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NARRATOR: In the 21st century,

scientists are attempting to bring

every star in the sky within our reach.

MICHIO KAKU: Stargates are a shortcut through space and time.

We're talking about opening up not just the Earth,

but the entire galaxy for human exploration.

NARRATOR: The concept of stargates dates back thousands of years.

DAVID CHILDRESS: You have a huge door cut into solid rock.

And the legends are, it's a portal to another world.

NARRATOR: And some claim the U.S. government has been

pursuing this technology for decades.

RICHARD DOTY: I saw a wavy orb.

And a scientist who was standing right next to me said,

"We just opened the fabric of space."

NARRATOR: Could we soon obtain the key

to unlocking the stargates,

and find a cosmos teeming with life?

WILLIAM HENRY: If we had access

to stargates, this would completely change everything,

and would lead to actual irrefutable proof

that we are not alone in the universe.

NARRATOR: There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

NARRATOR: The pulp magazine Astounding Stories

publishes a short story called, "The Meteor Girl."

The tale is centered around a meteorite

that creates a window in space.

One that allows the protagonists

to travel between distant locations in an instant.

It is the very first science fiction reference

to what has become known as a stargate.

Anybody that's seen or read any modern-day science fiction,

there's always the story that somebody walks into...

a gate, a doorway, a hole in the sky,

some kind of opening, and they end up

somewhere else or they could be in another time.

What we're describing here is going

from some point A in space and time

to some other point B

in space and time without traveling

through the normal path to get there.

Going through a shorter path.

KAKU: Stargates are a shortcut through space and time.

The galaxy is 100,000 light-years across.

It would take 100,000 years to go across the galaxy.

But if you have a stargate,

in principle, you could do it in the blink of an eye.

NARRATOR: Currently, stargates are only known

to exist in the realm of science fiction.

But in 1935, physicists Albert Einstein

and Nathan Rosen proposed that creating shortcuts

through space and time is theoretically possible.

TAYLOR: When this idea was first postulated,

it was in fact called an Einstein-Rosen space bridge.

So Einstein and Rosen were working on general relativity,

and they had the idea that you could create a bend

or warp in space-time, where you can connect point A

to point B and make the pathway there much shorter.

NARRATOR: In addition to connecting two distant points in space,

some scientists have suggested that stargates

may facilitate an even more profound type of journey.

TAYLOR: So when we talk about a stargate,

or a wormhole,

the question is, is it just from point A

to point B within this universe?

Or could it also be through those other dimensions

that could possibly exist or even through other universes?

Just like when Alice fell through the rabbit hole,

uh, she ended up in Wonderland.

NARRATOR: While terms like "stargate" and "wormhole"

conjure up visions of the future and space-age technology,

ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the idea

of such gateways has existed in the human consciousness

for thousands of years.

And they say evidence of this can be found

within religious traditions throughout the ancient world.

All around the world, we have myths and legends

of beings coming and going through gates.

The Anunnaki gods in ancient Sumeria were constantly

coming and going through gateways.

In Egypt, we learn of the portals

of Ptah and the pharaohs, scaling the ladder to heaven

and going through the portal of the gods.

This idea of the stargate is everywhere.

TAYLOR: When I think about wormholes in the multiverse,

one of the first things that comes to mind

is the ancient idea of Vishnu.

When he would exhale,

he would excrete beads

of sweat and moisture,

that each one of these was a universe.

And in many cases, the description is

that when Vishnu was dreaming, this is a new universe

that Vishnu is creating.

Now Vishnu then used many different avatars

and went to many different of these realities,

universes, multiverses, and had adventures.

So how did he go from wherever he was

into these different realities that he had then created?

There must have been a stargate

that enabled him to go from universe to universe.

So going back through thousands of years

across different cultures, all across the planet...

...we have these stories of people

traveling to other realms.

It really does suggest that there is a possibility

that many ancient cultures

had some understanding

of portals or gateways to other worlds.

There is the story of the Bifröst bridge

in Norse mythology.

And what this is able to do

is take a person from out of this realm

into some other place.

NARRATORS: Are ancient accounts of beings passing

through gates or doorways

descriptions of a form of stargate travel?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining a mysterious stone feature

found high in the Andes Mountains.

Lake Titicaca, Peru.

Carved onto the sandstone face

of the Hayu Marca Mountain

is a T-shaped doorway known as the Gate of the Gods.

The Gate of the Gods is a vertical outcrop of sandstone,

which is composed of three depressions.

