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A mysterious craft rises out of the jungle.

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Some say it's some of the best footage of UAP they've ever seen.

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Does its weird behavior give away the secrets of UFO engineering?

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The reason that we would see these objects tilting is because there was an anti-gravity pocket

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that they would need to tilt into before they travel.

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When Russians fight aliens, there can only be one winner.

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Witnesses claim that the soldiers were not just killed but petrified as in literally turned to stone.

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If this really happened, there are weapons out there far more terrifying than atomic bombs.

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And what lurks beneath the waters of UFO Island?

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Catalina Island has a rightful claim to being one of the weirdest places in America.

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One former commander commented that it was so top secret they couldn't even tell their wives about it.

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Others have implied this is some kind of alien UFO base.

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UFOs, once the staff of science fiction, now caught on camera.

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Finally forcing governments to reveal what they know.

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UAPs aren't unexplained, but they are real.

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Many of these phenomena have been cited in training ranges.

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We're very much concerned about safety of flight.

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So let's just speculate for one moment that these things, whatever they are, are here to do not very good things.

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Impossible engineering, terrifying encounters, sinister cover-ups.

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This is evidence of the unexplained.

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November 22nd 2007, Costa Rica.

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A 35 year old man is working on a house in Tarbaca, half an hour from the capital San Jose.

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Marvin Badiya is working on a table outside when he hears a loud buzzing noise.

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William, William, William, William.

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He sees this disc hovering in the sky and films it.

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William.

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Looks totally out of place.

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The object's surface appears white, but Badiya says it had a texture similar to polished aluminium.

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It appears to be spinning or rotating.

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Some say it's some of the best footage of UAP they've ever seen.

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The film has been thoroughly examined and confirmed as authentic.

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This object is not CGI.

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It has no identifiable propulsion, exhaust or traditional aerodynamics.

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As far as we know, nothing that flies like this exists.

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But what really excites UFO investigators are the very last frames of the footage.

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The craft makes a peculiar manoeuvre as it leaves the frame.

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What's really interesting is the UFO tilt as it flies away.

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This tilting movement seems to confirm a claim by one of the most controversial figures in the UFO world, Bob Lazar.

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Bob Lazar is one of the most notorious characters in the history of UFOs.

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To some, he is a hero.

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To others, he is nothing but a hoaxer.

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He claims to have worked at Area 51, the top secret US military base in the middle of the Nevada desert.

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Bob Lazar claims that he was hired to work at a site called S4, a subsidiary site to Area 51.

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And he claims the reason he was hired was to reverse engineer alien technology.

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Area 51, which began life during the Cold War, was known for top secret work in surveillance and reconnaissance.

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It saw the development of the infamous U-Tune, the high-altitude spy play.

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But Lazar claims this was a cover.

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He says he began work in the late 1980s with a team studying alien craft, one of which had been retrieved from an archaeological site.

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Their job was to work out how they flew.

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And his supposed recollection of these objects are extremely detailed.

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He claims that the saucers are divided into two levels and the reactor that powers it is on the upper level.

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Lazar claims that the craft also had an antenna extending to the top and surrounded by three gravity amplifiers.

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These connected to gravity emitters which can rotate 180 degrees to create a gravity beam or anti-gravity wave.

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Lazar claims that the tilt is vital to a UFO's mode of propulsion.

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The footage shot of the tilting flying saucer in Costa Rica seems to show this so-called anti-gravity method of flight, almost exactly as Lazar described it.

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Lazar claims that the reason that we would see these objects tilting is because there was an anti-gravity pocket that they would need to tilt into before they travel.

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By manipulating the position of the pocket, the craft can in theory alter its direction of travel.

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When you look at that film from Costa Rica, what really strikes you is the tilt as the craft moves away.

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Lazar's claims of secret UFO testing activity at Area 51 have been derided by officials.

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The US military denied that Bob ever worked for them at Area 51 and his academic qualifications, which included a masters in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were put into doubt.

