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>> NARRATOR: Magnificent
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monoliths,
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mysterious carvings,
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And legends of winged creatures
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visiting from other worlds.
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Have alien astronauts been
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visiting the Earth for thousands
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of years?
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>> GEORGE NOORY:
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Extraterrestrials are coming to
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this planet, and they're doing
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some very strangely evil things.
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>> NARRATOR: Or might
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mainstream science,
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the government, the media,
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and even academic institutions,
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all be part of an elaborate
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conspiracy to keep us from
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knowing the truth?
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>> SARA SEAGER: There is no
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robust evidence that aliens
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have ever visited Earth.
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>> DAN QUAYLE: We spent some
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time looking at this, but there
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was nothing conclusive.
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>> NARRATOR: But if so, why?
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>> PHILIP COPPENS: This
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cover-up, this technology,
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disappears within the confines
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of the military industrial
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complex.
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>> NARRATOR: There are those
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who believe in the existence
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of a book.
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A book that contains the most
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highly guarded secrets of the
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United States of America.
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A book... whose very existence
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is known to only a select few.
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But if such a book exists,
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what would it contain?
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Secret histories?
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Secret discoveries?
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Secret lies?
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Does there really exist
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America's Book of Secrets?
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>> NARRATOR: The notion of a
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universe inhabited by alien
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creatures can be found just
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about everywhere in American
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popular cultur
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Especially in movies,
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books,
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and on television.
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But as far as the mainstream is
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concerned, the idea that life
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on other planets not only
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exists, but has, at any time,
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made its way to our planet, is
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considered the stuff of science
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fiction.
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And those who differ with that
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conventional wisdom are
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subjected to ridicule, scorn
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and, in some cases, government
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scrutiny.
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>> GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Just
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because we can't travel from
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star to star, doesn't mean
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another civilization, who is
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potentially 10,000, if not
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a 100,000 years older than us,
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can't do it either.
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That's the height of human
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arrogance, yet we are saying,
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"Oh, this is just nothing but
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fantasy."
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>> NARRATOR: Could mankind
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really have been visited by
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alien beings from other worlds?
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And might the truth have been
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kept secret for centuries?
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Roswell, New Mexico.
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Here in the flat, thirsty lands
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of the American Southwest,
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lies a remote city of 50,000
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residents.
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Once the home of America's
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largest Strategic Air Command
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base, it has now become ground
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zero for UFO-ologists and
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believers in all things
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extraterrestrial.
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Thanks to an incident that
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happened on the evening of
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July 8, 1947.
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(thunder crashing)
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>> JULIE SHUSTER: Following a
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major thunderstorm, rancher
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Mac Brazel came across this
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really extensive area of debris,
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stuff he had never seen before.
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He brought it to the local
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sheriff's office.
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They both thought it might be
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military because in 1947,
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Roswell was home to Roswell Army
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Airfield and home of 509th bomb
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wing.
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The base sent Major Jess Marcel,
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the intelligence officer, and at
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that point it basically became a
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military site as they gathered
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up every bit of debris they
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could find.
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>> JIM MARRS: Early on, they
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issued an official sanctioned
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press release from the Roswell
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Army Airfield saying, "We have
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captured a flying saucer."
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The next day, higher authority
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said, "Uh, uh, no, wait, wait,
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wait, uh, no, they were wrong.
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It was just a weather balloon."
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>> COPPENS: Something clearly
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landed in 1947.
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I've personally spoken with
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the Jesse Marcel family, and
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they're absolutely convinced
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that what they saw was not of
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this Earth.
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He knew what a weather balloon
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was, he knew that this wasn't a
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weather balloon.
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>> MARRS: They moved in with the
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military, they scraped up the
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whole area and they have since
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tried to act like nothing
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had happened.
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>> MICHAEL SHERMER: National
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with it and that made it even
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more popular.
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And the moment that happens, you
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can start to count, like, the
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number of column inches devoted
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to a subject.
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(camera shutter clicking)
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And that's what generates a
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myth.
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>> NARRATOR: The Air Force added
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more twists to the Roswell
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mystery beginning in 1994 with a
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statement that what crashed at
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Roswell came from a top-secret
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experiment called Project Mogul.
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Three years later, the Air Force
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reported that the alleged alien
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bodies were in fact dummies
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attached to parachutes as part
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of a flight test.
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>> MARRS: Except that doesn't
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make any sense either because if
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you're gonna test ejection seats
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or cockpits or parachutes or
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whatever, you're gonna use a
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human-sized dummy, right?
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You're not gonna use a four-foot
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high, big-headed, alien-looking
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creature.
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So the whole thing is just, it's
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just almost laughable.
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>> NARRATOR: The Air Force's
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conflicting reports about what
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was recovered at Roswell ignited
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the flames of a conspiracy
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theory that continues to this
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day.
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But why the changing stories?
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What was-- or is -- the
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government hiding?
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>> MARRS: I think the truth is
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that something very unusual
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happened at Roswell.
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Now how many aliens there were,
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and what kind of ship it was,
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and where it came from-- we
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don't know because they've
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covered it up.
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They've hidden it away.
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>> NOORY: They might think we
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can't handle the truth.
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They may think that they can't
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control us.
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There could be all kinds of
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causes and reasons for the
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suppression.
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Maybe they were told not to tell
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us.
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And so one of the reasons
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could very well be why
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government does not tell us why
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they keep this, this book of
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secrets is simply to protect us
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from panicking.
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>> JONATHAN YOUNG: If there is
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evidence, allegedly the
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government would want to keep
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that a secret, hide it in a
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warehouse out in the desert
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some place.
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>> MARRS: The key motives for
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keeping the UFO,
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extraterrestrial issue secret
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falls into, I think, two broad
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categories.
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Number one, uh, weaponry.
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They view any exotic technology
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as possible weapons and
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therefore, it's got to be
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kept secret.
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And number two, any advanced
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technology could shake up the
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monopolies that the ruling elite
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enjoy in this country and so
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they've got to keep that secret.
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(camera shutter clicking)
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>> NARRATOR: But where is the
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proof that the government hid
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advanced technology found at
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Roswell?
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>> MARRS: I think a tip off to
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the fact that we got a hold of
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E.T. technology at the Roswell
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crash, is simply for the fact
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that up until about 1947, '48,
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'49, technological advancement
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was one of slow evolution.
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But after about 1950, you saw
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a literal explosion of
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technology.
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Fiber optics, night vision,
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computerization.
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Where did all that come from?
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technology from some other
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outside source.
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>> NARRATOR: Might the U.S.
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government's advanced weapons
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technologies have been the
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result of access to
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extraterrestrial intelligence?
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According to authorities, such
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theories are absurd;
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the lunatic notions of a
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conspiracy-hungry public.
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>> DAVID CHILDRESS: In many
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ways, the mainstream completely
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marginalizes the idea of
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extraterrestrials coming here.
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They give it no credibility
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at all.
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And yet, what is so strange
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about the idea that
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extraterrestrials should
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come here?
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We know we're probably not
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alone in the universe.
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And we ourselves are trying to
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go to other planets.
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Why wouldn't they come here?
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>> NARRATOR: For those who
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adhere to the audacious notion
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that planet Earth is no stranger
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to alien visitation, evidence
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can be found in historical
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events from the ancient past.
