-shaped UFOs
are commonly reported, as are those which are described
as so-called "flying saucers."
It is possible that an asteroid
has been taken, hollowed out,
made into a spaceship,
and then put into a special orbit or trajectory.
And what might be inside of 'Oumuamua is anyone's guess.
Discoveries like 'Oumuamua
certainly have swayed the scientific community
towards our ideas,
because for the first time in my life
have I heard an astronomer say that this object
that is floating through our solar system right now,
may be an extraterrestrial craft.
That doesn't come from me; it comes from an astronomer.
Maybe 'Oumuamua was a false alarm,
but maybe it was the real thing.
However, it does inform us that we need a protocol.
We need steps in place that will help us
to determine what we are actually seeing
and what the response should be.
This was a tremendous wake-up call, because it started
to give us a sense of how would we respond
if there were such an intrusion, if you will.
Does humanity have a plan for what to do in the event
that a spacecraft carrying extraterrestrial beings
comes to our planet?
And, if so, what are the protocols?
And who is responsible for implementing them?
The International Academy of Astronautics
set up something called the Post Detection Task Group,
and I chaired that for some years.
And it was just an informal, uh, collection of people
who, uh, whose job was to simply deliberate on
if there should be some sort of putative signal,
or detection of alien technology, what next?
What do we do? Who do we tell?
How do we respond?
What would the impact be on society?
In 1989,
the International Academy of Astronautics, working with SETI,
published the "Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities"
Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence."
It stated that if proof of an alien presence is confirmed,
the next consideration should be to decide which government
or scientific entity should begin communication,
so that the situation does not quickly turn
into an international free-for-all.
The SETI protocols, however,
are only binding on the astronomical community.
There are many more players in the equation.
The SETI protocols may cover astronomers,
but they don't cover governments
and they're not even legally binding.
Nobody can tell a radio astronomer, or anybody else,
that they're not allowed to transmit.
And even if the United States
and other major nations decided
that there should be some sort
of moratorium on using radio telescopes for that purpose,
there's nothing to prevent North Korea,
for example, from doing it.
I think it's totally "unpoliceable,"
which is why we have to think through rather carefully
what the consequences would be,
in the event that there was this exciting discovery.
Considering the enormous global impact
of any first communication or contact between someone
from Earth and an intelligent being from another planet,
wouldn't world governments already have their own protocols
in place to handle such a situation?
Protocols that would govern... Not just individual countries...
But everyone in the world?
I spent the better part of about four years researching,
uh, a book that myself and, uh, and some colleagues
were working on to create a protocol:
if we were invaded by aliens, what would we do?
And we searched everywhere we could,
and we had several databases available to us,
and we've never found
an official sanctioned government document
that says if we're invaded by aliens, this is what we do.
Doesn't mean that there isn't one.
With my experience of the British Ministry of Defence,
I'd be surprised if there wasn't a protocol for this.
So I suspect that somewhere, deep in the bowels
of the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Defense,
there is a plan.
But I also suspect that it's highly classified.
But while many of the world's top governments continue
to deny the existence of any plans or protocols
that would be used in the event
of an extraterrestrial encounter,
many ancient astronaut theorists believe
that not only do such plans exist,
but that they have been in place for decades.
And that contact between Earth governments
and extraterrestrial visitors has been happening...
In secret... For thousands of years.
December 2017.
The New York Times publishes a bombshell story.
It reveals the existence
of a $22 million black budget program
within the Pentagon
created to investigate whether unidentified flying objects
pose a threat to national security.
From 2007 until 2012,
the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
collected a compilation of videos
that show inexplicable aerial phenomena,
some of which have been released to the public.
One of these videos, at least,
comes from the gun camera of an F-18.
And you don't just jump out in your plane
and fly out and chase something because you saw it go by.
You were told to do so,
and it took a lot of people to know this was going on.
