1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,680 Many governments all of a sudden are now involved in the search for extraterrestrial life. 2 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,540 You have to wonder why. 3 00:00:11,540 --> 00:00:20,720 Between 1948 and 1969, the US Air Force collected 12,618 UFO reports. 4 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:24,120 It was actually required that all officers fill out a form if they saw anything that 5 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:28,520 might be regarded as a flying saucer, and they were told not to discuss their sighting with 6 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:30,960 anyone. 7 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:36,180 We have to be open to the possibility that the US government is absolutely aware of extraterrestrial 8 00:00:36,180 --> 00:00:39,080 involvement in human affairs. 9 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:46,760 Since the dawn of civilization, mankind has credited its origins to gods and other visitors 10 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:48,560 from the stars. 11 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,540 What if it were true? 12 00:00:51,540 --> 00:00:57,300 Most extraterrestrial beings really helped to shape our history. 13 00:00:57,300 --> 00:01:02,300 And if so, could the truth be exposed by the alien hunters? 14 00:01:21,540 --> 00:01:41,060 London, England, July 20, 2015. 15 00:01:41,060 --> 00:01:48,060 A consortium of the world's leading scientists, including theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking 16 00:01:48,180 --> 00:01:55,500 and SETI founder Frank Drake, gather at London's Royal Society as Russian billionaire and technology 17 00:01:55,500 --> 00:02:00,780 tycoon, Yuri Milner, announces his ambitious initiative. 18 00:02:00,780 --> 00:02:02,820 Breakthrough, listen. 19 00:02:02,820 --> 00:02:07,620 The scope of our search will be unprecedented. 20 00:02:07,620 --> 00:02:14,500 The project is a 10-year, $100 million search for intelligent extraterrestrial life that 21 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:20,260 is widely regarded as the most comprehensive search for alien communications in recorded 22 00:02:20,260 --> 00:02:22,380 history. 23 00:02:22,380 --> 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 --> 00:02:54,900 I think there's definitely been a turning point regarding the overall consensus about 30 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:57,460 the possibility of extraterrestrial life. 31 00:02:57,460 --> 00:03:03,820 Now that we're able to document and scientifically see out in the universe the possibility of 32 00:03:03,820 --> 00:03:09,340 planets that could sustain life, it also allows us the opportunity to know the odds that there 33 00:03:09,340 --> 00:03:11,700 is life out there is undoubtable. 34 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:16,580 Breakthrough, listen. 35 00:03:16,580 --> 00:03:22,500 Marks the first time that mainstream scientists have launched a major project with the explicit 36 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:29,180 purpose of finding intelligent extraterrestrial life. 37 00:03:29,180 --> 00:03:35,220 During the announcement, Stephen Hawking stated, in an infinite universe, there must be other 38 00:03:35,220 --> 00:03:36,340 life. 39 00:03:36,340 --> 00:03:38,580 There is no bigger question. 40 00:03:38,580 --> 00:03:43,580 It is time to commit to finding the answer. 41 00:03:43,580 --> 00:03:49,540 While this new initiative is monumental, the hunt for the existence of life beyond Earth 42 00:03:49,540 --> 00:03:53,020 has persisted for many decades. 43 00:03:53,020 --> 00:03:59,780 Starting around 1947, a series of events forced certain high level members within the United 44 00:03:59,780 --> 00:04:05,180 States government to officially become alien hunters. 45 00:04:05,180 --> 00:04:11,500 When you look at the year 1947, the statistics are that there were at least 800 reports to 46 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:16,860 police and airports of people saying that they were seeing something in the sky. 47 00:04:16,860 --> 00:04:19,020 They didn't know what it was. 48 00:04:19,020 --> 00:04:25,100 And probably the most important and the one that made worldwide headlines was near Mount 49 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:28,180 Rainier in Washington. 50 00:04:28,180 --> 00:04:34,580 On June 24, 1947, a businessman and pilot named Kenneth Arnold was flying near Mount Rainier 51 00:04:34,580 --> 00:04:37,260 in Washington state. 52 00:04:37,260 --> 00:04:42,540 As he was flying around the mountain, he suddenly caught sight of a squadron of strange looking 53 00:04:42,540 --> 00:04:43,540 objects. 54 00:04:43,540 --> 00:04:47,940 He could not figure out what they were. 55 00:04:47,940 --> 00:04:51,420 He was able to time them as they went between two mountain peaks, which he knew the exact 56 00:04:51,420 --> 00:04:57,300 distance of, and calculated their speed at between 1,200 and 1,700 miles an hour. 57 00:04:57,300 --> 00:05:01,940 Well, in that day, we didn't have aircraft that could go faster than about five or 600 58 00:05:01,940 --> 00:05:02,940 miles an hour. 59 00:05:02,940 --> 00:05:08,220 That was definitely something not of terrestrial origin. 60 00:05:08,220 --> 00:05:13,820 He later described the objects as being somewhat delta shaped and flying as if you were to 61 00:05:13,820 --> 00:05:17,300 skip a saucer across a body of water. 62 00:05:17,300 --> 00:05:22,300 And this gave rise to the term flying saucer. 63 00:05:22,300 --> 00:05:27,740 Within days of Arnold's report being published, there were literally 20 other reports of similar 64 00:05:27,740 --> 00:05:32,580 objects seen in the sky around the northwest of the United States. 65 00:05:32,580 --> 00:05:40,620 This opened the floodgates for literally hundreds of reports to pour in. 66 00:05:40,620 --> 00:05:49,700 Just two weeks after this flurry of UFO sightings, the infamous Roswell incidents occurred. 