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And for some, the proof is right
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before our eyes.
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>> ASTRONAUT: Contact light.
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Okay, engine stop.
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>> FLIGHT CONTROL: We copy
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you down, Eagle.
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>> ASTRONAUT: Tranquility Base
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here.
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The Eagle has landed.
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>> NARRATOR: On July 20, 1969,
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in what was arguably mankind's
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greatest technical achievement,
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Apollo 11 astronauts Neil
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Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became
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the first humans in history to
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step foot on the moon.
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>> ARMSTRONG: That's one small
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step for man,
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one giant leap for mankind.
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>> NARRATOR: More than 125
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million people watched the event
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live on their television
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screens, but then for a period
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of two nail-biting minutes, the
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transmission suddenly went dead.
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The official reason was
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technical difficulties, but
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there are many who believe those
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two minutes were recorded but
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censored due to the strange
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things the astronauts were
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reporting back to NASA.
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>> JASON MARTELL: Neil Armstrong
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and Buzz Aldrin actually saw
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things taking place on the dark
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side of the moon.
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And they were told they were not
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allowed to go there.
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And these were not Earth-based
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technologies.
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>> CHILDRESS: Neil Armstrong
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allegedly saw a UFO lifting up
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out of a crater on the moon.
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>> MARRS: Armstrong said, "Wow,
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look at the these babies.
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They're huge."
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And that they were, uh,
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ships up there watching them.
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>> NARRATOR: UFOs on the moon?
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Witnessed by astronauts Neil
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Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?
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A delusional conspiracy theory?
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Or a government cover-up?
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Two facts are certain: the world
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watched as beings from one world
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landed on another,
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and a book published just one
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year earlier was now flying off
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store shelves.
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Written by Swiss author Erich
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von Daniken, Chariots of the
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Gods? made a compelling case
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for the notion that many of the
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world's ancient archaeological
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mysteries had other-worldly
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origins.
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>> CHILDRESS: The whole idea is
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extraterrestrials have been
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coming to Earth for thousands
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of years.
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>> ERICH VON DANIKEN: The best
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case worldwide is Nazca.
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I was one of the first who was
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in Nazca.
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Nazca is in Peru about 500
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kilometers from Lima.
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When you fly over the desert,
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you see gigantic lines.
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They look like airstrips.
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Seen from the air, they give you
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the imagination of airstrips.
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They look like.
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Because they start abruptly,
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end abruptly.
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>> NARRATOR: Von Daniken's book
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also reported findings in the
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western United States of cave
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paintings of gods resembling
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strange creatures from
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another world.
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And other ancient images could
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be found in Italy that bore a
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striking resemblance to
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astronauts in space suits.
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>> VON DANIKEN: We have
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worldwide similar cave
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paintings.
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The so-called gods are
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always the one with the helmets
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and their halos.
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Now, if something happened just
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on one continent, let's say,
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the Africans would do this,
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I would be quiet.
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But I clearly can prove that
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these so-called gods, with the
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helmets and the halos, you
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find worldwide... thousands of
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of years ago when our
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forefathers had no connection
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to each other.
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So why this?
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Because they saw
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the same thing.
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>> NARRATOR: Within a year of
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Neil Armstrong's first walk on
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the moon, Chariots of the
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Gods? had sold 60 million
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copies and had been printed in
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32 languages.
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It ignited belief in what has
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since become known as the
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ancient astronaut theory.
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But it also sparked controversy,
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even derision, from
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archaeologists, religious
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scholars, academics and even the
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mainstream media.
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>> VON DANIKEN: Chariots of
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the Gods? was on the market in
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the German-speaking world in
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February, 1968.
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About one and a half months
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later, it was on top of every
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best-selling list.
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And it took about maybe three or
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four weeks, then the critics
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began.
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>> SEAGER: It was outrageous.
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It collected a bunch of things
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and put them together in a way
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that was completely outlandish,
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yet so compelling that people
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wanted to believe it.
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And people want to believe that
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aliens visited Earth in the
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past and that they helped us
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with the pyramids and with the
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Nazca lines and that ancient
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aliens gave us technology.
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But the reality is, there is no
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robust evidence that aliens have
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ever visited Earth.
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>> SHERMER: A theory
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incorporates a whole bunch of
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different hypotheses and facts
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and evidence, all converging to
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a particular conclusion.
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In this case, that we were
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visited by aliens in ancient
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times and the fact is we
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weren't.
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There's no, no evidence for this
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at all.
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>> MAX TEGMARK: If there were
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an American book of secrets
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about extraterrestrials, it
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would say there that the only
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species able to colonize our
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universe is us.
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>> NARRATOR: Nine months after
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his book's release, Erich von
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Daniken was arrested for fraud,
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embezzlement and forgery in
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connection with loans he had
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secured to finance his research.
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A coincidence?
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Or a punishment intended to
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discredit and even silence his
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increasingly popular theory?
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>> CHILDRESS: There's a natural
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suppression of this idea that
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extraterrestrials are here.
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And, even if there is
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overwhelming evidence for it,
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even the governments are going
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to want to keep a lid on this.
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>> TSOUKALOS: The ancient alien
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theory has been looked down upon
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by academia for a very long
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time, and that's okay, because
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we have to understand that
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science always has this
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status quo.
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And it's the status quo
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that needs to be maintained.
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>> COPPENS: 40 years later, the
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questions are still out there,
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and some are still being posed.
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And science is still coming up
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with no answers, because for
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40 years, they have been
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unwilling to address it.
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>> YOUNG: The possible
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conspiracy would be there is
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such power in these ideas,
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revolutionary world-changing
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social upheaval could follow if
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in fact these all came out.
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>> NARRATOR: Could there really
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be a global cover-up of ancient
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alien activity?
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One that shields the public from
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a profound knowledge that, if
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revealed, could shatter the very
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fabric of our civilization?
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Even distinguished NASA
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astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the
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lunar module pilot for Apollo 14
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and the sixth man to walk on the
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moon, says the answer is...
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yes.
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>> EDGAR MITCHELL: I think that
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the evidence of E.T.s and
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aliens being here, which I'm
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convinced they have been, are
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sufficient evidence in itself.
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That they come from some other
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place.
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>> COPPENS: What we're going to
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find is not only that we are not
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alone, but also that our entire
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history needs to be reanalyzed.
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Everything-- what we know about
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the past-- all of a sudden has
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to become inclusive of visitors
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from elsewhere.
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>> NARRATOR: In 1974, Sunn
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Classic Pictures, an independent
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production company specializing
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in family-friendly
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documentaries, released a
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feature film version of
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Chariots of the Gods to
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theaters across the United
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States.
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Grossing nearly $26 million, it
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helped fuel the flames of a
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growing interest in the ancient
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astronaut theory.
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>> SHERMER: When Chariots came
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out, I was in college, and I
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remember it was a big pop
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culture thing.
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I mean, it was a huge story, and
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I thought that this would be
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fantastic if there was something
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to this.
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>> TSOUKALOS: For the first time
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ever, the idea that
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extraterrestrials might have
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visited Earth in the remote
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past was being popularized.
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You have to understand that in
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the '70s, the country was in
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upheaval, people were
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unsatisfied with what was going
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on in politics and all this--
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very reminiscent of what is
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happening today, by the way.
