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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,001 Festering disease. 2 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:00,001 Everything was going on okay one 3 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:00,002 minute, and then all of a sudden, people are kind of 4 00:00:00,002 --> 00:00:00,002 rotting in front of you. 5 00:00:00,002 --> 00:00:00,003 Raging pestilence. 6 00:00:00,003 --> 00:00:00,004 The civilized world went out the window. 7 00:00:00,004 --> 00:00:00,005 And death of almost unspeakable agony. 8 00:00:00,005 --> 00:00:00,006 Are we the laboratory of the universe? 9 00:00:00,006 --> 00:00:00,007 But what if the source of all this very human 10 00:00:00,007 --> 00:00:00,008 suffering has a strangely non-human origin? 11 00:00:00,008 --> 00:00:00,008 It would be narrow-minded to accept 12 00:00:00,008 --> 00:00:00,009 viruses wouldn't occur in other planets around the universe. 13 00:00:00,009 --> 00:00:00,010 Is there somebody who has the technology 14 00:00:00,010 --> 00:00:00,011 to actually send things to Earth, and are part of 15 00:00:00,011 --> 00:00:00,011 intergalactic warfare? 16 00:00:00,011 --> 00:00:00,012 To suggest that ETs would come here and 17 00:00:00,012 --> 00:00:00,013 annihilate us in the way we see it in the movies-- why go 18 00:00:00,014 --> 00:00:00,015 through all the trouble when all you have to do--- 19 00:00:00,015 --> 00:00:00,016 is release a toxin into the air? 20 00:00:00,016 --> 00:00:00,017 Millions of people around the world believe we have 21 00:00:00,017 --> 00:00:00,018 been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 22 00:00:00,018 --> 00:00:00,019 What if it were true? 23 00:00:00,019 --> 00:00:00,021 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 24 00:00:00,021 --> 00:00:00,022 And could they even be the source of our deadliest epidemics? 25 00:00:00,027 --> 00:00:00,028 sync and corrected by Bellows www.addic7ed.com 26 00:00:00,031 --> 00:00:00,032 Portugal 27 00:00:00,032 --> 00:00:00,033 October 13th, 1917. 28 00:00:00,033 --> 00:00:00,034 During what had been a bright and cloudless day--- 29 00:00:00,035 --> 00:00:00,037 the skies suddenly turned dark and foreboding. 30 00:00:00,037 --> 00:00:00,038 For those who were there to witness it, their world was 31 00:00:00,038 --> 00:00:00,038 about to turn upside down. 32 00:00:00,039 --> 00:00:00,039 Three children had claimed to 33 00:00:00,039 --> 00:00:00,040 see what they believed was the Virgin Mary. 34 00:00:00,041 --> 00:00:00,042 She promised to give the people a sign from God. 35 00:00:00,042 --> 00:00:00,043 Perhaps as many as a 100 thousand people 36 00:00:00,043 --> 00:00:00,044 watched as the sun seemed to change into an opaque spinning disc in the sky. 37 00:00:00,046 --> 00:00:00,047 During those manifestations, children were told that 38 00:00:00,047 --> 00:00:00,049 God was very very angry with the world, and that there would be punishment. 39 00:00:00,050 --> 00:00:00,050 The incident near the small village of Fatima 40 00:00:00,050 --> 00:00:00,052 was labeled a miracle by some and a hoax by others. 41 00:00:00,052 --> 00:00:00,053 But to ancient astronaut theorists, the event is considered 42 00:00:00,053 --> 00:00:00,054 an extraterrestrial encounter. 43 00:00:00,054 --> 00:00:00,055 In Fatima we see mysteries happening, 44 00:00:00,055 --> 00:00:00,056 but we do not really know whether we are dealing with a religious 45 00:00:00,056 --> 00:00:00,057 phenomenon or whether we are dealing with an extraterrestrial, 46 00:00:00,057 --> 00:00:00,057 UFO kind of phenomenon. 47 00:00:00,057 --> 00:00:00,059 We know that the apparition didn't really identify herself as who she was. 48 00:00:00,059 --> 00:00:00,060 It's within the context of religion, that she is named the Virgin Mary. 49 00:00:00,060 --> 00:00:00,061 The question is if she is not the Virgin Mary, then who is she. 50 00:00:00,062 --> 00:00:00,064 Perhaps even more bizarre is the fact that less one year after the event, 51 00:00:00,064 --> 00:00:00,065 an estimated 50 million people were dead. 52 00:00:00,065 --> 00:00:00,066 Victims of the worst plague in recorded history. 53 00:00:00,067 --> 00:00:00,068 Could this deadly pandemic, known as the Spanish lnfluenza 54 00:00:00,068 --> 00:00:00,069 have been somehow connected to the incidents at Fatima? 55 00:00:00,070 --> 00:00:00,070 Quite possible that many of the plagues 56 00:00:00,071 --> 00:00:00,072 really occurred because alien beings came here 57 00:00:00,072 --> 00:00:00,073 and brought with them microbes and bacteria and diseases. 58 00:00:00,074 --> 00:00:00,075 Disease has been responsible for more deaths 59 00:00:00,075 --> 00:00:00,076 than every war in human history combined. 60 00:00:00,077 --> 00:00:00,078 And right from the start, we have looked for an answer, 61 00:00:00,078 --> 00:00:00,078 in the heavens. 62 00:00:00,079 --> 00:00:00,080 In Antiquity, when pestilence or plague would strike 63 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:00,081 it was very mysterious and frightening. 64 00:00:00,081 --> 00:00:00,082 Of course people had tried to explain it. 65 00:00:00,082 --> 00:00:00,084 The easiest way to imagine disease was like a shower coming down from the sky, 66 00:00:00,084 --> 00:00:00,085 perhaps sent by an angry or ruffled God. 67 00:00:00,085 --> 00:00:00,087 In the mythological imagination plagues were always 68 00:00:00,087 --> 00:00:00,088 the result of the gods being angry or upset with us. 69 00:00:00,089 --> 00:00:00,090 Examples abound in the ancient world of diseases 70 00:00:00,090 --> 00:00:00,091 being linked to the gods. 71 00:00:00,091 --> 00:00:00,093 In ancient Egypt, the god of disease was called Seth. 72 00:00:00,093 --> 00:00:00,094 And the Hittites called their plague god lrra. 73 00:00:00,094 --> 00:00:00,095 The name means "fire" or "burning---" 74 00:00:00,095 --> 00:00:00,096 and this was their way of explaining raging fevers 75 00:00:00,096 --> 00:00:00,098 that were something like wildfires sweeping through the land. 76 00:00:00,098 --> 00:00:00,098 There was a conception of plague as a 77 00:00:00,098 --> 00:00:00,099 physical ailment, something that attacks the body, but lots of 78 00:00:00,099 --> 00:00:00,100 physical ailments were conceived of 79 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:00,101 as the result of supernatural intervention. 