Although the complete findings of the program
otherwise known as AATIP are still considered
highly classified and may never be released,
its very existence provides proof
that the United States military had protocols in place
for how to investigate unidentified flying objects.
But do the videos imply something else?
Something of even greater significance?
Could they be evidence not only that UFOs exist,
but that the government has been studying them
and not shooting them down for a reason?
We simulate all sorts of scenarios
in war gaming simulations.
I've seen these simulations
where they can teleport their soldiers
from one place to another instantaneously.
Or they have shields
that keep anything below extremely high-caliber weapons
from penetrating their armor.
A lot of times this is called an engagement for 2075.
Now, think about that.
We can prepare and plan
for engagements against forces in the future.
That's almost like preparing for a force
that's just that much more advanced than us.
Is it possible
that by gathering and then studying evidence
of UFO activity,
the U.S. military is developing protocols
which will prepare future soldiers
to face what could be extraterrestrial forces?
And if not here on Earth, on other planets?
We've got to have space capabilities.
We've got to be able to run out into our vehicle,
turn it on, and fly up into space.
Right now it takes months to prepare to go into space.
We need to have bases on the Moon
and on Mars and Europa,
various other places in the solar system
so that we don't have to play on one staging ground: Earth.
We can't fight wearing a space suit.
We're gonna have to have some other type
of environment capability, like powered armor suits,
like in Iron Man, that improves your abilities
instead of hinders them.
So we need some other technology for that.
But if the United States military
has secret protocols for how to identify
and combat extraterrestrial threats,
could they also have protocols for more peaceful encounters?
And if so, could these protocols also be part
of a global strategy, one secretly shared
with other nations around the world?
Vatican City, May 2014.
In a sermon dedicated to concepts of inclusion,
Pope Francis shocks his congregation when he declares
that if alien life-forms ever arrive on Earth,
he would welcome them into the Catholic Church.
The pontiff's remarks stun the world,
as it is the first time that a sitting pope acknowledges
not only that extraterrestrial life exists,
but that it could be intelligent
and capable of interplanetary travel.
The Pope's action
is one little example of the broad shift in attitudes
toward the possibility of visitation.
Religious authorities
around the world, leaders of the world religions
are having to deal with the possibility,
if not the already known reality,
of the existence of extraterrestrial beings.
Whether a secretly held belief
or a recently evolved position,
faith-based organizations around the globe
have recently embraced a more open
and transparent view that intelligent life
beyond Earth is possible.
The Catholic Church's statements
are allied with the statements of the Dalai Lama,
who has recently been talking about openness and oneness
and the sameness of all the creatures in creation,
that we shouldn't treat
extraterrestrial beings as strangers,
but rather as similar to us.
When they will encounter us
or we will encounter them,
it does not have to be conflict
if we do not allow it to be so.
As far as ancient astronaut theorists
are concerned, the willingness of world religions
to embrace the notion of visitations
by extraterrestrial beings is not new
but dates back hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
They argue that most religions,
if not all, are based on the idea
that not only do otherworldly beings exist,
but that their purpose in coming to Earth
has been to provide everything from spiritual enlightenment
to scientific knowledge.
In 1999, NASA published a study
called "The Societal Implications of Astrobiology."
What this study was designed to do at its core
was evaluate the impact of disclosure on religion.
NASA views religion as an adaptive tool
that can help people to answer questions
that science can't answer
because, in their view, religion has been dealing
with extraterrestrials for a long time.
People have been told to have faith in otherworldly beings.
All of the major religions
have prophecies of the return of a Christ,
a messiah, a savior figure.
And very often these returns involve
what appear to be, in the description,
some method of cosmic transportation.
The Messiah comes with an army of angels.
And the angels we know from biblical definition
are certainly not human by any standards.
They are by every standard of definition extraterrestrial.
The shock of extraterrestrials being here
and having been here for thousands of years
will really change society.
Eventually, everyone on planet Earth will realize
that we are not alone.
