1 00:00:00,006 --> 00:00:08,686 Many governments all of a sudden are now involved in the search for extraterrestrial life. 2 00:00:08,686 --> 00:00:11,546 You have to wonder why. 3 00:00:11,546 --> 00:00:20,725 Between 1948 and 1969, the US Air Force collected 12,618 UFO reports. 4 00:00:20,725 --> 00:00:24,125 It was actually required that all officers fill out a form if they saw anything that 5 00:00:24,125 --> 00:00:28,525 might be regarded as a flying saucer, and they were told not to discuss their sighting with 6 00:00:28,525 --> 00:00:30,965 anyone. 7 00:00:30,965 --> 00:00:36,185 We have to be open to the possibility that the US government is absolutely aware of extraterrestrial 8 00:00:36,185 --> 00:00:39,085 involvement in human affairs. 9 00:00:39,085 --> 00:00:46,764 Since the dawn of civilization, mankind has credited its origins to gods and other visitors 10 00:00:46,764 --> 00:00:48,564 from the stars. 11 00:00:48,564 --> 00:00:51,544 What if it were true? 12 00:00:51,544 --> 00:00:57,304 Most extraterrestrial beings really helped to shape our history. 13 00:00:57,304 --> 00:01:02,304 And if so, could the truth be exposed by the alien hunters? 14 00:01:21,543 --> 00:01:41,062 London, England, July 20, 2015. 15 00:01:41,062 --> 00:01:48,062 A consortium of the world's leading scientists, including theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking 16 00:01:48,182 --> 00:01:55,502 and SETI founder Frank Drake, gather at London's Royal Society as Russian billionaire and technology 17 00:01:55,502 --> 00:02:00,781 tycoon, Yuri Milner, announces his ambitious initiative. 18 00:02:00,781 --> 00:02:02,821 Breakthrough, listen. 19 00:02:02,821 --> 00:02:07,621 The scope of our search will be unprecedented. 20 00:02:07,621 --> 00:02:14,501 The project is a 10-year, $100 million search for intelligent extraterrestrial life that 21 00:02:14,501 --> 00:02:20,261 is widely regarded as the most comprehensive search for alien communications in recorded 22 00:02:20,261 --> 00:02:22,381 history. 23 00:02:22,381 --> 00:02:28,380 The endowment will fund thousands of hours yearly on radio telescopes in North America 24 00:02:28,380 --> 00:02:34,540 and Australia, as well as data processing to look for radio signals in distant solar 25 00:02:34,540 --> 00:02:37,580 systems. 26 00:02:37,580 --> 00:02:41,940 This breakthrough, listen project is revolutionary because not only are they going to survey 27 00:02:41,940 --> 00:02:44,420 a very long list of stars. 28 00:02:45,340 --> 00:02:50,620 We're going to survey 10 times more area overall compared to previous surveys. 29 00:02:50,620 --> 00:02:54,899 I think there's definitely been a turning point regarding the overall consensus about 30 00:02:54,899 --> 00:02:57,459 the possibility of extraterrestrial life. 31 00:02:57,459 --> 00:03:03,819 Now that we're able to document and scientifically see out in the universe the possibility of 32 00:03:03,819 --> 00:03:09,339 planets that could sustain life, it also allows us the opportunity to know the odds that there 33 00:03:09,339 --> 00:03:11,699 is life out there is undoubtable. 34 00:03:12,699 --> 00:03:16,579 Breakthrough, listen. 35 00:03:16,579 --> 00:03:22,498 Marks the first time that mainstream scientists have launched a major project with the explicit 36 00:03:22,498 --> 00:03:29,178 purpose of finding intelligent extraterrestrial life. 37 00:03:29,178 --> 00:03:35,218 During the announcement, Stephen Hawking stated, in an infinite universe, there must be other 38 00:03:35,218 --> 00:03:36,338 life. 39 00:03:36,338 --> 00:03:38,578 There is no bigger question. 40 00:03:38,578 --> 00:03:43,578 It is time to commit to finding the answer. 41 00:03:43,578 --> 00:03:49,537 While this new initiative is monumental, the hunt for the existence of life beyond Earth 42 00:03:49,537 --> 00:03:53,017 has persisted for many decades. 43 00:03:53,017 --> 00:03:59,777 Starting around 1947, a series of events forced certain high level members within the United 44 00:03:59,777 --> 00:04:05,177 States government to officially become alien hunters. 45 00:04:05,177 --> 00:04:11,496 When you look at the year 1947, the statistics are that there were at least 800 reports to 46 00:04:11,496 --> 00:04:16,856 police and airports of people saying that they were seeing something in the sky. 47 00:04:16,856 --> 00:04:19,016 They didn't know what it was. 48 00:04:19,016 --> 00:04:25,096 And probably the most important and the one that made worldwide headlines was near Mount 49 00:04:25,096 --> 00:04:28,176 Rainier in Washington. 50 00:04:28,176 --> 00:04:34,576 On June 24, 1947, a businessman and pilot named Kenneth Arnold was flying near Mount Rainier 51 00:04:34,576 --> 00:04:37,255 in Washington state. 52 00:04:37,255 --> 00:04:42,535 As he was flying around the mountain, he suddenly caught sight of a squadron of strange looking 53 00:04:42,535 --> 00:04:43,535 objects. 54 00:04:43,535 --> 00:04:47,935 He could not figure out what they were. 55 00:04:47,935 --> 00:04:51,415 He was able to time them as they went between two mountain peaks, which he knew the exact 56 00:04:51,415 --> 00:04:57,295 distance of, and calculated their speed at between 1,200 and 1,700 miles an hour. 57 00:04:57,295 --> 00:05:01,935 Well, in that day, we didn't have aircraft that could go faster than about five or 600 58 00:05:01,935 --> 00:05:02,934 miles an hour. 59 00:05:02,934 --> 00:05:08,214 That was definitely something not of terrestrial origin. 60 00:05:08,214 --> 00:05:13,814 He later described the objects as being somewhat delta shaped and flying as if you were to 61 00:05:13,814 --> 00:05:17,294 skip a saucer across a body of water. 62 00:05:17,294 --> 00:05:22,294 And this gave rise to the term flying saucer. 63 00:05:22,294 --> 00:05:27,734 Within days of Arnold's report being published, there were literally 20 other reports of similar 64 00:05:27,734 --> 00:05:32,573 objects seen in the sky around the northwest of the United States. 