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A secret alliance
hidden in plain sight.
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Has a deal been done? I think
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we don't know the whole picture.
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Joint space missions
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with undisclosed agendas.
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Why do we not have
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a good HD photograph
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of whatever that big tower is?
Why?
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Have the United States
and Russia
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been working together
from the very beginning
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of the Space Race...
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Both Russia and the U.S. know
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about working
extraterrestrial technology.
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...in preparation
for the ultimate
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extraterrestrial encounter?
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Cooperation is the only way
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that we could actually achieve
some sort
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of mutual defense
of the planet Earth.
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Seoul, South Korea.
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March 26, 2012.
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The leaders
of over 50 nations gather
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for the Nuclear Security Summit,
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a two-day conference
to discuss issues
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regarding the proliferation and
safekeeping of nuclear weapons.
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During a photo op between
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American President Barack Obama
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and Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev,
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who was soon to be replaced
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by then Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin,
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the two leaders
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have an off-the-record
conversation that raises more
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than a few eyebrows.
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But even more intriguing
were recorded
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but not filmed comments
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in which President Obama
told Medvedev,
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"It's important for him
to give me space."
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And to which Medvedev replied,
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"I understand
your message about space."
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The revelation
was extraordinary.
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President Obama's quote was,
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"It's important for him
to give me space."
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What does that mean?
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Some people think
it simply means breathing space,
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space to operate,
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room to maneuver politically.
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But there is an interpretation
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that suggests
he meant literally.
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"It's important for him
to give me space."
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Outer space.
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Any time you hear
governments talk about space,
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you hear them talk
about space exploration,
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trust me, the-the underlying,
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implied, unspoken reality
behind that
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is the alien presence.
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It is possible
that Russia and America,
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in some aspects
of the space question
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and maybe
the extraterrestrial question,
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maybe they are working together
after all.
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Is it possible
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that, even between two
of the world's
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most powerful political rivals,
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there is a secret understanding,
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one based
on America and Russia's past
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and future roles in outer space?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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and they also believe that this
secret understanding extends
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to numerous experiences
involving
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extraterrestrial contact.
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As evidence,
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they point to an occasion
that took place
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just a few months after
Medvedev's now-famous exchange
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with Barack Obama.
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On December 7, 2012,
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after giving a primetime network
interview in Moscow,
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Medvedev made remarks offstage
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which seemed
to openly acknowledge
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the existence
of extraterrestrials
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and the Russian government's
efforts
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to keep that existence a secret.
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Although most
of the journalists in the room
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believed
the Russian president's remarks
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to have been made in jest,
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there were others
who were not so certain.
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This is one
of the most dramatic statements
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that emanates out of Russia,
and so it's fascinating.
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Dmitry Medvedev said, "When you
become president of Russia",
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"you're given information
on aliens in our country
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and the human groups
that are monitoring them."
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He was totally with a straight
face during all of this.
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Here he is on film saying
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that there is a secret
governmental cooperation
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occurring in the background
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that has the highest levels
of classification
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to really monitor
extraterrestrials
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that are visiting our planet.
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Forget all the differences.
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Forget ideologies.
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At the highest level,
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the two nations work together.
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After World War II,
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there was a number
of UFO encounters,
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very important encounters,
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and this gave impetus to joint
cooperation between our nations.
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Joint cooperation?
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Even during the tension-filled
decades of the Cold War?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
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that not only did such
a secret relationship exist
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but that it began
several decades ago
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as a consequence
of what they believe
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to be the Soviet Union's
first documented UFO encounter,
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an event
they commonly refer to
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as the Russian Roswell.
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Southern Russia.
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June 19, 1948.
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At a remote
Soviet military installation
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known as Kapustin Yar,
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an unidentified flying object
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is detected over the base.
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Strange blips
were seen on radar.
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Something was tracked
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performing extraordinary speeds
and maneuvers.
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And a Russian fighter jet
was sent to intercept it.
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The pilot saw
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a silver cigar-shaped object
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and was told,
"Shoot this thing down.
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It's in restricted
military airspace."
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The UFO fired some sort
of directed energy weapon,
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a death ray.
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But before the Russian jet
was downed,
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it managed to launch a missile
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and shoot down the UFO.
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Some people have speculated
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this was the time
that the Russians found out
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about extraterrestrials.
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According
to the myths and legends,
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at Kapustin Yar,
they actually recovered bodies,
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they recovered
the spacecraft itself,
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and it was kept there for study
and reverse engineering.
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We are told that there is
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a underground facility
under Kapustin Yar,
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similar, probably, to facilities
here in the States,
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where a full examination
could be performed
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on the pilots of these craft.
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To ancient astronaut
theorists and researchers,
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what makes the Kapustin Yar
story all the more significant
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is that it occurred
within a year
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of the now-infamous
Roswell incident,
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in which a UFO reportedly
crashed in the New Mexico desert
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sometime in June of 1947.
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That took place
near the only active
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military unit in the world
that had nuclear weapons.
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That was
the Roswell 509th Bombing Unit,
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and they had nukes.
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Similarly,
over at the Soviet Union,
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at places like Kapustin Yar,
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we've got significant
UFO activity being reported,
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military engagements,
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just like in the United States.
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And I personally believe
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that extraterrestrials
had a strong interest
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in the nuclear technologies
that were then developing
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on planet Earth,
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which is exactly why
they were there.
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Could it be
that both the Kapustin Yar
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and Roswell incidents
were attempts
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by extraterrestrials
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to make contact
because of mankind's
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recent development
of nuclear weapons?
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But if such contact did occur,
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did it signal an era
of secret cooperation
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between the world's
two great superpowers
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or did it only trigger
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a greater degree of rivalry
and competition?
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In Roswell, you had the crash.
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You had the recovered
alien bodies, but the aliens
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were dead. There was no way
to communicate with them,
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because they had been killed.
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So we had the technology
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but probably no really good idea
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on how to start
reverse engineering it.
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Whereas at Kapustin Yar,
as the story goes,
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they not only got
the spacecraft itself
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but, apparently, there was
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at least one survivor
of the incident.
