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โชโช
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Narrator: NASA'S MISSION
IS TO EXPLORE THE UNKNOWN.
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Teitel: WHAT WE KNOW
ABOUT THE UNIVERSE
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IS A TINY FRACTION
OF WHAT'S ACTUALLY OUT THERE.
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Narrator:
IN THE SEARCH FOR ANSWERS,
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IT LAUNCHES ITS SCIENTISTS
INTO SPACE,
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ITS CRAFT BEYOND THE LIMITS
OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
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Lee: WE HAVE NO IDEA
WHAT'S OUT THERE.
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THERE MIGHT BE DANGERS
LURKING IN THE DARKNESS.
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WE RUN ACROSS MORE MYSTERIES
THAN DISCOVERIES.
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WE DON'T KNOW WHAT
IT'S GONNA THROW AT US NEXT.
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Narrator: A NASA PROBE DISCOVERS
STRANGE MARKINGS ON MARS.
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IT LOOKS, FOR ALL THE WORLD,
LIKE MORSE CODE.
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IS THIS SOME SORT OF MESSAGE?
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A MESSAGE FROM WHO?
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Narrator: A MYSTERY CRAFT
TERRIFIES WITNESSES
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ON TWO SEPARATE CONTINENTS.
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IT'S LIKE "WAR OF THE WORLDS."
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PEOPLE THINK THEY'RE
UNDER ATTACK.
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Angiola:
THEY'RE SCARED TO DEATH.
THEY HAD NO IDEA
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WHAT WAS GOING ON.
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Narrator: AND DOES
A DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENT
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SUGGEST A LINK
BETWEEN SECRET UFO FILES
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AND THE DEATH OF JFK?
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THIS DOCUMENT IS
ABSOLUTELY SENSATIONAL.
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IS THIS A MOTIVE?
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IS THIS A SMOKING GUN?
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Narrator: THESE ARE
"NASA'S UNEXPLAINED FILES."
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ASTRONAUTS SEE SOMETHING
FLOATING PAST THE WINDOW
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OF THE SKYLAB SPACE STATION.
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Jurek: IT'S A SURPRISE.
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AND SURPRISES
ON SPACE STATIONS
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ARE NOT GOOD NEWS.
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Narrator:
THE CREW RACED TO IDENTIFY
THE BIZARRE PHENOMENON.
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YOUR REACTION, AS AN ASTRONAUT,
IS, "THIS COULD KILL ME."
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Narrator: AUGUST 2ND, 1973,
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NASA'S SKYLAB
SPACE STATION
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ORBITS 270 MILES
ABOVE THE EARTH.
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ASTRONAUTS ALAN BEAN,
OWEN GARRIOTT
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AND JACK LOUSMA CARRY
THE RESPONSIBILITY
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OF PERFORMING WHAT SHOULD BE
A LANDMARK MISSION
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IN THE HISTORY
OF SPACE EXPLORATION.
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SKYLAB WAS NASA'S
FIRST SPACE STATION
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TO BE VISITED BY SUCCESSIVE
CREWS OF ASTRONAUTS.
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Narrator:
THE CREW'S PRIMARY OBJECTIVE
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IS TO STUDY THE EFFECTS
OF PROLONGED SPACE TRAVEL
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ON THE HUMAN BODY.
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THE WHOLE IDEA WAS TO STUDY
WHAT HAPPENS TO HUMANS
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WHEN WE GET IN THIS ZERO GRAVITY
FOR LONG PERIODS.
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THEY HAD A REALLY
NICE SETUP.
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THEY COULD ACTUALLY
RUN AROUND THE --
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SORT OF THE PERIPHERY
OF THE WHOLE MODULE.
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Narrator: AT 6:37 A.M.,
GARRIOTT AND LOUSMA
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ARE COMPLETING
THEIR SCHEDULED TASKS
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WHEN THEY NOTICE SOMETHING
FLY PAST THE WINDOW.
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GARRIOTT AND LOUSMA
ARE UTTERLY AMAZED
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TO SEE SNOWFLAKES
DRIFTING PAST THE WINDOW
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IN OUTER SPACE.
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IT'S ALMOST LIKE
A SNOWSTORM.
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AND THAT'S THE ONLY
WAY TO DESCRIBE IT.
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Jurek: IT'S A SURPRISE.
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AND SURPRISES ON SPACE STATIONS
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ARE GENERALLY NOT GOOD NEWS.
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Narrator:
GARRIOTT AND LOUSMA ARE
HIGHLY TRAINED SCIENTISTS.
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WHAT THEY ARE SEEING APPEARS
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TO DEFY THE LAWS OF PHYSICS.
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Linenger: YOU'RE UP IN SPACE.
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IT'S BASICALLY A VACUUM.
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SO THERE ARE NO CLOUDS.
THERE'S NO MOISTURE.
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THERE'S NO ANYTHING OUT THERE.
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THERE IS NO WEATHER IN SPACE.
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Narrator: THE APPEARANCE
OF THE FROZEN OBJECTS
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ISN'T JUST PUZZLING.
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IF THEY'RE SOLID,
IT'S POTENTIALLY LETHAL.
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YOU SEE SOMETHING
FLOATING AROUND IN ORBIT.
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YOUR OBVIOUS THOUGHT IS THAT
IT'S SOME SORT OF SPACE DEBRIS.
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Orwoll: IF THE LIGHT CATCHES IT
JUST RIGHT,
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SPACE DEBRIS CAN APPEAR
VERY BRIGHT WHITE.
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AND IT CAN KIND OF CLUMP
TOGETHER OR STAY TOGETHER.
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Narrator: SPACE DEBRIS TRAVELS
AT SIX TIMES
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THE SPEED OF A RIFLE BULLET.
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A SINGLE SNOWFLAKE-SIZED PIECE
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COULD PUNCH A HOLE THROUGH
THE HULL OF THE SPACE STATION.
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YOUR REACTION, AS AN ASTRONAUT,
IS, "THIS COULD KILL ME."
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Narrator: MOST SPACE DEBRIS
IS CREATED BY SPACECRAFT
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ORBITING AROUND 470 MILES
ABOVE THE EARTH.
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BUT SKYLAB ORBITS 200 MILES
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LOWER THAN THIS CLOUD OF JUNK.
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AT THIS ALTITUDE, IT'S POSSIBLE
TO ENCOUNTER SPACE DEBRIS.
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BUT IT'S REALLY UNLIKELY
YOU'RE GOING TO SEE ENOUGH OF IT
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FOR IT TO LOOK LIKE A BLIZZARD.
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Narrator:
THE CREW ASKS MISSION CONTROL
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TO RUN DIAGNOSTICS ON SKYLAB
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TO CHECK FOR DAMAGE.
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THEY TRACE THE FAULT
TO THE FUEL SYSTEM
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OF THE APOLLO SPACECRAFT
ATTACHED TO SKYLAB.
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Oberg: WHAT MISSION CONTROL
DISCOVERED PRETTY QUICKLY
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WAS THAT THERE
WAS FUEL LEAKING OUT
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FROM ONE OF THE THRUSTER UNITS
ON THEIR APOLLO SPACECRAFT,
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THEIR TRANSPORT CRAFT,
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THE ONE THEY NEEDED TO GET
BACK TO EARTH SAFELY IN.
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Narrator:
TROUBLESHOOTING THE PROBLEM
WITH IDENTICAL ENGINES
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BACK ON EARTH REVEALS
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THAT A CORROSIVE INGREDIENT
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IN THE FUEL SUPPLY
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HAS EATEN THROUGH
ONE OF ITS FOUR THRUSTERS.
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CORROSION ISN'T GOING TO BE
JUST A ONE-OFF FIX.
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CORROSION IS INSIDIOUS.
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CORROSION SPREADS.
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Narrator:
THE CORROSIVE LEAK MEANS
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THE APOLLO TRANSPORT MODULE
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IS JETTISONING GALLONS
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OF FUEL INTO SPACE
EVERY MINUTE.
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WHEN ANY FLUID LEAKS OUT
INTO THE VACUUM OF SPACE,
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IT FLASH FREEZES
INTO SNOWFLAKES.
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IF THEY LOSE TOO MUCH FUEL,
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THEY WON'T BE ABLE
TO ATTEMPT RE-ENTRY.
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AND SKYLAB,
IT BECOMES A COFFIN,
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A $2.2 BILLION COFFIN.
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Narrator: IN RESPONSE TO
THE UNFOLDING CRISIS,
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NASA ANNOUNCES ONE OF
THE MOST AUDACIOUS PLANS
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IN THE SPACE AGENCY'S HISTORY,
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A DARING MISSION
TO RESCUE THE THREE ASTRONAUTS.
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NASA ISN'T GOING
TO LEAVE THREE MEN
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TO DIE IN ORBIT, NO WAY.
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Narrator:
NORMALLY, A SPACE MISSION
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TAKES YEARS TO PLAN AND EXECUTE.
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BUT NASA MAY ONLY
HAVE A FEW DAYS
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TO SAVE THE SKYLAB CREW.
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YOU'VE GOT ALL THE DIFFICULTIES
OF A NORMAL SPACE MISSION
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PLUS YOU'RE TRYING TO DO IT
IN A VERY SHORT TIME FRAME.
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NASA PLANNERS NEEDED TO BE ABLE
TO LAUNCH A VEHICLE IN TIME
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BEFORE THE CREW
HAS DIED OR STARVED.
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Narrator: NASA ENGINEERS
FORMULATE A PLAN
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TO SEND TWO BACKUP PILOTS
UP TO THE SPACE STATION
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IN A MODIFIED APOLLO CRAFT.