65 00:05:32,573 --> 00:05:40,613 This opened the floodgates for literally hundreds of reports to pour in. 66 00:05:40,613 --> 00:05:49,693 Just two weeks after this flurry of UFO sightings, the infamous Roswell incidents occurred. 67 00:05:49,693 --> 00:05:55,133 But it was actually a sighting that happened a day earlier that thrust military officials 68 00:05:55,133 --> 00:05:58,412 into the hunt. 69 00:05:58,412 --> 00:06:05,652 On July 7, 1947, at Edwards Air Force Base, then called Maroc Air Base, Major J.C. 70 00:06:05,652 --> 00:06:12,252 Wise was sitting in his XP-84 fighter jet experimental aircraft when he noticed that 71 00:06:12,252 --> 00:06:15,932 people on the ground were watching an object off in the distance. 72 00:06:15,932 --> 00:06:22,091 He looked and saw a bright spinning yellow object about 10,000 feet in the air that was 73 00:06:22,091 --> 00:06:27,031 a ball of about 5 to 10 feet in diameter. 74 00:06:27,031 --> 00:06:30,531 After the sighting, it was actually required that all officers fill out a form if they 75 00:06:30,531 --> 00:06:34,151 saw anything that might be regarded as a UFO or a flying saucer. 76 00:06:34,151 --> 00:06:38,311 And in addition to that, they were told not to discuss their sighting or what was on their 77 00:06:38,311 --> 00:06:41,571 report with anyone. 78 00:06:41,571 --> 00:06:46,311 In the wake of the incredible number of UFO reports that reached the military in the 79 00:06:46,311 --> 00:06:54,410 summer of 1947, Lieutenant General Nathan Twining at Wright Field created a new order 80 00:06:54,410 --> 00:06:58,930 to ensure that all UFO reports reached the military. 81 00:06:58,930 --> 00:07:04,770 This led to the creation of the first official UFO research program on the part of the military 82 00:07:04,770 --> 00:07:09,870 known as Project Sine. 83 00:07:09,870 --> 00:07:20,169 On January 22, 1948, the U.S. government authorized its first official study of the UFO phenomenon. 84 00:07:20,169 --> 00:07:26,769 The highly classified agenda was known as Project Sine. 85 00:07:26,769 --> 00:07:32,849 Project Sine officially argued that these UFO sightings were authentic and hinted that 86 00:07:32,849 --> 00:07:36,209 they were in fact extraterrestrial in nature. 87 00:07:36,209 --> 00:07:40,968 But higher-ups in the military stepped in and redacted those statements. 88 00:07:40,968 --> 00:07:48,448 Cancelled Project Sine turned it into Project Grudge, which ultimately became Project Bluebook. 89 00:07:48,448 --> 00:07:53,008 The Air Force closed down Bluebook because essentially they said they didn't find any 90 00:07:53,008 --> 00:08:00,728 evidence that UFOs were real or represented a threat to national security. 91 00:08:00,728 --> 00:08:10,087 Between 1948 and 1969, the U.S. Air Force collected 12,618 UFO reports. 92 00:08:10,087 --> 00:08:17,047 Of that number, 701 remained unexplained. 93 00:08:17,047 --> 00:08:22,247 While the Air Force's official stance was that Project Bluebook produced no compelling 94 00:08:22,247 --> 00:08:28,727 evidence that extraterrestrial craft occupied Earth's airspace, one important contributor 95 00:08:28,727 --> 00:08:33,926 to the study strongly disagreed. 96 00:08:33,926 --> 00:08:41,326 Dr. J. Allen Heineck, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio State University, 97 00:08:41,326 --> 00:08:49,326 was appointed as scientific advisor for UFO studies during Project Sine, Grudge and Bluebook. 98 00:08:49,326 --> 00:08:55,766 Dr. Heineck was a pure skeptic at the very beginning of his career as a consultant to 99 00:08:55,766 --> 00:08:57,366 the United States Air Force. 100 00:08:57,366 --> 00:09:01,285 In fact, he considered these UFOs to be utterly ridiculous. 101 00:09:01,285 --> 00:09:06,805 But as he got more and more involved and began talking to more and more quality witnesses 102 00:09:06,805 --> 00:09:12,045 like military fighter pilots, it became clear to him that there really was something to 103 00:09:12,045 --> 00:09:14,605 this whole UFO question. 104 00:09:14,605 --> 00:09:19,045 When asked in his later years, what turned him around on the whole UFO question? 105 00:09:19,045 --> 00:09:22,165 Dr. Heineck said two things. 106 00:09:22,165 --> 00:09:28,084 The first is that the Air Force was dead set on putting an answer on every single UFO report, 107 00:09:28,084 --> 00:09:31,844 even if they had to force the answer. 108 00:09:31,844 --> 00:09:37,844 The second is that he started talking to very, very credible witnesses that led him to believe 109 00:09:37,844 --> 00:09:44,364 that these objects were in fact real. 110 00:09:44,364 --> 00:09:51,164 In the intervening years, UFO investigators and scholars have attempted to access Project 111 00:09:51,164 --> 00:09:56,723 Bluebook case files utilizing the Freedom of Information Act. 112 00:09:56,723 --> 00:10:03,123 But the names, details and other personal information of all the witnesses and sightings 113 00:10:03,123 --> 00:10:10,323 have been blacked out from the documents, preventing any further examination. 114 00:10:10,323 --> 00:10:15,083 Considering the way the U.S. government has labeled UFOs top secret, we have to at least 115 00:10:15,083 --> 00:10:19,202 be open to the possibility that higher-ups within the U.S. government, or even those 116 00:10:19,202 --> 00:10:24,042 higher than the U.S. government, are absolutely aware of extraterrestrial involvement in human 117 00:10:24,042 --> 00:10:31,282 affairs and have sought to cover up this phenomenon for the past six decades. 118 00:10:31,282 --> 00:10:35,882 Considering the top secret nature of these projects, is it possible that the incredible 119 00:10:35,882 --> 00:10:42,602 claims of Dr. J. Allen Heineck are true, and that actual contact with extraterrestrial 120 00:10:42,602 --> 00:10:49,121 craft has been concealed from the general population? 121 00:10:49,121 --> 00:10:56,041 Astronaut theorists say yes and claim that mankind has had contact with aliens since 122 00:10:56,041 --> 00:11:03,001 our earliest civilizations. 123 00:11:03,001 --> 00:11:11,401 Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, January 28, 2016. 