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NARRATOR: Mysterious objects
arriving from space.

JOHN BRANDENBURG:
Not only was it interstellar,

but it was exotic.

It's a riddle wrapped
in an enigma.

TRAVIS TAYLOR:
The meteorite weighs 15 tons,

and there was no crater.

Where did it come from?

NARRATOR:
Sacred stones,

sent by the gods.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
Was this Black Stone supposed to

interact with humans on Earth?

WILLIAM HENRY: Perhaps
it's through these meteorites

that we're gonna learn

of our cosmic origins,

and more about these
extraterrestrial beings.

NARRATOR: Are meteorites
simply falling rocks,

or could they be examples
of alien technology?

And if so,
why were they sent here?

This is the kind of meteorite
that has everything in it

to start life.

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NARRATOR:
Winslow, Arizona,

located in the northern Arizona
desert of the United States.

Here, at an elevation
of 5,700 feet above sea level,

is located the largest crater
in North America.

Formed by an enormous meteor
that fell to Earth

an estimated 50,000 years ago,

the Barringer Crater measures
some 3,900 feet in diameter

and is approximately
560 feet deep.

Each year, literally thousands
of asteroids

make their way to our planet

through the vast regions
of space.

Most are burned up while
entering our atmosphere,

while those that make it through
are known as meteors.

And while most of these
are tiny,

or fall largely unnoticed
into the oceans,

there are a handful that succeed
in ending their journey

on dry land.

And when they do,

they are capable of
having an impact

more environmentally devastating
then any bomb devised by man.

Everybody is kind of aware
of the general effects

of a meteorite impact.

It creates a hole in the ground,

it might throw up
some dust in the air,

and if it's big enough,

it could cause
some weather changes.

But what else might it do?

If it had certain
chemicals in it,

or certain biological agents
in there,

it could actually change
the environment.

It could be used, in a way,
to terraform an environment.

NARRATOR:
Terraform?

The process
of artificially making

an otherwise uninhabitable
planet

capable of supporting
human life?

Could such an audacious notion
be possible?

April 7, 2016.

NASA announces funding
for a bold new initiative,

one that will define the future
of interstellar transportation.

Called "RAMA," the program will
focus on repurposing asteroids

for space exploration.

NASA is currently working on
this project called RAMA:

"reconstituting asteroids
for mechanical automata."

The idea is to take an asteroid,
and turn it into a probe

that we would then send
to another star system.

NARRATOR: If the RAMA program
is successful,

it is NASA's belief that
asteroids will not only become

useful tools
in the exploration of space,

but also in the terraforming
of other planets.

But why would
an advanced society

choose to explore
and colonize the cosmos

by using asteroids?

A rocket is very expensive
to launch from the Earth,

and what you really
want to do is

take something very small
and light,

like a few key robots--
not a heavy payload--

get it out into space,
and then use

the raw materials in space to,
from scratch, build a rocket.

And once it's out there,

it's got all the raw materials
it needs

to actually build
another spaceship

that's viable for space travel.

NARRATOR: While the idea
of using asteroids

as a method of space travel
does seem far-fetched,

it is far less so when taking
into consideration

what many asteroids are made of:
minerals.

There is a bodacious
amount of resources.

In fact, meteors
and our meteor samples

show us that the asteroid belt
contains organics,

it has metals,
it has refractories...

everything we could
possibly want

to build a space program.

TAYLOR:
Meteors are made of

a very strong material,
like iron and nickel and cobalt.

Things like that.

These are alien objects,

and we really don't understand
everything about them.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists are convinced

that the notion
of using asteroids

as a form of spacecraft
is not only possible,

but that it has been happening

and affecting the history
of our planet

for thousands of years.

West Linn, Oregon, 1902.

Walking home after a day's work,

pioneer Ellis Hughes spots
an enormous

and unusually shaped boulder
hidden in the woods.

Curious, he pulls out his hammer
and strikes the rock.

He jumps, startled,

as it rings loudly,
like a bell.

Over the next several days,
Hughes digs tirelessly

to uncover a historic treasure:

the largest meteorite ever found
in North America,

the Willamette Meteorite.

