1 00:00:02,519 --> 00:00:05,740 Millions of planets, similar to our own. 2 00:00:06,340 --> 00:00:11,740 The discoveries of exoplanets over the past few years have been absolutely 3 00:00:11,740 --> 00:00:17,120 extraordinary. And many could soon be within the grasp of our technology. 4 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:18,720 Think about it. 5 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:24,900 Civilizations over billions of years could have risen and fallen even before 6 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:26,120 Earth was formed. 7 00:00:27,180 --> 00:00:30,680 But if we can reach out in pursuit of life on other worlds, 8 00:00:31,420 --> 00:00:34,220 Might they also be reaching out to us? 9 00:00:34,660 --> 00:00:38,480 And have they been doing so for thousands of years? 10 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:45,760 Could it be that ancient civilizations, ancient aliens from far away migrated 11 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,680 from their home worlds and they found Earth? 12 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,460 The implications for humanity are enormous. 13 00:00:56,220 --> 00:00:59,380 There is a doorway in the universe. 14 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,960 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 15 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:09,760 It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. 16 00:01:10,260 --> 00:01:13,300 The evidence is all around us. 17 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:17,400 The future is right before our eyes. 18 00:01:17,780 --> 00:01:20,200 We are not alone. 19 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,420 We have never been alone. 20 00:01:32,430 --> 00:01:37,450 Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 18, 2018. 21 00:01:38,990 --> 00:01:45,870 At 6 .51 p .m., a Falcon 9 rocket lasts off on a mission to deploy NASA's 22 00:01:45,870 --> 00:01:52,750 newest space telescope into orbit, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, 23 00:01:52,750 --> 00:01:58,850 TAT. TAT is like a survey of the whole sky, a survey of the nearest hundred 24 00:01:58,850 --> 00:01:59,850 light years or so. 25 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,820 of planets that would be around these stars. 26 00:02:04,580 --> 00:02:09,780 Over the next decade, scientists expect that TESS will fulfill its primary 27 00:02:09,780 --> 00:02:14,140 mission, to discover thousands of so -called exoplanets. 28 00:02:16,140 --> 00:02:19,600 Exoplanets are planets that exist outside of our solar system. 29 00:02:20,100 --> 00:02:23,480 We're certainly in an exoplanet golden age of discovery. 30 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:28,300 Twenty years ago, we didn't know if there were other Earth -like planets in 31 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:29,300 universe. 32 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:34,520 And now we can't imagine how we could discover things at a higher rate and 33 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,760 try to make sense of it. It's such a struggle just to keep up with the 34 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:39,300 discoveries that we're making right now. 35 00:02:42,620 --> 00:02:47,220 It is only recently, with the development of deep space satellites and 36 00:02:47,220 --> 00:02:51,340 -powered telescopes, that a more accurate understanding of nearby 37 00:02:51,540 --> 00:02:55,780 especially planets capable of supporting human life, has been possible. 38 00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,380 But it wasn't so long ago. 39 00:02:59,900 --> 00:03:04,300 that the notion of Earth -like planets existing in our galaxy wasn't simply 40 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:07,100 unknown, it was considered blasphemy. 41 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:13,260 When the 16th century Italian philosopher and cosmologist Giordano 42 00:03:13,260 --> 00:03:19,220 expressed his belief in an infinity of worlds and raised the possibility that 43 00:03:19,220 --> 00:03:25,100 other planets could harbor life, he was charged with heresy and burned at the 44 00:03:25,100 --> 00:03:29,580 stake. It was heretical, revolutionary to believe that there could be alien 45 00:03:29,580 --> 00:03:30,580 out there. 46 00:03:31,620 --> 00:03:35,660 Giordano Bruno was burned alive in the streets of Rome. 47 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:37,060 And what was his crime? 48 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:41,080 To say that there are aliens out there on other planets. 49 00:03:42,540 --> 00:03:46,960 They weren't allowed to think like that. It challenged all their predispositions 50 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,240 and their power structure. 51 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:51,300 No, there are no other worlds. There's nothing out there. 52 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,620 But there is something out there. There's no question about it. 53 00:03:56,010 --> 00:04:01,790 As recently as the early 1990s, astronomers were still unable to detect 54 00:04:01,790 --> 00:04:05,510 distant planets, even with high -powered telescopes. 55 00:04:06,330 --> 00:04:08,870 It's hard to see an exoplanet. 56 00:04:09,330 --> 00:04:13,230 Imagine trying to look at a firefly next to a spotlight. 57 00:04:14,350 --> 00:04:19,310 It's incredibly difficult because stars shine by their own light. They give off 58 00:04:19,310 --> 00:04:23,850 their own light. But planets reflect light. A typical star is about... 59 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,620 10 billion times brighter than a planet. 60 00:04:29,180 --> 00:04:34,120 Thanks to remarkable advances in technology, astronomers made the very 61 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:38,980 discovery of an exoplanet in 1992 using an Earth -based telescope. 62 00:04:40,420 --> 00:04:46,420 But that search kicked into high gear in 2009 with the launch of Kepler, the 63 00:04:46,420 --> 00:04:50,300 first space telescope specially designed to find exoplanets. 64 00:04:51,260 --> 00:04:56,800 And in 2018, Kepler was replaced by the even more powerful TESS. 65 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,980 So one of the really cool things about TESS, the new satellite that NASA has 66 00:05:01,980 --> 00:05:08,680 up, is basically it was specifically designed to detect exoplanets by 67 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,300 what's called the transit method, which is where when a planet goes in front of 68 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:13,960 a star, it blocks the light briefly. 