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We don't know what protocols governments might have

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for how we interact with our extraterrestrial visitors.

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Two, one, let it go!

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We've never found an official sanctioned document that says,

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if we're invaded by aliens, this is what we do.

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Doesn't mean that there isn't one.

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And we go, right?

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I believe that these protocols are already established,

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and in fact, we are already in contact with them.

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We're already in contact with extraterrestrials.

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What we actually could be looking at here is a genuine alien life form.

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The question I have is, what are we going to do?

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October 19, 2017, the Hawaiian island of Maui.

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Here, perched atop a 10,000-foot summit, stands the Hale Akala Observatory.

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Astronomers using the Panoramic Survey Telescope

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and Rapid Response System, or PANSTARS,

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detect a mysterious object traveling at high speed through our solar system.

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The trajectory of this object is unlike any that has ever been seen before.

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I was in charge of coordinating the observing to characterize the object.

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The object was discovered, and at that point, there were images taken

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that showed an object moving rapidly with respect to the stars.

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The stars are individual dots of light, and this object was a street,

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so they knew it was moving fast.

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At that point, they started to compute an orbit

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to try and understand what this object was.

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This was a really dramatic difference from what had been seen previously.

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The object was found of a highly unusual hyperbolic orbit,

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suggesting that it was traveling at such a high rate of speed

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that it was not being pulled into a more circular orbit by the force of gravity.

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Everything in the solar system is either on a circular or an elliptical orbit.

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This was a particularly exciting observation

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because we had never seen anything like this come through the solar system.

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The object, which was classified as an asteroid and named Omuamua,

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a Hawaiian word meaning scout or messenger,

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is the first object of its kind to be officially recognized as interstellar.

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An asteroid was discovered coming into our solar system.

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Let that sink in.

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An asteroid was discovered coming into our solar system.

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From where we don't know, it just came from outside our solar system,

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meaning it's from a different star system somewhere else.

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That's historic that we've actually seen it.

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We now know objects can travel from one star system to another.

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Researchers engaged in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence or setting or entreat,

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not only by Omuamua's origins, but also by its unusual shape.

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It had a very funny shape. It shaped like a cigar.

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Maybe five or ten times as long as it is across.

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No asteroid that we know of looks like a cigar.

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Inevitably, there were people who said,

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well, are you sure it's a rock?

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Maybe there's somebody inside this thing. Maybe they've come to visit.

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Now, if I were going to build a spaceship that was going to take hundreds of years

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or maybe thousands or millions of years to go from one star to another,

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I would start by finding a big asteroid that I like that had all the minerals on it,

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and I would use that and just turn it into the ship I wanted.

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Mainstream astronomers such as Avi Loeb,

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the chair of Harvard University's astronomy department,

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noted that the cigar shape of Omuamua

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is the optimal design for a vessel to travel through space.

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This has led ancient astronaut theorists and even some astronomers

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to question if the so-called asteroid is actually an extraterrestrial vessel.

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What I think is interesting is that Omuamua is cigar-shaped

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because there are stories and eyewitness reports of cigar-shaped UFOs.

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So is it possible that there is some type of a connection?

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Reports of strange cigar-shaped UFOs date back hundreds of years.

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This famous woodcut from 1561, for example,

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is based on a first-hand account by someone who claimed that a number of round and tubular objects

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could be seen battling in the sky over the town of Nuremberg, Germany.

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This first documented UFO photograph captured what looks like a long cylindrical craft

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hovering over Mount Washington, New Hampshire in 1870.

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And in modern times, sightings of cigar-shaped UFOs are commonly reported,

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as are those which are described as so-called flying saucers.

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It is possible that an asteroid has been taken, hollowed out, made into a spaceship,

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and then put into a special orbit or trajectory.

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And what might be inside of Omuamua is anyone's guess.

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Discoveries like Omuamua certainly have swayed the scientific community towards our ideas

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because for the first time in my life, have I heard an astronomer say

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that this object that is floating through our solar system right now may be an extraterrestrial craft?

