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Strain signals from outer space.

That's the kind of thing we're looking
for.

The building blocks of life traveling on
a meteorite. You're looking at a speck

of water in a meteorite.

That's extraordinary.

An otherworldly presence found in our
atmosphere.

So this is a titanium sphere with life
inside and life on the outside.

Now what on earth is it? Absolutely
amazing. It's blown my head off.

For more than a decade.

Ancient aliens has followed
investigators across the globe as

directly to the sites where signs of
alien life have been found.

Now, we take a look back at some of the
most incredible evidence we've seen,

evidence that according to ancient
astronaut theorists, provides undeniable

proof that we are not alone in the
universe.

On ancient aliens, we have traveled the
globe investigating everything from tiny

microbes to massive megaliths, all in
the quest to find proof of

extraterrestrial life.

And one of the most incredible places
we've ever visited is a field study site

for an organization called SETI, or the
Search for Extraterrestrial

Intelligence.

In 2016, I got the rare opportunity to
tour the grounds and learn about how

listen for signs of intelligent life in
the universe.

Shasta County, Northern California,
March 2016.

Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio
Tsoukalos travels to the Allen Telescope

Array in Hat Creek to meet with the
director for SETI research, Seth

This is truly amazing. What can you tell
me about this place?

Well, this place is an observatory, but
it's a radio observatory. So these

things around us, these 42 antennas,
they pick up radio waves. And we're

to pick up very special sort of radio
waves, namely some that would tell us

somebody's out there. By having lots of
these dishes here, we can look at more

of the sky at once. We can look at
multiple star systems at once.

Why radio waves?

What's so significant about radio waves?
Radio waves go at the speed of light.

And they also, by the way, go through
all the gas and dust that's between the

stars. So, you know, if you want to
communicate from one part of the galaxy

another, radio waves are a great way to
do it.

So the way this works is actually kind
of simple. I mean, the cosmic radio

static, it comes in from the sky, and it
bounces off that big reflector there,

that first one. Okay, that's a mirror
for radio waves. And that redirects them

to the secondary reflector on the end,
on the nose there. And then they're

directed to the receiver, and that's
inside.

That information goes through a fiber
optic over to the control room.

So this is where the data coming through
the fiber optic kind of ends up after

it's been processed in a display like
this. And what are we looking at right

here? So we're looking, in this case, at
three star systems at once.

Okay, so that speeds up the search. It
also allows us to determine whether

really seeing ET or just interference.

The data from one of these star systems
is being displayed over on this part of

the screen here. This is called a
waterfall plot.

That. Can you see that line of brighter
dots there? Yeah, that's slightly more

static at that frequency, slowly going
down the dial. That's the kind of thing

we're looking for. So then if this here
were an actual ET signal, how would it

differentiate itself?

Would it be a bit thicker, a bit more
pronounced, a bit longer?

What are you looking for? It could be
all of those things. So what you do is

when you find a signal like this, you
make a test. You'll just move the

a little bit and see if the signal goes
away, and then point it back at the star

and see if it comes back.

You say, well, that's looking promising.
You do that again, go off, go on, go

off, go on. If you do that five or ten
times, you start to get excited.

I hope that that day will come very
soon.

Although the SETI Institute formally
came into existence in 1984,

The practice of listening for
extraterrestrial life has been underway

1960s.

Astronomers based at various
universities throughout the U .S. have

their radio telescopes into the cosmos
in hopes of capturing signals of

intelligent life. And sometimes they
receive a transmission they can't

Delaware, Ohio, August 15, 1977.

At Ohio State University's Big Ear Radio
Telescope, astronomer Jerry R. Eyman

conducts research for SETI.

While reviewing recorded data, he
detects a highly unusual signal

from the constellation Sagittarius.

They were looking for a 72 -second
signal that would be coming

from extraterrestrials.

And as Dr. Jerry Amon monitored the
output of the pages that were

coming from space, he suddenly found a
signal that matched exactly what they

were looking for. And so he circled the
page of data that had that 72 -second

window on it and wrote WOW next to it.
And this became known as the WOW signal.

And it essentially was... The kind of
extraterrestrial SETI signal that they

were all looking for and had suddenly,
briefly found it.

While there are various theories as to
what may have caused the now famous WOW

signal, from terrestrial radio
broadcasts to comet trails, SETI has not

out the possibility that it may
represent modern man's first radio

extraterrestrials.

The wow signal continues to intrigue
people.

So we are going to use the Allen
Telescope array to re -observe the wow

look in the same spot on the sky, look
over a wider range of frequencies, and

there's something up there and it's
still broadcasting, of course we would

it.

