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NARRATOR: Extraordinary
accounts of missing time.
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BRUCE GERNON:
Once the aircraft
penetrated the tunnel,
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time started changing instantly.
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It only took three minutes
and 20 seconds
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to fly a hundred miles.
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NARRATOR:
Otherworldly events
that seem to alter reality.
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JOHN BURROUGHS:
It seemed like everything
was going in slow motion,
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like everything
was slowing down.
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Sightings of strange craft
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changing location
instantaneously.
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
These vehicles are able
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to pop in and pop out
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of either time
or another dimension.
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NARRATOR:
Could extraterrestrials
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have mastered the ability
to travel through time?
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Is Earth being visited not only
by entities from other planets
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but also from the future,
or even the distant past?
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Perhaps an alien civilization
in outer space,
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thousands of years
more advanced than us,
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may be able to time travel.
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NARRATOR:
There is a doorway
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in the universe.
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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
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It demands
we question everything
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we have ever been taught.
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The evidence is all around us.
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The future is
right before our eyes.
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We are not alone.
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We have never been alone.
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NARRATOR:
Mount Pion, Turkey.
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Here, where the ancient Greek
city of Ephesus once stood,
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lie the ruins
of a religious site
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known as the grotto
of the Seven Sleepers.
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The grotto is thought
to be the location
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where, many centuries ago,
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a group of seven men
experienced a shift in time.
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In the Christian
and Islamic story
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of the Seven Sleepers
of Ephesus,
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we learn the amazing story
of seven warriors
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who professed Christianity
in 250 AD,
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when it was just beginning
to emerge as a new religion.
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The Roman emperor offered
these warriors an opportunity
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to recant and to disavow
their Christianity.
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Instead, they decide
to sell all their possessions
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and go into a cave,
and in response,
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the-the emperor decides
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to seal this cave
with the Sleepers inside of it.
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Several hundred years go by,
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and a shepherd
chances upon this cave.
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(bleating)
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And he breaks down the wall,
and the seven people
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inside of the cave have been
sleeping for hundreds of years,
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and it's now 300 years later.
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And they're still alive,
these Seven Sleepers.
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These Sleepers
then go into Ephesus...
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...and nothing looks the same.
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Something they noticed
is that there are
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Christian crosses everywhere,
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because by now,
Christianity has taken over.
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AMIR HUSSAIN: With the Seven
Sleepers of Ephesus you think,
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"Okay, is it that there's
some miracle here,"
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or have they been in a place
where the time line,
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you know, has-has shifted,
and so,
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what seems 300 years to them
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has been a much
shorter amount of time.
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NARRATOR:
While many scholars
regard this story as fictional,
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millions of Christians
and Muslims believe
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a true miracle took place,
and that these seven warriors
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were transported
into the future.
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In fact, hundreds of graves
have been found at the grotto
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dating back
to the fifth century,
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along with inscriptions
indicating
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that people were buried there
because it was considered
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a location of great power.
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Today, it remains
a popular pilgrimage site,
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serving as a testament
to humankind's preoccupation
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with one of the most significant
and least understood forces
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in the universe: time.
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What is time?
That's a great question.
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It's a fundamental question.
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We all normally live
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along the straight line of time,
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from the past, present,
to the future.
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But the question is,
is there a way around that,
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a way to travel through time?
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JONATHAN YOUNG:
Time is important to us.
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The passage of time
is an item of grief
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that we all know is universal.
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We have a kind of longing
to defeat time.
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HENRY:
Why has time travel
stuck around for so long
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in human consciousness?
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I think this idea that you can
go into the ancient past
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or travel into the future
is the ultimate trip.
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NARRATOR:
The notion of breaking free from
the seemingly inescapable bonds
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of time has existed in the human
imagination for centuries.
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But modern concepts of time
travel are largely credited
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to science fiction author
H.G. Wells,
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who, in his 1895 book
The Time Machine, speculated
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as to how time travel might
be scientifically possible.
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MICHIO KAKU: H.G. Wells
began to say to himself,
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"If we can move in space,
why can't we move in time?
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And that's the beginning
of his novel The Time Machine.
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H.G. Wells said it takes
three coordinates
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to locate an object in space.
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Time, therefore,
is the fourth dimension.
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We need four coordinates
to identify
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any event in our universe.
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ANDREW COLLINS:
H.G. Wells talked about
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the idea that space and time
were somehow linked together.
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And the protagonist of the book
was able to go, at will,
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any time into the future
or any time into the past,
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to actually experience
and see what was going on.
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NARRATOR:
Could humankind one day
be able to travel back in time
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or even into the future?
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Incredibly, just a decade
after the publication
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of The Time Machine,
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Albert Einstein proposed
a similar vision of time travel.
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HUGH NEWMAN:
H.G. Wells, in 1895,
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mentioned the idea of time
and space being connected.
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Now, this is interesting,
because Albert Einstein
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came up with
the theory of relativity,
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where he also proposed that
time and space are connected.
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Time used to be thought of
in Newtonian classical physics
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as something absolute.
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It didn't change,
it was the same
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for everybody everywhere.
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Einstein came along in 1905,
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published a paper
on special relativity,
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and demonstrated
that time's actually relative.
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Now, in Einstein's theory,
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space and time
are linked to each other.
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That's why it's called
spacetime.
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Whatever you do to space
also happens to time.
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A rotating black hole
can cause a twisting of space.
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Time is linked to space.
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So if I'm twisting space,
I can twist time.
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Mathematically,
this has been shown.
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I can travel from the future
back into the past.