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That doesn't come from me, it comes from an astronomer.

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Maybe Omuamua was a false alarm, but maybe it was the real thing.

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However, it does inform us that we need a protocol.

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We need steps in place that will help us to determine what we are actually seeing

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and what the response should be.

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This was a tremendous wake-up call because it started to give us a sense of

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how would we respond if there were such an intrusion, if you will.

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Does humanity have a plan for what to do in the event that a spacecraft carrying

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extraterrestrial beings comes to our planet?

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And if so, what are the protocols?

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And who is responsible for implementing them?

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The International Academy of Astronautics set up something called the Post-Detection Task Group,

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and I chaired that for some years.

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And it was just an informal collection of people whose job was to simply deliberate

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on if there should be some sort of putative signal or detection of alien technology.

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What next? What do we do? Who do we tell? How do we respond?

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What would the impact be on society?

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In 1989, the International Academy of Astronautics, working with SETI,

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published the Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities

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following the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence.

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the next consideration should be to decide which government or scientific entity

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should begin communication so that the situation does not quickly turn into an international free-for-all.

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The SETI protocols, however, are only binding on the astronomical community.

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There are many more players in the equation.

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The SETI protocols may cover astronomers, but they don't cover governments,

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and they're not even legally binding.

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Nobody can tell a radio astronomer or anybody else that they're not allowed to transmit,

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and even if the United States and other major nations decided that there should be

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some sort of moratorium on using radio telescopes for that purpose,

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it started to prevent North Korea, for example, from doing it.

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I think it's totally unpoliceable, which is why we have to think through rather carefully

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what the consequences would be in the event that there was this exciting discovery.

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Considering the enormous global impact of any first communication or contact

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between someone from Earth and an intelligent being from another planet,

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wouldn't world governments already have their own protocols in place to handle such a situation?

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Protocols that would govern not just individual countries, but everyone in the world.

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I spent the better part of about four years researching a book that myself and some colleagues were working on

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to create a protocol if we were invaded by aliens. What would we do?

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And we searched everywhere we could, and we had several databases available to us,

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and we've never found an official sanctioned government document that says,

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if we're invaded by aliens, this is what we do. Doesn't mean that there isn't one.

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With my experience of the British Ministry of Defense, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a protocol for this.

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So I suspect that somewhere deep in the bowels of the Ministry of Defense and the Department of Defense,

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there is a plan. But I also suspect that it's highly classified.

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But while many of the world's top governments continue to deny the existence of any plans or protocols

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that would be used in the event of an extraterrestrial encounter,

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many ancient astronaut theorists believe that not only do such plans exist,

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but that they've been in place for decades,

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and that contact between Earth governments and extraterrestrial visitors has been happening in secret for thousands of years.

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It reveals the existence of a $22 million black budget program within the Pentagon.

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Created to investigate whether unidentified flying objects pose a threat to national security.

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collected a compilation of videos that show inexplicable aerial phenomena,

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some of which have been released to the public.

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One of these videos at least comes from the gun camera of an F-18.

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And you don't just jump out in your plane and fly out and chase something because you saw it go by.

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You were told to do so, and it took a lot of people to know this was going on.

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are still considered highly classified and may never be released,

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its very existence provides proof that the United States military had protocols in place

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for how to investigate unidentified flying objects.

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But do the videos imply something else?

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Something of even greater significance.

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Could they be evidence not only that UFOs exist,

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but that the government has been studying them and not shooting them down for a reason?

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We simulate all sorts of scenarios in wargaming simulations.

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I've seen these simulations where they can teleport their soldiers from one place to another instantaneously.

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Or they have shields that keep anything below extremely high caliber weapons from penetrating their armor.

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A lot of times this is called an engagement for 2075.

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Now think about that. We can prepare and plan for engagements against forces in the future.

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That's almost like preparing for a force that's just that much more advanced than us.

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Is it possible that by gathering and then studying evidence of UFO activity,

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the US military is developing protocols which will prepare future soldiers to face

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what could be extraterrestrial forces, and if not here on Earth, on other planets?

