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Meteors bombarding the Earth from space.

Material from other bodies in our solar system is continually raining down on

the planet Earth. And with them are billions of microscopic alien life

800 million viruses are falling from the sky every single day.

Is our planet... properly prepared for an extraterrestrial invasion of disease.

What if the terrible plagues that ravaged the Earth were the result of

viruses that are constantly bombarding the planet?

But are these alien viruses meant to harm us or change us in ways

we can hardly imagine?

Sometimes viruses...

human evolution.

It is a deliberate artificial change of our DNA.

There is a doorway in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

May 17th, 2016.

A Stanford University study published in the journal eLife reveals a remarkable

finding. that dramatically changes our understanding of human evolution.

The study reports that since modern humans first emerged from earlier

roughly one -third of their evolutionary adaptations have been caused not by

means of natural selection, but by viruses.

We have genes in our own genome that were derived from a retrovirus at some

point in our history.

And some actually have important functions for our development as humans.

This suggests that there has been some kind of symbiotic relationship with

viruses since the beginning of life itself.

Sometimes viruses help human evolution.

According to another study, one important human adaptation that resulted

virus is a special layer of the human placenta that prevents a fetus from

rejected by the mother's body.

The genes that create this tissue are called syncytins, and they were not

originally found in human ancestors.

They were acquired at a couple different points in our history, about 25 and 40

million years ago.

They're important for the connection between the mother and the fetus.

Some scientists now believe that viral genes like this were as important for

human evolution as natural selection.

I think that horizontal gene transfer being carried out by viruses or phages

probably the primary mechanism whereby changes in species and major changes

within a species occurred.

Was it by pure chance that viruses helped to create a species as

as humans?

Or might this viral evolution have been intelligently directed by beings from

outer space?

Anthropologists are telling us that humans evolved over time out of Africa

that we had certain genetic leaps.

where we were suddenly smarter, our communication skills became greater.

And so these genetic leaps throughout evolutionary history might have just

a natural thing, but they could have been engineered as well.

There is no doubt in my mind that viruses that have originated from space

somehow had to do with our development here on Earth.

However, it is very clear that the ancient astronaut theory proposes that

one reason why we became humans as we are today is not due to an accident

by some natural virus from outer space, but a deliberate artificial change of

our DNA.

who use viruses from space to alter our evolution?

And if so, could those viruses have been delivered to Earth in comets?

Ancient astronaut theorists point to a curious event in our evolutionary

history, the moment humans almost went extinct.

Around 75 ,000 years ago, there was a bottleneck.

in human evolution it suggested that the human population

actually went down from millions down to just a few thousand

this is certainly something that genetics backs up and we have to ask

what was going on at this time originally geologists believe that

That bottleneck of humanity was caused by the super volcano and Sumatra

exploding. Now, recent finds have indicated that's not the case. And

they're leaning more towards a virus, a plague that was genetically programmed

for early humans.

Wipe them out.

One controversial theory is that the cause of this bottleneck event was not

a virus.

but a virus that was brought to Earth on a comet.

According to this theory, a comet slammed into the planet with such

force that it created a nuclear winter, killing almost all human life on Earth.

Almost, because those that could survive both the nuclear winter and the alien

virus emerged as a profoundly altered and improved species.

It was immediately following this event that humans first began to leave

evidence of symbolic thinking, art, music, and advanced language.

Somehow human beings reached another stage of evolution.

It was the transformation of the human brain.

Could it be? And we believe it did happen.

that alien viruses infected planet Earth at this inflection point of the

extinction of the human species. They implanted viruses in the human species

that changed the brain.

But could viruses really survive in the frozen vacuum of space?

And if so, could they have come here not by accident, but as some kind of

extraterrestrial invasion?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest further clues might be found by

examining a controversial theory that comets, far from being lifeless, are

brimming with alien microbes. And they are headed our way.

Boston, Massachusetts, August 27th. 1918.

