NARRATOR: A visionary scientist.
WILLIAM HENRY: He provided the greatest leap
in human history.
NARRATOR: A single-minded obsession.
ROBERT PEARLMAN: We wanted to go to space
because he wanted to go to space.
NARRATOR: And a mysterious past.
You have to wonder where this knowledge came from.
NARRATOR: He developed the means to put a man on the moon,
but was Wernher Von Braun's passion fueled
by his own ambition?
Or might he have been influenced by otherworldly beings?
DAVID WILCOCK: Wernher Von Braun was in touch with some sort
of extraterrestrial force
that is steering us even further out into space.
NARRATOR: Since the dawn of civilization,
mankind has credited its origins to gods
and other visitors from the stars.
What if it were true?
Did extraterrestrial beings
really help to shape our history?
And if so,
might aliens have influenced Wernher Von Braun?
NARRATOR: Huntsville, Alabama.
July 24, 1969.
A crowd of thousands gathers in Courthouse Square
to cheer on the triumphant return of Dr. Wernher Von Braun,
just hours after Apollo 11's Columbia Command Module
splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.
The United States had achieved
what many believed was impossible:
Putting a man on the moon.
The picture ran in newspapers around America
the following day,
celebrating the genius rocket engineer who was behind it all.
Von Braun is a titan.
You know, he's one of the major figures of the last century.
And he was way ahead of his time.
Von Braun adamantly believed
that humanity's future was in space.
He's the greatest voice we've had
in the history of the space program.
NARRATOR: Considered by NASA
to be the "Father of Rocket Science,"
Von Braun is credited with either inventing
or helping to develop many
of the most sophisticated aerial technologies that exist today,
like the supersonic anti-aircraft missile,
the ballistic missile,
the first American satellite,
and the first U.S. space vehicles,
including the enormous Saturn V rocket
that enabled man to reach the moon.
Without exaggeration, the Apollo program has been called
"the greatest achievement that mankind has ever accomplished."
Without Wernher Von Braun, we would have not reached the moon.
To date, the Saturn V is the most powerful rocket
that we've ever built.
NARRATOR: Von Braun's incredible engineering feats were matched
only by his all-consuming crusade to send man into space.
In the 1950s, when space travel seemed a fantasy,
Wernher Von Braun teamed up with Walt Disney
to convince a skeptical public
that putting man on the moon was not only possible,
but that it would happen in their lifetimes.
In these films,
watched by an estimated 42 million people,
Von Braun boldly predicted
not only how we would send men into space,
but also the use of protective suits,
lunar landing vehicles, orbiting space stations,
and even manned trips to Mars.
If we were to start today
on an organized and well-supported space program,
I believe a practical passenger rocket
could be built and tested within ten years.
NARRATOR: But who exactly was this engineering genius
with such extraordinary visions for the future?
Why did he believe so strongly
that man could and should travel into space?
And what did he expect to find when we got there?
Wernher Von Braun was born March 23, 1912,
in a small town in Eastern Prussia.
The second of three sons,
Wernher grew up a child of wealth and privilege.
But while he was born into an accomplished family,
Wernher's keen intellect and unusual passions stood out.
His father once said,
"I don't know where his talent comes from,"
and stated on more than one occasion
that he considered his son a mystery.
IMPEY: Wernher Von Braun was multitalented.
Both sides of his brain were working.
He could think about technical things
and imagine rocketry and space travel,
but he was an accomplished musician.
And these traits manifested very early.
I think his parents knew by the time he was four or five
that he was very special.
His mother gave him a telescope when he was young,
and he looked at the moon and said, "I want to go there."
I want to build the machine that will go to the moon."
And of course he did half a century later.
NARRATOR: Wernher Von Braun grew up in a time
when German science fiction authors focused
on science utopian novels
that often featured an idealized German engineer
who solves the world's problems through science and technology.
Movies such as Fritz Lang's Metropolis
and Woman in the Moon also stirred the public's imagination
and no doubt had a powerful influence on Von Braun.
For a young man growing up in the 1920s and '30s,
space travel was considered too fantastic and far-fetched
to ever be possible.
And although the Wright brothers had achieved
the first powered flight in 1903,
the horse and buggy was still
a widely used mode of transportation.
The achievement of putting a man on the moon
is something that was at the time really almost impossible
and almost unthinkable.
Wernher Von Braun was obsessed with going to the moon
and going to Mars from the time he was a little boy.
And that was his destiny.
