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A massive
object of unknown origin

soars by the Earth.

It was moving faster

than all chemical rockets

produced in human history.

A shooting
star explodes over Mexico,

mysteriously altering the
environment of an entire region.

This area is completely devoid

of electromagnetic signals.

Your cell phone won’t work.

You won’t pick up
satellite signals like GPS.

It’s a really odd place.

And a meteorite that is believed

to be carrying unexpected cargo.

This object may contain

some type of
extraterrestrial technology

that points
towards intelligence.

Is it possible
that certain objects in outer space

are not simply wonders of nature

but could contain
alien technology

that is being
deliberately sent to Earth?

If
You’re trying to think of a way

for an extraterrestrial
civilization

to stimulate the
evolution of a species,

you couldn’t think of
a better way to do it

than through a meteorite.

There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the
promise of truth.

It demands we
question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right
before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

In the high-country desert,

just 35 miles southeast
of the city of Flagstaff,

lies the Barringer Crater,

one of the largest and
best-preserved impact craters

in North America.

The
Barringer Crater is out in the desert.

You’re driving south
on this small road

and then, suddenly,
you see the crater rim.

And there’s a building there.

You take an elevator
up to the top of the rim

and you’re looking down
at this amazing crater.

It’s like you’re
looking at something

that’s on another planet.

According to scientists,

the Barringer Crater was
formed roughly 50,000 years ago

when a massive asteroid
measuring 150 feet in diameter

and weighing an
incredible 300,000 tons

slammed into the
Earth’s surface.

The resulting explosion
was 150 times more powerful

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

However, it is only
one of many examples

of how asteroid impacts

have caused massive
devastation on Earth

and also shaped the
world that we live in today.

Asteroids
hitting the planet Earth

affect everything.

They’ve changed the climate.

They’ve created tremendous
disasters on the planet.

The most famous taking
place 66 million years ago,

when an object
about six miles across

plowed into the Yucatán
Peninsula of Mexico...

wiping out the dinosaurs.

It created a whole
new landscape on Earth,

and it allowed, perhaps, for...

creatures like
ourselves to exist.

So, definitely,

rocks colliding with
Earth had a huge impact

on the evolution
of life on Earth.

While a major
life-altering asteroid impact

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

smaller fragments
known as meteors

penetrate the Earth’s
atmosphere on a regular basis.

Statistically, we
get hit by meteors all the time.

You can go out any night

and you can see shooting
stars or falling stars,

which are objects
outside of the Earth

entering the atmosphere
and burning up.

Some of ’em actually
make it to the ground.

We sometimes forget
that the world we see around us

originally came
from outer space.

When you look at the
history of the Earth,

4.6 billion years ago,

back then there
was basically rubble.

Rubble, gas, particles
circulating around the Sun,

and gravity began to
coalesce much of this material,

which eventually
became the planet Earth.

The Earth was molten
for many billion years.

The elements like the
platinum-based materials

and uranium tend to be heavy.

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

when the Earth was formed.

But as the Earth’s
surface cooled and solidified,

an extended period known as the
Late Heavy Bombardment ensued,

wherein billions of comets,

asteroids and
meteors made impact,

seeding our young planet
with numerous resources,

including water
and precious metals.

During that bombardment phase,

smaller impacts would hit
the crust and be trapped.

So, many of the precious metals

that we really
value on the Earth

actually came
from the asteroids.

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

during its formation,

the development

of a technologically
advanced human civilization

would not have been possible.

These asteroids and meteors,

they also contain not
just ordinary chemicals

like carbon and iron

but also materials
that are strong,

conduct electricity...

Things like platinum.

Platinum that is used in
the electronics industry.

Meteorites are
providing materials like iridium,

quasi-nanocrystals
that are ultimately used

in our technology,

and also gold.

The meteorites
bring the surface gold.