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We've got to have space capabilities. We've got to be able to run out into our vehicle,

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turn it on and fly up into space. Right now it takes months to prepare to go into space.

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so that we don't have to play on one staging ground, Earth.

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like powered armor, suits like an Iron Man that improves your abilities instead of hinders them.

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So we need some other technology for that.

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But if the United States military has secret protocols for how to identify and combat extraterrestrial threats,

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could they also have protocols for more peaceful encounters?

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one secretly shared with other nations around the world?

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when he declares that if alien life forms ever arrive on Earth, he would welcome them into the Catholic Church.

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The Poniff's remarks stun the world,

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as it is the first time that a sitting Pope acknowledges not only that extraterrestrial life exists,

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but that it could be intelligent and capable of interplanetary travel.

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The Pope's action is one little example of the broad shift in attitudes toward the possibility of visitation.

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are having to deal with the possibility, if not the already known reality, of the existence of extraterrestrial beings.

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Whether a secretly held belief or a recently evolved position,

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faith-based organizations around the globe have recently embraced a more open and transparent view that intelligent life beyond Earth is possible.

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The Catholic Church's statements are allied with the statements of the Dalai Lama,

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who has recently been talking about openness and oneness and the sameness of all the creatures in creation,

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that we shouldn't treat extraterrestrial beings as strangers, but rather as similar to us.

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When they will encounter us or we will encounter them,

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it does not have to be conflict if we do not allow it to be so.

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the willingness of world religions to embrace the notion of visitations by extraterrestrial beings is not new,

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but dates back hundreds if not thousands of years.

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They argue that most religions, if not all, are based on the idea

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that not only do other worldly beings exist,

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but that their purpose in coming to Earth has been to provide everything from spiritual enlightenment to scientific knowledge.

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In 1999, NASA published a study called the Societal Implications of Astrobiology.

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What the study was designed to do at its core was evaluate the impact of disclosure on religion.

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NASA views religion as an adaptive tool that can help people to answer questions that science can't answer,

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because in their view, religion has been dealing with extraterrestrials for a long time.

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People have been told to have faith in other worldly beings.

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All of the major religions have prophecies of the return of a Christ, a Messiah, a Savior figure.

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And very often these returns involve what appeared to be in the description some method of cosmic transportation.

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The Messiah comes with an army of angels.

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And the angels we know from biblical definition are certainly not human by any standards.

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They are by every standard of definition extraterrestrial.

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The shock of extraterrestrials being here and having been here for thousands of years

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will really change society.

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Eventually, everyone on planet Earth will realize that we are not alone.

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Is it possible that the religious concept of a Messiah who returns to Earth for the betterment of mankind

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was based on a message given to our ancestors by other worldly beings?

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Ancient astronaut theorists believe that the answer is a resounding yes,

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and that not only was such a visitation promised, but that it is already occurring.

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March 2018

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Author and researcher Andrew Collins travels to Sheffield, England to witness a remarkable demonstration.

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Hi guys, Andrew.

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I'm Chris.

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I'm Preserve.

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I'm Milton.

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He is meeting with microbiologist Milton Wainwright and engineer Chris Rose,

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two members of the research team who are convinced that life on Earth may have originated in space

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through a process known as panspermia, a theory that dates as far back as the 5th century BC.

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According to the theory, microbial life is capable of traveling through the universe

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and may on occasion survive entry into Earth's atmosphere.

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I understand you've made some incredible discoveries.

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Please tell me all about it.

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In the early 2000s, my colleague, Chandrua Wikramasinki, we were launching balloons from India

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and these were sampling the air at 41 kilometres,

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and they showed that organisms are continually arriving all the time.

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Panspermia is an extremely simple idea.

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Basically, it's the idea that life came from space.

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Instead of being formed on this planet, it came from space.

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My findings relate to panspermia simply,

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and that they show that organisms are coming in at this very moment in space.

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Tell me how you actually collect these samples.