The central one, which is a T-shape,

is about six feet tall.

So a normal human could stand up in it

and then to the left and the right

are vertical depressions,

which go from the very bottom to the very top,

which would be a distance of approximately 20 feet.

Nobody knows how old it is and nobody knows who made it.

NARRATOR: While there is no written record to suggest why it was built,

local legends give detailed accounts

of people mysteriously disappearing in front

of the doorway and even strange beings coming through.

HENRY: Local legends tells us that the gods would use this

as a stargate, through which they would come and go.

The myth and legend attached to it suggests that the key

to this gateway is this golden disc of the sun god.

And all the stories tell us that the sun god Inti

came down to Earth

and was worshiped by the Incas.

Perhaps it was Inti himself who brought this key

to the stargate to Earth originally.

NARRATOR: While the Inca believed the Gate of the Gods

was created thousands of years ago,

there is at least one account of this gateway

being activated much more recently

when Spanish conquistadors arrived

in Peru in the 16th century.

HENRY: According to legend, when the Spanish arrived,

a priest from a nearby temple

took a golden disc from that temple

and went to the Gate of the Gods,

put the golden disc in the T-shaped gate,

opened it up and went through it.

It seems that what's happening today is

that we're coming back around to understand

the concept of the stargates

just as the ancients did, and perhaps to duplicate

the technology that extraterrestrials

were utilizing in opening these stargates to other realms.

NARRATOR: Are these ancient stargates

just the product of our ancestors' folklore?

Or might this kind of interstellar travel

have actually existed in the distant past?

Perhaps further clues can be found by investigating

another site believed to transport people

through space and time.

NARRATOR: Central Sri Lanka.

Overlooking the small town of Aralaganwila,

stands the lush Danigala mountain range.

Its peak reaches heights of over 900 feet.

And visible among them is a strange outcropping

that is almost entirely round.

COLLINS: This is a very remarkable geological formation,

circular in shape with a completely flat

platform on the top of it.

NARRATOR: For locals, the mountain is famous

not just for its unique shape

but for the number of reports

of unidentified aerial phenomena at the site.

Everybody calls it

"alien mountain" because

this is a UFO hotspot.

At least two dozen UFO sightings

have been reported in 2023 alone.

And many, many people claim

weird activities around the mountain.

NARRATOR: The recent sightings are just the latest

in a string of mysterious events at the mountain

that date back hundreds of years.

The mountain is associated

with various different legends in Vedic tradition.

It's actually said to be the landing place

of the god Ravana.

It was said that he could actually

fly this device and land on the top of it.

NEWMAN: Danigala Mountain is also

connected with the Buddha, in fact.

There's a cave in the side of this mountain

which has a statue of the Buddha

and it's said that he originally used this area

as a kind of way to explore the different astral planes.

So, does this suggest

this is some kind of portal area or stargate?

NARRATOR: The Buddha is believed to have lived

during the sixth or fifth century BC,

and according to ancient Buddhist stories,

he demonstrated the ability to teleport instantly

from one location to another.

And as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

early accounts of the Buddha sound very much

like descriptions of an extraterrestrial.

Some of the earliest representations

and some of the earliest recordings of Buddha

does not show or describe Buddha

as the size of a regular human being,

but, actually, up to nine feet tall

and with blue skin,

and his arms reached all the way down to his knees.

And before the term Buddhism existed,

the original term for Buddhism was

"The worship of the cosmic wheel."

The whole concept of Buddhism began

when this tall, blue-skinned person came down

in a gigantic wheel of fire,

and then started to teach mankind in various disciplines.

So that to me is eternally fascinating

because it would support the idea

that Buddha was an extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Buddha was an otherworldly being

who accessed a stargate near Danigala Mountain

as told in local legends?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and propose that another site nearby

contains physical evidence that it too may once have been

the location of a stargate.

This sacred city, dating back to 377 BC,

is at the heart of the local Buddhist culture.

It is one of the most visited places in the world,

drawing pilgrims,

tourists and historians alike to its ancient domed temples

and massive shrines known as stupas.

But perhaps the most intriguing attraction is

a mysterious petroglyph called the Sakwala Chakraya.

The Sakwala Chakraya carving in Sri Lanka is

carved onto this rock face

and there's actually carved stone seats on the opposite side

for people to sit there and gaze into it.

Now, traditionally, it's like a cosmological map

that the ancient people there would talk about,

but could it be something else?