69 00:05:14,340 --> 00:05:16,720 And you really see the light blink on and off. 70 00:05:17,930 --> 00:05:21,690 That telltale dip is what tells you there might be something that's passing 71 00:05:21,690 --> 00:05:25,190 front of it. The regularity tells you that the orbit, which is the easiest way 72 00:05:25,190 --> 00:05:27,510 to actually start looking for new planets. 73 00:05:29,330 --> 00:05:33,650 Although the initial objective in the search for exoplanets was simply to 74 00:05:33,650 --> 00:05:38,050 determine how many stars in our galaxy might have planets in orbit around them, 75 00:05:38,450 --> 00:05:41,090 the actual results were staggering. 76 00:05:42,130 --> 00:05:46,510 Our galaxy has around 400 billion stars. 77 00:05:46,990 --> 00:05:51,390 From what we've seen so far, it is on average every star has at least one 78 00:05:51,390 --> 00:05:57,970 planet. So that means that there are 400 billion at least planets in our 79 00:05:57,970 --> 00:05:58,970 galaxy. 80 00:06:00,210 --> 00:06:04,530 400 billion planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone? 81 00:06:05,250 --> 00:06:10,490 The discovery of such an extraordinary number of exoplanets represents a 82 00:06:10,490 --> 00:06:12,970 change in our understanding of the universe. 83 00:06:13,970 --> 00:06:20,050 But even more radical, is denoting that millions of those planets might actually 84 00:06:20,050 --> 00:06:24,450 be capable of not just supporting life, but generating it. 85 00:06:26,670 --> 00:06:32,150 And to that end, astronomers and astrophysicists actively search for 86 00:06:32,150 --> 00:06:34,890 a region they refer to as the Goldilocks zone. 87 00:06:36,190 --> 00:06:41,210 The Goldilocks zone is exactly that range for a given star of where water is 88 00:06:41,210 --> 00:06:43,050 going to be liquid on a given type of planet. 89 00:06:44,460 --> 00:06:49,240 We want a planet that is not too close, not too far from the mother star, but 90 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:50,240 just right. 91 00:06:50,780 --> 00:06:57,620 Planets that may have oxygen and H2O, water, that may make possible an 92 00:06:57,620 --> 00:07:01,080 atmosphere and maybe even life. 93 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:08,180 Based upon current observations, scientists are astounded by the number 94 00:07:08,180 --> 00:07:11,580 potentially habitable planets that exist in the Goldilocks zone. 95 00:07:12,140 --> 00:07:18,300 with at least 400 billion planets in our galaxy. If you just look at 1 % of 96 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:23,240 that, you're still talking about billions of planets that could 97 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:28,760 habitable. This is exciting because we once thought that we were the only game 98 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:31,860 in town that could only exist on the planet Earth. 99 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:37,720 The discovery of exoplanets, I think it's really changed our view of the 100 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,220 potential for life in the universe. 101 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,800 Fundamentally, I think most scientists would now agree that there is some form 102 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:46,300 of life elsewhere in the universe. 103 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:52,420 But in spite of the abundance of habitable exoplanets, many scientists 104 00:07:52,420 --> 00:07:57,120 cling to the notion that the only kind of life likely to exist outside of Earth 105 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:59,120 is microbial or bacterial. 106 00:07:59,660 --> 00:08:04,060 They are resistant to what they claim are far -fetched notions that these 107 00:08:04,060 --> 00:08:08,870 planets might not only contain more sophisticated or evolved life forms, but 108 00:08:08,870 --> 00:08:14,130 intelligent life forms, some much more evolved or technologically advanced than 109 00:08:14,130 --> 00:08:15,130 our own. 110 00:08:15,810 --> 00:08:22,590 Think about it. The universe is about 13 .8 billion years old. The Earth 111 00:08:22,590 --> 00:08:26,530 is 4 .6 billion years old. 112 00:08:28,250 --> 00:08:33,770 Civilizations over billions of years could have risen and fallen even before 113 00:08:33,770 --> 00:08:34,990 Earth was formed. 114 00:08:37,419 --> 00:08:41,940 Although the realization that the galaxy is teeming with Earth -like planets has 115 00:08:41,940 --> 00:08:44,920 triggered a revolution in conventional scientific thinking. 116 00:08:45,420 --> 00:08:50,460 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, it merely confirms what 117 00:08:50,460 --> 00:08:52,400 they have believed all along. 118 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:58,680 The discoveries of exoplanets over the past few years have been absolutely 119 00:08:58,680 --> 00:08:59,680 extraordinary. 120 00:09:00,620 --> 00:09:06,020 I remember that the first time they discovered this first exoplanet, And me 121 00:09:06,020 --> 00:09:10,400 my colleagues were saying, okay, this will be the first of many. 122 00:09:11,220 --> 00:09:17,980 And now apparently as many as three exoplanets are being discovered on a 123 00:09:17,980 --> 00:09:19,260 daily basis. 124 00:09:19,820 --> 00:09:25,520 So what we've said all along, that Earth is not unique in this gigantic 125 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,140 universe, turns out to be correct. 126 00:09:29,060 --> 00:09:30,740 This raises the question. 127 00:09:31,260 --> 00:09:34,800 that we've been bringing up, that for thousands of years there's evidence of 128 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,720 some type of visitation from other civilizations. 129 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:44,680 Hopefully our science is able to now detect exoplanets will allow us to 130 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:48,580 some of these actual home worlds where aliens have been visiting them. 131 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:55,920 I propose that most of those planets that are in this Goldilocks zone 132 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:59,520 have life very similar to ours. 133 00:10:01,130 --> 00:10:06,330 The only question is, was it them who came here thousands of years ago? 134 00:10:08,670 --> 00:10:13,270 But while a growing number of mainstream scientists do admit that intelligent 135 00:10:13,270 --> 00:10:19,390 life can theoretically exist elsewhere within our galaxy, they also argue that 136 00:10:19,390 --> 00:10:23,510 the distances between those planets and our own are too vast for any 137 00:10:23,510 --> 00:10:25,970 extraterrestrial visitation to take place. 