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Strange signals from outer space.

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That's the kind of thing we're looking for.

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The building blocks of life traveling on a meteorite.

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You're looking at a speck of water in a meteorite.

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This is extraordinary.

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And otherworldly presence found in our atmosphere.

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So this is a titanium sphere with life inside and life on the outside.

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Now what on earth is it?

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Absolutely amazing. It's blown my head off.

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For more than a decade,

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ancient aliens has followed investigators across the globe

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as they've gone directly to the sites where signs of alien life have been found.

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Now we take a look back at some of the most incredible evidence we've seen.

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Evidence that according to ancient astronaut theorists

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provides undeniable proof that we are not alone in the universe.

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The Earth's Greatest

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The Earth's Greatest

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On ancient aliens, we have traveled the globe

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investigating everything from tiny microbes to massive megaliths

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all in the quest to find proof of extraterrestrial life.

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And one of the most incredible places we've ever visited

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is a field study site for an organization called SETI

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or the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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In 2016, I got the rare opportunity to tour the grounds

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and learn about how they listen for signs of intelligent life in the universe.

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Shasta County, Northern California, March 2016

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Ancient astronaut theorist, Georgiosuchlos, travels to the Allen Telescope Array in Hat Creek

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to meet with the director for SETI research, Seth Shostak.

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This is truly amazing. What can you tell me about this place?

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Well, this place is an observatory, but it's a radio observatory.

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So these things around us, these 42 antennas, they pick up radio waves.

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And we're trying to pick up very special sort of radio waves,

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namely some that would tell us somebody's out there.

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By having lots of these dishes here, we can look at more of the sky at once.

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We can look at multiple star systems at once.

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Why radio waves? What's so significant about radio waves?

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Radio waves go at the speed of light.

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And they also, by the way, go through all the gas and dust that's between the stars.

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So, you know, if you want to communicate from one part of the galaxy to another,

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radio waves are a great way to do it.

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So the way this works is actually kind of simple.

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I mean, the cosmic radio static, it comes in from the sky,

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and it bounces off that big reflector there, that first one.

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Okay? That's a mirror for radio waves.

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And that redirects them to this secondary reflector on the end, on the nose there.

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And then they're directed to the receiver, and that's inside.

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That information goes through a fiber optic over to the control room.

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So this is where the data coming through the fiber optic kind of ends up

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after it's been processed in a display like this.

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And what are we looking at right here?

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So we're looking, in this case, at three star systems at once.

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Okay? So that speeds up the search.

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It also allows us to determine whether we're really seeing ET or just interference.

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The data from one of these star systems is being displayed over on this part of the screen here.

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This is called a waterfall plot.

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That. Can you see that line of brighter dots there?

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Yeah, that's a slightly more static at that frequency, slowly going down the dot.

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That's the kind of thing we're looking for.

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So then if this here were an actual ET signal, how would it differentiate itself?

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Would it be a bit thicker, a bit more pronounced, a bit longer, or what are you looking for?

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It could be all of those things.

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So what you do is when you find a signal like this, you make a test,

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you'll just move the antennas a little bit and see if the signal goes away.

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And then point it back up the star and see if it comes back.

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You say, well, that's looking promising.

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You do that again, go off, go on, go off, go on.

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If you do that five or ten times, you start to get excited.

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I hope that that day will come very soon.

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Although the SETI Institute formally came into existence in 1984,

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the practice of listening for extraterrestrial life has been underway since the 1960s.

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Astronomers based at various universities throughout the U.S.

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have pointed their radio telescopes into the cosmos in hopes of capturing signals of intelligent life.

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And sometimes they receive a transmission they can't explain.

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Delaware, Ohio, August 15, 1977.

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At Ohio State University's Big Ear Radio Telescope,

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While reviewing recorded data, he detects a highly unusual signal

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originating from the constellation Sagittarius.

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They were looking for a 72-second signal that would be coming from extraterrestrials.

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And as Dr. Jerry Eyman monitored the output of the pages that were coming from space,

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he suddenly found a signal that matched exactly what they were looking for.

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and wrote, wow, next to it.

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And this became known as the wow signal.

