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[Zachary Quinto]
It's an age-old question.
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[Zachary Quinto]
It's an age-old question.
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Are we alone in the universe?
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Some people believe aliens
were here long ago,
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and others say
there could be countless advanced civilizations
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just beyond
our own solar system.
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Then there are people,
like mechanic Kyle Bond,
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who believe aliens
are making contact with humans today.
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I was six when I saw
my first UFO.
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One night I was laying down
on my bed,
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and light started
coming in the window.
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I heard a buzzing noise. Bzzz.
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I was too afraid
to open my eyes, and I knew it was them.
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It was like every other week,
I was being taken out.
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It's always when I'm
least expecting it.
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Now I can't get them
out of my mind.
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I think about them constantly.
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They come to me at night,
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and they take me.
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[Quinto]
If stories like Kyle's are true,
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might it be possible
to finally find evidence of alien life?
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My search begins now.
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My Name is Zachary Quinto.
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As an actor,
I've played many supernatural characters
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that blurred the line
between science and fiction.
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I'm drawn to the unknown,
the otherworldly,
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and those experiences
so beyond belief,
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they call everything
into question.
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I'm exploring some of
the most enduring mysteries
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that continue to haunt mankind
in search of the truth...
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wherever it leads me.
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Throughout history,
mankind has always been fascinated
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by the possibility
of discovering alien life.
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More recently,
the 20th century gave us technology
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that allowed for real-life
space exploration.
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I believe that this nation
should commit itself to landing a man on the moon.
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At the same time,
our imaginations ran wild in movies,
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television-- [man]
Hurry back to base.
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[Quinto]
...and on Earth.My mother and I have both had
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close encounters
of the fourth kind, also known as "abduction experiences."
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BeyondClose Encounters
andE.T.,
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stories of Roswell
and UFO sightings mixed in our minds
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with scientific breakthroughs
like the Space Shuttle--
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[man]
...two, one. We have a liftoff!
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[Quinto] ...the Moon landing-- [Neil Armstrong]
...one giant leap for mankind.
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[Quinto]
...and exploration of Mars.
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And while the US Government
has denied investigating aliens in the past,
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a 2017 bombshell report
revealed
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it was running
a secret UFO program
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investigating alien threats
for years.
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[man on radio]
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[Quinto]
In addition to the government's admission
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that it's investigating aliens and spending millions to do so,
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there have been thousands
of individual reports
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of abductions and sightings
in the last 70 years.
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With all of this
evidence mounting,
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it's possible we may be
at a tipping point
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for finding out if aliens
are really out there.
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[man]
All right. Follow me. Watch your step.
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[Quinto]
To start my search, I wanna find out exactly
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what it's like for someone
claiming to have an encounter,
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so I'm meeting with one of
the thousands of Americans
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who have come forward with
a vivid alien abduction story.
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So walk me through
a little bit-- your first encounter.
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I was six years old.Six.
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Mm-hmm.
And that's weird,
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because I don't
really remember anything when I was six years old.
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But I do remember the UFO.
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[Quinto]
Thirty-eight-year-old mechanic Kyle Bond
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has seen signs pointing
to alien life
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that he says are beyond
any earthly explanation.
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I was with my brother
and my mother.
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There was lights that started
coming in the window.
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So my mom went up
and opened up the window,
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and there was a UFO in our yard,
and it was tilted, and it was hovering,
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and it had lights
all the way around it.
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And then it just took off.
Didn't make no noise or anything.
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Just took off.
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So, then, what happened
three years ago?
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Well, I went out
on my balcony.
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Off in the distance,
I seen a strobing light.
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Just kept getting closer
and closer,
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and when it was about
half a block away,
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I noticed that it wasn't
making no noise.
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I went in my place,
and I heard this loud buzzing noise, like, zzzzz.
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And I could feel
a vibration.
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And, for some reason,
I knew it was them.
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So I stood up,
and I was gonna run towards the door,
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and my legs folded in,
and I fell to the ground.
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I blacked out,
woke up the next morning,
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and I had puncture marks
all over me.
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Were they actually cuts?
Yeah. Yeah.
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I have three marks right here.Uh-huh. Oh, yeah.
I see that.
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It didn't stop there.
I just kept getting taken, like, every other week.
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It's real hard to go through,
so I just started making pictures.
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It's kind of like
a therapy for me
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to, you know,
get my mind off of them,
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'cause I'm always thinking
of ET, constantly.
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[Quinto]
Kyle's story seems incredible, but it does match with details
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from countless other
alien abduction reports.
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Like the feeling of levitation seeing a powerful bright light,
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and being left
with physical marks and wounds.
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Do you feel like
they are studying you? Is that what you--
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It's almost
like being an animal,
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and someone tags you
or checks you out.
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I think the hardest part's
not being taken by ET.
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I think the hardest part's
being alone, knowing that they exist.
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What do you think
would help people believe you?
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Maybe I could take
a polygraph test.
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That's something that
you're interested in. Okay.Yes.
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I want people to know
that I'm not lying,
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and other people
that's being taken by ET know that they're not alone.
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[Quinto]
I do believe that Kyle
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is incredibly genuine
about what he's going through,
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but it doesn't leave me
with an overwhelming sense of proof.
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I'm skeptical.
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But I don't want
to dismiss anything that Kyle's saying
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or anything
that anybody's saying yet.
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I think astronomers--
everybody--
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I think even NASA
are gonna find something. They're gonna capture something.
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They don't have to go looking.
They're already here.
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[Quinto]
Kyle is hardly alone in his belief
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that aliens
have visited us before.
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The government program
Project Blue Book
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recorded 12,618 UFO sightings
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from 1948 until 1969,
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at which time it mysteriously
shut down.
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In the past decade,
several US military personnel came forward
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with their own stories
of encounters with alien spacecraft.
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[chatter on radio]
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[man on radio]
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[Quinto]
Even today, UFO sightings
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continue to be reported
around the world.
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Is there something
to these claims?
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And if so, is the government
covering up the truth?
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Former Navy contractor
Marc D'antonio says
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the government comes across
unexplainable objects all the time--
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in the air and in the sea.