Might the discovery of the wow signal
bring us one step closer to discovering

that we are not alone in the universe?

Perhaps further clues can be found.

by examining life forms on Earth that
are capable of surviving inside a comet.

The possibility of finding evidence of
alien life by receiving a message from

space is a thrilling prospect.

But many scientists are looking for
clues right here on Earth. And in 2019,

got the incredible opportunity to meet
with a scientist who believes he may

found extraterrestrial life in one of
the most inhospitable environments on

planet.

Whistler Canada.

April 17, 2019.

Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio
Tsouklos 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, where he is confident that 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 microbes are reaching Earth,
Dr. Hoover suggests that they 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

studies of life than ice.

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

the Pemberton Glacier.

Wow.

It's incredible.

Yeah. Amazing.

Look at that. There must be a thousand
shades of blue in this ice cave.

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 bacteria and algae

in there and respire and produce their
photosynthetic products, they make their

own atmosphere. So around every tiny
rock in this glacier, there is a tiny

planetary system with its own biology,
its own atmosphere, its own soil, in

effect, and its own oceans.

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's 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. And we'll be looking

of 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
is only correctly closed.

And now we take the core.

Now we're into the ice.

I'll pull the ice core out.

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

Yeah, cap that. Okay.

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 they in suspend animation or are

they moving around?

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

filled with life.

Yes. But not just that. This entire ice
cap is filled with life.

There is this enormous amount of
microorganisms that live and thrive and

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.

That 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.

So comets are not just a magnificent
place for panspermia.

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

life.

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.

First sample that we got.

Now, back in the lab, they are hoping to
observe microorganisms that remain

dormant within the glacial ice and are
just now returning to life for the first

time in thousands of years.

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 one 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

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. The

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 that would be an amazing
discovery, much more amazing than

out that bacteria or ice 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?

Perhaps further clues can be found by
examining recent scientific evidence

supports the once fringe theory that
life on Earth was seeded from outer

On ancient aliens, we have found
abundant evidence that alien life has

way to Earth.

But what if these life forms were
deliberately sent out into the universe

possibly even directed right at our
planet?

In 2018, Andrew Collins met with
researchers who believe that they have

proof that Earth is being regularly
bombarded by microbial life forms.

South Yorkshire, England, March 2018.

Author and researcher Andrew Collins
travels to Sheffield to witness a

remarkable demonstration.

Hi, guys.

I'm Chris, I presume, and Milton.

He is meeting with microbiologist Milton
Wainwright and engineer Chris Rose, two

members of the research team who are
convinced that life on Earth may have

originated in space through a process
known as...

Panspermia. I understand you've made
some incredible discoveries. Please tell

all about it. In the early 2000s, my
colleague Chandra Wickramasinghe, we

launching balloons from India. And these
were sampling the air at 41 kilometers.

And they show that organisms are
continually arriving all the time.

Panspermia is an extremely simple idea.

Basically, it's the idea that life came
from space. Instead of being formed on

this planet, it came from space.

My findings relate to panspermia simply
in that they show that organisms are

coming in at this very moment from
space.

Tell me how you actually collect these
samples.

This is our balloon that's going to give
us the buoyancy from the hydrogen gas

here. Now, our captain mechanism is
right here. Let me show you this. This

exposes little metal stubs to the
environment.

And you're looking to see if you can get
microbes coming from the upper

atmosphere and not from the Earth
itself. That's right.

All the critics say they're coming from
Earth because we're surrounded by life.

But we have lots of evidence that this
material is not coming from Earth. It's

incoming from space.

I mean, it sounds incredible. I mean,
have you ever lost any of these?

No, and we're not about to start today.
So, fingers crossed, guys. Brilliant.

The team moves the balloon into launch
position, from which it will ascend more

than 37 kilometres, or 23 miles, into
the air.

OK, guys, ready?

Andrew, on you. Countdown, please. OK.

Five, four...

Three, two, one, let it go.

Ah, there she goes.

Once the balloon reaches its target
altitude within the Earth's

the capture mechanism will hopefully
collect samples of non -Earth -based

microbial life.

After the sampling is complete, the
balloon bursts, and the capture

descends back to Earth under the safety
of a parachute.

The team uses GPS tracking to locate
where the mechanism lands.

Once retrieved, the sample is quickly
secured in a sealed container so that it

does not become contaminated with
microbes from Earth.

Moments later, Andrew joins Milton and
Chris at a nearby laboratory.

Here, they will extract the microbes
inside a sterilized clean room.

and then analyzed them to make sure no
earth microbes had contaminated the

sample.

A clean room.