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But recently, a series of patents were filed by an aerospace engineer at the Pentagon that have caused consternation in the scientific community.

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The first patent in the series is a so-called high-frequency gravitational wave generator.

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Ostensibly, this high-frequency gravitational wave generator works on the premise that artificially created electromagnetic fields could be intersected, which could in turn generate waves of anti-gravity force.

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Anti-gravity crafts do not need to have wings or propellers like current planes.

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A craft like this would be inside its own gravity pocket. It would travel quite unlike anything we currently experience on Earth.

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The object travels with no reference to the physical constraints and forces outside its anti-gravity pocket.

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It makes possible extraordinary velocities and turns that would tear normal craft and their passengers to pieces.

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Anti-gravity can revolutionize travel. All these patents, dubbed as UFO patents, are being pursued by the US Navy.

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The patents are the work of a man called Dr. Salvatore Pays. He's an American aerospace engineer who for most of his career has been working directly for the US Department of Defense.

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The alien origin story could be a bizarre way of covering up real next-level American technology.

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Dr. Pays Patents bear a really striking resemblance to technology that Lazar said he deconstructed.

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Perhaps it's possible that the craft in the 2007 clip is an early, covert test of such technologies.

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If the US is testing its own anti-gravity craft in the remote jungles of Costa Rica, it seems it could have been doing so for a long time.

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In 1971, a photographer from the government's mapping team, surveying the land for a hydroelectric project, accidentally photographed a mysterious disc-shaped object.

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It was hovering over the country in a very similar manner to the craft filmed in 2007.

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The Costa Rican authorities did not claim it as their own technology, and the US government also remained silent.

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Who knows what this person actually caught on film?

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It certainly right now, whatever, seems like something that's well out of reach of our capabilities.

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A weapon that instantly turns living human beings to stone has excited the imagination of writers for centuries.

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The concept of petrification itself is not a new one.

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In classic Greek mythology, perhaps the most famous story of petrification is Medusa,

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the woman with that crazy snake hair who can turn anyone she makes eye contact with into stone.

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But of course, that's just a mythological story.

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But a new report suggests a truth stranger than any legend.

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The substance of the report seems to defy the laws of physics.

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Flesh and blood turn to stone, an enemy that is indefeatable and unknowable.

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The 1993 report was said to have been uncovered by a CIA spy working in Russia at the demise of the Soviet Union.

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The file was reported to be among the documents that found their way to the CIA after the KGB was disbanded.

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According to the report, these soldiers are under normal training exercise when a UFO appears above them.

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And one of the soldiers fires a surface-to-air missile at this object, bringing it down.

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Which is an extraordinary act of hostility.

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From the wreckage of this alleged alien craft, it's said that five humanoid figures emerge.

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They're described as having huge heads and large black eyes.

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What happens next sounds completely insane.

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The five beings merge together to form a bright, white, spherical ball of pure energy.

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And it blasts 23 soldiers.

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The explosion engulfs the Soviet soldiers.

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As the survivors try and help their foreign comrades, they make an horrific discovery.

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What's really scary is that the witnesses claim that the soldiers were not just killed but petrified, as in literally turned to stone.

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Imagine your flesh, your body turning to stone. It's literally being petrified.

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The CIA writes that if this report corresponds to reality, this is an extremely menacing case.

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The report shows that the soldiers' bodies were transferred to a specialist research institute.

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Specialists concluded that whatever had caused the explosion was a technology unknown to man.

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And the result of it is that it had converted the soldiers' bodies to a substance resembling limestone.

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Turn to stone by a medusor like Adidas.

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Given the way that this report is set out, it would definitely suggest that there's some kind of war.

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And that would certainly explain America's interest.

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Stories of death by petrification may have fascinated humans for millennia.

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But scientists in the real world have struggled to come up with any such deadly device.

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Really the only earthly process we have that's even closer to petrification is fossilization.