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And once incident haunts him
to this day.
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One day, I was sitting
in the sonar suite,
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and this kid next to me,
he yelled that he had something on the sonar.
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Something-- He called it
a "fast mover."
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Now, to me, a fast mover
means a torpedo.
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But it turned out
to be something very different.
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Executive officers said to him,
"How fast is it moving?"
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"Several hundred knots, sir."
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And I'm like, "What?"
You know? I was just stunned.
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There's no biological objects
that move several hundred knots underwater.
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No country on this planet makes
anything like this.
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And the XO said,
"Log it and dog it."
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Basically, log it
and then bury it.
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There are very
fast-moving objects that we don't know about.
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We don't know whose technology
it is. We don't know where they come from.
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Several years later,
I had to do a job for
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a very, very high-ranking
naval official down in Washington.
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And I took him aside,
and I said to him,
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"What can you tell me about
this Fast Mover Program?"
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He looked at me,
and he could've said,
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"What program?
But he didn't. He said,
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"I'm not at liberty
to talk about that program. I'm sorry."
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You know, by saying nothing,
he said everything.
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[Quinto]
Since Project Blue Book,
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the government's
official position has been
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that they are not actively
researching aliens.
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But in 2017, leaked
classified documents and video
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revealed the existence
of a 22 million-dollar government program
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investigating UFO threats
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that has been running in secret for over a decade.
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From my background,
and what happened on the boat,
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I'm thinking that
it's probably a case
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where the US Government
knows more than it's telling.
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It makes me wonder
and really think,
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"Is it possible
aliens are here?"
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[Quinto]
The fact that the government is no longer denying
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its research
into the existence of aliens,
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it makes me wonder
about Kyle's abduction story,
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and if it can be proven.
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Kyle asked to take
a polygraph test to prove
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that he is telling the truth
about his alien encounters.
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And while the results
of polygraph tests are often debated,
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and can even produce
false positives if the subject is anxious,
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I arranged for him
to have the chance.
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Polygraph expert Rachel Levy
has administered
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over 2,500 tests
in her career.
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Kyle, the four measurements
that this instrument will be taking
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is your upper
and your lower respiratory,
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your blood pressure,
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and then the most important,
which is your electrodermal activity,
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which is the sweat
at your fingertips.
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Relax your arm, please.Okay.
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I can feel my heart beating.
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Kind of stressful for me,
and I'm not even getting tested.
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All right, Kyle.
We're now gonna begin the test.
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Is your name Kyle?
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Yes.
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Is today Monday?
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No.
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Did you see a UFO
outside of your home as a child?
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[Zachary Quinto] To prove
he is telling the truth about his alien encounters,
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Kyle has asked
to take a polygraph test.
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Will it finally confirm
the accuracy of his story?
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Is your name Kyle?Yes.
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Is today Monday?
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No.
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Is this the month of July?No.
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Did you see a UFO outside
of your home as a child?
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Yes.
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Over the course
of the last three years,
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have you been visited
by extraterrestrials?
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Yes.
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Have you ever been abducted
by extraterrestrials?
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Yes.
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Are you being truthful
regarding the origin
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of the marks on your body?Yes.
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Okay, Kyle.
This test is over.
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So, Rachel,
what did you come up with?
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It is my expert opinion
that, um...
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he is not being truthful--
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[Quinto]
Really?...in regards to his--
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I'm just shocked...
[mumbles]
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Because I'm
totally being truthful.
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Can you tell
which questions I failed?
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I'm specifically talking about
the things that you've discussed regarding extraterrestrials.
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I'm not questioning
your experiences.
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I wasn't there,
so I don't know what you've experienced.
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I can't believe it.
I'm sorry, guys.
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I feel like I wasted your time.No, no, no.
It's all right, Kyle.
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Go have a moment
to decompress.
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I honestly feel like--
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I didn't--
I didn't expect it to go that way.
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I didn't expect it to--Oh, I didn't either.
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Yeah.'Cause I was being
a hundred percent truthful.
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I don't want you to feel
like anybody was here to try to--
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Oh, I don't. I don't.
You guys are just out looking for the truth.
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I'm not gonna stop here,
because I am telling the truth.
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[Quinto]
I feel conflicted now,
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and I don't have enough
to go on to say whether or not
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Kyle just got caught
in an elaborate
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and seemingly
uncharacteristic lie,
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or he was really nervous,
and that was picked up.
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And I guess it is
a difficult thing to believe,
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but he makes me
wanna believe it somehow.
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Kyle is not alone
in thinking there are other life-forms out there.
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In addition
to government programs, there are also ongoing efforts
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by the world's leading
independent scientists
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to find intelligent life
in space.
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In 1984,
a group of these scientists formed SETI--
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the Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
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SETI is a multimillion-dollar operation
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scouring the skies in hopes of finding alien life.
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To learn more,
I'm heading to a remote part of West Virginia
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where SETI is utilizing
the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world.
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The telescope records
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all radio signals
from outer space,
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looking for technology
that could come
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from another
intelligent civilization
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and offer definitive proof
that aliens exist.
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[man]
This is command central of the Green Bank telescope.
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The telescope is taller than
a lot of things you wouldn't expect it to be taller than.
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Yeah, taller than
the Statue of Liberty, taller than the Washington Monument.
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All right.
So tell me a little bit about this particular effort.
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Ultimately,
we're trying to answer a very human question--
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"Is there anybody else
out there?"
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And, really,
for the first time in history,
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not only do we know
that it's possible for there to be life out there,
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we have the capacity
to search for it.Wow.
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So, shall we go take a look
at how we use this thing?All right. Let's do it.
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Mike, Zach.
How are you?
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Zach, good to meet you.
Appreciate it.Nice to meet you too.
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Thank you for having us.Glad you're here.
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[Quinto]
So, what's "GBT" stand for?
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[Mike]
Well, it's the Green Bank Telescope.
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It's fondly referred to
as the "Great Big Thing."
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Wow.Incredible.
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I mean,
to just be standing beneath it is unbelievable.
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[Mike]
It's a pretty massive structure.
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The reflector--
the mirror for the radio waves--
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That reflector is 2.3 acres
in size.