A lot of, particularly,
the rare metals

that are critical in things
like cell phone technologies

and other electronic devices

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

and that material coming
from elsewhere in space

rather than having
formed naturally

in just the Earth’s crust
as part of its evolution.

Although the
evidence that cosmic impacts

have been critical to sustaining
life on Earth is profound,

incredibly, scientists have
recently discovered new evidence

that meteors may
have seeded the Earth...

with DNA.

Researchers at
Hokkaido University

make an extraordinary
announcement.

After analyzing three meteorites

that were formed
4.6 billion years ago

at the very dawn
of the solar system,

they discover that each object

contains all four
components of DNA,

the central
building block of life.

Could some of the origins
of life come from space?

One idea you could imagine is,

an asteroid broke
off from a planet

that had the right
chemicals for life.

It traveled through space,

entered the Earth’s
atmosphere as a meteorite,

and then those
chemicals interact

with the chemistry of the Earth.

And perhaps that
was the starting point

for life as we know it here.

For decades,

mainstream scientists
have studied the hypothesis

that life on Earth
may have evolved

from a so-called
primordial soup...

meaning that organic compounds

formed into living cells in
the planet’s primitive oceans.

It’s still a question how life

originated on Earth.

And oftentimes you’re told

that this all happened
due to a primordial soup.

But there needed to
be certain ingredients,

and astronomers are now
saying that the secret ingredients

were brought here
through meteor impacts.

For ancient astronaut theorists,

the possibility that
meteors carried

the building blocks
for human life on Earth

raises an intriguing question.

Could it be that these
ancient meteor impacts

did not happen by chance

but by design?

Bioastronomers have
coined a concept called panspermia.

Panspermia essentially
means seeding...

"Pan" means "everything,"
"sperm" is "seeding."

So, "the-the seeding
of everything."

Now, often meteor impacts
are considered to be random.

But if you say
"directed panspermia,"

that means that
extraterrestrial intelligences

deliberately sent the
building blocks of life

somewhere that they knew
was going to be habitable.

Is it possible that meteors
were sent to Earth deliberately

because extraterrestrials knew

that Earth can host life?

Could it be that
certain meteor strikes in Earth’s history

did not happen by chance

but were, in fact, directed here

by an extraterrestrial
intelligence?

Perhaps further
clues can be found

by examining ancient cultures

that believe meteorites possess
an otherworldly connection.

Muslims believe that this stone

was sent down by God to Earth.

They believe that,
through meteorites, they can talk

with the gods.

Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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

the largest house of
Islamic worship on Earth.

It is also the final destination
of the hajj pilgrimage,

which every Muslim is required
to complete once in their life

if they are physically able.

In the mosque’s
central courtyard

stands an ancient structure
called the Kaaba, or Cube.

And embedded in
one corner of the Kaaba

is the most sacred
object in Islam,

the Black Stone,

a mysterious rock
that is believed

to have come from the heavens.

For the world’s
1.8 billion Muslims,

this stone is crucial.

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

They face in the
direction of that stone.

The Black Stone of
the Kaaba in Mecca

is some kind of fragment

that is held together
by a silver band,

and the object is actually
said to have fallen from heaven

and that is said to
have landed in paradise,

where it was picked
up by Adam and Eve.

The first human being, Adam,

in Islamic tradition,
builds the first temple

out of this stone,

the first place to worship God.

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

and is then
rediscovered by Abraham.

So Abraham, with
his son Ishmael,

build in Mecca the
first place of prayer.

That’s why Mecca is
important to Muslims.

What survives of
that original building

going back thousands
of years earlier

is this black stone in the
eastern corner of the Kaaba.

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

If we
take the scripture seriously,

this story tells us this stone

was the communication
between the two dimensions

from the heaven to the
Earth for Adam and Eve.

This was the first
altar to communicate

with the celestial realm.

The Black Stone of Mecca

is arguably the world’s
most venerated meteorite,

but it is hardly alone.

Many other ancient
cultures believe meteorites

and impact sites have a
connection to a higher realm.