JONATHAN YOUNG: The Willamette
meteor is enormous.

The actual shape of the meteor
has changed over time.

It now looks something like
a piece of modern art.

It is fascinating and enormous;
the thing's the size of a car.

TAYLOR: If we look at the makeup
of the Willamette Meteorite,

it's got iridium, germanium,
gallium and nickel.

It weighs about 15 tons.
A very large object.

BRANDENBURG: The nickel actually
helps it from not corroding.

And it, of course,
shows evidence

of having gone through
the atmosphere.

You know, it's pitted.

And what's interesting,
it landed intact

and didn't break into
a billion pieces.

So it's a quite remarkable
meteorite.

The Willamette Meteorite
is an example

not only of a strange
meteorite arriving intact,

but also that it had a profound
effect on the local people.

It became kind of a shrine to
them, a message from the gods.

NARRATOR:
Long before Ellis Hughes

discovered the meteorite
in 1902,

a Native American tribe
called the Clackamas,

who've inhabited western Oregon
for centuries,

were aware of this
extraterrestrial object.

They also believed
it had special powers.

RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
The Clackamas tribe,

they had a long, long history

of interaction with this rock.

They would look at this rock

as a gift, a conduit
which united

heaven, Earth, and with water.

Within the stone itself,

there are holes in there
from erosion and the like,

which gathered pools of water.

Now, this water was used for
healing purposes, for blessing.

In other words,
there was something in the water

which was gathered from this
meteor that had energetic power.

YOUNG:
They would dip their arrowheads

and their spear tips
into the water,

thinking that this ritual
would sharpen the blades

and help them in their hunt.

HENRY: The Clackamas named
the meteorite Tomanowos,

and believed that it was in fact
a messenger of their sky god.

This is hugely significant
because it tells us that,

in fact, that rock
is not just a rock,

it's an actual link
to an extraterrestrial being.

We're talking about a 15-ton
meteorite that crash-landed,

but yet there's
no evidence of an impact.

I think we have to go back

to the original
Clackamas connection

that says that, perhaps,

there's extraterrestrial
intervention involved

in the positioning
of this meteorite.

JASON MARTELL:
They firmly believed

it was brought here
by someone intentionally.

They actually thought
that it came from the gods,

not by chance that it fell
from the sky.

NARRATOR:
But how did the Clackamas people

believe the Willamette Meteorite
came from the sky,

considering that it is believed
to have fallen to Earth

thousands of years ago?

Is it possible that
it once possessed powers,

not of a spiritual,
but of a technological kind?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes

and suggest that
the strange holes

found in this giant metal object

may once have held
technological apparatus

that burned up in the atmosphere
as it fell to Earth,

the same kind of apparatus
that NASA is planning to install

on asteroids being harnessed
for space travel.

So now you have to look
at NASA's RAMA initiative

and how they are planning
to take asteroids,

hollow them out,

make them into
self-powered spacecraft,

pack them with DNA
and technology

and send them to other planets.

And so you have to wonder,

are we just perpetuating
this cycle where, eons ago,

extraterrestrials
sent meteorites here

and the Clackamas
discovered the remains

of a highly technical
little spaceship

that has been sent as
a space probe to other planets?

Meteorites do have
a lot of unanswered questions

about their origins,
their composition,

and why is it exactly that
they arrive here on Earth.

Is there some type of
intelligent design?

Are these meteorites
being harnessed,

infused with information
and then sent to Earth?

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that some of the asteroids

that reach our planet
are essentially "Trojan horses,"

used to hide
extraterrestrial cargo

that has profound ramifications
for humankind?

And, if so, could they
have even been used

to bring alien life to Earth?

NARRATOR:
May 2018.

A group of 33 researchers
and scientists

publish a groundbreaking article
in the scientific journal

Progress in Biophysics
and Molecular Biology.

They claim that octopuses are,
in fact, alien beings.

The octopus has no evolutionary
bridge to anything.

It defies all theories
of how the genome grew

to form, from simple creatures,
more complex creatures.