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A football stadium
would fit inside of that.
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So how do you get
to the top, Mike?Well, see that little white box?
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Yeah.That's actually a manlift.
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Not a big elevator.Right.
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[thud]
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Whoo!
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It's a little disorienting.
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It's crazy.
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It's pretty massive
when you're able to get some scale to it.
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[Quinto]
This is the receiver, essentially, right?
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Yeah, this is the mirror
of the radio telescope.
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What does a radio telescope
allow you to gather that an optical telescope doesn't?
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[Dr. Siemion]
Radio waves can get through
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the space between the stars
very, very readily.
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That signal could be emitted
and would cut right through
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all the stuff between the stars and arrive here at the telescope.
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So at a hundred meters
in diamete
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this telescope
could detect technology
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if it existed around another star, on another planet,
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all the way across the galaxy.
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[Quinto]
And so you're looking for
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a tiny blip of communication
over the range of a trillion stars.
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Yeah, that's right.Basically, we're in
the movie Contact.
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Yeah, that's exactly right.Pretty much, right?
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This is like Contact
times a thousand, or like--
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It's a needle in a haystack.
Absolutely.Right. Right.
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I don't think anybody's
necessarily expecting long-fingered, big-eyed,
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translucent-skinned creatures
to come walking down the street,
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but what are your thoughts
about what's out there?
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I wouldn't do this
if I weren't an optimist.Right.
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So I think that
they are out there.
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The universe is so vast,
so unbelievably big.
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For us to be the only
intelligent civilization
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in that entire
vastness would--
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to me,
is a statistic improbability.
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I absolutely believe
that there's intelligent life out there.
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[Quinto] The magnitude of what this telescope can do is staggering,
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and it holds the potential
to find real evidence
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of the existence of aliens.
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[Quinto] So, are we firing the telescope up?
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[Dr. Siemion]
We are. We're going to see if we can make a discovery.
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Amazing.
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[Zachary Quinto]
I'm on a mission to find evidence of aliens.
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So far,
I've met with Kyle Bond who,
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despite failing
a polygraph test,
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maintains he's been abducted
by aliens for years.
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And Kyle is not alone
in his belief that there is life out there.
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The scientists running
the Green Bank Telescope here in West Virginia
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are using the largest
radio telescope in the world
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to search the skies for signs
of intelligent life in space.
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[Dr. Siemion]
If we were to make a detection, it would be the most important
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scientific discovery
in the history of science.
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Mm-hmm.
And how close do you think you've come?
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So, about three years ago,
a very mysterious radio source was detected
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called FRB 121102.
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FRB stands for
"fast radio burst."
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A very, very bright burst
of radiation
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that lasts only
a few milliseconds, and it only happens once.
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Well, that was the story
until FRB 121102
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was observed to repeat.
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It was the first,
and still the only,
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repeating fast radio burst.
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It's actually from
a little, tiny galaxy
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about three billion
light years away from us.
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Three billion
light years away.
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[Dr. Siemion]
If you calculate how much energy
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must be released
by the source--
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if it's emitting
in all directions,
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and we're just eavesdropping
on it--
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it's as much energy
as the sun emits
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in an entire year
in less than a millisecond.
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And you can listen to it
if you want to.
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Uh, yeah.
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[repetitive bursts
of indistinct sound]
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[sound continues]
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No one knows
what causes any of that.
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It's a complete mystery.
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What could it be?
Like, what--
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It could be... natural?Yeah.
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Well, maybe it's
a neutron star.
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And these sources are known
to produce radio bursts.
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But nothing like this.
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Another explanation is that
maybe this is not natural,
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but is instead some kind
of an artificial transmitter.
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Perhaps there is a very
advanced civilization
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that is producing
these radio pulses
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for the purposes
of propelling spacecraft into intergalactic space
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at very,
very high velocities.
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I can't wrap
my mind around it fully, if I'm being honest.
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My mind
is literally melting today.
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There are many questions
about this source,
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but one of the key
outstanding questions is,
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is does it produce pulses
at higher radio frequencies?
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How high do they go?Uh-huh.
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If we can learn how high
in radio frequency they go,
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that might help us to understand
what, ultimately, is causing the pulses in the first place.
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So, tonight,
what we're going to do, is we're gonna try
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to look at this source
at even higher radio frequencies.
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This is a brand-new part
of the radio spectrum.
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We've never observed it
here before.
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Once everything is set up
and this source rises,
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we're gonna see if we
can make a discovery.Amazing.
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We are looking
in the far reaches of our galaxy and beyond
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to see if we're able to
make some kind of contact
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with life-forms outside
of our own planet, solar system, galaxy.
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Who knows?
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We may actually be able
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to find new evidence.
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[chatter on speaker device]
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So, Dave, do you wanna go ahead
and run auto peak focus?
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Uh, sure.Where are those guys?
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That's our lab in Berkeley.Hi, guys.
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Are we ready to launch? Good to go.
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[Dr. Siemion] The telescope is ready to begin the data collection.
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Would you like to launch
these observations?Let me launch them.
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All right.So I just click?
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Just drag and click
the "submit" button.
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[clicks]
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Done.
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[trilling]
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After they scan
all possible signals coming from that source,
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it will take some time
before we know for sure
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what the higher frequency
search discovers.
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While SETI
is still on a quest
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for proof of intelligent life
beyond our solar system,
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some people believe
the proof is already here.
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Kyle Bond was left with cuts
from his encounter.
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But others were left with
even more tangible evidence.
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I'm Zach.Hi. I'm Steve.
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How are you doing?Nice to meet you.
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Fifty-seven-year-old
Steven Colbern
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has vivid memories
of being abducted.
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You can tell sometimes
if you've had an experience.
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Sometimes
you have fondest memories, sometimes you don't.
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[Quinto] But it's not
just the details of his story that I'm interested in.
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It's what was left behind.
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It was the night
of February 28, 2008.
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Went to bed,
and when I woke up,
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there was a little bit of blood
on the sheets,
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and I had a stinging pain
in my left second toe.
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And I checked it
and found two puncture wounds,
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as if a needle
had been passed through the underside of the toe.