Is it possible
that the religious concept of a messiah
who returns to Earth for the betterment of mankind
was based on a message given to our ancestors
by otherworldly beings?
Ancient astronaut theorists believe
that the answer is a resounding yes
and that not only was such a visitation promised,
but that it is already occurring.
March 2018.
Author and researcher Andrew Collins
travels to Sheffield, England,
to witness a remarkable demonstration.
- Hi, guys. - Hello.
- Andrew, how are you? - Ah, Chris.
- Pleasure. - I'm Milton.
He is meeting
with microbiologist Milton Wainwright
and engineer Chris Rose,
two members of the research team who are convinced
that life on Earth may have originated in space
through a process known as panspermia,
a theory that dates as far back as the fifth century BC.
According to the theory, microbial life
is capable of traveling through the universe
and may on occasion survive entry into Earth's atmosphere.
I understand you've made
some incredible discoveries.
Please tell me all about it.
In the early 2000s, my colleague
Chandra Wickramasinghe,
um, we were launching balloons from India.
And these were sampling the air at 41 kilometers.
And they showed that organisms
are continually arriving all the time.
Panspermia is extremely simple idea.
Basically, it's the idea that life came from space.
Instead of being formed on this planet, it came from space.
My findings relate to panspermia simply,
and they show that organisms are coming in
at this very moment from space.
Tell me how you actually collect these samples.
This is our, our balloon
that's gonna give us the buoyancy from the...
the hydrogen gas here.
Now, our capture mechanism is right here.
Let me show you this.
This exposes little metal stubs to the environment.
And you're looking to see if you can get microbes
coming from the upper atmosphere
- and not from the Earth itself? - That's right.
All the critics say they're coming from Earth
because we're surrounded by life.
But we have lots of evidence that this material
is not coming from Earth.
It's incoming from space.
I mean, it sounds incredible.
I mean, have you ever lost any of these?
No, and we're not about to start today.
- So fingers crossed, guys. - Brilliant.
The team moves the balloon
into launch position, from which it will ascend
more than 37 kilometers, or 23 miles, into the air.
Okay, guys. Ready?
Andrew, on you. Countdown, please. Okay.
Five, four, three, two, one.
Let it go! Oh, there it goes.
Once the balloon reaches its target altitude
within the Earth's stratosphere,
the capture mechanism will hopefully collect samples
of non-Earth-based microbial life.
After the sampling is complete, the balloon bursts,
and the capture mechanism descends back to Earth
under the safety of a parachute.
The team uses GPS tracking to locate
where the mechanism lands.
Once retrieved, the sample is quickly secured
in a sealed container
so that it does not become contaminated
with microbes from Earth.
Moments later,
Andrew joins Milton and Chris at a nearby laboratory.
Here they will extract
the microbes inside a sterilized clean room
and then analyze them
to make sure no Earth microbes
have contaminated the sample.
A clean room.
- Mm-hmm. - How can you ensure the sterilization?
What are the protocols
- behind this process? - Right.
It's really all about sterilizing the air inside,
to make sure the air inside contains no microorganisms.
So all the air is filtered.
Milton and Chris remove the carbon tabs
from the capture mechanism
and place them into vacuum-sealed containers.
This will further prevent contamination while they view
the samples with a scanning electron microscope.
Wow. What on earth is that?
I can tell that this is biological.
If you analyze this, I'm pretty certain
this will show as carbon, oxygen,
and a little bit of nitrogen.
Now, that's the signature for life.
We're saying that this piece
of biological life could
- potentially be extraterrestrial in origin? - Right.
There's nothing from Earth around it. It's pristine.
So it's incoming.
Now, if we do a bit of, um, modeling studies,
we come to the conclusion that nothing bigger
than six microns can go out.
And this is 200.
So it's a very large particle, and it's coming in.
What we actually could be looking at here
is a genuine alien life-form?
