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NARRATOR: A visionary scientist.
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WILLIAM HENRY:
He provided the greatest leap
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in human history.
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NARRATOR:
A single-minded obsession.
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ROBERT PEARLMAN:
We wanted to go to space
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because he wanted
to go to space.
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NARRATOR: And a mysterious past.
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You have to wonder
where this knowledge came from.
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NARRATOR: He developed the means
to put a man on the moon,
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but was Wernher Von Braun's
passion fueled
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by his own ambition?
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Or might he have been influenced
by otherworldly beings?
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DAVID WILCOCK: Wernher Von Braun
was in touch with some sort
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of extraterrestrial force
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that is steering us even further
out into space.
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NARRATOR:
Since the dawn of civilization,
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mankind has credited
its origins to gods
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and other visitors
from the stars.
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What if it were true?
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Did extraterrestrial beings
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really help to shape
our history?
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And if so,
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might aliens have influenced
Wernher Von Braun?
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NARRATOR: Huntsville, Alabama.
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July 24, 1969.
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A crowd of thousands gathers
in Courthouse Square
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to cheer on the triumphant
return of Dr. Wernher Von Braun,
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just hours after Apollo 11's
Columbia Command Module
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splashed down
in the Pacific Ocean.
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The United States had achieved
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what many believed
was impossible:
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Putting a man on the moon.
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The picture ran in newspapers
around America
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the following day,
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celebrating the genius rocket
engineer who was behind it all.
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Von Braun is a titan.
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You know, he's one of the major
figures of the last century.
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And he was way ahead
of his time.
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Von Braun adamantly believed
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that humanity's future
was in space.
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He's the greatest
voice we've had
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in the history
of the space program.
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NARRATOR: Considered by NASA
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to be the "Father
of Rocket Science,"
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Von Braun is credited
with either inventing
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or helping to develop many
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of the most sophisticated aerial
technologies that exist today,
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like the supersonic
anti-aircraft missile,
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the ballistic missile,
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the first American satellite,
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and the first
U.S. space vehicles,
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including the enormous
Saturn V rocket
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that enabled man
to reach the moon.
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Without exaggeration, the Apollo
program has been called
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"the greatest achievement that
mankind has ever accomplished."
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Without Wernher Von Braun, we
would have not reached the moon.
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To date, the Saturn V is
the most powerful rocket
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that we've ever built.
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NARRATOR: Von Braun's incredible
engineering feats were matched
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only by his all-consuming
crusade to send man into space.
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In the 1950s, when space travel
seemed a fantasy,
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Wernher Von Braun teamed up
with Walt Disney
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to convince a skeptical public
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that putting man on the moon
was not only possible,
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but that it would happen
in their lifetimes.
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In these films,
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watched by an estimated
42 million people,
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Von Braun boldly predicted
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not only how we would send
men into space,
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but also the use
of protective suits,
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lunar landing vehicles,
orbiting space stations,
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and even manned trips to Mars.
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If we were to start today
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on an organized and
well-supported space program,
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I believe a practical
passenger rocket
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could be built and tested
within ten years.
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NARRATOR: But who exactly was
this engineering genius
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with such extraordinary
visions for the future?
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Why did he believe so strongly
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that man could and should
travel into space?
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And what did he expect to find
when we got there?
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Wernher Von Braun was born
March 23, 1912,
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in a small town
in Eastern Prussia.
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The second of three sons,
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Wernher grew up a child
of wealth and privilege.
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But while he was born
into an accomplished family,
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Wernher's keen intellect
and unusual passions stood out.
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His father once said,
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"I don't know where
his talent comes from,"
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and stated on more
than one occasion
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that he considered
his son a mystery.
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IMPEY: Wernher Von Braun
was multitalented.
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Both sides of his brain
were working.
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He could think
about technical things
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and imagine rocketry
and space travel,
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but he was
an accomplished musician.
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And these traits
manifested very early.
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I think his parents knew
by the time he was four or five
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that he was very special.
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His mother gave him a telescope
when he was young,
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and he looked at the moon
and said, "I want to go there."
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I want to build the machine
that will go to the moon."
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And of course he did
half a century later.
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NARRATOR: Wernher Von Braun
grew up in a time
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when German science fiction
authors focused
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on science utopian novels
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that often featured
an idealized German engineer
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who solves the world's problems
through science and technology.
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Movies such as
Fritz Lang's Metropolis
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and Woman in the Moon also
stirred the public's imagination
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and no doubt had a powerful
influence on Von Braun.
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For a young man growing up
in the 1920s and '30s,
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space travel was considered
too fantastic and far-fetched
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to ever be possible.
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And although
the Wright brothers had achieved
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the first powered flight
in 1903,
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the horse and buggy was still
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a widely used mode
of transportation.
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The achievement of putting
a man on the moon
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is something that was at the
time really almost impossible
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and almost unthinkable.
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Wernher Von Braun was obsessed
with going to the moon
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and going to Mars from
the time he was a little boy.
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And that was his destiny.
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NARRATOR: In his teens,
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Von Braun wrote papers
on orbital flight,
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and by the incredibly
young age of 20,
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he was named the head
of Germany's rocket program
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by army artillery officer
Captain Walter Dornberger.
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Dornberger would later write
in his 1952 book,
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V-2, the Firing into Space,
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that he was deeply impressed
by the young Von Braun's energy,
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shrewdness and astonishing
theoretical knowledge.
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IMPEY: When he worked
towards one of his goals,
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he would apply himself
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and master a subject
in very short order.