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So what could the Russians
possibly have learned
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from that alien extraterrestrial
biological entity
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that we were not able to learn
from our Roswell incident?
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Why were the Russians first
into space?
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Why did they manage
to do Sputnik 1
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and then send Yuri Gagarin up
into orbit
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and leave the Americans
standing?
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Because, on paper, you'd think
that the U.S. government
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should have won that race,
but they didn't.
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If the Russians got live aliens,
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maybe they found out something
from what happened
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at Kapustin Yar that gave them
the edge in the Space Race.
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Is it possible
that the Soviet Union
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gained a strategic advantage
in the so-called Space Race
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because of help it received from
an extraterrestrial visitor?
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But if so,
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then how did the United States
so quickly catch up
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and... some would argue...
overtake them
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by being the first
to put humans on the moon?
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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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the answers are easily obtained,
not by examining
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what the two nations were
each admitting to in public,
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but what they
were doing together...
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in secret.
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July 17, 1975.
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Moscow is go for docking.
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Houston is go for docking.
It's up to you guys.
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High above the Earth,
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an American Apollo
Command/Service Module docks
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with its Soviet counterpart,
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the Soyuz 19.
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A few hours later,
the two mission commanders,
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Thomas Stafford
and Alexey Leonov,
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shake hands
through the open hatch,
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the first
international handshake
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to take place in space.
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The historic mission,
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officially known as
the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project,
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marked the end of the Space Race
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that began when the Soviets
launched Sputnik back in 1957
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and ushered in a new era
of open collaboration in space
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between the United States
and the Soviet Union.
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The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission
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was in itself an expression of
cooperation of our two nations.
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Detente was coming.
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Hopes for cooperation.
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Hopes for future
space exploration.
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Friendship.
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While Apollo-Soyuz was
the first public demonstration
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of American and Soviet
cooperation in space,
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there were many who believed
that that collaboration
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began decades earlier,
following two separate events
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that involved
extraterrestrial visitations:
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one in Roswell, New Mexico,
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and another,
known as Kapustin Yar,
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which happened
near the town of Znamensk,
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in the western region
of the former Soviet Union.
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There's an argument
that suggests
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the Apollo-Soyuz mission
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was actually
a sort of soft disclosure.
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Getting the story out there
in a quiet way
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so that there would be no great
bombshell revelation later.
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Moscow.
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July 1965.
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Exactly one decade prior to the
historic Apollo-Soyuz mission,
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scientists at the Sternberg
Astronomical Institute analyze
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a series of 25 photographs
of the Moon
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transmitted from the Soviet
unmanned probe, Zond 3.
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The images, taken
approximately 7,000 miles away
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from the lunar surface,
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are unprecedented in quality
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and offer the first clear view
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of the far side of the moon.
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In the years following
the Zond 3 mission,
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researchers have argued
that the 25 photographs
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show structures on the Moon
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that did not occur naturally.
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There were clear anomalies
that had been seen on camera
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for the first time.
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One was kind of a giant dome
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that appeared to have
a glass-like structure
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to the top of it that had been
shattered and beaten up.
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And in another image,
there was a 20-mile-high tower
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that was plainly visible on the
photographs that were published.
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Knowing the secrecy
of the Soviets during this era,
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it's quite possible
that they had other pictures
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that might reveal
what these structures are.
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Why do we not have
a good HD photograph
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of whatever that big tower is
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that the Zond 3 probe
took in 1965?
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Why?
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Those pictures
are still classified in Russia,
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as they were
in the Soviet Union.
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Apparently, some 25 pictures
were transferred to NASA.
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I don't know how.
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Was this a CIA operation,
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or was this an actual transfer
of information,
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which again shows you
the level of exchange
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of cooperation
between our governments?
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Something that's classified
in Russia
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is openly available
in the United States?
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Did the Russians
discover evidence
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of artificial structures
on the Moon
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four years before the American
astronauts landed there?
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And if so,
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did they secretly communicate
their findings
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in order to help guide
NASA's plans
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for the first manned mission
to the Moon?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
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believe that such
an audacious notion may be true,
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and also suggest that,
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while the United States
later became focused
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on launching
its Space Shuttle program,
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the Russians journeyed
even deeper into space
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in search of further evidence
of extraterrestrial activity
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in our solar system.
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Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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July 1988.
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The Soviet Union
launches two probes
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which are each programmed
to photograph Phobos,
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one of the two moons
that orbit the planet Mars.
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Although the first probe fails
to reach its target,
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the second proves
more successful.
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Named Phobos 2,
it uses sophisticated cameras
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and infrared lasers to collect
and transmit photos and data
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about the atmosphere and surface
of the Martian moon.
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In the final stage
of its mission,
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the probe attempts a landing
on the moon's surface.
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Suddenly, without warning,
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the Russian craft
stops transmitting...
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but not until it relays
one last incredible photo.
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As they got closer with Phobos,
we see one last frame
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that seems to have showed up.
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What appears to be
some type of laser beam,
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or some type of object,
coming from Phobos
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and disabling the satellite.
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And a very large
cigar-shaped shadow,
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as if it's possibly
a large craft of some kind
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hovering above the surface.
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There have been members
of the Soviet Science Academy
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and actual cosmonauts,
like Marina Popovich,
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who came right out and said
that the reports
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inside the Soviet Union
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indicated that Phobos 2
had been shot down.
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What happened
to the Phobos 2 probe?
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Did it really photograph
an alien craft?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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and point
to another Mars mission,
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almost a decade later,
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as proof of an extraterrestrial
presence on Phobos.
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In 1998,
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor
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took images of Phobos...
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revealing a monolith
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279 feet in length.
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Instantly, ancient astronaut
theorists and others
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connected this to what
the Soviets had discovered
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in the 1980s
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and hypothesized
that perhaps there is
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a working extraterrestrial
element on Mars that seeks
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to prevent us from discovering
the secrets of Phobos.
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Now we have a situation
where both Russia and the U.S.
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know about this.