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We haven't been able
to do it yet experimentally,
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but it's a real part
of Einstein's
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general theory of relativity.
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NARRATOR:
Is it possible that spacetime
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can be manipulated
to travel into the past?
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And if so,
how close is modern science
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to achieving
such an incredible feat?
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The University
of Connecticut, 2021.
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Theoretical physicist
and professor Dr. Ronald Mallett
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works closely with a team
of researchers on a project
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to realize his lifelong dream:
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the creation of a time machine.
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By using a mechanism
called a ring laser,
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Dr. Mallett believes that he can
manipulate the fabric of space
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and time to create a door
that can open to the past.
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MALLETT:
What I did was I solved
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Einstein's gravitational
field equations,
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and I was able to show
that a circulating beam
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of laser light will cause
a twisting of space.
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There is a device,
it's called a ring laser.
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All it is is a device
that causes light
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to move around in a loop.
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You can get it to do that
in a number of different ways.
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Bouncing it off mirrors,
for example.
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And I was able to show
that a circulating beam
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of laser light will cause
a twisting of space.
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What I was able to show further
is that if this twisting
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of space was strong enough,
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it could lead to time
being twisted into a loop.
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And these loops in time
could allow for the possibility
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of time travel in the past.
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This is all anchored
in Einstein's
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general theory of relativity.
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NARRATOR:
While Dr. Mallett's time machine
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may be theoretically sound,
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one major hurdle
stands in his way:
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harnessing massive amounts
of energy.
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MICHAEL DENNIN:
The real constraint
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with a time machine
at the moment
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is the energy involved,
because you have to bend
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the dimension that's time.
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KAKU:
The energy at which
you can create
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a gateway through space and time
is called the Planck energy.
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The Planck energy
is a quadrillion times
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more powerful than
our most powerful machine,
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the Large Hadron Collider.
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We're talking about
the energy of a star.
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Perhaps an alien civilization
in outer space,
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thousands of years
more advanced than us,
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may be able to access
the Planck energy.
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That cannot be ruled out.
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NARRATOR:
If extraterrestrial
civilizations
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have the technology to traverse
the vast distances of space,
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as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,
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might they have also
mastered the ability
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to travel through time?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found
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by examining incredible stories
of time travel
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found in some of the earliest
texts ever written.
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NARRATOR:
After a record-breaking 340 days
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abord the International
Space Station,
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astronaut Scott Kelly returns to
the NASA Johnson Space Center.
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The mission was designed
to help researchers
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understand the effects
of long-term spaceflight
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on the human body.
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Scott's identical twin brother
and former astronaut Mark Kelly
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remained on Earth to serve
as the control subject.
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While Scott was in space,
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his immune system
was more active,
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his vision deteriorated
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and he lost more bone mass
compared to Mark.
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But perhaps
the most significant difference
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was that for Scott,
time had slowed down.
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When they measured the aging
acceleration of Scott Kelly
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and Mark Kelly, the twins,
it turns out
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that Scott was 0.5 milliseconds
younger than Mark.
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And so, what's going on here?
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TRAVIS TAYLOR:
So, that actually fits
with time dilation.
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It's a phenomenon that
we have observed to be real,
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that the closer you go
to the speed of light,
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the more time
slows down for you.
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KAKU:
According to Einstein's theory
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of special relativity,
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the faster you move,
the slower time gets.
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So, if you have a telescope
and could look inside
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a rocket ship speeding
near the speed of light,
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everyone inside that rocket
would be frozen,
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moving at a different rate
in time.
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Given that the space station
orbits around the planet Earth
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at about 17,500 miles per hour,
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you can actually calculate
how slow time must be
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on the space station.
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And so, we can actually measure
this effect in the laboratory.
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MALLETT:
Imagine, in the future,
when we have rockets that can go
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close to the speed of light.
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They could find that days,
maybe years had passed
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for the people
on board the rocket.
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But when they come back,
they would find out
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that decades had passed
here on the Earth.
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They could come back and find
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that they are younger
than their children.
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Time travel
to the future is real.
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We've seen the baby steps of it.
But it has happened.
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NARRATOR:
If space travel
has revealed to humankind
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the possibilities that exist
for manipulating time,
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is it possible that somewhere
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in the vast expanse
of the universe,
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other intelligent beings
have advanced to the point
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where they are able to move
through time as easily as space?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe evidence can be found
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in ancient texts
that our ancestors
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may have already witnessed
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or even experienced
the bending of time.
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YOUNG: There's this
wonderful book of stories,
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an epic in Hindu culture,
the Mahabharata,
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written in the third century
before the Common Era,
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but this was writing down
oral traditions
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that were much,
much older than that.
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And one of the tales
is when King Raivata
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goes up into the heavens
and meets God,
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the great creator god
Brahma himself.
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TSOUKALOS:
King Raivata was actually taken
into the heavens in a chariot
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to visit this gigantic palace
that was in the celestial realm.
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And when King Raivata came back,
much to his surprise,
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he did not recognize
a single person
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that was in his neighborhood.
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In fact, it turns out
that he had returned
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hundreds of years later.
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Now, how is such
a thing even possible?
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CHILDRESS:
Here we have
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what is perhaps the first story
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of time dilation,
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where someone has
gone up into space,
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in, say, a spaceship,
and all this time has passed.
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Which is exactly what Einstein
had talked about in 1905.
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Only, this is a story
from thousands of years ago.
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NARRATOR:
Could King Raivata's experience
be a historical account
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of a time dilation event
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that occurred
thousands of years ago?