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But that is almost impossible to weaponize because it's so slow.

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We're all familiar with the idea of fossils.

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A fossil is any organic matter that's preserved after the organism has died.

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So a mosquito that's trapped in amber, that's a fossil, but it's not a petrified fossil.

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Natural fossilization, at its quickest, can turn organic material to stone in 10,000 years.

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The natural question is, is there a way to speed it up?

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And it turns out, yes there is.

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Scientists have discovered that by soaking wood in acid for two days, placing it in silica for two days and then baking it, you can get silicon carbide.

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This is completely solid and the whole process takes just five days.

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But even if what we're seeing here is a new process of petrification, it would have to happen over a fairly long scale.

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And what we're seeing here is something instant.

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But a recent study in Japan has found another way a living thing can be turned to stone.

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And it's a truly horrifying process.

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The Japanese have recently discovered a medusa virus which infects victims.

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This virus targets organic matter on a molecular level.

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Infecting it and changing its chemical structure, it effectively becomes a statue of itself.

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If this biological process could be repeated on a mass scale and weaponized, it could provide a terrifying explanation for what occurred in Siberia.

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What we know is, while petrification isn't instant, deadly bioweapons can be.

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The medusa virus was discovered in a hot spring.

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Most viruses react to heat, whether it disarms them or whether they use heat as a catalyst.

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Perhaps it's no coincidence that the supposed alien petrification weapon began with a massive ball of light.

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The other aspect that's important here is the explosion.

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Could that have been the trigger here?

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If Russian scientists studying the petrified bodies could reverse engineer the technique used to do this, they would have a powerful and devastating weapon.

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It would explain why the Russians never made this public, but it would be very worrying for the future of warfare.

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But the report, with its aliens, wonder weapons and soldiers turned to stone, could be nothing more than a piece of military deception.

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The Russian state has a grim track record of deceiving its own citizens.

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In 1989 in Vernezh, reports emerged of Russian schoolchildren encountering a mysterious spacecraft.

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They said that a humanoid figure emerged from the craft and fired a gun at a boy.

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The unnerving report says the boy vanished and only reappeared after the aliens had returned to their craft and taken off.

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This incident was reported in tasks the official news agency, but scientists dispatched the area later found much higher than normal levels of radioactive cesium in the environment.

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So this story might have been a way to cover up a nuclear accident of some sort.

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Perhaps the far-fetched sounding story of a dazzling ball of light turning soldiers to stone in Siberia was put out as a cover for a man-made tragedy the authorities wanted to cover up.

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Could this have been a nuclear test gone wrong? I mean nuclear explosions produce a heat so intense they can absolutely vaporize anything they encounter.

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Although Russia has used UFOs as a cover story for its grisly mistakes in the past, in this instance there's a flaw in the theory. The report was never made public.

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A Russian cover-up, if thought necessary, would have happened almost immediately. They wanted to distract people from what was really going on.

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This kind of UFO story would have been shouted from the rooftops, not buried and nearly forgotten. Even the CIA version isn't declassified until several decades later.

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No country wants to admit it lacks military dominance in its own borders. If a population faced a devastating weapon with the mythical power of Medusa, there'd be no fairy tale ending.

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Russia remains quite secretive about this and the KGB report on the incident is still classified and hasn't been made public, so it's possible that we'll never really know the truth of what went on here.

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The KGB report on the incident is still classified and has been made public.

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2021. A weird disappearance in La Pampa, Argentina.

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On the 16th of November the family of Omerik, a woman in her 50s, wake to find her missing from her home in Jacinta Arrao's La Pampa.

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Hermes' husband calls her phone. The call is answered, but there's no sound, just this disconcerting buzzing noise.

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He calls the police, reports that she's gone.

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The police mount a search and they bring in sniffer dogs to follow her trail.

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Although her husband has actually told them she doesn't really walk very well and she really couldn't have gone that far on foot without being helped.

