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A massive object of unknown origin sourced by the Earth.

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It was moving faster than all chemical rockets

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produced in human history.

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A shooting star explodes over Mexico,

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mysteriously altering the environment of an entire region.

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This area is completely devoid of electromagnetic signals.

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Your cell phone won't work.

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You won't pick up satellite signals like GPS.

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It's a really odd place.

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And a meteorite that is believed to be carrying an expected cargo.

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This object may contain some type of extraterrestrial technology

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that points towards intelligence.

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Is it possible that certain objects in outer space

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are not simply wonders of nature,

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but could contain alien technology

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that is being deliberately sent to Earth?

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If you're trying to think of a way for an extraterrestrial civilization

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to stimulate the evolution of a species,

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you couldn't think of a better way to do it than through a meteorite.

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There is a doorway in the universe.

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Beyond it is the promise of truth.

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It demands we question everything we have ever been taught.

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The evidence is all around us.

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The future is right before our eyes.

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We are not alone.

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We have never been alone.

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Northern Arizona.

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In the high country desert,

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just 35 miles southeast of the city of Flagstaff,

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lies the Beringer Crater,

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one of the largest and best-preserved impact craters in North America.

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The Beringer Crater is out in the desert.

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The Beringer Crater is out in the desert.

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The Beringer Crater is out in the desert.

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You're driving south on this small road

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and then suddenly you see the crater rim.

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And there's a building there.

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You take an elevator up to the top of the rim

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and you're looking down at this amazing crater.

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It's like you're looking at something that's on another planet.

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According to scientists,

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the Beringer Crater was formed roughly 50,000 years ago

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when a massive asteroid measuring 150 feet in diameter

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and weighing an incredible 300,000 tons

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slammed into the Earth's surface.

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The resulting explosion was 150 times more powerful than the Beringer Crater.

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The explosion was 150 times more powerful

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than the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

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However, it is only one of many examples

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of how asteroid impacts have caused massive devastation on Earth

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and also shaped the world that we live in today.

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Asteroids hitting the planet Earth affect everything.

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They've changed the climate.

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They've created tremendous disasters on the planet.

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The most famous taking place 66 million years ago

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when an object about six miles across

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plowed into the Yucca Temp Peninsula of Mexico

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wiping out the dinosaurs.

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It created a whole new landscape on Earth

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and it allowed perhaps for creatures like ourselves to exist.

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So definitely rocks colliding with Earth

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had a huge impact on the evolution of life on Earth.

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While a major life-altering asteroid impact

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isn't known to have occurred on Earth for thousands of years,

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smaller fragments, known as meteors,

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penetrate the Earth's atmosphere on a regular basis.

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Statistically, we get hit by meteors all the time.

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You can go out any night and you can see shooting stars

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or falling stars which are objects outside of the Earth

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entering the atmosphere and burning up.

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Some of them actually make it to the ground.

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We sometimes forget that the world we see around us

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originally came from outer space.

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When you look at the history of the Earth

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4.6 billion years ago, back then there was basically rubble.

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Rubble, gas, particles circulating around the Sun

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and gravity began to coalesce much of this material

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which eventually became the planet Earth.

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The Earth was molten for many billion years.

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The elements like the platinum-based materials

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and the uranium tend to be heavy.

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Much of the heavy metals drifted toward the center of the Earth

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when the Earth was formed.

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an extended period known as the late heavy bombardment ensued.

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We're in billions of comets, asteroids and meteors

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make impact, seeding our young planet with numerous resources

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including water and precious metals.

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During that bombardment phase, smaller impacts would hit the crust

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and be trapped.

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Many of the precious metals that we really value on the Earth

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actually came from the asteroids.

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Were it not for the metals that arrived on Earth from space

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during its formation,

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the development of a technologically advanced human civilization

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would not have been possible.

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These asteroids and meteors, they also contain

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not just ordinary chemicals like carbon and iron,

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but also materials that are strong, conduct electricity,

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things like platinum.

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Platinum that is used in the electronics industry.

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Meteorites are providing materials like iridium,

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quasi-nano crystals that are ultimately used in our technology

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and also gold.

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And the meteorites bring the surface gold.

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A lot of, particularly the rare metals,

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that are critical in things like cell phone technologies

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are often as likely to be here only because of meteor impacts

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and that material coming from elsewhere in space

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rather than having formed naturally in just the Earth's crust

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as part of its evolution.