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For ancient astronaut theorists,
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this possibility
is made stronger
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when considering the fact
that similar stories
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were told in other parts
of the world--
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like in Egypt,
where ancient hieroglyphs
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describe a celestial craft
called the solar barge of Ra.
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TSOUKALOS:
There are many references
in ancient Egypt
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about Ra's solar barge,
which was this vehicle
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that they described
that they saw cross the sky.
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This solar barge is also known
as the Ship of a Million Years.
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NARRATOR:
According to an ancient document
known as the Turin King List,
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which contains a record
of all Egyptian rulers
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up until 1300 BC,
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the earliest pharaohs
lived for hundreds
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or even thousands of years.
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These were the pharaohs
who were said to have journeyed
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to the stars
on the solar barge of Ra.
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HUSSAIN: You look
at some of these records
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from the Egyptians
and you think,
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well, okay,
if there is this phenomenon
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of time dilation, if these
pharaohs really are travelling
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on craft at very high speeds,
then when they come back,
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they're still young,
the Earth has aged tremendously,
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and so, is that part of it?
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Is that how you have pharaohs
that lived hundreds of years?
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You see this effect
that we now call time dilation
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in various ancient cultures.
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TSOUKALOS:
There is an artifact
at the Ashmolean Museum
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in Oxford, England
that is called
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the WB44 Kings List
of ancient Sumeria.
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It lists the exact
reigning periods
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of all the kings
of ancient Sumeria.
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The total is 266,000 years,
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and there are
crazy reigning periods
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that are recorded
very specifically,
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and I think they knew perfectly
well how to record time.
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HUSSAIN:
You have these figures
in the Bible
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that live for hundreds
of-of years.
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The oldest figure
in the Bible is Methuselah,
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the grandfather of Noah,
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and he dies, the Bible tells us,
the age of 969.
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NARRATOR:
According to the Hebrew Bible,
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Methuselah's father Enoch
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left the Earth
in a fiery chariot,
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and was 365 years old
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when God chose for him
to remain in the heavenly realm.
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All other pre-flood Patriarchs
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are recorded as living
for more than 700 years.
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CHILDRESS:
Certainly one way
that they would be able to have
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these incredibly extended
lives would be
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that they are traveling
through space
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and coming back and therefore,
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400, 900 years can go by,
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and-and t-that's essentially
their age on Earth.
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TSOUKALOS:
These concepts
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should not be described
by our ancestors
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because it should have exceeded
their knowledge at the time,
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but the fact
that multiple stories exist
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where someone wakes up
or gets returned
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hundreds of years
after certain events...
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that's strange.
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NARRATOR:
Could these stories
be historical accounts
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of ancient people
experiencing time dilation
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after traveling
aboard alien spacecraft?
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Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,
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and suggest other accounts,
both ancient and modern,
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may reveal
that extraterrestrials
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have the ability
to manipulate time
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in even more extraordinary ways.
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NARRATOR:
Royal Air Force Wing Commander
Sir Robert Victor Goddard
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is dispatched to inspect
an old, disused airfield
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near Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Sir Robert Victor Goddard
was flying over an airfield
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to survey and see
if the airfield could be used
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in the future,
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and while he's flying over it,
he noticed there's cracks
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in the airfield
and there's grass growing up
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and cows are eating
the grass and so on.
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He's flying home
and he gets kind of lost,
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or turned around a bit
in a storm,
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so he decides to fly back to
where he was to get a bearing.
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On the return journey,
he encountered very strange, uh,
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yellow and brown clouds.
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Almost like he entered into some
kind of otherworldly portal.
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And he came out of there
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and found himself
in bright sunlight.
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And going over
the same airfield,
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everything was renovated.
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And there were aircraft
out there on the tarmac.
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But they were painted yellow.
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And there were people tending
these aircraft dressed in blue.
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NARRATOR:
When Goddard landed
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and told his colleagues
what he saw,
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they insisted
it was not possible,
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since RAF planes were
painted silver at that time
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and mechanics' uniforms
were tan-colored.
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However, just a few years later,
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the RAF changed the color
of both their training planes
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and mechanics uniforms,
which Goddard witnessed
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when he flew over
Drem airfield again in 1939.
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He's making
another flight and realizes,
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"There are the planes, at Drem.
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"They are painting them yellow.
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The people have on
blue uniforms."
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It is exactly
what he remembered seeing
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when he came out
from beyond this yellow cloud
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four years before in 1935.
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COLLINS:
Some people have suggested
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that Victor Goddard's experience
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could be extraterrestrial
in nature, and that, just maybe,
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he was thrust through time
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by a yellow and brown cloud
that he encountered.
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There are many examples
of these weird clouds
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being encountered
in different parts of the world.
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NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut
theorists propose
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that an alien civilization
advanced enough
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to achieve interstellar travel
may also possess the technology
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to create portals through time.
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And they suggest further
evidence that such gateways
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have been established
here on Earth can be found
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by examining
the extraordinary events
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that have occurred
in the Bermuda Triangle.
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At 3:00 in the afternoon,
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pilot Bruce Gernon
departs from Andros Island
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bound for Palm Beach, Florida,
just north of Miami.
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It's a route that he's flown
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many times before
without incident,
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but this flight
will be unlike any other.
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Since I've been flying
for 47 years now, uh...
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I've had a lot of flights
in that area.
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But this experience
I'll never forget.
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It all started a hundred miles
east of Miami
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when I found myself surrounded
by this strange storm.
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Time started changing instantly.
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And I believe I actually got to
see the fabric of time itself
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as I watched the tunnel rotate.
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When I reached the other end,
the tunnel collapsed.
