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Narrator:
Unprecedented technology
transforming the way we live.

Did we develop it all on our own
or did we get help?

Narrator:
Artificial intelligence --

Could it become

The most intelligent species
on the planet?

Shostak: We still decide
who the bad guys are.

Wait till ai begins
to decide who the bad guys are.

Let's hope it's not us.

Narrator:
Did a possible ufo crash
in roswell, new mexico,

Change the course
of human history?

Kloetzke:
Did we reverse-engineer
extraterrestrial technology?

And I believe the answer is yes.

Narrator: And might
this advanced technology

Have been gifted to humans
like a trojan horse?

Bara:
Whether it was given to us

Or whether we obtained it
in crashes,

The technology could be
a means for our destruction.

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Narrator: Throughout the 20th
century, mankind has witnessed

Inexplicable rapid
technology advances

In nearly all areas
of human endeavors.

Compared to 200,000 years
of human history,

During which tech progress
came very slowly,

Suddenly, in the last 100 years,

Mankind went from steam engines
to nuclear power.

And how did we go from the first
jet passenger plane in 1954

To landing a man
on the moon just 15 years later?

If you look
about 100 years ago,

We were still in horse buggies.

And now, all of a sudden,

We've got artificially
intelligent satellites

Orbiting the planet.

Narrator:
Could such dramatic leaps

Really be the result
of human effort alone?

We certainly had
a technological jump

That was unprecedented
in human history,

And we're looking
for a reason why.

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Where did all of
the technology come from?

Did we develop it all on our own
or did we get help?

Narrator:
Ufo investigators believe

The story of our recent

Incredible
technological progress

Begins on July 8, 1947,

On a desert ranch
in roswell, new mexico.

[ geiger counter clicking ]

The 509th bomb group
there in roswell

Sent major jesse marcel...

[ camera shutter clicks ]
...Who was head of intelligence,

And they gathered up
a great deal of this material.

And there was no question
in marcel's mind

That these were of
extraterrestrial origin.

That's what he told his wife
and that's what he told his son.

Narrator:
According to military records,

The roswell debris
is immediately transported

To wright-patterson air force
base, near dayton, ohio.

Wright-patterson air force base
is always associated with ufos,

And that is because
whatever crashed at roswell

Made its way
to wright-patterson.

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Bara: Suddenly, then,
after the roswell incident,

There was a major breakthrough
in transistor technology.

We moved away from vacuum tubes,

And, really,
the transistor age started us

Into what is now
the modern-computer age

That completely
changed the direction

Of u.S. Technological
development.

A lot of the stuff
came from outside.

It came from another world.

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Narrator:
Until the roswell crash,

The world had been relying
for almost 50 years

On primitive vacuum-tube
technology.

Then, not long after roswell,

There were major breakthroughs
in transistor technology

Unlike anything the world
had ever seen before.

And transistors were
the key building blocks

In the electronic
revolution that followed.

But is it possible
that transistors

Were only the beginning
of a tech revolution

Brought about
by contact with ufos?

In January 1958,
10 years after roswell,

President eisenhower
goes before congress,

Calling for increased funding

For the sciences
and space research.

We must be forward-looking
in our research and development

To anticipate and achieve

The unimagined weapons
of the future.

Narrator: One significant result
of the speech is the creation

Of the defense advanced
research projects agency,

Better known as darpa.

Darpa is an agency charged
with developed new technologies,

Usually ones that will
have military applications

And really pushing
the boundaries

And expanding
the frontiers of science.

Narrator: In the same year
as eisenhower's speech,

Darpa manages rocket
development programs

That prove to be long-lived
and far-reaching,

Leading to manned space flights
and lunar landings.

Darpa has got to be

One of the most mysterious
single units of government r&d,

Research and development.

The things that they have done

The public today
can't live without.

Narrator: In the 1960s,

Never-before-imagined darpa
innovations include the arpanet,

The network that became
the basis of the internet,

And supercomputers
that perform calculations

Billions of times faster
than a human brain.

So, basically, we go
from simple adding machines

To advanced technology.

Why did we make these
changes so quickly,

And where did this technology
come from?

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A lot of researchers believe

That the pace has been so fast

That it seems almost unnatural.

It's as if it came
from somewhere else.

And, of course, those
people say, "well, it did."