138 00:10:26,970 --> 00:10:31,560 It is a position that put them in direct conflict with ancient astronaut 139 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:37,100 theorists, who contend that the keys to extraterrestrial space travel can be 140 00:10:37,100 --> 00:10:41,680 found in Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and that a voyage to a 141 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:45,100 star could take not centuries, but seconds. 142 00:10:50,540 --> 00:10:55,280 The Atacama Desert, Chile, August 2016. 143 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:02,800 At the La Silla Observatory, astronomers searching for exoplanets announced the 144 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:06,400 detection of an Earth -like planet orbiting the closest star to our solar 145 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,700 system, Proxima Centauri. 146 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:15,560 They named the planet Proxima b and describe it as both Earth -like and 147 00:11:15,560 --> 00:11:18,540 enough to its star to be capable of supporting life. 148 00:11:19,580 --> 00:11:23,960 One of the more interesting exoplanets we've found recently is Proxima b. 149 00:11:25,140 --> 00:11:29,700 This exoplanet is about 1 .3 times the size of Earth, so scientists think that 150 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:33,100 it might be rocky, which means that it could be quite similar to Earth. 151 00:11:34,380 --> 00:11:36,280 Proxima b may be habitable. 152 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:41,360 We'll be able to study it in more detail with large telescopes, and in the next 153 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,220 10 years, we may even be able to get pictures of the planet. 154 00:11:49,940 --> 00:11:53,480 Proxima b is located just over four light years from Earth. 155 00:11:53,770 --> 00:11:56,270 a distance of about 25 trillion miles. 156 00:11:56,870 --> 00:12:02,730 Despite the immense distance, an ambitious program is already underway to 157 00:12:02,730 --> 00:12:04,210 spacecraft to study it. 158 00:12:05,050 --> 00:12:09,850 Called Breakthrough Starshot, the program began as the joint brainchild of 159 00:12:09,850 --> 00:12:14,530 philanthropist Uri Milner and famous cosmologist, the late Stephen Hawking. 160 00:12:15,210 --> 00:12:21,470 For the first time in human history, we can do more than just gaze at the stars. 161 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:23,700 We can actually reach them. 162 00:12:24,420 --> 00:12:29,200 The goal of Breakthrough Starshot is to send tiny probes, mere centimeters 163 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,200 thick, to the nearby planet. 164 00:12:33,180 --> 00:12:38,480 We take a computer chip, energize it with laser beams and a parachute. 165 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:44,640 The laser beam inflates the parachute and shoots the chip to the nearest star. 166 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:51,200 You deploy this and you basically just cruise. You can possibly accelerate 167 00:12:51,770 --> 00:12:56,270 Fairly high, 20 % of the speed of light. And now getting to the nearest star 168 00:12:56,270 --> 00:12:57,430 becomes very recent. 169 00:12:59,590 --> 00:13:04,650 But even traveling at such high speeds, the probes will take 20 years to 170 00:13:04,650 --> 00:13:05,650 complete their journey. 171 00:13:06,990 --> 00:13:08,690 Light travels at a finite speed. 172 00:13:09,110 --> 00:13:13,930 A very simple example of this is the sun is eight minutes away by the way light 173 00:13:13,930 --> 00:13:14,930 travels. 174 00:13:15,150 --> 00:13:18,650 And most things are millions of light years away or thousands of light years 175 00:13:18,650 --> 00:13:23,720 away. If we pick up a signal, from another civilization. 176 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:29,580 That's a big thing, but it's very distant. They may never get here. We may 177 00:13:29,580 --> 00:13:30,339 meet them. 178 00:13:30,340 --> 00:13:32,320 Indeed, because of interstellar distances. 179 00:13:33,020 --> 00:13:38,020 Here, as ancient astronaut theorists believe, Earth has been visited by alien 180 00:13:38,020 --> 00:13:41,380 entities coming from exoplanets only now being discovered. 181 00:13:41,700 --> 00:13:46,800 Such entities would have to overcome the primary obstacle to space travel, the 182 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:48,660 vast distance between objects. 183 00:13:50,250 --> 00:13:54,050 You talk to many scientists, and they'll say the same thing over and over again. 184 00:13:54,350 --> 00:13:59,450 The distances between stars are so great, impossible, that these aliens can 185 00:13:59,450 --> 00:14:00,450 visit us. 186 00:14:02,050 --> 00:14:03,270 Think for a moment. 187 00:14:03,890 --> 00:14:09,230 If there are a million years more advanced than us, just realize that 188 00:14:09,230 --> 00:14:13,250 technology, with all our wonders, is only about 300 years old. 189 00:14:15,180 --> 00:14:19,860 In recent years, a growing number of astrophysicists have proposed that 190 00:14:19,860 --> 00:14:24,240 mankind's ability to unlock the mysteries of interstellar space travel 191 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,340 much closer than previously thought. 192 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:33,360 And they believe the key is by using a theoretically possible structure known 193 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:38,320 a wormhole, a bend in space -time that was first proposed by Albert Einstein, 194 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:43,300 which could make travel times between stars not only shorter, but nearly 195 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:44,300 instantaneous. 196 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:52,980 From the perspective of ultimate space travel, from my point of view, wormholes 197 00:14:52,980 --> 00:14:57,240 are simply, you take space, which can bend in our theory of general 198 00:14:57,540 --> 00:15:01,560 the modern theory of gravity. You bend it around on itself so you have two 199 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:05,480 layers that are apart, and you connect them with a tunnel. That tunnel is a 200 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:09,920 wormhole. They're commonly referred to as stargates because it gives you a way 201 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:14,040 to get faster than, like, space travel across large distances. 202 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:16,600 In theory. 203 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,720 Spacecraft that can create wormholes would be able to travel to distant 204 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,940 exoplanets in just hours, possibly even seconds. 