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And perhaps
it's not just artifacts
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and ancient civilizations
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but working
extraterrestrial technology.
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Were otherworldly forces
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guiding both the U.S.
and Soviet space programs
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in an effort to encourage
peaceful cooperation
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between the world's
two great nuclear adversaries?
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Although such a far-fetched
notion seems absurd,
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there are many who believe that
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not only was extraterrestrial
contact taking place
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but that it had been happening
for dozens of years,
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and that one such incident
involved a number
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of top secret communications
between a Russian scientist
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and what he believed to be
his alien ancestors.
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Kaluga, Russia.
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May 1903.
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Little-known
Russian schoolteacher
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
publishes a landmark paper
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on rocket science titled
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"Exploration of Outer Space
by Means of Rocket Devices."
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At a time
when the Wright Brothers
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are still working to achieve
the first powered flight,
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Tsiolkovsky writes
about groundbreaking concepts
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for the exploration of space,
including what he calls
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the "ideal rocket equation,"
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a formula which calculates
the amount of velocity needed
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to lift a body into outer space.
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Incredibly, his theories
would prove instrumental
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in helping the Soviet Union
launch the first man-made object
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into orbit
more than 50 years later.
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wasn't
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a classically trained scientist,
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he was a secondary school
math teacher.
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But he was so enamored
with getting into space
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that he created the rocket
science and mathematics
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in the early 1900s
that led to the first thing
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00:20:20,161 --> 00:20:23,805
created by humanity to be
launched into space, Sputnik.
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To put into perspective
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how influential
Tsiolkovsky's work was,
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this is the basis work
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that everybody had to use later.
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Von Braun used it
during his research on rockets,
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00:20:37,587 --> 00:20:41,272
and most of the world sees
the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
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as the beginning
of modern rocket science.
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Where did he get those ideas?
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00:21:06,867 --> 00:21:08,867
Where does his knowledge
come from?
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His ideas about space
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and civilizations that
populate it were incredible,
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00:21:16,121 --> 00:21:18,965
and he persisted
that when humans
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00:21:18,967 --> 00:21:21,085
will go into outer space,
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we will become like
other alien civilizations.
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00:21:24,674 --> 00:21:27,672
Alien civilizations?
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00:21:27,761 --> 00:21:31,899
How did a Russian math teacher,
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00:21:32,054 --> 00:21:35,054
who grew up in a small village
in eastern Russia,
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00:21:34,807 --> 00:21:37,807
come to believe that there were
other intelligent beings
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00:21:36,701 --> 00:21:38,919
in the universe...
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00:21:38,941 --> 00:21:41,339
and that it was
mankind's destiny
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00:21:41,361 --> 00:21:43,859
to join them in the cosmos?
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00:21:45,627 --> 00:21:48,165
The answer is simple.
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00:21:48,321 --> 00:21:50,532
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky,
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00:21:50,687 --> 00:21:52,912
like millions of other Russians
of his day,
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00:21:53,067 --> 00:21:56,679
subscribed to a philosophy
known as cosmism,
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00:21:56,834 --> 00:21:59,392
which promoted
the idea that humanity
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00:21:59,547 --> 00:22:03,059
has an ancient connection to
extraterrestrial beings.
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00:22:03,214 --> 00:22:07,105
Russian cosmism began in the mid
and late 19th century.
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Within the traditions of cosmism
there are many who believe
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00:22:10,594 --> 00:22:14,052
that our origins are actually
alien in nature,
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00:22:14,207 --> 00:22:16,492
that is to say,
the human civilization
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is an alien transplant,
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and that, in going into space,
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00:22:20,254 --> 00:22:22,254
we are actually going back home.
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From that perspective,
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00:22:27,167 --> 00:22:29,167
it's very much in alignment
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00:22:28,554 --> 00:22:29,670
with the ancient astronaut
theory
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00:22:29,694 --> 00:22:32,325
where human beings strive
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00:22:32,381 --> 00:22:34,381
to reconnect with these
ancient gods,
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through efforts like creating
a more advanced space program.
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00:22:38,594 --> 00:22:41,092
What made Tsiolkovsky,
and others like him,
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00:22:41,181 --> 00:22:43,672
so certain that aliens existed,
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00:22:43,827 --> 00:22:47,419
and that space travel held
the key to humans reconnecting
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00:22:47,574 --> 00:22:50,205
with these otherworldly beings?
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00:22:50,261 --> 00:22:53,325
For the answer, ancient
astronaut theorists point
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00:22:53,327 --> 00:22:55,212
to Tsiolkovsky's writings,
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00:22:55,387 --> 00:22:57,099
in which he described
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00:22:57,274 --> 00:22:59,545
extraterrestrial beings
sending messages
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00:22:59,721 --> 00:23:03,752
and information to mankind
from the stars.
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00:23:03,754 --> 00:23:07,259
He also wrote that he himself
had personally received
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00:23:07,414 --> 00:23:11,039
a number of interplanetary
communications.
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00:23:11,194 --> 00:23:12,772
Tsiolkovsky experienced
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00:23:12,947 --> 00:23:16,065
tremendous sightings
in his life.
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00:23:16,221 --> 00:23:19,412
One was in 1889.
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00:23:19,567 --> 00:23:21,567
He was looking at the sky
439
00:23:21,634 --> 00:23:25,019
and all of a sudden he saw
a perfect cloud
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00:23:25,194 --> 00:23:28,552
in the shape of
a four-pointed cross
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00:23:28,707 --> 00:23:30,939
flying over him.
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00:23:45,701 --> 00:23:47,559
He also felt
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00:23:47,581 --> 00:23:50,119
that he was receiving
telepathic messages
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00:23:50,274 --> 00:23:53,359
from, um, extraterrestrials.
445
00:23:53,361 --> 00:23:56,812
This leaves us to ponder
was he actually in contact
446
00:23:56,814 --> 00:23:59,245
with intelligences
from out there?
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00:23:59,421 --> 00:24:01,179
Did they guide his hand?
448
00:24:01,221 --> 00:24:03,772
Did they supply this equation?