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He'd been trained
as an engineer,
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and doing a PhD in physics
is not trivial.
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And he got his PhD at an age
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when most German students
were still undergraduates.
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NARRATOR: But how is it
that Wernher Von Braun...
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Whose contemporaries included
such scientific geniuses
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as Nikola Tesla,
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Robert Oppenheimer
and Albert Einstein...
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Was so far ahead of everyone
when it came to rocketry?
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And what was behind
his obsession
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to travel to the stars?
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Some ancient astronaut
theorists believe
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that the boy genius
may have been guided
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by otherworldly forces.
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Maybe he drew his inspiration
from science fiction.
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Maybe it came from his...
his own imagination and vision
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of what the future should be.
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Or maybe it was inspired
by something extraterrestrial.
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WILCOCK: Some sort
of extraterrestrial contact
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might have happened
with Wernher Von Braun.
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Something or someone
might have reached him and saw
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where we needed to go
as a civilization,
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and gave him the tools
and the insights
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that he needed to be able
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to build our way out into space.
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Some have suggested that people
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like Albert Einstein, Tesla,
that they've had
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this extraterrestrial
intervention;
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That they have had access
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to this abundance of knowledge.
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And the question has arisen...
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Did Wernher Von Braun?
Was he also one of them?
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Because the vision he had,
the ideas
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were incredible for their time.
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NARRATOR:
Might extraterrestrials
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have chosen Wernher Von Braun
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to propel mankind
to the moon and beyond,
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as some ancient astronaut
theorists propose?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found
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by examining Von Braun's
connection
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to a mysterious Nazi institution
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known as the Ahnenerbe.
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NARRATOR: In 1933, Adolf Hitler
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rose to power
and began consolidating.
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Germany's military, political
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and economic institutions
under the control
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of his Nazi Party apparatus.
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For years,
Wernher Von Braun avoided
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becoming a member
of the Nazi Party,
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but on November 12, 1937,
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he was commanded to join
and did so.
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To hear him tell it,
he was, uh, had no choice.
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That he... it was either do that
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or, um, face the same fate
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as everyone else
who disobeyed the Nazis...
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Certain death.
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Von Braun didn't think the Nazi
movement was the way to go,
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but it was a means to an end
to develop his rockets.
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NARRATOR: In 1944,
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with the help
of additional funding
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from the German government,
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Von Braun launched the 45-foot,
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27,000-pound A-4,
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later rechristened the V-2,
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or "Vengeance Weapon."
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While Von Braun's first rocket
only reached 1.4 miles,
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the V-2 climbed to an altitude
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of 108.5 miles,
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and became
the first man-made object
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to ever reach space.
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PEARLMAN:
The V-2 rocket was a one-stage,
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liquid-fueled rocket that was
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not comparable to any
other rocket at the time,
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because there weren't
other rockets at the time.
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You had rockets in development.
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What Von Braun was able
to do with the V-2
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was combine the theory
with the practical application
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and develop
the first rocket ever
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to be able to reach space.
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NARRATOR: How was Von Braun
able to advance.
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Germany's rocket program so far
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in just a few short years?
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Was it due to a desperate nation
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supplying him
with massive amounts
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of money and material?
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Or could there be
another reason?
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On July 1, 1935,
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Hitler's SS commander,
Heinrich Himmler,
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established Ahnenerbe...
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An elite Nazi institute
that purported
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to research the cultural
and archaeological history
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of the Germans.
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However, its true purpose
proved far more bizarre.
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BARA: Ahnenerbe was based
on the idea that the Aryan race
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was the most directly
descended from ancient,
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perhaps alien, gods.
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CHILDRESS: Part of their job
was to literally go
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all over the world looking
for special occult artifacts.
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Things like the Ark of the
Covenant and the Holy Grail.
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BARA: Von Braun became
closely associated with them
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through his association
with the SS
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and with Heinrich Himmler.
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And one of the main reasons
for that was that
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they felt like rocketry
was almost an arcane secret,
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um, a sort of black magic
that would
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enable them
to dominate the world.
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NARRATOR: As World War II
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broke out across Europe...
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Ahnenerbe expanded its research
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into secret weapons programs,
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and Himmler tapped Von Braun
as its technical director
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at Germany's large-scale
experimental research facility
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at Peenemunde
in Northwest Germany.
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It was during these next
several years that Von Braun
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advanced
the science of propulsion,
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aerodynamics
and rocket guidance systems
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beyond what anyone
had thought possible.
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CHILDRESS:
You have to ask yourself,
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where would they have gotten
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that kind of knowledge
so quickly?
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One of the possible reasons
is that the Ahnenerbe,
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with their researches,
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had actually discovered
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technology through
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some of their expeditions
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to find ancient relics,
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and their search, really,
for ancient technology.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the Ahnenerbe
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discovered artifacts
that helped them
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advance their weapons research?
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Some ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the Nazis did,
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in fact, recover something
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not from the ancient world
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but from
an extraterrestrial one.
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A multicolored orb of light
was seen in the sky
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in 1937 in Southwestern Poland.
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And by all accounts,
this was a UFO sighting.
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But it's a lot more than that.
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This orb actually crashed
into the ground.
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NARRATOR:
According to the account,
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when investigators reached
the suspected crash site,
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they found a strange
disc-shaped object.
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Nazi officials are said to have
taken the damaged craft
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to a nearby secure facility
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where it was examined
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by Germany's
top aeronautical experts,
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including Wernher Von Braun.