80 00:00:00,102 --> 00:00:00,103 The ancient Chinese also connected plagues and 81 00:00:00,103 --> 00:00:00,104 diseases to the supernatural, and took it one step further. 82 00:00:00,105 --> 00:00:00,106 They kept meticulous records about when there were outbreaks 83 00:00:00,106 --> 00:00:00,107 of disease and actual celestial events. 84 00:00:00,107 --> 00:00:00,108 They connected reports of unusual comets, 85 00:00:00,108 --> 00:00:00,109 things that today we would call UFOs, to outbreaks of plague. 86 00:00:00,110 --> 00:00:00,110 So, this has been universal, it's not just have been in a few places 87 00:00:00,110 --> 00:00:00,111 it's not just been a few plagues. It's actually been very consistent 88 00:00:00,111 --> 00:00:00,112 throughout history. 89 00:00:00,112 --> 00:00:00,113 So many different ancient cultures right across the world 90 00:00:00,113 --> 00:00:00,114 had this point of view that plagues 91 00:00:00,114 --> 00:00:00,115 were caused by things that happened in the skies 92 00:00:00,117 --> 00:00:00,118 Greece, 430 BC 93 00:00:00,118 --> 00:00:00,119 Athens is at war with Sparta. 94 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:00,121 The battles are brutal and bloody. 95 00:00:00,121 --> 00:00:00,122 But the war casualties pale in comparison to the scenes of horror--- 96 00:00:00,123 --> 00:00:00,123 when plague descends on the people. 97 00:00:00,124 --> 00:00:00,125 They were thirsty beyond thirst. 98 00:00:00,125 --> 00:00:00,126 They turned red, they vomited, they had terrible diarrhea, 99 00:00:00,126 --> 00:00:00,127 their fingers at times turned black 100 00:00:00,127 --> 00:00:00,127 Their bodies were ravaged. 101 00:00:00,128 --> 00:00:00,129 Crates were being stacked with 12 to 15 bodies, 102 00:00:00,129 --> 00:00:00,131 and when that fails, they're just simply left onto the street-- dead, putrid, 103 00:00:00,131 --> 00:00:00,132 decomposing bodies all over the city, thousands of people. 104 00:00:00,133 --> 00:00:00,135 But was the plague of Athens some biological consequence of the war? 105 00:00:00,135 --> 00:00:00,135 Or something else? 106 00:00:00,135 --> 00:00:00,136 Something--- 107 00:00:00,136 --> 00:00:00,136 not of this Earth? 108 00:00:00,137 --> 00:00:00,138 The civilized world went out the window as soon as this plague hit. 109 00:00:00,138 --> 00:00:00,140 You can certainly correlate plagues, epidemics, disease with 110 00:00:00,140 --> 00:00:00,141 the decline and fall of various empires. 111 00:00:00,141 --> 00:00:00,142 As far as the ancient Greeks were concerned, 112 00:00:00,142 --> 00:00:00,143 the plague was very likely a curse from the gods. 113 00:00:00,143 --> 00:00:00,145 The wrath of God could very well have been the wrath of ETs, 114 00:00:00,145 --> 00:00:00,146 who wanted to control us, manipulate us, change us, 115 00:00:00,146 --> 00:00:00,147 and they did so, in a very deliberate evil way. 116 00:00:00,149 --> 00:00:00,150 In the middle the sixth century, another virus 117 00:00:00,150 --> 00:00:00,151 nearly succeeded in wiping out most of humanity--- 118 00:00:00,151 --> 00:00:00,152 the Justinian Plague. 119 00:00:00,152 --> 00:00:00,153 There aren't really good records back then of how 120 00:00:00,153 --> 00:00:00,154 many millions of people died, but a significant percentage of the world died. 121 00:00:00,155 --> 00:00:00,156 You know, everything was going on okay 122 00:00:00,156 --> 00:00:00,156 one minute, and then all of a sudden, people are kind of 123 00:00:00,156 --> 00:00:00,157 rotting in front of you. 124 00:00:00,157 --> 00:00:00,158 Woah! like where does this come from? 125 00:00:00,158 --> 00:00:00,159 Like the Plague of Athens, the Justinian Plague 126 00:00:00,159 --> 00:00:00,160 was accompanied by multiple reports--- 127 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:00,161 of strange sightings in the sky. 128 00:00:00,162 --> 00:00:00,163 People reported seeing strange objects in the sky--- 129 00:00:00,163 --> 00:00:00,165 that they called "glowing gold shields," and visions of 130 00:00:00,165 --> 00:00:00,167 bronze ships in the sky and headless creatures. 131 00:00:00,167 --> 00:00:00,168 And whenever these events took place, in the middle of daylight, 132 00:00:00,168 --> 00:00:00,169 by the way, people fell ill, and something would be witnessed 133 00:00:00,169 --> 00:00:00,171 again, up in the sky, and there would be another outbreak. 134 00:00:00,172 --> 00:00:00,173 According to modern-day astronomers, at the 135 00:00:00,173 --> 00:00:00,174 time of the Justinian Plague, there was an unusually high 136 00:00:00,174 --> 00:00:00,175 concentration of cosmic activity. 137 00:00:00,175 --> 00:00:00,176 Islamic literature of the day was very 138 00:00:00,176 --> 00:00:00,177 clear in stating that the skies were darkened on many occasions 139 00:00:00,177 --> 00:00:00,178 and people were frightened by meteor storms and comets 140 00:00:00,178 --> 00:00:00,179 impacting the Earth. 141 00:00:00,179 --> 00:00:00,180 There's also direct evidence, I think, from a subject called 142 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:00,181 dendrochronology-- thicknesses of tree rings-- an indication of 143 00:00:00,181 --> 00:00:00,182 the amount of light that we receive during the summer months. 144 00:00:00,182 --> 00:00:00,184 For the period from 530 to 550, or thereabouts-- A.D.-- we find 145 00:00:00,184 --> 00:00:00,185 that the tree-ring thicknesses almost vanish--- 146 00:00:00,185 --> 00:00:00,186 showing that the skies were really darkened. 147 00:00:00,186 --> 00:00:00,188 That's, again, consistent with comets breaking up, meteors 148 00:00:00,188 --> 00:00:00,188 breaking up in the sky. 149 00:00:00,188 --> 00:00:00,189 So one has to then speculate if these dust particles that were 150 00:00:00,189 --> 00:00:00,190 darkening the skies also contained viruses and bacteria. 151 00:00:00,191 --> 00:00:00,192 Is there somewhere, out there in deep space, where 152 00:00:00,192 --> 00:00:00,193 somebody has the technology to actually send over things to 153 00:00:00,193 --> 00:00:00,194 Earth, so that what looks to be a normal mechanism of delivery, 154 00:00:00,194 --> 00:00:00,195 actually becomes a very high-tech method of delivery, 155 00:00:00,195 --> 00:00:00,197 and we have no idea that we are part of an intergalactic warfare. 