205 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:32,740 If extraterrestrial civilizations far more advanced than humans do exist, 206 00:15:32,740 --> 00:15:37,340 they have discovered the secrets of space travel hundreds or perhaps 207 00:15:37,340 --> 00:15:38,340 of years ago? 208 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:43,240 And if so, might they have even traveled here to planet Earth? 209 00:15:46,890 --> 00:15:52,350 Mount Palomar, California, October 6th, 2013. 210 00:15:53,970 --> 00:15:59,590 A massive red star in the constellation Pegasus, ten times larger than our sun, 211 00:15:59,810 --> 00:16:02,150 exploded in a colossal supernova. 212 00:16:02,410 --> 00:16:07,890 For the first time, scientists are able to witness the death of a giant star in 213 00:16:07,890 --> 00:16:08,890 real time. 214 00:16:09,430 --> 00:16:15,480 But perhaps even more profound is the fact that because the dying star is 160 215 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:17,200 million light years from Earth. 216 00:16:18,500 --> 00:16:24,020 Astronomers are actually witnessing an event that took place 160 million years 217 00:16:24,020 --> 00:16:25,020 ago. 218 00:16:26,140 --> 00:16:30,880 So one of the things to realize about astronomy is almost everything we are 219 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:32,360 looking at is in the past. 220 00:16:33,540 --> 00:16:35,460 The light doesn't travel infinitely. 221 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,180 And a supernova is basically a star exploding. 222 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:42,780 If it had any planets around it, those are wiped out. So if there was a 223 00:16:42,780 --> 00:16:46,360 civilization or if there was life there, what we're seeing happen now happened 224 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:47,760 very far in the past. 225 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:54,000 The violent death of the star in Pegasus provides dramatic confirmation that the 226 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,640 universe is both ancient and dynamic. 227 00:16:57,940 --> 00:17:03,000 But ancient astronaut theorists believe such discoveries also provide reasons 228 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,460 why an advanced extraterrestrial civilization might need to leave its 229 00:17:07,460 --> 00:17:09,579 planet in search of other worlds. 230 00:17:11,079 --> 00:17:17,339 When astronomers look out into the galaxy for dying sun, 231 00:17:17,660 --> 00:17:24,060 if there were beings who had an advanced civilization around this dying sun, 232 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:29,960 they would, in theory, want to migrate to another solar system, to another 233 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:35,360 planet that they could inhabit, and it's quite possible that they did that. 234 00:17:35,850 --> 00:17:37,710 and came to our planet, in fact. 235 00:17:38,850 --> 00:17:43,750 We know that billions of years from now, our own star, our sun, will go 236 00:17:43,750 --> 00:17:49,610 supernova. And we are very close now to being able to venture out or migrate to 237 00:17:49,610 --> 00:17:50,770 another habitable planet. 238 00:17:51,070 --> 00:17:55,210 We can extrapolate that to ancient civilizations as well, ancient star 239 00:17:55,210 --> 00:17:59,570 civilizations, who knew that their own star was ready to go supernova, and they 240 00:17:59,570 --> 00:18:02,010 embarked on a plan of planetary migration. 241 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:10,980 Has the story of the cosmos been, in part, a story of the extraterrestrial 242 00:18:10,980 --> 00:18:14,380 migration of various advanced exoplanet life forms? 243 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:20,120 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the answer is a 244 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:21,120 yes. 245 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:26,020 And they claim the proof can be found by carefully examining everything from 246 00:18:26,020 --> 00:18:31,480 ancient carvings to the religious beliefs of ancient cultures from across 247 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:32,480 globe. 248 00:18:36,879 --> 00:18:41,060 Lafayette Observatory, Chile, 2011. 249 00:18:43,660 --> 00:18:47,800 Astronomers announced the discovery of a large Earth -like planet orbiting a 250 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:49,620 star in the constellation Orion. 251 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:56,540 The planet is located in the Goldilocks zone, and the star it orbits is very 252 00:18:56,540 --> 00:19:01,560 similar to our own, making it an ideal candidate for extraterrestrial life. 253 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:08,120 This is exciting because we want to have a stable solar system like the planet 254 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:09,800 Earth. That's the goal. 255 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:15,020 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, this may be the most 256 00:19:15,020 --> 00:19:19,440 compelling exoplanet discovery yet because throughout the world, numerous 257 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:24,100 ancient cultures have told stories of otherworldly visitors coming from Orion 258 00:19:24,100 --> 00:19:28,540 and even built their most important structures in alignment with that 259 00:19:28,540 --> 00:19:29,540 constellation. 260 00:19:30,730 --> 00:19:35,050 All around the world, there are these ancient structures that have been built 261 00:19:35,050 --> 00:19:36,210 the form of Orion. 262 00:19:38,010 --> 00:19:42,730 One example that comes to mind is the Great Pyramid of Giza, where the three 263 00:19:42,730 --> 00:19:46,790 pyramids are aligned according to the belt stars of Orion. 264 00:19:48,570 --> 00:19:53,990 But also in the American Southwest, there are structures that are in 265 00:19:53,990 --> 00:19:54,990 to Orion. 266 00:19:55,870 --> 00:19:57,510 Native American myth. 267 00:19:58,380 --> 00:20:05,020 talk specifically about visitors who came here from the Orion 268 00:20:05,020 --> 00:20:10,300 constellation. The fact that Orion's constellation exists in magnificent 269 00:20:10,300 --> 00:20:16,520 archaeological monuments on Earth indicates to me that someone at some 270 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:23,340 taught our ancestors where and how to build these structures to illustrate 271 00:20:23,340 --> 00:20:24,560 they are from. 272 00:20:27,210 --> 00:20:32,030 Is it possible that the exoplanet discovered in the Orion constellation is 273 00:20:32,030 --> 00:20:37,210 same place where extraterrestrial visitors to Earth came from thousands of 274 00:20:37,210 --> 00:20:43,090 ago? For ancient astronaut theorists, such an audacious notion is a very real 275 00:20:43,090 --> 00:20:44,090 possibility. 