NARRATOR: In his teens,
Von Braun wrote papers on orbital flight,
and by the incredibly young age of 20,
he was named the head of Germany's rocket program
by army artillery officer Captain Walter Dornberger.
Dornberger would later write in his 1952 book,
V-2, the Firing into Space,
that he was deeply impressed by the young Von Braun's energy,
shrewdness and astonishing theoretical knowledge.
IMPEY: When he worked towards one of his goals,
he would apply himself
and master a subject in very short order.
He'd been trained as an engineer,
and doing a PhD in physics is not trivial.
And he got his PhD at an age
when most German students were still undergraduates.
NARRATOR: But how is it that Wernher Von Braun...
Whose contemporaries included such scientific geniuses
as Nikola Tesla,
Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein...
Was so far ahead of everyone when it came to rocketry?
And what was behind his obsession
to travel to the stars?
Some ancient astronaut theorists believe
that the boy genius may have been guided
by otherworldly forces.
Maybe he drew his inspiration from science fiction.
Maybe it came from his... his own imagination and vision
of what the future should be.
Or maybe it was inspired by something extraterrestrial.
WILCOCK: Some sort of extraterrestrial contact
might have happened with Wernher Von Braun.
Something or someone might have reached him and saw
where we needed to go as a civilization,
and gave him the tools and the insights
that he needed to be able
to build our way out into space.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Some have suggested that people
like Albert Einstein, Tesla, that they've had
this extraterrestrial intervention;
That they have had access
to this abundance of knowledge.
And the question has arisen...
Did Wernher Von Braun? Was he also one of them?
Because the vision he had, the ideas
were incredible for their time.
NARRATOR: Might extraterrestrials
have chosen Wernher Von Braun
to propel mankind to the moon and beyond,
as some ancient astronaut theorists propose?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining Von Braun's connection
to a mysterious Nazi institution
known as the Ahnenerbe.
NARRATOR: In 1933, Adolf Hitler
rose to power and began consolidating.
Germany's military, political
and economic institutions under the control
of his Nazi Party apparatus.
For years, Wernher Von Braun avoided
becoming a member of the Nazi Party,
but on November 12, 1937,
he was commanded to join and did so.
To hear him tell it, he was, uh, had no choice.
That he... it was either do that
or, um, face the same fate
as everyone else who disobeyed the Nazis...
Certain death.
Von Braun didn't think the Nazi movement was the way to go,
but it was a means to an end to develop his rockets.
NARRATOR: In 1944,
with the help of additional funding
from the German government,
Von Braun launched the 45-foot,
27,000-pound A-4,
later rechristened the V-2,
or "Vengeance Weapon."
While Von Braun's first rocket only reached 1.4 miles,
the V-2 climbed to an altitude
of 108.5 miles,
and became the first man-made object
to ever reach space.
PEARLMAN: The V-2 rocket was a one-stage,
liquid-fueled rocket that was
not comparable to any other rocket at the time,
because there weren't other rockets at the time.
You had rockets in development.
What Von Braun was able to do with the V-2
was combine the theory with the practical application
and develop the first rocket ever
to be able to reach space.
NARRATOR: How was Von Braun able to advance.
Germany's rocket program so far
in just a few short years?
Was it due to a desperate nation
supplying him with massive amounts
of money and material?
Or could there be another reason?
On July 1, 1935,
Hitler's SS commander, Heinrich Himmler,
established Ahnenerbe...
An elite Nazi institute that purported
to research the cultural and archaeological history
of the Germans.
However, its true purpose proved far more bizarre.
BARA: Ahnenerbe was based on the idea that the Aryan race
was the most directly descended from ancient,
perhaps alien, gods.
CHILDRESS: Part of their job was to literally go
all over the world looking for special occult artifacts.
Things like the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail.
BARA: Von Braun became closely associated with them
through his association with the SS
and with Heinrich Himmler.
And one of the main reasons for that was that
they felt like rocketry was almost an arcane secret,
um, a sort of black magic that would
enable them to dominate the world.
NARRATOR: As World War II
broke out across Europe...
Ahnenerbe expanded its research
into secret weapons programs,
and Himmler tapped Von Braun as its technical director
at Germany's large-scale experimental research facility
at Peenemunde in Northwest Germany.
It was during these next several years that Von Braun
advanced the science of propulsion,
aerodynamics and rocket guidance systems
beyond what anyone had thought possible.
CHILDRESS: You have to ask yourself,
where would they have gotten
that kind of knowledge so quickly?