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that they were all looking for and had suddenly, briefly, found it.

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The wow signal continues to intrigue people.

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So we are going to use the Allen Telescope Array to re-observe the wow signal,

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look in the same spot on the sky, look over a wider range of frequencies.

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And if there's something up there and it's still broadcasting, of course, we would find it.

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Might the discovery of the wow signal bring us one step closer to discovering that we are not alone in the universe?

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Perhaps further clues can be found by examining life forms on Earth that are capable of surviving inside a comet.

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The possibility of finding evidence of alien life by receiving a message from space is a thrilling prospect.

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But many scientists are looking for clues right here on Earth.

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And in 2019, I got the incredible opportunity to meet with a scientist

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who believes he may have found extraterrestrial life in one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet.

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April 17th, 2019.

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Ancient astronaut theorist George Osuclos and retired NASA scientist Dr. Richard Hoover

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are about to board a helicopter bound for a massive ice cave in the Canadian wilderness.

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All right, you ready for this?

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Yes, absolutely.

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Dr. Hoover spent most of his career studying fossils for signs of extraterrestrial microscopic life

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and is a leading proponent of panspermia, the idea that life on Earth originally rained down from comets in outer space.

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He has invited George to accompany him while he investigates the Whistler Ice Cave

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I always loved it.

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where he is confident that they will find the glacial ice teeming with microbial and perhaps even more sophisticated life forms.

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Life forms that may be thousands of years old.

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This is just absolutely magnificent.

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If alien microbes are reaching Earth, Dr. Hoover suggests that they could survive within such an environment for long periods of time.

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Today, he'll examine the glacier for the perfect samples to analyze in his laboratory.

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So Richard, how excited are you to be here to conduct this experiment?

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This is absolutely a marvelous opportunity to do more studies of life than ice.

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After a 20-minute helicopter ride, the team arrives at the Whistler Ice Cave in the Pemberton Glacier.

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Wow, this is incredible.

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Look at that.

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There must be a thousand shades of blue in this ice cave.

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It's absolutely fantastic.

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And here we see all of these magnificent shades of blue and up there you see big streaks of black.

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Glaciers like to eat rocks.

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it can cause it to melt and form nice little pools of water.

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they make their own atmosphere.

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So around every tiny rock in this glacier, there is a tiny planetary system with its own biology, its own atmosphere,

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its own soil in effect, and its own oceans.

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The ice here is tens of thousands of years old, but Dr. Hoover believes it is teaming with life.

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Wow, I mean this is spectacular.

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So you just described basically our environment on a microscopic level.

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There is an enormous amount of biology above us and throughout this wonderful glacier.

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And what we are about to do is take a core sample of this beautiful blue ice.

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So what are you looking for specifically right now?

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What I want to do first is chop away an outer layer and get into the inner ice.

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And we'll be looking inside of the ice for the ice microorganisms.

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Now we know there can't possibly be any contamination because this ice has been in the glacier

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I'll pull the ice core out.

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And that's enough, right?

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Now for that first sample, you have to cap that.

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All the microorganisms that grow in ice typically grow very, very slowly.

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So in fact there are some microorganisms that only reproduce once every half a century or once a century.

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So essentially what you're saying is that this entire cave is filled with life.

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This entire ice cap is filled with life.

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There is this enormous amount of microorganisms that live and thrive and love to live in these low temperatures of the ice cave that we have here

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and ice caves and icy glaciers all over the planet Earth and probably all over icy regions within our entire solar system

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and maybe widely distributed throughout the entire universe.

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Are we essentially inside the interior of a comet?

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Is this what it looks like?

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Microorganisms can live in ice and ice is the dominant component of comets.

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It's the process that organisms can remain alive and protected by the icy material of the comet until it arrives into another solar system

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and blows off chunks of material that can find a planet that it can consider a wonderful home.

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Water is a wonderful radiation shield.

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And when you have a comet that is a few miles in diameter, on the inside of that cometary crust there is all of this magnificent ice that has been frozen

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So comets are not just a magnificent place for panspermia.

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I am convinced that comets are an absolutely wonderful place for the origin of life.