In Roman times, a very,
uh, prominent meteorite

was found in Syria
and was worshipped.

It was referred to
as Helio Elagabalus,

which literally means "the
Sun touching down to the Earth."

In Delphi, a meteorite
was associated with Apollo

at his temple in Delphi.

So this is a constant theme
that we have in the ancient world,

tying physical
objects to the gods,

to the skies, to the heavens.

Historians of religion agree

that people have
venerated meteorites

and impact sites
throughout history.

The question is why.

Something that we
find repeated over and over again

in these crater
impact sites is that

they believe that,
through these meteorites,

they can talk with the gods

and the gods can
actually see them as well.

So the meteorite then
becomes a way of connecting

with the divine beings.

Is it possible

that numerous ancient
cultures around the world

simply passed down
similar mythological stories

that meteorites and earthly
impact sites could allow them

to communicate
with higher beings?

Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

that these
otherworldly encounters

may have actually happened.

And for further evidence,

they point to one of
the most mysterious

and sacred sites
in North America.

Sprawling across
a large clearing

that divides a wooded landscape

sets a 1,370-foot-long monument
in the shape of a coiling snake.

It is known as the
Great Serpent Mound.

According to historians,

an Indigenous Native American
culture called the Adena

built the mound in 320 BC.

And, curiously, it is
positioned right on the edge

of an enormous crater.

It actually sits

right on a 300 million-year-old
meteor impact crater

which was so powerful
that it even went down

to the mantle inside the Earth.

And this has created
all sorts of gravitational

and magnetic
anomalies in the area.

And it’s thought that the reason

the Adena people who
built this site chose it

is because it has
these kind of energetic,

almost spiritual qualities
associated with it.

One of the great
mysteries of Serpent Mound

is that this meteorite
creates this impact site,

this impact crater,
250 million years ago.

Then, suddenly, 3,000 years ago,

the Adena people come along

and they’re somehow able
to identify its significance

and they build an effigy,

and it becomes this very
powerful place of reverence

for the Adena people for
the next 2,000 years or so.

When you look at the Great
Serpent Mound in Ohio,

you have to wonder if
there was some energy there

that they were feeling.

And so they built the
Serpent Mound there

as a testament to the
extraterrestrial connection,

perhaps, that’s
with this crater.

Serpent Mound
has long been talked about

as being, like, an
otherworldly connection point.

And in traditions that
go way, way back,

there’s talk of the star people.

They’re described in
certain ways in myths,

which, in modern
terms, we would see

as, like, UFOs landing

and interacting with these
extraterrestrial beings.

So, is Serpent Mound
part of this ancient tradition?

As unique as
the Great Serpent Mound is

against its forested landscape,

it is not the only asteroid
impact site on Earth

where ancient cultures believed

there was an
extraterrestrial connection.

In Australia, we find
an extraordinarily mysterious site,

the Wolfe Creek Crater.

The Indigenous
people call it Kandimalal,

"the star that
fell from the sky."

It’s a impact crater site
that’s 3,000 feet in diameter.

But even more
interesting than that

is the Indigenous legend
that is attached to it.

They talk about two serpents
that emerged from the dreamtime

and created this crater.

It suggests once again that
these Indigenous cultures

were in contact with
otherworldly beings

that either are connected
with the crater, the impact site,

or somehow emerged from it.

Did our ancestors
bear witness to the proof

that asteroids and
meteors could connect man

with otherworldly beings?

Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

two mysterious objects that
have recently been detected

in outer space,

which some scientists believe

may be controlled
by extraterrestrials.

We have
never seen an object like this ever.

This was really exciting.

It came into our solar system,

went around the Sun
and flew by Earth as if

it was a probe looking at us.

The island of Maui.

Here, atop a dramatic
10,000-foot summit,

stands the Haleakala
Observatory.

On October 19, 2017,

astronomers detect
a mysterious object

traveling through
our solar system.