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00:24:03,947 --> 00:24:06,092
Some of his models
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00:24:06,101 --> 00:24:08,152
of what a spacecraft
would look like
451
00:24:08,154 --> 00:24:09,799
are very much in alignment
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00:24:09,974 --> 00:24:12,125
with the descriptions
of various UFOs,
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00:24:12,281 --> 00:24:14,599
this cigar elongated shape.
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00:24:14,754 --> 00:24:16,945
Was he actually in communication
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00:24:16,947 --> 00:24:19,159
with the beings that are
piloting these craft?
456
00:24:19,334 --> 00:24:22,334
Is it a vision that he got
showing how they manipulate
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00:24:22,094 --> 00:24:24,119
and pilot these vehicles,
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00:24:24,161 --> 00:24:28,161
and that's why he was able
to come up with such
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00:24:25,794 --> 00:24:28,039
an accurate representation
for that model?
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00:24:30,834 --> 00:24:32,805
For many ancient
astronaut theorists,
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00:24:32,807 --> 00:24:35,839
Russia's widespread embrace
of cosmism
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00:24:35,881 --> 00:24:38,881
might help explain why the
Soviet Union's reaction
463
00:24:38,827 --> 00:24:42,239
to the UFO incident
at Kapustin Yar
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00:24:42,261 --> 00:24:44,732
was likely very different
465
00:24:44,734 --> 00:24:47,259
than the American military's
reaction to Roswell.
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00:24:49,627 --> 00:24:53,145
The United States approached
the Space Race with an eye
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00:24:53,147 --> 00:24:57,119
toward achieving scientific
and technological superiority.
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00:24:57,141 --> 00:25:01,619
The Soviet Union seemed less
focused on technological goals,
469
00:25:01,774 --> 00:25:04,774
such as that of landing a man
on the Moon,
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00:25:04,321 --> 00:25:06,732
and more interested
in using space travel
471
00:25:06,887 --> 00:25:08,819
as a means of realizing
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00:25:08,974 --> 00:25:13,699
a kind of extraterrestrial
destiny.
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00:25:13,854 --> 00:25:15,854
So the Space Race was really
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a cover for creating
new technologies
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00:25:17,974 --> 00:25:19,732
in our defense industry.
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00:25:19,841 --> 00:25:22,619
To create rockets
that could put large amounts
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00:25:22,794 --> 00:25:25,794
of mass into space,
put a satellite into orbit.
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00:25:25,761 --> 00:25:28,492
All these things required
technological developments
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00:25:28,667 --> 00:25:30,792
that enabled spy satellites,
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00:25:30,881 --> 00:25:34,179
that enabled communication
satellites.
481
00:25:34,334 --> 00:25:36,254
They enabled intercontinental
ballistic missiles.
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00:25:39,094 --> 00:25:41,172
Russians were the first ones
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00:25:41,281 --> 00:25:42,999
to promote this idea
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00:25:43,154 --> 00:25:46,112
of unity between outer space
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00:25:46,121 --> 00:25:48,579
and people on Earth.
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00:25:48,621 --> 00:25:51,399
Tsiolkovsky knew there were
487
00:25:51,574 --> 00:25:53,405
other civilizations
in outer space,
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00:25:53,407 --> 00:25:55,407
and he wanted to meet them.
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00:25:55,314 --> 00:25:58,314
He put the seeds
in the minds of the people
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00:25:58,167 --> 00:26:01,505
that helped develop rockets
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00:26:01,661 --> 00:26:04,445
and space technology
in the Soviet Union.
492
00:26:04,601 --> 00:26:07,805
Maybe cosmism
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00:26:07,807 --> 00:26:10,219
and then the Russian successes
494
00:26:10,374 --> 00:26:12,619
with Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin
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00:26:12,641 --> 00:26:15,799
made the Americans realize
we need them.
496
00:26:15,974 --> 00:26:19,952
The Russians can do things
we can't do.
497
00:26:20,107 --> 00:26:23,672
They have a philosophical
outlook on this
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00:26:23,674 --> 00:26:26,232
which gives them
an inherent advantage.
499
00:26:26,407 --> 00:26:28,919
And maybe in that sort
of situation,
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each party brings something
to the table.
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00:26:32,121 --> 00:26:34,999
Could it be that when
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the Soviets launched Sputnik,
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00:26:37,254 --> 00:26:40,254
it wasn't simply a show
of scientific superiority
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00:26:39,621 --> 00:26:41,552
or military might,
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00:26:41,554 --> 00:26:44,112
but an attempt
to directly connect
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00:26:44,287 --> 00:26:46,919
with extraterrestrial beings?
507
00:26:46,921 --> 00:26:49,921
And, if so, could that have
motivated the United States
508
00:26:49,987 --> 00:26:52,492
to work more closely with them,
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00:26:52,667 --> 00:26:55,425
and, ultimately,
partner with them?
510
00:26:55,427 --> 00:26:57,427
Perhaps further clues
can be found
511
00:26:57,441 --> 00:26:59,919
by examining what happened
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00:26:59,921 --> 00:27:02,719
to the American
and Soviet space programs
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00:27:02,894 --> 00:27:06,059
after the Soviet Union
collapsed.
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Moscow.
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Christmas Day, 1991.
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I am now concluding my activity
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as president of the USSR.
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In one of the most
significant events
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00:27:26,847 --> 00:27:28,639
of the 20th century,
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00:27:28,814 --> 00:27:30,985
Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev
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00:27:31,141 --> 00:27:33,125
announces his resignation.
522
00:27:33,281 --> 00:27:37,092
Just five days short
of its 70th anniversary,
523
00:27:37,181 --> 00:27:39,739
the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics
524
00:27:39,761 --> 00:27:43,919
is officially dissolved.
525
00:27:43,921 --> 00:27:48,245
The Soviet Union collapsed 1989,
1990, 1991,
526
00:27:48,247 --> 00:27:51,212
and split up into
its constituent republics.
527
00:27:51,214 --> 00:27:54,385
Russia, at that time in
the 1990s, was a hellhole.