124 00:11:11,401 --> 00:11:20,000 The professor of science, Dr. J. Allen Heineck, is a professor of science, Dr. J. Allen. 125 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:26,320 He has discovered evidence that astronomers living in the ancient city of Babylon invented 126 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:37,720 sophisticated mathematical equations to track the movement of Jupiter some 2,000 years ago. 127 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,679 When modern astronomers think about the timing of events in the solar system, we use very 128 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:45,839 complicated computer programs that take into account things like special relativity and 129 00:11:45,839 --> 00:11:48,079 general relativity. 130 00:11:48,079 --> 00:11:52,279 We didn't think that ancient astronomers would have had the capacity to make the same calculations 131 00:11:52,279 --> 00:11:53,999 we do today. 132 00:11:53,999 --> 00:11:57,799 We knew that the Babylonians were able to predict when Venus would appear and which 133 00:11:57,799 --> 00:12:01,359 constellations would be up at certain times of the year, but we never would have expected 134 00:12:01,359 --> 00:12:05,278 that they were using one of the precursors to calculus to figure out the motions of Jupiter 135 00:12:05,278 --> 00:12:07,638 in the sky. 136 00:12:07,638 --> 00:12:10,998 When the Babylonians looked where Jupiter was in the sky, they would record where it 137 00:12:10,998 --> 00:12:13,718 was one night and they would draw a point on a graph. 138 00:12:13,718 --> 00:12:18,478 They would record the time on the bottom axis and the position on the top axis. 139 00:12:18,478 --> 00:12:20,878 They do this the next night and they see Jupiter was over here. 140 00:12:20,878 --> 00:12:24,398 And then the next night it's over there and over there. 141 00:12:24,398 --> 00:12:29,358 And they could then draw a order down to the time axis and then they draw a line. 142 00:12:29,358 --> 00:12:34,957 So you end up with a trapezoid in space. 143 00:12:34,957 --> 00:12:40,317 How did the ancient Babylonians understand mathematical concepts that were thought to 144 00:12:40,317 --> 00:12:45,957 have been developed by Isaac Newton in the 17th century? 145 00:12:45,957 --> 00:12:51,637 And why were they mysteriously concerned with the precise movements of Jupiter, a planet 146 00:12:51,637 --> 00:13:00,636 that they associated with one of their most important gods, Marduk? 147 00:13:00,636 --> 00:13:06,876 The principal deity of ancient Babylon was Marduk and he was associated with the planet 148 00:13:06,876 --> 00:13:07,876 Jupiter. 149 00:13:07,876 --> 00:13:14,436 And there was a large mythology around his departure and eventual return. 150 00:13:14,436 --> 00:13:19,116 They were very interested in the return of their divinity, so any sign that the planet 151 00:13:19,116 --> 00:13:22,556 Jupiter would give would be of great interest. 152 00:13:22,556 --> 00:13:25,435 Why was Jupiter so important to this culture? 153 00:13:25,435 --> 00:13:29,995 That they actually conscribed it as being one of their gods called Marduk? 154 00:13:29,995 --> 00:13:33,795 Because it that they believed that Marduk came from this planet and would eventually 155 00:13:33,795 --> 00:13:35,715 return one day? 156 00:13:35,715 --> 00:13:39,715 Are they recounting an extraterrestrial visitation from the past? 157 00:13:39,715 --> 00:13:44,635 And were they given this advanced knowledge as a way of knowing of when this extraterrestrial 158 00:13:44,635 --> 00:13:47,755 being would one day return? 159 00:13:47,755 --> 00:13:52,354 It's quite compelling that many ancient cultures went to great lengths to track these celestial 160 00:13:52,354 --> 00:13:57,434 bodies. 161 00:13:57,434 --> 00:14:02,794 Just like the Breakthrough Listen project of today, many ancient cultures took great measures 162 00:14:02,794 --> 00:14:05,874 to study the heavens. 163 00:14:05,874 --> 00:14:09,554 All over the planet there are stone observatories. 164 00:14:09,554 --> 00:14:16,113 These are systems of stones arranged to line up with the planets and celestial moments, 165 00:14:16,113 --> 00:14:21,353 suggesting that the ancients were really quite advanced in their study of the stars to use 166 00:14:21,353 --> 00:14:24,313 these and use them well. 167 00:14:24,313 --> 00:14:29,633 We are fascinated, our current scientists, the accuracy of the alignment that they have 168 00:14:29,633 --> 00:14:35,113 arranged and how they are so similar, these observatories, these configurations all over 169 00:14:35,113 --> 00:14:36,113 the planets. 170 00:14:36,113 --> 00:14:44,552 It would be one thing if we found one ancient megalithic stone observatory, but the fact 171 00:14:44,552 --> 00:14:50,952 is that there are at least ten all around the world that were fashioned in megalithic 172 00:14:50,952 --> 00:14:54,272 structures. 173 00:14:54,272 --> 00:14:57,792 The most popular one is Stonehenge. 174 00:14:57,792 --> 00:15:04,272 Stone observatories, often times not only do they track the stars, but sometimes they 175 00:15:04,272 --> 00:15:10,071 track specific constellations. 176 00:15:10,071 --> 00:15:16,071 First and foremost Orion, Sirius and the Pleiades. 177 00:15:16,071 --> 00:15:19,991 So I have to ask the question, why? 178 00:15:19,991 --> 00:15:27,951 Because in association with those observatories we have stories of beings arriving from the 179 00:15:27,951 --> 00:15:34,831 Pleiades, from Sirius and Orion imparting knowledge to our ancestors. 180 00:15:34,831 --> 00:15:42,870 This whole idea of observing the stars is something that is innate in our soul. 181 00:15:42,870 --> 00:15:52,390 All of our ancient cultures were visited by the same type of extraterrestrials. 182 00:15:52,390 --> 00:15:58,390 Is it possible that the Babylonians, as well as other ancient civilizations, were watching 183 00:15:58,390 --> 00:16:02,789 the stars for signs of extraterrestrial life? 184 00:16:02,789 --> 00:16:09,789 And if so, were they watching because contact had already been made? 185 00:16:09,789 --> 00:16:14,629 Why were they obsessed with tracking the movements of stars and planets? 