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While no remains of any alleged
UFOs survived the war,
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German engineers
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did develop a series
of revolutionary aircraft,
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including the first
rocket-powered jet fighter,
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the first stealth bomber,
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and even antigravity-powered,
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saucer-shaped vehicles.
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From what we're able
to glean today,
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Nazi technology
at the end of World War II
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was so advanced
that they had things
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that are still
science fiction today...
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Antigravity...
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beam weapons...
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flying saucers...
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flying triangles.
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Things that are still
kept secret today.
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NARRATOR: In June 1945,
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U.S. Army officials
holding German scientists
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reported that the Nazis
were 25 years ahead
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of the United States
in rocketry.
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You have to wonder
where this knowledge came from
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and also whether Von Braun...
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Who was really the spearhead of
all the Nazi rocket technology...
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If he had also gotten
information from other sources,
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perhaps extraterrestrials,
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that helped him
advance so quickly
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in rocket technology.
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NARRATOR:
Could the incredible advances
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made by Von Braun's design team
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have been the result
of alien technologies
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that were reverse-engineered?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes and claim
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the most compelling evidence
isn't the amazing technology
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achieved by the Nazis,
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but the incredible advancements
that came after the war
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in America.
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NARRATOR:
Oberjoch, Germany, May 1945.
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In the wake
of Adolf Hitler's suicide
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and the German surrender,
Wernher Von Braun
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and hundreds of other
German rocket engineers
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surrendered to the U.S. Army's
Counterintelligence Corps.
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But it was a move Von Braun
had planned months before.
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BARA: Von Braun
and his colleagues made
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a conscious decision
to surrender to the Americans
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because they felt they would
have access to higher technology
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and they would have
a better opportunity to fulfill
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his dream of going to the moon
and going to Mars,
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uh, to explore what was there.
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NARRATOR: Although he was
a known member of the SS,
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Von Braun leveraged his position
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as the head of Germany's
V-2 rocket program
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to convince U.S. authorities
to bring him
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and roughly 100 hand-picked
members of his team to America.
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Eventually,
some 1,500 German scientists
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and technicians would follow
Von Braun to the U.S.
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through a top secret program
called Operation Paperclip.
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Operation Paperclip was a, uh,
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an executive-ordered,
uh, private secret operation
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to bring over Nazi scientists,
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mostly Nazi rocket scientists
and engineers, to the U.S.
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to help build up a rocketry
program for the United States.
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Operation Paperclip was kept
a secret for decades.
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And you have to wonder whether
it was this special knowledge,
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perhaps extraterrestrial
knowledge,
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that these Nazi scientists had
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that we needed so desperately
for our own space program.
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NARRATOR: In the fall of 1945,
the U.S. Army assigned
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the 33-year-old Von Braun
and his German colleagues
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to the White Sands Proving
Ground missile test range
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in New Mexico.
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Since the 1940s,
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White Sands has been
the military's testing site
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for cutting-edge developments
in rocketry and space travel.
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According to official records,
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Von Braun's task was
to help teach the Americans
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how to rebuild and launch
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captured V-2 rockets
brought back from Germany.
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But there are others who believe
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Von Braun had another
top secret job.
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Former Army Lieutenant Colonel
Philip Corso,
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in his book,
The Day after Roswell,
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claimed the facility also housed
classified R & D projects,
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including the study
of extraterrestrial craft.
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Lieutenant Colonel
Philip Corso served
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in the U.S. military
for many years,
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and he claimed
that he actually worked
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on recovered alien technology,
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including the crashed vehicle
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that was recovered at Roswell,
New Mexico in 1947.
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Now, there is a theory that
alien technology from Roswell,
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and maybe from other
crashes, too,
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was actually taken to the
White Sands Proving Ground...
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That's where
Wernher Von Braun worked...
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And that all this, uh, R & D
that was going on at White Sands
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was actually at least
in part alien technology.
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NARRATOR: Corso claimed
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that these reverse-engineering
efforts resulted
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in today's integrated
circuit chips,
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fiber optics and lasers.
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The sudden explosion
of post-World War II technology
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is unexplainable to many.
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This is why they point to
Wernher Von Braun and the Nazis
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as the source
of this technology.
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NARRATOR: There are also claims
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that a top secret Nazi
superweapon called Die Glocke
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ended up in the hands
of the Americans.
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Reportedly, "the Bell,"
as it came to be known,
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was brought to the United States
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in a secret deal
with SS General Hans Kammler,
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the same man
behind the construction
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of Mittelwerk and Peenemunde.
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Die Glocke, or the Bell,
is said to represent
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the pinnacle of the Nazi SS
wonder-weapons program.
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It's a metallic bell,
about nine feet in diameter,
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with many mysterious properties.
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Scientists who have
looked at this
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and the recollections of its
appearance and its usage suggest
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that it had
antigravitational properties.
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We have to legitimately consider
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that the German scientists
were at the root of all this
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and that their
transferred technology
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is exactly what is
now being used
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in advanced so-called
"alien reproduction vehicles,"
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built by our own military
industrial complex.
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NARRATOR: It was rumored
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that much of the Nazis' secret
weaponry was hidden
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at the Mittelwerk underground
research facility.
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In the 1990s,
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German archaeologist
and scientist Willi Kramer
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determined that somehow
70 tons of material
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that used to exist
at Mittelwerk is now missing.
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Is it possible that the missing
material ended up in U.S. hands?
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Perhaps further clues can
be found by examining the story
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of how Wernher Von Braun
put a man on the moon.