156 00:00:00,199 --> 00:00:00,200 The connection between deadly plagues and phenomena in the sky appears 157 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:00,201 frequently throughout ancient histories. 158 00:00:00,201 --> 00:00:00,202 Most scientists today call it superstition. 159 00:00:00,202 --> 00:00:00,204 3,000 years ago, they called it fact. 160 00:00:00,204 --> 00:00:00,205 But might an ancient sculpture discovered in 19th century Egypt 161 00:00:00,205 --> 00:00:00,207 prove that our ancestors knew more than we give them credit for? 162 00:00:00,210 --> 00:00:00,211 Naqada, Egypt. 1897. 163 00:00:00,211 --> 00:00:00,212 A treasure trove of ancient artifacts sees the light of day 164 00:00:00,212 --> 00:00:00,214 after being entombed for 6,000 years. 165 00:00:00,215 --> 00:00:00,216 Among the findings is the statue of what looks like a bearded man. 166 00:00:00,216 --> 00:00:00,217 It is dubbed "MacGregor Man," 167 00:00:00,217 --> 00:00:00,218 for the Reverend William MacGregor, in whose antiquities 168 00:00:00,218 --> 00:00:00,219 collection it once resided. 169 00:00:00,219 --> 00:00:00,221 In Egyptology, this ancient statue is referred to as the "Bearded Man" 170 00:00:00,221 --> 00:00:00,223 However, if you look a little bit closer, you can see that 171 00:00:00,223 --> 00:00:00,224 what he's wearing on his head, and what extends from his chin, 172 00:00:00,224 --> 00:00:00,226 is not necessarily a beard, but it looks like a skullcap. 173 00:00:00,226 --> 00:00:00,227 His entire body seems to be inside some type of an overall, 174 00:00:00,227 --> 00:00:00,228 some type of a suit, because even where his cuffs are, there 175 00:00:00,228 --> 00:00:00,229 is no shirt opening. 176 00:00:00,229 --> 00:00:00,231 No matter from what angle, it looks like a guy inside a hazmat suit. 177 00:00:00,232 --> 00:00:00,233 Other figures found at Naqada also have pointed 178 00:00:00,233 --> 00:00:00,235 beards that extend from the chin, but without any hood. 179 00:00:00,235 --> 00:00:00,236 Adding to the mystery is the fact that Naqada was believed 180 00:00:00,236 --> 00:00:00,238 to be the ancestral home of Seth, the Egyptian god of plague. 181 00:00:00,239 --> 00:00:00,240 We don't know whether these things were depictions of realistic apparatus 182 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:00,241 that was used to protect, perhaps, extraterrestrials 183 00:00:00,241 --> 00:00:00,243 from very dangerous chemicals, diseases that they were spreading across humanity. 184 00:00:00,244 --> 00:00:00,246 If you were an extraterrestrial visitor, you'd wear something to protect yourself 185 00:00:00,246 --> 00:00:00,247 from the bacteria and the virus that were rampant 186 00:00:00,247 --> 00:00:00,248 that is one reason for the hazmat suits. 187 00:00:00,248 --> 00:00:00,249 Another reason would be not to protect yourself, but to protect 188 00:00:00,249 --> 00:00:00,250 the population you were visiting. 189 00:00:00,251 --> 00:00:00,252 Whatever the Bearded Man wears around his 190 00:00:00,252 --> 00:00:00,253 hips, to me looks more like some type of a technological 191 00:00:00,253 --> 00:00:00,254 device than what Egyptology suggests. 192 00:00:00,254 --> 00:00:00,256 Egyptology suggests that he is wearing a penis sheath. 193 00:00:00,256 --> 00:00:00,257 Now, to me, it is clear that whatever is attached to his 194 00:00:00,257 --> 00:00:00,259 front of his belly is anything but a penis sheath. 195 00:00:00,259 --> 00:00:00,261 Is it possible that this is a carving of a potential extraterrestrial? 196 00:00:00,262 --> 00:00:00,263 But among antiquities, Macgregor Man is not alone. 197 00:00:00,263 --> 00:00:00,264 Throughout the world, there are scores of ancient carvings and 198 00:00:00,264 --> 00:00:00,266 figurines that seem to depict otherworldly creatures in what 199 00:00:00,266 --> 00:00:00,267 some claim is astronaut-type clothing. 200 00:00:00,267 --> 00:00:00,268 In Central America is full of these suits. 201 00:00:00,268 --> 00:00:00,270 You really have beings chiseled in stone which have helmets on. 202 00:00:00,270 --> 00:00:00,271 Out of the helmet you have something like a trunk coming up, 203 00:00:00,271 --> 00:00:00,272 and in some cases you see, 204 00:00:00,272 --> 00:00:00,273 on the shoulder of the helmet, something like a tank. 205 00:00:00,274 --> 00:00:00,275 But strange depictions of cloaked figures 206 00:00:00,275 --> 00:00:00,276 wearing what appear to be breathing apparatuses aren't 207 00:00:00,276 --> 00:00:00,277 limited to the ancient world. 208 00:00:00,277 --> 00:00:00,279 In 1347, ships full of Italian sailors died suddenly--- 209 00:00:00,279 --> 00:00:00,281 after being covered in oozing black boils filled with blood and pus. 210 00:00:00,281 --> 00:00:00,282 The disease spread rapidly throughout Europe--- 211 00:00:00,282 --> 00:00:00,283 and soon had a name-- the Black Plague. 212 00:00:00,284 --> 00:00:00,285 The Black Plague was widely seen as an act of God 213 00:00:00,285 --> 00:00:00,286 for the sinfulness of the people. 214 00:00:00,287 --> 00:00:00,288 What you get is a slow lingering painful death 215 00:00:00,288 --> 00:00:00,290 and that's what is nasty. And it completely decimates populations. 216 00:00:00,290 --> 00:00:00,291 Within five years, this previously unknown 217 00:00:00,291 --> 00:00:00,293 disease had wiped out nearly one-third of Europe--- 218 00:00:00,293 --> 00:00:00,294 the equivalent, in today's numbers, of more than 219 00:00:00,294 --> 00:00:00,294 300 million dead. 220 00:00:00,295 --> 00:00:00,296 And just like previous epidemics, the outbreaks of plague 221 00:00:00,296 --> 00:00:00,298 were accompanied by sightings of strange aerial phenomena. 222 00:00:00,298 --> 00:00:00,300 People saw strange bronze ships spreading a mist around the entire area 223 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:00,302 shortly after that people began to become very sick and die. 224 00:00:00,304 --> 00:00:00,305 Bronze ships, just like those reported 225 00:00:00,305 --> 00:00:00,306 during the Justinian Plague 800 years earlier. 226 00:00:00,306 --> 00:00:00,307 But what natural phenomenon could appear in the sky 227 00:00:00,307 --> 00:00:00,308 that would fit such a description? 