Because the symbols on it are very unusual.

MOHAN: Locals believe that this is a stargate.

That Buddha used this stargate three times

to go to other planets.

And they believe that if you go

and meditate in front of the stargate,

you can actually open the stargate

using the power of your mind,

and you can go to another dimension.

NARRATOR: In the local dialect of Sinhalese,

Sakwala Chakraya translates as "universal cycle,"

and according to some scholars,

the unique images are various astronomical symbols

representing different parts of the cosmos.

COLLINS: The Sakwala Chakraya was written about as early as 1911

by a British archaeologist named Harry Bell,

and he came to the conclusion

that it represented the cosmos as a whole.

There is an outer ring showing the primeval waters of chaos.

And inside this are seven concentric rings,

one inside the other.

And this is a very typical symbol used

to represent a portal or stargate.

HENRY: It's been suggested that the petroglyph

at Sakwala Chakraya is similar to geometric mandalas.

And a mandala itself is

considered to be a sort of a consciousness portal,

a mental portal.

NARRATOR: Mandalas are important components in both

the Buddhist and Hindu faiths.

These elaborate circular patterns are

a spiritual symbol for the universe,

but also represent the realm of the gods.

They act as an aid in meditation,

and according to Buddhist mythology,

can be used to transport oneself across space and time.

Could the fact that the Sakwala Chakraya carving

resembles a mandala provide another clue

about its true purpose?

HENRY: The symbols on this stone, there's lines,

there's geometric figures,

everything we're seeing here is reinforcing

that this was a portal of the gods.

NARRATOR: Could the mysterious carving found in Sri Lanka indicate

the presence of an ancient stargate,

as legend suggests?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and they believe further evidence

that such stargates still exist on Earth

can be found at sites around the world

where people have mysteriously vanished

without a trace.

NARRATOR: Five Navy torpedo bombers,

collectively known as Flight 19,

take off for what is supposed to be a routine training mission

over the Atlantic Ocean.

MIKE RICKSECKER: This flight was headed eastward toward their mark.

They had actually reached it and headed north from there.

And then all of a sudden,

bizarre things started to happen.

Their navigational equipment went awry.

Their compasses started turning in different directions.

(alert beeping)

One of the pilots reported that they had started

flying over land,

and it looked like the Florida Keys below them,

which were in the exact opposite direction,

many, many miles away.

They should not have been over the Keys at all.

They decided to swing low

under the clouds...

and were never heard from again.

NARRATOR: All told, 27 airmen disappeared

during the Flight 19 incident.

(ship horn blowing)

But it is only one

of countless mysterious events

that have happened in the exact same area,

which has become known as the Bermuda Triangle.

FOERSTER: It's said that within that triangle,

all sorts of strange, natural

and unnatural phenomena have happened.

Several hundred if not thousands of ships have

mysteriously disappeared.

Airplanes disappeared as well.

NARRATOR: But it's not only mysterious disappearances

that have been documented in the Bermuda Triangle.

People have also reported witnessing

what they believe could be stargates.

We have many personal stories

of people who've been involved in this,

who've been even caught up

in vortexes and... and what they think is

a hyperspace portal that was going to send them

to another planet, but they somehow got out of it.

JOHN BRANDENBURG: There appears to be, in nature,

the possibility of crossing thresholds of energy,

of electromagnetic phenomenon associated with thunderstorms,

that can perhaps open up portals in space-time

that we never would have thought possible.

An analogy is that lightning is still poorly understood.

Lightning typically carries several million volts.

This is not sufficient voltage to jump from a cloud,

miles above the ground, to the ground or between clouds.

Yet, nature does it.

Combine that with the strange location

of the Bermuda Triangle,

the collision point of these cold and warm currents,

you can have a playground for exotic physics, I believe.

NARRATOR: Skeptics propose

that the notoriety of the Bermuda Triangle

has led people to jump to extraordinary conclusions

for events that likely have conventional explanations.

But ancient astronaut theorists point out

that stories of strange vortexes and mysterious disappearances

are not only coming from the Bermuda Triangle,

but have been reported in numerous other locations.

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501

departs La Guardia Airport en route to Seattle.

On board are 58 passengers.

But, five hours into the flight,

as it crosses Lake Michigan,

air traffic control loses radio contact

and the airplane mysteriously disappears.

A widespread search spanned the entire area,

dragging the bottom of the lake

and using sonar technology to look for debris,

but the wreckage was never found.