528
00:27:54,441 --> 00:27:56,845
Ethnic conflicts were brewing
529
00:27:57,001 --> 00:27:59,001
all around the borders of
the Russian Federation,
530
00:27:59,061 --> 00:28:01,379
incredibly high levels of crime,
531
00:28:01,534 --> 00:28:03,972
the birth of the Russian Mafia.
532
00:28:04,127 --> 00:28:06,612
But of all the problems
533
00:28:06,614 --> 00:28:09,245
that now plagued
the former Soviet Union,
534
00:28:09,247 --> 00:28:12,479
their space program
was not one of them.
535
00:28:12,634 --> 00:28:16,832
Their Mir orbiting space station
was considered a huge success,
536
00:28:16,921 --> 00:28:20,092
which often stood
in stark contrast
537
00:28:20,247 --> 00:28:23,679
to the United States'
tragedy-plagued Shuttle program.
538
00:28:28,074 --> 00:28:30,865
This contrast was so stark,
in fact,
539
00:28:30,867 --> 00:28:35,425
that when the Shuttle program
quietly ended in 2011,
540
00:28:35,481 --> 00:28:39,152
the United States suspended its
own manned space program
541
00:28:39,307 --> 00:28:42,412
in favor of sending
its astronauts up to
542
00:28:42,567 --> 00:28:45,567
the International Space Station
as little more than passengers
543
00:28:45,087 --> 00:28:48,539
aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
544
00:28:48,541 --> 00:28:50,752
It seems
that the U.S. ceded control
545
00:28:50,841 --> 00:28:53,565
of space to the Russians,
546
00:28:53,641 --> 00:28:55,799
certainly in relation
to manned missions.
547
00:28:55,954 --> 00:28:57,752
But it is bizarre.
548
00:28:57,754 --> 00:28:59,472
For whatever reason,
549
00:28:59,481 --> 00:29:02,179
the Russians,
despite all their problems,
550
00:29:02,334 --> 00:29:05,612
seem to be ahead of the U.S.,
in some respects,
551
00:29:05,767 --> 00:29:07,745
when you talk about space.
552
00:29:07,921 --> 00:29:10,999
A couple of examples
of where the U.S. seem
553
00:29:11,021 --> 00:29:13,319
to have ceded control,
554
00:29:13,474 --> 00:29:15,474
or certainly ceded
the leadership position
555
00:29:15,554 --> 00:29:17,572
in space to the Russians,
556
00:29:17,581 --> 00:29:20,832
are the International
Space Station,
557
00:29:20,987 --> 00:29:24,165
where now, American astronauts
can't even get there
558
00:29:24,321 --> 00:29:27,505
without going up
in Russian rockets.
559
00:29:27,661 --> 00:29:30,999
For ancient astronaut theorists,
560
00:29:31,001 --> 00:29:32,959
the partnership between the two
561
00:29:33,114 --> 00:29:36,432
rival space programs
was simply an admission
562
00:29:36,434 --> 00:29:40,979
of what had already been taking
place in secret for decades.
563
00:29:41,021 --> 00:29:44,405
It also proved
that both the U.S.
564
00:29:44,581 --> 00:29:46,905
and Russian space programs
565
00:29:46,907 --> 00:29:48,907
were going to continue
working together
566
00:29:49,014 --> 00:29:51,625
in the interest
of furthering the goal
567
00:29:51,781 --> 00:29:54,525
of extraterrestrial contact.
568
00:29:54,527 --> 00:29:57,512
But this time
there was a difference:
569
00:29:57,687 --> 00:30:00,345
Russia was now
largely controlled
570
00:30:00,501 --> 00:30:02,639
by deep-pocketed oligarchs,
571
00:30:02,661 --> 00:30:06,879
and run by tight-gripped
autocrats like Vladimir Putin.
572
00:30:07,034 --> 00:30:10,034
They were free of the kind of
public scrutiny
573
00:30:09,581 --> 00:30:11,552
that would force full disclosure
574
00:30:11,554 --> 00:30:14,752
about just what they were doing
in outer space.
575
00:30:14,907 --> 00:30:17,852
If there are
alien-human encounters
576
00:30:17,854 --> 00:30:20,854
taking place in space
or in low Earth orbit,
577
00:30:20,167 --> 00:30:22,185
the Russians could bring back
578
00:30:22,341 --> 00:30:24,341
the information
and share it with us.
579
00:30:23,914 --> 00:30:26,759
There is a certain
level of secrecy
580
00:30:26,761 --> 00:30:28,905
that is very different
in Russia
581
00:30:28,907 --> 00:30:30,907
than it is in the United States.
582
00:30:30,807 --> 00:30:34,745
So it could be that most
sensitive information
583
00:30:34,747 --> 00:30:37,539
is being handled
by the Russian side
584
00:30:37,561 --> 00:30:40,561
so to make sure that it doesn't
get released
585
00:30:40,614 --> 00:30:43,085
and doesn't spook
the populations
586
00:30:43,087 --> 00:30:45,132
in different nations.
587
00:30:45,134 --> 00:30:48,932
But while information coming out
588
00:30:48,934 --> 00:30:51,965
of Russia is now under
tight control,
589
00:30:51,967 --> 00:30:54,967
the same could not be said
for the period
590
00:30:54,547 --> 00:30:56,945
when the Soviet Union
was imploding.
591
00:30:57,101 --> 00:30:59,772
And it was during
this brief period
592
00:30:59,774 --> 00:31:02,879
that Russia's extensive history
of extraterrestrial encounters
593
00:31:02,881 --> 00:31:06,105
became all but fully exposed.
594
00:31:06,261 --> 00:31:08,261
In the waning days
of the Soviet Union,
595
00:31:08,207 --> 00:31:10,385
a lot of interesting documents
596
00:31:10,387 --> 00:31:12,572
pertaining to UFOs
were declassified.
597
00:31:12,574 --> 00:31:15,745
For example,
the KGB, so-called Blue File,
598
00:31:15,821 --> 00:31:18,439
124 pages of information
599
00:31:18,594 --> 00:31:22,919
about UFO cases that came
within... to the KGB.