228 00:00:00,308 --> 00:00:00,310 And what was the mysterious mist that people saw floating down 229 00:00:00,310 --> 00:00:00,310 from the sky? 230 00:00:00,310 --> 00:00:00,311 If you ask a historian today, they would say 231 00:00:00,311 --> 00:00:00,313 that they were hallucinating because of the illness. 232 00:00:00,313 --> 00:00:00,314 But how do you get thousands of people hallucinating the same thing? 233 00:00:00,316 --> 00:00:00,316 One of these supposed hallucinations featured 234 00:00:00,316 --> 00:00:00,318 reports of mysterious cloaked figures spraying mist on the ground. 235 00:00:00,318 --> 00:00:00,320 It was this report that gave rise to rumors of a black-hooded messenger of death, 236 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:00,321 later known as the Grim Reaper. 237 00:00:00,321 --> 00:00:00,323 In one case, the chronicle recounts a group of 238 00:00:00,323 --> 00:00:00,324 men mowing down wheat, and their scythes were making, uh, loud 239 00:00:00,324 --> 00:00:00,325 swishing sounds, but not actually cutting down the crops. 240 00:00:00,325 --> 00:00:00,326 We can imagine that maybe what was perceived in medieval times 241 00:00:00,326 --> 00:00:00,327 as scythes, making swishing sounds, were perhaps some kind 242 00:00:00,327 --> 00:00:00,328 of wand shooting some kind of aerosol into the air, that was a 243 00:00:00,328 --> 00:00:00,329 pathogen that made so many people sick. 244 00:00:00,329 --> 00:00:00,331 People reported a number of strange beings that 245 00:00:00,331 --> 00:00:00,331 would spray onto the wheat, 246 00:00:00,332 --> 00:00:00,333 and shortly after that, the Black Death occurred. 247 00:00:00,333 --> 00:00:00,334 And maybe our idea of the Reaper was extraterrestrial in origin. 248 00:00:00,336 --> 00:00:00,337 Mysterious plagues accompanied by extraterrestrial sightings. 249 00:00:00,338 --> 00:00:00,339 And gruesome deaths preceded by ominous apparitions. 250 00:00:00,340 --> 00:00:00,341 But were those strange metallic objects seen in the skies over 251 00:00:00,341 --> 00:00:00,342 Europe really misunderstood cosmic events--- 252 00:00:00,342 --> 00:00:00,344 like meteors and comets--- as most mainstream scientists believe? 253 00:00:00,344 --> 00:00:00,345 In 1731, there were UFO sightings over England, 254 00:00:00,345 --> 00:00:00,346 Ireland and Romania, and they 255 00:00:00,346 --> 00:00:00,347 predated the worldwide flu epidemic of 1732. 256 00:00:00,348 --> 00:00:00,349 People saw a red object in the sky, and at times, 257 00:00:00,349 --> 00:00:00,350 this object generated so much heat that people had to take off their shirts. 258 00:00:00,350 --> 00:00:00,351 I mean, they were just glowing up there in the sky. 259 00:00:00,351 --> 00:00:00,352 Later on, a plague broke out. 260 00:00:00,353 --> 00:00:00,354 What people called comets back in those days, 261 00:00:00,354 --> 00:00:00,355 we would not call comets today, because anything that moved in 262 00:00:00,355 --> 00:00:00,356 the sky that was unusual, that 263 00:00:00,356 --> 00:00:00,357 was bright, they would call it comet. 264 00:00:00,357 --> 00:00:00,358 For example, in the Chronicle of Marvels, by Conrad Lycosthenes, 265 00:00:00,358 --> 00:00:00,359 which was published in the 1500s, he talked about a 266 00:00:00,359 --> 00:00:00,360 comet that was seen in Arabia in the 1400s. 267 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:00,361 But when you look at the woodcut, it looks like a rocket ship. 268 00:00:00,362 --> 00:00:00,363 But if alien invaders really have been coming to Earth 269 00:00:00,363 --> 00:00:00,364 and spreading disease and plague over the centuries, 270 00:00:00,365 --> 00:00:00,365 why? 271 00:00:00,365 --> 00:00:00,365 to kill us? 272 00:00:00,366 --> 00:00:00,366 to strengthen us? 273 00:00:00,366 --> 00:00:00,367 Or is it simply to reduce our numbers? 274 00:00:00,367 --> 00:00:00,368 Why would you drop a virus down on this planet? 275 00:00:00,368 --> 00:00:00,369 They're trying to build up our immune system? 276 00:00:00,369 --> 00:00:00,369 Are they trying to wipe us out? 277 00:00:00,369 --> 00:00:00,370 Are we the laboratory of the universe? 278 00:00:00,370 --> 00:00:00,371 "Let's see if this bug wipes out this civilization 279 00:00:00,371 --> 00:00:00,372 in order to protect ourselves." 280 00:00:00,372 --> 00:00:00,372 All possibilities. 281 00:00:00,372 --> 00:00:00,374 If extraterrestrials do have a sinister agenda, 282 00:00:00,374 --> 00:00:00,375 why not just attack our planet with a weapon of mass destruction? 283 00:00:00,375 --> 00:00:00,376 Why go through that trouble if all you have to 284 00:00:00,376 --> 00:00:00,378 do is release a toxin into the air, a plague, some type of virus? 285 00:00:00,378 --> 00:00:00,379 It's way more efficient. 286 00:00:00,379 --> 00:00:00,380 But there is another theory. 287 00:00:00,380 --> 00:00:00,381 One more incredible than tales of bronze spaceships and grim reapers. 288 00:00:00,382 --> 00:00:00,383 Because it is a theory so simple and so potentially devastating, 289 00:00:00,383 --> 00:00:00,384 it has mainstream scientists 290 00:00:00,384 --> 00:00:00,385 scratching their heads and running for cover. 291 00:00:00,387 --> 00:00:00,387 1540. 292 00:00:00,387 --> 00:00:00,388 The Rio Grande Valley. 293 00:00:00,388 --> 00:00:00,389 When Francisco Coronado and the Spanish first explored the area 294 00:00:00,389 --> 00:00:00,391 that is now New Mexico, they brought with them a devastating 295 00:00:00,391 --> 00:00:00,392 weapon they did not even realize was part of their arsenal-- 296 00:00:00,392 --> 00:00:00,393 disease. 297 00:00:00,393 --> 00:00:00,394 Smallpox, chicken pox, and measles spread through the 298 00:00:00,394 --> 00:00:00,395 indigenous peoples far faster than the Conquistadores 299 00:00:00,395 --> 00:00:00,396 themselves could actually travel. 300 00:00:00,396 --> 00:00:00,397 Viruses and bacteria caused 301 00:00:00,397 --> 00:00:00,398 severe plagues that have really changed the course of history. 302 00:00:00,399 --> 00:00:00,399 So when the Conquistadores came over to the New World, 303 00:00:00,399 --> 00:00:00,400 they inadvertently carried small pox, they were immune to it 304 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:00,402 but the Native Americans had never seen small pox and they were devastated. 