Two sailors visit the sickbay at a seaside pier with frightening symptoms.

Their bodies are literally covered with dark splotches.

They suffer from severe bleeding, and they are foaming at the mouth.

The next day, eight more arrive with the same symptoms.

And in just a few weeks, thousands die.

As Boston falls into the grip of one of the deadliest viral outbreaks of all

time, the Spanish flu.

The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is probably the worst epidemic in recorded

human history.

Medical historians estimate that up to 20 million people died during that

epidemic.

It didn't just focus on one group of people.

People from the very top echelon of society all the way to the working poor

struck down by the Spanish flu.

Half a world away, the same influenza epidemic ravages populations across

Its starting point is traced back to the city of Bombay. And there's a strange

connection between these two outbreaks.

They began... on the same day one of the things that's not often discussed

is that the great flu epidemic began on the same day in two different places in

boston and on the other side of the world in bombay now those are two spots

the earth that are virtually on opposite ends And you have to wonder how that is

possible because you can't travel within a day by ship from Boston to

India and air travel at the time didn't exist.

How does an outbreak occur of the same virus on places so spread apart

in 1918 in less than 24 hours?

The answer.

is that the virus probably fell from space.

Perhaps the Earth was grazed by the tail of a comet.

And so that's why we had the outbreak of the epidemic on two sides of the

planet.

Until recently, it was believed that radiation, extreme temperatures, and the

vacuum of space, that is to say, the absence of any oxygen, would kill any

form.

But ever since humans first ventured into space, scientists have been finding

evidence to the contrary.

April 20th, 1967.

NASA's unmanned Surveyor 3 lander touches down on the moon and begins its

mission. collecting soil from the lunar surface.

Two years later, astronauts on the Apollo 12 mission recover parts of

and return them to Earth.

To the astonishment of scientists, living strep bacteria is found on the

But this is only the first of many cases of microorganisms surviving space

travel.

There have been experiments in which microorganisms have been flown to the

International Space Station and exposed to the hard vacuum and the radiation and

the temperature changes of deep space.

And many of those organisms survive.

Incredibly, several types of bacteria have thrived back on Earth after

up to two years outside the International Space Station.

But even more surprisingly, this durability isn't reserved for single

organisms alone.

In September 2007, a Russian Soyuz rocket carried tiny animals called

tardigrades into space to test their legendary ability to thrive in extreme

environments.

Tardigrades are called water bears.

They're found in the polar regions on mosses and so forth.

and they're beautiful little animals they have a very unusual life history

there were experiments in which tardigrades were carried to the

space station and they were found to survive exposure to the deep space

environment and after they were brought back there were several of the

tardigrades that were still alive now in the last 20 years it was

shown beyond any doubt that microbes are essentially born space travelers.

They can survive almost any of the rigors that you can think of that would

them in space.

High temperatures, high radiation, intense cooling, and even intense

It's also well established that microorganisms can very easily survive

bodies like comets and...

could well live in bodies like Europa and Enceladus because there is ice

there is liquid water oceans underneath the icy crust.

In recent years, astronomers are identifying more and more planets that

potentially harbor life.

Some believe that microbial life first evolved on one of these distant planets,

eons later.

Meteor impacts blasted some of them into space, where they took root in comets.

But even if true, how could they descend to Earth and infect humans?

We know for a fact that material from other bodies in our solar system is

continually raining down on the surface of the planet Earth, and it could well

be bringing with it dead and possibly even living microorganisms as it enters

the Earth's atmosphere.

and then lands in oceans or lakes or streams of the planet.

Could this explain many of the plagues that sickened and killed millions

throughout history?

In 2007, an international team of researchers set up a research facility

Sierra Nevada mountains of Spain to collect data on microbes falling to

from the sky.

What they discovered remains controversial.

The total amount of viruses that were falling down on the Earth was

something like 800 million individual viruses per square meter of the

Earth. The conclusion they came to, of course, was that this was essentially

viruses that were lofted from the surface of the Earth, taken up to the

and brought back.