186 00:16:14,629 --> 00:16:18,389 Was it just for orientation so they could know what direction they were traveling when 187 00:16:18,389 --> 00:16:21,229 they were navigating on ships? 188 00:16:21,229 --> 00:16:28,348 Or could it be that they were actually visited by beings that came from these planets? 189 00:16:28,348 --> 00:16:32,988 I think absolutely yes. 190 00:16:32,988 --> 00:16:37,868 Could our ancestors, near obsession with the movement of the stars, be proof that they 191 00:16:37,868 --> 00:16:42,468 were in fact the first alien hunters? 192 00:16:42,468 --> 00:16:49,748 If so, could it lead to proof of extraterrestrial contact hundreds or even thousands of years 193 00:16:49,748 --> 00:16:52,148 ago? 194 00:16:52,148 --> 00:16:57,867 And might these ancient stone observatories be leading today's alien hunters towards 195 00:16:57,867 --> 00:17:06,387 the next big discovery? 196 00:17:06,387 --> 00:17:12,947 Karen, Wisconsin, summer 1934. 197 00:17:12,947 --> 00:17:20,746 At the age of nine, Coral Lorenzen spots a saucer-shaped object floating across the sky. 198 00:17:20,746 --> 00:17:29,706 It makes no sound as it moves slowly northwest, before disappearing over the horizon. 199 00:17:29,706 --> 00:17:39,226 The encounter lasts just 20 seconds, but will forever change the course of UFO investigations. 200 00:17:39,226 --> 00:17:45,226 One of the early important UFO researchers in the United States is Coral Lorenzen. 201 00:17:45,226 --> 00:17:51,825 She had a UFO sighting long before the flying saucer wave of the 40s took place, and it 202 00:17:51,825 --> 00:17:54,785 stayed with her whole life. 203 00:17:54,785 --> 00:18:02,985 In August of 1951, Coral took on a role of being a reporter for the Green Bay Press Gazette 204 00:18:02,985 --> 00:18:05,505 and wrote stories about UFOs. 205 00:18:05,505 --> 00:18:12,545 She got lots of responses from other people who had seemed similar objects. 206 00:18:12,545 --> 00:18:20,344 In 1952, Coral and her husband, a former U.S. Army Air Corps officer, Jim Lorenzen, 207 00:18:20,344 --> 00:18:28,864 established the first independent UFO organization known as Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, 208 00:18:28,864 --> 00:18:31,424 or APRO. 209 00:18:31,424 --> 00:18:35,504 Coral was highly disappointed with how the Air Force and the government was handling this 210 00:18:35,504 --> 00:18:37,424 whole UFO question. 211 00:18:37,424 --> 00:18:40,303 She knew that these craft were real. 212 00:18:40,303 --> 00:18:45,303 She felt there needed to be an investigative body not beholden to the government that could 213 00:18:45,303 --> 00:18:48,303 look into this question. 214 00:18:48,303 --> 00:18:54,063 Coral Lorenzen decided the best way to investigate the phenomenon was essentially to set up an 215 00:18:54,063 --> 00:18:59,543 investigative group with people in different disciplines and fields who could look at reports, 216 00:18:59,543 --> 00:19:04,263 study them and determine what the witnesses had seen. 217 00:19:04,263 --> 00:19:10,102 At the height of its success, APRO actually had more than 3,000 members, many of whom 218 00:19:10,102 --> 00:19:16,942 were out in the field investigating things, compiling reports, and really putting together 219 00:19:16,982 --> 00:19:24,422 a huge body of highly credible data, which far exceeded anything really that Blue Book 220 00:19:24,422 --> 00:19:28,062 signed and Grudge were doing. 221 00:19:28,062 --> 00:19:33,661 This was the first civilian organization to go and investigate UFOs. 222 00:19:33,661 --> 00:19:40,981 And once she broke the ice on this, other organizations began coming and being created. 223 00:19:40,981 --> 00:19:45,581 One of those organizations was called NYCAP. 224 00:19:45,701 --> 00:19:52,901 Admiral Farney, who was at the time in World War II, considered the guided missile scientist 225 00:19:52,901 --> 00:19:58,420 of the Navy, helped found and became the chairman of NYCAP. 226 00:19:58,420 --> 00:20:04,940 Even more interesting, the other member of NYCAP was the first head of the CIA, Admiral 227 00:20:04,940 --> 00:20:07,460 Hillencautter. 228 00:20:07,460 --> 00:20:13,180 If there was anyone who should know if UFOs were real or not, you would think it would 229 00:20:13,180 --> 00:20:17,060 be the head of the Central Intelligence Agency. 230 00:20:17,060 --> 00:20:24,540 In 1960, rear Admiral Hillencautter stated the following three things. 231 00:20:24,540 --> 00:20:28,619 One, that the UFO phenomenon was real. 232 00:20:28,619 --> 00:20:31,619 Two, that it was not Soviet. 233 00:20:31,619 --> 00:20:38,619 And three, that we had not adequately studied scientifically the UFO phenomenon. 234 00:20:43,339 --> 00:20:50,819 A former director of the CIA admitting that the UFO phenomenon is real? 235 00:20:50,819 --> 00:20:56,698 Might Admiral Hillencautter have come across definitive evidence of alien craft visiting 236 00:20:56,698 --> 00:20:58,538 Earth? 237 00:20:58,538 --> 00:21:04,738 Despite his audacious statement, the government maintained its position that no UFO reports 238 00:21:04,738 --> 00:21:07,458 had proved credible. 239 00:21:07,578 --> 00:21:15,018 But the number of public UFO societies continued to grow. 240 00:21:15,018 --> 00:21:23,937 On May 31, 1969, April member Walt Andrus created his own volunteer-based organization 241 00:21:23,937 --> 00:21:28,617 that combined Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. 242 00:21:28,617 --> 00:21:34,657 What started as the Midwest UFO network would ultimately change its name to the Mutual UFO 243 00:21:34,657 --> 00:21:37,017 Network or MUFON. 244 00:21:37,057 --> 00:21:43,537 When it grew to become the largest UFO investigation organization in the world. 245 00:21:43,537 --> 00:21:47,696 MUFON now has thousands of members. 