How can you ensure the sterilization?
What are the protocols behind this

process? It's really all about
sterilizing the air inside to make sure

inside contains no microorganisms. So
all the air is filtered.

Milton and Chris remove the carbon tabs
from the capture mechanism and place

them into vacuum -sealed containers.

This will further prevent contamination
while they view the samples with a

scanning electron microscope.

Wow. What on earth is that? I can tell
that this is biological.

If you analyze this, I'm pretty certain
this will show as carbon, oxygen, and a

little bit of nitrogen.

Now that's the signature for life.

We're saying that this piece of
biological life could potentially be

extraterrestrial in origin.

Right. There's nothing from Earth around
it. It's pristine, so it's incoming.

Now, if we do a bit of modeling studies,
we come to the conclusion that nothing

bigger than 6 microns can't go out.

Okay. And this is 200.

So it's a very large particle, and it's
coming in.

What we actually could be looking at
here...

is a genuine alien life form.

What you're looking at there is an
organism or a clump of organisms that is

incoming from space to Earth.

Nothing bigger than six microns can go
from the surface of the Earth to these

altitudes that we sample at.

And yet we are finding particles all the
way up to 200.

They can't be coming up from Earth.

Absolutely amazing. It's blown my head
off.

biological organisms, not from Earth,
but from somewhere in space?

Could we be looking at actual evidence
of a living organism from a world other

than our own?

We've actually found evidence of what
could be extraterrestrial biological

entities. To see those images was
extraordinary, and it's convinced

me that...

the earth is surrounded by life that
almost certainly came from outer space

this is what we took earlier as they say
this is the most amazing

image i've ever seen in my life it's got
biological material here and this

material we know contains carbon oxygen
and nitrogen so this is biological when

we analyzed the ball, we found it
contained titanium and a small amount of

vanadium. So this is a titanium sphere
with life inside and life on the

Now, what on earth is it?

One possibility is that this is directed
panspermia.

Some civilization has put biological
material inside and just on the outside

this thing and then spewed it out. And
this suggests that some alien

civilization is feeding planets.

This smoking gun of panspermia, or even
direct panspermia, could give

us the best evidence yet that aliens, in
some form, seeded

life on this Earth, which is an
incredible thought.

Is it possible that extraterrestrial
life forms are being deliberately sent

planet Earth?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and
suggest that archaeologists may

have actually found physical remains of
the beings who are sending them.

On ancient aliens we have traveled
around the world looking for definitive

evidence to prove that we are not alone
in the universe.

And what could be more definitive than a
human -like skull that appears to be

something other than human? In 2017, I
got to examine an elongated skull up

close, and what I discovered was
absolutely mind -blowing.

New York City.

February 2017.

At New York University, Giorgio Suclos
meets with art collector Jared Collins,

who is in possession of a 2 ,000 -year
-old elongated skull.

Oh, wow.

That is fantastic.

The skull is incredibly well -preserved,
and Jared is having it tested at the

university to find out if it might
possibly contain abnormalities.

that indicate it is something other than
human.

He agreed to meet Giorgio outside of the
anthropology lab for a first look at

the skull.

So how did this come to be in your
possession?

Well, it's not actually mine. It is on
loan to me.

Me and one of my colleagues contacted a
museum, and we asked them, do you have

an elongated skull in your collection?
And they said they have just one, this

one.

And have they told you anything about
it? Actually... Like the provenance?

Strangely, this has been in storage for
decades. They have never tested it. They

had very little information on it. They
know it's absolutely Paracas.

So this skull was found in the Paracas
region of Peru.

That's right. But no real modern testing
has ever been done on this. Oh, this is

amazing. So let's go, right?

Okay.

NYU professor of anthropology, Dr. Todd
Desatel, agreed to conduct a forensic

evaluation of the elongated skull.

I've seen casts. I've never seen one in
person.

Okay. Wow.

That is freaky. I mean, I just can't
come up with another term.

I love that your first reaction is that
it's freaky, because I agree with you.

Well, I mean, look at it. It's quite
bizarre.

Let me just move it over to the sterile
bench surface.

Wow. So it's very fascinating, besides
the shape.

The sagittal suture looks like it has
completely fused.

I'm holding it, I'm looking at it, and
it's just been completely obliterated.

The sagittal suture is the seam where
the two parietal bones of the skull come

together.

Although the markings may be faint due
to fusing over time, all human skulls

expected to have some evidence of this
feature.

So it is curious that this skull does
not.

Nor do the skulls of a number of other
mysterious specimens that have been

collected and examined by various
experts.

One of the great enigmas of planet Earth
is that all over the world,

We find skeletons with people having
these elongated skulls.