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Has Giorgio and Dr. Hoover take their samples to a lab to be analyzed?

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What kind of lifeforms might they find within the Pemberton Glacier?

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Could it support the theory that life on comets is more common than we ever thought possible?

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First sample that we got.

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This is fantastic. I mean, look at this one spinning right here.

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The quest for extraterrestrial life to me has been a lifelong one, as it has been with you.

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So I've traveled around the world climbing pyramids, I've looked at statues, I've been to hundreds of museums,

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I've read countless ancient texts and here we are looking at something that shows extraterrestrial life

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that may have come here millions of years ago.

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The fascinating thing is that a far more extraordinary hypothesis than the existence of extraterrestrial life

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is the hypothesis that life exists on the planet Earth and nowhere else in the universe.

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If that were to turn out to be what really is the case, then we would be completely unique

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and we would be different from everywhere else in the universe and that would be an amazing discovery.

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It's much more amazing than finding out that bacteria or ice worms are crawling around on the surface of Europa today.

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This is incredibly fascinating, you know, and it's also refreshing to hear an actual NASA scientist telling me these things.

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If, as Dr. Hoover's research indicates, icy comets are ideal incubators for extraterrestrial life

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and if microorganisms are incredibly common in the universe, is the Earth being regularly bombarded by tiny alien life forms?

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Perhaps further clues can be found by examining recent scientific evidence that supports the once-bringed theory that life on Earth was seeded from outer space.

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On ancient aliens, we have found abundant evidence that alien life has made its way to Earth.

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But what if these life forms were deliberately sent out into the universe and possibly even directed right at our planet?

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In 2018, Andrew Collins met with researchers who believe that they have found proof that Earth is being regularly bombarded by microbial life forms.

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South Yorkshire, England, March 2018.

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

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Hi guys, I'm Andrew Collins.

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He is meeting with microbiologist Milton Wainwright and engineer Chris Rose, two members of the research team,

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who are convinced that life on Earth may have originated in space through a process known as panspermia.

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I understand you've made some incredible discoveries. Please tell me all about it.

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In the early 2000s, my colleague Chandra Wicker-Ramasinghi, we were launching balloons from India and these were sampling the air at 41 kilometres

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

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Panspermia is an extremely simple idea. 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 in that they show that organisms are coming in at this very moment from 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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This exposes little metal stubs to the environment.

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And you're looking to see if you can get microbes coming from the upper atmosphere and not from the Earth itself.

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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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I mean, it sounds incredible. Have you ever lost any of these?

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

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Brilliant.

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The team moves the balloon into launch position, from which it will ascend more than 37 kilometers, 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. Let it go.

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Oh, there you go.

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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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so that it does not become contaminated with microbes from Earth.

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Here, they will extract the microbes inside a sterilized clean room,

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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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What are the protocols behind this process?

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It's really all about sterilizing the air inside,

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

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Milton and Chris remove the carbon tabs from the capture mechanism,

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and place them into vacuum sealed containers.

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This will further prevent contamination,

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while they view the samples with a scanning electrical device.

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The sample is then collected and then collected.

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The sample is then collected and then collected.

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The sample is then collected and then collected.

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The sample is then collected and then collected.

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They're now able to do the sterilization,

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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,

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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 piece of biological life could potentially be extraterrestrial in origin.

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There's nothing from Earth around it.

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It's pristine, so it's incoming.

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Now if we do a bit of modeling studies,

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

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Okay.

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And this is 200.

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

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

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What you're looking at there is an organism,

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or a clump of organisms that is incoming from space to Earth.

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Nothing bigger than six microns can go from the surface of the Earth

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to these altitudes that we sampled.

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And yet we are finding particles all the way up to 200.

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They can't be coming up from Earth.

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Absolutely amazing.

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It's blown my head off.

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Biological organisms, not from Earth, but from somewhere in space,

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could we be looking at actual evidence of a living organism from a world

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other than our own?

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We've actually found evidence of what could be extraterrestrial biological entities.

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To see those images was extraordinary,

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and it convinced me that the Earth is surrounded by life

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that almost certainly came from outer space.

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This is what we took earlier, as they say.

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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,

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and this material we know contains carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen.