RICKSECKER: Two hours after

the last transmission of Flight 2501,

two local police officers reported seeing a red light

over Lake Michigan that lasted for about ten minutes.

And red lights have been seen

over that particular area of Lake Michigan

since at least as far back as 1913.

NARRATOR: The area of the lake where Flight 2501 vanished

has become known as the Michigan Triangle,

and has been the site of bizarre sightings

and unexplained activity for over a hundred years.

In the Michigan Triangle, there's a tremendous amount

of UFO activity.

UFOs are seen coming up, out of the water,

going down into the water.

There's a number of missing ships

and airplanes in that area.

One of the most fascinating cases to have occurred

along the Michigan Triangle

is the case of Steven Kubacki.

Now, he's a 23-year-old student

who was cross-country skiing

in February 1978, close to the lake.

When he didn't return, the police were called

and they went out looking for him and did an investigation.

(siren chirping)

NARRATOR: Steven Kubacki's backpack, skis and poles

were eventually found at the very edge of Lake Michigan

in the city of Holland.

And nearby, police investigators found a set of tracks

leading out onto the frozen lake.

POPE: Now, what's really interesting is that

the police followed the tracks,

and they went out onto the ice,

and then they disappeared.

There was no sign that the ice was broken,

no evidence of any scuffle,

the tracks simply vanished.

NARRATOR: The authorities concluded that Steven Kubacki

had fallen into the ice and drowned.

But, over a year later, he suddenly reappeared

more than 600 miles away in Massachusetts.

POPE: According to the contemporary reports,

Steven woke up on a grassy knoll

about 40 miles from his father's house.

So he went home, and of course,

his family were just shocked.

They thought he was dead.

But he was confused because in his mind's eye,

he'd only been gone for a few moments.

Is it possible that he got caught up

with a stargate in the vicinity of Lake Michigan,

which somehow transported him to Massachusetts?

NARRATOR: Steven Kubacki's bizarre experience

is one of the most incredible incidents to occur

in the area of the Michigan Triangle.

And researchers note that the location where

he reappeared is only 150 miles west

of an equally mysterious area

known as the Bridgewater Triangle.

For centuries, the local Native American tribes

have claimed that this 200-square-mile region

is home to otherworldly beings called Pukwudgies,

beings who suddenly appear out of thin air.

COLLINS: The Pukwudgie

is described within Algonquin folklore.

And it's a type of little people

that have been seen

for hundreds of years by Native American peoples,

telling us that these entities

can quite literally walk through portals

into our world.

When we look at what's happened in the Bermuda Triangle,

the Michigan Triangle, the Bridgewater Triangle,

it leads to the conclusion that there are these

naturally occurring stargates or portals on the Earth.

And there are probably more out there

that we've yet to discover.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that stargates already exist on Earth?

And if so, are they the product of environmental conditions,

or are they gateways that were created by

extraterrestrials to travel to our planet?

Perhaps further clues can be found by

examining research being conducted by

the U.S. military to create a wormhole.

NARRATOR: Counterintelligence officer Richard Doty begins

a new assignment at the top secret

U.S. military base Area 51.

What he is tasked with is highly classified,

but years later, he comes forward

and makes a remarkable claim.

He says that during his time at Area 51,

he observed a military experiment

that succeeded in ripping a hole

in the fabric of space and time.

I was some distance away in a control center

watching the experiment.

I was just an observer. I'm not a scientist.

And when they generated this beam

through this magnetic field,

what I saw was a wavy orb appearing,

and the orb was moving a little bit.

The background was real wavy, almost as if you were

looking at a hot, uh, sidewalk during the summertime.

And it became larger and larger and larger and larger.

And behind it, there was a flashing light.

And when I ask a scientist

who was standing right next to me, "What did we just see?"

he said, "We just opened the fabric of space."

NARRATOR: Doty claims that the team used argon gas

and anti-magnetic sheaths

to try to keep the portal open.

It worked for only a few seconds,

but it was enough time for researchers to observe

what was on the other side.

DOTY: The scientists believe that

you open the fabric of space, you're in a different dimension.

That's an entirely different dimension,

and possibly an alternate universe.

That's the way they explained it to me.

NARRATOR: After this initial experiment,

Doty was informed that the research team

successfully replicated their results.

DOTY: After the first test, all the scientists

were fascinated and thrilled.

And they wanted to do more and more and more.

And in a period of about six weeks,

they did five different tests

similar to the first test, opening the portal.