For centuries, various native cultures
have engaged in the ritual practice of

artificially elongating their skulls by
tightly wrapping the heads of their

children through infancy.

However, these skulls still feature
evidence of the cranial sutures.

Okay, let's move on to extracting some
tooth and bone powder to get DNA out of

that. Okay. Excellent.

In order to obtain the needed genetic
material from the artifact,

Dr. Disital will need to remove a tooth
and drill into it to extract the

samples.

The analysis of the material will
determine the sex, ancestral lineage of

the father and the mother.

and any DNA anomalies when compared with
the current human genetic database.

Looks pretty good.

We will pack this up and send it off,
and in four to six weeks, they should

the result. Four to six weeks, okay.
Thank you very much. I really appreciate

your input on this. Take care,
gentlemen. You got it.

Los Angeles, California, April 2017.

All right, Todd, you got the results?

Yeah, and they're very, very
interesting.

Two months after their initial
examination, Giorgio is online with Dr.

to receive the results of the DNA test
they performed on the elongated skull.

They did get a good, clean DNA profile
from the maternally inherited DNA.

So this particular specimen is
actually...

Not found in the New World, not found
amongst Native Americans, and it's

typically found amongst Europeans and
Middle Easterners.

In fact, the 100 % match was to a
Scottish individual.

This makes no sense whatsoever.

Really? In a South American skull?

This is all very strange.

That could mean that people from Europe
got to South America.

1500 years earlier than we currently
understand that that's

amazing unfortunately the condition of
the sample did not yield any y

but that's not surprising there is
between a couple hundred

to a couple thousand times as much
maternal dna in every cell of the body

So what does that mean? What have we not
found out because of that?

Well, one, that would allow us to
definitively determine the sex, and

who the father was would be very, very
informative.

Unfortunately, we're missing that.

Right. Do you think that a case can be
made at all, and again, this is complete

speculation, that perhaps it is not
necessarily human?

Is that a possibility?

Well, it's possible, but still we
actually don't know what this is.

Since we didn't get any definitive
results, obviously a scientist always

to try to do that. This is
extraordinary.

Yeah, it still leaves open the
possibility of something interesting.

The results confirmed the fact that
there is a mystery there.

First of all, We couldn't figure out who
the father is of that thing. Number

two, it has European DNA. Two things
that make no sense, and it had a missing

sagittal suture.

So I do think that that is an
extraterrestrial skull.

Could the elongated skull, analyzed by
Dr. Disotel, provide evidence that a

human -like species walked planet Earth
that wasn't entirely human?

Perhaps further clues can be found by
examining recent scientific evidence

supports the theory that life can exist
where we least expect it.

Many of the scientists we've spoken to
on ancient aliens believe that the best

place to search for evidence of alien
life is on meteorites that have crashed

Earth.

A few years ago, I met with a planetary
scientist in England who showed me

incredible evidence that these space
rocks could be delivering microbial

extraterrestrial life forms right here
to our planet.

Milton Keynes, England, March 2019.

Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio
Tsouklos travels to the Open University.

to meet with planetary scientist Dr.

Queenie Chan.

Dr. Chan.

Georgio. Hello.

Great pleasure to meet you.

Welcome here. Nice to meet you too.
Thank you so much for bringing me here.

Dr. Chan recently analyzed two
meteorites recovered in 1998 and

something incredibly unexpected.

A salt crystal containing liquid water.

Georgio is eager to find out.

what the implications of this discovery
could be, and if it might provide

further evidence that life on Earth was
heated by extraterrestrials.

Within a stony meteorite, we've got
something called the chondritic

They are interesting because they have
organic materials in it.

The meteorite that I found extremely
interesting, special, two meteorites

actually, that... and Monaghan's
meteorite. They are both ordinary

but they are not ordinary.

They both fell to Earth in 1998.

And what's more interesting is both of
these meteorites have salt crystals.

They have stunning blue coloration to
them.

More interesting is within these salt
crystals, we found water.

liquid water inclusion within them.

I'm trying to wrap my mind around this.
So you're telling me that you found

meteorites that actually contain liquid
water in them?

Shall we have a look at it in the clean
lab? Yes, please. That would be amazing.

Absolutely.

Before they can examine the meteorite
sample, Giorgio and Dr. Chan change into

protective gear that will keep the
laboratory sterile.

All right.

And so this is it. This is it. Can we
have a look under the microscope?

Yes.

Trying to move that in focus now.

There it is.

I'm going to enlarge it on my screen.

This is it. You're looking at a speck of
water in a meteorite.

This is the first time that we found
amino acids with water.

This is extraordinary.

Amino acids.

These organic compounds are the building
blocks of life.