276 00:20:44,550 --> 00:20:49,870 And they also insist that Orion is not the only star system from where aliens 277 00:20:49,870 --> 00:20:50,870 may have come. 278 00:20:51,430 --> 00:20:53,730 All over the world we have... 279 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:59,480 different cultures who identify with certain star systems as their origins. 280 00:20:59,940 --> 00:21:06,060 The Quechua people of Peru, they believe that we're from the Pleiades. 281 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:14,620 In Africa, we have the Dogon who are saying that our origin is actually with 282 00:21:14,620 --> 00:21:16,220 the Sirius star system. 283 00:21:16,780 --> 00:21:21,740 Various cultures have imagined they have come from specific places, the Pleiades 284 00:21:21,740 --> 00:21:27,560 or Sirius. Well, that would be a planet near the star system, suggesting that, 285 00:21:27,660 --> 00:21:32,680 at least in mythology, there are planets there that could be inhabited by 286 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:33,920 creatures like us. 287 00:21:34,540 --> 00:21:39,200 While many ancient cultures pointed to distant star systems as the homes of 288 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:43,700 their gods, ancient astronaut theorists suggest that one of the oldest human 289 00:21:43,700 --> 00:21:49,040 civilizations, the Sumerians, left records of otherworldly beings that came 290 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,580 a planet right in our own solar system. 291 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:56,560 A planet that until very recently was thought not to exist. 292 00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:03,640 New York City, 1976. 293 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:12,120 Author Zechariah Sitchin publishes his landmark book, The Twelfth Planet, the 294 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:13,960 first of over a dozen books. 295 00:22:14,300 --> 00:22:19,040 Based upon Sitchin's translations of ancient Sumerian texts, the twelfth 296 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:23,560 ultimately reshapes the way millions of people view the history of life on 297 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:24,560 Earth. 298 00:22:24,580 --> 00:22:29,620 In it, Sitchin claims that ancient Sumerians wrote about an 299 00:22:29,620 --> 00:22:33,220 race that once visited Earth, the Anunnaki. 300 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:41,700 The term Anunnaki is essentially interchangeable with extraterrestrial. 301 00:22:42,250 --> 00:22:47,730 Because the word Anunnaki itself means those who from the heavens came. 302 00:22:50,550 --> 00:22:54,970 There's a whole pantheon of Anunnaki, basically. There was Anu, who was 303 00:22:54,970 --> 00:22:56,930 essentially the king of all the Anunnaki. 304 00:22:57,190 --> 00:22:59,890 And then his two sons, Enel and Enki. 305 00:23:00,710 --> 00:23:05,150 When we look at a lot of the Sumerian tablets, they seem to have come from a 306 00:23:05,150 --> 00:23:07,970 much larger planet, a reddish glowing planet. 307 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:13,580 One of the great questions about the Anunnaki is, where did they come from? 308 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:18,340 Well, Zechariah went back into the ancient texts and began to build a 309 00:23:18,340 --> 00:23:23,360 that the Anunnaki came from an as -yet -undiscovered twelfth planet in our 310 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:25,640 system that he called Nibiru. 311 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:33,960 Nibiru is described as a much larger planet than Earth, and it has a very 312 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,960 elliptical orbit, more like a large egg -shaped orbit. 313 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,900 The kicker here is that it goes once around the sun every 3 ,600 years. 314 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:46,560 So a solar year for them is 3 ,600 of our years. 315 00:23:47,820 --> 00:23:54,820 Fitchin believed that there was a time during this 3 ,600 -year orbit when this 316 00:23:54,820 --> 00:23:57,940 planet was actually relatively close to the Earth. 317 00:23:58,460 --> 00:24:04,740 And Fitchin then theorized the Anunnaki would then fire their rockets, and then 318 00:24:04,740 --> 00:24:06,180 they would come here to Earth. 319 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,740 and that this was how they were interacting with humans. 320 00:24:12,860 --> 00:24:18,100 For decades, astronomers claimed that no such planet could exist in our solar 321 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:25,060 system. But in 2016, Caltech astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown 322 00:24:25,060 --> 00:24:28,360 made a discovery that could prove this theory wrong. 323 00:24:29,770 --> 00:24:33,430 But Tegan and Brown were using an interesting method of looking for other 324 00:24:33,430 --> 00:24:34,870 planets in the solar system. 325 00:24:35,150 --> 00:24:39,130 Namely, they were looking at dwarf planets and distant Kuiper belt objects 326 00:24:39,130 --> 00:24:40,190 see how they move. 327 00:24:41,430 --> 00:24:46,390 If they exhibit any strange behavior, astronomers can use that to theorize new 328 00:24:46,390 --> 00:24:51,050 planets. And what they found was a theoretical planet -sized mass orbiting 329 00:24:51,050 --> 00:24:53,010 hugely elliptical orbit around the sun. 330 00:24:54,430 --> 00:24:59,690 Astronomers have often suspected, because of certain gravitational 331 00:24:59,690 --> 00:25:05,190 things, that there is still some other planet far out in our solar system, 332 00:25:05,310 --> 00:25:06,710 beyond Pluto. 333 00:25:07,630 --> 00:25:13,150 Astronomers call this other planet Planet X, and it could be a very large 334 00:25:13,150 --> 00:25:18,070 planet. Astronomers cannot see it, but I would suspect that astronomers will 335 00:25:18,070 --> 00:25:20,870 eventually discover it and prove that it exists. 336 00:25:22,860 --> 00:25:28,300 But Teagan and Brown estimate that Planet X has a highly elliptical orbit 337 00:25:28,300 --> 00:25:31,820 takes it thousands of years to make a single trip around our sun. 338 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:37,460 This matches exactly what Zechariah Sitchin found in his translation of the 339 00:25:37,460 --> 00:25:41,840 ancient Sumerian tablets concerning an extra planet in our solar system. 340 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:47,760 The thing about it is that if we discover Planet X, then we will also 341 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:48,760 the Anunnaki. 342 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:54,220 So they're absolutely entwined. The idea of the Anunnaki and the discovery of 343 00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:56,220 Planet X will prove one another. 