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So this is biological.

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When we analyzed the ball, we found it contained titanium

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and a small amount of vanadium.

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So this is a titanium sphere with life inside and life on the outside.

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Now what on Earth is it?

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One possibility is that this is directed panspermia.

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Some civilization has put biological material inside

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and just on the outside of this thing, and then spewed it out.

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And this suggests that some alien civilization is seeding planets.

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This smoking gun of panspermia, or even directed panspermia,

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could give us the best evidence yet that aliens, in some form,

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seeded life on this Earth, which is an incredible form.

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Is it possible that extraterrestrial lifeforms

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are being deliberately sent to planet Earth?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

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and suggest that archeologists may have actually found physical remains

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of the beings who are sending them.

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On ancient aliens, we have traveled around the world

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looking for definitive evidence to prove that we are not alone in the universe.

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And what could be more definitive than a human-like skull

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that appears to be something other than human?

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In 2017, I got to examine an elongated skull up close,

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and what I discovered was absolutely mind-blowing.

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New York City.

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February 2017.

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At New York University,

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Giorgio Succos meets with art collector Jared Collins,

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who is in possession of a 2,000-year-old elongated skull.

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Oh, wow. That is fantastic.

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The skull is incredibly well-preserved,

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and Jared is having it tested at the university

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to find out if it might possibly contain abnormalities

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that indicate it is something other than human.

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He agreed to meet Giorgio outside of the Anthropology Lab

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for a first look at the skull.

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So how did this come to be in your possession?

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Well, it's not actually mine. It is on loan to me.

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Me and one of my colleagues contacted a museum,

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and we asked them,

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do you have an elongated skull in your collection?

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And they said they have just one. This one.

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And have they told you anything about it?

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Actually, like the provenance?

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Strangely, this has been in storage for decades.

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They have never tested it.

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They had very little information on it.

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They know it's absolutely paracus.

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So this skull was found in the paracus region of Peru?

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That's right, but no real modern testing

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has ever been done on this.

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Oh, this is amazing. So let's go, right?

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Okay.

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NYU professor of anthropology, Dr. Todd Disatel,

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agreed to conduct a forensic evaluation of the elongated skull.

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I've seen casts. I've never seen one in person.

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Okay.

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Wow.

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That is freaky.

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I mean, I just can't come up with another term.

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I love that your first reaction is that it's freaky,

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because I agree with you.

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Wow, I mean, look at it.

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It's quite bizarre.

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Let me just move it over to the sterile bench surface.

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Wow.

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So it's very fascinating, besides the shape.

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The sagittal suture looks like it has completely fused.

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I'm holding it. I'm looking at it,

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and it's just been completely obliterated.

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The sagittal suture is the scene

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where the two parietal bones of the skull come together.

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Although the markings may be faked,

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due to fusing over time,

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all human skulls are expected to have some evidence of this feature.

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So it is curious that this skull does not.

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Nor do the skulls of a number of other mysterious specimens

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that have been collected and examined by various experts.

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One of the great enigmas of planet Earth is that all over the world,

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we find skeletons with people having these elongated skulls.

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For centuries, various native cultures have engaged in the ritual practice

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of artificially elongating their skulls

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by tightly wrapping the heads of their children through infancy.

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However, these skulls still feature evidence of the cranial sutures.

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Okay, let's move on to extracting some tooth and bone powder to get DNA out of that.

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Okay, excellent.

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In order to obtain the needed genetic material from the artifact,

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Dr. Disaptel will need to remove a tooth and drill into it to extract the samples.

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The analysis of the material will determine the sex, ancestral lineage of both the father and the mother,

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and any DNA anomalies when compared with a current human genetic database.

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Looks pretty good.

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We will pack this up and send it off, and in four to six weeks, they should have the result.

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Four to six weeks, okay.

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Thank you very much. Really appreciate your input on this.

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Take care.

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You got it.

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Los Angeles, California, April 2017.

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All right, Todd, you got the results?

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Yeah.

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And they're very, very interesting.

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In the last months after their initial examination,

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Giorgio is online with Dr. Disaptel to receive the results of the DNA test they performed on the elongated skull.