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But the dogs do nevertheless pick up a trail and now it gets quite strange because they lose the scent really quite abruptly after about 150 metres.

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That's around 500 feet from her house.

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The next day the police bring the family incredible news.

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Emma has been found. She's in a state of shock, unable to communicate verbally and what's even weirder is that she was discovered 40 miles away in a town called Guatrate.

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When Omer's able to speak again she explains what she can remember. She'd woken in the night and she'd had some tea.

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And then she'd checked her phone and she noticed it had some kind of weird interference. And then she says that the power went out.

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Emma stepped outside and when she did she was met by an enormous blast of sound like a gust of wind and a bright light so bright that she had to close her eyes.

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That was the last thing she could remember until she woke up in Guatrate.

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A weird story made even weirder by its eerie similarity to another disappearance in the very same province nearly 40 years previously.

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What we have with Julio Platner is a very creepy, very detailed account of what he believed to be an alien abduction.

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Julio says he was at work on a farm. At around 7.30 that evening he got out of his pickup truck to open up the back gate.

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As he did he's suddenly blinded by a bright light. He doesn't see a vehicle or a craft of any kind but he believes that he's been taken on board a ship.

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He claims he finds himself in a room that reminds him of a kind of operating theatre.

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The room was lit by a bright white light that was very clear but didn't hurt the eyes and didn't seem to have an apparent source.

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He was put in a kind of suspended dentist chair and he was attended to, he said, by four beings.

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He identified one of them as female because they presented as similar to human form.

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From what he remembers he can't move but the female among them approached him, touched him and took a blood sample.

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After this Julio Platner's memories came to an abrupt end.

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Julio comes to find himself back inside his pickup truck. He's 12 miles away from where he started at the gate.

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The next day Julio follows his truck. Now he knows that they're his tracks because his vehicle has three tires with tread and one that's worn smooth.

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What he sees is that his tracks end a meter and a half away from the gate and don't reappear again until 12 miles later where he woke up.

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Two strange disappearances. Julio Platner and Irma Rick in the same province four decades apart.

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Local people in La Pampa ask themselves whether Irma Rick was abducted by the same entities that Platner says abducted him in the early 1980s.

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As with any abduction story you've got to ask is this person telling the truth?

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A person claiming to be abducted may not be lying but simply a victim of a bizarre medical condition.

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Irma Rick's case could also perhaps be explained by a fugue state.

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Now this is where a body basically goes on automatic pilot. We're unconscious of what we're doing.

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Sometimes the only clue that we've done anything at all is that our clothes are dirty or that someone says they've seen us.

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It's a state where you're totally unaware unconscious of what you're doing.

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Doctors find people who suffer from a fugue are often reacting to a previous traumatic event.

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Some people lose a sense of time for hours or even days.

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In 1985 Jodie Roberts of Tacoma, USA vanished from her home.

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She was found 12 years later with a new life, new identity and no memory of her previous existence.

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The interesting thing for me is that the interpretation of what happens to people depends so much on their culture and the stories that are available from around them.

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In pre-modern times fairies were said to kidnap humans who would return from fairyland with unaccounted for missing time.

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Perhaps these experiences could have been examples of a fugue state.

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Julio Platner may have entered a fugue state and his mind rationalized his bizarre absence by creating a story about alien abduction.

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But the explanation that Irma Rick was somehow influenced by this historic case nearby doesn't seem to fit.

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Her family say that Irma's medical conditions mean that walking that 40 miles, whether asleep or awake, would have been absolutely impossible.

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Four million people claim to have been abducted by aliens.

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Harvard psychiatrist Professor John Mack says that many of these accounts contain key similarities that couldn't be explained by coincidence.

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Irma is said to have shied away from publicity after news of her bizarre disappearance leaked.

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Investigators are keen to talk to her and to study her mobile phone, which could carry a record of her travels during her missing hours.