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THE RESCUE PLAN INVOLVED
TAKING THE APOLLO
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FOR THE NEXT VISIT
TO THE SPACE STATION
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BUT STRIPPING OUT EQUIPMENT
AND SUPPLIES
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FOR A SPACE-STATION MISSION AND,
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INSTEAD, PUTTING
IN THREE EXTRA SEATS
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FOR THE RESCUED CREW.
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Narrator: THE PLAN PUTS NASA
UNDER IMMENSE PRESSURE.
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IF THE SPACE AGENCY
SENDS THE BACKUP PILOTS
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INTO ORBIT ON A DANGEROUS
RESCUE MISSION,
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IT PUTS MORE LIVES IN DANGER.
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Orwoll: THIS IS WORSE THAN
A NIGHTMARE SCENARIO.
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THEY'VE GOT TO COME UP
WITH A SOLUTION.
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AND THEY'VE GOT TO
COME UP WITH IT FAST.
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Narrator: JUST DAYS BEFORE
THE RESCUE MISSION
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IS SCHEDULED TO LAUNCH,
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ENGINEERS LEARN THAT
THE DEFECTIVE SKYLAB CAPSULE
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MIGHT STILL BE ABLE
TO BRING THE ASTRONAUTS HOME.
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THEY DISCOVER A WAY
TO RE-ENTER EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE
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UTILIZING A DIFFERENT SET
OF THRUSTERS
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ON THE COMMAND MODULE.
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AT THAT POINT, THE NEED FOR
THE RESCUE MISSION WENT AWAY.
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Narrator: ON AUGUST 14TH, NASA
ABORTS THE RESCUE MISSION.
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MISSION CONTROL INSTRUCTS
SKYLAB PILOT JACK LOUSMA
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TO ATTEMPT A RISKY MANUAL
RETURN TO EARTH USING
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JUST TWO OF HIS FOUR THRUSTERS.
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THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED
IN SPACE TRAVEL.
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IT MIGHT NOT EVEN BE POSSIBLE.
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BUT NASA HAS TO TRY.
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Narrator: AT 10:07 A.M.
ON SEPTEMBER 25TH,
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THE THREE ASTRONAUTS DEPART
THE SPACE STATION
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IN THEIR WOUNDED CRAFT.
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MISSION CONTROL CAN ONLY WAIT
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AS THE CAPSULE SLAMS
INTO EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE
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AT OVER 15,000 MILES
PER HOUR.
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THE EXTERIOR OF THE CRAFT
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HEATS UP TO OVER
5,000 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT,
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CREATING A LAYER OF PLASMA
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THAT BLOCKS OUT
ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE CREW.
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15 MINUTES LATER,
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THE MODULE SPLASHES DOWN
OFF THE COAST OF MEXICO.
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RESCUE TEAMS REACH THE CAPSULE
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AND RECOVER THE ASTRONAUTS.
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ALL UNHARMED
BY THEIR ORDEAL.
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AFTER A FULL INVESTIGATION
INTO THE NEAR DISASTER,
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ASTRONAUTS RETURN TO SKYLAB
IN NOVEMBER 1973.
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AND THE SPACE STATION
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GOES ON TO LAY THE FOUNDATIONS
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FOR FUTURE NASA MISSIONS.
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THIS COULD HAVE BEEN
THE END OF SKYLAB.
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BUT THANKS TO SOME CALM,
COOL, SMART THINKING,
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IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF ONE
OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MISSIONS
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IN NASA HISTORY.
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Narrator: COMING UP,
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
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ON TWO CONTINENTS WITNESS
STRANGE LIGHTS IN THE SKY.
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THIS ISN'T A HALLUCINATION,
AND IT'S NOT MASS HYSTERIA.
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THIS THING IS REAL.
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Narrator: AND HAS A NASA PROBE
DISCOVERED A MESSAGE
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ON THE MARTIAN LANDSCAPE?
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A MESSAGE FROM WHO?
AN INTELLIGENCE, POSSIBLY.
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Narrator: A NASA PROBE DISCOVERS
A BIZARRE PATTERN
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ON THE SURFACE
OF THE RED PLANET.
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[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS ]
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IT'S REALLY CLEAR,
DOTS AND DASHES.
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IT LOOKS, FOR ALL THE WORLD,
LIKE MORSE CODE.
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Narrator: WHAT IS THE MEANING
OF THE MARTIAN MARKINGS?
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IS THIS SOME SORT OF MESSAGE?
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A MESSAGE FROM WHO?
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Narrator: FEBRUARY 6, 2016,
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AS THE MARS
RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER PASSES
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OVER AN UNCHARTED REGION
NEAR THE PLANET'S NORTH POLE,
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IT SPOTS A STRANGE PATTERN
IN THE LANDSCAPE.
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THE DISCOVERY STUNS ASTRONOMERS.
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THIS PARTICULAR PATTERN
HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE.
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IT'S RARE TO SEE SUCH ORGANIZED
PATTERNS IN LANDSCAPE IMAGES,
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JUST VERY ODD,
STRANGE PATTERNS.
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Narrator:
THE BIZARRE MARKINGS STRETCH
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FOR SEVEN MILES
ACROSS THE MARTIAN SURFACE.
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FOR SOME ASTRONOMERS,
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THEIR ARRANGEMENT
IS EERILY FAMILIAR.
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[ RHYTHMIC BEEPING ]
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YOU HAVE THIS INCREDIBLE
SUCCESSION OF DOTS
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AND STRAIGHT LINES.
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IT LOOKS LIKE MORSE CODE
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DOWN THERE
ON THE SURFACE OF MARS.
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Narrator: WHEN NASA PUBLISHES
THE IMAGES, THEY GO VIRAL.
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SOME OBSERVERS SPECULATE
THAT IT COULD BE EVIDENCE
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THAT SOMEONE OR SOMETHING
HAS ETCHED A CODE
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INTO THE MARTIAN DIRT.
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SOME PEOPLE ARE LOOKING
AT THESE PATTERNS AND SAYING,
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"YOU KNOW, IT'S A MESSAGE."
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A MESSAGE FROM WHO?
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AN INTELLIGENCE, POSSIBLY.
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Narrator: FOR DECADES,
ASTRONOMERS HAVE BELIEVED
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THAT THE BEST CHANCE
OF FINDING MESSAGES
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FROM EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE
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IS TO LISTEN
FOR RADIO SIGNALS
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SENT FROM DISTANT
STAR SYSTEMS.
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THE DISCOVERY OF
THE MARS CIPHER RAISES
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AN INTRIGUING POSSIBILITY.
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MAYBE WE'RE -- WE'RE NOT LOOKING
FOR THE RIGHT FORM OF MESSAGE.
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UH, MAYBE IT'S
SOMETHING THAT, UH,
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WE'LL FIND ONE DAY
AT THE SURFACE OF A PLANET.
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UH, MAYBE
THIS IS IT.
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MAYBE MARS HAS
AN INTELLIGENT CIVILIZATION.
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Narrator: IN THE FACE
OF MOUNTING SPECULATION
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ABOUT THE MEANING
OF THE MARTIAN CODE,
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NASA ATTEMPTS TO TRANSLATE IT.
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THE RESULTS REVEAL
THAT IF THIS IS CODE,
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IT'S CERTAINLY
NOT MORSE CODE.
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THE DECODED MESSAGE
FROM THIS ANCIENT ALIEN RACE
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IN MORSE CODE READS,
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AND I QUOTE, "NEE NED ZB 6TN."
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"N-E-E, N-E-D, Z-B."
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"N-E-E, N-E-D, Z-B,
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6-T-N-N, C-E-C-C."
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DOESN'T REALLY MAKE MUCH SENSE.
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DOESN'T MAKE ANY
SENSE WHATSOEVER.
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DOES THAT SOUND LIKE
AN INTELLIGENT MESSAGE TO YOU?
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NOT TO ME.
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Narrator: IF AN ADVANCED RACE
ISN'T RESPONSIBLE
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FOR THE WEIRD PATTERN,
THEN WHAT IS?
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A CLUE TO UNRAVELING THE ENIGMA
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COULD COME FROM A GRAVITY MAP
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OF MARS CREATED
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BY NASA IN MARCH, 2016.
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IT REVEALS A SERIES
OF GRAVITATIONAL ANOMALIES
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AROUND THE MARTIAN NORTH POLE,
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CLOSE TO WHERE
THE IMAGE WAS TAKEN.
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THE POLAR CAP REGION
IS KNOWN TO HAVE
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GRAVITY ANOMALIES,
PLACES
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WHERE THE GRAVITY
FIELD IS STRONGER.
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AND WE'RE NOT 100 PERCENT SURE
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WHAT THE CAUSE OF THESE
GRAVITY ANOMALIES IS.
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COULD THIS WEIRD GRAVITATIONAL
VARIATION BE RESPONSIBLE
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FOR THIS STRANGE
MORSE-CODE PATTERN?
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Narrator: ON EARTH, GRAVITY
ANOMALIES CAN CREATE BULGES
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AND DIPS ON THE SURFACE
OF THE OCEANS.
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BUT ASTRONOMERS DOUBT
THEY COULD ACCOUNT
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FOR THE MYSTERIOUS
PATTERN ON MARS.
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Bell: I THINK THAT DOESN'T
SEEM TO BE LIKELY
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BECAUSE THESE ARE
VERY SMALL FEATURES.
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RIGHT?
AND GRAVITY IS A VERY BIG THING.
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AND IT AFFECTS MOUNTAINS
AND VALLEYS,
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NOT INDIVIDUAL LITTLE FEATURES.
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Narrator: CLOSER ANALYSIS
OF THE IMAGE REVEALS
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ANOTHER POSSIBLE EXPLANATION.