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They did get a good, clean DNA profile from the maternally inherited DNA.

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So this particular specimen is actually not found in the New World,

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but it's found amongst Native Americans, and it's typically found amongst Europeans and Middle Easterners.

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In fact, the 100% match was to a Scottish individual.

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This makes no sense whatsoever.

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Really?

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In a South American skull?

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This is all very strange.

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That could mean that people from Europe got to South America 1500 years earlier than we currently understand that.

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That's amazing.

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Unfortunately, the condition of the sample did not yield any Y chromosome, but that's not surprising.

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There is between a couple hundred to a couple thousand times as much maternal DNA in every cell of the body.

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So what does that mean? What have we not found out because of that?

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Well, so one, that would allow us to definitively determine the sex, and knowing who the father was would be very, very informative.

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Unfortunately, we're missing that.

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Right.

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Do you think that a case can be made at all, and again, this is complete speculation, that perhaps it is not necessarily human?

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Is that a possibility?

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Well, it's possible, but still we actually don't know what this is.

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Since we didn't get any definitive result, obviously a scientist always wants to try to do that.

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This is extraordinary.

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Yeah, it still leaves open the possibility of something interesting.

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The results confirmed the fact that there is a mystery there.

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First of all, we couldn't figure out who the father is of that thing.

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Number two, it has European DNA.

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Two things that make no sense, and it's had a missing sagittal suture.

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So I do think that that is an extraterrestrial skull.

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Could the elongated skull, analyzed by Dr. Disotel, provide evidence that a human-like species won't planet Earth that wasn't entirely human?

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Perhaps further clues can be found by examining recent scientific evidence that supports the theory that life can exist where we least expect it.

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The World of Scientists

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Many of the scientists we've spoken to on ancient aliens believe that the best place to search for evidence of alien life is on meteorites that have crashed to Earth.

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A few years ago, I met with a planetary scientist in England who showed me incredible evidence that these space rocks could be delivering microbial extraterrestrial life forms right here to our planet.

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Milton Keynes, England.

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March 2019.

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Ancient astronaut theorist, George Osuclos, travels to the open university to meet with planetary scientist, Dr. Queenie Chan.

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Dr. Chan?

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George!

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Hello!

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Great pleasure to meet you.

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Welcome here. Nice to meet you too.

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Thank you so much for bringing me here.

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Dr. Chan recently analyzed two meteorites recovered in 1998 and discovered something incredibly unexpected.

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A salt crystal containing liquid water.

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George is eager to find out what the implications of this discovery could be and if it might provide further evidence that life on Earth was seeded by extraterrestrials.

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Within a stone-y meteorite, we've got something called the chondritic meteorite.

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They are interesting because they have organic materials in it.

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The meteorite that I found extremely interesting, special, two meteorites actually, Zach and Monaghan's meteorite.

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They are both ordinary chondrites, but they are not ordinary.

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They both fell to Earth in 1998 and what's more interesting is both of these meteorites have salt crystals.

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That stunning blue coloration to them, more interesting is within these salt crystals, we found water, liquid water inclusion within them.

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I'm trying to wrap my mind around this, so you're telling me that you found meteorites that actually contain liquid water in them.

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Should we have a look at it in the clean lab?

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Yes, please. That would be amazing. Absolutely.

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Before they can examine the meteorite sample, George and Dr. Chan change into protective gear that will keep the laboratory sterile.

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Alright.

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And so this is it?

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This is it. Should we have a look at it in my microscope?

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Trying to move that in focus now. There it is.

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I'm going to enlarge it on my screen.

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This is it. You're looking at a speck of water in a meteorite.

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This is the first time that we've found amino acids with water.

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This is extraordinary.

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Amino acids? These organic compounds are the building blocks of life, so finding them within liquid water on a meteorite is extraordinary.

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Could alien proteins like these have started life on Earth?

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One of the exciting things about the discovery of the blue salt crystals and the asteroids that crash to Earth is really the amino acids.

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Amino acids are the building block of protein, and so it really shows that Earth isn't the only place where the right chemistry exists for which you can get life.