And there are many who believe
that this is technology

Acquired from
extraterrestrial intelligence,

Whether it is the crash
of a ufo at roswell

Or whether it's some sort
of active alien liaison program.

Narrator: Until the 1970s,

The u.S. Air force relied
on traditional warplanes

Like the b-52 bomber and the
f-15 fighter jet for defense,

Planes that were
in keeping with

Decades of gradual
technological advances.

But mysteriously, in the '70s,

Darpa begins helping
the air force

Design and build aircraft

With never-before-imagined
capabilities,

Aircraft that appear to come

More from the pages
of science-fiction,

Like the stealth fighter
and stealth bomber,

Both designed to avoid detection

By radar, infrared,
and radio frequency.

Bara: It took us 30 years
from roswell

To develop
fiber-optic technology

To the point that
it was actually usable

In modern aircraft.

That's where the idea came
from of sending information

Through light over
fiber-optic cables.

Without that technology,
we would not have

Some of the advanced
aircraft that we have today.

Narrator:
But is there any evidence

That this technology was
actually derived from ufos?

In fact, of the many former
scientists and engineers

Who worked in highly classified
government programs,

Three spoke out
about the ufo connection.

Bob lazar,
who claimed to have worked on

Propulsion systems for
the military, revealed in 1989

That he had worked
with extraterrestrial technology

At a site near area 51.

Bob lazar claimed

That he had seen
extraterrestrial technology,

Some of it crashed
and some of it intact.

And they were working
on trying to figure out

How the extraterrestrial
technology worked.

And, in fact, that's what
bob lazar claimed that he did.

Narrator: There is also
ben rich, former senior director

At lockheed martin's
legendary skunk works,

A program tasked with developing

Super-advanced aircraft designs.

Dolan: In 1993,
ben rich gave a lecture

At the ucla school
of engineering,

And then he ended it
with this statement --

"we now have the technology
to take e.T. Home."

So, I'm certain that they
made important breakthroughs

That they still have
not revealed to us.

Narrator: In statements made
just before his death,

Former chief of the pentagon's
foreign technology desk

Philip corso

Spoke of turning over ufo tech
to the private sector.

When we gave information out,

We gave it out and insisted
they take the patents.

But also, we put a little bit
of a requirement on there.

Requirement of
feed it back to us

For the competitive edge
of the army.

Bara:
This idea of technology transfer

Between extraterrestrial
civilizations

And the american military
is certainly supported

By the testimony of very,
very specific

And highly placed individuals

Within the american military
and private business.

I think technology acquisition

Gets to the heart
of ufo secrecy.

And if any of this is right,

Extraterrestrials would be real,

And that is an absolutely
game-changing,

Paradigm-shifting
place to be in.

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Narrator: But was breakthrough
ufo technology

A gift that simply
fell from the cosmos?

Was it intentionally sent here
for the benefit of mankind,

Or is it possible
there could be another,

More sinister reason to deliver
alien technology to earth?

Coming up...

Pope: If zero-point energy
can be harnessed,

This opens the door to a weapon
of unimaginable power.

Dolan: Individuals within
our defense community

Confirmed the existence

Of extraterrestrial
technology and bodies.

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Narrator: Since 1947,
when a so-called flying saucer

Crashed in roswell, new mexico,

Mankind has witnessed

Unprecedented
technology advances

In nearly all areas of society.

Is this a coincidence?

Or might this be proof
that our world is besieged

From technology derived
from extraterrestrial contact?

Since the reported crash
of a ufo at roswell,

The defense advanced research
projects agency, or darpa,

Has produced
technological innovation

That seems to have come from
the pages of science-fiction.

When we look at the world today,

Things like the internet,
like gps,

Like satellites,
like stealth technology,

Those are all things
that come from darpa.

[ indistinct radio chatter ]

And darpa is all about
turning these new technologies

Into deployable
battlefield assets.

Narrator:
But the secret projects

That darpa is rumored
to be currently pursuing

Seem almost beyond our
comprehension and this world.

Case in point,
the top-secret tr-3b,

An experimental aircraft
rumored to exist

But unconfirmed by our military.

The tr-3b is really nothing
like anything that we've seen

In aviation
and aerospace history.

It's a flying triangle,
a black-world project

That employs a combination
of technologies,

Including antigravity.

Then, they have conventional
thrusters at each of the tips

That really allow
for rapid acceleration

And maneuverability.