600
00:31:23,074 --> 00:31:24,859
It was declassified.
601
00:31:25,034 --> 00:31:27,265
We know that most of the
documents pertaining
602
00:31:27,421 --> 00:31:29,379
to the SETKA program,
603
00:31:29,554 --> 00:31:32,899
which was the official Soviet
top secret UFO program,
604
00:31:32,921 --> 00:31:36,492
which existed for 13 years,
from '78 to 1991,
605
00:31:36,581 --> 00:31:39,252
most of those cases
are not available,
606
00:31:39,407 --> 00:31:42,407
but the cases that we know
about, that I've studied,
607
00:31:42,294 --> 00:31:45,452
are enough
to make you amazed to know,
608
00:31:45,627 --> 00:31:47,627
and of what they have
discovered,
609
00:31:47,694 --> 00:31:49,694
and what may be in store.
610
00:31:49,601 --> 00:31:52,105
If the United States
611
00:31:52,107 --> 00:31:54,519
and the Soviet Union each
experienced decades
612
00:31:54,674 --> 00:31:57,352
of extraterrestrial contact,
613
00:31:57,441 --> 00:31:59,441
and had been secretly sharing
their experiences
614
00:31:59,294 --> 00:32:02,472
and information with each other,
615
00:32:02,474 --> 00:32:04,505
what is their ultimate agenda?
616
00:32:04,507 --> 00:32:08,932
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
617
00:32:09,107 --> 00:32:11,005
the answers can be found
618
00:32:11,007 --> 00:32:13,252
in recently revealed
Russian research
619
00:32:13,254 --> 00:32:15,939
that is intended to change
the human body,
620
00:32:15,961 --> 00:32:19,339
in order to prepare it
to travel the galaxy.
621
00:32:25,381 --> 00:32:27,359
Voronezh, Russia.
622
00:32:27,514 --> 00:32:32,059
September 27, 1989.
623
00:32:35,214 --> 00:32:38,239
A group of children
playing in a park
624
00:32:38,394 --> 00:32:41,585
witness a shining ball
in the sky that transforms
625
00:32:41,761 --> 00:32:45,719
into a disc-shaped craft
and lands nearby.
626
00:32:45,721 --> 00:32:49,299
They see strange beings emerge
from the craft,
627
00:32:49,454 --> 00:32:53,079
beings that do not appear
to be human.
628
00:32:54,281 --> 00:32:56,652
In the days after the encounter,
629
00:32:56,807 --> 00:33:00,719
as many as 30 other eyewitnesses
corroborate their account.
630
00:33:00,874 --> 00:33:03,099
Many people were out
and observed it,
631
00:33:03,274 --> 00:33:05,432
children as well as adults.
632
00:33:05,434 --> 00:33:08,939
Observers watched a hatch open
633
00:33:08,961 --> 00:33:12,005
and two beings come out,
634
00:33:12,007 --> 00:33:15,619
a very tall one
and a modest-sized one.
635
00:33:15,641 --> 00:33:19,579
The tall one was described as,
um, rather mechanical-looking
636
00:33:19,734 --> 00:33:21,345
but a being
637
00:33:21,501 --> 00:33:24,752
that estimates were from nine
to 12 feet tall.
638
00:33:24,754 --> 00:33:26,839
The small one
looked like a robot.
639
00:33:26,861 --> 00:33:30,232
Both were distinguished
by very small heads.
640
00:33:30,321 --> 00:33:33,039
They began
to move about the park.
641
00:33:33,194 --> 00:33:34,699
People reacted.
642
00:33:34,854 --> 00:33:38,092
One report has a boy in shock...
643
00:33:38,094 --> 00:33:41,094
the taller being pointing
an apparatus at the boy
644
00:33:40,954 --> 00:33:42,779
and freezing him.
645
00:33:42,934 --> 00:33:47,012
He was reactivated, so to say,
before the craft took off.
646
00:33:47,167 --> 00:33:49,399
This is one of these cases
647
00:33:49,421 --> 00:33:52,352
where there are
so many witnesses
648
00:33:52,354 --> 00:33:54,354
and they have
all been interviewed
649
00:33:54,434 --> 00:33:56,712
and they're just all sincere.
650
00:33:56,714 --> 00:33:58,632
They all saw something.
651
00:33:58,634 --> 00:34:01,419
Some of the witnesses definitely
described those things
652
00:34:01,441 --> 00:34:04,185
as artificial-looking
and mechanical.
653
00:34:04,187 --> 00:34:07,505
Well, we, ourselves, seem
to be moving in that direction.
654
00:34:07,507 --> 00:34:10,705
Are we creating ourselves as
synthetic beings in the future?
655
00:34:10,707 --> 00:34:12,707
And the answer is
we sure may be.
656
00:34:12,687 --> 00:34:15,687
That's the way
it seems to be going.
657
00:34:16,621 --> 00:34:18,972
If there are
extraterrestrial beings
658
00:34:19,127 --> 00:34:21,419
visiting Earth,
659
00:34:21,574 --> 00:34:25,052
is it possible that
they are not biological like us
660
00:34:25,054 --> 00:34:27,812
but have adopted
synthetic bodies
661
00:34:27,814 --> 00:34:31,339
better suited
for traveling the cosmos?
662
00:34:31,494 --> 00:34:34,045
And if so, might humanity
663
00:34:34,047 --> 00:34:36,047
be forced to do the same
664
00:34:35,641 --> 00:34:39,079
in order to travel
into deep space?
665
00:34:39,101 --> 00:34:43,025
Many scientists believe this
to be the case,
666
00:34:43,027 --> 00:34:45,027
and there is a growing movement
in Russia
667
00:34:44,741 --> 00:34:46,459
to take the first steps
668
00:34:46,481 --> 00:34:49,019
of this transformation.
669
00:34:53,687 --> 00:34:56,065
Moscow.
670
00:34:56,067 --> 00:34:59,712
February 2012.