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I found two bright green
fluorescent spots
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at the same sites
as the puncture wounds.
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Ordered an X-ray of the toe.
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I knew I was gonna see
something on the X-ray,
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but when I did,
that changed my life forever.
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Found an implant.
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The implant itself was
about a millimeter in diameter
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and about
four millimeters long.
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[Quinto]
As shocking as his story may seem,
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Steven is part of
a growing number of Americans
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who have discovered mysterious
implants in their bodies.
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And today, Steven has brought
the evidence with him.
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Here's a chunk of the sample
in a vial.
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I actually had it removed
and analyzed.
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00:23:00,030 --> 00:23:04,078
Huh. Wow.I did most of
the analysis myself.
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You have a background
in science?Yeah. I'm a chemist.
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00:23:06,472 --> 00:23:08,865
Wow. So what else
did you discover about the implant itself?
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I did a pretty
thorough protocol of analysis on it
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with light microscopy,
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scanning electron microscopy,
and trace element analysis.
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The trace elements indicated
that it was a meteoric iron.
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There's a lot of cobalt
and copper, and gallium, germanium.
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That's characteristic
of meteorites.
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So it's not iron
that you would find
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naturally occurring
on our planet. No, no.
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It might not even be
from this solar system.
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So what do you feel
like they're after?
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I think it was a device
that was put in to do physiological monitoring.
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00:23:42,029 --> 00:23:47,426
The shiny coating--
presumably, that contains chemicals
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that allow the nerve cells
to grow into the device.
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So, ultimately, the goal
is to have this device fused
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in some way with your body.Yeah, and it's fused
with the nervous system,
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so it can
gather information somehow.
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There were a lot
of strange structures-- bone or wire-looking things.
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Might have something to do
with transmitting radio waves.
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And is there more proof
like this out there?Yeah, I think there is.
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It's easy to be in denial
up until something like this happens,
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with physical evidence.
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00:24:13,539 --> 00:24:15,671
Would you be willing
to let our team
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analyze this forensically
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and get a better sense
of where it came from?
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00:24:20,154 --> 00:24:23,070
Yeah. I think that
it would potentially confirm that this is extraterrestrial.
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Steve is a scientist,
so the idea that I'm talking to an experiencer
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who's also a scientist
is a really interesting combination.
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And he has this material
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that, from his
scientific perspective,
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contain elements that
don't occur readily on Earth.
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It's weird,
'cause I never really thought that I'd be like,
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"Maybe there's aliens here,"
you know?
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[chuckling]
But I'm like, "Maybe there's aliens here."
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To hold something in your hand
that is a physical piece of evidence
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that's tied to all of this
is remarkable.
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Let's get this tested
and see what it is.
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[Zachary Quinto] As I continue on my search,
475
00:25:04,677 --> 00:25:08,594
all of these unrelated
alien encounters become even more intriguing.
476
00:25:08,637 --> 00:25:12,511
But I'm still looking
for tangible proof that aliens exist.
477
00:25:12,554 --> 00:25:15,905
Like the implant
from Steven Colbern.
478
00:25:15,949 --> 00:25:19,822
Is there a way to know for sure it didn't come from Earth?
479
00:25:19,866 --> 00:25:21,868
Hi, Dr. Kumar.
How are you?
480
00:25:21,911 --> 00:25:24,218
I'm setting up
an independent laboratory test
481
00:25:24,261 --> 00:25:26,916
to verify the origins
of the mysterious object
482
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,005
Steven dislodged from his toe.
483
00:25:29,049 --> 00:25:31,399
Would you be able to identify
alien materials
484
00:25:31,442 --> 00:25:34,533
if they're not known
to this Earth?
485
00:25:38,754 --> 00:25:39,712
Uh-huh.
486
00:25:48,111 --> 00:25:52,420
Have you ever tested something
that you couldn't identify or trace to the periodic table?
487
00:25:58,426 --> 00:26:00,471
Yeah. Okay.
That's good to know.
488
00:26:00,515 --> 00:26:03,083
Well, the man's name
is Steven Colbern,
489
00:26:03,126 --> 00:26:06,826
and I'm gonna send him to you
for an analysis.
490
00:26:06,869 --> 00:26:11,526
If Dr. Kumar finds that
the materials in the implant are not from Earth,
491
00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:16,400
then it will be a lot harder
to explain how that object ended up in Steven's body.
492
00:26:16,444 --> 00:26:20,448
[Steven]
It's a very complex nanodevice that came out of my toe in 2008,
493
00:26:20,491 --> 00:26:24,104
and I hope that we
can find some more unexpected things today.
494
00:26:24,147 --> 00:26:26,628
Hi, Steve. Arun Kumar.How are you?
495
00:26:26,672 --> 00:26:28,195
Thanks for coming in.Yeah.
496
00:26:28,238 --> 00:26:29,544
So you have brought
a sample for analysis?
497
00:26:29,588 --> 00:26:31,851
Yeah. It should be
an interesting sample.
498
00:26:35,724 --> 00:26:39,336
[Dr. Kumar] Initially,
we look at the samples in the optical microscope,
499
00:26:39,380 --> 00:26:42,513
under magnification,
to look at the color, shape, size.
500
00:26:42,557 --> 00:26:43,384
We should examine
that structure pretty closely.
501
00:26:43,427 --> 00:26:46,866
Zoom in.
502
00:26:46,909 --> 00:26:49,520
And then we go
to the electron microscope.
503
00:26:49,564 --> 00:26:55,135
Sample goes on a stage,
and then we turn the electron beam on.
504
00:26:57,528 --> 00:27:01,663
She can magnify it up to
30, 40, 50 thousand times.
505
00:27:01,707 --> 00:27:04,710
[Steve] What does that
look like to you? You ever seen anything like that before?
506
00:27:04,753 --> 00:27:08,888
At the moment, I can't tell,
because we need to do the chemistry on that.
507
00:27:08,931 --> 00:27:12,152
As a scientist,
I'm always curious to know material composition
508
00:27:12,195 --> 00:27:14,589
and the source
where it may have come from,
509
00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:17,723
no matter what
the source might be.