Now, I think some would have been...

recirculated in this way, but not all.

And I feel that this is one of the most striking examples of

science being essentially dishonest in its conclusions. These

800 million viruses per square meter falling on the earth

must include viruses that are coming from outside.

Although some scientists believe that life on Earth actually originated with

microbes that rained down from comets, a theory known as panspermia, an

even more controversial theory called directed panspermia proposes that these

comets were sent here not by accident, but deliberately.

If I'm an alien species,

And I want to start a colony on a different planet.

Think of what we're doing now.

We want to send human beings back to the moon.

We want to send human beings to Mars.

What if that's not what they did?

What if the ancient aliens didn't send complete life forms, but sent

sub -microscopic life forms?

Mainstream scientists remain skeptical that microbes can survive for thousands

of years inside icy comets, much less that they might be sent to Earth

deliberately to alter human evolution.

But others argue that the proof can be found right here on Earth, in the

environment we have to comets, the icy depths of glaciers.

Whistler, Canada.

April 17, 2019.

Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos and retired NASA scientist Dr.

Richard Hoover are about to board a helicopter bound for a massive ice cave

the Canadian wilderness.

All right, you ready for this?

Yes, absolutely.

All right.

Dr. Hoover spent most of his career studying fossils for signs of

extraterrestrial microscopic life.

and is a leading proponent of panspermia, the idea that life on Earth

rained down from comets in outer space.

He has invited Giorgio to accompany him while he investigates the Whistler Ice

Cave. I always loved this.

Where he is confident they will find the glacial ice teeming with microbial and

perhaps even more sophisticated life forms.

Life forms that may be...

thousands of years old. This is just absolutely magnificent.

It really is.

If alien viruses are reaching Earth, Dr. Hoover suggests that those that don't

find a host could survive within such an environment for long periods of time.

Today, he'll examine the glacier for the perfect samples to analyze in his

laboratory. So, Richard, how excited are you to be here to conduct this

experiment?

Well... I'm tremendously excited. This is absolutely a marvelous opportunity to

do more studies of life than ice.

After a 20 -minute helicopter ride, the team arrives at the Whistler Ice Cave in

the Pemberton Glacier.

Wow. This is incredible.

Amazing.

Look at that. There must be...

A thousand shades of blue in this escape.

Absolutely fantastic.

And here we see all of these magnificent shades of blue. And up there you see

big streaks of black.

Glaciers like to eat rocks. And as they eat rocks, the rocks...

gather inside, and when the sun shines through the ice and hits the rocks, it

can cause it to melt and form nice little pools of water. And then when

and algae grow in there and respire and produce their photosynthetic products,

they make their own atmosphere. So around every tiny rock in this glacier,

is a tiny planetary system with its own biology, its own atmosphere, its own

soil, in effect, and its own ocean.

The ice here is tens of thousands of years old, but Dr.

Hoover believes it is teeming with life.

Wow, I mean, this is spectacular.

So you just described basically our environment on a microscopic level.

There is an enormous amount of biology above us and throughout this wonderful

glacier.

What we are about to do is take a core sample of this beautiful blue ice.

So what are you looking for specifically right now? What I want to do first is

chop away an outer layer and get into the inner ice. We'll be looking inside

the ice for the ice microorganism.

Now we know there can't possibly be any contamination because

this ice has been in the glacier.

And now it's only correctly closed.

And now we take the core.

Now we're into the ice.

Pull the ice core out.

Okay. And that's enough, right? That's enough, yeah, for that first sample.

Yeah, cap that.

All the microorganisms that grow in ice typically grow very, very slowly.

So, in fact, there are some microorganisms that only reproduce once

century or once a century. So the microbes that are found in here, are

sustained animation or are they moving around?

Probably both. So essentially what you're saying is that this entire cave

filled with life.