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IF WE ZOOM IN ON
THESE LITTLE BY LITTLE,
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NOW IT BECOMES CLEAR.
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Narrator:
EACH DASH HAS A DARKER LINE
RUNNING ALONG THE MIDDLE OF IT.
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INVESTIGATORS
BELIEVE THEY ARE RIDGES.
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D'Antonio:
SEEING THIS REALLY HITS HOME
THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY
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A 3-D PEAK OBJECT STICKING UP
OUT OF THE MARTIAN SURFACE.
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THESE ARE DUNES.
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Narrator: MARS IS COVERED
IN VAST SAND DUNES,
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MANY TWICE THE SIZE
OF THE BIGGEST ON EARTH.
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BUT IF THE LINES
IN THE IMAGE ARE DUNES,
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THEY'RE UNLIKE ANY NASA
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HAS PREVIOUSLY DISCOVERED
ON THE RED PLANET.
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SCIENTISTS SUGGEST
THE LOCAL GEOLOGY
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COULD PROVIDE
AN EXPLANATION.
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NOW THIS AREA IS IN A --
AN IMPACT CRATER.
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IT'S A BOWL.
IT'S A HOLE IN THE GROUND.
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Narrator: WHEN WINDS BLOW
INTO THE CRATER,
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THEY BOUNCE OFF THE WALLS,
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DRAMATICALLY ALTERING
THE SHAPE OF THE DUNES.
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WHEN THE WIND BLOWS IN TWO
DIRECTIONS, ALL OF A SUDDEN,
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YOU WILL SEE THESE SIMPLE
LITTLE CRESCENT SHAPED DUNES
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STRETCHED INTO LONG,
STRINGY DUNES.
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THIS IS WHAT
WE'RE SEEING HERE.
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Narrator: MOST SCIENTISTS AGREE.
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THE LOCALIZED WIND
CONDITIONS COULD ACCOUNT
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FOR THE DASH-SHAPED DUNES
IN THE IMAGE.
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THE DOTS ARE
HARDER TO EXPLAIN.
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MARS EXPERT,
PASCAL LEE,
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SUGGESTS THEY COULD
CONCEAL GIANT BALLS OF ICE.
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I SUSPECT THAT
BECAUSE THESE DUNES
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ARE IN THE NORTH
POLAR REGION OF MARS,
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THEY CONTAIN ICE.
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AND THE ICE
IS MAKING THEM STRONGER
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AGAINST THE ACTION OF WIND.
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IT MAKES THEM CEMENTED,
IN SOME SENSE.
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Narrator: FOR NOW,
THIS IS JUST A THEORY.
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MARS' STRANGE TERRAIN
AND WEATHER REMAIN
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A MYSTERY TO US.
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BUT UNDERSTANDING THEM
IS A KEY STEP
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TOWARDS ONE DAY SETTING FOOT
ON THE RED PLANET.
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IF NASA'S GOING TO SEND HUMANS
TO LIVE AND WORK ON MARS,
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WE NEED TO KNOW
HOW WEATHER THERE WORKS.
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THEY MAY LOOK LIKE
PLACES ON EARTH,
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BUT MARS IS STILL
A VERY ALIEN WORLD.
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Narrator:
COMING UP, AN EXPLORER
DISCOVERS AN ISOLATED TRIBE
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USING WEAPONS FROM OUTER SPACE.
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THERE'S A REAL MYSTERY HERE.
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THEY'RE NOT TELLING
ANYONE THEIR SECRET.
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Narrator:
AND AN EXPLOSIVE LETTER
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FROM JFK ORDERS THE CIA
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TO SHARE ITS CLASSIFIED
UFO FILES.
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THIS LETTER IS DATED 10 DAYS
BEFORE THE ASSASSINATION.
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IS THERE A CONNECTION?
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[ GUNSHOTS ]
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Narrator: A DECLASSIFIED MEMO
FROM PRESIDENT KENNEDY DEMANDS
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THAT THE CIA SHARE
ITS UFO INTELLIGENCE WITH NASA.
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Jurek:
THIS LETTER IS DATED 10 DAYS
BEFORE THE ASSASSINATION.
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IS THERE A CONNECTION?
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Narrator: COULD THE EXPLOSIVE
LETTER HELP SOLVE
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ONE OF THE MOST
SHOCKING MURDERS IN HISTORY?
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I MEAN, THIS DOCUMENT
IS ABSOLUTELY SENSATIONAL.
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WERE KENNEDY'S PROBES
WITH THE CIA ABOUT UFOS
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CAUSE FOR ALARM OR EVEN,
POSSIBLY, ASSASSINATION?
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Narrator: NOVEMBER 22ND, 1963,
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12:30 P.M.,
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SHOTS RING OUT
ACROSS DEALEY PLAZA IN DALLAS...
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[ GUNSHOTS ]
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...ENDING THE LIFE OF PRESIDENT
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
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AND SENDING A NATION
INTO MOURNING.
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THE JFK ASSASSINATION IS ONE
OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL
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AND POLARIZING CASES
IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
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IT'S A DECADES-OLD QUESTION.
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WHO KILLED JFK AND WHY?
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Reporter: THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES IS DEAD.
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Narrator:
OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS,
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THERE HAVE BEEN
NUMEROUS THEORIES
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ABOUT KENNEDY'S DEATH.
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DAVID MARWELL HEADED A REVIEW
OF CLASSIFIED RECORDS
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RELATING TO THE ASSASSINATION.
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AFTER THE ASSASSINATION,
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THERE WERE A NUMBER
OF OFFICIAL INQUIRIES
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THAT WERE CHARGED
WITH DETERMINING
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EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED
TO THE PRESIDENT.
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Narrator: IN 1964,
THE WARREN COMMISSION,
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THE OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT
INVESTIGATION
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INTO KENNEDY'S ASSASSINATION,
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CONCLUDED THAT LEE HARVEY OSWALD
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WAS RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE PRESIDENT'S DEATH.
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BUT MANY BELIEVE THERE
ARE NUMEROUS INCONSISTENCIES
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WITH THE LONE GUNMAN THEORY.
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IT WAS A CRIME
THAT WAS WITNESSED
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BY HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE.
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AND IT'S ONLY NATURAL THAT
THEIR OBSERVATIONS WOULD DIFFER.
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MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT JFK
HAD MADE POWERFUL ENEMIES,
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EVEN THE CIA,
AND THAT THEY WERE RESPONSIBLE
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FOR HIS ASSASSINATION.FIRE!
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Narrator: CONSPIRACY
THEORIES LINKING THE CIA
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TO KENNEDY'S DEATH
ARE WELL DOCUMENTED.
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BUT IN 2010,
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A SENSATIONAL DECLASSIFIED
GOVERNMENT MEMO EMERGED
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THAT SOME THOUGHT PROVIDED
NEW POSSIBLE MOTIVES
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FOR THE AGENCY'S INVOLVEMENT
IN THE ASSASSINATION:
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A DOCUMENT WRITTEN
BY JFK HIMSELF.
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TEN DAYS BEFORE
JFK WAS ASSASSINATED,
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HE HAD DRAFTED A LETTER
TO THE CIA REQUESTING
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ALL UFO DOCUMENTS
TO BE RELEASED TO HIM.
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Narrator:
IN THE LETTER, THE PRESIDENT
ALSO ORDERS THE AGENCY
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TO SHARE THEIR SECRET
UFO FILES WITH NASA.
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IT SAYS TO THE CIA,
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"YOU WILL SHARE THIS INFORMATION
ABOUT THESE UNKNOWNS,"
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WHICH MEANS UFOS.
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YOU SHARE THIS SO THAT
NASA'S MISSION DIRECTORS
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WILL BE ASSISTED
IN UNDERTAKING
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THEIR DEFENSIVE
RESPONSIBILITIES.
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Narrator: THE DATE OF THE LETTER
IS INTRIGUING.
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YOU'VE GOT TO WONDER
IF THERE'S A CORRELATION
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IN THE SHORT TIME PERIOD
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BETWEEN THE LETTER BEING SENT
AND THE ASSASSINATION.
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Narrator: FOLLOWING
THE ROSWELL INCIDENT,
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WHERE AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFT
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ALLEGEDLY CRASHED IN NEW MEXICO,
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00:20:11,862 --> 00:20:14,034
THE CIA SET UP A COVERT GROUP
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00:20:14,034 --> 00:20:18,655
TO MONITOR UFO ACTIVITY
IN THE US AND ABROAD.
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00:20:18,655 --> 00:20:20,344
OVER THE FOLLOWING YEARS,
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00:20:20,344 --> 00:20:24,655
IT DOCUMENTED AND CATALOGED
THOUSANDS OF SIGHTINGS.
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00:20:24,655 --> 00:20:26,413
Moss: ALL OF A SUDDEN,
THEY'RE BEING REQUESTED
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00:20:26,413 --> 00:20:30,241
TO GIVE OVER ALL THOSE DOCUMENTS
TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY.
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00:20:30,241 --> 00:20:33,379
Pope: I MEAN, THIS DOCUMENT
IS ABSOLUTELY SENSATIONAL
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BECAUSE WHEN YOU START
TALKING ABOUT
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SHARING INFORMATION
WITH OTHER AGENCIES,
413
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THAT'S THE ONE THE THING
THE CIA NEVER LIKED TO DO.
414
00:20:42,206 --> 00:20:43,620
Moss: NOW WE HAVE
TO ASK QUESTIONS.
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WERE KENNEDY'S PROBES
WITH THE CIA
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ABOUT UFOS CAUSE
FOR ALARM OR EVEN,
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POSSIBLY, ASSASSINATION?