67 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:55,140 But it was actually a sighting that happened a day earlier that thrust military officials 68 00:05:55,140 --> 00:05:58,420 into the hunt. 69 00:05:58,420 --> 00:06:05,660 On July 7, 1947, at Edwards Air Force Base, then called Maroc Air Base, Major J.C. 70 00:06:05,660 --> 00:06:12,260 Wise was sitting in his XP-84 fighter jet experimental aircraft when he noticed that 71 00:06:12,260 --> 00:06:15,940 people on the ground were watching an object off in the distance. 72 00:06:15,940 --> 00:06:22,100 He looked and saw a bright spinning yellow object about 10,000 feet in the air that was 73 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:27,040 a ball of about 5 to 10 feet in diameter. 74 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,540 After the sighting, it was actually required that all officers fill out a form if they 75 00:06:30,540 --> 00:06:34,160 saw anything that might be regarded as a UFO or a flying saucer. 76 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:38,320 And in addition to that, they were told not to discuss their sighting or what was on their 77 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,580 report with anyone. 78 00:06:41,580 --> 00:06:46,320 In the wake of the incredible number of UFO reports that reached the military in the 79 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:54,420 summer of 1947, Lieutenant General Nathan Twining at Wright Field created a new order 80 00:06:54,420 --> 00:06:58,940 to ensure that all UFO reports reached the military. 81 00:06:58,940 --> 00:07:04,780 This led to the creation of the first official UFO research program on the part of the military 82 00:07:04,780 --> 00:07:09,880 known as Project Sine. 83 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:20,180 On January 22, 1948, the U.S. government authorized its first official study of the UFO phenomenon. 84 00:07:20,180 --> 00:07:26,780 The highly classified agenda was known as Project Sine. 85 00:07:26,780 --> 00:07:32,860 Project Sine officially argued that these UFO sightings were authentic and hinted that 86 00:07:32,860 --> 00:07:36,220 they were in fact extraterrestrial in nature. 87 00:07:36,220 --> 00:07:40,980 But higher-ups in the military stepped in and redacted those statements. 88 00:07:40,980 --> 00:07:48,460 Cancelled Project Sine turned it into Project Grudge, which ultimately became Project Bluebook. 89 00:07:48,460 --> 00:07:53,020 The Air Force closed down Bluebook because essentially they said they didn't find any 90 00:07:53,020 --> 00:08:00,740 evidence that UFOs were real or represented a threat to national security. 91 00:08:00,740 --> 00:08:10,100 Between 1948 and 1969, the U.S. Air Force collected 12,618 UFO reports. 92 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:17,060 Of that number, 701 remained unexplained. 93 00:08:17,060 --> 00:08:22,260 While the Air Force's official stance was that Project Bluebook produced no compelling 94 00:08:22,260 --> 00:08:28,740 evidence that extraterrestrial craft occupied Earth's airspace, one important contributor 95 00:08:28,740 --> 00:08:33,940 to the study strongly disagreed. 96 00:08:33,940 --> 00:08:41,340 Dr. J. Allen Heineck, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio State University, 97 00:08:41,340 --> 00:08:49,340 was appointed as scientific advisor for UFO studies during Project Sine, Grudge and Bluebook. 98 00:08:49,340 --> 00:08:55,780 Dr. Heineck was a pure skeptic at the very beginning of his career as a consultant to 99 00:08:55,780 --> 00:08:57,380 the United States Air Force. 100 00:08:57,380 --> 00:09:01,300 In fact, he considered these UFOs to be utterly ridiculous. 101 00:09:01,300 --> 00:09:06,820 But as he got more and more involved and began talking to more and more quality witnesses 102 00:09:06,820 --> 00:09:12,060 like military fighter pilots, it became clear to him that there really was something to 103 00:09:12,060 --> 00:09:14,620 this whole UFO question. 104 00:09:14,620 --> 00:09:19,060 When asked in his later years, what turned him around on the whole UFO question? 105 00:09:19,060 --> 00:09:22,180 Dr. Heineck said two things. 106 00:09:22,180 --> 00:09:28,100 The first is that the Air Force was dead set on putting an answer on every single UFO report, 107 00:09:28,100 --> 00:09:31,860 even if they had to force the answer. 108 00:09:31,860 --> 00:09:37,860 The second is that he started talking to very, very credible witnesses that led him to believe 109 00:09:37,860 --> 00:09:44,380 that these objects were in fact real. 110 00:09:44,380 --> 00:09:51,180 In the intervening years, UFO investigators and scholars have attempted to access Project 111 00:09:51,180 --> 00:09:56,740 Bluebook case files utilizing the Freedom of Information Act. 112 00:09:56,740 --> 00:10:03,140 But the names, details and other personal information of all the witnesses and sightings 113 00:10:03,140 --> 00:10:10,340 have been blacked out from the documents, preventing any further examination. 114 00:10:10,340 --> 00:10:15,100 Considering the way the U.S. government has labeled UFOs top secret, we have to at least 115 00:10:15,100 --> 00:10:19,220 be open to the possibility that higher-ups within the U.S. government, or even those 116 00:10:19,220 --> 00:10:24,060 higher than the U.S. government, are absolutely aware of extraterrestrial involvement in human 117 00:10:24,060 --> 00:10:31,300 affairs and have sought to cover up this phenomenon for the past six decades. 118 00:10:31,300 --> 00:10:35,900 Considering the top secret nature of these projects, is it possible that the incredible 119 00:10:35,900 --> 00:10:42,620 claims of Dr. J. Allen Heineck are true, and that actual contact with extraterrestrial 120 00:10:42,620 --> 00:10:49,140 craft has been concealed from the general population? 121 00:10:49,140 --> 00:10:56,060 Astronaut theorists say yes and claim that mankind has had contact with aliens since 122 00:10:56,060 --> 00:11:03,020 our earliest civilizations. 123 00:11:03,020 --> 00:11:11,420 Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, January 28, 2016. 124 00:11:11,420 --> 00:11:20,020 The professor of science, Dr. J. Allen Heineck, is a professor of science, Dr. J. Allen. 