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>> NARRATOR: The willingness on
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the part of the American public
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to embrace many of the film's
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audacious claims was due in no
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small part to a growing cynicism
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and antiestablishment attitude,
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one that took root in the era of
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Vietnam war protests and the
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Watergate scandal, particularly
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with the generation known as
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baby boomers.
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Now everything was being
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questioned, especially
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organized religion and even the
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existence of God.
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>> SHERMER: The slow erosion
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of mainstream religion and the
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rise of new age spiritualities
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and that sort of thing, the
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alien hypothesis became much
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more popular.
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There was a more of a receptive
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audience for it-- that there are
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beings out there coming down
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here-- which then finally also
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has religious overtones.
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>> YOUNG: Von Daniken takes a
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very stimulating theological
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stance.
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He has an explanation for the
578
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gods that both questions and
579
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challenges traditional
580
00:20:02,335 --> 00:20:03,635
explanations of what gods are or
581
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what God is.
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>> TSOUKALOS: Chariots of
583
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the Gods? was quite timely
584
00:20:11,411 --> 00:20:13,781
because we ourselves just became
585
00:20:13,780 --> 00:20:17,380
extraterrestrials on the moon.
586
00:20:17,384 --> 00:20:18,824
Space exploration at the time
587
00:20:18,818 --> 00:20:22,288
was huge.
588
00:20:22,289 --> 00:20:24,659
(weapons zapping)
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>> NARRATOR: Even more evidence
590
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of the ancient astronaut
591
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theory's growing attractiveness
592
00:20:32,299 --> 00:20:33,829
could be found in popular
593
00:20:33,833 --> 00:20:38,313
culture, primarily in films like
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00:20:38,305 --> 00:20:40,805
Star Wars, which places its
595
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high-tech world of robots and
596
00:20:42,575 --> 00:20:44,705
lightsabers not in the far
597
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future but "a long time ago
598
00:20:47,547 --> 00:20:51,447
in a galaxy far, far away."
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Similarly popular was Battlestar
600
00:20:54,421 --> 00:20:57,721
Galactica, a fantasy adventure
601
00:20:57,724 --> 00:20:59,864
television series which told the
602
00:20:59,859 --> 00:21:02,299
story of a doomed humanoid race
603
00:21:02,295 --> 00:21:05,465
in search of a home planet.
604
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Its use of Egyptian-style
605
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,740
spacesuits and other ancient
606
00:21:09,736 --> 00:21:12,336
iconography seemed to validate
607
00:21:12,339 --> 00:21:14,309
von Daniken's notion that the
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people who built the pyramids
609
00:21:15,875 --> 00:21:18,875
may in fact have come to Earth
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from other worlds.
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>> SHERMER: The idea of there
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being extraterrestrials out
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there, this is called the
614
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plurality of worlds debate.
615
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It's been around since the
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ancient Greeks.
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So it's just a small extension
618
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to go from, "They're out there,"
619
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to "They've come here."
620
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>> NARRATOR: But there were
621
00:21:44,504 --> 00:21:45,974
those for whom the idea of
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extraterrestrial beings
623
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traveling to Earth and
624
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influencing its history
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00:21:50,343 --> 00:21:53,583
represented not a far-fetched
626
00:21:53,580 --> 00:21:55,480
theory but the lowest and most
627
00:21:55,482 --> 00:21:56,982
dangerous form of
628
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pseudoscience.
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They called ancient astronaut
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00:22:02,789 --> 00:22:05,059
theory everything from "racist"
631
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and "colonialist" to downright
632
00:22:08,027 --> 00:22:09,857
nonsense.
633
00:22:09,862 --> 00:22:11,862
And these were members not only
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of the religious and scientific
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00:22:13,666 --> 00:22:16,066
communities but of the
636
00:22:16,068 --> 00:22:17,768
presumably more open-minded
637
00:22:17,804 --> 00:22:20,944
world of academia.
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>> COPPENS: When Chariots of
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the Gods? came out, it created
640
00:22:23,643 --> 00:22:25,813
a revolution because people
641
00:22:25,812 --> 00:22:28,822
either loved it or hated it.
642
00:22:28,815 --> 00:22:30,875
Mostly, the ones who hated it
643
00:22:30,883 --> 00:22:32,083
were the academics because they
644
00:22:32,084 --> 00:22:34,054
somehow felt that this notion
645
00:22:34,053 --> 00:22:35,423
that we had been visited by
646
00:22:35,422 --> 00:22:36,662
extraterrestrial beings was
647
00:22:36,656 --> 00:22:38,556
simply impossible.
648
00:22:38,558 --> 00:22:39,828
Erich von Daniken had to be
649
00:22:39,826 --> 00:22:41,626
wrong.
650
00:22:41,628 --> 00:22:43,428
And what they were confronted
651
00:22:43,430 --> 00:22:44,630
with was the fact that these
652
00:22:44,631 --> 00:22:46,071
questions couldn't be answered
653
00:22:46,065 --> 00:22:47,565
by science.
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00:22:47,567 --> 00:22:48,937
Science was basically saying
655
00:22:48,935 --> 00:22:50,535
that there was no validity
656
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whatsoever.
657
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>> TODD DISOTELL: Chariots of
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00:22:55,107 --> 00:22:56,907
the Gods? actually really did
659
00:22:56,909 --> 00:22:58,509
have an effect on me because
660
00:22:58,511 --> 00:23:02,451
when I see what I call outright
661
00:23:02,449 --> 00:23:05,719
bad science, it really gets my
662
00:23:05,718 --> 00:23:07,648
hackles up, and when I listened
663
00:23:07,654 --> 00:23:09,994
and read about and saw
664
00:23:09,989 --> 00:23:11,689
different shows on these
665
00:23:11,691 --> 00:23:14,691
different hypotheses, it often
666
00:23:14,694 --> 00:23:16,004
ended up sort of screaming
667
00:23:15,995 --> 00:23:17,525
matches at the television screen
668
00:23:17,530 --> 00:23:19,730
about, "That's the dumbest thing
669
00:23:19,732 --> 00:23:21,932
I ever heard."
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>> TEGMARK: I don't think the
671
00:23:24,003 --> 00:23:25,913
Earth has ever been visited by
672
00:23:25,938 --> 00:23:28,478
any extraterrestrials.
673
00:23:28,475 --> 00:23:30,005
I find it striking how we humans
674
00:23:30,009 --> 00:23:31,679
have again and again
675
00:23:31,678 --> 00:23:33,108
underestimated the technological
676
00:23:33,112 --> 00:23:35,082
capabilities of ancient peoples.
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00:23:35,081 --> 00:23:37,621
We tend to be a little bit
678
00:23:37,617 --> 00:23:38,887
arrogant and say, "Ah, those
679
00:23:38,885 --> 00:23:40,015
loser Egyptians and Greeks, you
680
00:23:40,019 --> 00:23:41,449
know.
681
00:23:41,454 --> 00:23:42,624
What do they know?"
682
00:23:42,622 --> 00:23:45,762
>> NARRATOR: Is ancient
683
00:23:45,758 --> 00:23:47,458
astronaut theory really as
684
00:23:47,460 --> 00:23:49,500
anti-scientific or preposterous
685
00:23:49,496 --> 00:23:53,466
as its detractors believe it is?