246 00:21:47,696 --> 00:21:54,816 They have state directors and field investigators covering the entire United States and indeed 247 00:21:54,816 --> 00:21:57,376 a number of other countries too. 248 00:21:57,376 --> 00:22:04,976 And unlike the way in which things were done in APRO days, MUFON's model involves giving 249 00:22:05,056 --> 00:22:07,376 a lot of autonomy to the states. 250 00:22:07,376 --> 00:22:12,815 They organize their own conferences, they handle research projects and they literally 251 00:22:12,815 --> 00:22:17,055 get boots on the ground and go out and investigate. 252 00:22:17,055 --> 00:22:22,575 These organizations became very popular because there was an overall change and shift in the 253 00:22:22,575 --> 00:22:24,795 thinking of what these phenomena were. 254 00:22:24,795 --> 00:22:28,775 People were now coming out and looking up to the skies just to look for the possibility 255 00:22:28,775 --> 00:22:30,575 that there could be something up there. 256 00:22:30,575 --> 00:22:33,575 Understanding the potential of what these objects could be. 257 00:22:35,935 --> 00:22:41,254 According to ancient astronaut theorists, aliens have been visiting Earth throughout 258 00:22:41,254 --> 00:22:43,934 mankind's history. 259 00:22:43,934 --> 00:22:50,574 So why is it that so many people in the mid-20th century suddenly became obsessed with finding 260 00:22:50,574 --> 00:22:55,214 evidence of extraterrestrial encounters? 261 00:22:55,214 --> 00:23:01,614 Some suggest that the aliens themselves may in fact be responsible for this increased 262 00:23:01,614 --> 00:23:02,614 awareness. 263 00:23:03,613 --> 00:23:11,213 Carl Lawrence's setting up of APRO and Walter Andrus' breakaway organization MUFON. 264 00:23:11,213 --> 00:23:15,933 All of these were inspired by personal UFO encounters. 265 00:23:15,933 --> 00:23:20,893 So could it be that there was more than chance alone at work here? 266 00:23:20,893 --> 00:23:29,692 Could it be that some force was somehow targeting people like Carl Lawrence and Walter Andrus? 267 00:23:29,692 --> 00:23:36,452 Is there an overseeing presence that lies behind these apparently chance encounters? 268 00:23:39,132 --> 00:23:44,292 Could it be that while extraterrestrials have kept their presence concealed from humanity 269 00:23:44,292 --> 00:23:51,452 at large, they have chosen specific individuals as emissaries that will ultimately reveal 270 00:23:51,452 --> 00:23:54,892 a greater truth? 271 00:23:55,092 --> 00:24:02,771 Or if so, might their plan to reconnect with humanity have been set in motion in 1934, 272 00:24:02,771 --> 00:24:10,251 when nine-year-old Carl Lorenzen first spotted a strange object in the sky? 273 00:24:10,251 --> 00:24:18,331 Perhaps further answers can be found by examining efforts to not only find evidence of extraterrestrials, 274 00:24:18,331 --> 00:24:19,411 but to contact them. 275 00:24:25,890 --> 00:24:33,570 Delaware, Ohio, August 15, 1977. 276 00:24:33,570 --> 00:24:40,050 At Ohio State University's Big Ear Radio Telescope, astronomer Jerry R. Amon conducts 277 00:24:40,050 --> 00:24:46,970 research for SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. 278 00:24:46,970 --> 00:24:52,769 While reviewing recorded data, he detects a highly unusual signal originating from the 279 00:24:52,769 --> 00:24:56,369 constellation Sagittarius. 280 00:24:56,369 --> 00:25:03,409 They're looking for this bandwidth of 1,420 megahertz, and specifically they believe that 281 00:25:03,409 --> 00:25:09,809 this bandwidth corresponds to water and that intelligent civilizations might encode the 282 00:25:09,809 --> 00:25:13,529 electromagnetic frequency of water with a detectable signal. 283 00:25:13,529 --> 00:25:19,968 So there's Jerry Amon on the Big Ear Telescope doing his SETI work, and a 72-second burst 284 00:25:19,968 --> 00:25:24,568 comes in on the 1,420 megahertz signal. 285 00:25:24,568 --> 00:25:32,528 72 seconds of very bizarre static that does not look natural, it looks artificial, it looks 286 00:25:32,528 --> 00:25:37,368 like something that was intelligently built and sent. 287 00:25:37,368 --> 00:25:45,087 So he writes, wow, next to this part of the readout, and it is now known as the wow signal. 288 00:25:45,087 --> 00:25:50,207 And still to this day, the wow signal has never been properly explained, nor has it 289 00:25:50,207 --> 00:25:53,887 been deciphered. 290 00:25:53,887 --> 00:25:58,967 While there are various theories as to what may have caused the now famous wow signal, 291 00:25:58,967 --> 00:26:06,047 from terrestrial radio broadcasts to comet trails, SETI has not ruled out the possibility 292 00:26:06,047 --> 00:26:12,886 that it may represent modern man's first radio contact with extraterrestrials. 293 00:26:12,886 --> 00:26:21,166 And they have plans to reexamine the area where it originated in the near future. 294 00:26:21,166 --> 00:26:26,886 To get a first-hand look into this continued search for extraterrestrial life, in March 295 00:26:26,886 --> 00:26:34,565 of 2016, researcher and publisher, Georgiosuklos, traveled to the Allen Telescope Array in 296 00:26:34,565 --> 00:26:41,805 Hat Creek, California, where he met with the director for SETI research, Seth Shostak. 297 00:26:41,805 --> 00:26:43,205 This is truly amazing. 298 00:26:43,205 --> 00:26:44,925 What can you tell me about this place? 299 00:26:44,925 --> 00:26:48,765 Well, this place is an observatory, but it's a radio observatory. 300 00:26:48,765 --> 00:26:53,005 So these things around us, these 42 antennas, they pick up radio waves. 301 00:26:53,005 --> 00:26:57,045 And we're trying to pick up very special sort of radio waves, namely some that would tell 302 00:26:57,045 --> 00:26:58,685 us somebody's out there. 303 00:26:58,685 --> 00:27:02,644 By having lots of these dishes here, we can look at more of the sky at once. 304 00:27:02,644 --> 00:27:05,964 We can look at multiple star systems at once. 305 00:27:05,964 --> 00:27:07,804 Why radio waves? 306 00:27:07,804 --> 00:27:10,644 What's so significant about radio waves? 307 00:27:10,644 --> 00:27:12,644 Radio waves go at the speed of light. 