305 00:00:00,402 --> 00:00:00,403 That led to the Conquistadores with 900 or so soldiers 306 00:00:00,403 --> 00:00:00,404 that were able to destroy the Aztec empire. 307 00:00:00,404 --> 00:00:00,405 Hundreds of thousands of people, maybe a million or more people, 308 00:00:00,405 --> 00:00:00,406 died simply because they were exposed to the viruses of the white man. 309 00:00:00,407 --> 00:00:00,408 The native populations in the American Northeast 310 00:00:00,408 --> 00:00:00,409 suffered a similar fate when the European colonists 311 00:00:00,409 --> 00:00:00,410 first arrived on their shores. 312 00:00:00,410 --> 00:00:00,411 The islands of the South Pacific also had their populations 313 00:00:00,411 --> 00:00:00,412 decimated by Captain James Cook and his crew. 314 00:00:00,412 --> 00:00:00,414 Are we like the other places where if we get something we haven't seen before 315 00:00:00,414 --> 00:00:00,415 would it wipe us out quickly for us to react? 316 00:00:00,415 --> 00:00:00,417 "The War of the Worlds" was a beautiful story in the sense 317 00:00:00,417 --> 00:00:00,418 that, at the very end, the common cold killed the aliens. 318 00:00:00,418 --> 00:00:00,418 Because it's too hard to believe the other thing could happen, 319 00:00:00,418 --> 00:00:00,419 that the alien sneezed on us, and they didn't have to do 320 00:00:00,419 --> 00:00:00,420 anything more than that. 321 00:00:00,420 --> 00:00:00,420 Why is that any more farfetched? 322 00:00:00,421 --> 00:00:00,421 For many ancient astronaut theorists, 323 00:00:00,421 --> 00:00:00,423 the possibility of alien diseases being transmitted in much the 324 00:00:00,423 --> 00:00:00,424 same way is a distinct possibility. 325 00:00:00,424 --> 00:00:00,425 My take is, if we've had diseases since the beginning of time 326 00:00:00,425 --> 00:00:00,427 and we had visitations, it's very possible that they accidentally brought 327 00:00:00,427 --> 00:00:00,427 these diseases to us. 328 00:00:00,427 --> 00:00:00,429 Here on Earth, viruses often thrive in new environments. 329 00:00:00,429 --> 00:00:00,430 Could the same be true of viruses entering our planet from another world? 330 00:00:00,431 --> 00:00:00,432 And if extraterrestrial viruses do exist, could they survive 331 00:00:00,432 --> 00:00:00,433 the interstellar journey to Earth? 332 00:00:00,433 --> 00:00:00,435 Many scientists believe the answer can be found in microscopic organisms 333 00:00:00,435 --> 00:00:00,436 called extremophiles. 334 00:00:00,436 --> 00:00:00,437 An extremophile is an organism that can survive extreme conditions. 335 00:00:00,437 --> 00:00:00,438 High temperatures, low temperatures, high pressure, low pressure and so on. 336 00:00:00,438 --> 00:00:00,439 Now of course, the term is based on humans, what we find extreme. 337 00:00:00,439 --> 00:00:00,440 But from its perspective, we are extremophiles. 338 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:00,441 You know, we live in oxygen, which is poisonous to this 339 00:00:00,441 --> 00:00:00,441 anaerobic organism. 340 00:00:00,441 --> 00:00:00,442 So if it was studying us, it would say, 341 00:00:00,442 --> 00:00:00,443 "Hey, them humans are amazing extremophiles. 342 00:00:00,443 --> 00:00:00,443 "They can breathe oxygen." 343 00:00:00,443 --> 00:00:00,444 Life has been found on almost every single environment on Earth. 344 00:00:00,444 --> 00:00:00,445 And this is so exciting because other planets 345 00:00:00,445 --> 00:00:00,445 have very different conditions from Earth. 346 00:00:00,445 --> 00:00:00,446 And it gives us hope that if life can exist on almost any single condition 347 00:00:00,446 --> 00:00:00,447 on Earth that it can also live on another planet. 348 00:00:00,448 --> 00:00:00,449 Space, 2007. 349 00:00:00,449 --> 00:00:00,450 A bacteria-ridden chunk of rock is strapped to the outside of 350 00:00:00,450 --> 00:00:00,451 the lnternational Space Station. 351 00:00:00,451 --> 00:00:00,453 After 18 months in the hostile environment of space, the rock is retrieved. 352 00:00:00,453 --> 00:00:00,453 And one colony of bacteria actually survived. 353 00:00:00,453 --> 00:00:00,454 And the lnternational Space Station is in low Earth orbit. 354 00:00:00,454 --> 00:00:00,455 It's going into orbit day and orbit night. 355 00:00:00,455 --> 00:00:00,455 It has wild temperature swings. 356 00:00:00,455 --> 00:00:00,457 It gets cosmic radiation, and the vacuum of space, and the life still survived. 357 00:00:00,458 --> 00:00:00,458 Though many scientists still reject the idea 358 00:00:00,458 --> 00:00:00,460 of microscopic forms of life existing in space, even NASA 359 00:00:00,460 --> 00:00:00,461 takes great precautions in protecting people from any 360 00:00:00,461 --> 00:00:00,462 potential alien contamination. 361 00:00:00,462 --> 00:00:00,462 When the astronauts went to the Moon 362 00:00:00,462 --> 00:00:00,464 they were in two weeks of isolation, because the idea of dormant viruses 363 00:00:00,464 --> 00:00:00,466 on our Moon surface was taken very seriously. 364 00:00:00,466 --> 00:00:00,467 In the same way, that ancient aliens might have come to planet Earth 365 00:00:00,467 --> 00:00:00,469 in hazmat suits to protect themselves and us from contamination, 366 00:00:00,469 --> 00:00:00,469 so NASA does that very thing today. 367 00:00:00,470 --> 00:00:00,472 In 2006 and 2008, biologists on board several space shuttle missions, 368 00:00:00,472 --> 00:00:00,472 made a frightening discovery. 369 00:00:00,473 --> 00:00:00,475 Salmonella bacteria exposed to 0 gravity actually got deadlier by as much as 700%. 370 00:00:00,475 --> 00:00:00,477 It's interesting that what they found was that at zero gravity 371 00:00:00,477 --> 00:00:00,478 they have mutations on the culture led to a huge increase 372 00:00:00,478 --> 00:00:00,479 in virulence of the salmonella super bug, they do the best in terms of 373 00:00:00,479 --> 00:00:00,481 their mission to self replicate on the 0 gravity, to me it's another indication 374 00:00:00,481 --> 00:00:00,482 that bacteria are space travelers. 375 00:00:00,483 --> 00:00:00,484 What you have is this risk that if you are bringing in 376 00:00:00,484 --> 00:00:00,486 viruses or elements from outer space it could become a much more 377 00:00:00,486 --> 00:00:00,486 deadly form of that same germ that initially had developed on Earth 378 00:00:00,487 --> 00:00:00,488 The ability of viruses to evolve and mutate at an incredibly rapid rate 379 00:00:00,488 --> 00:00:00,490 was also at the root of deadliest pandemic in recorded history. 