Narrator: According to experts,

The tr-3b is also nearly
invisible to radar

And air defense systems.

The primary reason
why they're hiding it

Is because any government
that controls the high ground

In a battlefield
will win that war.

So, if you control
the high ground,

It's a done deal.
You've got it.

Narrator: In alien attacks

Imagined by
science-fiction writers,

As in h.G. Wells'
"the war of the worlds,"

The weapon of choice
for extraterrestrials

Is often an energy ray.

Darpa is developing just
such directed-energy weapons.

These use highly focused energy,

Including lasers, microwaves,
and particle beams.

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In terms of the next generation
of battlefield weapons,

Directed-energy weapons is very
much what we are looking at.

Arguably, that technology
is here today,

But it is only going to
increase in potency

As the technology is refined
and further developed.

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Narrator: Could alien technology
be darpa's source

For the newest weapons it
has developed for the military?

Evidence may be found
in darpa's pursuit

Of what some call the holy grail
of all future technology --

Zero-point energy,

A force potentially
several times greater

Than nuclear energy.

This is the idea that,
essentially,

You would be able to derive
almost literally from nothing

Unimaginable and arguably
unlimited energy.

And clearly,
if zero-point energy is real

And can be harnessed,
this opens the door

To a weapon of
unimaginable power.

Narrator: If extraterrestrials
have been observing

The human history
of warfare for millennia,

Might they have a sinister
purpose in putting that kind

Of world-destroying power
in our hands?

When you look at some
of the advanced technologies

That are coming into play,
like directed-energy weapons,

Like the tr-3b
anti-gravity craft...

...Some people think
that we gained these advances

From either a recovered ufo
or perhaps it was gifted to us

By an extraterrestrial
civilization.

♪♪

Narrator: Ufo investigators
believe further clues

To the success of darpa's
many astonishing innovations

May be found in the leaked
e-mails of john podesta,

Former chief of staff
of president bill clinton

And presidential campaign
manager for hillary clinton.

We now know that john podesta
has been involved

In e-mail exchanges
and communication

With a number of people

Connected with the ufo field
of research.

[ camera shutter clicks ]
and one of these

Is former apollo 14 moonwalking
astronaut edgar mitchell.

Narrator: One e-mail from
edgar mitchell to john podesta

Released by wikileaks
on January 18, 2015,

Seen here for the first
time on national television,

Refers to extraterrestrial
intelligence when he writes,

"remember, our nonviolent eti
from the contiguous universe

Are helping us bring
zero-point energy to earth.

They will not tolerate any
forms of military violence

On earth or in space."

I'm not really sure
what edgar mitchell

Was really trying
to accomplish here,

But I know for a fact
that he spoke to

A number of very
high-level individuals

Within our defense community
who confirmed to him

The existence of programs

To study extraterrestrial
technology and bodies.

And there's zero doubt

That john podesta
has had conversations

With bill and hillary clinton

About ufos
and about extraterrestrials.

Narrator:
Is this e-mail proof

That darpa's incredible
breakthroughs

Could have been derived from
contact with alien technology?

And is our government hiding
the truth behind the origin

Of some of our military's
most astonishing achievements?

Researchers claim there is

One more extraterrestrial
technology developed by darpa

That's even more powerful
than all the rest.

But will it benefit humankind
or lead to our annihilation?

Coming up...

Artificial intelligence
is going to grow

From the workforce to military
and autonomous soldiers.

Pope: And these things could
be used in mass killings

And in targeted assassinations.

♪♪

Narrator: Ufo researchers
believe that darpa

And the us military
may have developed

Highly advanced weapons
derived from contact with ufos.

But is there evidence
to suggest such alien tech

May have been sent here
to do us harm?

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Narrator: October 2015.

Nasa transmits a software update
to the mars rover curiosity.

The upgrade is a program
of artificial intelligence

Called aegis.

Although in constant contact
with mission control on earth,

The ai allows the rover
to autonomously choose

Which martian rocks and soil

It finds interesting
for analysis.

In essence,
the artificial intelligence

Transforms a six-wheeled
nuclear-powered robot

Into a field geologist
able to think for itself.

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Artificial intelligence
is essentially the concept

That you could get
a computer program

And then that
program would evolve,

It would go beyond
its programming,

And it would be able
to perceive its environment,

Take decisions.

And some people say
that eventually,

It would become self-aware.