What you're looking at there
is an organism or a clump of organisms
that is incoming from space to Earth.
Nothing bigger than six microns
can go from the surface of the Earth
to these altitudes that we sample at.
And yet we are finding particles
all the way up to 200.
They can't be coming up from Earth.
Absolutely amazing.
It's blown my head off.
Biological organisms
not from Earth but from somewhere in space?
Could we be looking at actual evidence
of a living organism from a world other than our own?
We've actually found evidence of what could be
extraterrestrial biological entities.
To see those images was extraordinary,
and it's convinced me that the Earth
is surrounded by life that almost certainly came
from outer space.
This is one we took earlier, as they say.
This is the most amazing image I've ever seen in my life.
It's got biological material here.
And this material we know contains
carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen.
So this is biological.
When we analyzed the ball, we found it contained titanium
and a small amount of vanadium.
So this is a titanium sphere
with life inside and life on the outside.
Now, what on earth is it?
One possibility is that this is directed panspermia.
Some civilization has put biological material
inside and just on the outside of this thing
and they've spewed it out.
And this suggests that some alien
civilization is seeding planets.
This smoking gun of, uh, panspermia
or even directed panspermia
could give us the best evidence yet
that aliens, in some form,
seeded life on this Earth,
which is an incredible thought.
NASA have, uh,
a department known as the Office of Planetary Protection
- to safeguard, uh, the Earth - Right.
From extraterrestrial biological entities...
- whatever you want to call them... - Yeah.
From actually penetrating into the Earth's atmosphere.
There are extremely detailed plans and protocols
for bringing back any probe
that we send to another planet or moon
or asteroid.
The protocols that are in place
shut out the possibility of us studying
actual biological entities that may exist
on the edge of our own stratosphere
that have arrived here from deep space themself.
Uh, and I find that very sad, very tragic.
If extraterrestrial microbes
are landing on our planet,
can NASA's strict protocols really protect us
from biological contamination?
Or could it be that the contamination
is not only unstoppable but it is the very method
by which life on Earth began to evolve
millions of years ago?
October 4, 1957.
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1,
the first satellite to orbit the Earth.
Its success stunned the world
and shocked the United States into action.
The space race was on.
And with it came the creation of NASA,
the government's first fully funded agency charged
with not only putting humans into space
but to have a man land on the Moon by 1969.
In fact, so thorough was NASA's focus
on all aspects of space exploration
that it commissioned a study on "the implications"
of a discovery of extraterrestrial life,"
otherwise known as the Brookings Report.
The Brookings Institute report didn't just ask,
are there aliens out there?
It took it to the next level and said,
what happens when we find them?
The implications
of discovering extraterrestrial life are profound,
and they're implications that go across all levels of society.
Politics, economics, religion, technology, science.
Everything will be affected.
The Brookings Report specifically says
you should release information,
little by little, bit by bit,
so that people get culturally acclimated
to the idea of aliens and extraterrestrials.
We've always speculated,
those of us in broadcasting,
why isn't government coming forward,
telling us what's going on, telling us the truth?
And a lot of people cite the old Brookings Report
that basically said we can't handle the truth.
There'd be mass chaos.
Religions would collapse.
Governments would collapse.
So the government has decided,
we're not saying anything.
Does the existence of the Brookings Report
provide evidence that not only
does the United States have protocols and procedures
in place in the event of extraterrestrial contact
but that such protocols have deliberately been kept a secret
from the American public for nearly 60 years?
But if so, why?
I do not believe that government, essentially,
is negative, evil and harmful, deceptive or lying.
We should look back to 1938,
when Orson Welles did his famous radio program on Halloween night
called War of the Worlds,
wherein which, through an enactment,
New York was to be invaded.
People around the country listening to this radio program
were terrified.
The machines are close together now,
and we're ready to attack.
Planes circling, ready to strike.
Our government's learned from this.
People will panic.
Some people have thought that
it's important to-to prepare the public.