686
00:23:53,466 --> 00:23:56,566
Or could there be another,
687
00:23:56,569 --> 00:23:59,109
perhaps more secret reason for
688
00:23:59,105 --> 00:24:00,765
the mainstream resistance to the
689
00:24:00,773 --> 00:24:03,513
idea that alien visitors have
690
00:24:03,510 --> 00:24:04,710
been coming to Earth for
691
00:24:04,711 --> 00:24:06,611
centuries?
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00:24:06,613 --> 00:24:09,923
>> YOUNG: Having a new idea of
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00:24:09,916 --> 00:24:11,916
religion, a new revelation of
694
00:24:11,918 --> 00:24:14,188
sorts is gonna challenge any
695
00:24:14,186 --> 00:24:16,516
established belief system and
696
00:24:16,523 --> 00:24:17,923
the institutions that support
697
00:24:17,924 --> 00:24:19,134
that belief system, that
698
00:24:19,125 --> 00:24:21,525
established economic
699
00:24:21,528 --> 00:24:22,258
interests would be concerned
700
00:24:22,261 --> 00:24:24,261
about the technology, the
701
00:24:24,263 --> 00:24:26,203
advances, that it could disrupt
702
00:24:26,198 --> 00:24:28,198
markets, could disrupt their own
703
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,140
financial interests.
704
00:24:31,137 --> 00:24:34,537
>> NARRATOR: But there is one
705
00:24:34,541 --> 00:24:35,941
branch of the government that is
706
00:24:35,942 --> 00:24:37,782
reportedly very open to the idea
707
00:24:37,777 --> 00:24:39,947
of extraterrestrials in our
708
00:24:39,946 --> 00:24:42,006
midst...
709
00:24:42,014 --> 00:24:47,694
the presidency.
710
00:24:47,687 --> 00:24:49,817
In his first days in office,
711
00:24:49,822 --> 00:24:51,822
President Bill Clinton is said
712
00:24:51,824 --> 00:24:54,064
to have asked two questions:
713
00:24:54,060 --> 00:24:56,300
who really killed President
714
00:24:56,295 --> 00:24:57,955
Kennedy?
715
00:24:57,964 --> 00:25:03,104
And what is hidden at Area 51?
716
00:25:03,102 --> 00:25:04,572
>> BILL CLINTON: If the United
717
00:25:04,571 --> 00:25:06,111
States Air Force did recover
718
00:25:06,105 --> 00:25:08,575
alien bodies, they didn't tell
719
00:25:08,575 --> 00:25:10,075
me about it either, and I want
720
00:25:10,076 --> 00:25:13,106
to know.
721
00:25:13,112 --> 00:25:15,112
>> NARRATOR: The administration
722
00:25:15,114 --> 00:25:17,054
of President George H.W. Bush
723
00:25:17,049 --> 00:25:19,789
also made a secret investigation
724
00:25:19,786 --> 00:25:21,546
into the possibility of alien
725
00:25:21,588 --> 00:25:24,088
visitors on planet Earth.
726
00:25:24,090 --> 00:25:25,730
>> QUAYLE: The alien situation
727
00:25:25,725 --> 00:25:26,985
is very interesting.
728
00:25:26,993 --> 00:25:30,333
We literally spent some time
729
00:25:30,329 --> 00:25:33,199
looking at this, but there was
730
00:25:33,199 --> 00:25:34,669
nothing conclusive that came of
731
00:25:34,701 --> 00:25:37,601
it.
732
00:25:37,604 --> 00:25:38,674
>> NARRATOR: "Nothing
733
00:25:38,671 --> 00:25:40,271
conclusive"?
734
00:25:40,272 --> 00:25:41,842
Can it really be that the
735
00:25:41,841 --> 00:25:43,281
nation's highest office cannot
736
00:25:43,275 --> 00:25:46,105
confirm or deny that alien
737
00:25:46,112 --> 00:25:50,022
visitors on Earth do not exist?
738
00:25:50,016 --> 00:25:52,016
Or... is it possible that the
739
00:25:52,018 --> 00:25:54,018
truth about UFOs and alien
740
00:25:54,020 --> 00:25:56,260
astronauts is being kept
741
00:25:56,255 --> 00:25:57,985
hidden-- even from the
742
00:25:58,024 --> 00:26:00,034
president?
743
00:26:00,026 --> 00:26:01,156
>> NOORY: I think most
744
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:02,700
presidents have tried to find
745
00:26:02,695 --> 00:26:04,755
out what's going on, and I don't
746
00:26:04,764 --> 00:26:06,604
think they get through the door.
747
00:26:06,599 --> 00:26:09,139
I don't think they're told.
748
00:26:09,135 --> 00:26:10,865
But there's that very high
749
00:26:10,870 --> 00:26:12,300
likelihood that the secret is
750
00:26:12,304 --> 00:26:15,844
here and we don't know about it.
751
00:26:15,842 --> 00:26:17,042
>> COPPENS: Various people in
752
00:26:17,043 --> 00:26:18,313
the Obama administration have
753
00:26:18,310 --> 00:26:20,250
expressed a deep interest in
754
00:26:20,246 --> 00:26:22,106
UFOs.
755
00:26:22,114 --> 00:26:23,754
But in all cases, what we hear
756
00:26:23,750 --> 00:26:26,250
is that somehow the UFO secret
757
00:26:26,252 --> 00:26:28,322
is not something which is to be
758
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,760
shared to the president.
759
00:26:30,757 --> 00:26:32,317
>> MARRS: So that means the
760
00:26:32,324 --> 00:26:33,764
President of the United States
761
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,330
cannot even get to this
762
00:26:35,327 --> 00:26:37,297
information, which I think
763
00:26:37,296 --> 00:26:38,796
should raise the question
764
00:26:38,798 --> 00:26:40,668
in everyone's mind: well, who
765
00:26:40,667 --> 00:26:44,067
does get to this information...
766
00:26:44,070 --> 00:26:45,640
and who exactly are they to keep
767
00:26:45,638 --> 00:26:47,138
it from everyone, including the
768
00:26:47,139 --> 00:26:49,309
president?
769
00:26:52,078 --> 00:26:53,078
>> NARRATOR: The relationship
770
00:26:53,079 --> 00:26:54,349
between the President of the
771
00:26:54,346 --> 00:26:56,076
United States and otherworldly
772
00:26:56,082 --> 00:26:58,692
beings stretches back to the
773
00:26:58,685 --> 00:27:02,145
very founding of the country.
774
00:27:02,154 --> 00:27:04,664
From its earliest days, the U.S.
775
00:27:04,657 --> 00:27:06,087
government has been associated
776
00:27:06,092 --> 00:27:08,092
with signs...
777
00:27:08,094 --> 00:27:09,964
symbols...
778
00:27:09,962 --> 00:27:13,672
and allusions to cosmic contact.
779
00:27:13,666 --> 00:27:15,096
>> CHILDRESS: The Founding
780
00:27:15,101 --> 00:27:17,841
Fathers of America were very
781
00:27:17,837 --> 00:27:20,107
open-minded and forward-thinking
782
00:27:20,106 --> 00:27:21,706
people.
783
00:27:21,708 --> 00:27:24,708
Thomas Jefferson reported seeing
784
00:27:24,711 --> 00:27:25,851
a UFO.