Now, they wanted to use more energy.

They had a high-energy laser.

They wanted to try a chemical laser,

which is a little bit different than an energy laser.

They actually built

a brand-new power plant,

and all of that electricity

was being used for this particular project.

They tried to get as much energy as they could

to be directed at that one point

to see how much of it they could open up.

NARRATOR: According to Doty, this is only

one of many experiments the U.S. government

has conducted to try to create portals.

He believes these programs began

over 50 years ago, and might continue today.

DOTY: Ever since the Central Intelligence Agency's

Office of Scientific Intelligence

realized that there were theories about wormholes,

they engaged in a number of operations over the years

to try to prove wormholes were possible.

And there were a number of operations.

The one that I worked on was Project Jackknife.

The project, it started before my time,

probably started in the early '70s,

and I only was in it up until about 1990.

After that, somebody else took over.

But those programs continued on and on and on.

And I can guarantee you, even today, that there's

some type of experiment going on.

NARRATOR: Could it be that for the past 50 years,

scientists working for the United States government

have secretly been attempting to create

a real traversable stargate?

And if so, is it possible that they have succeeded?

CHILDRESS: It's a fascinating thought

that the U.S. military has been working on

stargates and wormholes and portals.

And we might imagine that,

if they've poured enough money and resources

into creating these stargates,

that maybe they already have this technology,

and have refined it to a point

where they're able to

teleport people and objects

from place to place.

POPE: This isn't just science fiction, this isn't just

technology that would be fun or nice to have.

Sad to say, of course,

a lot of this probably would be weaponized.

I mean, imagine not having to launch

a nuclear missile,

which can be detected, tracked,

intercepted,

and then the opposition

press the button and it's Armageddon.

If you could just send

your atomic weapons through a portal

and instantly destroy

the other nation's offensive capabilities.

This is war-winning technology,

and that explains the secrecy.

NARRATOR: But, according to Doty,

the potential dangers of a stargate

are far greater than its use as a weapon.

DOTY: Once that portal opens,

what if something from the other side

comes in our dimension? What do we do then?

How do we handle these entities or whatever they are?

This is really difficult to understand,

but what if we opened a portal

and it dealt with a parallel universe,

and now we got people from that parallel universe

stepping into this universe?

What would happen to us?

NARRATOR: According to most scientists,

even if some secret government program

has managed to open a small window

in the fabric of space, as Richard Doty claims,

it's unlikely they have advanced to the point

of creating a traversable wormhole.

But some researchers suggest

there may be another way to reach distant places

in the universe or alternate dimensions,

by using the power of the mind.

NARRATOR: Seattle, Washington. November 1975.

Fungi expert Paul Stamets

has come upon a recently discovered breed

of psilocybin mushrooms.

Curious about the mushrooms' psychedelic effects,

he consumes them.

RICKSECKER: When he ingested this,

he had this fascinating vision of these dead cows in a field.

Days later, as he was driving down the road,

he saw off on the side this field full of dead cattle.

So, the question becomes,

when he ingested that hallucinogenic,

did he travel to some other dimension to see this?

Or even another point in time?

NARRATOR: Is it merely an extraordinary coincidence

that Paul Stamets had a vision of dead cows in a field

and then saw the exact same scene with his own eyes

just a few days later?

Or might the psilocybin mushrooms he ingested

have opened a mental gateway that gave him a glimpse

into another place in space and time?

For the longest, it was assumed that,

when you take these hallucinogenic drugs,

that your brain is going hyperactive.

And that's why you're seeing things that aren't really there.

Turns out, recent experiments tell us that's not the case.

What we see is right the opposite.

During the hallucinogenic phase of this,

your brain activity actually decreases to levels

as if you were in hyper-meditative states.

So, the question is, then, if your brain

isn't being very active...

...why are you experiencing

these strange hallucinations?

It's been discussed as a, as a real possibility

that opening portals and gateways

has a psychedelic or a hallucinogenic connection.

(group chanting)

NARRATOR: In many religious traditions around the world,

it is believed that entering a hyper-meditative state

can allow the mind to travel to otherworldly realms.

RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK: This is something which is known as astral projection.

People who, through the power of mind,

can experience these other realms and dimensions.

These other realms

are as populated as our own,

and this is practiced in traditions,

India and China,

amongst Native Americans and the like.

MOHAN: Buddha.

He was the master of astral travel.