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In another laboratory, Dr. Chan shows Georgia the machine that analyzed the meteorite samples on a nanometer scale.

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The results are then displayed on a computer screen, showing a comparison between amino acids found on Earth and those that arrived here from space.

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It's very interesting because first of all, we're seeing a bunch of amino acids that are common in terrestrial life, and over here we've got other extraterrestrial amino acids.

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This is a revolutionary discovery. I immediately go to the idea of panspermia that life has been brought through the entire galaxy by means with which we can't even fathom how it was done.

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The building blocks of protein that we know to be necessary for life, these very building blocks, the same amino acids that we found on Earth, is ubiquitous in the universe.

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It's everywhere. It's found on asteroid. It's found on comets too.

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So in your estimation, what is the likelihood of life having begun elsewhere?

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We've got so many different galaxies, and there are so many Earth-like planets, and we could have water elsewhere.

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We know that amino acids are building blocks of life, are ubiquitous. So I think it's totally possible.

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Could these incredible findings be proof that the seeds of life traveled to Earth from other planets in our galaxy?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and believe that further evidence can be found in the recent NASA discovery that there might be life on Mars.

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The search for evidence of extraterrestrial life has taken ancient aliens from deep in the jungle all the way up to a remote mountain cave.

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But perhaps one of the most compelling places to look is not on our planet at all.

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In recent years, new research has suggested that Mars may actually support life.

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And in 2018, aerospace engineer Dr. Travis Taylor traveled to NASA to learn about an exciting new discovery, and to see a piece of the red planet right here on Earth.

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Houston, Texas, June 2018.

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Scientist and aerospace engineer Dr. Travis Taylor travels to Johnson Space Center and meets with NASA exploration mission scientist Dr. Elizabeth Rampey.

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Dr. Rampey analyzes data obtained by the Mars Curiosity rover, which six years into its mission is sending back some of its most extraordinary findings yet.

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So there was very late breaking news recently from the Curiosity rover, and some interesting information came out of the sample analysis at Mars or SAM instrument.

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So SAM can measure gases in the atmosphere, and it can also measure gases that are evolved from samples.

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So basically we drill a rock, deliver that powder to the instrument, and then that instrument heats up the sample and measures the gases that are coming off.

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Whatever out-gases, it can tell you what that is, right?

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Exactly. So a big piece of information from the atmosphere is that we've been tracking nothing over the last few Martian years, and what we see is that there is a cycle to it where it spikes late summer, early autumn, and then dips again.

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Wow.

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Yeah, so the big question is why is that happening?

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So that could possibly be due to an organic material, right? A biological source.

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Exactly. So that's right. I know. So huge.

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It's not the only hypothesis out there, but you know, there is the possibility that there is extant life on Mars that is creating this methane.

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Wow.

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The fact that NASA has now released information that they've measured a cycle of methane that goes up in the summer and down in the winter, it sounds very similar to how biological processes create methane here on Earth.

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That could be evidence that there's life right now on Mars.

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Life on Mars?

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According to NASA, such a profound notion is the distinct possibility, and other discoveries made by the space agency could reveal something even more incredible, that life on Earth actually originated on Mars.

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So what is this? Tell me what this is.

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Okay, so this is a Martian meteorite. So this is a rock that came from Mars.

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How long ago?

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The rock itself is about 180 million years old. So that's what it crystallized on Mars.

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And to give you some context, 180 million years ago dinosaurs were roaming the Earth.

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Right. Well, we know that this rock came from Mars. So if there was organic material on Mars three and a half billion years ago, something could have caused that organic material to go from there to here, right?

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Right. And what's interesting about three and a half billion years ago is that's when life was taking hold on Earth.

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And Mars was once very Earth-like with rivers and lakes. So why not Mars? We've got all the building blocks for life on Mars, so why couldn't it happen there?

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So it's very possible that we're descendants of Martians.

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I'm not going to rule that out.

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When you look at all of the evidence that's out there, from microbes in the stratosphere, to strange signals coming from space, and even ancient bones that defy explanation, you have to ask, have we already discovered alien life?

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The answer is a resounding yes. And I have no doubt that far more incredible proof is yet to come.

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Thank you.