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Narrator: THIS SUGGESTION
IS UNCONVINCING.
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BUT TO THE CIA,
KENNEDY'S LETTER
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00:20:58,517 --> 00:21:03,758
MAY ALSO CONTAIN
A SECOND, GREATER THREAT.
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00:21:03,758 --> 00:21:07,344
THIS DOCUMENT ALSO GOES
ON TO TALK ABOUT
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A PROGRAM OF COOPERATION
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WITH THE SOVIET UNION IN SPACE.
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IT ESSENTIALLY
INSTRUCTS THE CIA
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TO INITIATE
A DATA-SHARING PROGRAM
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WITH THE SOVIET UNION.
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Narrator: THE REQUEST
FOLLOWS A SPEECH
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KENNEDY GAVE AT THE U.N.,
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WHERE HE EVEN SUGGESTS
THAT HE WILL COLLABORATE
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WITH THE RUSSIANS
ON THE BIGGEST PRIZE IN SPACE,
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A MANNED MISSION TO THE MOON.
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IN THE FIELD OF SPACE,
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THERE IS ROOM
FOR NEW COOPERATION.
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KENNEDY WAS ACTUALLY
INTERESTED IN STARTING UP
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A JOINT PROGRAM
BETWEEN THE SOVIETS
436
00:21:44,724 --> 00:21:46,862
AND THE U.S. TO COMBINE
OUR EFFORTS TO TRY
437
00:21:46,862 --> 00:21:48,413
AND GET TO THE LUNAR SURFACE.
438
00:21:48,413 --> 00:21:51,241
I INCLUDE AMONG THESE
POSSIBILITIES
439
00:21:51,241 --> 00:21:54,137
A JOINT EXPEDITION TO THE MOON.
440
00:21:54,137 --> 00:21:55,758
Narrator: SOME AUTHORS
AND HISTORIANS
441
00:21:55,758 --> 00:21:57,758
SUGGEST THAT THE CIA
442
00:21:57,758 --> 00:22:00,931
WAS INFURIATED BY KENNEDY'S
REPEATED ATTEMPTS
443
00:22:00,931 --> 00:22:04,965
TO COOPERATE WITH AMERICA'S
COLD WAR ENEMY.
444
00:22:04,965 --> 00:22:07,896
THIS IS A PERIOD
OF EXTREME TENSION
445
00:22:07,896 --> 00:22:10,000
BETWEEN THE SUPERPOWERS.
446
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,862
THE THEORY WAS THAT HE WAS
KILLED BY THE CIA,
447
00:22:13,862 --> 00:22:16,655
WHO FEARED THAT
HE WAS GOING SOFT
448
00:22:16,655 --> 00:22:18,379
ON THE SOVIET THREAT.
449
00:22:19,689 --> 00:22:21,793
Narrator:
THE REVELATIONS IN THE 2010
450
00:22:21,793 --> 00:22:25,758
JFK MEMO SPARK A MEDIA FRENZY.
451
00:22:25,758 --> 00:22:28,689
THEY APPEAR TO PROVIDE
CRUCIAL NEW EVIDENCE
452
00:22:28,689 --> 00:22:31,379
FOR THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL
MURDER INVESTIGATION
453
00:22:31,379 --> 00:22:33,551
OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
454
00:22:33,551 --> 00:22:37,034
IS THE LETTER A MOTIVE?
IS THIS A SMOKING GUN?
455
00:22:38,758 --> 00:22:40,931
SINCE THE LETTER
WAS DISCOVERED,
456
00:22:40,931 --> 00:22:44,275
SOME HAVE CLAIMED IT IS A FAKE.
457
00:22:44,275 --> 00:22:48,931
IMAGE ANALYST MARC D'ANTONIO
ASSESSES IT'S AUTHENTICITY.
458
00:22:48,931 --> 00:22:51,655
USUALLY, WE MIGHT EXPECT
TO SEE TOP SECRET
459
00:22:51,655 --> 00:22:55,655
DOWN AT THE BOTTOM IN A BIG,
STENCILED OUTLINE OR A STAMP.
460
00:22:55,655 --> 00:22:59,103
THE DIRECTOR'S NAME
AND THE TOP HEADING
461
00:22:59,103 --> 00:23:00,931
ARE NOT IN THE SAME PLACE
462
00:23:00,931 --> 00:23:03,551
AS IN HIS OTHER LETTERS.
463
00:23:03,551 --> 00:23:06,965
THERE ARE DISCREPANCIES.
THAT'S TRUE.
464
00:23:06,965 --> 00:23:09,724
BUT THAT DOESN'T
MEAN IT'S A FAKE.
465
00:23:09,724 --> 00:23:13,241
Narrator:
DAVID MARWELL QUESTIONS
WHY ONLY ONE COPY OF THE LETTER
466
00:23:13,241 --> 00:23:16,620
HAS BEEN PROVIDED
FOR INVESTIGATORS.
467
00:23:16,620 --> 00:23:18,620
Marwell:THE DOCUMENT
LOOKS LIKE A COPY.
468
00:23:18,620 --> 00:23:19,896
IT LOOKS LIKE A CARBON COPY.
469
00:23:19,896 --> 00:23:21,931
SO IT BEGS THE QUESTION
WHERE THE ORIGINAL IS
470
00:23:21,931 --> 00:23:25,655
AND ALSO WHY THE TOP
HAS BEEN REDACTED.
471
00:23:25,655 --> 00:23:29,724
DOCUMENTS DO NOT EXIST
ON THEIR OWN.
472
00:23:29,724 --> 00:23:32,275
Narrator:
IN 2017, THE CIA
473
00:23:32,275 --> 00:23:34,689
WILL RELEASE THOUSANDS
OF CLASSIFIED FILES
474
00:23:34,689 --> 00:23:37,275
RELATING TO JFK'S DEATH.
475
00:23:37,275 --> 00:23:39,793
PERHAPS THEY CONTAIN
THE ORIGINAL LETTER
476
00:23:39,793 --> 00:23:41,310
AND WILL SHED MORE LIGHT
477
00:23:41,310 --> 00:23:44,310
ONTO WHO WAS BEHIND
THE ASSASSINATION.
478
00:23:44,310 --> 00:23:47,413
UNTIL THEN, DEBATE
WILL CONTINUE TO RAGE
479
00:23:47,413 --> 00:23:49,862
ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED
ON THAT FATEFUL DAY
480
00:23:49,862 --> 00:23:53,103
IN DALLAS IN NOVEMBER, 1963.
481
00:23:55,310 --> 00:23:57,379
COMING UP,
AN UNEXPLAINED CRAFT
482
00:23:57,379 --> 00:24:00,379
CAUSES PANIC
ON THE STREETS OF MOSCOW.
483
00:24:00,379 --> 00:24:02,551
IT APPEARED TO BE
SOMETHING VERY LARGE
484
00:24:02,551 --> 00:24:04,344
AND CHASING THEM.
485
00:24:04,344 --> 00:24:07,241
Narrator: AND AN EXPLORER
DISCOVERS A REMOTE TRIBE
486
00:24:07,241 --> 00:24:10,206
USING WEAPONS
THAT COME FROM SPACE.
487
00:24:10,206 --> 00:24:12,310
THEY'RE NOT TELLING
ANYONE THEIR SECRET.
488
00:24:21,965 --> 00:24:26,379
Narrator:
A STRANGE CRAFT CAUSES PANIC
ON TWO SEPARATE CONTINENTS.
489
00:24:26,379 --> 00:24:28,827
YOU HAVE MULTIPLE,
CREDIBLE WITNESSES
490
00:24:28,827 --> 00:24:31,310
ALL SAYING THEY SAW
THE SAME THING.
491
00:24:31,310 --> 00:24:32,793
IT'S LIKE
"WAR OF THE WORLDS."
492
00:24:32,793 --> 00:24:35,172
PEOPLE THINK THEY'RE
UNDER ATTACK.
493
00:24:35,172 --> 00:24:38,103
Narrator: A SECRET GOVERNMENT
DOCUMENT PROVIDES A CLUE
494
00:24:38,103 --> 00:24:40,275
TO THE MYSTERIOUS EVENTS.
495
00:24:40,275 --> 00:24:44,241
A DECLASSIFIED STATE DEPARTMENT
DOCUMENT EMERGES,
496
00:24:44,241 --> 00:24:47,000
WHICH PUTS NASA
AT THE HEART OF IT.
497
00:24:52,931 --> 00:24:55,896
Narrator: JUNE 14TH, 1980:
498
00:24:55,896 --> 00:24:57,689
AS MIDNIGHT APPROACHES,
499
00:24:57,689 --> 00:25:01,241
WITNESSES IN CITIES ACROSS
NORTHWEST RUSSIA REPORT
500
00:25:01,241 --> 00:25:05,275
SEEING A STRANGE OBJECT
LIGHT UP THE SKIES.
501
00:25:05,275 --> 00:25:10,172
THERE'S A WAVE OF UFO
SIGHTINGS THROUGHOUT RUSSIA.
502
00:25:10,172 --> 00:25:13,172
PEOPLE REPORT A CRESCENT
503
00:25:13,172 --> 00:25:16,413
WITH A REDDISH-ORANGE
HUE TO IT.
504
00:25:17,724 --> 00:25:19,517
THEY SAY IT LOOKS
LIKE A HORSESHOE,
505
00:25:19,517 --> 00:25:21,413
DIMMER IN THE MIDDLE
AND BRIGHTER ON THE ENDS.
506
00:25:21,413 --> 00:25:24,103
AND IT HAS A DISTINCT GLOW.