785
00:27:25,845 --> 00:27:27,375
Benjamin Franklin wrote that he
786
00:27:27,379 --> 00:27:28,749
believed in life on other
787
00:27:28,781 --> 00:27:30,781
planets.
788
00:27:30,783 --> 00:27:32,253
Even George Washington had a
789
00:27:32,251 --> 00:27:34,221
portrait made of himself that
790
00:27:34,220 --> 00:27:37,690
has a UFO in the sky.
791
00:27:37,690 --> 00:27:39,360
So, you have this idea of the
792
00:27:39,358 --> 00:27:42,258
Founding Fathers even possibly
793
00:27:42,261 --> 00:27:45,831
being influenced themselves by
794
00:27:45,832 --> 00:27:49,242
extraterrestrials.
795
00:27:49,235 --> 00:27:51,135
>> NARRATOR: But why, if the
796
00:27:51,137 --> 00:27:53,137
nation's highest office remains
797
00:27:53,139 --> 00:27:54,969
curious about the possibility of
798
00:27:54,974 --> 00:27:57,414
alien visitors, is the notion
799
00:27:57,409 --> 00:27:59,409
so scoffed at by those in the
800
00:27:59,411 --> 00:28:01,751
scientific community?
801
00:28:01,748 --> 00:28:04,418
Is there a cover-up?
802
00:28:04,416 --> 00:28:06,416
Or do they think mankind is not
803
00:28:06,418 --> 00:28:08,148
yet ready...
804
00:28:08,154 --> 00:28:10,424
to handle the truth?
805
00:28:10,422 --> 00:28:13,232
Perhaps the answer lies in the
806
00:28:13,225 --> 00:28:19,865
Book of Secrets.
807
00:28:19,866 --> 00:28:22,936
>> NARRATOR: On May 13, 2008,
808
00:28:22,935 --> 00:28:24,865
the L'Osservatore Romano,
809
00:28:24,871 --> 00:28:26,841
the semiofficial newspaper of
810
00:28:26,839 --> 00:28:28,409
the Catholic Church in Rome,
811
00:28:28,407 --> 00:28:29,807
published an interview with
812
00:28:29,809 --> 00:28:32,279
Reverend Jose Gabriel Funes,
813
00:28:32,278 --> 00:28:33,848
the Jesuit priest who served as
814
00:28:33,846 --> 00:28:35,206
director of the Vatican's
815
00:28:35,214 --> 00:28:37,824
observatory at Castel Gandolfo,
816
00:28:37,817 --> 00:28:39,017
near Rome.
817
00:28:39,018 --> 00:28:40,018
(beeping)
818
00:28:40,019 --> 00:28:42,419
(camera shutter clicking)
819
00:28:42,421 --> 00:28:44,161
Bearing the headline, "The
820
00:28:44,156 --> 00:28:46,956
Extraterrestrial is my brother,"
821
00:28:46,959 --> 00:28:48,799
Funes made a remarkable and
822
00:28:48,795 --> 00:28:51,355
audacious admission--
823
00:28:51,363 --> 00:28:53,203
that there is no conflict
824
00:28:53,199 --> 00:28:56,069
between believing in God...
825
00:28:56,068 --> 00:28:57,168
and the possibility of
826
00:28:57,169 --> 00:28:58,369
intelligent life on other
827
00:28:58,370 --> 00:29:00,210
planets.
828
00:29:00,206 --> 00:29:03,076
In one swift move, the Roman
829
00:29:03,075 --> 00:29:04,475
Catholic Church had contradicted
830
00:29:04,510 --> 00:29:08,050
centuries of its own teachings.
831
00:29:08,047 --> 00:29:09,247
>> MARTELL: This would really
832
00:29:09,248 --> 00:29:10,478
break the mold of our current
833
00:29:10,482 --> 00:29:11,922
understandings of religion.
834
00:29:11,918 --> 00:29:13,218
And understand that a lot of the
835
00:29:13,219 --> 00:29:14,389
things we thought were mythology
836
00:29:14,386 --> 00:29:18,386
were actually fact.
837
00:29:18,390 --> 00:29:19,390
>> NARRATOR: Why the change in
838
00:29:19,391 --> 00:29:20,791
attitude?
839
00:29:20,793 --> 00:29:22,393
Did the Catholic Church discover
840
00:29:22,394 --> 00:29:24,134
evidence of life on other
841
00:29:24,130 --> 00:29:26,130
planets?
842
00:29:26,132 --> 00:29:27,802
Or might it be the time was
843
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,470
right for the Church to admit
844
00:29:29,468 --> 00:29:31,798
something...
845
00:29:31,804 --> 00:29:33,214
it had known to be true
846
00:29:33,205 --> 00:29:36,005
all along?
847
00:29:36,008 --> 00:29:37,878
>> MARRS: The Vatican has some
848
00:29:37,877 --> 00:29:39,107
of the most advanced telescopes
849
00:29:39,111 --> 00:29:40,981
in the world.
850
00:29:40,980 --> 00:29:42,410
They have some of the most
851
00:29:42,414 --> 00:29:44,554
advanced radio telescopes and
852
00:29:44,550 --> 00:29:46,890
transmission and communication
853
00:29:46,886 --> 00:29:48,416
equipment in the world, and I
854
00:29:48,420 --> 00:29:50,160
think they know the same things
855
00:29:50,156 --> 00:29:51,416
our military-industrial complex
856
00:29:51,423 --> 00:29:53,533
knows, which is this is all very
857
00:29:53,525 --> 00:29:55,425
real, and that eventually it's
858
00:29:55,427 --> 00:29:56,997
gonna come out.
859
00:29:56,996 --> 00:29:58,026
>> TSOUKALOS: I think the reason
860
00:29:58,030 --> 00:29:59,430
why the Vatican came forward and
861
00:29:59,431 --> 00:30:03,171
endorsed the idea of a search
862
00:30:03,169 --> 00:30:04,569
for extraterrestrial life is
863
00:30:04,570 --> 00:30:06,510
because the Vatican wants to be
864
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ahead of the curve.
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>> NARRATOR: The Vatican
866
00:30:10,442 --> 00:30:12,182
observatory's announcement also
867
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included plans to explore the
868
00:30:13,579 --> 00:30:16,249
outer planets and their systems,
869
00:30:16,248 --> 00:30:17,918
with a particular concentration
870
00:30:17,917 --> 00:30:19,317
on Saturn's moons,
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Titan and Enceladus.
872
00:30:20,853 --> 00:30:21,993
>> CHILDRESS: They said that
873
00:30:21,988 --> 00:30:24,158
they would be involved with the
874
00:30:24,156 --> 00:30:25,586
search for extraterrestrial
875
00:30:25,591 --> 00:30:26,591
life.
876
00:30:26,592 --> 00:30:28,462
So suddenly the Vatican is
877
00:30:28,460 --> 00:30:30,500
saying, "Yes, there's other life
878
00:30:30,529 --> 00:30:32,559
on other planets.
879
00:30:32,564 --> 00:30:34,474
We're gonna be looking
880
00:30:34,466 --> 00:30:36,466
for it, too."