One of the possible reasons is that the Ahnenerbe,
with their researches,
had actually discovered
technology through
some of their expeditions
to find ancient relics,
and their search, really, for ancient technology.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Ahnenerbe
discovered artifacts that helped them
advance their weapons research?
Some ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the Nazis did,
in fact, recover something
not from the ancient world
but from an extraterrestrial one.
A multicolored orb of light was seen in the sky
in 1937 in Southwestern Poland.
And by all accounts, this was a UFO sighting.
But it's a lot more than that.
This orb actually crashed into the ground.
NARRATOR: According to the account,
when investigators reached the suspected crash site,
they found a strange disc-shaped object.
Nazi officials are said to have taken the damaged craft
to a nearby secure facility
where it was examined
by Germany's top aeronautical experts,
including Wernher Von Braun.
While no remains of any alleged UFOs survived the war,
German engineers
did develop a series of revolutionary aircraft,
including the first rocket-powered jet fighter,
the first stealth bomber,
and even antigravity-powered,
saucer-shaped vehicles.
From what we're able to glean today,
Nazi technology at the end of World War II
was so advanced that they had things
that are still science fiction today...
Antigravity...
beam weapons...
flying saucers...
flying triangles.
Things that are still kept secret today.
NARRATOR: In June 1945,
U.S. Army officials holding German scientists
reported that the Nazis were 25 years ahead
of the United States in rocketry.
You have to wonder where this knowledge came from
and also whether Von Braun...
Who was really the spearhead of all the Nazi rocket technology...
If he had also gotten information from other sources,
perhaps extraterrestrials,
that helped him advance so quickly
in rocket technology.
NARRATOR: Could the incredible advances
made by Von Braun's design team
have been the result of alien technologies
that were reverse-engineered?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and claim
the most compelling evidence isn't the amazing technology
achieved by the Nazis,
but the incredible advancements that came after the war
in America.
NARRATOR: Oberjoch, Germany, May 1945.
In the wake of Adolf Hitler's suicide
and the German surrender, Wernher Von Braun
and hundreds of other German rocket engineers
surrendered to the U.S. Army's Counterintelligence Corps.
But it was a move Von Braun had planned months before.
BARA: Von Braun and his colleagues made
a conscious decision to surrender to the Americans
because they felt they would have access to higher technology
and they would have a better opportunity to fulfill
his dream of going to the moon and going to Mars,
uh, to explore what was there.
NARRATOR: Although he was a known member of the SS,
Von Braun leveraged his position
as the head of Germany's V-2 rocket program
to convince U.S. authorities to bring him
and roughly 100 hand-picked members of his team to America.
Eventually, some 1,500 German scientists
and technicians would follow Von Braun to the U.S.
through a top secret program called Operation Paperclip.
Operation Paperclip was a, uh,
an executive-ordered, uh, private secret operation
to bring over Nazi scientists,
mostly Nazi rocket scientists and engineers, to the U.S.
to help build up a rocketry program for the United States.
Operation Paperclip was kept a secret for decades.
And you have to wonder whether it was this special knowledge,
perhaps extraterrestrial knowledge,
that these Nazi scientists had
that we needed so desperately for our own space program.
NARRATOR: In the fall of 1945, the U.S. Army assigned
the 33-year-old Von Braun and his German colleagues
to the White Sands Proving Ground missile test range
in New Mexico.
Since the 1940s,
White Sands has been the military's testing site
for cutting-edge developments in rocketry and space travel.
According to official records,
Von Braun's task was to help teach the Americans
how to rebuild and launch
captured V-2 rockets brought back from Germany.
But there are others who believe
Von Braun had another top secret job.
Former Army Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso,
in his book, The Day after Roswell,
claimed the facility also housed classified R & D projects,
including the study of extraterrestrial craft.
Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso served
in the U.S. military for many years,
and he claimed that he actually worked
on recovered alien technology,
including the crashed vehicle
that was recovered at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.
Now, there is a theory that alien technology from Roswell,
and maybe from other crashes, too,
was actually taken to the White Sands Proving Ground...
That's where Wernher Von Braun worked...
And that all this, uh, R & D that was going on at White Sands
was actually at least in part alien technology.
NARRATOR: Corso claimed
that these reverse-engineering efforts resulted
in today's integrated circuit chips,
fiber optics and lasers.
The sudden explosion of post-World War II technology
is unexplainable to many.
This is why they point to Wernher Von Braun and the Nazis
as the source of this technology.