Suddenly you get
an incredibly gifted predator.

Big brain, excellent eyes...

strategies.

It likes to collect
bright shiny things.

It will be fascinated
by its own reflection,

almost as if it is conscious.

And it learns very quickly.

By the conclusion
of that article,

all I could think about was:
well,

how come those scientists
cannot apply

the same theory
to our own origins?

Because that is what the ancient
astronaut theory suggests:

that at some point,

our genetic makeup was changed

due to
an extraterrestrial event.

So I say that it won't be long

until a similar type article
will be published,

but the main focus will be
the origin of human beings.

NARRATOR: But if octopuses
are not a product

of Earth evolution,
how did they get here?

And could the answer
reveal the truth

about mankind's own
extraterrestrial origins?

Could extraterrestrials have
sent asteroids to our planet

in order to speed up--
or even initiate--

Earth's biological evolution?

In 2011, former NASA
astrobiologist Richard Hoover

published an article
in the Journal of Cosmology

revealing nine
separate meteorites

that contain microfossils
of bacteria.

So you have to ask the question
of where did life start?

And one idea you could imagine

is the actual chemical basis
of life

first started somewhere else,
not on Earth.

And then you have to ask:
well, how did

those chemicals get here?

And the obvious candidate
for that is a meteorite.

An asteroid of some type
broke off,

maybe from a planet that had
life, it traveled through space,

and it entered the Earth's
atmosphere as a meteorite.

And then upon impact,
chemicals would survive

and interact with
the chemistry of the Earth.

And perhaps that was
the starting point

for life as we know it here.

WARD: So, when people
talk about meteorites

that could bring life to Earth,
or could change life

here on Earth, this is the kind
of meteorite that can do that.

It first fell in Murchison,
Australia in 1969.

And inside it is just
a plethora of organic compounds.

There's all the building blocks
for DNA, RNA.

This has everything in it
to start life.

CHILDRESS:
This whole concept of meteorites

that could be filled with DNA
is a theory that's very sound.

So you have to ask yourself:

would extraterrestrials actually
use meteorites as projectiles

in order to seed life
on other planets?

TSOUKALOS:
Now the question is:

if some extraterrestrial culture
sent out probes filled with DNA

and the building blocks for life
throughout the entire universe,

are they our forefathers?

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that extraterrestrials

used meteors
in the distant past

as a means of sending
the building blocks of life

to Earth?

Although ancient
astronaut theorists agree

that such a profound notion
does seem farfetched,

they point to the fact
that some of today's scientists

are planning to implement
this very same idea

with regard to other planets.

In 2016, German physicist
Dr. Claudius Gros

proposed "The Genesis Project,"

which would use probes
to seed life

on distant stars
within our galaxy.

NARRATOR: Dr. Gros and
other scientists have suggested

that after jump-starting life,

humans would
follow these probes,

conveyed by larger asteroids,

and further alter life
for their own purposes.

And according to ancient
astronaut theorists,

this is exactly what happened
on Earth thousands of years ago.

TZADOK: We find
in the Aztec tradition

a very interesting story
about how the Mother God

and Father God bonded together
and gave birth to what's called

a flint stone,
a knife of some kind,

which terrified them
to such a point

that they actually cast it down
to the Earth,

from which came forth many gods.

And these many gods sought
to create man and woman.

What we also find
are similar stories

from halfway around the world--

from the biblical tradition,
the Babylonian tradition,

and the early
Sumerian traditions.

CHILDRESS:
Is this really an analogy

of some huge rock meteorite
in the sky

that extraterrestrials--
gods from outer space--

sent here to the Earth
and created humans,

the humans that we are today?

NARRATOR: Are meteorites more
than simply space debris

that randomly arrives on Earth?

Ancient astronaut theorists
insist

that the answer
is a profound yes, and believe

that not only could asteroids
have been the method used

to bring life to our planet,

they could also have been
instrumental in providing

a direct means of
extraterrestrial communication,

a communication
that continues to this day.

NARRATOR:
Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Each year, millions of Muslims
travel from all over the world

to take part in a holy
pilgrimage known as the hajj.