510
00:27:23,467 --> 00:27:27,428
From the analysis
we have done today,
511
00:27:27,471 --> 00:27:30,257
it shows that
the base material is iron,
512
00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:31,954
containing some nickel in it.Right.
513
00:27:31,998 --> 00:27:35,218
Which is the alloy steel.
514
00:27:35,262 --> 00:27:38,091
[Steve]
The trace element pattern indicated that it was
515
00:27:38,134 --> 00:27:39,701
a nickel-iron meteorite.
516
00:27:39,745 --> 00:27:42,225
Meteorite do contain
iron and nickel.
517
00:27:42,269 --> 00:27:43,487
Yeah.That is correct.
518
00:27:43,531 --> 00:27:46,534
There's a big variety
of materials there.
519
00:27:46,577 --> 00:27:50,407
On the surface,
it has small trace amounts of
520
00:27:50,451 --> 00:27:55,674
calcium, magnesium,
aluminum, silicon, and sulfur.
521
00:27:55,717 --> 00:27:59,416
But most of the material
that we see here is found in soils.
522
00:27:59,460 --> 00:28:02,724
A lot of soil contains
these kind of oxides,
523
00:28:02,768 --> 00:28:06,510
which most probably
is from surface contamination of that material.
524
00:28:06,554 --> 00:28:09,383
[Steven]
This was never exposed to soil though.
525
00:28:09,426 --> 00:28:13,343
It came directly out of my body
and was put in blood plasma,
526
00:28:13,387 --> 00:28:15,998
and then was put directly
into these containers.
527
00:28:16,042 --> 00:28:19,175
What I'm showing is elements
which are typical in soil.
528
00:28:19,219 --> 00:28:21,308
Yeah, it's typical in soil.
That's true.
529
00:28:21,351 --> 00:28:25,051
Other than that,
I don't see any unusual element
530
00:28:25,094 --> 00:28:26,487
that we haven't identified
on the surface.
531
00:28:36,149 --> 00:28:37,759
[Steven]
The results of the analysis were completely unexpected.
532
00:28:37,803 --> 00:28:41,502
I disagree that the material
was contamination.
533
00:28:41,545 --> 00:28:45,375
I took the pieces
directly out of my body,
534
00:28:45,419 --> 00:28:48,639
put them on a piece of gauze,
then put them directly from there into a vial.
535
00:28:48,683 --> 00:28:53,557
And it was giving off
fairly powerful radio signals before removal.
536
00:28:53,601 --> 00:28:56,082
There's just no way it could be
giving off radio signals
537
00:28:56,125 --> 00:28:58,301
unless it was
a lot more sophisticated than just a piece of metal.
538
00:29:05,831 --> 00:29:10,139
Well, no. I mean,
it's highly unlikely I stepped on a meteorite.
539
00:29:10,183 --> 00:29:11,793
That's pretty difficult
to explain. We need more data.
540
00:29:11,837 --> 00:29:15,362
I'd like to get, like,
a hundred of these objects
541
00:29:15,405 --> 00:29:18,278
and prove to the world
that they are devices,
542
00:29:18,321 --> 00:29:20,410
and that this phenomenon
is real.
543
00:29:20,454 --> 00:29:23,544
[Quinto]
Despite inconclusive results,
544
00:29:23,587 --> 00:29:25,720
why do Steven
and other experiencers like Kyle
545
00:29:25,764 --> 00:29:29,158
remain convinced that their
alien encounters are real?
546
00:29:29,202 --> 00:29:32,640
There has to be something
so visceral about these experiences
547
00:29:32,683 --> 00:29:39,516
that they cannot be denied.
548
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,867
[Zachary Quinto] Meeting with alien experiencers and scientists alike,
549
00:29:41,910 --> 00:29:46,001
I'm on a search for evidence
that aliens really exist.
550
00:29:47,873 --> 00:29:51,659
If they are out there,
how do we find them?
551
00:29:51,702 --> 00:29:54,009
Doug. How are you?Hey, Zach.
552
00:29:54,053 --> 00:29:58,231
While many are waiting
to receive a signal from life beyond Earth,
553
00:29:58,274 --> 00:30:01,234
Doug Vakoch,
and his organization, METI,
554
00:30:01,277 --> 00:30:02,801
have a very different strategy.
555
00:30:02,844 --> 00:30:05,716
What if the aliens
are not assuming
556
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,370
that they're the ones
who have to take contact?Right.
557
00:30:07,414 --> 00:30:10,417
What if their motivation
is to say, "We wanna hear"?Right.
558
00:30:10,460 --> 00:30:12,462
[Vakoch] So we're shifting the direction
559
00:30:12,506 --> 00:30:16,249
and sending powerful
intentional radio signals to other stars.
560
00:30:16,292 --> 00:30:18,251
The hope is
we get a reply back.
561
00:30:18,294 --> 00:30:20,819
So, Messaging Extraterrestrial
Intelligence.
562
00:30:20,862 --> 00:30:24,039
How do you go about identifying
where to put the signal?
563
00:30:24,083 --> 00:30:28,870
So the first transmission
we sent was to a star 12.4 light years from Earth.
564
00:30:28,914 --> 00:30:30,698
It's called Luyten's Star.
565
00:30:30,741 --> 00:30:34,006
It was the closest star
that we could target
566
00:30:34,049 --> 00:30:37,313
that has potentially
habitable exoplanets.
567
00:30:37,357 --> 00:30:39,272
When did that signal go out?
568
00:30:39,315 --> 00:30:41,143
It went out in October, 2017.
569
00:30:41,187 --> 00:30:43,929
It's 12.4 light years
from here.
570
00:30:43,972 --> 00:30:47,323
That means it'll take over
12 years for our message to get there.
571
00:30:47,367 --> 00:30:51,197
And if they want to reply,
we won't hear from them till 2043.
572
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,982
Right. Okay.
So, how did you tell them that?
573
00:30:54,026 --> 00:30:56,898
So, we wanted to make
an all-purpose message,
574
00:30:56,942 --> 00:30:59,770
so no matter how the alien
encounters the world,
575
00:30:59,814 --> 00:31:01,729
they'll be able
to make sense of it.