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Of course we don't know what's gone on in La Pampa yet, but it's clear that given the history and given the circumstances, we really should be investigating further.

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Friday, the 15th of April, 2022, residents of Southern California report an ominous shaking in the earth, around 18 miles from the town of Avalon.

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Many people assume it was an earthquake.

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But the incident doesn't seem to be as it first appeared.

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The United States Geological Survey first documents a tremor reaching around four on the Richter scale, but they then backtrack.

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Shortly afterwards, the USGS says the event was not triggered by an earthquake.

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What actually triggered this event isn't made clear and speculation runs wild, in part because of where this is, just off the coast of Catalina Island.

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Santa Catalina Island is a small, inhabited island, just 40 miles off the coast of Los Angeles.

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It's only 22 miles across and 8 miles wide.

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With its hotels, water sports and harborside restaurants, it doesn't immediately present as a place where strange things happen, but appearances can be deceptive.

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Catalina Island has a rightful claim to being one of the weirdest places in America.

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It has a reputation for UFO sightings, and they're often spotted by the Navy. It's like an aquatic area 51.

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There's a real pattern of unidentified submerged objects, interacting with water in a way we're completely, technically unfamiliar with.

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Unexplained sightings off this mountainous island stretch back several decades.

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On the 14th of June, 1992, a local group saw a collection of UFOs, but this wasn't a normal UFO sighting. These seemed to come right out of the water.

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There was a blaze of light, and several disc-like shapes emerged out of the water in complete silence.

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One caller that filmed the Coast Guard said he had never been so terrified in his life.

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And he even asked first if anything strange had been reported before telling his own story. You know, clearly worried he'd be viewed as mad.

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But perhaps the most disturbing incident occurred off the island in 1945, at the end of World War II.

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The USS Willard Keith was an Allen M. Sumner class destroyer of the US Navy. Now, in terms of the technology of the time, this kind of vessel was pretty impressive in terms of its weaponry, equipment and power.

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She's on her way along the coast of Catalina Island, part of a routine run.

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They identify a possible enemy submarine.

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Everyone suddenly flies into action as they try to identify the threat.

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The one thing that the Willard Keith can identify is that it's very, very large.

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One of the crew said that when the sonars picked the vessel up, the captain's coordinates estimated it was 352 feet, two feet longer than the ship.

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The only known submarines of a similar size were of the Japanese submarine fleet.

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Japan began World War II with one of the most powerful submarine fleets on the planet.

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It included in its number the largest submarine of the war, the 400 foot long I-400 class.

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But in March 1945, only one was active and it wasn't in the vicinity of Santa Catalina Island.

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At the time, all they could say with certainty was that this was not a US submarine.

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So the decision was made to launch some anti-submarine warfare weapons called depth charges.

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Twelve of these were launched.

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And reports then came of a direct hit.

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An oily substance appears on the surface of the sea, a sign that the target has been destroyed.

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When they report the incident, something odd happens.

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When the crew returned to San Francisco, all 350 were brought onto deck and they were told to forget what had happened that day.

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To this day, the origin of this huge unknown object lurking beneath the waters down the coast from Santa Catalina Island has not been identified,

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nor has its wreckage been found.

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But perhaps this pattern of strange events over seven decades is explained by the history of this rocky outcrop

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and the strategic significance of its location.

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It's just visible from the Californian coast, around 45 miles from Los Angeles,

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a nearby Edwards Air Force Base, home of the Air Force Test Center.

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It was a good place for covert testing.

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The Office of Strategic Services or OSS, now used by the CIA, held many of its initial training sessions there

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and new technologies such as SCUBA was developed.

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One former commander commented that it was so top secret that they couldn't even tell their wives about it.

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Given Catalina's position and the way it's been used, could these anomalies be some kind of military testing that is still classified?

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The possibility of a covert military technology test gone wrong

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might explain the reaction of the crew of the USS Willard Keith received.