It is meant to demonstrate
both solidarity

and submission
to the will of Allah.

The climax of the pilgrimage
is the Tawaf,

whereby each Muslim must walk
counterclockwise seven times

around a large square structure
called the Kaaba,

known to Muslims
as the "House of God."

And it is here, embedded in
the wall of the eastern corner

of the this 4,000-year-old
cube-shaped granite structure,

that a sacred relic,

simply known as
"the Black Rock,"

is set within
a pure silver frame.

It is believed to date back
to the time of Adam and Eve.

It is also believed by many

to have come to Earth
from outer space.

Academics believe there is no
question that it's a meteorite.

According to Islamic legend,

this was a meteorite that was
actually brought to Earth

by the archangel Gabriel,
and given to Abraham

during the building
of the Kaaba.

Muslims circumnavigate
the Kaaba,

making a seven-circuit circle

to ultimately
connect themselves to Allah,

to create a moment
of divine unity.

And, in the process,
they go into a sort of

a trancelike state
that takes them

into this transcendental realm.

In Islamic tradition,

it is believed that the Kaaba
was originally built by Abraham.

And it was built on this site by
a higher spiritual direction.

An angel of God is by every
definition extraterrestrial.

So even within
the Islamic culture,

we must recognize that
the source of the Kaaba stone

is extraterrestrial,

and as such, has a significance

far beyond that of just its
cultural or historic origins.

When Muslims pray,
they're not just praying

in the direction of Mecca.

They are specifically praying
in connection with the Kaaba.

Presently, there are over 1.5
billion Muslims in the world.

That's today,
but since 600 AD,

when Muhammad founded Islam,
there have been billions more.

What we're witnessing here
is an extraordinary story

of an otherworldly or
extraterrestrial being, Gabriel,

bringing this stone to Earth,
and it having a tremendous--

in fact, incalculable influence
on human affairs.

NARRATOR: In the hadith,
a collection of traditions

that supplement the Qur'an,

there is a passage
which describes the Black Stone

speaking directly
to the Prophet Muhammad.

Throughout history, there have
been countless numbers

of people who
have been influenced

by the-the Black Stone
at the Kaaba.

And so was there some intent
by extraterrestrials

that this Black Stone
was to interact

with humans on Earth?

It would seem to be the case.

At Judgment Day,

all who have touched the
Black Stone with a sincere heart

will be given speech
and expanded sight.

Perhaps the hope and promise
for all of us is that,

through communication
with extraterrestrials

through these meteorites
and otherworldly rocks,

that we, too,
will receive cosmic wisdom.

NARRATOR: But other than
the Black Stone of Islam

and the Willamette Meteorite
of the Clackamas Indians,

are there other
ancient meteorites

that are believed
to have mystical powers?

According to ancient
astronaut theorists,

there are hundreds of them,

and together they form a network
of so-called sacred stones,

which are often used by humans

to facilitate
a direct communication

with otherworldly beings.

Camp Verde, Arizona. 1915.

A large meteorite is found,

wrapped in a feather blanket,

and buried inside
an ancient ruin.

YOUNG:
A fellow named George Dawson

found something that looked like
a possible grave,

and sure enough,
something was buried there.

It turns out to be
a fragment of a meteorite,

135 pounds of nickel and iron,

wrapped as if it were
a human burial,

as if the people
doing the ceremony

were in some kind of
relationship with this object.

NARRATOR:
In Ancient Greece,

the Temple of Apollo
is constructed to honor

the site where a meteorite
fell to Earth--

a meteorite that is believed to
contain the power of the gods.

YOUNG: Zeus, the great god
of the Olympians,

took a stone
and threw it down there

to mark the place of origin
for all humans

and the center of things.

This was a particularly
sacred spot.

The stone itself, the omphalos,
came from the heavens to Earth.

It was a transmission,
it was from Zeus to the people.

CHILDRESS: For them,
that meteorite, that stone,

was a power that radiated

to all points of the Earth from
Delphi, from this meteorite.

And this omphalos stone was also
supposed to be a vehicle

for communicating with the gods.