125 00:11:20,020 --> 00:11:26,340 He has discovered evidence that astronomers living in the ancient city of Babylon invented 126 00:11:26,340 --> 00:11:37,740 sophisticated mathematical equations to track the movement of Jupiter some 2,000 years ago. 127 00:11:37,740 --> 00:11:41,700 When modern astronomers think about the timing of events in the solar system, we use very 128 00:11:41,700 --> 00:11:45,860 complicated computer programs that take into account things like special relativity and 129 00:11:45,860 --> 00:11:48,100 general relativity. 130 00:11:48,100 --> 00:11:52,300 We didn't think that ancient astronomers would have had the capacity to make the same calculations 131 00:11:52,300 --> 00:11:54,020 we do today. 132 00:11:54,020 --> 00:11:57,820 We knew that the Babylonians were able to predict when Venus would appear and which 133 00:11:57,820 --> 00:12:01,380 constellations would be up at certain times of the year, but we never would have expected 134 00:12:01,380 --> 00:12:05,300 that they were using one of the precursors to calculus to figure out the motions of Jupiter 135 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:07,660 in the sky. 136 00:12:07,660 --> 00:12:11,020 When the Babylonians looked where Jupiter was in the sky, they would record where it 137 00:12:11,020 --> 00:12:13,740 was one night and they would draw a point on a graph. 138 00:12:13,740 --> 00:12:18,500 They would record the time on the bottom axis and the position on the top axis. 139 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:20,900 They do this the next night and they see Jupiter was over here. 140 00:12:20,900 --> 00:12:24,420 And then the next night it's over there and over there. 141 00:12:24,420 --> 00:12:29,380 And they could then draw a order down to the time axis and then they draw a line. 142 00:12:29,380 --> 00:12:34,980 So you end up with a trapezoid in space. 143 00:12:34,980 --> 00:12:40,340 How did the ancient Babylonians understand mathematical concepts that were thought to 144 00:12:40,340 --> 00:12:45,980 have been developed by Isaac Newton in the 17th century? 145 00:12:45,980 --> 00:12:51,660 And why were they mysteriously concerned with the precise movements of Jupiter, a planet 146 00:12:51,660 --> 00:13:00,660 that they associated with one of their most important gods, Marduk? 147 00:13:00,660 --> 00:13:06,900 The principal deity of ancient Babylon was Marduk and he was associated with the planet 148 00:13:06,900 --> 00:13:07,900 Jupiter. 149 00:13:07,900 --> 00:13:14,460 And there was a large mythology around his departure and eventual return. 150 00:13:14,460 --> 00:13:19,140 They were very interested in the return of their divinity, so any sign that the planet 151 00:13:19,140 --> 00:13:22,580 Jupiter would give would be of great interest. 152 00:13:22,580 --> 00:13:25,460 Why was Jupiter so important to this culture? 153 00:13:25,460 --> 00:13:30,020 That they actually conscribed it as being one of their gods called Marduk? 154 00:13:30,020 --> 00:13:33,820 Because it that they believed that Marduk came from this planet and would eventually 155 00:13:33,820 --> 00:13:35,740 return one day? 156 00:13:35,740 --> 00:13:39,740 Are they recounting an extraterrestrial visitation from the past? 157 00:13:39,740 --> 00:13:44,660 And were they given this advanced knowledge as a way of knowing of when this extraterrestrial 158 00:13:44,660 --> 00:13:47,780 being would one day return? 159 00:13:47,780 --> 00:13:52,380 It's quite compelling that many ancient cultures went to great lengths to track these celestial 160 00:13:52,380 --> 00:13:57,460 bodies. 161 00:13:57,460 --> 00:14:02,820 Just like the Breakthrough Listen project of today, many ancient cultures took great measures 162 00:14:02,820 --> 00:14:05,900 to study the heavens. 163 00:14:05,900 --> 00:14:09,580 All over the planet there are stone observatories. 164 00:14:09,580 --> 00:14:16,140 These are systems of stones arranged to line up with the planets and celestial moments, 165 00:14:16,140 --> 00:14:21,380 suggesting that the ancients were really quite advanced in their study of the stars to use 166 00:14:21,380 --> 00:14:24,340 these and use them well. 167 00:14:24,340 --> 00:14:29,660 We are fascinated, our current scientists, the accuracy of the alignment that they have 168 00:14:29,660 --> 00:14:35,140 arranged and how they are so similar, these observatories, these configurations all over 169 00:14:35,140 --> 00:14:36,140 the planets. 170 00:14:36,140 --> 00:14:44,580 It would be one thing if we found one ancient megalithic stone observatory, but the fact 171 00:14:44,580 --> 00:14:50,980 is that there are at least ten all around the world that were fashioned in megalithic 172 00:14:50,980 --> 00:14:54,300 structures. 173 00:14:54,300 --> 00:14:57,820 The most popular one is Stonehenge. 174 00:14:57,820 --> 00:15:04,300 Stone observatories, often times not only do they track the stars, but sometimes they 175 00:15:04,300 --> 00:15:10,100 track specific constellations. 176 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:16,100 First and foremost Orion, Sirius and the Pleiades. 177 00:15:16,100 --> 00:15:20,020 So I have to ask the question, why? 178 00:15:20,020 --> 00:15:27,980 Because in association with those observatories we have stories of beings arriving from the 179 00:15:27,980 --> 00:15:34,860 Pleiades, from Sirius and Orion imparting knowledge to our ancestors. 180 00:15:34,860 --> 00:15:42,900 This whole idea of observing the stars is something that is innate in our soul. 181 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:52,420 All of our ancient cultures were visited by the same type of extraterrestrials. 182 00:15:52,420 --> 00:15:58,420 Is it possible that the Babylonians, as well as other ancient civilizations, were watching 183 00:15:58,420 --> 00:16:02,820 the stars for signs of extraterrestrial life? 184 00:16:02,820 --> 00:16:09,820 And if so, were they watching because contact had already been made? 185 00:16:09,820 --> 00:16:14,660 Why were they obsessed with tracking the movements of stars and planets? 