308 00:27:12,644 --> 00:27:16,964 And they also, by the way, go through all the gas and dust that's between the stars. 309 00:27:16,964 --> 00:27:21,764 So if you want to communicate from one part of the galaxy to another, radio waves are 310 00:27:21,764 --> 00:27:24,324 a great way to do it. 311 00:27:24,324 --> 00:27:27,363 So the way this works is actually kind of simple. 312 00:27:27,363 --> 00:27:32,043 The cosmic radio static, it comes in from the sky, and it bounces off that big reflector 313 00:27:32,043 --> 00:27:33,843 there, that first one. 314 00:27:33,843 --> 00:27:35,883 That's a mirror for radio waves. 315 00:27:35,883 --> 00:27:40,563 And that redirects them to this secondary reflector on the end, on the nose there. 316 00:27:40,563 --> 00:27:42,923 And then they're directed to the receiver. 317 00:27:42,923 --> 00:27:44,603 That's inside. 318 00:27:44,603 --> 00:27:49,163 That information goes through a fiber optic over to the control room. 319 00:27:49,163 --> 00:27:53,642 So this is where the data coming through the fiber optic kind of ends up after it's been 320 00:27:53,642 --> 00:27:55,922 processed in a display like this. 321 00:27:55,922 --> 00:27:57,682 And what are we looking at right here? 322 00:27:57,682 --> 00:28:00,882 So we're looking, in this case, at three star systems at once. 323 00:28:00,882 --> 00:28:01,882 Okay? 324 00:28:01,882 --> 00:28:02,882 So that speeds up the search. 325 00:28:02,882 --> 00:28:07,322 It also allows us to determine whether we're really seeing ET or just interference. 326 00:28:07,322 --> 00:28:10,962 The data from one of these star systems is being displayed over on this part of the screen 327 00:28:10,962 --> 00:28:11,962 here. 328 00:28:11,962 --> 00:28:13,162 This is called a waterfall plot. 329 00:28:13,162 --> 00:28:14,162 That. 330 00:28:14,162 --> 00:28:16,762 Can you see that line of brighter dots there? 331 00:28:16,762 --> 00:28:22,561 Yeah, that's a slightly more static at that frequency slowly going down the dot. 332 00:28:22,561 --> 00:28:24,001 That's the kind of thing we're looking for. 333 00:28:24,001 --> 00:28:28,721 So then if this here were an actual ET signal, how would it differentiate itself? 334 00:28:29,041 --> 00:28:34,281 Would it be a bit thicker, a bit more pronounced, a bit longer, or what are you looking for? 335 00:28:34,281 --> 00:28:35,401 It could be all of those things. 336 00:28:35,401 --> 00:28:39,201 So what you do is when you find a signal like this, you make a test, you'll just move the 337 00:28:39,201 --> 00:28:41,801 antennas a little bit and see if the signal goes away. 338 00:28:41,801 --> 00:28:44,601 And then point it back at the start and see if it comes back. 339 00:28:44,601 --> 00:28:46,240 You say, well, that's looking promising. 340 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,280 You do that again, go off, go on, go off, go on. 341 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,280 If you do that five or ten times, you start to get excited. 342 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:56,080 I hope that that day will come very soon. 343 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,520 The WAU signal continues to intrigue people. 344 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:04,080 So we are going to use the Allen telescope array to re-observe the WAU signal, look in 345 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:08,360 the same spot on the sky, look over a wider range of frequencies. 346 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,599 And if there's something up there and it's still broadcasting, of course we would find 347 00:29:11,599 --> 00:29:13,599 it. 348 00:29:13,599 --> 00:29:17,839 WAU SETI has yet to find an explanation for the WAU signal. 349 00:29:17,839 --> 00:29:23,599 NASA's Kepler telescope team has continued to search for signs of alien life in other 350 00:29:23,599 --> 00:29:25,399 solar systems. 351 00:29:25,399 --> 00:29:33,719 Despite the U.S. government's open denial of extraterrestrial contact, in September 352 00:29:33,719 --> 00:29:41,598 2015, after more than five years of research, members of the Kepler team revealed some incredible 353 00:29:41,598 --> 00:29:51,518 findings coming from the star KIC 846-2852, also known as Tabby's Star, named for the 354 00:29:51,518 --> 00:29:53,918 astronomer who discovered it. 355 00:29:53,918 --> 00:30:02,958 What we see from Tabby's Star is changes in light output that are not attributable to 356 00:30:02,958 --> 00:30:11,477 comets, to planets, to asteroids, or to other fragments that would orbit the star. 357 00:30:11,477 --> 00:30:19,957 We're seeing quasi-periodic dimmings of the light that can be as much as a 21% reduction 358 00:30:19,957 --> 00:30:22,797 in the luminosity that's coming out of the star. 359 00:30:22,797 --> 00:30:28,437 Now we have the scientists who are publishing papers in which they propose that one of the 360 00:30:28,437 --> 00:30:34,556 explanations for what they're seeing is a massive extraterrestrial construct akin to 361 00:30:34,556 --> 00:30:37,956 something known as a Dyson Sphere. 362 00:30:37,956 --> 00:30:43,396 The Dyson Sphere is actually a gigantic structure built around a star which harnesses the energy 363 00:30:43,396 --> 00:30:52,156 of the star and could in fact be used to travel from one place to another within the galaxy. 364 00:30:52,516 --> 00:30:58,915 This story is a total game changer because it suggests that a type 2 civilization, a 365 00:30:58,915 --> 00:31:04,435 civilization that can harness the power of an entire star actually does exist and we 366 00:31:04,435 --> 00:31:09,475 can see it with our telescopes. 367 00:31:09,475 --> 00:31:14,755 Is it possible that astronomers hunting for habitable planets may have accidentally discovered 368 00:31:14,755 --> 00:31:19,155 the first extrasolar civilization? 369 00:31:19,155 --> 00:31:20,515 What if so? 370 00:31:20,515 --> 00:31:27,194 Why does the US government continue to deny extraterrestrial contact? 