576
00:31:01,772 --> 00:31:03,165
[Quinto]
Using radio signals,
577
00:31:03,209 --> 00:31:05,733
METI has sent
a message into space
578
00:31:05,776 --> 00:31:08,040
to convey information
about counting and telling time.
579
00:31:08,083 --> 00:31:13,045
What we're telling the aliens,
by sending signals,
580
00:31:13,088 --> 00:31:15,612
is that not only are we
interested in number,
581
00:31:15,656 --> 00:31:17,614
but we're interested
in creating something beautiful.
582
00:31:17,658 --> 00:31:20,487
So we are turning
the radio transmitter
583
00:31:20,530 --> 00:31:23,359
to communicate melodies.Huh.
584
00:31:23,403 --> 00:31:28,060
So this is one of
the scales that we're sending to Luyten's Star.
585
00:31:28,103 --> 00:31:33,065
♪♪ [plays five notes]
586
00:31:35,110 --> 00:31:38,897
♪♪ [repeats five notes]
587
00:31:38,940 --> 00:31:42,074
You imagine
what communication
588
00:31:42,117 --> 00:31:43,336
with an alien race
might sound like,
589
00:31:43,379 --> 00:31:45,033
and that's a melody
that seems to fit with it.
590
00:31:45,077 --> 00:31:48,950
There's an alien quality
to it, you know?And, interestingly,
591
00:31:48,994 --> 00:31:51,953
it reflects the melody
of our earliest music here on Earth.
592
00:31:51,997 --> 00:31:53,912
So maybe without
all of the trappings and all of the elaborations,
593
00:31:53,955 --> 00:31:57,916
but music at its essence.
594
00:31:57,959 --> 00:32:02,529
Doug has the context of how
we will be able to communicate with extraterrestrials.
595
00:32:02,572 --> 00:32:05,445
That's what we need,
because that's a foundation that can be built upon
596
00:32:05,488 --> 00:32:11,103
until we have some concrete
tangible and sharable proof.
597
00:32:11,146 --> 00:32:13,714
So you're sending
this signal out.
598
00:32:13,757 --> 00:32:15,542
Is there any controversy
around this work?
599
00:32:15,585 --> 00:32:18,849
I mean, I heard rumblings
of people who feel like,
600
00:32:18,893 --> 00:32:21,243
you know,
you're kind of poking the beast.
601
00:32:21,287 --> 00:32:24,333
We don't know what
the extraterrestrials are like.
602
00:32:24,377 --> 00:32:28,859
And some people are afraid
that this could lead to an alien invasion.
603
00:32:28,903 --> 00:32:30,600
Other people think
it's going to be a salvation.
604
00:32:30,644 --> 00:32:33,081
We're finally
going to get solutions to all of our problems.
605
00:32:33,125 --> 00:32:36,128
I don't expect
either of those.Mm-hmm.
606
00:32:36,171 --> 00:32:41,350
My hope is that
if we can really encounter an alien intelligence,
607
00:32:41,394 --> 00:32:45,702
there's probably going to be
something unthinkable that we discover.
608
00:32:45,746 --> 00:32:48,009
[Quinto]
Who knows what Doug might find
609
00:32:48,053 --> 00:32:50,490
in his quest
to contact alien life,
610
00:32:50,533 --> 00:32:52,405
or what message
may come back.
611
00:32:52,448 --> 00:32:56,235
Still, I can't help but wonder
about the worst-case scenario.
612
00:32:56,278 --> 00:32:59,151
And many of the brightest minds of our time,
613
00:32:59,194 --> 00:33:03,764
including Stephen Hawking,
have expressed serious concern
614
00:33:03,807 --> 00:33:07,072
about the risks
of making first contact.
615
00:33:07,115 --> 00:33:10,118
METI is Messaging to
Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
616
00:33:10,162 --> 00:33:14,296
And many of us involved in SETI
are quite angry about this,
617
00:33:14,340 --> 00:33:16,907
because there might be dangers.
618
00:33:16,951 --> 00:33:19,780
If you look at the history
of first contacts
619
00:33:19,823 --> 00:33:21,042
between human civilizations,
620
00:33:21,086 --> 00:33:24,393
this is a dangerous phase
621
00:33:24,437 --> 00:33:26,700
when life meets life
622
00:33:26,743 --> 00:33:29,398
and civilization
meets civilization.
623
00:33:29,442 --> 00:33:34,360
We may be
the less technologically advanced civilization,
624
00:33:34,403 --> 00:33:35,970
and we should
exercise some caution.
625
00:33:36,014 --> 00:33:39,017
There are many explanations
626
00:33:39,060 --> 00:33:41,280
for why we seem,
627
00:33:41,323 --> 00:33:43,630
until now, to be alone.
628
00:33:43,673 --> 00:33:46,328
Now, the question is
whether or not
629
00:33:46,372 --> 00:33:49,375
we should be
deliberately screaming
630
00:33:49,418 --> 00:33:51,942
into a universe
that's surprisingly quiet.
631
00:33:51,986 --> 00:33:54,771
Maybe too quiet.
632
00:33:57,165 --> 00:34:00,168
[Quinto]
While experts debate the risks involved
633
00:34:00,212 --> 00:34:02,953
in attempting to contact
alien life-forms,
634
00:34:02,997 --> 00:34:05,869
there are so many people
around the world who believe
635
00:34:05,913 --> 00:34:07,915
that contact
has already occurred.
636
00:34:07,958 --> 00:34:11,092
People like Kyle Bond
and Steven Coburn.
637
00:34:11,136 --> 00:34:13,486
Despite inconclusive
test results,
638
00:34:13,529 --> 00:34:15,140
their experiences
are so detailed and physical
639
00:34:15,183 --> 00:34:17,838
that they still believe.
640
00:34:17,881 --> 00:34:20,449
But unless I actually feel
what they felt,
641
00:34:20,493 --> 00:34:23,061
I'll never really know
why their beliefs are so strong.
642
00:34:26,412 --> 00:34:28,979
So I'm meeting with someone
who has a way to show me
643
00:34:29,023 --> 00:34:30,938
what it might feel like
to be abducted by aliens.