186 00:16:14,660 --> 00:16:18,420 Was it just for orientation so they could know what direction they were traveling when 187 00:16:18,420 --> 00:16:21,260 they were navigating on ships? 188 00:16:21,260 --> 00:16:28,380 Or could it be that they were actually visited by beings that came from these planets? 189 00:16:28,380 --> 00:16:33,020 I think absolutely yes. 190 00:16:33,020 --> 00:16:37,900 Could our ancestors, near obsession with the movement of the stars, be proof that they 191 00:16:37,900 --> 00:16:42,500 were in fact the first alien hunters? 192 00:16:42,500 --> 00:16:49,780 If so, could it lead to proof of extraterrestrial contact hundreds or even thousands of years 193 00:16:49,780 --> 00:16:52,180 ago? 194 00:16:52,180 --> 00:16:57,900 And might these ancient stone observatories be leading today's alien hunters towards 195 00:16:57,900 --> 00:17:06,420 the next big discovery? 196 00:17:06,420 --> 00:17:12,980 Karen, Wisconsin, summer 1934. 197 00:17:12,980 --> 00:17:20,780 At the age of nine, Coral Lorenzen spots a saucer-shaped object floating across the sky. 198 00:17:20,780 --> 00:17:29,740 It makes no sound as it moves slowly northwest, before disappearing over the horizon. 199 00:17:29,740 --> 00:17:39,260 The encounter lasts just 20 seconds, but will forever change the course of UFO investigations. 200 00:17:39,260 --> 00:17:45,260 One of the early important UFO researchers in the United States is Coral Lorenzen. 201 00:17:45,260 --> 00:17:51,860 She had a UFO sighting long before the flying saucer wave of the 40s took place, and it 202 00:17:51,860 --> 00:17:54,820 stayed with her whole life. 203 00:17:54,820 --> 00:18:03,020 In August of 1951, Coral took on a role of being a reporter for the Green Bay Press Gazette 204 00:18:03,020 --> 00:18:05,540 and wrote stories about UFOs. 205 00:18:05,540 --> 00:18:12,580 She got lots of responses from other people who had seemed similar objects. 206 00:18:12,580 --> 00:18:20,380 In 1952, Coral and her husband, a former U.S. Army Air Corps officer, Jim Lorenzen, 207 00:18:20,380 --> 00:18:28,900 established the first independent UFO organization known as Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, 208 00:18:28,900 --> 00:18:31,460 or APRO. 209 00:18:31,460 --> 00:18:35,540 Coral was highly disappointed with how the Air Force and the government was handling this 210 00:18:35,540 --> 00:18:37,460 whole UFO question. 211 00:18:37,460 --> 00:18:40,340 She knew that these craft were real. 212 00:18:40,340 --> 00:18:45,340 She felt there needed to be an investigative body not beholden to the government that could 213 00:18:45,340 --> 00:18:48,340 look into this question. 214 00:18:48,340 --> 00:18:54,100 Coral Lorenzen decided the best way to investigate the phenomenon was essentially to set up an 215 00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:59,580 investigative group with people in different disciplines and fields who could look at reports, 216 00:18:59,580 --> 00:19:04,300 study them and determine what the witnesses had seen. 217 00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:10,140 At the height of its success, APRO actually had more than 3,000 members, many of whom 218 00:19:10,140 --> 00:19:16,980 were out in the field investigating things, compiling reports, and really putting together 219 00:19:17,020 --> 00:19:24,460 a huge body of highly credible data, which far exceeded anything really that Blue Book 220 00:19:24,460 --> 00:19:28,100 signed and Grudge were doing. 221 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:33,700 This was the first civilian organization to go and investigate UFOs. 222 00:19:33,700 --> 00:19:41,020 And once she broke the ice on this, other organizations began coming and being created. 223 00:19:41,020 --> 00:19:45,620 One of those organizations was called NYCAP. 224 00:19:45,740 --> 00:19:52,940 Admiral Farney, who was at the time in World War II, considered the guided missile scientist 225 00:19:52,940 --> 00:19:58,460 of the Navy, helped found and became the chairman of NYCAP. 226 00:19:58,460 --> 00:20:04,980 Even more interesting, the other member of NYCAP was the first head of the CIA, Admiral 227 00:20:04,980 --> 00:20:07,500 Hillencautter. 228 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:13,220 If there was anyone who should know if UFOs were real or not, you would think it would 229 00:20:13,220 --> 00:20:17,100 be the head of the Central Intelligence Agency. 230 00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:24,580 In 1960, rear Admiral Hillencautter stated the following three things. 231 00:20:24,580 --> 00:20:28,660 One, that the UFO phenomenon was real. 232 00:20:28,660 --> 00:20:31,660 Two, that it was not Soviet. 233 00:20:31,660 --> 00:20:38,660 And three, that we had not adequately studied scientifically the UFO phenomenon. 234 00:20:43,380 --> 00:20:50,860 A former director of the CIA admitting that the UFO phenomenon is real? 235 00:20:50,860 --> 00:20:56,740 Might Admiral Hillencautter have come across definitive evidence of alien craft visiting 236 00:20:56,740 --> 00:20:58,580 Earth? 237 00:20:58,580 --> 00:21:04,780 Despite his audacious statement, the government maintained its position that no UFO reports 238 00:21:04,780 --> 00:21:07,500 had proved credible. 239 00:21:07,620 --> 00:21:15,060 But the number of public UFO societies continued to grow. 240 00:21:15,060 --> 00:21:23,980 On May 31, 1969, April member Walt Andrus created his own volunteer-based organization 241 00:21:23,980 --> 00:21:28,660 that combined Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. 242 00:21:28,660 --> 00:21:34,700 What started as the Midwest UFO network would ultimately change its name to the Mutual UFO 243 00:21:34,700 --> 00:21:37,060 Network or MUFON. 244 00:21:37,100 --> 00:21:43,580 When it grew to become the largest UFO investigation organization in the world. 245 00:21:43,580 --> 00:21:47,740 MUFON now has thousands of members. 246 00:21:47,740 --> 00:21:54,860 They have state directors and field investigators covering the entire United States and indeed 247 00:21:54,860 --> 00:21:57,420 a number of other countries too. 248 00:21:57,420 --> 00:22:05,020 And unlike the way in which things were done in APRO days, MUFON's model involves giving 249 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:07,420 a lot of autonomy to the states. 