So finding them within liquid water on a
meteorite is extraordinary.

Could alien proteins like these have
started life on Earth?

One of the exciting things about the
discovery of the blue salt crystals in

asteroids that crashed to Earth is
really the amino acids.

Amino acids are the building block of
proteins.

that Earth isn't the only place where
the right chemistry exists for which you

can get light.

In another laboratory, Dr.

Chan shows Giorgio the machine that
analyzed the meteorite samples on a

nanometer scale.

The results are then displayed on a
computer screen, showing a comparison

between amino acids found on Earth and
those that arrived here from space.

This is very interesting because, first
of all, we're seeing a bunch of amino

acids that are common in terrestrial
life. And over here, we've got other

extraterrestrial amino acids. Really?
This is a revolutionary discovery.

I immediately go to the idea of
panspermia, that life has been brought

throughout the entire galaxy by means
with which we can't even fathom how it

done. The building blocks of protein
that we know to be necessary for life,

these very building blocks, the same
amino acids that we found on Earth, is

ubiquitous in the universe.

It's everywhere. It's found on
asteroids. It's found on comets, too.

estimation, what is the likelihood of
life having begun elsewhere?

We've got so many different galaxies,
and there are so many Earth -like

And we could have water elsewhere. We
know that amino acids are building

of life, are ubiquitous.

So I think it's totally possible.

Could these incredible findings be proof
that the seeds of life travel to Earth

from other planets in our galaxy?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.

and believe that further evidence can be
found in the recent NASA discovery that

there might be life on Mars.

The search for evidence of
extraterrestrial life has taken ancient

deep in the jungle all the way up to a
remote mountain cave.

But perhaps one of the most compelling
places to look is not on our planet at

all. In recent years, new research has
suggested that Mars may actually support

life. And in 2018, aerospace engineer
Dr. Travis Taylor traveled to NASA

to learn about an exciting new discovery
and to see a piece of the red planet

right here on Earth.

Houston, Texas, June 2018.

Scientist and aerospace engineer Dr.
Travis Taylor.

travels to Johnson Space Center and
meets with NASA exploration mission

scientist Dr.

Elizabeth Rampey.

Dr. Rampey analyzes data obtained by the
Mars Curiosity rover, which six years

into its mission is sending back some of
its most extraordinary findings yet.

So there was very late breaking news
recently from the Curiosity rover, and

interesting information came out of the
sample analysis at Mars or SAM

instrument. Okay. So SAM can measure
gases in the atmosphere, and it can also

measure gases that are evolved from
samples. So basically we drill a rock,

deliver that powder to the instrument,
and then that instrument heats up the

sample and measures the gases that are
coming off.

Whatever outgas is, it can tell you what
that is, right? Exactly. So a big piece

of information from the atmosphere is
that we've been tracking methane over

last few Martian years, and what we see
is that there is a cycle to it where it

spikes late summer, early autumn, and
then dips again.

Wow. Yeah, so the big question is why is
that happening? So that could possibly

be due to an organic material, right, or
a biological source.

Exactly. Meaning life. Right, I know. So
huge.

It's not the only hypothesis out there.
Sure. But, you know, there is the

possibility that there is extant life on
Mars that is creating this methane.

Wow. The fact that NASA has now released
information that they've measured a

cycle of methane that goes up in the
summer and down in the winter, it sounds

very similar to how biological processes
create methane here on Earth. That

could be evidence that there's life
right now on Mars.

Life on Mars?

According to NASA, such a profound
notion is a distinct possibility.

And other discoveries made by the Space
Agency could reveal something even more

incredible. That life on Earth actually
originated on Mars.

So what is this? Tell me what this is.
Okay, so this is a Martian meteorite. So

this is a rock that came from Mars.

How long ago?

The rock itself is about 180 million
years old, so that's when it

on Mars. And to give you some context,
180 million years ago, dinosaurs were

roaming the Earth. Right. Well, we know
that this rock came from Mars, so if

there was organic material on Mars 3 .5
billion years ago, something could have

caused that organic material to go from
there.

To here, right? Right. And what's
interesting about, you know, three and a

billion years ago is that's when life
was taking hold on Earth.

Right. And Mars was once very Earth
-like with rivers and lakes.

So why not Mars? We've got all the
building blocks for life on Mars, so why

couldn't it happen there? So it's very
possible that we're descendants of

Martians. I'm not going to rule that
out.

When you look at all of the evidence
that's out there, from microbes in the

stratosphere to strange signals coming
from space, and even ancient bones that

defy explanation, you have to ask, have
we already discovered alien life?

The answer is a resounding yes, and I
have no doubt that far more incredible

proof is yet to come.