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This is our balloon that's going to give us the buoyancy from the hydrogen gas here.

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Now, our capture mechanism is right here. Let me show you this.

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That's right. All the critics say they're coming from Earth because we're surrounded by life.

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But we have lots of evidence that this material is not coming from Earth, it's incoming from space.

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It sounds incredible. Have you ever lost any of these?

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No, and we're not about to start today, so fingers crossed, guys.

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Brilliant.

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from which it will ascend more than 37 kilometres, or 23 miles, into the air.

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Okay, guys, ready? Andrew, on you. Count down, please.

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Okay. Five, four, three, two, one.

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the capture mechanism will hopefully collect samples of non-Earth-based microbial life.

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and the capture mechanism descends back to Earth under the safety of a parachute.

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and then analyze them to make sure no Earth microbes have contaminated the sample.

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A clean room? How can you ensure the sterilization?

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to make sure the air inside contains an all-microorganisms, so all the air is filtered.

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and place them into vacuum-sealed containers.

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while they view the samples with a scanning electron microscope.

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Wow! What on Earth is that?

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I can tell that this is biological.

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If you analyze this, I'm pretty certain this will show as carbon, oxygen, and a little bit of nitrogen.

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Now, that's the signature for life.

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We're saying that this case of biological life could potentially be extraterrestrial in origin.

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Right. There's nothing from Earth around it.

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It's pristine, so it's incoming.

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we come to the conclusion that nothing bigger than six microns can't go out.

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So it's a very large particle, and it's coming in.

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that is incoming from space to Earth.

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to these altitudes that we sample at.

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could we be looking at actual evidence of a living organism from a world other than our own?

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to see those images was extraordinary,

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and it's convinced me that the Earth is surrounded by life that almost certainly came from outer space.

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This is the most amazing image I've ever seen in my life.

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It's got biological material here, and this material we know contains carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen.

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and then spewed it out, and this suggests that some alien civilization is seeding planet.

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This smoking gun of panspermia, or even directed panspermia, could give us the best evidence yet

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that aliens in some form seeded life on this Earth, which is an incredible form.

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NASA have a department known as the Office of Planetary Protection to safeguard the Earth

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from extraterrestrial biological entities, whatever you want to call them,

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from actually penetrating into the Earth's atmosphere.

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or moon, or asteroid.

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The protocols that are in place shut out the possibility of us studying actual biological entities

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that may exist on the edge of our own stratosphere that have arrived here from deep space themselves.

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If extraterrestrial microbes are landing on our planet, can NASA's strict protocols really protect us from biological contamination?

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but it is the very method by which life on Earth began to evolve millions of years ago.

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October 4th, 1957, the Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first satellite to orbit the Earth.

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Its success stunned the world and shocked the United States into action.

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the government's first fully funded agency charged with not only putting humans into space,

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but to have a man land on the moon by 1969.

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that it commissioned a study on the implications of a discovery of extraterrestrial life.

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Otherwise known as the Brookings Report.

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The Brookings Institute report didn't just ask, are there aliens out there?

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It took it to the next level and said, what happens when we find them?

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The implications of discovering extraterrestrial life are profound,

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and they're implications that go across all levels of society.

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Politics, economics, religion, technology, science, everything will be affected.

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The Brookings Report specifically says you should release information little by little, bit by bit,

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so that people get culturally acclimated to the idea of aliens and extraterrestrials.

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We've always speculated those of us in broadcasting,

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why isn't government coming forward telling us what's going on, telling us the truth?

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There'd be mass chaos, religions would collapse, governments would collapse,

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so the government has decided we're not saying anything.

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Does the existence of the Brookings Report provide evidence

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that not only does the United States have protocols and procedures in place

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in the event of extraterrestrial contact,

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but that such protocols have deliberately been kept a secret from the American public for nearly 60 years?

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But if so, why?

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I do not believe that government essentially is negative, evil, and harmful to Septimberlite.