250 00:22:07,420 --> 00:22:12,860 They organize their own conferences, they handle research projects and they literally 251 00:22:12,860 --> 00:22:17,100 get boots on the ground and go out and investigate. 252 00:22:17,100 --> 00:22:22,620 These organizations became very popular because there was an overall change and shift in the 253 00:22:22,620 --> 00:22:24,840 thinking of what these phenomena were. 254 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,820 People were now coming out and looking up to the skies just to look for the possibility 255 00:22:28,820 --> 00:22:30,620 that there could be something up there. 256 00:22:30,620 --> 00:22:33,620 Understanding the potential of what these objects could be. 257 00:22:35,980 --> 00:22:41,300 According to ancient astronaut theorists, aliens have been visiting Earth throughout 258 00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:43,980 mankind's history. 259 00:22:43,980 --> 00:22:50,620 So why is it that so many people in the mid-20th century suddenly became obsessed with finding 260 00:22:50,620 --> 00:22:55,260 evidence of extraterrestrial encounters? 261 00:22:55,260 --> 00:23:01,660 Some suggest that the aliens themselves may in fact be responsible for this increased 262 00:23:01,660 --> 00:23:02,660 awareness. 263 00:23:03,660 --> 00:23:11,260 Carl Lawrence's setting up of APRO and Walter Andrus' breakaway organization MUFON. 264 00:23:11,260 --> 00:23:15,980 All of these were inspired by personal UFO encounters. 265 00:23:15,980 --> 00:23:20,940 So could it be that there was more than chance alone at work here? 266 00:23:20,940 --> 00:23:29,740 Could it be that some force was somehow targeting people like Carl Lawrence and Walter Andrus? 267 00:23:29,740 --> 00:23:36,500 Is there an overseeing presence that lies behind these apparently chance encounters? 268 00:23:39,180 --> 00:23:44,340 Could it be that while extraterrestrials have kept their presence concealed from humanity 269 00:23:44,340 --> 00:23:51,500 at large, they have chosen specific individuals as emissaries that will ultimately reveal 270 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:54,940 a greater truth? 271 00:23:55,140 --> 00:24:02,820 Or if so, might their plan to reconnect with humanity have been set in motion in 1934, 272 00:24:02,820 --> 00:24:10,300 when nine-year-old Carl Lorenzen first spotted a strange object in the sky? 273 00:24:10,300 --> 00:24:18,380 Perhaps further answers can be found by examining efforts to not only find evidence of extraterrestrials, 274 00:24:18,380 --> 00:24:19,460 but to contact them. 275 00:24:25,940 --> 00:24:33,620 Delaware, Ohio, August 15, 1977. 276 00:24:33,620 --> 00:24:40,100 At Ohio State University's Big Ear Radio Telescope, astronomer Jerry R. Amon conducts 277 00:24:40,100 --> 00:24:47,020 research for SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. 278 00:24:47,020 --> 00:24:52,820 While reviewing recorded data, he detects a highly unusual signal originating from the 279 00:24:52,820 --> 00:24:56,420 constellation Sagittarius. 280 00:24:56,420 --> 00:25:03,460 They're looking for this bandwidth of 1,420 megahertz, and specifically they believe that 281 00:25:03,460 --> 00:25:09,860 this bandwidth corresponds to water and that intelligent civilizations might encode the 282 00:25:09,860 --> 00:25:13,580 electromagnetic frequency of water with a detectable signal. 283 00:25:13,580 --> 00:25:20,020 So there's Jerry Amon on the Big Ear Telescope doing his SETI work, and a 72-second burst 284 00:25:20,020 --> 00:25:24,620 comes in on the 1,420 megahertz signal. 285 00:25:24,620 --> 00:25:32,580 72 seconds of very bizarre static that does not look natural, it looks artificial, it looks 286 00:25:32,580 --> 00:25:37,420 like something that was intelligently built and sent. 287 00:25:37,420 --> 00:25:45,140 So he writes, wow, next to this part of the readout, and it is now known as the wow signal. 288 00:25:45,140 --> 00:25:50,260 And still to this day, the wow signal has never been properly explained, nor has it 289 00:25:50,260 --> 00:25:53,940 been deciphered. 290 00:25:53,940 --> 00:25:59,020 While there are various theories as to what may have caused the now famous wow signal, 291 00:25:59,020 --> 00:26:06,100 from terrestrial radio broadcasts to comet trails, SETI has not ruled out the possibility 292 00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:12,940 that it may represent modern man's first radio contact with extraterrestrials. 293 00:26:12,940 --> 00:26:21,220 And they have plans to reexamine the area where it originated in the near future. 294 00:26:21,220 --> 00:26:26,940 To get a first-hand look into this continued search for extraterrestrial life, in March 295 00:26:26,940 --> 00:26:34,620 of 2016, researcher and publisher, Georgiosuklos, traveled to the Allen Telescope Array in 296 00:26:34,620 --> 00:26:41,860 Hat Creek, California, where he met with the director for SETI research, Seth Shostak. 297 00:26:41,860 --> 00:26:43,260 This is truly amazing. 298 00:26:43,260 --> 00:26:44,980 What can you tell me about this place? 299 00:26:44,980 --> 00:26:48,820 Well, this place is an observatory, but it's a radio observatory. 300 00:26:48,820 --> 00:26:53,060 So these things around us, these 42 antennas, they pick up radio waves. 301 00:26:53,060 --> 00:26:57,100 And we're trying to pick up very special sort of radio waves, namely some that would tell 302 00:26:57,100 --> 00:26:58,740 us somebody's out there. 303 00:26:58,740 --> 00:27:02,700 By having lots of these dishes here, we can look at more of the sky at once. 304 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:06,020 We can look at multiple star systems at once. 305 00:27:06,020 --> 00:27:07,860 Why radio waves? 306 00:27:07,860 --> 00:27:10,700 What's so significant about radio waves? 307 00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:12,700 Radio waves go at the speed of light. 