371 00:31:27,194 --> 00:31:34,194 While the true cause behind the light patterns coming from Tabby Star has yet to be discovered, 372 00:31:34,194 --> 00:31:40,714 ancient astronaut theorists suggest that world governments have ramped up the hunt for extraterrestrial 373 00:31:40,714 --> 00:31:44,674 life because they already know it exists. 374 00:31:49,154 --> 00:31:59,193 Toronto, Canada, September 2005. 375 00:31:59,193 --> 00:32:07,673 Paul Hellyer, who served as the Canadian Minister of National Defense from 1963 to 1967, makes 376 00:32:07,673 --> 00:32:14,513 worldwide headlines by announcing his belief in the existence of UFOs and that the United 377 00:32:14,553 --> 00:32:19,272 States government has made great efforts to conceal knowledge of their existence for 378 00:32:19,272 --> 00:32:21,472 decades. 379 00:32:21,472 --> 00:32:27,152 To date, Mr. Hellyer remains the highest ranking government official to ever publicly declare 380 00:32:27,152 --> 00:32:28,152 this information. 381 00:32:28,152 --> 00:32:35,472 I came to the conclusion that there are issues here so profound for the future of the United 382 00:32:35,472 --> 00:32:43,831 States and the world that they have to be discussed openly and intelligently. 383 00:32:43,831 --> 00:32:49,231 And one of them, of course, was the possibility the US could get us in an intergalactic war. 384 00:32:49,231 --> 00:32:57,671 And so I decided that I should speak out UFOs are as real as the airplanes flying overhead. 385 00:32:57,671 --> 00:33:02,351 This was actually paralleling something that Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the 386 00:33:02,351 --> 00:33:09,110 surface of the moon, suggested that there were multiple alien races visiting the Earth. 387 00:33:09,110 --> 00:33:13,390 This is not unknown knowledge. 388 00:33:13,390 --> 00:33:18,670 There are people that know and there seems to be many different, perhaps several different 389 00:33:18,670 --> 00:33:24,590 species of aliens visiting here and it looks like likely they have been for a long, long 390 00:33:24,590 --> 00:33:26,710 time. 391 00:33:26,710 --> 00:33:33,670 People in the military have witnessed UFO operations around our military facilities 392 00:33:33,670 --> 00:33:41,149 and there's been quite a number of reports of attempts to destroy some of our missile 393 00:33:41,149 --> 00:33:44,149 tests and the missiles in flight. 394 00:33:44,149 --> 00:33:49,509 They are not particularly pleased the alien visitors with our warlike capabilities and 395 00:33:49,509 --> 00:33:54,029 our nuclear capabilities. 396 00:33:54,029 --> 00:33:59,549 UFO researchers have suggested that the US military has secretly built an installation 397 00:33:59,549 --> 00:34:04,068 on the surface of the moon to help combat an alien threat. 398 00:34:04,068 --> 00:34:08,428 If there are extraterrestrials visiting the Earth and their potentially hostile, it would 399 00:34:08,428 --> 00:34:15,148 make a great deal of sense that we would be prepared for this. 400 00:34:15,148 --> 00:34:19,548 A secret military installation on the moon? 401 00:34:19,548 --> 00:34:25,268 Could such claims, along with those made by former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer 402 00:34:25,268 --> 00:34:31,867 and Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, really be true? 403 00:34:31,867 --> 00:34:40,827 Perhaps further clues can be found by examining recently declassified documents. 404 00:34:40,827 --> 00:34:44,627 July 20th, 2014. 405 00:34:44,627 --> 00:34:51,307 The United States Army declassifies and discloses one of its biggest secret missions, Project 406 00:34:51,307 --> 00:34:53,627 Horizon. 407 00:34:53,627 --> 00:35:00,226 Project Horizon's mandate was to create by 1966, three years before the first NASA landing 408 00:35:00,226 --> 00:35:05,266 of men on the moon, a military base which could hold at least 20 individuals and which 409 00:35:05,266 --> 00:35:07,466 would be expanded on over time as well. 410 00:35:07,466 --> 00:35:12,706 It would be nuclear powered, it would have its own water supply, oxygen and it really 411 00:35:12,706 --> 00:35:18,386 would be the moon equivalent of a military installation. 412 00:35:18,386 --> 00:35:26,345 The feeling was from Vernevon Brown, from NASA and indeed from the entire government 413 00:35:26,345 --> 00:35:30,385 that space would become an important battlefield. 414 00:35:30,385 --> 00:35:35,625 We talk about conventional warfare and how that would play out. 415 00:35:35,625 --> 00:35:44,185 It's fairly clear that if there is another war, that space will be a battlefield. 416 00:35:44,185 --> 00:35:50,264 The United States has been working for a long time in building new weapons based on the technology 417 00:35:50,264 --> 00:35:51,704 that they've gained. 418 00:35:51,704 --> 00:35:56,304 If you control one of the approaches to the earth, it gives you an advantage that you 419 00:35:56,304 --> 00:35:58,424 wouldn't otherwise have. 420 00:35:58,424 --> 00:36:04,544 Also, it's a launching pad for anything you want to do on earth. 421 00:36:04,544 --> 00:36:10,784 Could it be, as some ancient astronaut theorists can tell, that the US military was successful 422 00:36:10,784 --> 00:36:17,383 in the construction of a military base on the surface of the moon? 423 00:36:17,383 --> 00:36:22,263 While the stated mission goal was to establish dominance over the Soviet Union during the 424 00:36:22,263 --> 00:36:29,223 Cold War, many believe the effort was not against an antagonistic global superpower, 425 00:36:29,223 --> 00:36:33,743 but an unknown extraterrestrial force. 426 00:36:33,743 --> 00:36:37,543 This is even further expanded upon when we look at Reagan's legacy and some of these things 427 00:36:37,543 --> 00:36:39,542 like the Star Wars initiative. 428 00:36:39,542 --> 00:36:43,982 So it's very possible that when we look at what was happening in the Cold War era, maybe 429 00:36:43,982 --> 00:36:48,022 they were trying to divert attention to what was really going on. 430 00:36:48,022 --> 00:36:52,822 And that could have been some type of collaboration between us and Russia of putting a space base 431 00:36:52,822 --> 00:36:58,022 on the moon or doing some other type of space platform that currently now exists within 432 00:36:58,022 --> 00:37:01,102 our solar system. 