380 00:00:00,490 --> 00:00:00,491 The same one that followed the Fatima event in Portugal, 381 00:00:00,491 --> 00:00:00,492 the Spanish lnfluenza. 382 00:00:00,492 --> 00:00:00,493 We don't know why it came, why it left. It made World War I look puny. 383 00:00:00,493 --> 00:00:00,494 No weapons, class debarments, nobody had raised the level for 384 00:00:00,494 --> 00:00:00,495 defense, it killed with little effort. 385 00:00:00,495 --> 00:00:00,497 Thinking in terms of today's numbers, the 50 to 100 million people who died 386 00:00:00,497 --> 00:00:00,498 in the course of that outbreak would represent perhaps 387 00:00:00,498 --> 00:00:00,499 300 or 400 million in today's terms. 388 00:00:00,499 --> 00:00:00,499 It was a normal influenza, but it changed. 389 00:00:00,499 --> 00:00:00,500 It was mutated. 390 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:00,501 We had a pandemic flu that was killing young people. 391 00:00:00,501 --> 00:00:00,501 They were dropping dead like flies. 392 00:00:00,502 --> 00:00:00,503 Scientists more recently have come up with this theory 393 00:00:00,503 --> 00:00:00,503 that, yeah, it must've come from space. 394 00:00:00,504 --> 00:00:00,505 It opens the possibility that there is a UFO connection. 395 00:00:00,505 --> 00:00:00,506 Perhaps they are managing us in a very brutal fashion. 396 00:00:00,506 --> 00:00:00,507 The Spanish lnfluenza eventually 397 00:00:00,507 --> 00:00:00,508 disappeared just as quickly as it had arrived, 398 00:00:00,508 --> 00:00:00,509 fading away completely just a year later in 1919. 399 00:00:00,510 --> 00:00:00,511 Scientists believe it had mutated to the point it was 400 00:00:00,511 --> 00:00:00,511 no longer harmful to humans. 401 00:00:00,512 --> 00:00:00,513 But how did this incredibly deadly virus strike 402 00:00:00,513 --> 00:00:00,514 simultaneously all over the globe? 403 00:00:00,514 --> 00:00:00,515 Could it have had any connection to the strange events at Fatima, 404 00:00:00,515 --> 00:00:00,516 and the dire predictions communicated to three children, 405 00:00:00,516 --> 00:00:00,517 supposedly from a heavenly, 406 00:00:00,517 --> 00:00:00,518 or what some would call an extraterrestrial source? 407 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:00,521 September15th 2007 408 00:00:00,522 --> 00:00:00,523 Residents of Carancas, Peru, watch in fascination as a 409 00:00:00,523 --> 00:00:00,524 gigantic fireball streaks across the sky. 410 00:00:00,524 --> 00:00:00,525 There is a loud explosion--- 411 00:00:00,525 --> 00:00:00,527 and a crash that shakes the ground violently. 412 00:00:00,527 --> 00:00:00,528 Something large and mysterious has fallen to Earth, causing 413 00:00:00,528 --> 00:00:00,529 a crater that scatters debris for nearly a mile in every direction. 414 00:00:00,530 --> 00:00:00,532 Fascination turns to fear when, just a few days later, 415 00:00:00,532 --> 00:00:00,533 hundreds of people become strangely and violently ill. 416 00:00:00,533 --> 00:00:00,535 An extraterrestrial fireball impacted the ground near Carancas in Peru. 417 00:00:00,535 --> 00:00:00,536 This impact sickened a great many people in that area. 418 00:00:00,537 --> 00:00:00,539 That was never explained by authorities who couldn't really have an answer 419 00:00:00,539 --> 00:00:00,540 for why a meteorite strike would cause all these people to get sick. 420 00:00:00,540 --> 00:00:00,542 Meteorites are thought to very be clean and without bacteria or noxious gases. 421 00:00:00,543 --> 00:00:00,544 Does this event suggest that microbes and other living organisms 422 00:00:00,544 --> 00:00:00,545 not of this earth exists somewhere in the universe. 423 00:00:00,546 --> 00:00:00,547 It would be narrow-minded to accept that all our trillions of bacteria 424 00:00:00,547 --> 00:00:00,548 and viruses are so unique to take to her everywhere 425 00:00:00,548 --> 00:00:00,549 and every part of this world, that they wouldn't occur 426 00:00:00,549 --> 00:00:00,550 in other planets or other systems around the universe. 427 00:00:00,551 --> 00:00:00,552 The Stardust mission. 428 00:00:00,552 --> 00:00:00,552 2006. 429 00:00:00,553 --> 00:00:00,555 A NASA spacecraft plunges through the tail of comet 81P-Wild--- 430 00:00:00,555 --> 00:00:00,556 collecting comet particles on blocks of a sticky material 431 00:00:00,556 --> 00:00:00,558 called aerogel. 432 00:00:00,558 --> 00:00:00,559 The findings stun even the most cynical scientists. 433 00:00:00,559 --> 00:00:00,560 The Stardust detector came back to Earth, and the particles collected 434 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:00,562 were studied in detail and many organic compounds were found 435 00:00:00,562 --> 00:00:00,563 including the amino acid Glycine, which is a building block for life. 436 00:00:00,564 --> 00:00:00,565 Might asteroids and meteors really be the 437 00:00:00,565 --> 00:00:00,566 delivery system for alien microbes and other 438 00:00:00,566 --> 00:00:00,566 extraterrestrial life-forms? 439 00:00:00,567 --> 00:00:00,569 Could strange germs and deadly diseases be the result of 440 00:00:00,569 --> 00:00:00,569 biological hitchhikers in space? 441 00:00:00,570 --> 00:00:00,571 If you look at the historical records--- 442 00:00:00,571 --> 00:00:00,572 plagues come suddenly, from almost nowhere. 443 00:00:00,573 --> 00:00:00,574 So I think comets are the natural carriers that one could look to as to being 444 00:00:00,574 --> 00:00:00,575 the source of these epidemics. 445 00:00:00,576 --> 00:00:00,577 Comets were feared by almost all ancient civilizations--- 446 00:00:00,577 --> 00:00:00,578 as bringers of pestilence and death. 447 00:00:00,578 --> 00:00:00,579 But were they really primitive superstitions? 448 00:00:00,580 --> 00:00:00,581 In the 1960's, Nobel Laureate Harold Urey 449 00:00:00,581 --> 00:00:00,582 developed a new field of science called cosmochemistry. 450 00:00:00,582 --> 00:00:00,584 He theorized that meteorites contained the fossilized remains 451 00:00:00,584 --> 00:00:00,584 of space bacteria. 