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And I reached the shoreline
of Miami Beach.
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It only took three minutes
and 20 seconds
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to fly a hundred miles.
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I should have been able to fly
only ten miles, approximately.
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Not 100 miles.
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HENRY: I think that what
he must have experienced
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is perhaps some kind
of a time shift,
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or he entered
into an anomalous vortex
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that perhaps was
some kind of a time portal.
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We don't know, but it's a very
curious example of time travel.
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NARRATOR:
Could it be
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that the route
Bruce Gernon traveled
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led him into
a portal through time?
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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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this incredible possibility
is even more intriguing
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because of the area where it
happened, the Bermuda Triangle.
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The Bermuda Triangle is really
located off of, uh, Florida.
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The northern point of it
is the island of Bermuda.
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It then goes down to,
essentially, southern Florida,
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and then out into The Bahamas.
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And this is an area
that has historically
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had strange phenomenon.
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NARRATOR:
While Gernon was
fortunate enough
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to have survived
his harrowing experience,
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many ships and aircraft
traveling through this region
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have disappeared
without a trace.
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In one extraordinary case
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that occurred
on December 5, 1945,
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five Navy Avenger
torpedo bombers,
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known as Flight 19, all went
missing at the same time.
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All five of their compasses
were not working correctly,
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and they had
two navigational instruments
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that they could use,
and they were not
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-working properly, either.
-(alarm buzzing)
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NARRATOR:
The planes
disappeared from radar,
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and their last communication
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consisted of nothing
but eerie static.
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(radio static)
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The Navy immediately sent
a team to search
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for the missing bombers, but
they never recovered any debris.
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Is it possible
that the Bermuda Triangle
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is subject to portals
or vortexes
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that create these mysteries?
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What we do know
is that it is a place
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of intensive
electromagnetic activity,
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and this is something
that we can tell
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from the fact that
so many aircraft and ships
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experience problems
with their instrumentation.
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NARRATOR:
Might the Bermuda Triangle
be an electromagnetic hot spot
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where portals
capable of manipulating time
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open and close?
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Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,
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and they believe that
these portals may help explain
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some of the strange,
otherworldly activity
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reported in the area.
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Many UFO sightings
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and m-more modern
UAP, uh, videos
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have been released show unusual
flight dynamics and capabilities
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of these... whatever they are.
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Well, it may be
they're creating portals,
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in our universe
and in our time and our space,
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that they can move
in and out of, uh, at will.
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There's no reason
to, uh, say they can't
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until we know what they are.
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NARRATOR:
Is it possible that visitors
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from other worlds
are utilizing portals
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in the Bermuda Triangle
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to travel through time
and space?
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And if so, do such portals
already exist naturally,
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or are they being created
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with some type
of extraterrestrial technology?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
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by examining the account
of a UFO witness who claims
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to have received
a message from the future.
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NARRATOR:
In Suffolk County, England,
there is a remote forest
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in the village of Rendlesham
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that has become famous
for being the site
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of one of the most extraordinary
UFO encounters ever reported.
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And some of those
who experienced it
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believe this incident
also involved time travel.
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The event occurred
on December 26, 1980.
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00:27:25,667 --> 00:27:28,083
Airman John Burroughs
was performing
497
00:27:28,208 --> 00:27:31,375
a routine security check
at a U.S. Air Force base
498
00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:32,833
when he received orders
499
00:27:32,958 --> 00:27:36,250
to investigate
a possible downed aircraft.
500
00:27:36,375 --> 00:27:38,250
BURROUGHS:
My supervisor called me
on the radio and asked
501
00:27:38,375 --> 00:27:41,167
to meet up with him
so we could check the east gate.
502
00:27:41,292 --> 00:27:43,167
We're driving down the road
leading to the east gate
503
00:27:43,250 --> 00:27:45,875
to check on it
when all of a sudden he saw
504
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,375
some strange lights
in the forest.
505
00:27:49,458 --> 00:27:50,667
So I decided we'll call it in
506
00:27:50,792 --> 00:27:53,000
and let them know
something strange was going on.
507
00:27:53,125 --> 00:27:55,833
They decided to send one
of the security units down.
508
00:27:55,958 --> 00:27:58,083
So it was Sergeant Penniston.
509
00:27:58,208 --> 00:28:00,167
He got down there and he saw
the same strange lights
510
00:28:00,292 --> 00:28:01,375
that we were seeing.
511
00:28:03,042 --> 00:28:04,500
JAMES PENNISTON:
So I could see
all these multiple
512
00:28:04,667 --> 00:28:06,333
color lights
and things like that.
513
00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:08,458
And the air felt different.
514
00:28:08,542 --> 00:28:11,917
I don't know how
to really explain that.
515
00:28:12,042 --> 00:28:14,917
But it did feel like
there was electricity
516
00:28:15,042 --> 00:28:16,667
on our skin and hair and stuff.
517
00:28:16,750 --> 00:28:19,708
But that progressively got worse
518
00:28:19,875 --> 00:28:21,208
the closer we got
to the tree line.
519
00:28:21,375 --> 00:28:23,167
And it got more intense.
520
00:28:23,333 --> 00:28:27,667
BURROUGHS:
There seemed to be, like, an
electricity-charged atmosphere,
521
00:28:27,750 --> 00:28:29,583
and then, also,
there were points where there--
522
00:28:29,708 --> 00:28:31,958
it seemed like everything
was going in slow motion.