NARRATOR: There are also claims
that a top secret Nazi superweapon called Die Glocke
ended up in the hands of the Americans.
Reportedly, "the Bell," as it came to be known,
was brought to the United States
in a secret deal with SS General Hans Kammler,
the same man behind the construction
of Mittelwerk and Peenemunde.
Die Glocke, or the Bell, is said to represent
the pinnacle of the Nazi SS wonder-weapons program.
It's a metallic bell, about nine feet in diameter,
with many mysterious properties.
Scientists who have looked at this
and the recollections of its appearance and its usage suggest
that it had antigravitational properties.
We have to legitimately consider
that the German scientists were at the root of all this
and that their transferred technology
is exactly what is now being used
in advanced so-called "alien reproduction vehicles,"
built by our own military industrial complex.
NARRATOR: It was rumored
that much of the Nazis' secret weaponry was hidden
at the Mittelwerk underground research facility.
In the 1990s,
German archaeologist and scientist Willi Kramer
determined that somehow 70 tons of material
that used to exist at Mittelwerk is now missing.
Is it possible that the missing material ended up in U.S. hands?
Perhaps further clues can be found by examining the story
of how Wernher Von Braun put a man on the moon.
The American public seemed to have an insatiable appetite
for science fiction.
It seemed that in the wake of the atomic bomb,
anything was possible.
Wernher Von Braun viewed this fixation as his opportunity
to get the public to share in his dream of space exploration
and initiated a plan
to turn science fiction into science fact.
In 1952, he captured the public's imagination
with an illustrated series of articles in Collier's magazine,
depicting life in space.
And it was two years later that Von Braun teamed up
with perhaps the only man just as passionate as him
at the notion of turning dreams into reality: Walt Disney.
Over the course of three films,
Von Braun used Disney's model and animation artists
to illustrate his vision for our future space program.
Here we have a scale drawing of the earth
with the moon 240,000 miles away.
This is the elliptical path
which our rocket ship will follow,
going out... and coming back.
We must aim the ship well ahead of the moon
so that they both arrive
at about the same point in space at the same time.
Even though we now have the theoretical knowledge
to make a trip to the moon,
it will be many years yet before our plans can fully materialize.
Wernher Von Braun was a mixture
of scientist, engineer and visionary.
Von Braun was that rare combination,
and perhaps the mystic visionary in him lifted his work
above the common sphere
of scientific and engineering achievement.
NARRATOR: October 4, 1957.
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
The Soviet Union shocks the world
when they launch Sputnik into Earth's orbit
and beat the United States at becoming the first country
to send a man-made object into space.
PEARLMAN: The Soviet Union had shocked the United States
by putting the first man-made satellite into space.
Sputnik flying overhead not only was a scary proposition,
because if they could put a satellite above us,
why couldn't they put a nuclear missile above us?
It was also, uh, sort of a wake-up call,
because most people considered the Russians
to be behind us technologically.
NARRATOR: America's interest in space shifted into high gear,
and over the next several years,
Wernher Von Braun led the design team
that sent the first American satellite into space
and the first man into orbit...
all aboard rockets based on
Von Braun's original V-2 designs.
MAN: Three, two, one...
NARRATOR: But as impressive as these feats were,
the next step man would take
would be far greater than any that had come before.
On July 20, 1969,
57-year-old Wernher Von Braun watched
from inside Mission Control as a human being,
for the first time in history,
stepped foot on a celestial body other than Earth.
CHARLIE DUKE: We copy you down, Eagle.
NEIL ARMSTRONG: Tranquility Base here.
The Eagle has landed.
That's one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind.
NARRATOR: Wernher Von Braun's boyhood dream,
which so many had called an impossible feat,
had become a reality.
(horse whinnies)
POPE: We effectively went from horse and buggy
to landing people on the moon in 60 years.
It's an exponential increase in technology.
It's an absolute explosion.
It's phenomenal that we came so far so fast.
IMPEY: Getting to the moon involves
extremely precise orbital calculations
and the possibility of missing the moon,
of not capturing into an orbit,
is a matter of a tiny fraction of a degree in the trajectory
and a small percentage of the speed coming in.
So the ability to adjust the orbit in real time
and adjust those calculations...
It was a stunning achievement.
NARRATOR: But how did Von Braun know
all the specific information needed to calculate
not only how to send man to the moon
but to bring him back to Earth?
Where did he get data such as
the exact gravitational pull of the moon,
the speed needed to break Earth's orbit,
or the effects of space radiation on the ship?