644
00:34:35,029 --> 00:34:36,074
Thirty-eight-year-old
April Malloy
645
00:34:36,117 --> 00:34:38,902
has had over 20 encounters.
646
00:34:38,946 --> 00:34:40,513
Hi. Hi, I'm April.I'm Zach.
647
00:34:40,556 --> 00:34:41,862
It's great to meet you.Nice to meet you.
648
00:34:41,905 --> 00:34:42,993
And she's convinced
that if others
649
00:34:43,037 --> 00:34:45,866
can feel what she's felt,
650
00:34:45,909 --> 00:34:47,868
they would have to believe
that aliens are out there.
651
00:34:47,911 --> 00:34:51,741
Why don't we start with
the first experience you had that you can remember?
652
00:34:51,785 --> 00:34:54,266
How long ago was it?I was a young child, actually,
653
00:34:54,309 --> 00:34:56,703
seeing something outside.
654
00:34:56,746 --> 00:34:59,749
And how long between then
and your next experience?
655
00:34:59,793 --> 00:35:01,142
A couple years back,
656
00:35:01,186 --> 00:35:03,797
the physical evidence
started to show up.
657
00:35:05,712 --> 00:35:09,150
Puncture marks in the abdomen.
658
00:35:09,194 --> 00:35:11,979
Finding weird,
abnormal things in my body.
659
00:35:12,022 --> 00:35:15,243
Wow. So you discovered
that there were actually foreign objects in your body.
660
00:35:15,287 --> 00:35:16,375
Yes, through X-rays.
661
00:35:16,418 --> 00:35:21,031
At that point,
it became very real. Wow.
662
00:35:21,075 --> 00:35:23,164
I'm really interested
in what you go through, physically,
663
00:35:23,208 --> 00:35:26,167
as you have
one of these encounters.
664
00:35:26,211 --> 00:35:28,169
It always begins--
you're sleepy in bed,
665
00:35:28,213 --> 00:35:30,606
you're exhausted,
you're tired.
666
00:35:30,650 --> 00:35:32,869
And then you feel
something really cold.
667
00:35:32,913 --> 00:35:35,176
And then you feel yourself--
668
00:35:35,220 --> 00:35:38,571
You're starting to drift up.
669
00:35:38,614 --> 00:35:41,835
It's like you're levitating.
All the atoms, or particles in your body,
670
00:35:41,878 --> 00:35:45,143
somehow disperse,
and you're physically going
671
00:35:45,186 --> 00:35:48,146
through some type of vortex,
through the roof somehow.
672
00:35:48,189 --> 00:35:51,932
It's unexplainable.
And then you see a bright light.
673
00:35:51,975 --> 00:35:55,196
Wow. Do you have
a sense of fear?
674
00:35:55,240 --> 00:35:56,850
In the beginning, I did.Uh-huh.
675
00:35:56,893 --> 00:35:59,244
I was very fearful.
But now,
676
00:35:59,287 --> 00:36:01,768
I'm gonna look
at the positive aspects
677
00:36:01,811 --> 00:36:04,553
of levitating
and feeling calm.
678
00:36:04,597 --> 00:36:08,078
[Quinto]
It's one thing to describe these experiences,
679
00:36:08,122 --> 00:36:11,038
but it's another
to actually live through them.
680
00:36:11,081 --> 00:36:14,955
April, and so many others,
have reported the same physical sensations--
681
00:36:14,998 --> 00:36:19,220
levitating, bright lights,
a sense of weightlessness--
682
00:36:19,264 --> 00:36:22,441
that make them
absolutely certain that what they felt is real.
683
00:36:22,484 --> 00:36:24,921
I know it's happening
around the world.
684
00:36:24,965 --> 00:36:28,577
And if it happens to me
and it happens to a thousand other people,
685
00:36:28,621 --> 00:36:33,060
then maybe sometimes
be brave enough to talk about it.
686
00:36:33,103 --> 00:36:36,106
When it happens,
it's like transcending into another realm.
687
00:36:36,150 --> 00:36:39,197
That's what I hope for you
to be able to experience.
688
00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:42,765
[Quinto] And now, April has asked me to participate in an experiment
689
00:36:42,809 --> 00:36:45,159
mirroring the conditions
of her abduction
690
00:36:45,203 --> 00:36:48,162
so that I can personally feel
the physical sensations
691
00:36:48,206 --> 00:36:50,338
she and so many like her
have experienced.
692
00:36:50,382 --> 00:36:53,211
I'll be strapping into
a harness, blindfolded, and lifted
693
00:36:53,254 --> 00:36:57,171
to recreate what it's like
to be taken.
694
00:37:02,611 --> 00:37:04,657
[Zachary Quinto]
I'm trying to understand
695
00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:08,313
why thousands of people
around the world believe so strongly
696
00:37:08,356 --> 00:37:10,663
that they've been contacted
by aliens.
697
00:37:10,706 --> 00:37:13,753
What is the physical experience people go through
698
00:37:13,796 --> 00:37:16,843
that makes them so certain
aliens are here?
699
00:37:16,886 --> 00:37:21,021
When it happens,
sometimes it's like transcending into another realm.
700
00:37:21,064 --> 00:37:23,589
And that's what I hope for you
to be able to experience.
701
00:37:23,632 --> 00:37:27,027
[Quinto]
April Malloy has set up an experiment
702
00:37:27,070 --> 00:37:30,248
to help me understand
the profound physical nature of her abductions.
703
00:37:35,862 --> 00:37:39,431
I'll be floating weightlessly,
and strapping into a harness
704
00:37:39,474 --> 00:37:41,737
that will slowly lift me
into the air
705
00:37:41,781 --> 00:37:44,305
to help me feel some of
the physical sensations
706
00:37:44,349 --> 00:37:46,438
April says she experiences
707
00:37:46,481 --> 00:37:49,528
when she levitates
out of her bed, into some other dimension.
708
00:37:49,571 --> 00:37:52,270
All right.Thank you.
709
00:38:00,582 --> 00:38:02,976
All right.
710
00:38:03,019 --> 00:38:06,719
As you're laying there,
you're floating off into deep sleep.