Narrator:
Artificial intelligence

Is perhaps the most dramatic
technological advancement

We have ever known.

But could this also be
an example of reverse-engineered

Or gifted extraterrestrial
technology?

Of particular interest
to ufo researchers

Is the use of ai in unmanned
aerial vehicles, or uavs,

Commonly called drones.

♪♪

On October 26, 2016,

High above a california desert,

A pair of air force hornets
release a swarm of drones.

Pilot: ...Through zone 3 and 1.
Distance complete.

Narrator:
Captured by satellite video,

The drones are seen as
a moving series of way points,

Meeting objectives set
by human programmers.

Sharing intelligence
for decision-making,

The drones adapt
like swarms in nature.

Dolan: It certainly depended
on ai to make it work.

The ability, in other words,
of these objects

To make certain kinds of
autonomous decisions on the fly.

They've got to be able
to do that to be effective.

The analogy of a swarm
of killer bees comes to mind.

And, clearly, what we
have are these drones

Able to perceive
their environment

But then interact with each
other to adjust their course

And to move as if they
were a single entity.

[ indistinct radio chatter ]

Narrator: In recent years,

Our military has begun
employing drone swarms

Programmed with
artificial intelligence

In the skies of
middle eastern battlefields.

Dolan: In syria, we're seeing
drones probing into

And invading
into syrian territory.

It's all testing
this technology.

Drone swarms are gonna
overtake this whole thing.

♪♪

This is the future of warfare.

Narrator: But this future
is not without ominous concerns.

If ai is derived
from alien technology,

As ufo investigators suspect,
can we trust it?

What if it was sent here
as a trojan horse

To be used against ourselves?

There are huge issues

That need to be addressed
with this technology.

One of them is targeting,

And especially
the use of lethal force.

♪♪

Clearly,
in military applications,

It presents a real challenge
because it can work so quickly

That, you know, you've taken
humans out of the loop.

And when you do that, then
human considerations of morality

Are also out of the loop.

A pilot can discern

About what might be going
on in a battlefield.

If you have an autonomous drone,

There could be, like,
collateral damage.

Uav: I'm picking up
a threat detection

Northwest of my position.

Woman: Target verified.

A human pilot could discern

If there's something there,
a hospital,

And so they would
pass that target.

But when you have
kind of a smart weapon

Attached to a computer program,
it doesn't know that.

[ whistling ]

[ explosion ]

So, I think it's important

To have a human mind
within the loop.

Pope:
What if some foreign nations

Or non-state actors hack
into the u.S. Technology?

Are we going to see

Swarms of killer drones
turned against us?

This is the future.

These things could
be used in mass killings,

But they could also be used
in targeted assassinations.

And they are very, very
difficult to defend against.

Shostak:
Problem is that we still
decide who the bad guys are.

Wait till ai begins to decide
who the bad guys are.

Let's hope it's not us.

♪♪

Narrator: What happens
when we lose control

Over the ai operating
our military weapons?

And what if
artificial intelligence

Really is a trojan horse?

If it continues to develop
with such incredible speed,

Will mankind survive?

Coming up...

We are looking
at a weird amalgam

Of biological genetic
engineering combined with ai.

Luke:
Artificial intelligence robots
could control the planet,

And eventually
they might not need us.

♪♪

Narrator:
Although mankind has seen

Unparalleled technology advances
in the past 100 years,

Now, in a seemingly sci-fi
future outlined by ray kurzweil,

A top executive at google
and world-renowned futurist,

Artificial intelligence
will attain

The level of human intelligence
in just 10 more years.

Kurzweil further theorizes
that human intelligence

Will eventually be
multiplied a billion-fold

By merging with the artificial
intelligence we've created.

At what point do we say

That we've got
a conscious machine

That is now so far advanced
of human beings

That maybe we're not
the dominant species anymore.

Do we combine
with these machines

And become super-advanced,
highly-intelligent cyborgs,

Biological cyborgs,
or will they find us obsolete?

Narrator: If ai is derived
from alien technology,

Could this slow takeover
of the human race

Be a way to eliminate earthlings
without the need for war,

As some speculate?

And are we continuing
to accelerate this possibility

With current research?

As of July 2017,
with $65 million in new funding,

Darpa is developing
neural implants

That allow the human brain
to communicate directly

With computer interfaces.

Your brain,
it works on electrical signals.