BUZZ ALDRIN: We're now in the approach phase.
Everything looking good.
NARRATOR: And how did Von Braun know the answers
15 years earlier,
when he appeared in Walt Disney's.
"Man In Space" programs?
I consider it to be entirely possible
that the endowment of extraterrestrial technology
that fell into the hands of guys like Wernher Von Braun
was, in fact, a key element
that allowed us to make technological leaps forward
much faster than we ever would have been able to do
if we were without the benefit
of this advanced technology.
POPE: Wernher Von Braun wanted to go further
than just send people to the moon and bring them back.
Ultimately he was talking about colonies in space.
Maybe it was inspired by something extraterrestrial.
NARRATOR: Could it be that Von Braun was not only guided
by an alien intelligence,
but that the incredible achievement of reaching the moon
really was made possible
with the help of extraterrestrial technology?
Some ancient astronaut theorists say
that not only is this the case,
but there is evidence
that NASA encountered more on the moon
than they have revealed.
Guidance recommendation, uh, is PGNS,
and you're cleared for takeoff.
NARRATOR: July 21, 1969.
Approximately 21½ hours after landing on the moon,
the Lunar Module Eagle lifts off
to rejoin the Command Module Columbia
and begin the return to Earth.
The astronauts take with them
47.5 pounds of lunar surface material,
and they leave some items behind as well,
like scientific instruments,
an American flag,
and a small plaque commemorating the Apollo 11 mission.
But perhaps most curious of the items left on the moon
was a small bag containing
a gold replica of an olive branch
and a silicon disk
with recorded messages of peace and goodwill
from 73 world leaders.
Why were these symbolic messages sent up into space?
Some ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the mastermind
behind the Apollo program... Wernher Von Braun...
Was expecting to find more on the moon
than NASA wanted the public to know.
Wernher Von Braun famously said
that the next world war will be the war against the ETs.
His remarks were hugely controversial.
Some people have said that he was simply saying
there can't be another world war
now that we've got atomic weapons.
Other people have speculated that he knew something
and he was hinting at some terrible truth.
Another story relates that, uh, Von Braun claimed
that we had help from "them"
to get us into space.
If anybody knew about the extraterrestrials,
it would've been a guy like Wernher Von Braun.
NARRATOR: Some ancient astronaut theorists propose that not only
did alien beings have a hand in man reaching the moon,
but that once there, we discovered further evidence
that we are not alone.
And they claim the strongest proof can be found
by examining our last manned trip to the moon:
The Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
We definitely weren't told everything,
and there's monkey business played with the moon landings,
of course, as far as what we know about them.
(indistinct radio chatter)
BARA: Apollo 17 was, in fact, a technology salvaging mission.
HARRISON SCHMITT: Yeah, looks like there's been
a geologist here before us.
BARA: Some of it has to do with the actual landing site itself.
There were several mountains in the area
that don't really look like mountains.
One of them is very hexagonal-looking.
And they bear a striking resemblance
to actual artificial structures.
The astronauts went directly for this hexagonal mountain.
They parked on the hill above it
and then they got out of the lunar rover.
What's interesting is that, for the next 20 or 30 minutes,
NASA has control of the camera on the rover,
and they point it at everything
except what the astronauts are doing.
They had plenty of time to rappel down
inside of this V-shaped depression.
- JOHN YOUNG: Okay, let's go on back. - DUKE: I am.
BARA: It's really interesting that we don't see
any of the astronauts at all
until they come back to the lunar rover.
(indistinct radio transmission)
There's no question that the mystery would be
what they were looking for, what they found,
could it possibly have been ancient alien technology?
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that even more compelling than the hexagonal formation
is what appears at another spot that was filmed:
The Shorty Crater.
SCHMITT: There is orange soil!
CERNAN: Well, don't move it until I see it.
SCHMITT: It's all over!
Orange!
BARA: In Shorty Crater, you can see orange soil
that was discovered at the landing site.
And the reason the soil was orange was because
it had a great deal of oxygen in it,
which was kind of a surprise.
But the biggest surprise
is, if you actually look in the crater,
what you see are objects that at first
might to the naked eye appear to be rocks,
but in fact, as you study it with an engineer's eye,
what you see is mechanisms.
And right in the middle of it,
there's a very interesting object
that as you zoom up on it, it begins to look
more and more like a human head.
NARRATOR: Mike BARA
and fellow researcher Richard Hoagland
obtained early generation negatives from Shorty Crater,
and upon enhancing the colors present in the film,
found that the object appears metallic.