Yes, but not just that.

Ice cap is filled with life. There is this enormous amount of microorganisms

that live and thrive and love to live in these low temperatures of the ice cave

that we have here and ice caves and icy glaciers all over the planet Earth and

probably all over icy regions within our entire solar system and maybe widely

distributed throughout the entire universe.

Are we essentially inside the interior of a comet?

Is this what it looks like? Yes.

Microorganisms can live in ice, and ice is the dominant component of comets.

Organisms can remain alive and protected by the icy material of the comet until

it arrives into another solar system and blows off chunks of material that can

find a planet that it can consider a wonderful home.

And so this basically ties into the whole idea of panspermia. Water is a

wonderful radiation shield. And when you have a comet that is a few miles in

diameter, on the inside of that cometary crust there is all of this magnificent

ice that has been frozen and then reworked with material going in and out.

comets are not just a magnificent place for panspermia.

I am convinced that comets are an absolutely wonderful place for the

life.

Incredibly, Giorgio and Dr. Hoover discovered that the glacier isn't home

just microscopic life.

This is magnificent.

Look, these ice worms.

This one has just crawled out of the glacier.

He's deep in the ice. Look at this.

Over here, two more ice worms.

They're all in here compared to the ice worms. He's clearly looking for

something. Yeah, he's hunting.

We discovered life in the most inhospitable of environments.

Amazingly, Dr.

Hoover has found some of the rarest animals on Earth.

Ice worms only exist in a handful of locations in North America.

But how can animals live and thrive in frozen blocks of ice?

So how do these ice worms come about?

This is an incredible evolutionary phenomena They have apparently evolved

able to live and grow and feed and reproduce inside of glacial ice and snow

They are feeding on algae, cyanobacteria, and other bacteria that

ice, and they can make burrows through the ice, just like an earthworm makes

burrows through the soil. And we may see similar kinds of organisms on the polar

cap of Mars, or perhaps even in craters in the moon, or perhaps the icy moons of

our solar system like Europa and Enceladus. You know, it's kind of

because we came here in the hopes of finding microbes.

And here we are looking at ice worms, which are actual animals.

So this is more than what we'd hoped for. It's incredible.

As Giorgio and Dr. Hoover take their samples to a lab to be analyzed, what

of life forms might they find within the Pemberton Glacier?

Could it support the theory that life on comets is more common than we ever

thought possible?

And if so, is it just the random byproduct of a universe?

that is teeming with various forms of life?

Or is it part of a more strategic plan, a plan deliberately designed to

alter human evolution?

Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos and retired NASA scientist Dr.

Richard Hoover have just collected deep ice core samples from the Pemberton

Glacier in Whistler, Canada.

First sample that we got.

Now back in the lab.

They are hoping to observe microorganisms that remain dormant

ice and are just now returning to life for the first time in thousands of

Do you see anything?

Oh, yes, yes. We've got bacteria.

This is fantastic. I mean, look at this one spinning right here.

this one just moves straight across the screen and this one is tumbling and

notice there's a cell that has just undergone cell division here's another

that's just undergone cell division okay

The quest for extraterrestrial life to me has been a lifelong one, as it has

been with you. So I've traveled around the world climbing pyramids. I've looked

at statues. I've been to hundreds of museums.

I've read countless ancient texts. And here we are looking at something that

shows extraterrestrial life that may have come here millions of years ago.

fascinating thing is...

that a far more extraordinary hypothesis than the existence of extraterrestrial

life is the hypothesis that life exists on the planet Earth and nowhere else in

the universe. If that were to turn out to be what really is the case, then we

would be completely unique.

And we would be different from everywhere else in the universe. And

be an amazing discovery. Much more amazing than finding out that bacteria

worms are crawling around on the surface of Europa today.

This is incredibly fascinating.

You know, and it's also refreshing to hear an actual NASA scientist telling me

these things.