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But then, in 2014, a discovery is made near the coast of Catalina

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and it's too vast, too deep and too old to be anything to do with the US military.

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There appears to be a structure spotted in a somewhat unorthodox way on Google Earth by a local man.

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The structure, about 2,000 feet below the surface, is a massive three miles wide.

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This structure could be a rare natural phenomenon, but radio reporter Jimmy Church was among local people who commented

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that the precision of it makes this seem improbable.

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A first look led some locals to conclude it could be Greek.

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It's got pillar-like objects holding it up. The top is almost perfectly oval, which is unusual in nature.

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Scientists cannot agree on a natural cause, but geophysical research mapping the area

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revealed that these structures predate humankind.

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These ancient, gargantuan structures are estimated to be between 16 and 18 million years old.

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So they're not human, much less Greek.

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So who was it designed by? Wasn't human beings? Was it some other form of life?

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Recently, others have implied this is some kind of alien UFO base.

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This would in theory explain some of the sorts of sightings we've seen

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and would also correlate to a need for a military presence. Perhaps the government even knows.

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Whatever the government knows about the mysterious tremor that came from this area in April 2022,

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they're still not publicly saying.

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But just three months later, on July 15th, the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense

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confirmed a new initiative for investigation into anomalous, unidentified, submerged and transmedium objects.

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They are specifically interested in areas related to military installations, training areas,

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and special use airspace, areas like Santa Catalina Island.

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Perhaps they are including this massive and ominous shape at the bottom of the sea.

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These structures could be some kind of bizarre, natural phenomenon.

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We can't be sure. Perhaps we never will.

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March 2021.

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Fargradals-Vietel volcano, Iceland.

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Newly active, the crater and eruption is being monitored.

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There's a camera set up to monitor the volcano and that seems to record two bright objects.

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This isn't lava or any other kind of normal ejector.

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It turns out this isn't the first time weird objects have been filmed flying into or out of or around volcanoes.

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These strange volcanic, unidentified flying objects seem to be a regular occurrence.

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You've got these stories coming from volcanoes in Guatemala, from Italy and from Spain.

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So it's something that's occurring all over the world.

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But why would UFOs, perhaps containing intelligent life forms, be entering a live volcano?

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There are over 1,300 active volcanoes on the Earth's land masses and many more deep below the ocean.

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All are fueled by molten rock produced by the high pressure and high temperature of the Earth's volatile core.

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This is a place where you've got temperatures reaching as high as 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit. That is very hot.

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Any living thing that we know of would be fried.

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But that might not be the case on other planets.

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Not other planets in our solar system, but on planets beyond.

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55 Cancri is one of our neighbours. It's a binary star system with two stars, one like our Sun.

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And it's only 40 light years away, so in galactic terms, that's nothing.

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Spinning around it is an exoplanet of a type that astronomers call a super-Earth.

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It's about twice the diameter of Earth and about eight times as massive.

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This exoplanet, a planet external to our solar system, 55 Cancri E, also known as Janssen, was first discovered in 2004.

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Astronomers have used a Hubble Space Telescope to look at the exoplanet and its atmosphere.

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This planet does have an atmosphere and it actually might be thick and kind of Earth-like.

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It's got nitrogen, oxygen and even some water.

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But there is one big difference between Janssen and planet Earth.

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This planet is very, very hot. It's something like 4000 degrees Fahrenheit.

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It's just beyond anything we can imagine.

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This planet has got oceans, but they're not oceans of water, they are oceans of lava.

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The conditions mean instant death for everything that we understand currently as life.

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Life on Earth is based on DNA and on proteins being arranged in different orders.

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And it's all rather delicate, so if you put too much heat into it, these proteins fall apart and life would become impossible.

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But Janssen's super-heated chemical stew could be the perfect petri dish for a totally different form of existence.

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In theory, Janssen's extraordinary conditions could be the breeding ground for heretofore unknown form of life.