So you have to wonder,

was this rock sent by Zeus,
one of the gods?

Was it really, uh,
some special stone

that could help
people communicate

with extraterrestrials?

NARRATOR: Are ancient accounts
of meteorites

that communicate with humans

simply mythological tales?

Ancient astronaut
theorists insist

the answer is a profound no

and believe that proof that many
have been sent here deliberately

can be found by re-examining
what Muslims believe

to be the origins
of the sacred meteorite

they call the Black Stone.

CHILDRESS:
Tradition with the Black Stone

says that it was to be an altar
used by Adam, the first man,

and that, later, the angel
Gabriel gave it to Abraham

and that Abraham and Ishmael
then placed the Black Stone

in the Kaaba at Mecca
where it is today.

So you have to wonder,

were extraterrestrials
purposely giving this stone

to Abraham in order to

move mankind forward
on Planet Earth?

NARRATOR: Is the connection
between the Black Stone

of the Kaaba and the biblical
story of Adam and Eve

further evidence that meteors

may have been used
by extraterrestrials

to seed life here
on planet Earth?

And if meteorites
can contain energy

capable of influencing
the human mind,

is it possible that
they may have

other metaphysical capabilities?

Capabilities that we are only
just beginning to comprehend?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

the answers to these questions
must be looked for

at the place where these
meteorites first originate.

A region in our solar system
that may exist

very near our planet
or in a solar system

very distant from our own.

HENRY:
According to lore,
NARRATOR:
According to mainstream

scientists and astronomers,
virtually all of the asteroids

that enter the Earth's
atmosphere have come

from a circular region of space,

located between the planets
Mars and Jupiter,

known as the asteroid belt.

First discovered
by astronomers in 1801,

the asteroid belt contains an
estimated two million asteroids.

Although most are tiny,
irregular-shaped fragments

of mineral-infused rock,

some are much larger,

giving them the status of what
are called, "dwarf planets."

But while the origins of the
asteroid belt remain unknown,

there are many who believe
that it was formed

after the destruction
of a small planet,

and that the asteroids
are simply the debris

from that planet
that has remained in orbit

around the sun.

There's a curious history
behind attempts to understand

the distribution of planets
in our solar system

'cause it does seem
that planets are spaced out

in a rather regular way,
and then there's this big gap

between Mars and Jupiter and...

Almost as if there should be
a planet there and isn't.

Then, of course,
it was discovered

there's this asteroid belt
with a lot of debris

and so some early speculation

was that maybe there was
a planet there

and it got destroyed
by some sort of collision

and that what we're seeing

is all the fragments
of that planet.

NARRATOR:
If the asteroid belt

contains the remnants
of a planet,

what lead to its destruction?

Was it due to a natural
catastrophic event

or is there, perhaps,

an even more
incredible explanation?

According to ancient
astronaut theorists,

the answers can be found

in some of the earliest recorded
stories from the ancient world.

According to Sumerian
and Babylonian lore,

there was this phenomenal
cosmic battle,

that the gods fought amongst
themselves across the cosmos.

One planet fighting
another planet.

And that, in fact, one planet
was completely destroyed

during this cosmic battle.

And as a result of that,
they destroyed their home world

and had to re-establish
civilization on a new planet:

our planet, Earth.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
an extraterrestrial space battle

was responsible for creating
the asteroid belt

thousands of years ago?

And if so, could that suggest

that some of the meteorites
that have come to Earth

are not only from
the asteroid belt,

but also from galaxies
far, far, away

and still contain evidence
of alien civilizations?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and also suggest
that such a meteoric event

might not be accidental,

but part of an incredible
extraterrestrial agenda.

Johannesburg, South Africa.
February, 2018.

Geologists from the University
of Johannesburg announce

that they have
discovered a meteorite

that is unlike any known to man.

According to them,
the meteorite,

referred to as
"the Hypatia stone,"

did not come from
the asteroid belt

or from anywhere
inside our solar system.

It came from somewhere else
in the galaxy.

DENNIN: The Hypatia stone has
a number of interesting features

because you can look
at asteroids in our solar system

and they have a very
definitive composition.