If, as Dr. Hoover's research indicates, icy comets are ideal incubators for

extraterrestrial life, and if microorganisms are incredibly common in

universe, is the Earth being regularly bombarded by tiny alien life forms?

Life forms that could not only grow and mutate, but could also pose a deadly

threat to mankind.

Sussex, England, 1992.

Cattle are slaughtered by the thousands as government officials try to prevent

the spread of the most frightening new disease on Earth.

Called mad cow disease, it is an entirely new kind of illness caused by

proteins called prion.

So mad cow really sort of challenged our... traditional concepts of disease

causation in the sense that it wasn't a bacterium, it wasn't a virus.

It's actually sort of like rogue proteins that don't fold correctly and

pass on that information to other proteins, and that sort of makes them

dysfunctional as well.

Some of the microbes found in commentary debris contain chemical structures very

similar to prion.

They could have been introduced from space because of the fact that mad cow

disease seemed to have appeared rather abruptly and been transferred rather

widely. According to ancient astronaut theories, the sudden appearance of mad

cow disease raises an intriguing question.

Could many of history's worst epidemics have come from space?

And if so, did they come here purely by chance?

Or were they sent here?

On purpose.

What if the terrible plagues that ravaged the Earth were the result of

viruses that are constantly bombarding the planet?

August 26, 1976.

The small village of Yambuku in Zaire is struck by a deadly disease that causes

victims to ooze blood from every orifice.

The name of the disease, Ebola.

Ebola is a viral hemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates, so it causes

massive internal bleeding and often death in over 50 % of cases.

Initially thought to be a new disease, alert historians recognize the symptoms

of Ebola as being identical to those of an epidemic that ravaged the Roman

Empire nearly 2 ,000 years ago.

In 250 A .D., The plague of Cyprian struck the city of Carthage in North

incredibly contagious.

It caused infected victims to ooze blood from every orifice, just like Ebola

virus, and killed off half the population.

But just as quickly as it appeared, the plague seemed to disappear completely

from the planet.

If Ebola is present, on earth in the third century and it then disappears

all the way through to the 1970s if it isn't somewhere hiding on earth is it

possible that it was out in space itself perhaps on a comet and that this is the

reason why it returns on a comet itself to rain down more misery

on humanity was the virus that we know as ebola really dormant for nearly

20 centuries?

Or was it deliberately sent to Earth not once, but twice?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the answer is obvious.

And as proof, they point to accounts concerning another of history's worst

plagues, the Black Death.

What's interesting about these accounts is that they seem to have originated

after something strange was seen up in the sky.

For example, they saw this black shield travel across.

And then it is also described that this black dust came off that

particular object.

Also in the wheat field.

They reported these strange figures holding some type of device, like a

Some people feel today these reports were some types of extraterrestrials

causing the disease.

Ironically, with half the population gone, those who survived the plague

twice the wealth and natural resources of the previous generation.

They also had much stronger immune systems.

So could this have been part of some deliberate...

extraterrestrial plan.

Ancient astronaut theorists believe that such an audacious notion is possible.

If you're an alien culture and you're seeing Earth overpopulating

to the point where the planet can't sustain the population, what do we do

animals in the wild? We cull them.

What if these plagues were alien cultures culling us?

So these could actually be designer viruses, designer bacteria that are sent

here to kill people with specific genetic weaknesses and make the rest of

gene pool that much stronger.

But if extraterrestrials are trying to cull our population or strengthen our

genetic makeup through the introduction of microbes, why?

Some ancient astronaut theorists suspect that the ultimate objective is to make

us more like them.

Paris, France, July 2013.

Scientists announced the discovery of an entirely new class of extremely large

microbes called Pandoraviruses.

Up to 94 % of the Pandoravirus genome has nothing in common with any other

form on Earth.

These very large viruses, the Pandora viruses, they have a very high frequency

of genes that basically don't correspond to any other genes in other organisms

that we know of.

While seemingly alien, Pandora viruses do share one thing in common with all

life on Earth.