671
00:34:59,867 --> 00:35:04,379
Russian billionaire
Dmitry Itskov brings together
672
00:35:04,534 --> 00:35:08,365
over 50 leading scientists
to discuss what he believes
673
00:35:08,421 --> 00:35:11,359
is the next step
in human evolution,
674
00:35:11,381 --> 00:35:13,459
immortality.
675
00:35:16,007 --> 00:35:18,199
Through his ambitious project,
676
00:35:18,354 --> 00:35:20,505
called the 2045 Initiative,
677
00:35:20,561 --> 00:35:23,545
Itskov hopes
to create technology
678
00:35:23,601 --> 00:35:26,345
that would ultimately upload
the human brain
679
00:35:26,401 --> 00:35:30,399
into a computer
by the year 2045.
680
00:35:30,554 --> 00:35:33,959
The 2045 Initiative,
it really is a call
681
00:35:33,981 --> 00:35:36,452
to bring minds together
to solve the problem
682
00:35:36,461 --> 00:35:38,872
of, essentially, digitizing
a human being.
683
00:35:38,874 --> 00:35:41,332
And in that case,
you could download it.
684
00:35:41,341 --> 00:35:43,341
You could, uh, transfer it
to another source.
685
00:35:43,301 --> 00:35:45,999
You could allow it
to go into space.
686
00:35:49,761 --> 00:35:52,799
They want
to make human being immortal,
687
00:35:52,801 --> 00:35:56,332
being that can explore farthest
reaches of the universe.
688
00:35:56,487 --> 00:35:58,972
To me, this exactly ties in
689
00:35:59,127 --> 00:36:01,759
with what the Russian,
uh, philosophers
690
00:36:01,934 --> 00:36:03,679
and scientists talked about
691
00:36:03,854 --> 00:36:06,099
in the beginning
of the 20th century,
692
00:36:06,274 --> 00:36:10,412
Russian cosmism.
693
00:36:10,414 --> 00:36:13,799
In this, we hear echoes
of the vision of Tsiolkovsky.
694
00:36:13,821 --> 00:36:16,392
He told us
that he was in contact
695
00:36:16,501 --> 00:36:18,025
with extraterrestrial beings.
696
00:36:18,081 --> 00:36:20,081
He specifically noted
that they were,
697
00:36:19,821 --> 00:36:21,799
in fact, light beings.
698
00:36:21,821 --> 00:36:24,821
So, is it possible
that what we are doing
699
00:36:24,221 --> 00:36:26,221
is catching up with his vision,
700
00:36:25,841 --> 00:36:28,685
that, if we create
avatar humans,
701
00:36:28,761 --> 00:36:31,779
are we, in fact, then recreating
the extraterrestrials
702
00:36:31,801 --> 00:36:34,899
who originally connected
with him?
703
00:36:35,054 --> 00:36:37,339
Who knows if the Russians
could actually achieve
704
00:36:37,494 --> 00:36:38,952
this 2045 Initiative,
705
00:36:39,127 --> 00:36:41,312
but they are thinking about it.
706
00:36:41,467 --> 00:36:45,467
And they don't seem to be upset
with the process that's planned.
707
00:36:45,034 --> 00:36:47,034
The United States,
on the other hand,
708
00:36:46,954 --> 00:36:48,954
wouldn't even consider
such an idea.
709
00:36:50,141 --> 00:36:51,859
Doing experiments on a human
710
00:36:52,014 --> 00:36:54,552
of transplanting a brain
into a robot
711
00:36:54,661 --> 00:36:58,661
is probably gonna take a lot
of approval and a long time
712
00:36:56,861 --> 00:36:59,099
for anyone to sign on to that.
713
00:36:59,254 --> 00:37:02,254
But is it the same
if you were in Russia?
714
00:37:01,734 --> 00:37:04,185
Their system of government
is a little different,
715
00:37:04,341 --> 00:37:06,805
and they might do experiments
like that
716
00:37:06,881 --> 00:37:09,299
easier than the United States.
717
00:37:10,761 --> 00:37:12,761
In the U.S. and in the West,
718
00:37:12,614 --> 00:37:14,025
it is perhaps
719
00:37:14,181 --> 00:37:16,919
a long, hard journey
to convince people
720
00:37:17,094 --> 00:37:19,094
that these things
should be done.
721
00:37:18,861 --> 00:37:21,365
Maybe we will never
convince them.
722
00:37:21,541 --> 00:37:24,332
But in Russia, through cosmism,
723
00:37:24,334 --> 00:37:26,412
through transhumanism,
724
00:37:26,414 --> 00:37:28,212
as the Russians practice it,
725
00:37:28,321 --> 00:37:30,345
you're trying to do things
726
00:37:30,401 --> 00:37:35,219
that Russians already believe in
and aspire to.
727
00:37:35,241 --> 00:37:37,812
There's real benefit to the U.S.
728
00:37:37,967 --> 00:37:41,259
in making the Russians
our partners.
729
00:37:41,281 --> 00:37:45,025
Is it possible that humanity,
730
00:37:45,081 --> 00:37:48,119
led by the United States
and Russia,
731
00:37:48,121 --> 00:37:51,565
is poised to take bold steps
into deep space?
732
00:37:51,721 --> 00:37:53,565
If so,
733
00:37:53,621 --> 00:37:56,832
is this escalation
limited to space travel
734
00:37:56,921 --> 00:37:59,912
or might it also include
something like
735
00:38:00,021 --> 00:38:03,219
a military space force?
736
00:38:08,501 --> 00:38:10,219
The White House.
737
00:38:10,394 --> 00:38:13,272
June 18, 2018.
738
00:38:13,427 --> 00:38:17,619
At a meeting
of the National Space Council,
739
00:38:17,661 --> 00:38:21,012
President Donald J. Trump
calls on the Pentagon
740
00:38:21,014 --> 00:38:24,014
to develop a sixth branch
of the United States military,
741
00:38:23,874 --> 00:38:26,085
a space force.
742
00:38:26,087 --> 00:38:28,112
I'm hereby directing
743
00:38:28,201 --> 00:38:32,145
the Department of Defense
and Pentagon to establish
744
00:38:32,201 --> 00:38:34,205
a space force
745
00:38:34,207 --> 00:38:38,165
as the sixth branch
of the armed forces.