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Although the evidence that cosmic impacts

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have been critical to sustaining life on Earth is profound,

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incredibly, scientists have recently discovered new evidence

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that meteors may have ceded the Earth with DNA.

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Sapporo, Japan, April 27th, 2022.

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Researchers at Akaido University

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make an extraordinary announcement.

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After analyzing three meteorites that were formed

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4.6 billion years ago at the very dawn of the solar system,

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they discover that each object contains all four components of DNA,

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the central building block of life.

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Could some of the origins of life come from space?

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One idea you could imagine is an asteroid broke off

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from a planet that had the right chemicals for life.

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entered the Earth's atmosphere as a meteorite,

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and that those chemicals interact with the chemistry of the Earth,

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and perhaps that was the starting point for life as we know it here.

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For decades, mainstream scientists have studied the hypothesis

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that life on Earth may have evolved from a so-called primordial soup,

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meaning that organic compounds form into living cells

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in the planet's primitive oceans.

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It's still a question how life originated on Earth,

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and oftentimes you're told that this all happened due to a primordial soup,

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but there needed to be certain ingredients,

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and astronomers are now saying that these secret ingredients

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were brought here through meteor impacts.

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For ancient astronaut theorists,

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the possibility that meteors carried the building blocks for human life on Earth

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raises an intriguing question.

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Could it be that these ancient meteor impacts did not happen by chance,

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but by design?

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Biostronomers have coined a concept called panspermia.

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Panspermia essentially means seating.

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Pan means everything, sperm is seating, so the seating of everything.

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Now, often meteor impacts are considered to be random,

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but if you say direct at panspermia,

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that means that extraterrestrial intelligences deliberately sent

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the building blocks of life somewhere that they knew was going to be habitable.

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Is it possible that meteors were sent to Earth deliberately

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because extraterrestrials knew that Earth can host life?

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Could it be that certain meteor strikes in Earth's history did not happen by chance,

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but were in fact directed here by an extraterrestrial intelligence?

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Perhaps further clues can be found by examining ancient cultures

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that believe meteorites possess an otherworldly connection.

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Muslims believe that this stone was sent down by God to Earth.

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They believe that through meteorites they can talk with the gods.

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Saudi Arabia.

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At the center of Islam's holiest city stands the Grand Mosque,

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the largest house of Islamic worship on Earth.

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It is also the final destination of the Hajj pilgrimage,

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which every Muslim is required to complete once in their life if they are physically able.

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In the mosque's central courtyard stands an ancient structure called the Kaaba, or Qub,

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and embedded in one corner of the Kaaba is the most sacred object in Islam, the Black Stone,

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a mysterious rock that is believed to have come from the heavens.

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For the world 1.8 billion Muslims, this stone is crucial.

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When Muslims face, they face in the direction of Mecca, they face in the direction of that stone.

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The Black Stone of the Kaaba in Mecca is some kind of fragment that is held together by a silver band,

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and the object is actually said to have fallen from heaven,

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and that it is said to have landed in paradise where it was picked up by Adam and Eve.

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The first human being, Adam, in Islamic tradition, builds the first temple out of this stone,

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the first place to worship God.

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Then the story is that that stone gets lost during the flood,

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and is then rediscovered by Abraham.

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So Abraham, with his son Ishmael, built in Mecca the first place of prayer.

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That's why Mecca is important to Muslims.

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What survives at that original building going back thousands of years earlier is this Black Stone in the eastern corner of the Kaaba.

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If we're scientific, we may call that a meteorite.

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If we take the scripture seriously, this story tells us this stone was the communication between the two dimensions from the heaven to the earth.

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For Adam and Eve, this was the first altar to communicate with the celestial realm.

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The Black Stone of Mecca is arguably the world's most venerated meteorite, but it is hardly alone.

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Many other ancient cultures believe meteorites and impact sites have a connection to a higher realm.

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In Roman times, a very prominent meteorite was found in Syria and was worshiped.

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It was referred to as Helio-Elegopolis, which literally means the sun touching down to the earth.

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In Delphi, a meteorite was associated with Apollo at his temple in Delphi.

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So this is a constant theme that we have in the ancient world tying physical objects to the gods, to the skies, to the heavens.