507
00:25:24,103 --> 00:25:25,413
Narrator: OVER THE NEXT HOUR,
508
00:25:25,413 --> 00:25:29,551
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SEE
THE UNEXPLAINED OBJECT.
509
00:25:29,551 --> 00:25:32,724
THE SIGHTINGS SPREAD PANIC.
510
00:25:32,724 --> 00:25:34,655
SOME PEOPLE APPARENTLY
THINK THAT
511
00:25:34,655 --> 00:25:38,620
THE UNITED STATES HAS LAUNCHED
A FIRST-STRIKE NUCLEAR ATTACK.
512
00:25:38,620 --> 00:25:42,310
SOME PEOPLE THINK
IT'S JUDGMENT DAY.
513
00:25:42,310 --> 00:25:43,275
THEY WERE SCARED TO DEATH.
514
00:25:43,275 --> 00:25:45,655
THEY HAD NO IDEA
WHAT WAS GOING ON.
515
00:25:45,655 --> 00:25:47,275
Narrator:
WITNESSES DESCRIBE THE CRAFT
516
00:25:47,275 --> 00:25:49,827
AS BEING AROUND
400 FEET WIDE,
517
00:25:49,827 --> 00:25:53,275
TWICE THE SIZE OF A BOEING 747.
518
00:25:53,275 --> 00:25:56,068
AND IT'S MOVING FAST.
519
00:25:56,068 --> 00:25:59,862
IT APPEARED TO BE SOMETHING
VERY LARGE AND VERY ODD.
520
00:25:59,862 --> 00:26:02,275
SOME PEOPLE SAW THAT IT
WAS ACTUALLY CHASING THEM.
521
00:26:02,275 --> 00:26:04,344
IT'S LIKE "WAR OF THE WORLDS."
522
00:26:04,344 --> 00:26:05,724
Narrator: SOON AFTER MIDNIGHT,
523
00:26:05,724 --> 00:26:09,517
THE MYSTERY CRAFT
VANISHES FROM THE SKIES.
524
00:26:09,517 --> 00:26:13,379
BUT JUST AN HOUR LATER,
IT SUDDENLY REAPPEARS.
525
00:26:13,379 --> 00:26:17,344
ONLY THIS TIME, IT'S ON
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD.
526
00:26:17,344 --> 00:26:19,724
THERE'S A WAVE
OF SIMILAR SIGHTINGS
527
00:26:19,724 --> 00:26:22,551
THROUGHOUT FIVE COUNTRIES
IN SOUTH AMERICA.
528
00:26:24,103 --> 00:26:27,931
AGAIN, VERY SIMILAR THINGS SEEN.
529
00:26:27,931 --> 00:26:31,310
REPORTS OF THE SAME
HORSESHOE-SHAPED UFO,
530
00:26:31,310 --> 00:26:34,034
JUST AS DESCRIBED IN RUSSIA.
531
00:26:34,034 --> 00:26:37,137
WHATEVER THIS IS, IT'S GLOBAL.
532
00:26:37,137 --> 00:26:39,034
Narrator: IN CHILE,
A PILOT REPORTS
533
00:26:39,034 --> 00:26:41,517
THAT THE GLOWING OBJECT
MAKES A HEAD-ON PASS
534
00:26:41,517 --> 00:26:45,758
AT HIS AIRCRAFT BEFORE
SUDDENLY DISAPPEARING.
535
00:26:45,758 --> 00:26:47,413
MINUTES LATER, IT IS TRACKED
536
00:26:47,413 --> 00:26:51,655
AT AN INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT IN ARGENTINA.
537
00:26:51,655 --> 00:26:53,379
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL REPORTS
538
00:26:53,379 --> 00:26:56,172
SOMETHING BRIEFLY ON
THE RADAR SCREEN
539
00:26:56,172 --> 00:26:58,793
RAPIDLY CHANGING ITS ALTITUDE.
540
00:26:58,793 --> 00:27:01,413
[ RADAR BEEPING ]
541
00:27:01,413 --> 00:27:04,896
Narrator:
AFTER A FLURRY OF SIGHTINGS
ACROSS SIX COUNTRIES,
542
00:27:04,896 --> 00:27:07,551
THE CRAFT VANISHES AGAIN.
543
00:27:07,551 --> 00:27:10,896
THIS TIME,
IT DOES NOT REAPPEAR.
544
00:27:10,896 --> 00:27:12,758
FOR ALMOST TWO DECADES,
545
00:27:12,758 --> 00:27:15,482
THE CASE REMAINED UNSOLVED.
546
00:27:15,482 --> 00:27:17,827
THEN, IN 1997,
547
00:27:17,827 --> 00:27:21,206
A DECLASSIFIED US
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT EMERGES
548
00:27:21,206 --> 00:27:24,931
WHICH SUGGESTS NASA
COULD BE BEHIND THE MYSTERY.
549
00:27:24,931 --> 00:27:27,068
WHAT THIS DOCUMENT SHOWS
550
00:27:27,068 --> 00:27:30,724
IS THAT AN ARGENTINE
ENGINEER WORKING FOR NASA
551
00:27:30,724 --> 00:27:33,482
TOLD HIS MOTHER
THAT THE SPACE AGENCY
552
00:27:33,482 --> 00:27:36,586
WAS ENGAGED
ON ATMOSPHERIC EXPERIMENTS
553
00:27:36,586 --> 00:27:40,827
THAT WOULD CAUSE
STRANGE SHAPES IN THE SKY.
554
00:27:40,827 --> 00:27:43,758
Narrator:
THE EXPERIMENT INVOLVED
USING SMALL SATELLITES
555
00:27:43,758 --> 00:27:47,551
TO SHOOT CHARGED PARTICLES
INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.
556
00:27:47,551 --> 00:27:48,931
THE SPACE AGENCY HOPED
557
00:27:48,931 --> 00:27:51,068
THAT BY TRACKING
THESE PARTICLES,
558
00:27:51,068 --> 00:27:52,758
IT WOULD HELP THEM
BETTER UNDERSTAND
559
00:27:52,758 --> 00:27:56,034
HOW SOLAR WINDS BEHAVE
WHEN THEY HIT EARTH.
560
00:27:56,034 --> 00:27:59,482
NASA CALLED IT
PROJECT FIREWHEEL.
561
00:27:59,482 --> 00:28:02,448
PROJECT FIREWHEEL SENDS
THESE SMALL BATTERY-OPERATED
562
00:28:02,448 --> 00:28:04,413
SPACECRAFT HIGH
INTO THE ATMOSPHERE
563
00:28:04,413 --> 00:28:07,551
WHERE THEY RELEASE THESE LITHIUM
AND BARIUM BATTERIES
564
00:28:07,551 --> 00:28:10,517
SO THAT THEY MAKE FIRE-WHEEL
SHAPES IN THE SKY.
565
00:28:10,517 --> 00:28:12,206
Narrator: THE SPEED
AND TRAJECTORY
566
00:28:12,206 --> 00:28:14,344
OF THE FIREWHEEL
SATELLITE MATCHED
567
00:28:14,344 --> 00:28:17,758
SOME OF THE WITNESSES'
REPORTS FROM 1980.
568
00:28:17,758 --> 00:28:20,034
BUT KEY DETAILS DIFFER.
569
00:28:20,034 --> 00:28:21,241
THE PROBLEM WITH THIS THEORY
570
00:28:21,241 --> 00:28:23,310
IS THAT NO FIREWHEEL TESTS
HAD BEEN SCHEDULED
571
00:28:23,310 --> 00:28:25,103
FOR THE NIGHT
OF THE SIGHTINGS.
572
00:28:25,103 --> 00:28:27,551
IN FACT,
THE ONLY FIREWHEEL TESTS
573
00:28:27,551 --> 00:28:29,655
IN THE AREA
WERE IN FRENCH GUYANA.
574
00:28:29,655 --> 00:28:32,931
AND THEY WERE TWO WEEKS
BEFORE THE SIGHTINGS.
575
00:28:32,931 --> 00:28:35,655
Angiola: THE DATES DON'T MATCH.
THE GEOGRAPHY DOESN'T MATCH.
576
00:28:35,655 --> 00:28:37,000
IT JUST DOESN'T ADD UP.
577
00:28:38,931 --> 00:28:41,034
Narrator: THE MYSTERY COMES
TO THE ATTENTION
578
00:28:41,034 --> 00:28:43,551
OF EX-NASA ENGINEER JIM OBERG,
579
00:28:43,551 --> 00:28:46,517
WHO LAUNCHES HIS
OWN INVESTIGATION.
580
00:28:46,517 --> 00:28:50,793
HE DISCOVERS THAT ON THE NIGHT
THE OBJECT APPEARED IN RUSSIA,
581
00:28:50,793 --> 00:28:55,172
AN EARLY-WARNING SATELLITE
CALLED COSMOS 1188 LAUNCHED
582
00:28:55,172 --> 00:28:59,310
FROM A SPACE PORT
500 MILES NORTH OF MOSCOW.
583
00:28:59,310 --> 00:29:01,931
Oberg: THIS WAS A SPECIAL
KIND OF SATELLITE.
584
00:29:01,931 --> 00:29:03,241
IT WAS A SATELLITE DESIGNED
585
00:29:03,241 --> 00:29:05,827
TO HOVER OVER THE NORTH POLE
586
00:29:05,827 --> 00:29:07,413
AND RELAY COMMUNICATIONS
587
00:29:07,413 --> 00:29:10,206
TO THE REST
OF THE SOVIET UNION.