452 00:00:00,584 --> 00:00:00,585 It was dismissed almost instantly by 453 00:00:00,585 --> 00:00:00,587 a huge establishment of American meteoritic scientists. 454 00:00:00,587 --> 00:00:00,588 There's no way, they said, argued that life could be inside a comet, 455 00:00:00,588 --> 00:00:00,589 and so it was sort of--- essentially swept under the rug. 456 00:00:00,591 --> 00:00:00,593 In 1996, NASA researchers, led by David McKay 457 00:00:00,593 --> 00:00:00,594 of the Johnson Space Center, announced that another space 458 00:00:00,594 --> 00:00:00,595 rock found in Antarctica-- meteorite ALH84001-- 459 00:00:00,595 --> 00:00:00,596 contained the fossilized remains of life on Mars. 460 00:00:00,597 --> 00:00:00,598 It must be confirmed by other scientists, 461 00:00:00,598 --> 00:00:00,599 but clearly, the fact that something of this magnitude is 462 00:00:00,599 --> 00:00:00,600 being explored is another vindication of America's space 463 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:00,601 program and our continuing 464 00:00:00,601 --> 00:00:00,602 support for it, even in these tough financial times. 465 00:00:00,603 --> 00:00:00,604 Even as recently as March of 2011, NASA scientist 466 00:00:00,604 --> 00:00:00,605 Richard Hoover published evidence of life found in meteorites. 467 00:00:00,606 --> 00:00:00,606 Richard Hoover found really stunning 468 00:00:00,606 --> 00:00:00,608 images of microscopic organisms resembling modern organisms. 469 00:00:00,609 --> 00:00:00,610 This was published in March of 2011 in the Journal of Cosmology, 470 00:00:00,611 --> 00:00:00,612 and it's caused the biggest rumpus in science that I recall in my entire career. 471 00:00:00,613 --> 00:00:00,614 High officials of NASA were livid, because here was this guy 472 00:00:00,614 --> 00:00:00,615 at Marshall Space Flight Center trying to overturn a paradigm. 473 00:00:00,615 --> 00:00:00,616 If alien bacteria has entered the Earth's 474 00:00:00,616 --> 00:00:00,617 atmosphere, could it have been sent here deliberately? 475 00:00:00,617 --> 00:00:00,617 Well, the answer is yes. 476 00:00:00,617 --> 00:00:00,618 If they were trying to invade a planet, they would do it by 477 00:00:00,618 --> 00:00:00,620 putting their own bacteria on pieces of rock and making sure 478 00:00:00,620 --> 00:00:00,621 that landed on planet Earth, and in so doing, create a series of 479 00:00:00,621 --> 00:00:00,622 violent epidemics that would wipe out the planet's population. 480 00:00:00,624 --> 00:00:00,625 Kerala, India, 2001. 481 00:00:00,625 --> 00:00:00,627 A cosmic bang--- a massive explosion in 482 00:00:00,627 --> 00:00:00,628 the atmosphere, and then--- 483 00:00:00,628 --> 00:00:00,629 a downpour of red rain. 484 00:00:00,629 --> 00:00:00,630 It is eerily reminiscent of ancient myths and stories about 485 00:00:00,630 --> 00:00:00,631 blood coming down from the sky. 486 00:00:00,631 --> 00:00:00,632 Homer writes in The Iliad about a blood rain foreshadowing 487 00:00:00,632 --> 00:00:00,633 slaughter in battle. 488 00:00:00,633 --> 00:00:00,634 Gregory of Tours witnessed a blood rain before the outbreak 489 00:00:00,634 --> 00:00:00,635 of the Justinian Plague. 490 00:00:00,635 --> 00:00:00,637 And in 14th century Germany, a shower of blood reportedly 491 00:00:00,637 --> 00:00:00,637 preceded the Black Death. 492 00:00:00,638 --> 00:00:00,639 It is like the human world seeing the effect of the immortal world 493 00:00:00,639 --> 00:00:00,640 The gods are so affected by our lives that they are willing to 494 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,641 change the laws of the physical world so that something we 495 00:00:00,641 --> 00:00:00,642 experience as rain, in fact, comes down as blood. 496 00:00:00,643 --> 00:00:00,644 After the incident in Kerala, biologist Dr. Godfrey 497 00:00:00,644 --> 00:00:00,645 Louis is able to collect samples of the strange red liquid. 498 00:00:00,645 --> 00:00:00,646 He collected the rain as clean as possible, 499 00:00:00,646 --> 00:00:00,647 and it was discovered that they 500 00:00:00,647 --> 00:00:00,648 contained cells that looked like living cells. 501 00:00:00,648 --> 00:00:00,649 So it's some kind of organism. 502 00:00:00,649 --> 00:00:00,650 Now where's it come from? 503 00:00:00,650 --> 00:00:00,650 Does it come from space or does it come from Earth? 504 00:00:00,650 --> 00:00:00,651 This is the big question. 505 00:00:00,651 --> 00:00:00,652 Because, of course, the meteorite immediately puts it 506 00:00:00,652 --> 00:00:00,653 into the realms of mystery, space. 507 00:00:00,653 --> 00:00:00,655 To date, there have been no verifiable reports of 508 00:00:00,655 --> 00:00:00,656 illness connected with the blood rain in Kerala--- 509 00:00:00,656 --> 00:00:00,657 but if meteors and other falling objects from space 510 00:00:00,657 --> 00:00:00,659 really do contain deadly bacteria, is it simply an accident--- 511 00:00:00,659 --> 00:00:00,661 or is it possible that what we think of as natural 512 00:00:00,661 --> 00:00:00,662 phenomena are really part of another, perhaps more insidious plan? 513 00:00:00,663 --> 00:00:00,665 In 2001, Mary Leitao, a former hospital lab technician in Boston 514 00:00:00,665 --> 00:00:00,666 discovers red, blue, black, and white 515 00:00:00,666 --> 00:00:00,667 fibers in sores under her two-year-old son's lip. 516 00:00:00,668 --> 00:00:00,669 Eight different doctors are unable to find any disease, 517 00:00:00,669 --> 00:00:00,670 allergy, or anything unusual 518 00:00:00,670 --> 00:00:00,671 that might be causing her son's condition. 519 00:00:00,671 --> 00:00:00,672 Today this condition has a name-- 520 00:00:00,672 --> 00:00:00,673 Morgellons disease-- 521 00:00:00,673 --> 00:00:00,674 And according to the Morgellons Research Foundation, 522 00:00:00,674 --> 00:00:00,676 it has affected more than 12,000 families from all 50 states and 15 other countries. 523 00:00:00,677 --> 00:00:00,678 No one knows what Morgellons is, it appears to be 524 00:00:00,678 --> 00:00:00,679 a brand new arrival in the medical scene. To have Morgellons disease, 525 00:00:00,679 --> 00:00:00,680 is to live a waking nightmare without end. 526 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:00,681 To the best of my knowledge, there have been no cures to Morgellons. 