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Historians of religion agree that people have venerated meteorites and impact sites throughout history.

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The question is why?

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Something that we find repeated over and over again in these crater impact sites is that they believe that through these meteorites they can talk with the gods, and the gods can actually see them as well.

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So the meteorite then becomes a way of connecting with the divine beings.

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Is it possible that numerous ancient cultures around the world simply passed down similar mythological stories that meteorites and earthly impact sites could allow them to communicate with higher beings?

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Ancient astronaut Vera suggests that these otherworldly encounters may have actually happened, and for further evidence they point to one of the most mysterious and sacred sites in North America.

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Sprarling across a large clearing that divides a wooded landscape sets a 1370 foot long monument in the shape of a coiling snake.

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It is known as the Great Serpent Mound.

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According to historians, an indigenous Native American culture called the Edina built the mound in 320 BC, and curiously it is positioned right on the edge of an enormous crater.

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It actually sits right on the 300 million year old meteor impact crater, which was so powerful that it even went down to the mantle inside the earth.

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And this has created all sorts of gravitational and magnetic anomalies in the area, and it's thought that the reason the Edina people who built this site chose it is because it has these kind of energetic and almost spiritual qualities associated with it.

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One of the great mysteries of Serpent Mound is that this meteorite creates this impact site, this impact crater 250 million years ago.

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Then suddenly, 3,000 years ago, the Edina people come along and they're somehow able to identify its significance, and they build an effigy.

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And it becomes this very powerful place of reverence for the Edina people for the next 2,000 years or so.

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When you look at the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio, you have to wonder if there was some energy there that they were feeling.

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And so they built the Serpent Mound there as a testament to the extraterrestrial connection perhaps that's with this crater.

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Serpent Mound has long been talked about as being like an otherworldly connection point.

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And in traditions that go way, way back, there's talk of the star people.

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They're described in certain ways in myths, which in modern terms we would see as like UFOs landing and interacting with these extraterrestrial beings.

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So is Serpent Mound part of this ancient tradition?

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As unique as the Great Serpent Mound is against its forested landscape, it is not the only asteroid impact site on Earth where ancient cultures believed there was an extraterrestrial connection.

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In Australia we find an extraordinarily mysterious site, the Wolf Creek Crater.

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The indigenous people call it Kali Malal, the star that fell from the sky.

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It's an impact crater site that's 3,000 feet in diameter.

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Even more interesting than that is the indigenous legend that is attached to it.

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They talk about two serpents that emerged from the dream time and created this crater.

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It suggests once again that these indigenous cultures were in contact with otherworldly beings that either are connected with the crater, the impact site, or somehow emerged from it.

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Did our ancestors bear witness to the proof that asteroids and meteors could connect man with otherworldly beings?

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Perhaps further clues can be found by examining two mysterious objects that have recently been detected in outer space, which some scientists believe may be controlled by extraterrestrials.

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We have never seen an object like this ever. This was really exciting.

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It came into our solar system, went around the sun and flew by Earth as if it was a probe looking at us.

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The Island of Maui. Here, atop a dramatic 10,000 foot summit, stands the Holly Aukala Observatory.

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On October 19, 2017, astronomers detect a mysterious object traveling through our solar system. It is unlike anything that has been seen before.

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

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There were four images taken 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 streak, so they knew it was moving fast.

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At that point, they started to compute an orbit to try and understand what this object was.

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

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But once more data came in, it was very clear that the orbit was hyperbolic, meaning something coming from outside the solar system.

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We have never seen an object on an orbit like this ever before, and it's an irregularly shaped object that's about 800 meters or half a kilometer in length.

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This was really exciting.

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The landmark discovery is the first time an object is officially recognized as interstellar.

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To signify the importance of the finding, the astronomers give it a fitting name.

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In honor of this object being discovered by a telescope in Hawaii, the team came up with the name Oumuamua, which means Voyager from the distant past reaching out to us.

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Astronomers were not only mystified by where Oumuamua came from, but also by its strange oblong shape, which was like no asteroid ever detected.

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The interstellar object moved steadily through the solar system, and astronomers were taken by surprise once again when after passing by the sun, it appeared to accelerate.

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Oumuamua was moving rapidly away from the sun.

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When it made its closest pass to the sun, inside the orbit of Mercury, it was moving very fast, a little more than 195,000 miles per hour.