308 00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:17,020 And they also, by the way, go through all the gas and dust that's between the stars. 309 00:27:17,020 --> 00:27:21,820 So if you want to communicate from one part of the galaxy to another, radio waves are 310 00:27:21,820 --> 00:27:24,380 a great way to do it. 311 00:27:24,380 --> 00:27:27,420 So the way this works is actually kind of simple. 312 00:27:27,420 --> 00:27:32,100 The cosmic radio static, it comes in from the sky, and it bounces off that big reflector 313 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:33,900 there, that first one. 314 00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:35,940 That's a mirror for radio waves. 315 00:27:35,940 --> 00:27:40,620 And that redirects them to this secondary reflector on the end, on the nose there. 316 00:27:40,620 --> 00:27:42,980 And then they're directed to the receiver. 317 00:27:42,980 --> 00:27:44,660 That's inside. 318 00:27:44,660 --> 00:27:49,220 That information goes through a fiber optic over to the control room. 319 00:27:49,220 --> 00:27:53,700 So this is where the data coming through the fiber optic kind of ends up after it's been 320 00:27:53,700 --> 00:27:55,980 processed in a display like this. 321 00:27:55,980 --> 00:27:57,740 And what are we looking at right here? 322 00:27:57,740 --> 00:28:00,940 So we're looking, in this case, at three star systems at once. 323 00:28:00,940 --> 00:28:01,940 Okay? 324 00:28:01,940 --> 00:28:02,940 So that speeds up the search. 325 00:28:02,940 --> 00:28:07,380 It also allows us to determine whether we're really seeing ET or just interference. 326 00:28:07,380 --> 00:28:11,020 The data from one of these star systems is being displayed over on this part of the screen 327 00:28:11,020 --> 00:28:12,020 here. 328 00:28:12,020 --> 00:28:13,220 This is called a waterfall plot. 329 00:28:13,220 --> 00:28:14,220 That. 330 00:28:14,220 --> 00:28:16,820 Can you see that line of brighter dots there? 331 00:28:16,820 --> 00:28:22,620 Yeah, that's a slightly more static at that frequency slowly going down the dot. 332 00:28:22,620 --> 00:28:24,060 That's the kind of thing we're looking for. 333 00:28:24,060 --> 00:28:28,780 So then if this here were an actual ET signal, how would it differentiate itself? 334 00:28:29,100 --> 00:28:34,340 Would it be a bit thicker, a bit more pronounced, a bit longer, or what are you looking for? 335 00:28:34,340 --> 00:28:35,460 It could be all of those things. 336 00:28:35,460 --> 00:28:39,260 So what you do is when you find a signal like this, you make a test, you'll just move the 337 00:28:39,260 --> 00:28:41,860 antennas a little bit and see if the signal goes away. 338 00:28:41,860 --> 00:28:44,660 And then point it back at the start and see if it comes back. 339 00:28:44,660 --> 00:28:46,300 You say, well, that's looking promising. 340 00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:49,340 You do that again, go off, go on, go off, go on. 341 00:28:49,340 --> 00:28:52,340 If you do that five or ten times, you start to get excited. 342 00:28:52,340 --> 00:28:56,140 I hope that that day will come very soon. 343 00:28:56,140 --> 00:28:59,580 The WAU signal continues to intrigue people. 344 00:28:59,580 --> 00:29:04,140 So we are going to use the Allen telescope array to re-observe the WAU signal, look in 345 00:29:04,140 --> 00:29:08,420 the same spot on the sky, look over a wider range of frequencies. 346 00:29:08,420 --> 00:29:11,660 And if there's something up there and it's still broadcasting, of course we would find 347 00:29:11,660 --> 00:29:13,660 it. 348 00:29:13,660 --> 00:29:17,900 WAU SETI has yet to find an explanation for the WAU signal. 349 00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:23,660 NASA's Kepler telescope team has continued to search for signs of alien life in other 350 00:29:23,660 --> 00:29:25,460 solar systems. 351 00:29:25,460 --> 00:29:33,780 Despite the U.S. government's open denial of extraterrestrial contact, in September 352 00:29:33,780 --> 00:29:41,660 2015, after more than five years of research, members of the Kepler team revealed some incredible 353 00:29:41,660 --> 00:29:51,580 findings coming from the star KIC 846-2852, also known as Tabby's Star, named for the 354 00:29:51,580 --> 00:29:53,980 astronomer who discovered it. 355 00:29:53,980 --> 00:30:03,020 What we see from Tabby's Star is changes in light output that are not attributable to 356 00:30:03,020 --> 00:30:11,540 comets, to planets, to asteroids, or to other fragments that would orbit the star. 357 00:30:11,540 --> 00:30:20,020 We're seeing quasi-periodic dimmings of the light that can be as much as a 21% reduction 358 00:30:20,020 --> 00:30:22,860 in the luminosity that's coming out of the star. 359 00:30:22,860 --> 00:30:28,500 Now we have the scientists who are publishing papers in which they propose that one of the 360 00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:34,620 explanations for what they're seeing is a massive extraterrestrial construct akin to 361 00:30:34,620 --> 00:30:38,020 something known as a Dyson Sphere. 362 00:30:38,020 --> 00:30:43,460 The Dyson Sphere is actually a gigantic structure built around a star which harnesses the energy 363 00:30:43,460 --> 00:30:52,220 of the star and could in fact be used to travel from one place to another within the galaxy. 364 00:30:52,580 --> 00:30:58,980 This story is a total game changer because it suggests that a type 2 civilization, a 365 00:30:58,980 --> 00:31:04,500 civilization that can harness the power of an entire star actually does exist and we 366 00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:09,540 can see it with our telescopes. 367 00:31:09,540 --> 00:31:14,820 Is it possible that astronomers hunting for habitable planets may have accidentally discovered 368 00:31:14,820 --> 00:31:19,220 the first extrasolar civilization? 369 00:31:19,220 --> 00:31:20,580 What if so? 370 00:31:20,580 --> 00:31:27,260 Why does the US government continue to deny extraterrestrial contact? 