433 00:37:01,102 --> 00:37:10,261 There's no doubt in my mind that Star Wars, initiated by President Reagan, was more related 434 00:37:10,261 --> 00:37:17,341 to the possibility of being able to take the extraterrestrials on for size than it was 435 00:37:17,341 --> 00:37:21,141 against rogue states. 436 00:37:21,141 --> 00:37:26,901 All of the best information available is that it wasn't more intended as a possible defense 437 00:37:26,901 --> 00:37:34,380 against UFOs than it was against rogue missiles. 438 00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:40,940 The recent disclosure of Project Horizon only served to try to dissuade inquiry into a real 439 00:37:40,940 --> 00:37:45,620 and escalating military presence in space. 440 00:37:45,620 --> 00:37:52,100 And if so, is the military preparing to actively hunt out the aliens they've known about for 441 00:37:52,100 --> 00:37:55,500 decades? 442 00:37:55,500 --> 00:38:01,939 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest that with the recent NASA project, the U.S. 443 00:38:02,019 --> 00:38:07,659 government has reportedly enlisted average citizens in the hunt for extraterrestrial 444 00:38:07,659 --> 00:38:12,779 life. 445 00:38:12,779 --> 00:38:17,499 April 21, 2015. 446 00:38:17,499 --> 00:38:23,339 NASA launches an unprecedented initiative that creates a coalition of scientific experts 447 00:38:23,339 --> 00:38:30,418 with a mandate to lead the search for life in the universe. 448 00:38:30,418 --> 00:38:36,058 This scientific endeavor, known as the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science, or Nexus for 449 00:38:36,058 --> 00:38:42,338 short, is a game changer in the discovery of alien life. 450 00:38:42,338 --> 00:38:47,418 The Nexus is a multi-discipline, multi-institute approach to try to answer the big question 451 00:38:47,418 --> 00:38:49,898 of are we alone in the galaxy? 452 00:38:49,898 --> 00:38:53,937 The Nexus includes researchers from multiple institutions in different subfields. 453 00:38:53,937 --> 00:38:59,897 It includes astrophysicists, planetary scientists, earth scientists, and even heliophysicists, 454 00:39:00,017 --> 00:39:03,977 people who study the sun, so we can put all of the different pieces together and really 455 00:39:03,977 --> 00:39:08,177 learn what makes a planet tick and what kind of planets might have life on them and if 456 00:39:08,177 --> 00:39:15,177 those planets do exist, whether they have life at all. 457 00:39:15,177 --> 00:39:22,736 Since the launch of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, more than 2,000 exoplanets, a planet 458 00:39:22,736 --> 00:39:28,456 that orbits around another star, have been found, with thousands of additional candidates 459 00:39:28,456 --> 00:39:31,616 awaiting research and confirmation. 460 00:39:31,616 --> 00:39:37,136 The Planet Hunters Project was the brainchild of NASA and Yale researchers. 461 00:39:37,136 --> 00:39:42,176 The idea of the project is to allow average, everyday people, citizen scientists, as we 462 00:39:42,176 --> 00:39:45,655 call them, the opportunity to discover planets. 463 00:39:45,655 --> 00:39:49,495 Citizen scientists have actually done a tremendous service to the astrophysical community by looking 464 00:39:49,495 --> 00:39:53,135 at Kepler data through the Planet Hunters portal. 465 00:39:53,135 --> 00:39:56,895 Citizen scientists have really accelerated the pace of exoplanet discoveries because 466 00:39:56,895 --> 00:40:04,375 that core of 260,000 people has looked at 20 million light-curbs by eye. 467 00:40:04,375 --> 00:40:07,855 It's really interesting that NASA's doing this because the fact is that they wouldn't 468 00:40:07,855 --> 00:40:13,814 be doing it unless they believe that there were A, habitable exoplanets out there, B, 469 00:40:13,814 --> 00:40:18,894 that the general public could help in finding them and C, that there might be alien life 470 00:40:18,894 --> 00:40:22,654 on those planets. 471 00:40:22,654 --> 00:40:27,254 As the executive director of MUFON, I can tell you this shift has already started. 472 00:40:27,254 --> 00:40:32,874 We get calls from credible scientists, engineers, politicians, and our staff who want to know 473 00:40:32,874 --> 00:40:38,413 more about this phenomenon because they realize that it is in fact real. 474 00:40:38,413 --> 00:40:43,373 So as we look into this question of who they are, why they're here, and where they're 475 00:40:43,373 --> 00:40:48,933 from, I think we'll learn more about ourselves, about who we are, where we're from, and why 476 00:40:48,933 --> 00:40:51,813 we're here. 477 00:40:51,813 --> 00:40:55,813 In the search for extraterrestrial life, there are a number of questions that need 478 00:40:55,813 --> 00:40:56,813 to be asked. 479 00:40:56,813 --> 00:40:58,853 Where is this going to lead to? 480 00:40:58,853 --> 00:41:00,573 What are the implications? 481 00:41:00,573 --> 00:41:04,492 If we find extraterrestrials are benevolent, well, that's good news. 482 00:41:04,492 --> 00:41:05,732 It's going to help us. 483 00:41:05,732 --> 00:41:12,212 If we find out they're malevolent and hostile, we could find ourselves in quite literally 484 00:41:12,212 --> 00:41:17,612 a world war. 485 00:41:17,612 --> 00:41:24,652 Is it possible that governments around the world are now openly on the hunt for extraterrestrials 486 00:41:24,652 --> 00:41:29,011 because they already have knowledge of their existence? 487 00:41:29,011 --> 00:41:37,091 And if so, has the point finally come when this truth can no longer be covered up? 488 00:41:37,091 --> 00:41:42,731 Perhaps it will soon be revealed that aliens have been visiting Earth for thousands of 489 00:41:42,731 --> 00:41:51,691 years and that we are not searching for proof of their existence but watching for their 490 00:41:51,691 --> 00:41:52,251 return.