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So this was moving rapidly out of the solar system.

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To Harvard astronomer Dr. Avi Loeb, the unusual behavior indicated that the object wasn't an asteroid or a comet.

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Instead, he proposed an extraordinary hypothesis.

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Oumuamua was an extraterrestrial spacecraft.

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Oumuamua was definitely an outlier, and the question is why would the first interstellar meteor be so unusual?

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There was a question as to what pushed Oumuamua away from the sun, and my thought was that raises the possibility that it may have been a spacecraft propelled artificially.

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Oumuamua could possibly have been a probe coming into our solar system the same way we send probes to Jupiter.

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It came into our solar system when around the sun and flew by Earth as if it was a probe looking at us.

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Intrigued by the possibility that Oumuamua might actually be a probe sent to our solar system by an extraterrestrial civilization,

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Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb began searching for evidence of other celestial objects moving in a similar fashion.

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I came across a meteor catalog that the government compiled using its missile warning system.

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It's called CNEOS, and I asked my student to check if any of those meteors came from outside the solar system.

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He found that one of them was actually moving at 60 kilometers per second, clearly unbound to the sun.

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Astronomers determined that this object, like Oumuamua, did in fact originate outside the solar system.

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This new discovery was first observed by military satellites in January 2014.

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Three years before, Oumuamua was identified.

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But unlike Oumuamua, this object did not pass by the planet, but actually entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded over the Pacific Ocean.

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The meteor burned up about 100 miles off the coast of Papua Nugini, and it released a few percent of the energy of the Hiroshima Bar when it exploded.

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From that, we inferred it was about half a meter in size when it exploded.

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Excited by the discovery, Dr. Loeb closely examined the data captured by the military satellites, and he noticed something extraordinary.

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The government released data of the explosion, and from that we inferred that the object must have been tougher than iron.

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So not only was this object the first in the stellar meteor, but it was also tougher than all other meteors detected by the government in that catalogue.

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And that raises the possibility that it may have been a spacecraft propelled artificially and made of some alloy that is much tougher than iron meteorites.

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To find out, we need to find the material if we do hand up concluding that it was artificially in origin, perhaps the spacecraft.

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That will have huge implications for the future of humanity.

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Some people are saying this object came from outside the solar system.

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Maybe, just maybe, it's a techno-signature of intelligent life.

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And that has created a sensation, because this is a new branch of science.

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We're not just looking at asteroids anymore, we're looking for remnants of intelligence.

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When you consider the vastness of space and just how tiny our planet is, it's literally a tiny speck within the Milky Way galaxy.

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And then you factor in direct hits by meteorites that came from beyond our solar system.

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Yet I wonder, are these meteorites somehow intelligently directed?

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Is it possible that the meteor that exploded near Papua New Guinea in 2014 was carrying extraterrestrial technology?

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If so, could an advanced civilization be sending such objects to Earth deliberately?

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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest further clues can be found at an impact crater in northern Mexico that some believe functions as a beacon for UFOs.

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This area is completely devoid of electromagnetic signals. Your cell phone won't work, you won't pick up GPS.

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People see UFOs and mysterious lights.

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July 11th, 1970, northeastern Utah.

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The U.S. Air Force launches an Athena V-123D missile from the Green River test site.

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The rocket is programmed to land 700 miles away at the White Sands missile range in New Mexico.

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But the missile veers hundreds of miles off course.

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And crashes in the remote Maupini Desert in northern Mexico.

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When workers arrive to clean up the crash site, they notice something very unusual.

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During the cleanup process, it was noted that radio communications didn't work well, compasses didn't work right.

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This area is completely devoid of electromagnetic signals.

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Meaning your cell phone won't work, you won't pick up satellite signals like GPS. It's a really odd place.

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The area quickly earned the nickname La Zona del Silencio or the zone of silence.

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The zone of silence has become notorious in the last 50-odd years through the fact that many mysterious events have occurred.

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And the origins of this location seem to be of a cosmic nature.

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The Athena rocket was just the latest object to fall from the heavens and land in the Maupini Desert.

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Prior to the crash, the zone of silence had been bombarded by more meteor strikes than any other spot on Earth.

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The zone of desolencia was well known for the numerous meteorite impacts over and over over thousands of years hitting that wall.

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Perhaps the most intriguing impact occurred in February 1969.