588
00:29:10,206 --> 00:29:12,206
Narrator: SOVIET RECORDS
REVEAL THAT IN ORDER
589
00:29:12,206 --> 00:29:14,172
TO REACH ITS ORBITAL HEIGHT,
590
00:29:14,172 --> 00:29:16,965
THE SATELLITE FIRED
A FOURTH ROCKET STAGE
591
00:29:16,965 --> 00:29:20,482
AS IT APPROACHED SOUTH AMERICA.
592
00:29:20,482 --> 00:29:23,551
OBERG SUGGESTS THAT
THIS VENTING OF GAS,
593
00:29:23,551 --> 00:29:26,172
COMBINED WITH LOCAL
LIGHT CONDITIONS,
594
00:29:26,172 --> 00:29:30,413
COULD EXPLAIN THE SIGHTINGS
IN THE SKIES THERE.
595
00:29:30,413 --> 00:29:32,620
THE SUN WAS OVER
THE WESTERN HORIZON.
596
00:29:32,620 --> 00:29:34,103
THE GROUND WAS DARK.
597
00:29:34,103 --> 00:29:37,413
THE CLOUD OF GAS
WAS STILL IN SUNLIGHT,
598
00:29:37,413 --> 00:29:39,965
STILL ILLUMINATED
AND STILL VISIBLE
599
00:29:39,965 --> 00:29:42,068
AND FREAKING OUT THOUSANDS
600
00:29:42,068 --> 00:29:45,241
AND THOUSANDS OF WITNESSES
ON THE GROUND.
601
00:29:45,241 --> 00:29:49,103
Narrator:
THE RUSSIAN-SATELLITE THEORY
IS ACCEPTED BY SOME.
602
00:29:49,103 --> 00:29:51,655
BUT OTHERS SUGGEST
THAT IT CANNOT ACCOUNT
603
00:29:51,655 --> 00:29:54,241
FOR THE SIZE OF THE CRAFT
SEEN IN RUSSIA
604
00:29:54,241 --> 00:29:58,172
OR ITS BEHAVIOR
IN THE SKIES OVER ARGENTINA.
605
00:29:58,172 --> 00:30:00,241
IF YOU BELIEVE THE REPORTS
FROM THAT DAY,
606
00:30:00,241 --> 00:30:02,965
THERE ARE STILL A LOT OF THINGS
THAT AREN'T EXPLAINED.
607
00:30:09,655 --> 00:30:11,068
Narrator: COMING UP,
608
00:30:11,068 --> 00:30:15,034
A MYSTERIOUS CRASH
ON THE MOON.
609
00:30:15,034 --> 00:30:18,655
SOMETHING APPEARS TO HAVE HIT
THE SURFACE WITH SOME FORCE.
610
00:30:18,655 --> 00:30:22,310
Genge: IT LOOKS AS IF
IT'S SOMETHING ENGINEERED,
611
00:30:22,310 --> 00:30:23,862
BUT ENGINEERED BY WHAT?
612
00:30:35,551 --> 00:30:36,862
Narrator: A NASA PROBE SPOTS
613
00:30:36,862 --> 00:30:39,965
AN UNUSUAL CRATER
ON THE LUNAR SURFACE.
614
00:30:39,965 --> 00:30:43,793
THE MOON IS LITERALLY
SMOTHERED IN CRATERS.
615
00:30:43,793 --> 00:30:45,620
BUT THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT.
616
00:30:45,620 --> 00:30:49,413
IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING
HAS SMASHED INTO THE MOON.
617
00:30:50,931 --> 00:30:55,517
Narrator: INVESTIGATORS DISCOVER
A STRANGE OBJECT SITTING INSIDE.
618
00:30:55,517 --> 00:30:58,482
IT ACTUALLY ALMOST
LOOKS ENGINEERED.
619
00:30:58,482 --> 00:31:00,310
SO -- SO WHAT IS THIS?
620
00:31:09,379 --> 00:31:11,862
Narrator: FOR CENTURIES,
ASTRONOMERS HAVE WITNESSED
621
00:31:11,862 --> 00:31:14,103
AND DOCUMENTED STRANGE PHENOMENA
622
00:31:14,103 --> 00:31:18,655
AND OBJECTS IN
THE SKIES ABOVE EARTH,
623
00:31:18,655 --> 00:31:22,620
NOWHERE MORE SO THAN
ON THE MOON.
624
00:31:22,620 --> 00:31:25,827
Birnes: PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
REGISTERING REPORTS
625
00:31:25,827 --> 00:31:27,931
OF ANOMALOUS ACTIVITY
ON THE MOON
626
00:31:27,931 --> 00:31:30,137
STRETCHING BACK 400 YEARS.
627
00:31:30,137 --> 00:31:35,724
IN FACT, NASA ACTUALLY
HAS A REPORT CALLED
628
00:31:35,724 --> 00:31:37,620
"LUNAR ANOMALIES"
629
00:31:37,620 --> 00:31:41,172
WHICH TRACES 400 YEARS
OF LUNAR OBSERVATIONS.
630
00:31:42,655 --> 00:31:45,379
Narrator: THE 1968 NASA
DOCUMENT LISTS
631
00:31:45,379 --> 00:31:47,517
ALMOST 600 REPORTS
632
00:31:47,517 --> 00:31:51,413
OF UNEXPLAINED EVENTS
AND OBJECTS ON THE MOON.
633
00:31:51,413 --> 00:31:54,586
SINCE THEN, SOME CONSPIRACY
THEORISTS CLAIM
634
00:31:54,586 --> 00:31:57,241
THAT NASA MISSIONS
HAVE EVEN CAPTURED EVIDENCE
635
00:31:57,241 --> 00:31:59,137
OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFT
636
00:31:59,137 --> 00:32:02,103
AND STRUCTURES
ON THE LUNAR SURFACE.
637
00:32:02,103 --> 00:32:07,586
WE, YET, DO NOT KNOW
WHAT THE SOLUTION IS
638
00:32:07,586 --> 00:32:10,517
TO ALL THESE THINGS
THAT PEOPLE HAVE SEEN.
639
00:32:13,137 --> 00:32:15,620
Narrator: IN 2012, NASA'S LUNAR
640
00:32:15,620 --> 00:32:18,137
RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER TAKES
AN IMAGE
641
00:32:18,137 --> 00:32:21,344
THAT OFFERS TO SHED NEW LIGHT
ON THESE MYSTERIES.
642
00:32:23,068 --> 00:32:24,517
ON FEBRUARY 12TH,
643
00:32:24,517 --> 00:32:27,275
AS THE CRAFT SCANS
AN ANCIENT VOLCANIC PLAIN
644
00:32:27,275 --> 00:32:29,310
KNOWN AS
THE SEA OF ISLANDS,
645
00:32:29,310 --> 00:32:34,689
IT SPOTS AN UNUSUAL
130-FOOT-WIDE CRATER BELOW IT.
646
00:32:34,689 --> 00:32:36,448
Schultz: I'VE STUDIED A LOT
OF CRATERS ON THE MOON.
647
00:32:36,448 --> 00:32:37,793
THIS IS DIFFERENT, THOUGH.
648
00:32:37,793 --> 00:32:39,620
THIS IS NOT ONE
OF YOUR REGULAR.
649
00:32:39,620 --> 00:32:42,586
IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S
AN OBJECT INSIDE.
650
00:32:42,586 --> 00:32:46,517
IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING
HAS SMASHED INTO THE MOON.
651
00:32:46,517 --> 00:32:48,517
IT'S REALLY ODD.
652
00:32:48,517 --> 00:32:50,965
Narrator: THE MOON IS COVERED
WITH CRATERS,
653
00:32:50,965 --> 00:32:55,172
THE RESULT OF A HEAVY
BOMBARDMENT OF ROCKS FROM SPACE.
654
00:32:55,172 --> 00:32:58,724
BUT WHATEVER LANDED HERE
IS NO METEORITE.
655
00:33:00,137 --> 00:33:03,241
Cartwright: WE'RE NOT SEEING
THE TYPICAL ROUND SHAPE
656
00:33:03,241 --> 00:33:05,034
OR THE RIM
THAT WE NORMALLY FIND
657
00:33:05,034 --> 00:33:08,551
WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO EXAMINE
IMPACT CRATERS ON THE MOON.
658
00:33:08,551 --> 00:33:10,310
Schultz: WHEN A METEORITE HITS,
659
00:33:10,310 --> 00:33:13,896
THEY COME IN AT SUCH SPEEDS
THAT THEY FRAGMENT COMPLETELY.
660
00:33:15,758 --> 00:33:18,655
THERE'S NOTHING LEFT.
THEY VAPORIZE.
661
00:33:18,655 --> 00:33:21,827
Narrator:
WHEN ASTRONOMERS ZOOM IN ON
THE OBJECT IN THE CRATER,
662
00:33:21,827 --> 00:33:25,206
WHAT THEY DISCOVER SHOCKS THEM.
663
00:33:25,206 --> 00:33:28,000
WHATEVER THIS IS,
IT'S STILL INTACT.
664
00:33:29,965 --> 00:33:33,586
Genge: IT LOOKS AS IF
IT'S SOMETHING ENGINEERED,
665
00:33:33,586 --> 00:33:35,413
BUT ENGINEERED BY WHAT?
666
00:33:37,517 --> 00:33:40,448
Narrator: MOST EXPERTS WHO STUDY
THE IMAGE THINKS
667
00:33:40,448 --> 00:33:45,413
THAT IT CONTAINS THE REMAINS
OF A HUMAN SPACECRAFT.
668
00:33:45,413 --> 00:33:48,310
Cartwright:
A LIKELY SCENARIO FOR WHAT
WE ARE SEEING IN THIS IMAGE
669
00:33:48,310 --> 00:33:50,517
COULD BE THAT IT
IS A MAN-MADE OBJECT
670
00:33:50,517 --> 00:33:53,448
THAT HAS CRASHED DOWN
ONTO THE SURFACE OF THE MOON.