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The American public seemed
to have an insatiable appetite
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for science fiction.
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It seemed that in the wake
of the atomic bomb,
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anything was possible.
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Wernher Von Braun viewed
this fixation as his opportunity
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to get the public to share in
his dream of space exploration
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and initiated a plan
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to turn science fiction
into science fact.
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In 1952, he captured
the public's imagination
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with an illustrated series of
articles in Collier's magazine,
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depicting life in space.
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And it was two years later
that Von Braun teamed up
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with perhaps the only man just
as passionate as him
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at the notion of turning dreams
into reality: Walt Disney.
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Over the course of three films,
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Von Braun used Disney's model
and animation artists
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to illustrate his vision
for our future space program.
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Here we have a scale drawing
of the earth
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with the moon
240,000 miles away.
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This is the elliptical path
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which our rocket ship
will follow,
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going out... and coming back.
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We must aim the ship
well ahead of the moon
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so that they both arrive
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at about the same point
in space at the same time.
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Even though we now have
the theoretical knowledge
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to make a trip to the moon,
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it will be many years yet before
our plans can fully materialize.
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Wernher Von Braun was a mixture
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of scientist, engineer
and visionary.
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Von Braun was
that rare combination,
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and perhaps the mystic visionary
in him lifted his work
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above the common sphere
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of scientific
and engineering achievement.
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NARRATOR: October 4, 1957.
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Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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The Soviet Union shocks
the world
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when they launch Sputnik
into Earth's orbit
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and beat the United States
at becoming the first country
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to send a man-made object
into space.
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PEARLMAN: The Soviet Union
had shocked the United States
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by putting the first man-made
satellite into space.
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Sputnik flying overhead not only
was a scary proposition,
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because if they could put
a satellite above us,
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why couldn't they put
a nuclear missile above us?
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It was also, uh,
sort of a wake-up call,
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because most people
considered the Russians
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to be behind us technologically.
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NARRATOR: America's interest
in space shifted into high gear,
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and over the next several years,
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Wernher Von Braun
led the design team
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that sent the first
American satellite into space
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and the first man into orbit...
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all aboard rockets based on
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Von Braun's
original V-2 designs.
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MAN: Three, two, one...
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NARRATOR: But as impressive
as these feats were,
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the next step man would take
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would be far greater
than any that had come before.
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On July 20, 1969,
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57-year-old
Wernher Von Braun watched
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from inside Mission Control
as a human being,
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for the first time in history,
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stepped foot on a celestial body
other than Earth.
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CHARLIE DUKE:
We copy you down, Eagle.
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NEIL ARMSTRONG:
Tranquility Base here.
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The Eagle has landed.
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That's one small step for man,
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one giant leap for mankind.
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NARRATOR: Wernher Von Braun's
boyhood dream,
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which so many had called
an impossible feat,
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had become a reality.
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(horse whinnies)
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POPE: We effectively went
from horse and buggy
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to landing people
on the moon in 60 years.
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It's an exponential increase
in technology.
494
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It's an absolute explosion.
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It's phenomenal
that we came so far so fast.
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IMPEY:
Getting to the moon involves
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extremely precise
orbital calculations
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and the possibility
of missing the moon,
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of not capturing into an orbit,
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is a matter of a tiny fraction
of a degree in the trajectory
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and a small percentage
of the speed coming in.
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So the ability to adjust
the orbit in real time
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and adjust those calculations...
504
00:27:58,411 --> 00:27:59,810
It was a stunning achievement.
505
00:28:01,347 --> 00:28:02,946
NARRATOR:
But how did Von Braun know
506
00:28:03,049 --> 00:28:05,149
all the specific information
needed to calculate
507
00:28:05,251 --> 00:28:08,686
not only how
to send man to the moon
508
00:28:08,788 --> 00:28:11,422
but to bring him back to Earth?
509
00:28:12,792 --> 00:28:15,025
Where did he get data such as
510
00:28:15,127 --> 00:28:17,461
the exact gravitational pull
of the moon,
511
00:28:17,563 --> 00:28:20,998
the speed needed
to break Earth's orbit,
512
00:28:21,067 --> 00:28:23,734
or the effects of
space radiation on the ship?
513
00:28:23,836 --> 00:28:25,736
BUZZ ALDRIN:
We're now in the approach phase.
514
00:28:25,838 --> 00:28:27,337
Everything looking good.
515
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,740
NARRATOR: And how did Von Braun
know the answers
516
00:28:29,842 --> 00:28:32,042
15 years earlier,
517
00:28:32,144 --> 00:28:33,477
when he appeared
in Walt Disney's.
518
00:28:33,579 --> 00:28:36,046
"Man In Space" programs?
519
00:28:41,420 --> 00:28:43,487
I consider it to be
entirely possible
520
00:28:43,589 --> 00:28:47,157
that the endowment
of extraterrestrial technology
521
00:28:47,226 --> 00:28:50,194
that fell into the hands of guys
like Wernher Von Braun
522
00:28:50,296 --> 00:28:53,130
was, in fact, a key element
523
00:28:53,232 --> 00:28:57,167
that allowed us to make
technological leaps forward
524
00:28:57,236 --> 00:29:00,170
much faster than we ever
would have been able to do
525
00:29:00,239 --> 00:29:02,039
if we were without the benefit
526
00:29:02,141 --> 00:29:05,142
of this advanced technology.
527
00:29:05,244 --> 00:29:08,145
POPE: Wernher Von Braun
wanted to go further
528
00:29:08,214 --> 00:29:12,249
than just send people
to the moon and bring them back.