You know, I've always said I think
the American public can handle the truth.
The government would do well to be more open
about what it's done in the past,
what it learned in the past,
what it's doing today, uh, and what it'll do in the future.
But while the U.S. government does not acknowledge
having any official protocols for first contact,
it makes no secret of its ongoing efforts
to explore the possibilities of extraterrestrial communication.
Cape Canaveral, Florida.
September 5, 1977.
NASA launches the Voyager 1 probe.
Its mission is to journey to Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, and Neptune and send back important information.
But perhaps more interesting than the information
Voyager 1 was programmed to collect
was the information it was carrying with it.
The two Voyager spacecraft were each launched
in 1977 on a mission of exploration
of the outer solar system.
And both of them kept on going,
to leave the solar system, uh, forever.
They weren't coming back.
And as a result of this, NASA invited Carl
to put a message on both of the Voyager spacecraft.
As conceived by a team of experts
led by famed astronomer Carl Sagan,
Voyager's so-called Golden Record
was designed to send greetings from the people of planet Earth
to whatever form of alien life it might encounter
that had intelligence enough to decode it.
I'd been collaborating with Carl for about five years.
We shared a passion for this topic...
Extraterrestrial intelligence and how to communicate with it...
And I happened to be at the right place at the right time
when he was trying to form a small team
to actually make the message.
I was a design director on the project,
and my main role was designing,
with Frank Drake, the series of photographs
and diagrams that show what the Earth and human beings are like.
The Golden Record kick-started
this thought process, this approach to philosophy of,
how do we define who we are
if we came across an intelligent civilization?
How would we represent ourselves?
The Golden Record shows Earth on a good day.
Some of our best music,
a lot of pleasant-looking people saying hello.
No war, no poverty, no injustice.
And this was by design.
First of all, it's not obvious how you would show these things
to an extraterrestrial.
I mean, a starving baby evokes a huge emotional reaction from us.
Maybe a baby is supposed to look that way. They wouldn't know.
It seemed important to me,
in being asked to design this thing,
that it should tell a story.
And the story is, of course, our story.
It's a story of our planet, it's a story of life,
it's a story of humans, and it's a story of our future.
In terms of the protocols
that we would use in actually replying back
to a message that we got from an intelligent civilization,
different experts have different opinions.
Some people believe that we should try
and represent the best version of ourselves.
On the other end of the spectrum,
you could potentially upload the entire Internet,
along with all of our dark sides,
so that you could have a full and complete picture
of who we are as a species.
Does NASA's involvement in the design
and implementation of Carl Sagan's Golden Record
provide evidence of the government's belief
that intelligent life exists in the universe?
If so, is that belief the product
of mere scientific speculation, or a conviction
based on previous extraterrestrial encounters?
For the answer, ancient astronaut theorists point
to the government's long history
of trying to establish secret alien communications.
Washington, D.C.
March 24, 1961.
The Brookings Report, the first official government document
to suggest protocols for what to do
in the event of alien contact, is submitted
to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics
and entered into the Congressional Record.
But ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that those protocols weren't new,
but, in fact, had been in place
ever since President Harry Truman ordered an investigation
into the famed Roswell incident in 1947.
Truman, inside of his administration,
reached out to scientists,
reached out to military people, reached out to businessmen,
formed this group called Majestic 12... MJ-12...
To do research and report to him.
And no one outside is to know anything
about UFOs, E.T.s, crash retrievals,
bodies, any of it.
There is actually a document called
The Majestic 12 Special Operations Manual,
which actually describes
what a military officer or enlisted man should do
should he encounter a crashed UFO,
should he encounter an extraterrestrial being,
alive or dead, and how the body should be disposed of.
And it's a very, very detailed set of protocols,
basically for how to handle it if you run into E.T.
Aerospace engineer Dr. Robert Wood
was one of the first people to examine the MJ-12 documents.