371 00:31:27,260 --> 00:31:34,260 While the true cause behind the light patterns coming from Tabby Star has yet to be discovered, 372 00:31:34,260 --> 00:31:40,780 ancient astronaut theorists suggest that world governments have ramped up the hunt for extraterrestrial 373 00:31:40,780 --> 00:31:44,740 life because they already know it exists. 374 00:31:49,220 --> 00:31:59,260 Toronto, Canada, September 2005. 375 00:31:59,260 --> 00:32:07,740 Paul Hellyer, who served as the Canadian Minister of National Defense from 1963 to 1967, makes 376 00:32:07,740 --> 00:32:14,580 worldwide headlines by announcing his belief in the existence of UFOs and that the United 377 00:32:14,620 --> 00:32:19,340 States government has made great efforts to conceal knowledge of their existence for 378 00:32:19,340 --> 00:32:21,540 decades. 379 00:32:21,540 --> 00:32:27,220 To date, Mr. Hellyer remains the highest ranking government official to ever publicly declare 380 00:32:27,220 --> 00:32:28,220 this information. 381 00:32:28,220 --> 00:32:35,540 I came to the conclusion that there are issues here so profound for the future of the United 382 00:32:35,540 --> 00:32:43,900 States and the world that they have to be discussed openly and intelligently. 383 00:32:43,900 --> 00:32:49,300 And one of them, of course, was the possibility the US could get us in an intergalactic war. 384 00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:57,740 And so I decided that I should speak out UFOs are as real as the airplanes flying overhead. 385 00:32:57,740 --> 00:33:02,420 This was actually paralleling something that Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the 386 00:33:02,420 --> 00:33:09,180 surface of the moon, suggested that there were multiple alien races visiting the Earth. 387 00:33:09,180 --> 00:33:13,460 This is not unknown knowledge. 388 00:33:13,460 --> 00:33:18,740 There are people that know and there seems to be many different, perhaps several different 389 00:33:18,740 --> 00:33:24,660 species of aliens visiting here and it looks like likely they have been for a long, long 390 00:33:24,660 --> 00:33:26,780 time. 391 00:33:26,780 --> 00:33:33,740 People in the military have witnessed UFO operations around our military facilities 392 00:33:33,740 --> 00:33:41,220 and there's been quite a number of reports of attempts to destroy some of our missile 393 00:33:41,220 --> 00:33:44,220 tests and the missiles in flight. 394 00:33:44,220 --> 00:33:49,580 They are not particularly pleased the alien visitors with our warlike capabilities and 395 00:33:49,580 --> 00:33:54,100 our nuclear capabilities. 396 00:33:54,100 --> 00:33:59,620 UFO researchers have suggested that the US military has secretly built an installation 397 00:33:59,620 --> 00:34:04,140 on the surface of the moon to help combat an alien threat. 398 00:34:04,140 --> 00:34:08,500 If there are extraterrestrials visiting the Earth and their potentially hostile, it would 399 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:15,220 make a great deal of sense that we would be prepared for this. 400 00:34:15,220 --> 00:34:19,620 A secret military installation on the moon? 401 00:34:19,620 --> 00:34:25,340 Could such claims, along with those made by former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer 402 00:34:25,340 --> 00:34:31,940 and Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, really be true? 403 00:34:31,940 --> 00:34:40,900 Perhaps further clues can be found by examining recently declassified documents. 404 00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:44,700 July 20th, 2014. 405 00:34:44,700 --> 00:34:51,380 The United States Army declassifies and discloses one of its biggest secret missions, Project 406 00:34:51,380 --> 00:34:53,700 Horizon. 407 00:34:53,700 --> 00:35:00,300 Project Horizon's mandate was to create by 1966, three years before the first NASA landing 408 00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:05,340 of men on the moon, a military base which could hold at least 20 individuals and which 409 00:35:05,340 --> 00:35:07,540 would be expanded on over time as well. 410 00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:12,780 It would be nuclear powered, it would have its own water supply, oxygen and it really 411 00:35:12,780 --> 00:35:18,460 would be the moon equivalent of a military installation. 412 00:35:18,460 --> 00:35:26,420 The feeling was from Vernevon Brown, from NASA and indeed from the entire government 413 00:35:26,420 --> 00:35:30,460 that space would become an important battlefield. 414 00:35:30,460 --> 00:35:35,700 We talk about conventional warfare and how that would play out. 415 00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:44,260 It's fairly clear that if there is another war, that space will be a battlefield. 416 00:35:44,260 --> 00:35:50,340 The United States has been working for a long time in building new weapons based on the technology 417 00:35:50,340 --> 00:35:51,780 that they've gained. 418 00:35:51,780 --> 00:35:56,380 If you control one of the approaches to the earth, it gives you an advantage that you 419 00:35:56,380 --> 00:35:58,500 wouldn't otherwise have. 420 00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:04,620 Also, it's a launching pad for anything you want to do on earth. 421 00:36:04,620 --> 00:36:10,860 Could it be, as some ancient astronaut theorists can tell, that the US military was successful 422 00:36:10,860 --> 00:36:17,460 in the construction of a military base on the surface of the moon? 423 00:36:17,460 --> 00:36:22,340 While the stated mission goal was to establish dominance over the Soviet Union during the 424 00:36:22,340 --> 00:36:29,300 Cold War, many believe the effort was not against an antagonistic global superpower, 425 00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:33,820 but an unknown extraterrestrial force. 426 00:36:33,820 --> 00:36:37,620 This is even further expanded upon when we look at Reagan's legacy and some of these things 427 00:36:37,620 --> 00:36:39,620 like the Star Wars initiative. 428 00:36:39,620 --> 00:36:44,060 So it's very possible that when we look at what was happening in the Cold War era, maybe 429 00:36:44,060 --> 00:36:48,100 they were trying to divert attention to what was really going on. 430 00:36:48,100 --> 00:36:52,900 And that could have been some type of collaboration between us and Russia of putting a space base 431 00:36:52,900 --> 00:36:58,100 on the moon or doing some other type of space platform that currently now exists within 432 00:36:58,100 --> 00:37:01,180 our solar system. 