711
00:38:06,762 --> 00:38:10,331
You're slowly beginning,
inch by inch,
712
00:38:10,375 --> 00:38:14,857
hovering very calmly,
very quietly.
713
00:38:14,901 --> 00:38:18,513
Inch by inch,
you're going up.
714
00:38:22,996 --> 00:38:27,000
And now you're floating
up to the ceiling.
715
00:38:27,043 --> 00:38:31,526
And your body
just disappears in the air, through the roof.
716
00:38:35,835 --> 00:38:39,969
And there's a bright light
that greets you.
717
00:38:40,013 --> 00:38:43,190
[Quinto]
I've been lifted on wires before,
718
00:38:43,233 --> 00:38:44,844
but never like this.
719
00:38:44,887 --> 00:38:46,628
It gave me
a better understanding
720
00:38:46,672 --> 00:38:48,674
of what these people
claim to go through.
721
00:38:48,717 --> 00:38:50,850
The instinct, at first,
is to be afraid,
722
00:38:50,893 --> 00:38:56,377
and then to realize
that you have no control.
723
00:38:56,421 --> 00:38:59,859
It's an exercise of really surrendering to the experience.
724
00:39:02,731 --> 00:39:06,082
The science of this
is one exploration,
725
00:39:06,126 --> 00:39:07,736
and the experience of this
is another exploration.
726
00:39:07,780 --> 00:39:11,871
And there are
an infinite number of reasons
727
00:39:11,914 --> 00:39:14,656
for someone feeling
like they've had
728
00:39:14,700 --> 00:39:18,399
an experience that
could be classified as an extraterrestrial encounter.
729
00:39:18,443 --> 00:39:23,491
I do really want to believe
what April is saying.
730
00:39:23,535 --> 00:39:26,886
Are aliens out there?
I don't know.
731
00:39:26,929 --> 00:39:31,238
But I'm certainly closer
to believing than I was when I started.
732
00:39:33,283 --> 00:39:36,069
Back when I was working
with SETI,
733
00:39:36,112 --> 00:39:38,332
we launched a test
with the largest
734
00:39:38,376 --> 00:39:40,987
fully steerable
radio telescope in the world,
735
00:39:41,030 --> 00:39:43,772
trying to capture a recording
of a mysterious burst
736
00:39:43,816 --> 00:39:47,559
that scientists believe
could be alien technology in space,
737
00:39:47,602 --> 00:39:51,867
and the proof
we've all been hoping for.
738
00:39:51,911 --> 00:39:55,044
Now, at SETI headquarters
in California,
739
00:39:55,088 --> 00:39:59,222
I'm reconnecting with
the director of the program, Dr. Andrew Siemion,
740
00:39:59,266 --> 00:40:01,486
to see what the telescope
has found.
741
00:40:01,529 --> 00:40:02,791
[Quinto]
Andrew. [Dr. Siemion] Zach.
742
00:40:02,835 --> 00:40:06,316
Now, the question is,
did you find anything?
743
00:40:08,580 --> 00:40:11,713
So, we've run the first stage
of our analysis.
744
00:40:11,757 --> 00:40:15,804
We detected
about 380 pulses.
745
00:40:15,848 --> 00:40:19,721
But, unfortunately,
all of these look to be from our own technology
746
00:40:19,765 --> 00:40:23,595
rather than from any distant
astronomical source.
747
00:40:23,638 --> 00:40:25,118
Mm.
748
00:40:25,161 --> 00:40:27,468
And this is the main problem
that we face
749
00:40:27,512 --> 00:40:30,166
when we're trying to look
for signals from extraterrestrial intelligence.
750
00:40:30,210 --> 00:40:34,388
Our own technology produces signals that look exactly like this.
751
00:40:34,432 --> 00:40:36,956
So, we found some things,
but, unfortunately--
752
00:40:36,999 --> 00:40:41,569
Not what we were--...not the things
that we were looking for.
753
00:40:41,613 --> 00:40:43,963
There's no conclusive proof
on either side,
754
00:40:44,006 --> 00:40:46,879
but the interesting thing is
what you all are in pursuit of,
755
00:40:46,922 --> 00:40:49,272
which is knowledge--
756
00:40:49,316 --> 00:40:51,884
tangible,
discernible knowledge.[slapping hand]
757
00:40:51,927 --> 00:40:55,148
I think I've had the same
transformative experience
758
00:40:55,191 --> 00:40:57,629
that all of us have
when we look up at the night sky,
759
00:40:57,672 --> 00:40:58,630
and we imagine
what's out there.
760
00:41:01,676 --> 00:41:04,766
Here, in this lab,
we conceptualize that question
761
00:41:04,810 --> 00:41:07,334
through the lens of science.
762
00:41:07,377 --> 00:41:08,988
Other people conceptualize
that question differently.
763
00:41:09,031 --> 00:41:12,513
Like everybody else
that works in this field,
764
00:41:12,557 --> 00:41:14,776
I hope for the detection of
extraterrestrial intelligence.
765
00:41:14,820 --> 00:41:16,256
I think that would be
an amazing discovery.
766
00:41:16,299 --> 00:41:19,259
I think
the more that we do it, the better the chances
767
00:41:19,302 --> 00:41:20,521
of making that dream--
dream discovered.
768
00:41:23,002 --> 00:41:27,528
[Quinto] Science is far from conclusive.
769
00:41:27,572 --> 00:41:31,271
The search
for life on other planets is propelled by optimism,
770
00:41:31,314 --> 00:41:35,188
but met mostly
with silence and darkness.
771
00:41:35,231 --> 00:41:38,104
In all the time humans
have lived on this planet,
772
00:41:38,147 --> 00:41:42,325
we've yet to identify
empirical proof of life elsewhere.
773
00:41:42,369 --> 00:41:45,590
Whether you believe aliens
have been here before and left their mark
774
00:41:45,633 --> 00:41:46,939
or are still light years away,
775
00:41:46,982 --> 00:41:49,942
thanks to technology,
776
00:41:49,985 --> 00:41:52,379
the probability
of us being alone
777
00:41:52,422 --> 00:41:54,947
gets smaller every day.
778
00:41:54,997 --> 00:41:59,547
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