529
00:29:12,318 --> 00:29:17,688
Ultimately he was talking
about colonies in space.
530
00:29:17,757 --> 00:29:21,725
Maybe it was inspired
by something extraterrestrial.
531
00:29:23,829 --> 00:29:28,332
NARRATOR: Could it be that
Von Braun was not only guided
532
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,134
by an alien intelligence,
533
00:29:30,202 --> 00:29:34,071
but that the incredible
achievement of reaching the moon
534
00:29:34,173 --> 00:29:35,639
really was made possible
535
00:29:35,741 --> 00:29:38,675
with the help of
extraterrestrial technology?
536
00:29:41,847 --> 00:29:43,647
Some ancient astronaut
theorists say
537
00:29:43,749 --> 00:29:45,415
that not only is this the case,
538
00:29:45,484 --> 00:29:47,651
but there is evidence
539
00:29:47,753 --> 00:29:50,120
that NASA encountered
more on the moon
540
00:29:50,222 --> 00:29:52,589
than they have revealed.
541
00:29:59,665 --> 00:30:02,933
Guidance recommendation,
uh, is PGNS,
542
00:30:03,035 --> 00:30:04,275
and you're cleared for takeoff.
543
00:30:04,303 --> 00:30:08,438
NARRATOR: July 21, 1969.
544
00:30:08,541 --> 00:30:12,576
Approximately 21½ hours
after landing on the moon,
545
00:30:12,678 --> 00:30:15,712
the Lunar Module Eagle lifts off
546
00:30:15,815 --> 00:30:18,949
to rejoin
the Command Module Columbia
547
00:30:19,051 --> 00:30:21,718
and begin the return to Earth.
548
00:30:21,821 --> 00:30:24,521
The astronauts take with them
549
00:30:24,623 --> 00:30:28,458
47.5 pounds of lunar
surface material,
550
00:30:28,561 --> 00:30:31,195
and they leave some items
behind as well,
551
00:30:31,297 --> 00:30:33,130
like scientific instruments,
552
00:30:33,232 --> 00:30:35,299
an American flag,
553
00:30:35,401 --> 00:30:40,204
and a small plaque commemorating
the Apollo 11 mission.
554
00:30:40,306 --> 00:30:44,107
But perhaps most curious
of the items left on the moon
555
00:30:44,210 --> 00:30:46,376
was a small bag containing
556
00:30:46,478 --> 00:30:48,345
a gold replica
of an olive branch
557
00:30:48,447 --> 00:30:51,014
and a silicon disk
558
00:30:51,116 --> 00:30:53,684
with recorded messages
of peace and goodwill
559
00:30:53,786 --> 00:30:55,919
from 73 world leaders.
560
00:30:56,021 --> 00:31:00,691
Why were these symbolic messages
sent up into space?
561
00:31:00,793 --> 00:31:05,229
Some ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the mastermind
562
00:31:05,331 --> 00:31:08,232
behind the Apollo program...
Wernher Von Braun...
563
00:31:08,334 --> 00:31:11,201
Was expecting to find more
on the moon
564
00:31:11,303 --> 00:31:14,104
than NASA wanted
the public to know.
565
00:31:14,206 --> 00:31:17,207
Wernher Von Braun famously said
566
00:31:17,309 --> 00:31:21,378
that the next world war will be
the war against the ETs.
567
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,680
His remarks were
hugely controversial.
568
00:31:23,782 --> 00:31:25,983
Some people have said
that he was simply saying
569
00:31:26,085 --> 00:31:29,052
there can't be another world war
570
00:31:29,154 --> 00:31:31,121
now that we've got
atomic weapons.
571
00:31:31,223 --> 00:31:35,092
Other people have speculated
that he knew something
572
00:31:35,194 --> 00:31:39,129
and he was hinting
at some terrible truth.
573
00:31:39,231 --> 00:31:42,199
Another story relates
that, uh, Von Braun claimed
574
00:31:42,301 --> 00:31:45,035
that we had help from "them"
575
00:31:45,137 --> 00:31:47,137
to get us into space.
576
00:31:47,239 --> 00:31:50,040
If anybody knew about
the extraterrestrials,
577
00:31:50,142 --> 00:31:52,342
it would've been a guy
like Wernher Von Braun.
578
00:31:56,081 --> 00:31:59,283
NARRATOR: Some ancient astronaut
theorists propose that not only
579
00:31:59,385 --> 00:32:03,120
did alien beings have a hand
in man reaching the moon,
580
00:32:03,222 --> 00:32:06,990
but that once there,
we discovered further evidence
581
00:32:07,092 --> 00:32:08,992
that we are not alone.
582
00:32:09,094 --> 00:32:12,562
And they claim
the strongest proof can be found
583
00:32:12,665 --> 00:32:16,033
by examining our last
manned trip to the moon:
584
00:32:16,135 --> 00:32:20,137
The Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
585
00:32:21,607 --> 00:32:23,106
We definitely weren't
told everything,
586
00:32:23,208 --> 00:32:25,453
and there's monkey business
played with the moon landings,
587
00:32:25,477 --> 00:32:27,088
of course, as far as
what we know about them.
588
00:32:27,112 --> 00:32:28,512
(indistinct radio chatter)
589
00:32:28,614 --> 00:32:31,581
BARA: Apollo 17 was, in fact,
a technology salvaging mission.