DNA.

Those who endorse panspermia say that this supports a key part of their

hypothesis.

Namely... that all life in the universe is based on DNA and therefore that life

on Earth is closely related to life everywhere.

If DNA is present throughout space and we are a product

of that DNA and that other species elsewhere in the galaxy

are also the result of the same DNA, then very clearly...

There's some kind of symbiotic relationship between all of us.

If all life in the universe is based on DNA, then alien would be closely related

to humans.

Is this why so many abductees report that their alien abductors are so

interested in human genetic material?

Many abductees have talked about how they were taken on board UFOs and

to medical experimentation.

Witnesses talk about blood, sperm, eggs being removed for their bodies.

It's very possible that an alien intelligence is tinkering with our DNA

to make us more compatible to them.

And that perhaps one day, the two species will unite.

And they will no longer be our gods, but we will be their equal.

If aliens are using these microbes to make us more like them, then obviously

we're going to start to show signs of that sort of genetic, physical

In other words, our testosterone levels should go down. We're going to become

more frail.

We're probably going to become more androgynous.

Our intelligence is going to be spiked.

Some point out that these changes are happening already.

There are trends in the evolution of human beings right now.

Sperm counts are going down.

Sperm counts are going down, by the way, as the world's population is crashing

through 8 billion to 10 billion.

Maybe we'll become more like the aliens, and perhaps that means that we're

actually more compatible with them genetically if that path is the one

laid out.

So you could actually look at the development of higher intelligence as,

kind of a genetic Trojan horse that eventually leads us to a point where

far easier for us to be crossed genetically with alien species.

Could human beings be the subjects of an ingenious bioengineering project

conducted by extraterrestrials?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe that not only is the answer yes, but that

this process, while at times painful, will ultimately benefit humanity.

But they also warn that the extraterrestrials may have another

doesn't benefit us, but them.

June 6, 2019.

The scientific journal Current Biology reports that biologists at the

of Rochester have solved the mystery of the pea aphid, a tiny, sap -sucking

insect that is normally wingless, but periodically develops wings when it

to seek out new plants to colonize.

What they found is that the genes that form the on -off switch for wings belong

to a virus.

the genome of which has become fully incorporated into that of its host.

The researchers suggest that while this is beneficial to the aphid, it is

actually the virus that induces wing development in order to spread itself

around.

Similarly, it was also found in 2019 that many wasps carry a virus that

increases their longevity, enabling the virus to be spread further.

Viruses sort of straddle our concepts of living or non -living because they

require a host in order to reproduce themselves and also to carry

out any life function. So they can't metabolize or they have to rely on a

cell to do that and to make copies of themselves as well.

On its own, a virus is inert.

It only comes to life and is able to reproduce once it comes in contact with

host. Like the viruses themselves, if extraterrestrials are altering humans,

it perhaps to further their own species?

Are they slowly transforming us into new incarnations of themselves, not to

advance humankind, but their own kind?

Perhaps.

But some ancient astronaut theorists suggest that as is the case with the

and also the wasp this process might be mutually beneficial one theory

is that these extraterrestrial visitors they are a dying race and

that they are injecting new genetic material which will help save them

another related theory is let's take human dna let's take aliens

and let's create something even better.

I think that humankind has been part of a eternal experiment,

something that's begun a long, long time ago.

And I think that this is an ongoing process.

Now, figuring out what the change is, is, your guess is as good as mine.

If we find that viruses do come from space, then we know

that because there is a relationship between viruses and evolution, that

this is something that must be universal, something that connects us

with every other possible life source everywhere out there in the universe.

Is it possible that the history of disease on our planet is not only a

story, but an extraterrestrial one?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the answer is a profound

yes. And if such a notion is true, they insist that these so -called alien

infections are not meant to destroy us, but to serve as a kind of inoculation.

A preparation for the day when mankind comes face to face with its alien

relatives.