746
00:38:38,341 --> 00:38:40,119
That's a big statement.
747
00:38:40,121 --> 00:38:43,785
The stunning news
was followed ten days later
748
00:38:43,841 --> 00:38:46,085
by the announcement
that President Trump
749
00:38:46,141 --> 00:38:48,932
and Russian President
Vladimir Putin
750
00:38:49,107 --> 00:38:51,472
would have a private,
behind-closed-doors meeting
751
00:38:51,627 --> 00:38:53,739
the following month.
752
00:38:53,781 --> 00:38:57,105
Is it possible that
these two high-profile events
753
00:38:57,261 --> 00:38:59,919
were strategically related?
754
00:39:00,074 --> 00:39:02,279
If both nations are aware
755
00:39:02,434 --> 00:39:04,434
that there is
an extraterrestrial presence
756
00:39:03,894 --> 00:39:06,139
and that it is
potentially hostile,
757
00:39:06,161 --> 00:39:09,972
then cooperation
is the only route to go.
758
00:39:09,974 --> 00:39:12,974
It's the only way
that we could actually achieve
759
00:39:12,374 --> 00:39:15,374
some sort of mutual defense
of the planet Earth.
760
00:39:14,827 --> 00:39:18,145
This one-on-one between Trump
761
00:39:18,221 --> 00:39:22,245
and Putin may just be
the latest in a long line
762
00:39:22,401 --> 00:39:25,465
of secret,
high-level communications
763
00:39:25,621 --> 00:39:27,219
between the world leaders.
764
00:39:27,374 --> 00:39:30,292
And it may be that things
765
00:39:30,467 --> 00:39:33,159
like the creation
of the space force
766
00:39:33,181 --> 00:39:35,732
show that there's been
an escalation.
767
00:39:35,741 --> 00:39:37,741
Well, the reason
you create a force
768
00:39:37,441 --> 00:39:40,441
of any kind
is to deal with a threat.
769
00:39:40,274 --> 00:39:43,099
- Liftoff.
- We're reaching a point
770
00:39:43,101 --> 00:39:46,101
in our civilization here
on Earth that we're beginning
771
00:39:45,814 --> 00:39:48,992
to send probes
and... maybe even soon... people
772
00:39:49,167 --> 00:39:50,799
throughout the solar system,
773
00:39:50,821 --> 00:39:52,579
maybe even into deeper space.
774
00:39:54,881 --> 00:39:57,285
It's quite possible
the space force
775
00:39:57,461 --> 00:40:00,805
could be set up in an outpost
in case there was
776
00:40:00,807 --> 00:40:03,807
some incident on Mars
or in the asteroid belt
777
00:40:03,587 --> 00:40:06,587
or at Jupiter
or way out at the Kuiper belt.
778
00:40:10,061 --> 00:40:12,061
As far
as ancient astronaut theorists
779
00:40:11,861 --> 00:40:13,259
are concerned,
780
00:40:13,434 --> 00:40:15,705
the U.S.-Russia relationship
in space
781
00:40:15,881 --> 00:40:19,272
is the direct result
of an extraordinary agenda
782
00:40:19,427 --> 00:40:22,085
not on the part of world leaders
783
00:40:22,261 --> 00:40:25,179
but by an extraterrestrial
intelligence,
784
00:40:25,354 --> 00:40:28,492
an intelligence that believes
that each nation
785
00:40:28,581 --> 00:40:30,659
has the unique ability
to complement
786
00:40:30,661 --> 00:40:33,259
the other's strengths
and weaknesses
787
00:40:33,281 --> 00:40:35,985
and that outer space
should be explored
788
00:40:36,141 --> 00:40:38,141
not as a function of competition
789
00:40:37,801 --> 00:40:42,025
but as the result
of mankind's shared need
790
00:40:42,027 --> 00:40:44,652
to fulfill its ultimate destiny.
791
00:40:44,654 --> 00:40:47,859
It seems that Russia and America
792
00:40:48,014 --> 00:40:51,192
have been inextricably bound
together
793
00:40:51,194 --> 00:40:55,219
in this Space Race,
794
00:40:55,374 --> 00:40:59,932
a space race run, perhaps,
not between nations
795
00:40:59,934 --> 00:41:03,905
but with nations
racing alongside each other.
796
00:41:03,907 --> 00:41:05,612
In actuality,
797
00:41:05,621 --> 00:41:08,621
the, uh, idea of Space Race
is not correct,
798
00:41:08,727 --> 00:41:11,772
because there were n-never
Space Race.
799
00:41:11,861 --> 00:41:14,079
There was cooperation
800
00:41:14,234 --> 00:41:17,234
which had to be kept secret
for a while.
801
00:41:17,267 --> 00:41:19,392
But sooner or later,
802
00:41:19,547 --> 00:41:22,159
you could see fruits
of such cooperation.
803
00:41:22,161 --> 00:41:26,345
We actually have
to work together
804
00:41:26,501 --> 00:41:28,812
and explore together
and cooperate together
805
00:41:28,814 --> 00:41:31,632
to prevent any danger to Earth.
806
00:41:31,787 --> 00:41:35,232
As humans prepare
for their journey
807
00:41:35,234 --> 00:41:38,279
to Mars and beyond,
808
00:41:38,434 --> 00:41:41,419
they will become
the extraterrestrial visitors
809
00:41:41,574 --> 00:41:43,152
of other worlds.
810
00:41:43,161 --> 00:41:46,819
And if ancient astronaut
theorists are correct,
811
00:41:46,974 --> 00:41:50,599
their journey will have been
aided by alien visitors
812
00:41:50,754 --> 00:41:54,919
who see our planet not
as a number of warring nations
813
00:41:54,961 --> 00:41:58,092
but as a launching pad
814
00:41:58,094 --> 00:42:01,932
filled with people
eager to explore
815
00:42:01,934 --> 00:42:05,279
an amazing universe.