It is unlike anything that
has been seen before.

I was in charge of
coordinating the observing

to characterize the object.

There were four images
taken that showed

an object moving rapidly
with respect to the stars.

The stars are
individual dots of light,

and this object was a streak.

So they knew it was moving fast.

At that point, they
started to compute an orbit

to try and understand
what this object was.

Everything in the solar
system’s either on a circular

or an elliptical orbit.

But once more data came in,

it was very clear that
the orbit was hyperbolic,

meaning something coming
from outside the solar system.

We have never seen an object
on an orbit like this ever before.

And it’s an irregularly shaped
object that’s about 800 meters,

or half a kilometer, in length.

This was really exciting.

The landmark
discovery is the first time an object

is officially recognized
as interstellar.

To signify the
importance of the finding,

the astronomers
give it a fitting name.

In honor of this
object being discovered

by a telescope in Hawaii,

the team came up with
the name Oumuamua,

which means "voyager
from the distant past

reaching out to us."

Astronomers
were not only mystified

by where Oumuamua came from

but also by its
strange oblong shape,

which was like no
asteroid ever detected.

The interstellar object

moved steadily
through the solar system,

and astronomers were
taken by surprise once again

when, after passing by the Sun,

it appeared to accelerate.

Oumuamua was
moving rapidly away from the Sun.

When it made its
closest pass to the Sun,

uh, inside the orbit of Mercury,

it was moving very fast...

A little more than
195,000 miles per hour.

So this is moving rapidly
out of the solar system.

To Harvard
astronomer Dr. Avi Loeb,

the unusual behavior

indicated that the object
wasn’t an asteroid or a comet.

Instead, he proposed an
extraordinary hypothesis...

Oumuamua was an
extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Oumuamua was
definitely an outlier.

And the question is, why
would the first interstellar meteor

be so unusual?

There was a question as to
what pushed Oumuamua away

from the Sun,

and my thought was,

that raises the possibility
that it may have been

a spacecraft
propelled artificially.

Oumuamua could
possibly have been a probe coming into

our solar system, the same
way we send probes to Jupiter.

It came into our solar
system, went around the Sun,

and flew by Earth as if, uh,
it was a probe looking at us.

Intrigued by
the possibility that Oumuamua

might actually be a probe
sent to our solar system

by an extraterrestrial
civilization,

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb
began searching for evidence

of other celestial objects
moving in a similar fashion.

I came across a meteor
catalog that the government

compiled using its
missile warning system.

It’s called CNEOS,

and I asked my
student to check if any

of those meteors came
from outside the solar system.

He found that one of
them was actually moving at

60 kilometers per second,
clearly unbound to the Sun.

Astronomers determined
that this object, like Oumuamua,

did, in fact, originate
outside the solar system.

This new discovery
was first observed

by military satellites
in January 2014,

three years before
Oumuamua was identified.

But, unlike Oumuamua,
this object did not pass

by the planet but
actually entered

Earth’s atmosphere and
exploded over the Pacific Ocean.

The meteor burned up

about 100 miles off the
coast of Papua New Guinea,

and it released a few
percent of the energy

of the Hiroshima
bomb when it exploded.

From that, we inferred
it was about half a meter

in size when it exploded.

Excited by the
discovery, Dr. Loeb closely examined

the data captured by
the military satellites,

and he noticed
something extraordinary.

The government released data

of the explosion, and
from that we inferred

that the object must have
been tougher than iron.

So, not only was this object

the first interstellar meteor
but it was also tougher

than all other meteors detected

by the government
in that catalog.

And that raises the
possibility that it may

have been a spacecraft
propelled artificially

and made of some
alloy that is much tougher

than iron meteorites.

To find out, we need
to find the material.

If we do end up concluding
that it was artificial

in origin, perhaps a spacecraft,

that would have
huge implications

for the future of humanity.

Some people
are saying this object

came from outside
the solar system.