433 00:37:01,180 --> 00:37:10,340 There's no doubt in my mind that Star Wars, initiated by President Reagan, was more related 434 00:37:10,340 --> 00:37:17,420 to the possibility of being able to take the extraterrestrials on for size than it was 435 00:37:17,420 --> 00:37:21,220 against rogue states. 436 00:37:21,220 --> 00:37:26,980 All of the best information available is that it wasn't more intended as a possible defense 437 00:37:26,980 --> 00:37:34,460 against UFOs than it was against rogue missiles. 438 00:37:34,580 --> 00:37:41,020 The recent disclosure of Project Horizon only served to try to dissuade inquiry into a real 439 00:37:41,020 --> 00:37:45,700 and escalating military presence in space. 440 00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:52,180 And if so, is the military preparing to actively hunt out the aliens they've known about for 441 00:37:52,180 --> 00:37:55,580 decades? 442 00:37:55,580 --> 00:38:02,020 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest that with the recent NASA project, the U.S. 443 00:38:02,100 --> 00:38:07,740 government has reportedly enlisted average citizens in the hunt for extraterrestrial 444 00:38:07,740 --> 00:38:12,860 life. 445 00:38:12,860 --> 00:38:17,580 April 21, 2015. 446 00:38:17,580 --> 00:38:23,420 NASA launches an unprecedented initiative that creates a coalition of scientific experts 447 00:38:23,420 --> 00:38:30,500 with a mandate to lead the search for life in the universe. 448 00:38:30,500 --> 00:38:36,140 This scientific endeavor, known as the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science, or Nexus for 449 00:38:36,140 --> 00:38:42,420 short, is a game changer in the discovery of alien life. 450 00:38:42,420 --> 00:38:47,500 The Nexus is a multi-discipline, multi-institute approach to try to answer the big question 451 00:38:47,500 --> 00:38:49,980 of are we alone in the galaxy? 452 00:38:49,980 --> 00:38:54,020 The Nexus includes researchers from multiple institutions in different subfields. 453 00:38:54,020 --> 00:38:59,980 It includes astrophysicists, planetary scientists, earth scientists, and even heliophysicists, 454 00:39:00,100 --> 00:39:04,060 people who study the sun, so we can put all of the different pieces together and really 455 00:39:04,060 --> 00:39:08,260 learn what makes a planet tick and what kind of planets might have life on them and if 456 00:39:08,260 --> 00:39:15,260 those planets do exist, whether they have life at all. 457 00:39:15,260 --> 00:39:22,820 Since the launch of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, more than 2,000 exoplanets, a planet 458 00:39:22,820 --> 00:39:28,540 that orbits around another star, have been found, with thousands of additional candidates 459 00:39:28,540 --> 00:39:31,700 awaiting research and confirmation. 460 00:39:31,700 --> 00:39:37,220 The Planet Hunters Project was the brainchild of NASA and Yale researchers. 461 00:39:37,220 --> 00:39:42,260 The idea of the project is to allow average, everyday people, citizen scientists, as we 462 00:39:42,260 --> 00:39:45,740 call them, the opportunity to discover planets. 463 00:39:45,740 --> 00:39:49,580 Citizen scientists have actually done a tremendous service to the astrophysical community by looking 464 00:39:49,580 --> 00:39:53,220 at Kepler data through the Planet Hunters portal. 465 00:39:53,220 --> 00:39:56,980 Citizen scientists have really accelerated the pace of exoplanet discoveries because 466 00:39:56,980 --> 00:40:04,460 that core of 260,000 people has looked at 20 million light-curbs by eye. 467 00:40:04,460 --> 00:40:07,940 It's really interesting that NASA's doing this because the fact is that they wouldn't 468 00:40:07,940 --> 00:40:13,900 be doing it unless they believe that there were A, habitable exoplanets out there, B, 469 00:40:13,900 --> 00:40:18,980 that the general public could help in finding them and C, that there might be alien life 470 00:40:18,980 --> 00:40:22,740 on those planets. 471 00:40:22,740 --> 00:40:27,340 As the executive director of MUFON, I can tell you this shift has already started. 472 00:40:27,340 --> 00:40:32,960 We get calls from credible scientists, engineers, politicians, and our staff who want to know 473 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:38,500 more about this phenomenon because they realize that it is in fact real. 474 00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:43,460 So as we look into this question of who they are, why they're here, and where they're 475 00:40:43,460 --> 00:40:49,020 from, I think we'll learn more about ourselves, about who we are, where we're from, and why 476 00:40:49,020 --> 00:40:51,900 we're here. 477 00:40:51,900 --> 00:40:55,900 In the search for extraterrestrial life, there are a number of questions that need 478 00:40:55,900 --> 00:40:56,900 to be asked. 479 00:40:56,900 --> 00:40:58,940 Where is this going to lead to? 480 00:40:58,940 --> 00:41:00,660 What are the implications? 481 00:41:00,660 --> 00:41:04,580 If we find extraterrestrials are benevolent, well, that's good news. 482 00:41:04,580 --> 00:41:05,820 It's going to help us. 483 00:41:05,820 --> 00:41:12,300 If we find out they're malevolent and hostile, we could find ourselves in quite literally 484 00:41:12,300 --> 00:41:17,700 a world war. 485 00:41:17,700 --> 00:41:24,740 Is it possible that governments around the world are now openly on the hunt for extraterrestrials 486 00:41:24,740 --> 00:41:29,100 because they already have knowledge of their existence? 487 00:41:29,100 --> 00:41:37,180 And if so, has the point finally come when this truth can no longer be covered up? 488 00:41:37,180 --> 00:41:42,820 Perhaps it will soon be revealed that aliens have been visiting Earth for thousands of 489 00:41:42,820 --> 00:41:51,780 years and that we are not searching for proof of their existence but watching for their 490 00:41:51,780 --> 00:41:52,340 return.