This composition
is radically different.

It's not chondritic,

that's a key element
of most meteorites or asteroids.

BRANDENBURG:
The standard composition

for the meteorites we find
is called chondritic.

And that matches almost exactly
the composition of the Sun.

So these are part of the

congealed early
solar system nebula.

They're four and a half
billion years old.

It's the original dust
of the solar system.

Why wouldn't Hypatia

fit that model
from another star system?

It suggests not only
was it interstellar,

but it was exotic
from wherever it came.

So Hypatia is just a riddle
wrapped in an enigma.

NARRATOR: Prior to the discovery
of the Hypatia Stone,

most scientists insisted
that it would be

virtually impossible
for meteorites

from outside our solar system
to arrive naturally on Earth.

They would not be able
to make the long journey

through interstellar space.

There's, like, 400 billion stars
in our galaxy.

Then what are the odds of it
coming from one of those stars

and finding our solar system?

And then it was on
the right trajectory

to get captured by the gravity
of our planet.

Why did this stone not get
captured by Jupiter or Saturn,

one of the big gravity wells?

Instead it was
just perfect to match

with the Earth's gravity well
and to crash here.

The odds of that are staggering.

They're infinitesimal.

There's always the possibility
that this Hypatia stone

had its trajectory manipulated,

meaning it had
course corrections

so that it would get
to the destination

that it was going to.

When you think
about the chances of some

probably relatively small
meteorite coming here

from the vast reaches of space
and then hitting Earth,

it makes you think,
was this meteorite

sent here deliberately
to target Earth?

And if this meteorite
was sent here to Earth,

you have to wonder, why would
extraterrestrials do this?

NARRATOR: Was the Hypatia stone
intentionally sent to Earth

by an advanced
alien civilization?

Ancient astronaut
theorists believe

such an audacious concept
is possible

and also believe that evidence
to support their theory

can be found by examining
a number of meteorites

that can levitate.

NARRATOR:
San Diego, California.

March 7, 2018.

Physicists at the University
of California, San Diego,

examine
the Mundrabilla Meteorite,

a 22-ton chunk of iron
unearthed in Western Australia.

After exposing
fragments of the rock

to extreme heat and pressure,

they discover that
it contains exotic materials

known as superconductors,

which are capable of harnessing
magnetic force to levitate.

When a material
becomes superconducting

it wants to repel the magnetic
field outside of its surface.

There's a force created as it
repels the magnetic field.

And so it raises up.

And you can change
the magnetic field

and it will change the position
of the levitated superconductor.

This is kind of what's important

from a perspective
of using it for propulsion.

NARRATOR:
Over the last few years,

NASA has awarded millions
of dollars in contracts

to develop new superconductive
thrust systems for spacecraft.

However, since the process
to manufacture a superconductor

is extremely precise
and difficult,

ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

that the Mundrabilla Meteorite

may have been
artificially fashioned.

TAYLOR: This was
an amazing roll of the dice

that the Mundrabilla Meteorite
formed in just a way

that it was the right recipe
to be a superconductor.

There is a possibility
that it wasn't created

by the randomness of nature.

Is it possible that these
are fragments left over

from an artificial craft
and that the superconductivity

in the fragments
wasn't there by nature,

it was put there on purpose?

Maybe it was
the propulsion system.

This meteorite
could be directing itself

in order to target Planet Earth.

Perhaps we need to view it
not as a meteorite

but as a highly technical,
extraterrestrial spaceship

that has been sent
as a probe to other planets.

NARRATOR:
Could the Mundrabilla Meteorite

really be a fragment of a probe
sent by alien beings,

as ancient astronaut
theorists claim?

And if so, might there be
extraterrestrial technology

in meteorites that is
even more advanced

than we can
currently understand?

Khatyrka, Russia.

December 8, 2016.

At the northeastern tip
of the Siberian tundra

geologists are panning through
one and a half tons of clay

when they spot
a miniscule grain of meteorite

that defies
the laws of chemistry.

The granule contains
a new type of mineral

called a quasicrystal,

a crystalline formation
that never repeats itself.