BARA: The most intriguing thing is that, on the upper part
of the mouth, there was a bright, distinct
red stripe painted across it.
And it glowed and shone
as if it were metallic.
You then come to the realization
that what you're probably looking at
is the head of a humanoid-appearing robot.
The leftovers of an explosion that damaged and destroyed
a bunch of mechanical stuff.
(indistinct radio transmission)
NARRATOR: Did NASA really recover
alien artifacts from the moon?
Curiously, on June 30, 1972...
Just 5 months before the Apollo 17 mission...
Wernher Von Braun retired from NASA,
frustrated over the direction the Apollo program was headed.
However, he continued his efforts
to return to space,
turning to his wealthy and high-powered friends for help.
But what did he tell them?
Is it possible that there exists
a secret space program?
January 22, 2015.
Officials with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
announce plans
for the Mars Helicopter...
A drone that will triple the distance
a rover can explore.
Meanwhile, the privatization of space exploration
has created a new $300 billion industry
that may soon surpass the advancements of NASA.
And there are some
ancient astronaut theorists who believe
that this private space industry
is the brainchild of Wernher Von Braun.
Wernher Von Braun had the ear of seven American presidents,
the top scientists of the world
and many of the world's industrial leaders.
It's natural that you might find the links
to the private groups that have the resources,
the means and the dedication
to develop their own advanced technology
independent of the governments, independent of the-the public,
the-the people of the world.
NARRATOR: After retiring from NASA in 1972,
Wernher Von Braun was invited
to meetings of the Bohemian Club...
A secretive group of high-powered men
famous for their rustic retreats.
But why?
What went on there?
It is rumored that some members of the Bohemian Club
also belonged to private groups called "breakaway civilizations"
that have developed advanced technologies
independent of world governments.
WILCOCK: I've had insiders that have told me
that they worked in this space program,
that we do have a breakaway civilization
that is extremely advanced.
That we already have diplomatic relationships
with a variety of extraterrestrial
species and cultures.
NARRATOR: Is it possible Von Braun knew
of the existence of extraterrestrials?
Might his extraordinary efforts to reach space
have been motivated by a desire
to come in contact with otherworldly beings?
Could it have been part of his plan all along
for us to have a private space industry
that operated in secret?
For the last 60-some years,
we've developed no new propulsion technologies at all.
And that seems very, very unlikely.
So the question becomes, at what point
did NASA actually develop the next level
of propulsion technology and maybe take it secret?
NARRATOR: On June 16, 1977,
after a four-year-long battle with cancer,
65-year-old Wernher Von Braun died.
His gravestone contains no epitaph,
simply a reference to Psalms 19:1...
A biblical passage that reads.
"The heavens declare the glory of God;
The skies proclaim the work of his hands."
Wernher Von Braun's bold predictions
that we would put a man on the moon,
explore Mars
and build a space station
have all come to pass.
But was this incredible visionary
perhaps preparing us for something even greater?
On January 20, 2015,
President Barack Obama announced
in his State of the Union address
that the next step for the United States space program
is a manned mission to Mars.
Last month, we launched a new spacecraft
as part of a re-energized space program
that will send American astronauts to Mars.
NARRATOR: Photographs taken on Mars have revealed
mysterious formations that some have interpreted
as man-made structures like pyramids,
the outline of a sphinx,
and even a carving of what appears to be
a human-like face.
Might life exist on the Red Planet?
And could it be
that NASA's next mission isn't to travel there
but to disclose the fact
that we have been there before?
There's no question when you look at the surface of Mars
that there are ruined artificial structures there.
There's no question when you look at photographs of the moon
that there are ruined artificial structures there.
And it seems very unlikely that it was just us,
that it was human beings that built this.
The question becomes, did NASA go to different places
like the moon and Mars and find things
that we would all like to know about
but are being hidden from us?
WILCOCK: What if we actually
are on the moon
and it's all classified?
What if there is a whole secret infrastructure
and that there is already a vast amount
of colonization of the moon, of Mars,
and of other moons in our solar system as well?
Let's all hope that the time is coming soon
where we will get disclosure,
where the walls of secrecy will finally break down,
and we will be told the truth.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the greatest rocket scientist
the world has ever known
found his inspiration not on our world but another?
Could Wernher Von Braun have been chosen
to propel mankind into space?
And might he have been responsible
for much more than we are even aware of?
Perhaps one day soon,
we will realize Von Braun's full vision for space travel
and finally come face-to-face with our alien ancestors.