881
00:30:36,468 --> 00:30:37,568
>> NARRATOR: Could Saturn's
882
00:30:37,569 --> 00:30:39,469
moons really hold the key to the
883
00:30:39,471 --> 00:30:41,941
extraterrestrial origins of life
884
00:30:41,941 --> 00:30:44,481
on our planet?
885
00:30:44,476 --> 00:30:46,076
And is the Vatican really
886
00:30:46,078 --> 00:30:47,478
admitting that the Earth's
887
00:30:47,479 --> 00:30:49,219
ancient religions might, in
888
00:30:49,215 --> 00:30:51,475
fact, have extraterrestrial
889
00:30:51,483 --> 00:30:54,223
origins?
890
00:30:54,220 --> 00:30:55,920
Even believers in ancient
891
00:30:55,922 --> 00:30:57,162
astronaut theory remain
892
00:30:57,156 --> 00:30:58,486
skeptical.
893
00:30:58,490 --> 00:30:59,560
>> CHILDRESS: The idea that
894
00:30:59,558 --> 00:31:01,228
the source of ancient religions
895
00:31:01,227 --> 00:31:03,227
might actually be interaction
896
00:31:03,229 --> 00:31:05,159
with extraterrestrials is not an
897
00:31:05,164 --> 00:31:08,104
idea that organized religion
898
00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:09,500
wants to promote.
899
00:31:09,501 --> 00:31:10,601
>> MARRS: What's at stake for
900
00:31:10,602 --> 00:31:12,972
organized religion?
901
00:31:12,972 --> 00:31:15,312
(scoffs): Power and control.
902
00:31:15,307 --> 00:31:17,477
It's that simple.
903
00:31:19,511 --> 00:31:20,911
>> NARRATOR: There are many in
904
00:31:20,913 --> 00:31:22,513
the ancient astronaut community,
905
00:31:22,514 --> 00:31:24,524
however, who claim that many of
906
00:31:24,516 --> 00:31:26,186
the beliefs and teachings that
907
00:31:26,185 --> 00:31:27,615
comprise the world's religions
908
00:31:27,619 --> 00:31:30,959
serve not to contradict the
909
00:31:30,957 --> 00:31:33,587
possibility of alien life, but
910
00:31:33,592 --> 00:31:35,232
to confirm it.
911
00:31:35,227 --> 00:31:36,657
>> TSOUKALOS: One of the biggest
912
00:31:36,662 --> 00:31:38,002
points of reference for the
913
00:31:37,997 --> 00:31:40,527
ancient alien theory are the
914
00:31:40,532 --> 00:31:43,002
sacred books, sacred texts, that
915
00:31:43,002 --> 00:31:45,002
we can find all around the
916
00:31:45,004 --> 00:31:46,014
world.
917
00:31:46,005 --> 00:31:47,235
And those sacred texts, in many
918
00:31:47,239 --> 00:31:51,539
cases, describe people from the
919
00:31:51,543 --> 00:31:54,653
stars descending in some type of
920
00:31:54,646 --> 00:31:57,116
flying machines.
921
00:32:01,988 --> 00:32:03,358
>> NARRATOR: The Vatican's bold
922
00:32:03,355 --> 00:32:05,015
admission that the possibility
923
00:32:05,024 --> 00:32:06,694
of intelligent life in the
924
00:32:06,692 --> 00:32:08,562
universe seemed to validate what
925
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,560
scientists and cosmologists,
926
00:32:10,562 --> 00:32:11,632
like Stephen Hawking, had
927
00:32:11,630 --> 00:32:13,570
believed for centuries.
928
00:32:13,565 --> 00:32:14,995
But it also gave fresh
929
00:32:15,001 --> 00:32:16,571
credibility to another, perhaps
930
00:32:16,568 --> 00:32:20,208
even more controversial theory,
931
00:32:20,239 --> 00:32:23,279
that of intelligent design.
932
00:32:23,275 --> 00:32:24,435
>> TED PETERS: Intelligent
933
00:32:24,443 --> 00:32:26,713
design is a theory, having
934
00:32:26,712 --> 00:32:30,052
been... promoted now for about
935
00:32:30,049 --> 00:32:32,319
two decades, that says
936
00:32:32,318 --> 00:32:35,018
evolutionary development is not
937
00:32:35,021 --> 00:32:38,591
strictly a matter of chance;
938
00:32:38,590 --> 00:32:41,730
that actually, higher organisms
939
00:32:41,727 --> 00:32:44,627
are designed, and designed by an
940
00:32:44,663 --> 00:32:46,733
intelligent designer.
941
00:32:46,732 --> 00:32:48,672
They're not simply accidents of
942
00:32:48,667 --> 00:32:52,597
biological contingency.
943
00:32:52,604 --> 00:32:53,614
>> NARRATOR: Of course, the
944
00:32:53,605 --> 00:32:55,135
notion that the universe, and
945
00:32:55,141 --> 00:32:57,341
all living things, are more
946
00:32:57,343 --> 00:32:59,453
likely the product of a godlike
947
00:32:59,445 --> 00:33:02,075
being or entity was not new--
948
00:33:02,081 --> 00:33:03,721
virtually every religion across
949
00:33:03,715 --> 00:33:05,615
the globe has embraced the
950
00:33:05,617 --> 00:33:08,017
concept for centuries.
951
00:33:08,020 --> 00:33:10,090
But intelligent design was now
952
00:33:10,089 --> 00:33:12,319
being championed by powerful
953
00:33:12,324 --> 00:33:13,694
political and religious
954
00:33:13,692 --> 00:33:15,632
conservatives-- people like
955
00:33:15,627 --> 00:33:17,697
Republican Party activist George
956
00:33:17,696 --> 00:33:19,466
Gilder, whose Discovery
957
00:33:19,465 --> 00:33:22,095
Institute in Washington, DC,
958
00:33:22,101 --> 00:33:23,641
stands at the forefront of what
959
00:33:23,635 --> 00:33:25,365
detractors would call this
960
00:33:25,371 --> 00:33:26,641
"subversive" and
961
00:33:26,638 --> 00:33:29,378
"pseudoscientific" concept.
962
00:33:29,375 --> 00:33:31,235
It was seen by the mainstream as
963
00:33:31,243 --> 00:33:32,783
an attack on the theory of
964
00:33:32,778 --> 00:33:34,648
evolution, and therefore
965
00:33:34,646 --> 00:33:36,116
threatened the integrity of
966
00:33:36,115 --> 00:33:37,775
modern scientific thought.
967
00:33:37,783 --> 00:33:39,193
>> PETERS: Those disciples of
968
00:33:39,185 --> 00:33:41,245
Charles Darwin, who advance
969
00:33:41,253 --> 00:33:42,723
evolutionary theory-- and today
970
00:33:42,721 --> 00:33:44,061
we call it the "neo-Darwinian
971
00:33:44,056 --> 00:33:46,126
synthesis," because genetics
972
00:33:46,125 --> 00:33:48,055
explains variation-- it's
973
00:33:48,060 --> 00:33:49,660
important to note these are
974
00:33:49,661 --> 00:33:52,401
chance events that lead to the
975
00:33:52,398 --> 00:33:54,668
development of new species.
976
00:33:54,666 --> 00:33:55,796
Intelligent design people want
977
00:33:55,801 --> 00:33:58,371
to say it's not just chance,
978
00:33:58,370 --> 00:34:00,110
it's the intervention of an
979
00:34:00,106 --> 00:34:02,666
intelligent designer.