DENNIN:
A quasicrystal is very ordered.

Looks like it
might be a crystal

when you first look at it,
'cause of its regular structure.

But no matter
how much you shift it

or what direction you shift it,

it will never exactly
reproduce itself.

So, that feature of a crystal
is fundamentally missing,

but there's a really
high level of order,

hence the name quasicrystal.

NARRATOR:
In 1982, scientist Dan Shechtman

was the first
to theorize the existence

of what he called
"quasicrystals."

He also described them
as having what he referred to

as "forbidden symmetry" because
they should not exist in nature.

WARD: There was this
20-sided quasicrystal

found inside
the meteorite's matrix.

And the fascinating part
about this is

we only thought
it could be formed in labs.

I mean,
the immense amount of energy

and pressure to create that,

it's hard to believe
that such a complex structure

could be created
in the natural world.

So the question, then, is that
is this meteorite artificial?

Are these quasicrystals inside
it also artificially created?

And if so,
what is their purpose?

We know that quartz crystals
are used to store information.

So, each of these quasicrystals,
like a computer disk,

could be holding huge amounts
of information.

Maybe there will be future uses
of these quasicrystals

that we haven't thought of yet.

If I were gonna be
in an organization

that was studying UFOs
or crashed UFOs,

trying to reverse engineer
advanced technologies,

I would certainly go
to all of these meteor impacts

and study the materials in the
craters because we don't know

that they are
just rocks in space

or could they have come
from spacecraft?

NARRATOR: Does the presence
of unusual and potent materials

in meteorites,
such as superconductors

and quasicrystals,
provide further evidence

that asteroids and meteors
could, in fact,

be sophisticated,
interplanetary delivery systems

sent to Earth by highly advanced
extraterrestrial beings?

And if so,
where are they coming from?

And how are they planning to
influence the future of mankind?

NARRATOR: In the late 1940s,
Hungarian mathematician

and computer scientist
John von Neumann

theorized that the best way
to colonize space

was through what he called
self-replicating robots--

artificially
intelligent machines

that can replicate themselves

using the materials
they find in space.

He had this idea that if
you wanted to travel the galaxy

and explore the galaxy,
the best way to do it

would be to create small,
self-replicating robots

and propel them to the star
system you want to go to.

And they would start building
things that would be needed

so that when their masters
finally got there

everything would be there
that they wanted.

NARRATOR: But while von Neumann
imagined self-replicating robots

that were mechanical in nature,

ancient astronaut
theorists propose

that extraterrestrials may have
used more organic materials

as a means to achieve
the same purpose centuries ago.

Von Neumann proposed that
you could send a machine

to another planet, and it would
start making copies of itself

and, in fact, perhaps evolve
from just the original copy

to something more complex.

And perhaps this is what DNA is:

a von Neumann machine that then
replicates and then evolves

and finally forms
something similar to the thing

that created it
in the first place.

So, in a sense, we ourselves

are these
self-replicating robots.

We are manipulated
by extraterrestrial DNA.

The extraterrestrials
manipulate our civilization,

help us move
technologically forward

and now we're ready
to meet our creators.

TAYLOR: If you think about
the von Neumann probe concept,

if that were to be the case,

then all these other things
about meteorites,

about them being able
to store information,

about them being able
to send organic material

that could change an ecosystem,

about them being able
to be, perhaps,

transceivers of information

and maybe even vessels that
are spacecraft themselves,

all of this makes perfect sense
from that perspective.

Here we are on the verge
of taking asteroids,

turning them
into self-propelled meteorites,

sending them to other planets

and this is perhaps really
the theme of the universe,

that life is seeded
in special planets.

It's nurtured
until we, ourselves, can do

what the ancient
extraterrestrials did to us

and that is seed life
on other planets.

NARRATOR: By using asteroids
to spread the seeds of humanity

throughout the universe, are
we on the verge of replicating

the means of our own creation?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

as mankind continues
to explore the galaxy,

meteors may still contain
important clues

not only to our origins,
but to destinations

that are as infinite
as the stars.