671
00:33:53,448 --> 00:33:56,448
Narrator: IF THIS IS EVIDENCE
OF A HUMAN CRAFT,
672
00:33:56,448 --> 00:33:59,172
THEN WHO CRASHED IT AND WHEN?
673
00:33:59,172 --> 00:34:01,689
ONE POSSIBILITY IS
A RUSSIAN PROBE
674
00:34:01,689 --> 00:34:03,310
CALLED LUNA 9,
675
00:34:03,310 --> 00:34:06,793
THE FIRST SPACECRAFT
TO LAND ON ANOTHER WORLD.
676
00:34:06,793 --> 00:34:09,241
LUNA 9 SENT BACK
THE FIRST PICTURES
677
00:34:09,241 --> 00:34:10,965
FROM THE SURFACE OF THE MOON.
678
00:34:10,965 --> 00:34:13,137
THAT WAS A MASSIVE MILESTONE,
679
00:34:13,137 --> 00:34:15,620
A REAL COUP
FOR SOVIET ENGINEERING.
680
00:34:18,103 --> 00:34:20,965
Cartwright:
SHORTLY AFTER LANDING,
CONTACT WAS LOST.
681
00:34:20,965 --> 00:34:25,586
WE HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THE LUNA 9
PROBE ACTUALLY ENDED UP.
682
00:34:25,586 --> 00:34:27,689
Narrator: THE NASA IMAGE
WAS TAKEN CLOSE
683
00:34:27,689 --> 00:34:31,034
TO LUNA 9'S LAST KNOWN LOCATION.
684
00:34:31,034 --> 00:34:33,448
BUT THE SIZE OF THE CRATER
SUGGESTS THIS CANNOT
685
00:34:33,448 --> 00:34:36,827
BE THE RESTING PLACE
OF THE DOOMED SOVIET CRAFT.
686
00:34:36,827 --> 00:34:39,413
Genge: LUNA 9
WAS ACTUALLY REALLY SMALL,
687
00:34:39,413 --> 00:34:41,862
AND THERE'S NO WAY IT COULD
MAKE A HOLE THAT BIG.
688
00:34:43,448 --> 00:34:45,965
Narrator: INVESTIGATORS
SEARCH FOR LARGER CANDIDATES
689
00:34:45,965 --> 00:34:48,206
FOR THE CRASHED CRAFT.
690
00:34:48,206 --> 00:34:50,620
ONE POSSIBLE SUSPECT
IS THE RELIC
691
00:34:50,620 --> 00:34:53,034
OF A WEIRD EXPERIMENT
CARRIED OUT BY NASA
692
00:34:53,034 --> 00:34:55,689
OVER FOUR DECADES AGO.
693
00:34:55,689 --> 00:34:58,241
ON APRIL 19TH, 1972,
694
00:34:58,241 --> 00:35:01,379
THE APOLLO 16 CREW
DELIBERATELY CRASHED
695
00:35:01,379 --> 00:35:05,241
THEIR S-IVB ROCKET
BOOSTER INTO THE MOON.
696
00:35:05,241 --> 00:35:07,965
WE HAD SEISMOGRAPHS
ON THE LUNAR SURFACE
697
00:35:07,965 --> 00:35:11,413
THAT WOULD HAVE PICKED UP
THE IMPACT OF THE S-IVB.
698
00:35:11,413 --> 00:35:13,275
Narrator: THE PLAN WAS TO
MEASURE SHOCK WAVES
699
00:35:13,275 --> 00:35:15,413
FROM THE IMPACT
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT
700
00:35:15,413 --> 00:35:17,827
THE MOON'S INTERNAL STRUCTURE.
701
00:35:17,827 --> 00:35:20,793
Worden:
IT WAS VERY VALUABLE TO THOSE
WHO WERE TRYING TO DEVELOP,
702
00:35:20,793 --> 00:35:22,241
FROM THE SEISMOGRAPH SIGNALS,
703
00:35:22,241 --> 00:35:26,241
A PICTURE OF THE INTERNAL
MASS OF THE MOON
704
00:35:26,241 --> 00:35:27,896
AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE.
705
00:35:27,896 --> 00:35:31,310
Narrator: THE 15-TON,
58-FOOT-LONG BOOSTER
706
00:35:31,310 --> 00:35:33,413
HURTLED TOWARDS
THE MOON'S SURFACE
707
00:35:33,413 --> 00:35:37,275
AT OVER 500 MILES PER HOUR.
708
00:35:37,275 --> 00:35:41,689
BUT JUST BEFORE IMPACT,
NASA LOST CONTACT WITH IT.
709
00:35:41,689 --> 00:35:43,310
THIS BOOSTER ROCKET HAS BEEN,
710
00:35:43,310 --> 00:35:45,965
REALLY, A SUBJECT
OF INTENSE SPECULATION.
711
00:35:45,965 --> 00:35:48,896
AND -- AND WE JUST
DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS.
712
00:35:48,896 --> 00:35:50,103
THE LENGTH OF THE OBJECT
713
00:35:50,103 --> 00:35:53,689
IN THE IMAGE MATCHES
THE APOLLO BOOSTER.
714
00:35:53,689 --> 00:35:56,413
AND SCIENTISTS BELIEVE
THE HUGE CYLINDER
715
00:35:56,413 --> 00:35:58,862
IS ONE OF THE FEW OBJECTS
STRONG ENOUGH TO
716
00:35:58,862 --> 00:36:01,551
WITHSTAND SUCH
A VIOLENT IMPACT.
717
00:36:01,551 --> 00:36:03,551
SOMETHING LIKE A ROCKET BOOSTER
718
00:36:03,551 --> 00:36:05,827
CRASHING DOWN
ONTO THE SURFACE OF THE MOON
719
00:36:05,827 --> 00:36:07,517
IS MORE LIKELY TO STAY INTACT
720
00:36:07,517 --> 00:36:09,413
BECAUSE IT IS BUILT
TO WITHSTAND
721
00:36:09,413 --> 00:36:11,344
HIGH PRESSURES
AND TEMPERATURES.
722
00:36:11,344 --> 00:36:14,034
THE IDEA THAT THIS COULD BE
THE MISSING BOOSTER ROCKET
723
00:36:14,034 --> 00:36:16,379
FROM APOLLO 16
IS VERY PLAUSIBLE.
724
00:36:16,379 --> 00:36:18,103
IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE.
725
00:36:18,103 --> 00:36:21,724
Narrator: IT APPEARS THAT AFTER
HALF A CENTURY OF SEARCHING,
726
00:36:21,724 --> 00:36:24,344
THE MYSTERY OF THE
DISAPPEARING APOLLO BOOSTER
727
00:36:24,344 --> 00:36:27,034
MAY HAVE FINALLY BEEN SOLVED.
728
00:36:27,034 --> 00:36:30,034
Jurek: WE NEED HIGHER-RESOLUTION
IMAGES TO BE SURE.
729
00:36:30,034 --> 00:36:32,137
BUT NASA IS PRETTY CONFIDENT
730
00:36:32,137 --> 00:36:34,172
THEY FINALLY FOUND THEIR
MISSING BOOSTER
731
00:36:34,172 --> 00:36:36,413
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.
732
00:36:42,310 --> 00:36:44,206
Narrator: COMING UP,
733
00:36:44,206 --> 00:36:46,068
A STRANGE DISCOVERY
IN THE ARCTIC
734
00:36:46,068 --> 00:36:50,275
200 YEARS AGO TRIGGERS
A GALACTIC GOLD RUSH.
735
00:36:50,275 --> 00:36:53,068
ALL THAT WEALTH IS JUST
WAITING UP THERE FOR US.
736
00:36:53,068 --> 00:36:55,379
ALL WE HAVE TO DO
IS GO AND GET IT.
737
00:37:06,344 --> 00:37:08,896
Narrator: AN EXPLORER DISCOVERS
A REMOTE ARCTIC TRIBE
738
00:37:08,896 --> 00:37:13,517
USING TOOLS AND WEAPONS
MADE FROM A STRANGE METAL.
739
00:37:13,517 --> 00:37:15,137
HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE BECAUSE
740
00:37:15,137 --> 00:37:17,896
THERE'S NO MINING
IN GREENLAND AT ALL?
741
00:37:17,896 --> 00:37:19,137
THEY'RE REFUSING TO TALK.
742
00:37:19,137 --> 00:37:21,206
THEY'RE NOT TELLING
ANYONE THEIR SECRET.
743
00:37:22,379 --> 00:37:24,137
Narrator:
THE ANSWER TO THE MYSTERY
744
00:37:24,137 --> 00:37:27,896
COULD HELP MANKIND
CONQUER OTHER WORLDS.
745
00:37:27,896 --> 00:37:31,413
Bonin:
IT IS A TRUE TURNING POINT
IN HUMAN CIVILIZATION
746
00:37:31,413 --> 00:37:32,931
BECAUSE THIS WILL BE
THE BEGINNING
747
00:37:32,931 --> 00:37:35,724
OF THE INDUSTRIALIZATION
OF THE FINAL FRONTIER.
748
00:37:42,793 --> 00:37:45,793
Narrator: GREENLAND, 1818,
749
00:37:45,793 --> 00:37:48,172
BRITISH NAVAL OFFICER
CAPTAIN JOHN ROSS
750
00:37:48,172 --> 00:37:50,689
AND HIS CREW BECOME
THE FIRST EUROPEANS
751
00:37:50,689 --> 00:37:53,310
TO MAKE CONTACT
WITH THE THULE PEOPLE,
752
00:37:53,310 --> 00:37:55,482
A NOMADIC INUIT TRIBE.