980
00:34:02,674 --> 00:34:03,684
Who is that intelligent
981
00:34:03,675 --> 00:34:04,675
designer?
982
00:34:04,676 --> 00:34:06,276
Well, St. Thomas Aquinas would
983
00:34:06,278 --> 00:34:09,218
say, "We all call that designer
984
00:34:09,215 --> 00:34:11,515
God," but intelligent design
985
00:34:11,517 --> 00:34:13,287
people say, "We have no opinion
986
00:34:13,285 --> 00:34:15,785
on who the designer is."
987
00:34:15,787 --> 00:34:17,687
>> NARRATOR: Do proponents of
988
00:34:17,689 --> 00:34:19,829
intelligent design really have a
989
00:34:19,825 --> 00:34:21,685
secret agenda to undermine
990
00:34:21,693 --> 00:34:23,363
conventional science by
991
00:34:23,362 --> 00:34:24,832
promoting the belief in an
992
00:34:24,830 --> 00:34:29,140
almighty creator, or is it an
993
00:34:29,135 --> 00:34:30,835
ingenious means of bridging the
994
00:34:30,836 --> 00:34:33,166
enormous gap that exists between
995
00:34:33,172 --> 00:34:34,712
those who believe in Charles
996
00:34:34,706 --> 00:34:36,406
Darwin's secular theory of
997
00:34:36,408 --> 00:34:38,708
evolution and those who believe
998
00:34:38,710 --> 00:34:41,180
that mankind might also owe its
999
00:34:41,180 --> 00:34:43,720
very existence to beings from
1000
00:34:43,715 --> 00:34:45,715
other worlds?
1001
00:34:45,717 --> 00:34:47,847
Perhaps the ultimate answer can
1002
00:34:47,853 --> 00:34:50,523
be found in the covert messages
1003
00:34:50,522 --> 00:34:52,192
that are being transmitted
1004
00:34:52,191 --> 00:34:56,531
throughout our galaxy even as we
1005
00:34:56,562 --> 00:35:00,772
speak.
1006
00:35:00,766 --> 00:35:03,166
>> NARRATOR: 290 miles north of
1007
00:35:03,169 --> 00:35:06,709
San Francisco is an open field
1008
00:35:06,705 --> 00:35:08,165
that many scientists believe
1009
00:35:08,174 --> 00:35:11,284
could hold the key to contact
1010
00:35:11,277 --> 00:35:12,377
with extraterrestrial
1011
00:35:12,378 --> 00:35:13,848
intelligence.
1012
00:35:13,845 --> 00:35:16,175
(camera shutter clicking)
1013
00:35:16,182 --> 00:35:18,322
At the Allen Telescopic Array,
1014
00:35:18,317 --> 00:35:20,317
radio receivers and giant
1015
00:35:20,319 --> 00:35:22,319
transmitters are part of a
1016
00:35:22,321 --> 00:35:25,461
global scientific network called
1017
00:35:25,457 --> 00:35:26,457
SETI.
1018
00:35:26,458 --> 00:35:28,458
>> TEGMARK: I think that the
1019
00:35:28,460 --> 00:35:30,300
goal of the SETI program, the
1020
00:35:30,296 --> 00:35:31,556
Search for Extraterrestrial
1021
00:35:31,563 --> 00:35:33,203
Intelligence, is extremely
1022
00:35:33,199 --> 00:35:34,329
important.
1023
00:35:34,333 --> 00:35:35,733
We look at our universe and we
1024
00:35:35,734 --> 00:35:39,214
just have to know: are we alone,
1025
00:35:39,205 --> 00:35:40,665
or is there anybody else out
1026
00:35:40,672 --> 00:35:42,672
there?
1027
00:35:44,410 --> 00:35:46,410
>> NARRATOR: Among SETI's
1028
00:35:46,412 --> 00:35:48,582
favorite cosmic targets are
1029
00:35:48,580 --> 00:35:51,220
areas called Goldilocks zones.
1030
00:35:51,217 --> 00:35:52,817
>> SEAGER: The Goldilocks zone
1031
00:35:52,818 --> 00:35:54,348
is a zone around a star where
1032
00:35:54,353 --> 00:35:56,223
the temperatures are not too
1033
00:35:56,222 --> 00:35:58,822
hot, not too cold, but just
1034
00:35:58,824 --> 00:36:01,864
right for liquid water to exist.
1035
00:36:01,860 --> 00:36:03,230
All life on Earth requires
1036
00:36:03,229 --> 00:36:05,229
liquid water, so we believe that
1037
00:36:05,231 --> 00:36:06,701
the best way to search for other
1038
00:36:06,698 --> 00:36:08,728
planets with life is to search
1039
00:36:08,734 --> 00:36:09,844
for planets that have liquid
1040
00:36:09,835 --> 00:36:12,295
water, and just as technology
1041
00:36:12,304 --> 00:36:14,244
has begun to see planets that
1042
00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:15,910
may be able to have life, that
1043
00:36:15,907 --> 00:36:17,437
type of planet appears to be
1044
00:36:17,443 --> 00:36:18,443
everywhere.
1045
00:36:18,444 --> 00:36:20,254
>> TEGMARK: So the million-
1046
00:36:20,246 --> 00:36:21,376
dollar question is if we can
1047
00:36:21,380 --> 00:36:23,920
find that otherwise decent
1048
00:36:23,915 --> 00:36:26,345
planet around a star in its
1049
00:36:26,352 --> 00:36:28,652
Goldilocks zone because that's
1050
00:36:28,654 --> 00:36:29,794
where we have the greatest
1051
00:36:29,788 --> 00:36:31,318
chance of finding
1052
00:36:31,323 --> 00:36:33,893
extraterrestrials.
1053
00:36:33,892 --> 00:36:34,932
(beeping)
1054
00:36:34,926 --> 00:36:36,796
>> NARRATOR: Could there really
1055
00:36:36,795 --> 00:36:38,455
be an abundance of livable
1056
00:36:38,464 --> 00:36:40,804
planets in the universe, and
1057
00:36:40,799 --> 00:36:42,799
might SETI really detect
1058
00:36:42,801 --> 00:36:45,801
intelligent life on one of them?
1059
00:36:45,804 --> 00:36:47,944
But how?
1060
00:36:47,939 --> 00:36:49,809
>> MICHAEL DENNIN: There's two
1061
00:36:49,808 --> 00:36:51,878
senses in which you could detect
1062
00:36:51,877 --> 00:36:52,937
intelligent extraterrestrial
1063
00:36:52,944 --> 00:36:53,954
life.
1064
00:36:53,945 --> 00:36:55,505
One is in, in just the noise
1065
00:36:55,514 --> 00:36:56,524
that they generate.
1066
00:36:56,515 --> 00:36:57,615
(car horns honking)
1067
00:36:57,616 --> 00:37:00,286
(overlapping chatter)
1068
00:37:00,286 --> 00:37:01,686
(whistling)
1069
00:37:01,687 --> 00:37:03,287
If you think about our society,
1070
00:37:03,289 --> 00:37:04,689
we now have TV, we have cell
1071
00:37:04,690 --> 00:37:06,930
phones, we have all sorts of
1072
00:37:06,925 --> 00:37:08,655
technology that radiates out
1073
00:37:08,660 --> 00:37:10,430
into space, um, and could in
1074
00:37:10,429 --> 00:37:11,429
principle be detected.