344 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:01,300 Could extraterrestrials have come to Earth from a planet within our own solar 345 00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:02,300 system? 346 00:26:02,940 --> 00:26:08,100 And if Earth has, in fact, played host to alien visitors from multiple worlds, 347 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:09,460 what brought them here? 348 00:26:09,940 --> 00:26:14,980 According to the ancient Sumerian tablets, the Anunnaki valued one thing 349 00:26:14,980 --> 00:26:15,980 all else. 350 00:26:16,660 --> 00:26:17,660 Gold. 351 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,480 Los Angeles, California, June 2019. 352 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:34,660 The Trans Astronautic Corporation announces a partnership with NASA to 353 00:26:34,660 --> 00:26:37,660 new venture in space, asteroid mining. 354 00:26:39,660 --> 00:26:46,420 We incorporated TransAstro in 2015 when we saw that SpaceX and Elon Musk 355 00:26:46,420 --> 00:26:52,740 and Blue Origin Jeff Bezos and other entrepreneurs were developing low -cost, 356 00:26:52,860 --> 00:26:57,740 really effective ways to get into orbit. Once we have rockets that can get into 357 00:26:57,740 --> 00:27:03,060 orbit inexpensively, then it makes sense to start building real industries in 358 00:27:03,060 --> 00:27:06,160 space. And one of the first industries is asteroid mining. 359 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:12,920 Precious metals that we really value on the Earth, things like gold and 360 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,180 platinum, they're called precious metals because they're not around much. 361 00:27:16,570 --> 00:27:19,850 The question is, where are they? And the answer is asteroids. 362 00:27:20,870 --> 00:27:25,850 Metals like gold, copper, and zinc have been mined on Earth for thousands of 363 00:27:25,850 --> 00:27:28,190 years and are vital to civilization. 364 00:27:29,110 --> 00:27:34,590 But their supply is finite, in part because they are not native to this 365 00:27:36,350 --> 00:27:39,810 When the Earth was originally being formed, it was molten. 366 00:27:42,190 --> 00:27:45,830 And a lot of the precious metals were drawn towards the center of the Earth. 367 00:27:46,710 --> 00:27:51,830 And through this molten process, all the heavy elements went down to the core of 368 00:27:51,830 --> 00:27:53,070 the Earth where we can't get out of it. 369 00:27:53,850 --> 00:27:58,190 Then the Earth started to cool and form a cool crust which was made of lighter 370 00:27:58,190 --> 00:27:59,190 material. 371 00:27:59,490 --> 00:28:04,390 It is widely accepted that without access to metals, both technology and 372 00:28:04,390 --> 00:28:06,590 civilization would not have been possible. 373 00:28:06,990 --> 00:28:08,650 But luckily for mankind... 374 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,360 some 3 .8 billion years ago. 375 00:28:12,260 --> 00:28:17,400 It is estimated that trillions of asteroids crashed into the Earth and 376 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,780 a layer of heavy metals into the planet's now hardened crust. 377 00:28:23,060 --> 00:28:28,040 These elements were actually from Earth originally. All of these elements came 378 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:33,580 to Earth via comets and asteroids that impacted our planet long ago and early 379 00:28:33,580 --> 00:28:34,580 its history. 380 00:28:36,490 --> 00:28:40,870 So all the precious metals that we mine on the earth actually came from the 381 00:28:40,870 --> 00:28:46,710 asteroids The bombardment of asteroids seated Earth's crust with enough metals 382 00:28:46,710 --> 00:28:53,490 to make possible the Bronze Age the Iron Age and today's 383 00:28:53,490 --> 00:28:59,610 technological civilization But many metals including rare earth elements 384 00:28:59,610 --> 00:29:05,580 for high technology are in increasingly short supply because of this many 385 00:29:05,580 --> 00:29:09,700 experts believe the asteroid belt may once again come to the rescue. 386 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:16,680 You get a typical asteroid of 200 meters in diameter, it will have more of those 387 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,560 rare Earth elements that have been mined on Earth in all of human history. 388 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:27,640 Of the more than 6 ,000 asteroids in NASA's database, it is estimated that 389 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:33,220 just the 10 easiest to reach and mine would yield an astonishing $1 .5 390 00:29:33,220 --> 00:29:34,520 in resources. 391 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:39,600 The asteroid belt could provide for the needs of our civilization for many 392 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,180 centuries, maybe thousands of years into the future. 393 00:29:43,220 --> 00:29:50,200 The natural thing to do is to build spacecraft, go out to the asteroids, 394 00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:55,960 mine them, make goods out of the asteroids. 395 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:01,660 And we presume that other intelligences, if there are other intelligences, would 396 00:30:01,660 --> 00:30:05,160 think the same way we would. And so anything that seems to make sense to us 397 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:06,360 could make sense to others. 398 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:13,340 If other intelligent life forms exist on nearby exoplanets, might they too be 399 00:30:13,340 --> 00:30:19,760 aware of the vast resources that exist in the asteroid belt and also on planet 400 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:20,760 Earth? 401 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,440 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes. 402 00:30:24,010 --> 00:30:29,670 and suggest that Earth is rich in another commodity that would be of great 403 00:30:29,670 --> 00:30:35,490 to any advanced civilization looking to mine for precious metals, liquid water. 404 00:30:38,510 --> 00:30:44,570 If aliens wanted to mine the asteroid belt, they'd need a base, somewhere to 405 00:30:44,570 --> 00:30:46,030 regroup and refuel. 406 00:30:46,330 --> 00:30:50,350 As it happens, there's one pretty close, and it's called Planet Earth. 407 00:30:52,490 --> 00:30:57,990 Why would aliens come here might well be because we're mostly water on planet 408 00:30:57,990 --> 00:30:58,990 Earth. 409 00:30:59,310 --> 00:31:06,110 They stop here because they could break down water into hydrogen and oxygen 410 00:31:06,110 --> 00:31:07,910 as fuel. 411 00:31:09,310 --> 00:31:15,810 So if you have a craft that somehow uses hydrogen power, you have all the 412 00:31:15,810 --> 00:31:17,350 hydrogen you'll ever need. 413 00:31:18,330 --> 00:31:21,610 It well could be that this is a way station. 