Maybe, just maybe,
it’s a techno-signature

of intelligent life.

And that has created a sensation

because this is a
new branch of science.

We’re not just looking
at asteroids anymore.

We’re looking for
remnants of intelligence.

When you consider the
vastness of space and just how tiny

our planet is... it’s
literally a tiny speck

within the Milky Way
galaxy... and then you factor in

direct hits by meteorites

that came from beyond
our solar system,

you have to wonder,
are these meteorites

somehow intelligently directed?

Is it possible that the meteor

that exploded near
Papua New Guinea in 2014

was carrying
extraterrestrial technology?

If so, could an
advanced civilization

be sending such objects
to Earth deliberately?

Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,

further clues can be found

at an impact crater
in northern Mexico

that some believe functions
as a beacon for UFOs.

This area is completely devoid
of electromagnetic signals.

Your cell phone won’t
work, you won’t pick up GPS.

People see UFOs
and mysterious lights.

The
U.S. Air Force launches

an Athena V-123-D missile

from the Green River Test Site.

The rocket is programmed
to land 700 miles away

at the White Sands Missile
Range in New Mexico.

But the missile veers
hundreds of miles off course...

and crashes in the
remote Mapimí desert

in northern Mexico.

When workers arrive to
clean up the crash site,

they notice something
very unusual.

During the cleanup
process it was noted that

radio communications
didn’t work well,

compasses didn’t work right.

This area is completely devoid
of electromagnetic signals.

Meaning your cell
phone won’t work,

you won’t pick up
satellite signals like GPS.

It’s a really odd place.

The area
quickly earned the nickname

La Zona del Silencio,

or the "Zone of Silence."

The Zone of
Silence has become notorious,

um, in the last 50-odd years

through the fact that many
mysterious events have occurred.

And the origins of this location

seem to be of a cosmic nature.

The Athena rocket
was just the latest object to fall

from the heavens and
land in the Mapimí desert.

Prior to the crash,
the Zone of Silence

had been bombarded
by more meteor strikes

than any other spot on Earth.

The Zona del Silencio

was well-known for the
numerous meteorite impacts,

over and over, over thousands
of years hitting that one spot.

Perhaps
the most intriguing impact

occurred in February 1969.

The year
before the Athena rocket,

there was a meteor crash
in that Zone of Silence.

It was the Allende meteor.

And what that meteor
brought to this planet

was the element curium.

We know what curium is,

and it doesn’t occur
naturally on this planet.

Now, curium
is a material that we create

in nuclear reactors or
in nuclear explosions or

it’s created inside the
nuclear fire of the Sun.

So it doesn’t just occur
randomly anywhere

and it’s not a decay product.

It has to be created.

So the question arose then,

was this meteor that
impacted in Mexico

created in a reactor by
some advanced civilization?

Created in a
reactor by an advanced civilization?

Is it possible that
the Allende meteorite,

and perhaps others that
struck the area before it,

contained extraterrestrial
technology?

And if so, how did it get here?

Some researchers believe
it was sent deliberately.

And as evidence they
point to numerous UFOs

that have been
reported in the area.

There’s no question
that the Zone of Silence

is a very mysterious area.

In the last 50-odd years,

many mysterious
events have occurred.

People see UFOs,

mysterious lights,

and experience other
types of paranormal activity.

In 2008, I was filming
in the Zone of Silence,

and the locals in
the town of Coyame

talked about how strange
beings came up out of the ground.

Whether these beings
were extraterrestrials,

whether these things were
something else, we don’t know.

Is it more than mere
coincidence that in the Zone of Silence,

where a high number of
meteor impacts have occurred

and strange electromagnetic
anomalies have been recorded,

there have also been reports of
UFOs and otherworldly entities?

Could it be, as
researchers have argued,

that the impacts over
and over in that area

have created a whole
anomalous area?

And that the Zone of
Silence is so magnetically

and electronically potent, that
it’s somehow attracted the ETs?