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The year before the Athena rocket, there was a meteor crash in that zone of silence. It was the Allende meteor.

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And what that meteor brought to this planet was the element curium. We know what curium is, and it doesn't occur naturally on this planet.

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Now curium is a material that we create in nuclear reactors or in nuclear explosions, or it's created inside the nuclear fire of the sun.

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So it doesn't just occur randomly anywhere and it's not a decay product. It has to be created.

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So the question arose then was this meteor that impacted in Mexico created in a reactor by some advanced civilization.

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Is it possible that the Allende meteorite and perhaps others that struck the area before it contained extraterrestrial technology?

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And if so, how did it get here? Some researchers believe it was sent deliberately.

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And as evidence, they point to numerous UFOs that have been reported in the area.

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There is no question that the zone of silence is a very mysterious area.

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In the last 50 odd years, many mysterious events have occurred.

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People see UFOs, mysterious lights and experience other types of paranormal activity.

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In 2008, I was filming in the zone of silence and the locals in the town of Cuyami talked about how strange beings came up out of the ground.

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Whether these beings were extraterrestrials, whether these things were something else we don't know.

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Is it more than mere coincidence that in the zone of silence where a high number of meteor impacts have occurred and strange electromagnetic anomalies have been recorded?

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There have also been reports of UFOs and otherworldly entities.

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Could it be, as researchers have argued, that the impacts over and over in that area have created a whole anomalous area?

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And that the zone of silence is so magnetically and electronically potent that it's somehow attracted the ETs?

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And you might ask yourself, why do they need the magnetic energy from that spot?

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Maybe they are terraforming our planets for their own purposes and we don't know why.

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The idea that through meteor impacts one could influence the development and the evolution of a planet is feasible to me.

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And many astronomers and bio astronomers are looking at these ideas as actual concepts in reality.

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And so has this potentially happened on Earth? And the answer to that is a resounding yes.

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Are meteorite impacts responsible for the mysterious phenomena in the zone of silence?

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And if so, might they be connected to UFO activity in the area?

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Some researchers believe that further clues can be found in similar anomalies that occur 1500 miles away.

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In a mysterious area, known as Skinwalker Ranch.

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Skinwalker Ranch is one of the most anomalous areas on this planet.

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There are strange magnetic field anomalies. Is it possible that this is from some extraterrestrial origin?

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The World of Skinwalker Ranch

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Uinta County, Utah, located in the northeastern part of the state, is a 512-acre property known as Skinwalker Ranch.

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One of the most intensely studied paranormal hotspots in the world.

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Skinwalker Ranch is one of the most anomalous areas on this planet.

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Here's what people have seen in that ranch.

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Strange creatures. Suddenly appearing out of nowhere.

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UFOs. Instruments don't work.

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People around the ranch set up observation posts to see what's going on.

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And they're the ones that are recording all kinds of strange creatures.

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Astrophysicist and aerospace engineer Dr. Travis Taylor has spent nearly 20 years working on high-tech programs for the Department of Defense and NASA.

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Look at this going nuts.

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In 2019, he joined a research team investigating the strange phenomenon at Skinwalker Ranch.

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They just jumped 18. We need to get out of here, guys. Let's get out of here.

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Since that time, Dr. Taylor has come to believe that the mysterious events are connected to the unique geology of the Uinta Basin, where Skinwalker Ranch is located.

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The Uinta Basin appears to be the epicenter of some really unusual phenomena including UAP sightings, strange energy measurements, strange electric and magnetic field anomalies, and even a very unusual phenomenon.

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Other anomalies that look like something out of a science fiction movie.

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What is that solid light?

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There's got a black dot in the center of it.

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What?

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As part of the investigation, Dr. Taylor and the research team drilled core samples of the soil in the area around Skinwalker Ranch and what they found was unexpected.

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We've made an immense amount of measurements and taken an immense amount of data and from all those measurements, what we've discovered is there seems to be an interesting mix of things underneath the ground here at Skinwalker Ranch that are the make-up elements that you would need to create computers, spacecraft, and so on.

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The geology looks like an ancient impact crater and there was an impact here maybe 50 million years ago.

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Is it possible that this different phenomena that happened at Skinwalker Ranch is from some extraterrestrial origin, an ancient impact site, an ancient crash site?