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We should look back in 1938 when Orison Welles did his famous radio program on Halloween night

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called War of the Worlds, where in which through an enactment New York was to be invaded,

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people around the country listening to this radio program were terrified.

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The machines are close together now and we're ready to attack.

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Planes circling ready to strike.

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Our governments learned from this, people will panic.

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Some people have thought that it's important to prepare the public.

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I've always said I think the American public can handle the truth.

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The government would do well to be more open about what it's done in the past,

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what it learned in the past, what it's doing today, and what it'll do in the future.

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But while the U.S. government does not acknowledge having any official protocols for first contact,

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it makes no secret of its ongoing efforts to explore the possibilities of extraterrestrial communication.

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Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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September 5, 1977.

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NASA launches the Voyager 1 probe.

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Its mission is to journey to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune and send back important information.

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But perhaps more interesting than the information Voyager 1 was programmed to collect

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was the information it was carrying with it.

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The two Voyager spacecraft were each launched in 1977 on a mission of exploration of the outer solar system.

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And both of them kept on going to leave the solar system forever.

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They weren't coming back.

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And as a result of this, NASA invited Carl to put a message on both of the Voyager spacecraft.

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As conceived by a team of experts led by famed astronomer Carl Sagan,

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Voyager's so-called Golden Record was designed to send greetings from the people of planet Earth

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to whatever form of alien life it might encounter that had intelligence enough to decode it.

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I've been collaborating with Carl for about five years.

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We shared a passion for this topic, extraterrestrial intelligence and how to communicate with it.

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And I happened to be at the right place at the right time when he was trying to form a small team to actually make the message.

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I was a design director on the project and my main role was designing with Frank Drake

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the series of photographs and diagrams that show what the Earth and human beings are like.

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The Golden Record kick-started this thought process, this approach to philosophy of

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how do we define who we are if we came across an intelligent civilization?

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How would we represent ourselves?

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The Golden Record shows Earth on a good day.

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Some of our best music, a lot of pleasant-looking people saying hello, no war, no poverty, no injustice.

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And this was by design.

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First of all, it's not obvious how you would show these things to an extraterrestrial.

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I mean, a starving baby evokes a huge emotional reaction from us.

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Maybe a baby is supposed to look that way. They wouldn't know.

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It seemed important to me in being asked to design this thing that it should tell a story.

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And the story is, of course, our story.

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It's the story of our planet. It's the story of life.

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It's the story of humans. And it's the story of our future.

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In terms of the protocols that we would use actually replying back to a message that we got from an intelligent civilization,

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different experts have different opinions. Some people believe that we should try and represent the best version of ourselves.

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On the other end of the spectrum, you could potentially upload the entire Internet, along with all of our dark sides,

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so that you could have a full and complete picture of who we are as a species.

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Does NASA's involvement in the design and implementation of Carl Sagan's Golden Record

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provide evidence of the government's belief that intelligent life exists in the universe?

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If so, is that belief the product of mere scientific speculation

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or a conviction based on previous extraterrestrial encounters?

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For the answer, ancient astronaut theorists point to the government's long history

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of trying to establish secret alien communications.

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Washington, DC, March 24, 1961

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The Brookings Report, the first official government document to suggest protocols for what to do in the event of alien contact,

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is submitted to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics and entered into the Congressional Record.

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But ancient astronaut theorists suggest that those protocols weren't new.

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But in fact, had been in place ever since President Harry Truman ordered an investigation into the famed Roswell incident in 1947.

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Truman, inside of his administration, reached out to scientists, reached out to military people,

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reached out to businessmen, formed this group called Majestic 12, MJ12, to do research and report to him.

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And no one outside is to know anything about UFOs, ETs, crash retrievals, bodies, any of it.

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There is actually a document called the Majestic 12 Special Operations Manual,

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which actually describes what a military officer or enlisted man should do.

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Should he encounter a crash UFO?

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Should he encounter an extraterrestrial being alive or dead?

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And how the body should be disposed of?

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And it's a very, very detailed set of protocols, basically for how to handle it if you run into E.T.