523
00:28:32,083 --> 00:28:35,000
NARRATOR:
As the servicemen approached
the strange lights,
524
00:28:35,125 --> 00:28:38,750
Sergeant Penniston
reportedly saw a large craft
525
00:28:38,875 --> 00:28:40,875
just beyond the tree line.
526
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,875
PENNISTON:
The craft was triangular
in shape,
527
00:28:43,042 --> 00:28:45,583
measuring about
six to seven feet high,
528
00:28:45,708 --> 00:28:47,875
black in color.
529
00:28:48,042 --> 00:28:50,000
I had come around
to the far side of the craft,
530
00:28:50,125 --> 00:28:51,750
and that's when I noticed
that there was,
531
00:28:51,875 --> 00:28:53,500
you know,
inscription on the side.
532
00:28:53,625 --> 00:28:55,333
You know, it is about
three feet long,
533
00:28:55,458 --> 00:28:58,167
maybe six inches high, um,
534
00:28:58,292 --> 00:29:01,750
and, uh, so I'm expecting
to find, I don't know,
535
00:29:01,875 --> 00:29:04,292
some kind of prototype stuff,
uh, USAF.
536
00:29:04,375 --> 00:29:06,250
I'm-I'm looking
for something very familiar.
537
00:29:08,417 --> 00:29:09,833
Instead of something familiar,
538
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,458
I see these
pictorial-type glyphs.
539
00:29:12,583 --> 00:29:15,500
And got running my hand
over the side of the craft.
540
00:29:15,625 --> 00:29:17,333
I don't know
how to explain this.
541
00:29:17,500 --> 00:29:20,417
It's like someone
was holding a picture up, okay?
542
00:29:20,542 --> 00:29:22,833
I could see it in my mind's eye.
543
00:29:24,458 --> 00:29:27,167
Zeros and ones.
544
00:29:27,292 --> 00:29:30,250
So I recorded those.
One after another.
545
00:29:31,708 --> 00:29:33,375
HESELTINE:
When Penniston touched
546
00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:35,667
the craft, he then said
547
00:29:35,792 --> 00:29:39,583
that he felt a strange download
of information,
548
00:29:39,708 --> 00:29:41,958
uh, to his mind.
549
00:29:42,042 --> 00:29:45,875
And he felt compelled
the next day to write down
550
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,042
a series of zeros and ones,
551
00:29:48,208 --> 00:29:51,417
which we now regard
as binary code.
552
00:29:51,542 --> 00:29:53,125
POPE:
Years later,
553
00:29:53,208 --> 00:29:57,042
a computer programmer
took this information,
554
00:29:57,208 --> 00:29:59,833
ran it through
a translation program
555
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,833
and a message emerged.
556
00:30:02,958 --> 00:30:07,542
The message read:
"Exploration of humanity
557
00:30:07,667 --> 00:30:11,667
"continuous for
planetary advance,
558
00:30:11,833 --> 00:30:14,833
"eyes of your eyes,
559
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,500
origin year 8100."
560
00:30:18,667 --> 00:30:23,833
When one sees
"origin year 8100,"
561
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,042
one is forced to speculate,
might we be looking
562
00:30:26,167 --> 00:30:28,667
not just at extraterrestrials,
563
00:30:28,750 --> 00:30:31,833
but time travelers
from the future?
564
00:30:31,917 --> 00:30:34,917
NARRATOR:
After the incident,
the U.S. military
565
00:30:35,042 --> 00:30:37,250
conducted a brief investigation,
566
00:30:37,375 --> 00:30:39,875
but allegedly tried
to keep the eyewitnesses
567
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,917
away from the press.
568
00:30:43,125 --> 00:30:46,208
But for Airman Burroughs
and Officer Penniston,
569
00:30:46,375 --> 00:30:49,083
the event wasn't easy
to leave behind.
570
00:30:50,542 --> 00:30:54,083
Both men had lasting physical
effects from the encounter
571
00:30:54,208 --> 00:30:57,583
and even reported
strange dreams.
572
00:30:57,708 --> 00:31:01,875
After the incident, I started
having throat and eye problems.
573
00:31:02,042 --> 00:31:03,500
At one point,
my gums turned white.
574
00:31:03,625 --> 00:31:05,583
I also had vision problems,
575
00:31:05,708 --> 00:31:07,000
and when I went
and saw the doctor,
576
00:31:07,125 --> 00:31:09,000
one of his first questions was,
577
00:31:09,125 --> 00:31:11,042
had I been ever exposed
to radiation?
578
00:31:12,083 --> 00:31:15,125
I've definitely
had dreams about it,
579
00:31:15,208 --> 00:31:17,250
and I still have feelings
about what happened
580
00:31:17,375 --> 00:31:19,583
and what could happen
in the future.
581
00:31:21,542 --> 00:31:24,917
I got out of the service
in 1993.
582
00:31:26,333 --> 00:31:28,500
Then I was out about
maybe three months,
583
00:31:28,583 --> 00:31:33,500
and then, I started getting
these dreams and nightmares.
584
00:31:33,667 --> 00:31:35,667
During the dreams,
585
00:31:35,792 --> 00:31:37,792
I could see that these
were time travelers,
586
00:31:37,917 --> 00:31:40,792
40 to 50,000 years
in the future.
587
00:31:40,917 --> 00:31:43,375
I see that their purpose
to come back
588
00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:47,167
was to correct things,
was to fix things.
589
00:31:47,292 --> 00:31:50,500
Something horrible has happened.
590
00:31:50,625 --> 00:31:53,792
Something they have to correct.
591
00:31:53,875 --> 00:31:56,292
But it requires time travel.
592
00:31:56,417 --> 00:32:00,958
It requires going back
into the past.