753
00:37:59,689 --> 00:38:03,068
AS ROSS EXPLORES THE THULES'
ISOLATED SETTLEMENT,
754
00:38:03,068 --> 00:38:05,310
HE DISCOVERS
SOMETHING INCREDIBLE.
755
00:38:07,758 --> 00:38:12,862
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST
REMOTE INUIT SETTLEMENTS.
756
00:38:12,862 --> 00:38:17,379
AND YET THEY'RE USING IRON
TOOLS AND IRON WEAPONS.
757
00:38:17,379 --> 00:38:19,068
HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE BECAUSE
758
00:38:19,068 --> 00:38:22,275
THERE'S NO IRON MINING
IN GREENLAND AT ALL?
759
00:38:22,275 --> 00:38:25,103
HOW COULD METAL REACH
A 200-STRONG TRIBE OF INUIT
760
00:38:25,103 --> 00:38:26,620
IN SUCH A REMOTE
PART OF THE WORLD?
761
00:38:28,586 --> 00:38:31,931
Narrator: GREENLAND HAS NO KNOWN
IRON DEPOSITS.
762
00:38:31,931 --> 00:38:35,655
AND THE TRIBE INSISTS THEY HAVE
NEVER TRADED WITH OUTSIDERS.
763
00:38:37,413 --> 00:38:39,310
Genge: THEY'RE NOT TRADING
FOR THIS STUFF.
764
00:38:39,310 --> 00:38:43,172
THE INUITS THERE
ARE SO ISOLATED
765
00:38:43,172 --> 00:38:46,827
THEY HAVE NO CONTACT
WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD.
766
00:38:46,827 --> 00:38:50,379
Narrator:
A SECRET SOURCE IS PROVIDING
THE ISOLATED ARCTIC TRIBE
767
00:38:50,379 --> 00:38:54,862
WITH AN APPARENTLY UNLIMITED
SUPPLY OF WEAPON-STRENGTH IRON.
768
00:38:54,862 --> 00:38:58,689
WHEN ROSS PUSHES THEM
TO REVEAL WHO OR WHAT IT IS,
769
00:38:58,689 --> 00:39:02,206
THE TRIBE'S PEOPLE
BECOME EVASIVE.
770
00:39:02,206 --> 00:39:03,517
THEY'RE REFUSING TO TALK.
771
00:39:03,517 --> 00:39:05,413
THEY'RE NOT TELLING
ANYONE THEIR SECRET.
772
00:39:05,413 --> 00:39:06,931
THERE'S A REAL
MYSTERY HERE, TO HIM.
773
00:39:06,931 --> 00:39:08,931
WHERE IS THIS MATERIAL
COMING FROM?
774
00:39:10,655 --> 00:39:12,413
Narrator: THE MYSTERY
OF THE INUIT IRON
775
00:39:12,413 --> 00:39:16,517
REMAINS UNSOLVED UNTIL
U.S. EXPLORER ROBERT PEARY
776
00:39:16,517 --> 00:39:19,275
VISITS THE AREA IN 1894,
777
00:39:19,275 --> 00:39:22,103
ALMOST 70 YEARS LATER.
778
00:39:22,103 --> 00:39:27,379
PEARY HIRED A LOCAL
INUIT GUIDE IN ORDER
779
00:39:27,379 --> 00:39:30,655
TO GET THE INUITS
TO REVEAL THEIR SECRET.
780
00:39:30,655 --> 00:39:33,310
JUST WHERE WAS
THE IRON COMING FROM?
781
00:39:35,482 --> 00:39:38,689
Narrator: THE INUITS GUIDE PEARY
ACROSS HUNDREDS OF MILES
782
00:39:38,689 --> 00:39:41,965
OF FROZEN WILDERNESS
TOWARDS A REMOTE PENINSULA
783
00:39:41,965 --> 00:39:45,172
IN THE FAR NORTHWEST
OF GREENLAND.
784
00:39:45,172 --> 00:39:46,413
WHEN THEY ARRIVE,
785
00:39:46,413 --> 00:39:49,827
PEARY DISCOVERS
SOMETHING ASTONISHING.
786
00:39:49,827 --> 00:39:52,482
THE METAL THE WEAPONS
ARE MADE FROM
787
00:39:52,482 --> 00:39:55,827
COMES FROM ANOTHER WORLD.
788
00:39:55,827 --> 00:39:59,724
IT'S THREE HUGE
IRON METEORITES.
789
00:40:01,655 --> 00:40:03,793
THE METAL IS FROM SPACE.
790
00:40:05,517 --> 00:40:08,689
ONE'S CALLED THE WOMAN,
THE DOG AND THE TENT.
791
00:40:08,689 --> 00:40:12,172
THE LARGEST ONE, THE TENT,
IS 30 TONS IN MASS.
792
00:40:12,172 --> 00:40:14,724
Narrator: PEARY FINDS EVIDENCE
THAT THE METEORITES
793
00:40:14,724 --> 00:40:16,137
HAVE BEEN PROVIDING IRON
794
00:40:16,137 --> 00:40:19,310
FOR GENERATIONS
OF INUIT FAMILIES.
795
00:40:19,310 --> 00:40:22,275
DESPITE THIS,
HE RUTHLESSLY DECIDES
796
00:40:22,275 --> 00:40:23,655
THEY PRESENT AN OPPORTUNITY
797
00:40:23,655 --> 00:40:26,586
FOR HIM TO MAKE A QUICK BUCK.
798
00:40:26,586 --> 00:40:28,689
AFTER LOADING THEM
ONTO HIS SHIP,
799
00:40:28,689 --> 00:40:30,689
PEARY RETURNS TO NEW YORK
800
00:40:30,689 --> 00:40:33,482
AND SELLS THEM FOR $40,000,
801
00:40:33,482 --> 00:40:37,310
THE EQUIVALENT OF OVER
ONE MILLION DOLLARS TODAY.
802
00:40:37,310 --> 00:40:38,827
THIS COULD HAVE BEEN
THE FIRST INSTANCE
803
00:40:38,827 --> 00:40:41,172
WITH WHICH MONEY
EXCHANGED HANDS
804
00:40:41,172 --> 00:40:43,379
FOR A METEORITE
OF THIS SIZE.
805
00:40:43,379 --> 00:40:45,965
THIS REALLY OPENS THE DOOR
TO SHOW OTHER PEOPLE
806
00:40:45,965 --> 00:40:48,965
THAT METEORITES
CAN MEAN BIG BUSINESS.
807
00:40:48,965 --> 00:40:52,068
Narrator: TODAY, SOME METEORITES
SWAP HANDS
808
00:40:52,068 --> 00:40:55,758
FOR MORE THAN
$250,000 PER OUNCE.
809
00:40:55,758 --> 00:41:00,344
MANY ARE RICH IN RARE,
VALUABLE METALS.
810
00:41:00,344 --> 00:41:02,344
BUT WHILE PROSPECTORS
USED TO SEARCH
811
00:41:02,344 --> 00:41:04,655
FOR SPACE ROCKS HERE ON EARTH,
812
00:41:04,655 --> 00:41:06,655
A GROWING NUMBER
ARE PREPARING
813
00:41:06,655 --> 00:41:08,931
TO HUNT FOR THEM IN SPACE.
814
00:41:08,931 --> 00:41:11,413
THERE ARE NOW MULTIPLE COMPANIES
815
00:41:11,413 --> 00:41:14,000
THAT ARE PUTTING
TOGETHER PLANS
816
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,655
TO GO OUT AND MINE
OR EXTRACT RESOURCES
817
00:41:18,655 --> 00:41:21,931
FROM THINGS
IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
818
00:41:21,931 --> 00:41:25,586
Narrator: IN 2015,
A LARGE NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID
819
00:41:25,586 --> 00:41:27,862
WAS ESTIMATED
TO CONTAIN UP
820
00:41:27,862 --> 00:41:31,620
TO 5 TRILLION
IN PRECIOUS METALS.
821
00:41:31,620 --> 00:41:34,103
EVEN A RELATIVELY
SMALL HOUSE-SIZE ASTEROID
822
00:41:34,103 --> 00:41:36,724
CAN CONTAIN PREVIOUS METALS
AND RAW MATERIALS
823
00:41:36,724 --> 00:41:39,172
WORTH MILLIONS,
IF NOT BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
824
00:41:40,896 --> 00:41:43,137
Narrator:
MANKIND IS ON THE VERGE
825
00:41:43,137 --> 00:41:46,758
OF A MULTI-TRILLION-DOLLAR
GALACTIC GOLD RUSH.
826
00:41:46,758 --> 00:41:50,689
AND IT ALL BEGAN WITH A CHANCE
DISCOVERY IN GREENLAND
827
00:41:50,689 --> 00:41:54,068
ALMOST 200 YEARS AGO.
828
00:41:54,068 --> 00:41:57,517
WHEN WE'RE ABLE TO EXTRACT AND
HARVEST RESOURCES FROM SPACE,
829
00:41:57,517 --> 00:42:00,275
THIS WILL BE THE BEGINNING
OF THE INDUSTRIALIZATION
830
00:42:00,275 --> 00:42:01,620
OF THE FINAL FRONTIER.
831
00:42:02,896 --> 00:42:05,689
ALL THAT WEALTH IS JUST
WAITING UP THERE FOR US.
832
00:42:05,689 --> 00:42:08,103
ALL WE HAVE TO DO
IS GO AND GET IT.
833
00:42:08,103 --> 00:42:10,103
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