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Skinwalker Ranch, it appears to be similar to Mexico where there is a zone of silence right where there's odd phenomena being seen that could be potentially a side effect of a meteor impact.

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Could it be that meteorites are responsible for the phenomenon at Skinwalker Ranch and the zone of silence?

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Dr. Taylor believes not only that this is possible but that the same might be true for other areas across the globe where electromagnetic anomalies are present.

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There are other similar places around the world like near Roosevelt and Utah.

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There's places in Iraq where this occurs.

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There's places in Australia where compasses and other electromagnetic phenomena occur where we have communications that don't function properly, sort of like radio silent regions.

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And all these seem to be near meteor impact sites and people that are near those, they see UFOs, they think they see entities and things like that, maybe they do.

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Is it the impactor that created some kind of strange phenomena or it might be some other technology that we don't understand at play here?

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Could these impact sites be directed crashes from an ancient or an advanced extraterrestrial civilization?

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And that's why we see these strange phenomena.

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Another facet of these impact crater sites is the materials and the energy that is left behind.

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And you have to wonder, well, what is the role of those materials and is it possible that they are responsible for altering the planet for an unknown purpose?

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Could it be that extraterrestrials are intentionally depositing exotic materials on Earth through meteor impacts as part of an ongoing mission to transform the planet and direct the future of humanity?

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Perhaps further clues will be revealed by an audacious new mission designed to retrieve a piece of a meteor that might contain extraterrestrial technology.

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Harvard University, September 16, 2022. Theoretical physicist Dr. Avi Loeb announces an ambitious new expedition.

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Its goal is to recover fragments of the interstellar meteor that exploded over the Pacific Ocean in February 2014.

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This meteor was roughly half a meter in size, bigger than a basketball, and it's burned up about 100 miles off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

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The ocean is very deep. It's about a mile deep there, but we plan to use a sled equipped with a magnet that will attract the small fragments and collect them.

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And we will go back and forth across the region of interest, just like mowing the lawn, for a couple of weeks, and we hope to find those fragments.

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We hope, just like detectives, to collect enough evidence that will tell us the origins of this object.

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If the project is successful, it will mark the first time humanity has recovered material from another solar system.

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Whatever we find will have a big impact on our understanding of interstellar objects.

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But what excited Dr. Loeb the most about the meteor isn't where it came from, but what it might contain.

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The reason that the meteor is interesting is because the possibility that it may have been a spacecraft propelled artificially and made of some alloy that is much tougher than iron meteorites.

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If we do end up concluding that it was artificially in origin, perhaps a spacecraft, that would be the first time that we found evidence for an object that originated from another civilization.

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Could the remnants of an extraterrestrial spacecraft really be lying at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean?

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While it may be a sensational notion, the possibility has excited researchers around the world.

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So there's talk that maybe we should try to capture this material that plunged into the Pacific, because who knows, maybe it was sent here by an alien civilization and out of space.

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Now the probability of that happening is very small. Let's face it, it's a long shot.

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But hey, science is based on long shots. You never know where the next discovery is being made.

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And so I think it's worthwhile to try to see whether we can retrieve this object.

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This object may contain some type of extraterrestrial technology or some type of an extraterrestrial signature that points towards intelligence.

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If they can find this object and study it, it could potentially be one of the greatest discoveries in human history.

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According to ancient astronaut theorists, the findings may help answer an essential question.

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Have alien civilizations from across the galaxy been sending materials to Earth for eons?

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With the deliberate intention of developing our planet, altering evolution and setting us on a path to our future?

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Perhaps out of all these things that crashed into the Earth's atmosphere, some percentage of them could be of extraterrestrial origin.

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And if we go and look at all these as many as we can find, perhaps we'll find that one needle in the haystack that tells us this is a device or was a device before it impacted the Earth

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that came from outside of our solar system and from some advanced civilization.

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Maybe we'll find new DNA or we'll find new building blocks for life.

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Life that we didn't even know could even exist. And what implications does that have for us?

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Were meteors deliberately sent to Earth to terraform the planet?

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Enabling the development of intelligent life and a technologically advanced civilization?

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And if so, are extraterrestrials continuing to direct the evolution of both the planet and humanity through meteor impacts today?

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Perhaps the proof lies not in the skies above, but in plain sight here on Earth.

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And it is there we must look for the undeniable evidence of our connection to the cosmos.