590
00:32:31,684 --> 00:32:32,994
HARRISON SCHMITT:
Yeah, looks like there's been
591
00:32:33,018 --> 00:32:34,451
a geologist here before us.
592
00:32:34,553 --> 00:32:37,487
BARA: Some of it has to do with
the actual landing site itself.
593
00:32:37,589 --> 00:32:39,356
There were several mountains
in the area
594
00:32:39,458 --> 00:32:40,991
that don't really
look like mountains.
595
00:32:41,093 --> 00:32:42,573
One of them
is very hexagonal-looking.
596
00:32:42,661 --> 00:32:45,495
And they bear
a striking resemblance
597
00:32:45,597 --> 00:32:47,297
to actual artificial structures.
598
00:32:47,399 --> 00:32:51,401
The astronauts went directly
for this hexagonal mountain.
599
00:32:51,503 --> 00:32:53,670
They parked on the hill above it
600
00:32:53,772 --> 00:32:55,672
and then they got out
of the lunar rover.
601
00:32:55,774 --> 00:32:59,009
What's interesting is that,
for the next 20 or 30 minutes,
602
00:32:59,111 --> 00:33:01,578
NASA has control
of the camera on the rover,
603
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,480
and they point it at everything
604
00:33:03,582 --> 00:33:05,182
except what the astronauts
are doing.
605
00:33:05,284 --> 00:33:08,352
They had plenty of time
to rappel down
606
00:33:08,454 --> 00:33:10,087
inside of this
V-shaped depression.
607
00:33:10,189 --> 00:33:12,167
- JOHN YOUNG: Okay, let's go on back.
- DUKE: I am.
608
00:33:12,191 --> 00:33:13,702
BARA: It's really interesting
that we don't see
609
00:33:13,726 --> 00:33:14,925
any of the astronauts at all
610
00:33:15,027 --> 00:33:16,237
until they come back
to the lunar rover.
611
00:33:16,261 --> 00:33:17,501
(indistinct radio transmission)
612
00:33:17,563 --> 00:33:19,107
There's no question
that the mystery would be
613
00:33:19,131 --> 00:33:20,775
what they were looking for,
what they found,
614
00:33:20,799 --> 00:33:23,467
could it possibly have been
ancient alien technology?
615
00:33:23,569 --> 00:33:27,571
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
616
00:33:27,673 --> 00:33:31,641
that even more compelling
than the hexagonal formation
617
00:33:31,744 --> 00:33:35,612
is what appears at another spot
that was filmed:
618
00:33:35,714 --> 00:33:38,181
The Shorty Crater.
619
00:33:38,283 --> 00:33:40,917
SCHMITT: There is orange soil!
620
00:33:41,020 --> 00:33:43,887
CERNAN: Well, don't move it
until I see it.
621
00:33:43,989 --> 00:33:45,956
SCHMITT: It's all over!
622
00:33:46,058 --> 00:33:47,524
Orange!
623
00:33:47,626 --> 00:33:50,594
BARA: In Shorty Crater,
you can see orange soil
624
00:33:50,696 --> 00:33:52,262
that was discovered
at the landing site.
625
00:33:52,364 --> 00:33:54,164
And the reason
the soil was orange was because
626
00:33:54,233 --> 00:33:55,665
it had a great deal
of oxygen in it,
627
00:33:55,768 --> 00:33:57,000
which was kind of a surprise.
628
00:33:57,102 --> 00:33:59,102
But the biggest surprise
629
00:33:59,204 --> 00:34:01,171
is, if you actually
look in the crater,
630
00:34:01,273 --> 00:34:03,473
what you see are objects
that at first
631
00:34:03,575 --> 00:34:05,976
might to the naked eye
appear to be rocks,
632
00:34:06,078 --> 00:34:09,946
but in fact, as you study it
with an engineer's eye,
633
00:34:10,049 --> 00:34:13,183
what you see is mechanisms.
634
00:34:13,285 --> 00:34:15,118
And right in the middle of it,
635
00:34:15,220 --> 00:34:16,553
there's a very
interesting object
636
00:34:16,655 --> 00:34:19,156
that as you zoom up on it,
it begins to look
637
00:34:19,258 --> 00:34:22,926
more and more like a human head.
638
00:34:23,028 --> 00:34:25,362
NARRATOR: Mike BARA
639
00:34:25,464 --> 00:34:27,564
and fellow researcher
Richard Hoagland
640
00:34:27,666 --> 00:34:31,134
obtained early generation
negatives from Shorty Crater,
641
00:34:31,236 --> 00:34:34,371
and upon enhancing the colors
present in the film,
642
00:34:34,473 --> 00:34:37,908
found that the object
appears metallic.
643
00:34:38,010 --> 00:34:40,055
BARA: The most intriguing thing
is that, on the upper part
644
00:34:40,079 --> 00:34:42,112
of the mouth,
there was a bright, distinct
645
00:34:42,214 --> 00:34:44,114
red stripe painted across it.
646
00:34:44,216 --> 00:34:46,216
And it glowed and shone
647
00:34:46,318 --> 00:34:48,285
as if it were metallic.
648
00:34:48,387 --> 00:34:50,420
You then come to the realization
649
00:34:50,522 --> 00:34:52,055
that what you're
probably looking at
650
00:34:52,157 --> 00:34:55,425
is the head
of a humanoid-appearing robot.
651
00:34:55,527 --> 00:34:58,995
The leftovers of an explosion
that damaged and destroyed
652
00:34:59,098 --> 00:35:00,430
a bunch of mechanical stuff.