593
00:32:01,083 --> 00:32:05,875
I never had a feeling of it
being extraterrestrial.
594
00:32:06,042 --> 00:32:12,625
It's always been that they were
simply us in the future.
595
00:32:14,417 --> 00:32:17,167
NARRATOR:
Could it be that the craft
reportedly witnessed
596
00:32:17,292 --> 00:32:20,000
by James Penniston
and John Burroughs
597
00:32:20,167 --> 00:32:22,667
came not from a distant star
598
00:32:22,792 --> 00:32:25,333
but from a distant point
in time?
599
00:32:25,417 --> 00:32:29,000
Perhaps further clues can be
found by examining trends
600
00:32:29,125 --> 00:32:34,042
in evolution and what humans
may look like in the future.
601
00:32:38,417 --> 00:32:40,792
MICHAEL MASTERS: If we look
at past trends
602
00:32:40,917 --> 00:32:42,833
in our biological form,
603
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,375
we see that we're likely
to look very similar
604
00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:47,208
to what's
most commonly described
605
00:32:47,375 --> 00:32:49,458
in these instances
of close encounters.
606
00:32:55,875 --> 00:32:59,208
NARRATOR:
Butte, Montana, 2019.
607
00:32:59,333 --> 00:33:02,292
Professor
of biological anthropology
608
00:33:02,417 --> 00:33:05,208
at Montana
Technological University,
609
00:33:05,333 --> 00:33:10,458
Dr. Michael Masters publishes
Identified Flying Objects.
610
00:33:10,583 --> 00:33:14,000
This groundbreaking book
explores the profound notion
611
00:33:14,083 --> 00:33:16,667
that the UFO phenomenon
may involve
612
00:33:16,792 --> 00:33:18,917
our distant human descendants
613
00:33:19,042 --> 00:33:22,542
traveling backward
across the landscape of time.
614
00:33:24,292 --> 00:33:26,000
MASTERS:
One of the big questions about
615
00:33:26,125 --> 00:33:28,167
backward time travel
is why aren't we inundated
616
00:33:28,292 --> 00:33:32,167
by time tourists
if backward time travel exists?
617
00:33:32,250 --> 00:33:35,167
And the answer
may simply be, we do.
618
00:33:35,250 --> 00:33:38,458
We do see them,
in the form of UFOs,
619
00:33:38,542 --> 00:33:40,167
in the form of these
"alien beings"
620
00:33:40,333 --> 00:33:43,083
that are most likely
traveling backwards
621
00:33:43,208 --> 00:33:46,167
from the human future,
using more advanced technology
622
00:33:46,292 --> 00:33:48,083
and with a more
advanced physical form
623
00:33:48,208 --> 00:33:49,750
than what we have now.
624
00:33:51,042 --> 00:33:52,833
NARRATOR:
Dr. Masters points out
625
00:33:52,958 --> 00:33:55,292
that current accounts
of humanoid aliens,
626
00:33:55,375 --> 00:33:58,500
the Greys in particular,
bear a striking resemblance
627
00:33:58,625 --> 00:34:02,000
to what many biologists
predict humans may look like
628
00:34:02,125 --> 00:34:04,667
in the distant future.
629
00:34:04,750 --> 00:34:07,542
MASTERS:
If we look at past trends
in our biological form
630
00:34:07,708 --> 00:34:09,333
and in our technology,
631
00:34:09,458 --> 00:34:12,167
we see the same dominant trends
in our morphology.
632
00:34:12,333 --> 00:34:16,167
Our neurocrania have become
enlarged, becoming more rounded.
633
00:34:16,292 --> 00:34:19,750
Our midfacial and lower
facial anatomy has retracted.
634
00:34:19,875 --> 00:34:22,458
If these are to continue
into the future,
635
00:34:22,583 --> 00:34:24,917
we're likely
to look very similar
636
00:34:25,042 --> 00:34:26,333
to what's most
commonly described
637
00:34:26,458 --> 00:34:28,542
in these instances
of close encounters,
638
00:34:28,667 --> 00:34:33,125
where the being have big heads,
small faces, big eyes.
639
00:34:35,083 --> 00:34:38,542
NEWMAN: Many of the types
of aliens, if you like,
640
00:34:38,667 --> 00:34:41,500
or strange beings
that are in these crafts,
641
00:34:41,625 --> 00:34:44,250
they're often taller,
they've got larger heads,
642
00:34:44,375 --> 00:34:47,333
larger eyes, and that
could be a sign of evolution
643
00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:49,917
of our species going thousands
644
00:34:50,042 --> 00:34:51,792
or possibly hundreds
of thousands of years
645
00:34:51,875 --> 00:34:53,250
into the future.
646
00:34:53,375 --> 00:34:55,917
NARRATOR:
Could the so-called Grey aliens
647
00:34:56,042 --> 00:34:58,333
that many people believe
they have encountered
648
00:34:58,500 --> 00:35:01,500
actually be
human time travelers?
649
00:35:01,625 --> 00:35:04,542
According to some researchers,
further evidence
650
00:35:04,708 --> 00:35:08,542
that Earth is being visited
by future humans can be found
651
00:35:08,708 --> 00:35:13,167
by examining accounts
of unidentified flying objects.
652
00:35:14,500 --> 00:35:16,333
MASTERS:
If we look at the craft, too,
653
00:35:16,458 --> 00:35:19,500
they seem to have a form
that indicates the function
654
00:35:19,667 --> 00:35:21,250
of backward time travel.