It is his opinion, based in part
on the descriptions of spacecraft in the documents,
that the Special Operations Manual is genuine.
The Special Operations Manual is remarkable in several ways.
It gives detailed descriptions of four shapes of UFOs.
Another thing is that it talks
about extraterrestrial biological entities.
The Majestic 12 talks very frankly
about extraterrestrial biological entities,
and their protocols.
There is under Chapter Five, "Encounters..."
And that is tied
to what happened to Lonnie Zamora down in Socorro.
On April 24, 1964, there was a New Mexico police officer
in Socorro, New Mexico named Lonnie Zamora who noticed
what appeared to him to be some sort of wrecked vehicle
off the side of the road.
So he pulled his police car over
and he started to walk towards it.
When he got closer to the vehicle,
he realized that it was some sort of egg-shaped craft
with these four landing legs
that were stuck into the ground, and he saw two beings
who were in silver suits.
And the two beings went back inside the craft,
and the object took off and sped away.
And when another officer came back out to the site,
they went to where the craft had landed, and they discovered
four holes in the ground
where the landing legs had stuck into the dirt.
Lonnie Zamora's encounter made headlines in 1964.
Since then, further information
about the incident has become available online
from leaked government files.
Files, which, if genuine, corroborate the protocols
that are described in the MJ-12 documents.
In the Serpo documents, they talk
about the Ebens, as they were named, and arrangements
for them to actually land and have a diplomatic exchange
with U.S. government officials
at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
What's explained in the documents
is that the Zamora sighting is actually
the two emissaries who had got the coordinates wrong
and had actually landed in the wrong place.
Is it possible
that the United States government is not only aware of,
but possibly in contact with, extraterrestrial beings?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest
that the United Nations may even have an ambassador
to extraterrestrials.
September 2010.
News organizations across the globe report
that the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs intends
to draft a series of protocols on what to do when first contact
with an extraterrestrial civilization is officially made.
The story causes a sensation,
but then, after a few days,
the story mysteriously disappears.
When pressed for further information,
officials at the United Nations have refused to comment.
The United Nations announced
that it would create some protocols
for extraterrestrial contact,
but so far they have not given those to us.
Just because protocols have not been announced
doesn't mean that they don't exist.
I believe that these protocols are already established,
and, in fact, we are already in contact with extraterrestrials.
The United Nations have said,
"Do not come to us with questions like this
until there's an international consensus."
Well, there is no international consensus on this.
Imagine if aliens showed up here tomorrow
and said, "Take me to your leader,"
like you always see in the movies or hear in the stories.
Well, who would that be? A lot of people think,
"Oh, it's the Secretary General of the U.N."
Uh, well, maybe, maybe not.
What they would look at is
who has the largest industrial machine on the planet.
And I would say it would have to be
the president of the United States,
the president of Russia and of China.
They'd have to be there together.
But if intelligent beings
are technologically advanced enough to travel to Earth,
whose protocols will matter more... ours or theirs?
As we prepare for this worldwide reality
of extraterrestrial life being known here on planet Earth,
we have to see that the extraterrestrials
are gonna have different protocols than we would have
that will be far more sophisticated
than anything we can conceive.
And we will have to really follow their lead
in how we interact with them and other extraterrestrials
as we go into space ourselves.
Are these two worlds that are about to meet...
Are they compatible?
And I say yes because we come from out there.
Because in Native American culture, there are legends
of 13 inhabited worlds, planets out there,
and we are the youngest.
This world is called "the planet of the children."
And what does a child do?
I think children... they listen, they soak up the knowledge.
So I think it's time for us to look more at our ancient past,
look at the traditions,
and see and learn that we've never been alone.
As NASA eagerly prepares
to send astronauts to Mars,
it must face the fact that it will be humans
that will become the alien visitors to another planet.
And what will we do if we come face-to-face with living proof
that we are not alone?
Will we welcome them, or will they welcome us?
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