653
00:35:00,532 --> 00:35:03,400
(indistinct radio transmission)
654
00:35:03,502 --> 00:35:06,403
NARRATOR:
Did NASA really recover
655
00:35:06,505 --> 00:35:08,972
alien artifacts from the moon?
656
00:35:09,074 --> 00:35:12,909
Curiously, on June 30, 1972...
657
00:35:13,011 --> 00:35:16,680
Just 5 months
before the Apollo 17 mission...
658
00:35:16,782 --> 00:35:19,983
Wernher Von Braun
retired from NASA,
659
00:35:20,085 --> 00:35:24,087
frustrated over the direction
the Apollo program was headed.
660
00:35:24,189 --> 00:35:27,023
However,
he continued his efforts
661
00:35:27,126 --> 00:35:29,526
to return to space,
662
00:35:29,628 --> 00:35:32,896
turning to his wealthy and
high-powered friends for help.
663
00:35:32,998 --> 00:35:35,098
But what did he tell them?
664
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,368
Is it possible that there exists
665
00:35:38,470 --> 00:35:40,971
a secret space program?
666
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:53,016
January 22, 2015.
667
00:35:53,118 --> 00:35:55,552
Officials with the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory
668
00:35:55,654 --> 00:35:57,554
announce plans
669
00:35:57,656 --> 00:35:59,055
for the Mars Helicopter...
670
00:35:59,158 --> 00:36:00,957
A drone that will
triple the distance
671
00:36:01,059 --> 00:36:02,959
a rover can explore.
672
00:36:03,061 --> 00:36:06,596
Meanwhile, the privatization
of space exploration
673
00:36:06,698 --> 00:36:11,334
has created
a new $300 billion industry
674
00:36:11,403 --> 00:36:15,005
that may soon surpass
the advancements of NASA.
675
00:36:15,107 --> 00:36:17,607
And there are some
676
00:36:17,676 --> 00:36:19,910
ancient astronaut theorists
who believe
677
00:36:20,012 --> 00:36:22,579
that this private space industry
678
00:36:22,681 --> 00:36:25,482
is the brainchild
of Wernher Von Braun.
679
00:36:27,953 --> 00:36:30,954
Wernher Von Braun had the ear
of seven American presidents,
680
00:36:31,056 --> 00:36:33,256
the top scientists of the world
681
00:36:33,358 --> 00:36:36,993
and many of the world's
industrial leaders.
682
00:36:37,095 --> 00:36:40,230
It's natural that you might
find the links
683
00:36:40,299 --> 00:36:43,900
to the private groups
that have the resources,
684
00:36:44,002 --> 00:36:46,136
the means and the dedication
685
00:36:46,205 --> 00:36:51,074
to develop their own
advanced technology
686
00:36:51,176 --> 00:36:54,411
independent of the governments,
independent of the-the public,
687
00:36:54,479 --> 00:36:57,314
the-the people of the world.
688
00:36:57,382 --> 00:37:01,418
NARRATOR: After retiring
from NASA in 1972,
689
00:37:01,486 --> 00:37:04,054
Wernher Von Braun was invited
690
00:37:04,122 --> 00:37:06,656
to meetings
of the Bohemian Club...
691
00:37:06,758 --> 00:37:09,326
A secretive group
of high-powered men
692
00:37:09,394 --> 00:37:11,962
famous for
their rustic retreats.
693
00:37:12,030 --> 00:37:14,231
But why?
694
00:37:14,299 --> 00:37:16,299
What went on there?
695
00:37:18,203 --> 00:37:21,204
It is rumored that some members
of the Bohemian Club
696
00:37:21,306 --> 00:37:25,575
also belonged to private groups
called "breakaway civilizations"
697
00:37:25,644 --> 00:37:27,844
that have developed
advanced technologies
698
00:37:27,946 --> 00:37:31,514
independent
of world governments.
699
00:37:31,617 --> 00:37:34,851
WILCOCK: I've had insiders
that have told me
700
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,364
that they worked
in this space program,
701
00:37:36,388 --> 00:37:38,521
that we do have
a breakaway civilization
702
00:37:38,624 --> 00:37:40,924
that is extremely advanced.
703
00:37:41,026 --> 00:37:44,060
That we already have
diplomatic relationships
704
00:37:44,162 --> 00:37:45,629
with a variety
of extraterrestrial
705
00:37:45,731 --> 00:37:49,165
species and cultures.
706
00:37:51,003 --> 00:37:52,936
NARRATOR:
Is it possible Von Braun knew
707
00:37:53,005 --> 00:37:55,005
of the existence
of extraterrestrials?
708
00:37:57,476 --> 00:38:01,244
Might his extraordinary
efforts to reach space
709
00:38:01,346 --> 00:38:03,280
have been motivated by a desire
710
00:38:03,382 --> 00:38:07,417
to come in contact
with otherworldly beings?
711
00:38:07,519 --> 00:38:11,021
Could it have been part
of his plan all along
712
00:38:11,089 --> 00:38:13,890
for us to have
a private space industry
713
00:38:13,992 --> 00:38:17,260
that operated in secret?
714
00:38:17,362 --> 00:38:19,562
For the last 60-some years,
715
00:38:19,631 --> 00:38:22,265
we've developed no new
propulsion technologies at all.
716
00:38:22,367 --> 00:38:25,135
And that seems
very, very unlikely.
717
00:38:25,237 --> 00:38:27,671
So the question becomes,
at what point
718
00:38:27,773 --> 00:38:30,440
did NASA actually
develop the next level
719
00:38:30,542 --> 00:38:34,444
of propulsion technology
and maybe take it secret?