1075
00:37:11,430 --> 00:37:12,430
(garbled radio transmissions)
1076
00:37:12,431 --> 00:37:13,571
(car horns honking)
1077
00:37:13,565 --> 00:37:15,825
(bell tolling)
1078
00:37:19,571 --> 00:37:21,571
The other is, we have changes in
1079
00:37:21,573 --> 00:37:22,973
our atmosphere that we generated
1080
00:37:22,974 --> 00:37:24,584
by being on the planet and doing
1081
00:37:24,576 --> 00:37:25,936
stuff, that in principle could
1082
00:37:25,944 --> 00:37:27,584
be detected.
1083
00:37:27,579 --> 00:37:29,949
>> COPPENS: It is very much like
1084
00:37:29,948 --> 00:37:31,318
looking for a needle in a
1085
00:37:31,317 --> 00:37:33,847
haystack because we're using
1086
00:37:33,852 --> 00:37:35,452
radio astronomy.
1087
00:37:35,454 --> 00:37:37,864
We're analyzing radio waves in
1088
00:37:37,856 --> 00:37:39,556
an effort to try and find out
1089
00:37:39,558 --> 00:37:42,328
whether, amongst the millions of
1090
00:37:42,328 --> 00:37:44,528
signals which we get on a daily
1091
00:37:44,530 --> 00:37:46,870
if not hourly basis from space,
1092
00:37:46,865 --> 00:37:49,595
whether somehow in there is an
1093
00:37:49,601 --> 00:37:52,671
alien communication.
1094
00:37:53,739 --> 00:37:55,739
>> NARRATOR: Could the very
1095
00:37:55,741 --> 00:37:59,981
existence of SETI along with
1096
00:37:59,978 --> 00:38:01,408
NASA's missions to Mars and
1097
00:38:01,413 --> 00:38:03,483
other planets be proof of the
1098
00:38:03,482 --> 00:38:06,352
U.S. government's secret belief
1099
00:38:06,352 --> 00:38:08,892
in the ancient astronaut theory,
1100
00:38:08,887 --> 00:38:12,017
and if so, would we be prepared
1101
00:38:12,023 --> 00:38:14,633
in the event of a real-life
1102
00:38:14,626 --> 00:38:15,726
close encounter?
1103
00:38:15,727 --> 00:38:17,427
>> CHILDRESS: UFO activity has
1104
00:38:17,429 --> 00:38:19,499
been going on for thousands of
1105
00:38:19,498 --> 00:38:22,428
years, and we have been
1106
00:38:22,434 --> 00:38:24,574
monitored and watched since the
1107
00:38:24,570 --> 00:38:26,640
beginning of our civilization.
1108
00:38:26,638 --> 00:38:29,008
>> MARRS: The U.S. military and
1109
00:38:29,007 --> 00:38:30,907
even the United Nations has
1110
00:38:30,909 --> 00:38:32,639
stored away some contingency
1111
00:38:32,644 --> 00:38:35,854
plans in the event that aliens
1112
00:38:35,847 --> 00:38:37,977
should show up, you know, either
1113
00:38:38,016 --> 00:38:42,016
benign or otherwise.
1114
00:38:42,020 --> 00:38:44,390
They would be remiss in their
1115
00:38:44,390 --> 00:38:46,060
job if they didn't have such
1116
00:38:46,057 --> 00:38:48,727
contingency plans.
1117
00:38:48,727 --> 00:38:50,597
>> NARRATOR: Are there secret
1118
00:38:50,596 --> 00:38:53,526
files and covert plans under
1119
00:38:53,532 --> 00:38:56,602
lock and key?
1120
00:38:56,602 --> 00:38:58,542
Have there been exercises and
1121
00:38:58,537 --> 00:39:02,407
other preparation work?
1122
00:39:02,408 --> 00:39:04,808
If the truth finally comes out,
1123
00:39:04,810 --> 00:39:06,610
might proof of life on other
1124
00:39:06,612 --> 00:39:08,952
planets crumble the foundations
1125
00:39:08,947 --> 00:39:11,677
of government, religion,
1126
00:39:11,683 --> 00:39:15,623
science, and our society, or
1127
00:39:15,621 --> 00:39:17,061
would it reassure us by
1128
00:39:17,055 --> 00:39:20,385
revealing at last the truth
1129
00:39:20,426 --> 00:39:22,526
about our origins?
1130
00:39:22,528 --> 00:39:24,428
>> TSOUKALOS: If an American
1131
00:39:24,430 --> 00:39:26,930
Book of Secrets existed, then
1132
00:39:26,932 --> 00:39:28,032
the chapter on ancient
1133
00:39:28,033 --> 00:39:31,643
astronauts would suggest that we
1134
00:39:31,637 --> 00:39:33,537
shouldn't look for our origins
1135
00:39:33,539 --> 00:39:36,409
on planet Earth but that in fact
1136
00:39:36,442 --> 00:39:41,112
our origins... lie out there.
1137
00:39:41,112 --> 00:39:42,452
(garbled radio transmission)
1138
00:39:42,448 --> 00:39:43,548
>> NARRATOR: Might SETI be on
1139
00:39:43,549 --> 00:39:45,049
the brink of an incredible
1140
00:39:45,050 --> 00:39:47,590
discovery?
1141
00:39:47,586 --> 00:39:49,556
Or are they, as some experts
1142
00:39:49,555 --> 00:39:52,455
warn, setting planet Earth up
1143
00:39:52,458 --> 00:39:55,858
for a mega-disaster?
1144
00:40:07,706 --> 00:40:09,706
>> TEGMARK: Transmitting signals
1145
00:40:09,708 --> 00:40:11,608
into space saying, "Hey there,
1146
00:40:11,610 --> 00:40:14,610
here we are" is an absolutely
1147
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idiotic thing to do.
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I mean, seriously you don't
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scream in the jungle.
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If you were a pig living on an
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island of pigs, very happily
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doing all your piggly stuff,
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would you like for the human
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neighbors on the island next to
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you to know that you're there?
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(pig squealing)
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Don't think so.
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We humans are newbies on this
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stage.
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We don't know who's out there.
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>> MITCHELL: If they were
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hostile and wanted to end the
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experiment we call humanity
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here, they could do so because
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they would have the technology
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to do so.
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>> NOORY: If this universe is
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made up of the same primordial
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soup, then you have to assume
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that not every being in this
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universe is enlightened and
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nice.
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It's very possible that there's
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a sect of extraterrestrials that
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are coming to this planet and
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they're doing some very
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strangely evil things.
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>> TSOUKALOS: Dr. Stephen
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Hawking suggested that SETI
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should stop sending out signals
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or searching for signals because
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the moment that
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extraterrestrials found out that
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we are here... they would come
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here to destroy us.
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(explosions)
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>> NARRATOR: Has the United
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States government really
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conspired with other nations to
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hide the facts about mankind's
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extraterrestrial past?
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Is there really a cover-up, or
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is the notion of life on other
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planets too bizarre to be
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believed?
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Perhaps the truth will never be
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known until the day when they
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return.
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