He could go to the heavens, come back to the Earth,

he could reach many other dimensions

using the power of his mind.

TZADOK: This is not symbolic. It's real.

And with proper training,

we are taught how to experience

the realities around us outside of the limitations of the body.

In that form,

we can and do see other entities.

It could be our extraterrestrial visitors

who are watching us

from the safety of a parallel world.

We can go and interact with them.

NARRATOR: The concept that it is possible to travel to distant locations,

other points in time, or even other dimensions

while the body remains in one place

has existed in cultures around the world

for thousands of years.

And this astral travel often involves

an altered state of mind.

In Mexico and Central America,

we have examples of statues

and amulets in the shape of psilocybin mushrooms.

In North America, we have traditions of cultures

using peyote and mescaline and other types of cactuses.

In South America, we have the famous ayahuasca plant.

FOERSTER: The Inca used--

and the descendants of the Inca still use--

ayahuasca and extract from the San Pedro cactus

to get into alternate states of consciousness.

Some believe that it is so powerful

that you can actually create or enter

into a portal of some kind.

Shamans from every part of the world

all had similar processes to get into an altered state

using psychoactive substances

to somehow connect

with parallel existences and parallel worlds.

And this is how they were able to make contact

with celestial beings,

with divine ancestors,

and perhaps even extraterrestrials.

TZADOK: Why is it so deeply etched

in the human psyche

that, from ancient times and in cultures

around the world, they're all describing

other dimensions, other realms, and astral travels?

And it makes us question whether, in the ancient world,

the ability to expand consciousness, to experience

other realms, other dimensions

was the natural and normal practice of the peoples.

And that was etched deep into our consciousness

and stayed with us to this very day.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the transportive power

of the mind could actually allow us to peer into other worlds

and even communicate with the beings that reside there?

Some researchers suggest that scientists

may be getting close to developing stargates

through which we can physically travel.

NARRATOR: A team of physicists, led by Caltech professor

Maria Spiropulu, conducts an extraordinary experiment.

Using Google's powerful quantum computer,

they successfully create

an observable and traversable wormhole.

Recently, there's been a great concept for an experiment

where some scientists are using

the Google Sycamore quantum computer

to simulate a wormhole.

They set up a model of the universe

inside the quantum computer,

and then, when they turned on the program to run,

it would transfer information from one processor

to another processor via a wormhole.

That's fantastic.

How do we go from inside a simulated universe

to out here in reality where there's portals

and stargates that we can actually use to go

from here to wherever you want to go?

That's the next step.

KAKU: Modern science is now taking us beyond Einstein.

Now we're talking about the fact that space and time

could be curved.

Curved to the point where it may be possible to create gateways,

gateways to other parts of the galaxy.

Stephen Hawking, the great cosmologist,

looked into this and said, "Well, it would be difficult,

but, yes, it may be possible to build stargates."

HENRY: We're suddenly returning to ideas

found in the ancient world about traveling through stargates,

going to other worlds by opening doorways.

Our science is now geared towards opening these stargates.

We now know that the idea of a stargate

is real, it's real science, and it's very desirable.

NARRATOR: Some scientists believe it is only a matter of time

before we are able to create a stargate

through which humans can safely travel.

But if we do open a stargate to another world,

how might that change the course of humankind?

If wormhole travel ever becomes possible,

it would be one of the greatest breakthroughs

in the history of the human race.

We're talking about opening up not just the Earth

but the entire galaxy for human exploration.

Think of the impact to navigate to the stars.

If we're able to create an artificial stargate today,

this would change everything.

Suddenly we would be able to make

instantaneous journeys to the Moon,

instantaneous journeys to Mars,

and instantaneous journeys to other planets

and solar systems as well.

As long as you were able to create, you know,

the computer coordinates for where you wanted to go,

you'd be able to just make that jump.

Stargates can benefit us in a number of different ways.

Whether it is understanding better

the inner workings of the universe,

how the various dimensions work,

or if we unlock stargate technology,

the skies, or rather the stars, are the limit.

HENRY: And if we had access to stargates

and interdimensional travel, it's beyond our comprehension

how this would completely change everything.

It would be a brand-new beginning for the human race.

And it's one I hope to see in my lifetime.

NARRATOR: Is humankind on the precipice

of an incredible new reality?

One in which the most distant stars are within our reach?

And possibly even stars that are in entirely different universes?

Perhaps only when we find the key

to unlocking the stargates

will we once again come face-to-face

with our alien ancestors.

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