And you might ask yourself, why?

Do they need the magnetic
energy from that spot?

Maybe they are
terraforming our planet

for their own purposes,
and we don’t know why.

The idea
that, through meteor impacts,

one could influence
the development

and the evolution of a planet

is feasible to me,
and many astronomers

and bioastronomers
are looking at these ideas

as actual concepts in reality.

And so, has this potentially
happened on Earth?

And the answer to
that is a resounding yes.

Are meteorite
impacts responsible

for the mysterious phenomena
in the Zone of Silence?

And if so, might
they be connected

to UFO activity in the area?

Some researchers believe
that further clues can be found

in similar anomalies that
occur 1,500 miles away

in a mysterious area known...

as Skinwalker Ranch.

Skinwalker
Ranch is one of the most

anomalous areas on this planet.

There are strange
magnetic field anomalies.

Is it possible that this is from
some extraterrestrial origin?

Uintah County, Utah.

Located in the
northeastern part of the state

is a 512-acre property
known as Skinwalker Ranch,

one of the most intensely
studied paranormal hot spots

in the world.

Skinwalker Ranch
is one of the most

anomalous areas on this planet.

Here’s what people
have seen in that ranch:

strange creatures suddenly
appearing out of nowhere,

UFOs, instruments don’t work.

The people around the ranch

set up observation posts
to see what’s going on.

And they’re the ones
that are recording

all kinds of strange creatures.

Astrophysicist
and aerospace engineer

Dr. Travis Taylor has
spent nearly 20 years

working on high-tech programs

for the Department
of Defense and NASA.

It is going nuts.

In 2019, he joined

a research team investigating

the strange phenomena
at Skinwalker Ranch.

It just jumped to 18.

We need to get
out of here, guys.

Let’s get out of here.

Since that time,
Dr. Taylor has come to believe

that the mysterious
events are connected

to the unique geology
of the Uintah Basin

where Skinwalker
Ranch is located.

The Uintah Basin
appears to be the epicenter

of some really unusual
phenomena, including

UAP sightings,

strange energy measurements,

strange electric and
magnetic field anomalies,

and even other
anomalies that look like

something out of a
science-fiction movie.

What is that solid light?

It’s got a black dot
in the center of it.

What?

As part of the investigation,

Dr. Taylor and the research team

drilled core samples
of the soil in the area

around Skinwalker Ranch.

And what they found
was unexpected.

We made an immense amount

of measurements and taken
an immense amount of data,

and from all those measurements,
what we’ve discovered is,

there seems to be an
interesting mix of things

underneath the ground
here at Skinwalker Ranch

that are the makeup elements
that you would need to create

computers,
spacecraft, and so on.

The geology looks like

an ancient impact crater.

And there was an impact here
maybe 50 million years ago.

Is it possible that this
different phenomena

that happen at
Skinwalker Ranch is from

some extraterrestrial origin,
uh, an ancient impact site,

an ancient crash site?

Skinwalker Ranch, it
appears to be similar to Mexico

where there is a Zone of Silence

right where there’s odd
phenomena being seen that

could be potentially a side
effect of a meteor impact.

Could it be that meteorites

are responsible
for the phenomena

at Skinwalker Ranch
and the Zone of Silence?

Dr. Taylor believes not
only that this is possible

but that the same might
be true for other areas

across the globe where
electromagnetic anomalies

are present.

There are other
similar places around the world,

like near Roosevelt in Utah.

There’s places in Iraq
where this, uh, occurs.

There’s places in
Australia where compasses

and other electromagnetic
phenomena occur.

Where we have,
uh, communications

that don’t function properly,

sort of like radio
silent regions.

And all these seem to be
near meteor impact sites.

And people that are near
those, they see UFOs,

they-they think they see
entities and things like that...

Maybe they do.

Is it the impactor that created
some kind of strange phenomena?

Or it might be some
other technology

that we don’t
understand at play here.