414 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,120 for extraterrestrials. 415 00:31:25,660 --> 00:31:30,780 Is it possible that extraterrestrial civilizations have come to Earth not 416 00:31:30,780 --> 00:31:35,940 as refugees from planets orbiting dying stars, but also to mine precious metals 417 00:31:35,940 --> 00:31:39,080 or abundant natural resources like water? 418 00:31:40,180 --> 00:31:45,180 And if so, would that indicate that these Earth visitors might be physically 419 00:31:45,180 --> 00:31:47,120 very similar to ourselves? 420 00:31:54,060 --> 00:31:58,300 La Silla Observatory, Chile, 2009. 421 00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:05,900 Astronomers identify a potentially habitable planet orbiting the star 422 00:32:05,900 --> 00:32:12,780 667c. It's a large Earth -like planet located firmly in the Goldilocks zone. 423 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:17,960 While evidence of life has yet to be discovered, scientists are able to 424 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,900 speculate as to how life on this planet would evolve. 425 00:32:22,090 --> 00:32:28,110 When we imagine life on other planets, we have to imagine that the environment 426 00:32:28,110 --> 00:32:32,690 on those planets will determine what the creature may look like. 427 00:32:34,470 --> 00:32:39,030 And considering planets larger than Earth, the increased gravity will likely 428 00:32:39,030 --> 00:32:45,010 result in shorter, complex life forms. This results in a more stable life form 429 00:32:45,010 --> 00:32:46,110 and protects against falls. 430 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:51,260 So life forms on larger planets would likely be smaller than those on smaller 431 00:32:51,260 --> 00:32:52,260 planets. 432 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:57,940 Like Earth, a major evolutionary force on the planet is the strength of its 433 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:06,400 Galiza 667c is a red dwarf star, an M star, that's about 1 .4 % as bright as 434 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:07,400 our sun. 435 00:33:07,630 --> 00:33:11,590 Because M dwarf stars are much smaller than our sun, they're much cooler and 436 00:33:11,590 --> 00:33:13,030 they give off a lot less light. 437 00:33:13,290 --> 00:33:18,450 Because the star gives out such low light compared to our sun, any life on 438 00:33:18,450 --> 00:33:20,090 planets would look much different. 439 00:33:20,830 --> 00:33:25,530 Let's assume for the sake of argument that there is life on Glee 667, see? 440 00:33:26,530 --> 00:33:29,670 Such life would be living in kind of eternal darkness. 441 00:33:30,730 --> 00:33:35,930 In order for life forms on a planet like that to see, they'd be like owls on 442 00:33:35,930 --> 00:33:41,110 planet Earth. They would have very, very large eyes to capture as much light as 443 00:33:41,110 --> 00:33:42,110 possible. 444 00:33:43,130 --> 00:33:49,470 They are going to develop eyes that are perhaps more like insect's eyes, where 445 00:33:49,470 --> 00:33:54,130 you're seeing different light spectrums and heat signatures, something 446 00:33:54,130 --> 00:33:56,490 completely different than the way we see. 447 00:33:58,190 --> 00:34:02,670 For ancient astronaut theorists, these descriptions share a curious similarity 448 00:34:02,670 --> 00:34:06,690 to accounts reported by alleged alien abductees. 449 00:34:08,110 --> 00:34:13,929 Alien abductees give very consistent accounts of some of the types of aliens 450 00:34:13,929 --> 00:34:14,929 they see. 451 00:34:15,949 --> 00:34:22,710 The most consistent account is four feet short, gray, big -headed, 452 00:34:22,870 --> 00:34:23,889 big -eyed aliens. 453 00:34:24,570 --> 00:34:29,489 And this would fit what we might expect with gravity so intense that you 454 00:34:29,489 --> 00:34:30,830 couldn't grow to six feet. 455 00:34:32,650 --> 00:34:36,030 Short, gray aliens with large black eyes? 456 00:34:36,730 --> 00:34:43,230 Is it possible that the habitable planet orbiting Gliese 667c is the homeworld 457 00:34:43,230 --> 00:34:46,429 of the beings known in the UFO community as the greys? 458 00:34:48,190 --> 00:34:53,730 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, The planet orbiting 459 00:34:53,730 --> 00:34:59,650 667 C is just one of a number of recently discovered worlds that could 460 00:34:59,650 --> 00:35:05,050 places of origin for extraterrestrials encountered both in modern times and in 461 00:35:05,050 --> 00:35:06,050 the distant past. 462 00:35:08,350 --> 00:35:13,190 Mountain View, California, April 2013. 463 00:35:15,210 --> 00:35:20,070 NASA scientists at the Ames Research Center announced that the Kepler Space 464 00:35:20,070 --> 00:35:25,060 Telescope has discovered two new exoplanets that seem highly promising 465 00:35:25,820 --> 00:35:32,600 Named Kepler 62E and 62F, they are so -called water worlds, planets covered 466 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,880 by an all -encompassing global ocean. 467 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:41,080 The planets 62E and F are very exciting because they are ocean -covered planets 468 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:42,600 and in the habitable zone. 469 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:46,740 So if you're an ocean -covered planet, it increases the chance that there's 470 00:35:46,740 --> 00:35:47,780 actually life on that planet. 471 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:53,540 If there is a water world, with an atmosphere, with water. 472 00:35:53,820 --> 00:35:58,720 The creatures that may inhabit there are water -born creatures. 473 00:35:59,180 --> 00:36:03,500 They wouldn't necessarily look like human beings standing up on two legs and 474 00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:06,020 arms. They might look more like mermaids. 475 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:12,500 Ancient astronaut theorists point out that many early civilizations reported 476 00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:18,100 visitors with amphibious, fish -like characteristics, considered to be gods. 477 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:24,780 They were seen in China, sub -Saharan Africa, Central America, and Egypt, just 478 00:36:24,780 --> 00:36:25,780 to name a few. 479 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:32,160 These amphibian beings were said to interact with humans by day and retreat 480 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:33,580 rivers or lakes at night. 