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All life as we understand it on Earth is carbon-based.

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But new research suggests the unnerving possibility that inorganic material, non-carbon-based matter, can be given life-like characteristics.

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There's a scientist in Great Britain who's working on creating living creatures out of inorganic matter.

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Lee Cronin at Glasgow University has been experimenting with inorganic matter and trying to bring it to life.

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He's been running experiments with molybdenum oxide and iron oxide.

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Professor Cronin's work aims to reproduce the evolution of organic material by triggering similar processes in inorganic material.

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These things are completely dead, so what Cronin is doing is looking at how inorganic cells can take on kind of life-like properties.

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Such a form of life would take a configuration very different from anything we've ever seen before.

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At some point, we're not going to be able to distinguish between the two, and at that point we'd be forced to recognize that it is, by all the definitions we currently use, alive.

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The inorganic life forms Cronin is working on might give us an idea of what to expect on planets like 55 Cancri E.

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The advantages that inorganic molecules might have over organic molecules is the wider range of conditions that they could potentially live in.

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If you had a life form that was based on silicon rather than carbon, much like glass, it would be resistant to much higher temperatures. But how would it actually operate?

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After billions of years on this fiery planet, could evolution have produced creatures as advanced or more advanced than our own cold-wet earth?

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Such beings would have adapted and evolved to the conditions around them just as we have adapted and evolved to live in the conditions around us.

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It would be impossible to conceive of them having something like a skeleton, so it would be a lot more like an amorphous blob.

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With blistering air for the precipitating metal and oceans of molten rock and metals like iron, these life forms might even be made of metal themselves.

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Rather than muscles for movement, a metal-based life form could potentially manipulate electromagnetic energy from within its own body, and that means they could potentially do so with objects outside their body as well.

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If they are good at working metal, they would be able to potentially make structures.

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They'd be able to build things out of more or less liquid, engineering that we are in no way capable of. All of this would be powered by the tremendous amount of energy pouring in from their star.

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Civilizations, whatever their chemical composition, must surely at some point look towards space.

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But if they were to ever reach Earth, they'd face another set of problems.

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The surface of Earth would be as inhospitable to a Janssenite as their planet would be to us.

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The potential beings of Janssen would probably look at Earth and see a frigid vision of hell.

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But there would be one place on the planet where they might feel at home. Volcanoes.

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We often assume that extraterrestrial beings would be interested in us, but perhaps if they exist, these beings would only really be interested in Earth's hot core.

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Science fiction writer Jules Verne's masterpiece Journey to the Centre of the Earth speculated in 1864 that volcanoes might lead to huge, habitable cavities deep within the Earth.

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In fact, plunge down a volcano and your soon encounter flows of magma.

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Liquid rock that could, with some engineering, be a gateway to the layer below.

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The Earth's so-called outer core, an uncharted ocean of liquid metal.

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The Earth's molten outer core starts at 1800 miles inside the planet.

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It has temperatures of 4000 degrees, about the same as the surface of Janssen.

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It would mean instant death for any of us, but it might be paradise for this form of alien life.

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This 1400 mile deep ocean is a potential habitat far greater than any ocean or land mass on the surface.

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The molten nickel and iron liquid swirls and eddies in a similar way to the cool seas above.

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And the magnetic field down here has been estimated to be 50 times stronger than on the surface.

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Perfect for creatures that rely on this force for movement.

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The liquid metal aliens could be beneath our feet right now and would be totally unaware of their presence.

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The only time we'd even see them was when they're exiting or entering the liquid part of Earth, maybe via volcanoes.

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If UFOs are piloted by beings both vastly intelligent and also vastly different from us,

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human civilization may not be relevant or perhaps not even comprehensible or visible to them.

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Any close contact would be nearly impossible because the conditions needed to keep this super hot life form alive

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are totally antithetical to the conditions needed to keep us alive and vice versa.

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We might be just organic dust to them that needs to be swept away.

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