527 00:00:00,681 --> 00:00:00,682 And partly I think it's because we don't know what the cause is. 528 00:00:00,682 --> 00:00:00,683 A physician who's trying to treat a patient with Morgellons 529 00:00:00,683 --> 00:00:00,684 is pretty much just shooting in the dark. 530 00:00:00,684 --> 00:00:00,685 Sufferers of the mysterious disease complain of 531 00:00:00,685 --> 00:00:00,686 neurological problems similar to multiple sclerosis 532 00:00:00,687 --> 00:00:00,688 and massive oozing skin rashes that seem to have a life of their own. 533 00:00:00,688 --> 00:00:00,689 The overt dermatological symptoms would be 534 00:00:00,689 --> 00:00:00,691 open sores on the skin-- usually round, volcanic almost looking in nature. 535 00:00:00,691 --> 00:00:00,692 Most people with Morgellons have crawling 536 00:00:00,692 --> 00:00:00,692 sensations in their skin. 537 00:00:00,692 --> 00:00:00,693 Sometimes they describe it as almost as though something is 538 00:00:00,693 --> 00:00:00,694 inside there, biting or stinging. 539 00:00:00,695 --> 00:00:00,696 Inside the lesions, sufferers have discovered 540 00:00:00,696 --> 00:00:00,697 colored fibers, like those found on Mary Leitao's son. 541 00:00:00,697 --> 00:00:00,698 You wouldn't believe how many dermatologists have 542 00:00:00,698 --> 00:00:00,698 gotten phone calls and e-mails from, saying, "Sorry, humans 543 00:00:00,698 --> 00:00:00,699 don't grow red and blue fibers." 544 00:00:00,699 --> 00:00:00,700 Well, as a physiologist, I'm quite aware of that fact, but it 545 00:00:00,700 --> 00:00:00,701 doesn't change the fact that these fibers are present, and 546 00:00:00,701 --> 00:00:00,702 this mystery is, well, where are the fibers coming from? 547 00:00:00,702 --> 00:00:00,703 Is there a microorganism that is producing these fibers? 548 00:00:00,703 --> 00:00:00,704 We have absolutely no idea. 549 00:00:00,704 --> 00:00:00,705 The university forwarded a number of samples to 550 00:00:00,705 --> 00:00:00,706 the Tulsa Crime Lab, who ran them through their database, the 551 00:00:00,706 --> 00:00:00,707 FBI database, were unable to find any match. 552 00:00:00,709 --> 00:00:00,709 The earth is being bombarded by tons of debris from 553 00:00:00,709 --> 00:00:00,711 outer space every year, and so, is it possible that an organism 554 00:00:00,711 --> 00:00:00,712 that we wouldn't recognize came down with that debris, and 555 00:00:00,712 --> 00:00:00,712 that's the cause of Morgellons? 556 00:00:00,712 --> 00:00:00,713 Well, I just try and stay open-minded. 557 00:00:00,713 --> 00:00:00,714 We can't really say yes, we can't say no. 558 00:00:00,715 --> 00:00:00,716 But what is the cause of Morgellons disease? 559 00:00:00,716 --> 00:00:00,717 Is it simply an Earth-based mutation of a known virus? 560 00:00:00,717 --> 00:00:00,719 Or does it have other, perhaps interplanetary origins? 561 00:00:00,719 --> 00:00:00,720 If we look at something that came from a distant planet 562 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:00,721 it's so different, that it could do anything from 563 00:00:00,721 --> 00:00:00,723 makes us better, makes us the same, or in the long run, create a new disease. 564 00:00:00,723 --> 00:00:00,725 Or maybe it doesn't produce disease, because diseases don't just produce fever, 565 00:00:00,725 --> 00:00:00,726 headache, it may change our thought process, our reality, how we 566 00:00:00,726 --> 00:00:00,727 move, how we think, how long we live, even our emotions. 567 00:00:00,728 --> 00:00:00,729 Living microbes in outer space. 568 00:00:00,729 --> 00:00:00,731 Bacteria capable of mutating and becoming more powerful in zero gravity. 569 00:00:00,731 --> 00:00:00,732 Comets carrying deadly, alien life-forms. 570 00:00:00,733 --> 00:00:00,734 Could humankind be at the mercy of extraterrestrial forces that 571 00:00:00,734 --> 00:00:00,735 are invisible to the naked eye? 572 00:00:00,735 --> 00:00:00,736 The best estimates that I've heard are the number of bacteria in the world 573 00:00:00,736 --> 00:00:00,738 is something in the range of 5 followed by 30 zeroes, it is a staggering number. 574 00:00:00,738 --> 00:00:00,739 We're discovering more and more all the time. 575 00:00:00,740 --> 00:00:00,740 The real question is this--- who is really leading the world? 576 00:00:00,740 --> 00:00:00,742 Us or the trillions and trillions of viruses that we walk upon, and may be 577 00:00:00,742 --> 00:00:00,743 playing a much more intimate part of our lives that we ever thought. 578 00:00:00,743 --> 00:00:00,744 Is it possible that we somehow are being prepared for something 579 00:00:00,744 --> 00:00:00,746 which is going to affect Earth as a global civilization. 580 00:00:00,746 --> 00:00:00,747 It's, somehow, is very important that we are strong enough so 581 00:00:00,747 --> 00:00:00,748 that we will be able to cope with something which might be 582 00:00:00,748 --> 00:00:00,749 coming our way? 583 00:00:00,749 --> 00:00:00,749 The more you know all the details, 584 00:00:00,749 --> 00:00:00,750 the more frightening the thoughts are about what's coming next. 585 00:00:00,750 --> 00:00:00,751 The clock begins when the disease hits, and we don't know 586 00:00:00,751 --> 00:00:00,752 how much time the clock is giving us. 587 00:00:00,752 --> 00:00:00,753 That's the fear of the future. 588 00:00:00,753 --> 00:00:00,754 For thousands of years, we have wondered if we 589 00:00:00,754 --> 00:00:00,756 are alone in the universe, but could alien life-forms have been 590 00:00:00,756 --> 00:00:00,756 among us all along? 591 00:00:00,756 --> 00:00:00,758 If countless strains of deadly bacteria are coming to Earth 592 00:00:00,758 --> 00:00:00,759 from other worlds, is this the proof we need that there is life 593 00:00:00,759 --> 00:00:00,760 on other planets? 594 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:00,761 Could it be only by coincidence that these life-forms have made 595 00:00:00,761 --> 00:00:00,763 contact with us in the form of plagues and epidemics, 596 00:00:00,763 --> 00:00:00,765 or is there another, perhaps alien, intelligence at work-- 597 00:00:00,765 --> 00:00:00,766 an intelligence which seeks to reduce our numbers 598 00:00:00,766 --> 00:00:00,767 or maybe prepare us for something 599 00:00:00,767 --> 00:00:00,769 If so, what and when. 600 00:00:00,769 --> 00:00:02,769 �Amoovlmvhd�g���g� 53622

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