655
00:35:21,375 --> 00:35:23,333
It's very consistent
with research
656
00:35:23,458 --> 00:35:28,167
since Einstein's paper in 1915,
demonstrating how the rotation
657
00:35:28,292 --> 00:35:31,208
of a massive or highly
energetic disc or cylinder
658
00:35:31,333 --> 00:35:34,500
could create backward
time travel capabilities.
659
00:35:36,167 --> 00:35:37,667
ERICH VON DANIKEN:
Sometimes I ask myself
660
00:35:37,833 --> 00:35:40,583
if UFOs are not time travelers.
661
00:35:41,667 --> 00:35:46,708
It's our own, uh,
people of the future
662
00:35:46,833 --> 00:35:50,667
who study some history
and they send some vehicles
663
00:35:50,750 --> 00:35:53,375
to measure, to observe,
to photograph us.
664
00:35:53,500 --> 00:35:56,333
But they don't make
direct contact.
665
00:35:56,500 --> 00:36:00,458
So I would exclude nothing,
not even time travel.
666
00:36:00,542 --> 00:36:04,208
NARRATOR:
But if future humans
have traveled back in time,
667
00:36:04,375 --> 00:36:07,250
are they simply observing
events of the past?
668
00:36:07,375 --> 00:36:10,625
Or could they have
a more profound agenda?
669
00:36:10,750 --> 00:36:13,375
One of the other ideas
relating to this is the idea
670
00:36:13,542 --> 00:36:16,333
that our selves from the future
671
00:36:16,417 --> 00:36:18,417
are actually trying
to help us in some way.
672
00:36:18,542 --> 00:36:20,542
There's some kind
of interaction going on.
673
00:36:20,667 --> 00:36:22,333
They could be
giving us information
674
00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:25,417
about advances in technology.
675
00:36:25,542 --> 00:36:29,458
They could be giving us
information about other planets.
676
00:36:29,542 --> 00:36:31,750
They could be giving us
scientific data
677
00:36:31,875 --> 00:36:34,000
that we need to survive
678
00:36:34,167 --> 00:36:35,500
that they know
about in the future,
679
00:36:35,583 --> 00:36:38,542
but y-- we're yet
to get to that point.
680
00:36:40,208 --> 00:36:41,167
COLLINS:
Could they be coming back
681
00:36:41,250 --> 00:36:43,500
to help evolve us in some way,
682
00:36:43,667 --> 00:36:48,667
to help us learn new
technologies and innovations?
683
00:36:48,792 --> 00:36:53,917
Perhaps to steer us
towards their own future.
684
00:36:54,042 --> 00:36:56,333
Maybe these technologies
involve everything
685
00:36:56,417 --> 00:37:01,167
from quantum computers
to nuclear fusion
686
00:37:01,292 --> 00:37:06,333
to AI
and even nanotechnology.
687
00:37:06,500 --> 00:37:09,500
All of these are
at the cutting edge of science,
688
00:37:09,667 --> 00:37:12,125
and we are actually
looking for answers
689
00:37:12,250 --> 00:37:16,833
to how to better perfect
these technologies.
690
00:37:18,208 --> 00:37:20,833
MASTERS:
If UFOs are craft
691
00:37:20,917 --> 00:37:24,333
from our future, if the beings
seen in association with them
692
00:37:24,417 --> 00:37:27,208
are our distant descendants,
693
00:37:27,333 --> 00:37:30,667
and they crashed into
Roswell, New Mexico in 1947,
694
00:37:30,792 --> 00:37:33,958
it's possible that we've
been reverse-engineering
695
00:37:34,042 --> 00:37:36,000
this technology.
696
00:37:36,125 --> 00:37:40,042
And not just for the purposes
of flying through space
697
00:37:40,167 --> 00:37:42,333
at tremendous speeds
698
00:37:42,458 --> 00:37:45,083
or having antigravity
propulsion systems,
699
00:37:45,208 --> 00:37:49,250
but also, potentially, to figure
out how to travel through time.
700
00:37:49,375 --> 00:37:51,083
We may be eventually
reaching the point
701
00:37:51,208 --> 00:37:54,000
where that technology is ours,
coming back through time again,
702
00:37:54,167 --> 00:37:57,583
where there's this constant loop
through the past and the future.
703
00:37:59,542 --> 00:38:02,167
NARRATOR:
If time travel is possible,
704
00:38:02,292 --> 00:38:04,333
could it be that Earth
is being visited
705
00:38:04,458 --> 00:38:10,167
by both extraterrestrials
and humans from our own future?
706
00:38:10,292 --> 00:38:12,500
Perhaps further clues
can be found
707
00:38:12,583 --> 00:38:14,500
by examining the possibility
708
00:38:14,667 --> 00:38:18,917
that the true nature of time
is much different than we think.
709
00:38:27,542 --> 00:38:30,000
NARRATOR:
Housed at the National Institute
710
00:38:30,125 --> 00:38:31,875
of Standards and Technology
711
00:38:32,042 --> 00:38:34,875
are two atomic clocks
that together serve
712
00:38:35,042 --> 00:38:39,333
as the United States' primary
time and frequency standard.
713
00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:43,583
Around the world, similar clocks
with incredible precision
714
00:38:43,708 --> 00:38:47,375
set the time by which
all of humankind operates.
715
00:38:47,542 --> 00:38:52,292
It is a relentless march
of seconds, minutes, hours
716
00:38:52,417 --> 00:38:55,542
and days determining
when we wake up,
717
00:38:55,708 --> 00:38:59,625
go to work, eat,
sleep, celebrate
718
00:38:59,708 --> 00:39:01,417
-and ultimately, die.