720
00:38:37,182 --> 00:38:40,650
NARRATOR: On June 16, 1977,
721
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,687
after a four-year-long battle
with cancer,
722
00:38:43,789 --> 00:38:47,991
65-year-old
Wernher Von Braun died.
723
00:38:48,093 --> 00:38:52,962
His gravestone
contains no epitaph,
724
00:38:53,065 --> 00:38:55,965
simply a reference
to Psalms 19:1...
725
00:38:56,068 --> 00:38:58,968
A biblical passage that reads.
726
00:38:59,071 --> 00:39:01,338
"The heavens declare
the glory of God;
727
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:05,141
The skies proclaim
the work of his hands."
728
00:39:05,243 --> 00:39:08,278
Wernher Von Braun's
bold predictions
729
00:39:08,347 --> 00:39:10,580
that we would put
a man on the moon,
730
00:39:10,682 --> 00:39:13,183
explore Mars
731
00:39:13,251 --> 00:39:15,118
and build a space station
732
00:39:15,220 --> 00:39:17,654
have all come to pass.
733
00:39:17,756 --> 00:39:22,058
But was this
incredible visionary
734
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:26,496
perhaps preparing us
for something even greater?
735
00:39:27,666 --> 00:39:30,367
On January 20, 2015,
736
00:39:30,435 --> 00:39:33,336
President Barack Obama announced
737
00:39:33,438 --> 00:39:36,106
in his State of the Union
address
738
00:39:36,208 --> 00:39:39,142
that the next step for
the United States space program
739
00:39:39,244 --> 00:39:41,111
is a manned mission to Mars.
740
00:39:41,213 --> 00:39:43,079
Last month, we launched
a new spacecraft
741
00:39:43,148 --> 00:39:45,048
as part of a re-energized
space program
742
00:39:45,150 --> 00:39:47,584
that will send
American astronauts to Mars.
743
00:39:47,686 --> 00:39:51,221
NARRATOR: Photographs
taken on Mars have revealed
744
00:39:51,323 --> 00:39:54,991
mysterious formations
that some have interpreted
745
00:39:55,060 --> 00:39:58,194
as man-made structures
like pyramids,
746
00:39:58,296 --> 00:40:01,264
the outline of a sphinx,
747
00:40:01,333 --> 00:40:03,700
and even a carving
of what appears to be
748
00:40:03,769 --> 00:40:07,170
a human-like face.
749
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:09,672
Might life exist
on the Red Planet?
750
00:40:09,775 --> 00:40:12,242
And could it be
751
00:40:12,310 --> 00:40:15,445
that NASA's next mission
isn't to travel there
752
00:40:15,514 --> 00:40:17,547
but to disclose the fact
753
00:40:17,649 --> 00:40:21,284
that we have been there before?
754
00:40:21,386 --> 00:40:23,586
There's no question when you
look at the surface of Mars
755
00:40:23,688 --> 00:40:26,523
that there are ruined
artificial structures there.
756
00:40:26,591 --> 00:40:30,527
There's no question when you
look at photographs of the moon
757
00:40:30,595 --> 00:40:33,630
that there are ruined
artificial structures there.
758
00:40:33,732 --> 00:40:36,599
And it seems very unlikely
that it was just us,
759
00:40:36,668 --> 00:40:38,568
that it was human beings
that built this.
760
00:40:38,670 --> 00:40:42,238
The question becomes,
did NASA go to different places
761
00:40:42,307 --> 00:40:44,207
like the moon and Mars
and find things
762
00:40:44,309 --> 00:40:45,942
that we would all
like to know about
763
00:40:46,044 --> 00:40:49,312
but are being hidden from us?
764
00:40:49,414 --> 00:40:50,947
WILCOCK: What if we actually
765
00:40:51,049 --> 00:40:52,916
are on the moon
766
00:40:53,018 --> 00:40:55,485
and it's all classified?
767
00:40:55,587 --> 00:40:59,489
What if there is a whole
secret infrastructure
768
00:40:59,591 --> 00:41:02,659
and that there is
already a vast amount
769
00:41:02,761 --> 00:41:05,061
of colonization
of the moon, of Mars,
770
00:41:05,130 --> 00:41:08,097
and of other moons
in our solar system as well?
771
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,568
Let's all hope
that the time is coming soon
772
00:41:11,670 --> 00:41:13,636
where we will get disclosure,
773
00:41:13,738 --> 00:41:16,005
where the walls of secrecy
will finally break down,
774
00:41:16,107 --> 00:41:19,042
and we will be told the truth.
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00:41:21,313 --> 00:41:24,047
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the greatest rocket scientist
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00:41:24,115 --> 00:41:26,249
the world has ever known
777
00:41:26,351 --> 00:41:30,420
found his inspiration
not on our world but another?
778
00:41:30,489 --> 00:41:34,591
Could Wernher Von Braun
have been chosen
779
00:41:34,659 --> 00:41:38,194
to propel mankind into space?
780
00:41:38,296 --> 00:41:39,662
And might he have been
responsible
781
00:41:39,764 --> 00:41:43,533
for much more
than we are even aware of?
782
00:41:43,635 --> 00:41:46,369
Perhaps one day soon,
783
00:41:46,471 --> 00:41:50,139
we will realize Von Braun's
full vision for space travel
784
00:41:50,208 --> 00:41:55,011
and finally come face-to-face
with our alien ancestors.
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