481 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:40,000 Could such entities have come from so -called water worlds like Kepler -62e 482 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,000 F? 483 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:46,640 Creatures like that, if they existed, would evolve on water worlds. 484 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,100 Planets with a global ocean. 485 00:36:49,580 --> 00:36:55,120 And it just so happens that in the ongoing search for exoplanets, many such 486 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,900 worlds are being discovered. 487 00:36:57,720 --> 00:37:04,560 These half -human, half -fish type gods that are like us, but are still 488 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,520 aquatic and are coming from these water planets. 489 00:37:08,730 --> 00:37:13,130 Extraterrestrials may be very attracted to planet Earth because the oceans are 490 00:37:13,130 --> 00:37:14,210 huge and vast. 491 00:37:14,510 --> 00:37:20,850 So aquatic extraterrestrials could find a very happy home here on planet Earth. 492 00:37:22,590 --> 00:37:27,030 So when we encounter alien life forms on a space, are they going to look like 493 00:37:27,030 --> 00:37:31,810 us? No. They could look completely different from us and have a different 494 00:37:31,810 --> 00:37:33,470 pathway to intelligence. 495 00:37:34,450 --> 00:37:39,510 In their search for habitable exoplanets, Could mainstream scientists 496 00:37:39,510 --> 00:37:43,150 discovering the home worlds of extraterrestrial visitors to Earth? 497 00:37:43,750 --> 00:37:47,990 For ancient astronaut theorists, the answer is a resounding yes. 498 00:37:48,650 --> 00:37:53,990 And they suggest that the search for life is about to be revolutionized once 499 00:37:53,990 --> 00:38:00,650 again as NASA prepares to launch an extraordinary new technology into space. 500 00:38:06,380 --> 00:38:10,140 Geneva, Switzerland, October 8, 2019. 501 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:17,720 Astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Qualos are awarded the Nobel Prize in 502 00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:21,080 Physics for discovering the first exoplanet in 1992. 503 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:28,280 In the years since, more than 4 ,000 have been examined and categorized, and 504 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,060 more are being found every day. 505 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,900 Let's do a science experiment tonight. 506 00:38:35,420 --> 00:38:39,660 Go outside, look up, and see all the thousands of stars you see. 507 00:38:40,140 --> 00:38:45,120 Every single one, on average, has a planet going around them. 508 00:38:45,420 --> 00:38:49,340 And about a 1 in 20 has an Earth -like planet. 509 00:38:50,460 --> 00:38:54,980 And so when you look at the stars tonight, realize that somebody could be 510 00:38:54,980 --> 00:38:57,180 looking back at you from outer space. 511 00:39:02,890 --> 00:39:07,470 NASA will launch the James Webb Space Telescope, a satellite that can do 512 00:39:07,470 --> 00:39:13,150 something once thought impossible, take detailed color images of an exoplanet. 513 00:39:14,610 --> 00:39:20,410 The James Webb Space Telescope is a different type of telescope than we've 514 00:39:20,410 --> 00:39:21,410 in space before. 515 00:39:21,930 --> 00:39:27,470 It will give us the ability to look at the reflected light from exoplanets in 516 00:39:27,470 --> 00:39:31,510 the infrared part of the spectrum and to search for the potential for biology. 517 00:39:32,230 --> 00:39:33,230 Being present. 518 00:39:34,330 --> 00:39:39,890 But when we look upon the images of other worlds, and possibly even the 519 00:39:39,890 --> 00:39:42,150 that inhabit them, what will we find? 520 00:39:43,110 --> 00:39:49,450 I think that what's really lying in store for humanity now is that we will 521 00:39:49,450 --> 00:39:54,650 that there are these exoplanets out there, that they have life, and quite 522 00:39:54,650 --> 00:39:58,770 possibly intelligent life, capable of coming to our solar system. 523 00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:05,680 This will cause a sea change all over the world, within scientific communities 524 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,620 and within the religious communities, too. 525 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:16,240 If astronomers discover exoplanets with intelligent alien life forms, will they 526 00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:17,480 appear eerily familiar? 527 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:23,100 Could they find amphibious humanoid beings, like the gods depicted in 528 00:40:23,100 --> 00:40:24,100 times? 529 00:40:24,340 --> 00:40:28,440 Small, gray aliens, like those reported by alleged abductees? 530 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:35,180 And is it possible that some visitors, perhaps coming from worlds very similar 531 00:40:35,180 --> 00:40:38,160 to Earth, might look remarkably like us? 532 00:40:39,180 --> 00:40:45,440 Within established ancient astronaut theory, it's generally thought that 533 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,480 extraterrestrial beings... 534 00:40:47,690 --> 00:40:52,370 coming from outside of our solar system, were interacting with our society, and 535 00:40:52,370 --> 00:40:56,910 they were manipulating our DNA, and in a sense, creating people on this planet, 536 00:40:57,030 --> 00:41:00,110 us, who look like them and are similar to them. 537 00:41:01,250 --> 00:41:06,150 As we discover more and more exoplanets, the implications for humanity are 538 00:41:06,150 --> 00:41:11,510 enormous. I think it's very possible that we're on the verge of discovering 539 00:41:11,510 --> 00:41:14,810 home planet, the place of our origins. 540 00:41:15,980 --> 00:41:20,480 The big revelation will not be, do they look like us, but we look like them, 541 00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:22,680 because we are their offspring. 542 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:30,260 As scientists continue their search for habitable worlds, are we on the verge of 543 00:41:30,260 --> 00:41:35,040 discovering not only alien life, but the very extraterrestrials that came to 544 00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:36,520 Earth centuries ago? 545 00:41:37,550 --> 00:41:42,290 And will we find that the strange gods depicted by our ancestors as 546 00:41:42,290 --> 00:41:47,730 creations were very real flesh -and -blood entities, not so different from 547 00:41:47,730 --> 00:41:48,730 ourselves? 548 00:41:49,010 --> 00:41:54,250 Perhaps one day soon, we will look at the satellite image of a distant 549 00:41:54,250 --> 00:42:00,150 and see not only mankind's future home, but one that could have once been 550 00:42:00,150 --> 00:42:03,390 inhabited by our ancient alien ancestors.