-(monitor beeps)
719
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,250
But what if how we perceive time
720
00:39:05,375 --> 00:39:08,000
is nothing more
than a human construct?
721
00:39:08,083 --> 00:39:11,792
An attempt to quantify
and control a universal force
722
00:39:11,875 --> 00:39:16,542
that modern science
hasn't even begun to understand?
723
00:39:17,625 --> 00:39:20,000
We live in the fantasy
of linear time,
724
00:39:20,125 --> 00:39:21,750
because we have to remember
725
00:39:21,875 --> 00:39:25,333
that all the notions of time
are imposed on reality.
726
00:39:26,292 --> 00:39:28,208
Reality flows in its own way.
727
00:39:28,375 --> 00:39:30,667
We imagine
that our clocks measure it.
728
00:39:30,750 --> 00:39:32,500
We claim to be able
to mark it off
729
00:39:32,583 --> 00:39:34,042
in hours and days and things,
730
00:39:34,167 --> 00:39:35,917
but that's all just
imposed on it.
731
00:39:37,375 --> 00:39:38,833
NARRATOR:
Physicists point out
732
00:39:38,958 --> 00:39:42,167
that going by modern science's
linear concept of time,
733
00:39:42,292 --> 00:39:46,750
even the idea of the here
and now is merely an illusion,
734
00:39:46,875 --> 00:39:50,792
since light and sound
do not travel instantaneously.
735
00:39:50,875 --> 00:39:52,958
When you look at a mirror,
you're not really looking
736
00:39:53,042 --> 00:39:55,542
at yourself as you are,
you're looking at yourself
737
00:39:55,708 --> 00:39:59,333
as you were about
a billionth of a second ago.
738
00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:01,375
When you look at the Moon,
you're not really looking
739
00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:03,458
at the Moon as it is now.
740
00:40:03,583 --> 00:40:07,000
You're looking at the Moon
as it was about a second ago.
741
00:40:07,125 --> 00:40:09,167
So when you look
at the Pleiades,
742
00:40:09,292 --> 00:40:14,625
you're looking at the Pleiades
as they were 400 years ago.
743
00:40:16,625 --> 00:40:19,125
NARRATOR:
Some of the stars
viewable in the night sky
744
00:40:19,250 --> 00:40:20,917
burnt out long ago,
745
00:40:21,042 --> 00:40:24,000
which, according
to a linear model of time,
746
00:40:24,125 --> 00:40:25,958
means they no longer exist.
747
00:40:26,083 --> 00:40:28,417
They are no longer reachable.
748
00:40:28,542 --> 00:40:31,792
But what if this model
of time is wrong?
749
00:40:34,583 --> 00:40:36,667
TAYLOR: Another take
on time travel is that
750
00:40:36,750 --> 00:40:39,167
when the Big Bang occurred,
all of space and time
751
00:40:39,250 --> 00:40:41,667
and everything is in it
was created.
752
00:40:41,750 --> 00:40:44,750
So all of time
is in the universe already.
753
00:40:44,875 --> 00:40:47,917
For some reason,
we can only experience the now.
754
00:40:49,542 --> 00:40:51,542
NARRATOR:
Could it be that
our understanding of time
755
00:40:51,667 --> 00:40:54,292
is limited
by how we experience it?
756
00:40:54,417 --> 00:40:56,667
And might a more
technologically-advanced
757
00:40:56,750 --> 00:41:00,625
extraterrestrial species
or even future humans
758
00:41:00,708 --> 00:41:03,708
have discovered how
to manipulate time and space
759
00:41:03,833 --> 00:41:06,917
to travel both to the past
and to the future?
760
00:41:07,042 --> 00:41:12,167
COLLINS: The idea that we may
simply be dealing with
761
00:41:12,292 --> 00:41:16,167
space people
from other star systems
762
00:41:16,292 --> 00:41:17,875
may not be the full answer.
763
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,208
We could be dealing
with time travelers.
764
00:41:23,417 --> 00:41:27,000
Could these intelligences
have been aiding us?
765
00:41:27,125 --> 00:41:28,625
Perhaps guiding us?
766
00:41:28,750 --> 00:41:33,042
Perhaps controlling
the evolution of humanity?
767
00:41:33,167 --> 00:41:37,083
VON DANIKEN:
I rather am a believer
in time travel.
768
00:41:37,208 --> 00:41:41,542
I say nothing will be impossible
for us in the future.
769
00:41:41,667 --> 00:41:43,792
Even if you think
it's completely crazy,
770
00:41:43,917 --> 00:41:45,250
it will happen.
771
00:41:45,375 --> 00:41:47,333
Whatever humans
are able to think,
772
00:41:47,458 --> 00:41:51,083
to calculate, even to fantasize,
773
00:41:51,208 --> 00:41:54,708
will one day become reality.
774
00:41:54,875 --> 00:41:59,750
NARRATOR: Is Earth being visited
by highly-advanced civilizations
775
00:41:59,875 --> 00:42:03,833
that have overcome the
limitations of time and space?
776
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:08,750
And if so, could they even be
our own human descendants
777
00:42:08,875 --> 00:42:11,333
traveling back from the future?
778
00:42:11,458 --> 00:42:15,333
Perhaps our notions
of time, space
779
00:42:15,458 --> 00:42:17,417
and our place in the universe
780
00:42:17,542 --> 00:42:20,042
are about to be
radically altered.
781
00:42:20,167 --> 00:42:22,292
Only time will tell.
782
00:42:22,417 --> 00:42:24,125
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