Could these impact
sites be directed crashes

from an ancient or an advanced
extraterrestrial civilization,

and that’s why we see
these strange phenomena?

Another facet of these
impact crater sites is the materials

and the energy
that is left behind,

and you have to wonder, well,

what is the role
of those materials,

and is it possible that
they are responsible

for altering the planet
for an unknown purpose?

Could it
be that extraterrestrials

are intentionally depositing
exotic materials on Earth

through meteor impacts

as part of an ongoing
mission to transform the planet

and direct the
future of humanity?

Perhaps further
clues will be revealed

by an audacious new mission

designed to retrieve
a piece of a meteor

that might contain
extraterrestrial technology.

Theoretical
physicist Dr. Avi Loeb

announces an
ambitious new expedition.

Its goal is to recover fragments

of the interstellar
meteor that exploded

over the Pacific Ocean
in February 2014.

This meteor was
roughly half a meter in size,

bigger than a basketball,
and it burned up

about 100 miles off the
coast of Papua New Guinea.

The ocean is very deep.

It’s about a mile deep there,

but we plan to use a sled

equipped with a magnet that
will attract the small fragments

and collect them, and
we will go back and forth

across the region of interest,
just like mowing the lawn,

for a couple of weeks, and
we hope to find those fragments.

We hope, just like detectives,

to collect enough
evidence that will tell

us the origins of this object.

If the project is successful,

it will mark the first time

humanity has recovered
material from another solar system.

Whatever we
find will have a big impact

on our understanding
of interstellar objects.

But what
excited Dr. Loeb the most

about the meteor isn’t
where it came from

but what it might contain.

The reason that
the meteor is interesting

is because the possibility
that it may have been

a spacecraft
propelled artificially

and made of some
alloy that is much tougher

than iron meteorites.

If we do end up
concluding that it was

artificial in origin,
perhaps a spacecraft,

that would be the first
time that we found evidence

for an object that originated

from another civilization.

Could the remnants
of an extraterrestrial spacecraft

really be lying at the
bottom of the Pacific Ocean?

While it may be a
sensational notion,

the possibility has excited
researchers around the world.

So, there’s talk that
maybe we should try to capture

this material that
plunged into the Pacific.

Because who knows?

Maybe it was sent here

by an alien civilization
in outer space.

Now, the probability
of that happening

is very small, let’s face it.

It’s a long shot.

But, hey, science is
based on long shots.

You never know where the
next discovery is being made.

And so I think it’s
worthwhile to try to see

whether we can
retrieve this object.

This object may contain

some type of
extraterrestrial technology

or some type of an
extraterrestrial signature

that points
towards intelligence.

If they can find this
object and study it,

it could potentially be one
of the greatest discoveries

in human history.

According to
ancient astronaut theorists,

the findings may help
answer an essential question.

Have alien civilizations
from across the galaxy

been sending materials
to Earth for eons,

with the deliberate intention
of developing our planet,

altering evolution,
and setting us

on a path to our future?

Perhaps, out of
all these things that crash

into the Earth’s atmosphere,
some percentage of them

could be of
extraterrestrial origin.

And if we go and
look at all these,

as many as we can
find, perhaps we’ll find

that one needle in the haystack

that tells us this is a
device, or was a device

before it impacted the
Earth, that came from outside

of our solar system and from
some advanced civilization.

Maybe we’ll find new DNA

or we’ll find new
building blocks for life,

life that we didn’t even
know could even exist.

And what implications

does that have for us?

Were meteors
deliberately sent to Earth

to terraform the planet,

enabling the development
of intelligent life

and a technologically
advanced civilization?

And if so, are extraterrestrials

continuing to direct
the evolution of both the planet

and humanity
through meteor impacts today?

Perhaps the proof lies
not in the skies above

but in plain sight
here on Earth.

And it is there we must look
for the undeniable evidence

of our connection to the cosmos.

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