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Aerospace engineer Dr. Robert Wood was one of the first people to examine the MJ12 documents.

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It is his opinion, based in part on the descriptions of spacecraft in the documents, that the Special Operations Manual is genuine.

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The Special Operations Manual is remarkable in several ways. It gives detailed descriptions of four shapes of UFOs.

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Another thing is that talks about extraterrestrial biological entities.

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The Majestic 12 talks very frankly about extraterrestrial biological entities and the protocols.

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And there is, under Chapter 5, encounters.

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Encounters will take place at military installations or other obscure locations selected by mutual agreements.

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And that is tied to what happened to Lonnie Zamora down in Sikoro.

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On April 24, 1964, there was a New Mexico police officer in Sikoro, New Mexico named Lonnie Zamora,

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who noticed what appeared to him to be some sort of wrecked vehicle off the side of the road.

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So he pulled his police car over and he started to walk towards it.

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When he got closer to the vehicle, he realized that it was some sort of egg-shaped craft with these four landing legs that were stuck into the ground.

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Then he saw two beings who were in silver suits and the two beings went back inside the craft and the object took off and sped away.

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And when another officer came back out to the site, they went to where the craft had landed and they discovered four holes in the ground

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where the landing legs had stuck into the dirt.

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Lonnie Zamora's encounter made headlines in 1964.

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Since then, further information about the incident has become available online from leaked government files.

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Files, which if genuine, corroborate the protocols that are described in the MJ-12 documents.

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And in the CERPO documents, they talk about the ebbs as they were named and arrangements for them to actually land and have a diplomatic exchange

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with US government officials at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

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What's explained in the documents is that the Zamora site is actually the two emissaries who had got the coordinates wrong and had actually landed in the wrong place.

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Is it possible that the United States government is not only aware of, but possibly in contact with, extraterrestrial beings?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest that the United Nations may even have an ambassador to extraterrestrials.

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News organizations across the globe report that the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs intends to draft a series of protocols on what to do when first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is officially made.

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The story causes a sensation, but then, after a few days, the story mysteriously disappears.

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When pressed for further information, officials at the United Nations have refused to comment.

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The United Nations announced that it would create some protocols for extraterrestrial contact, but so far they have not given those to us.

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Just because protocols have not been announced doesn't mean that they don't exist.

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I believe that these protocols are already established and in fact we are already in contact with extraterrestrials.

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The United Nations have said, do not come to us with questions like this until there's an international consensus.

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Well, there is no international consensus on this.

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Imagine if aliens showed up here tomorrow and said, take me to your leader, like you always see in the movies or here in the stories.

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Well, who would that be?

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A lot of people think, oh, that's the Secretary General of the UN.

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Well, maybe, maybe not.

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What they would look at is who has the largest industrial machine on the planet.

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And I would say it would have to be the President of the United States, the President of Russia and of China.

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They'd have to be there together.

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But if intelligent beings are technologically advanced enough to travel to Earth, whose protocols will matter more, ours or theirs?

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As we prepare for this worldwide reality of extraterrestrial life being known here on planet Earth,

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we have to see that the extraterrestrials are going to have different protocols than we would have.

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That will be far more sophisticated than anything we can conceive.

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And we will have to really follow their lead in how we interact with them and other extraterrestrials as we go into space ourselves.

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Are these two worlds that are about to meet, are they compatible?

446
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And I say yes, because we come from out there.

447
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Because in Native American culture, there are legends of 13 inhabited worlds, planets, out there.

448
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And we are the youngest.

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This world is called the planet of the children.

450
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And what does a child do?

451
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I think children, they listen.

452
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They soak up the knowledge.

453
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So I think it's time for us to look more at our ancient past, look at the traditions, and see and learn that we've never been alone.

454
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As NASA eagerly prepares to send astronauts to Mars, it must face the fact that it will be humans that will become the alien visitors to another planet.

455
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And what will we do if we come face to face with living proof that we are not alone?

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Will we welcome them or will they welcome us?