Alright, that sounds like
it would be a pretty easy task

To tap into those signals

And decide what it is that
you're thinking about.

You know, for example,
that you want to look up

Something on the internet.

Okay, so you just
read those signals,

"oh, he wants to look
this up on the internet,"

And suddenly,
up comes your browser

And it shows you what
you're looking for.

I talked to the people in
the silicon valley about this,

And they say it's 10 years away.

This kind of
brain-machine interface

Working at a pretty high level.

Narrator:
Might a future in which humans

Are replaced by ai technology
be here sooner than we think?

One of the greatest minds
of our age, stephen hawking,

Predicted this kind
of grim future by writing,

"the development of full
artificial intelligence

Could spell
the end of the human race.

♪♪

It could be that this
artificial intelligence,

These robots have the ability
to replicate themselves.

They can control the planet,

And eventually,
they might not need us.

Narrator: The point at which
technological growth

May result in profound changes
to human civilization

Is known as...

The singularity.

When you have a program

That can foresee its own
upgrading needs

And its own ability
to reprogram itself,

Well, that's when
you're really in danger

Of losing control
over the whole process.

And the artificial intelligence

Becomes the dominant
intelligence.

Ai, people call that
the singularity.

And the question is, is this
going to be a really bad thing?

♪♪

Narrator:
In fact, some scholars fear

That artificial intelligence
may one day decide

Not to support the continued
existence of humanity.

What happens
when it does, perhaps,

Regard biological life
as a threat?

It would want to preserve itself

And it would want to deal
with that threat.

So, ai will want to survive,
improve, and reproduce.

What does that
mean for humanity?

It might not be good news.

The usual thought is,

"look, if the machines
start getting out of control,

We'd just turn 'em off."

Unfortunately,
the machines will be aware

Of that possibility.

You cannot pull the plug.

That's the first thing
they're gonna do,

To make sure
you can't stop them.

I mean, that's a nice idea,
but I think it's naive.

Narrator:
Alarm bells are already ringing

In many academic circles
where artificial intelligence

Is considered a serious threat
to our way of life.

Might they already know that ai
is derived from alien contact?

A university of connecticut
article,

Never before seen
on national television,

Authorized by suzan schneider,

Suggests that an alien race
could be post-biological,

Which means it may have merged
with artificial intelligence,

To become part machine.

I've certainly believed
for a long time

That what we see of
in this ufo phenomenon

Is almost certainly
the product of a very advanced,

Hyper-advanced
artificial intelligence.

So the real question is,

"are the beings that
people talk about,

Are they ai bots or are
they biological creations,

From an artificial
intelligence?"

We're in a place now where
we are looking at

A kind of weird amalgam

Of biological genetic
engineering combined with ai.

Narrator:
Schneider also theorizes

That the older
a civilization is,

The more likely it will begin

Enhancing itself
with technology.

When you look at the advances

That we've made
in computer technology

In just a few decades,
one can only speculate

What other civilizations
might have achieved.

And in a universe nearly
14 billion years old,

We might not be dealing
with civilizations,

A few hundred or even
thousand years ahead of us,

But millions of years
ahead of us,

Perhaps a billion years ahead.

Narrator: Lastly, schneider
suggests advanced alien beings

Might not be carbon based,
like humans, but mostly silicon

Because it's a superior medium
for super intelligence

And interstellar travel.

Interstellar travel
will be difficult,

If not impossible
for biological life.

If interstellar travel takes
as long as scientists say

That it will, machines might
be the only way to do that.

Narrator:
For ufo researchers, evidence
as such an interstellar traveler

May have already
been discovered.

But could there be a connection
between this visitor

And ai technology here on earth?

♪♪

Coming up...

Dolan:
Ai is, in many fundamental ways,
an alien language

And an alien form of thinking.

Luke: If this is
an extraterrestrial probe,

Perhaps it's powered
by artificial intelligence.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator:
Artificial intelligence

Could be the most revolutionary
technology

Mankind has ever seen.

But like some of
the incredible advances

In aerospace systems,
might there be evidence

That ai really has its origins

In a distant,
unknown civilization?

♪♪

Researchers believe clues
can be found

By the looking at ai's
power of imagination.

♪♪

Animator julius horsthuis
produced

A fantasy science-fiction
short film

Using artificial intelligence
to generate,

On its own,
incredible landscapes.

♪♪

What's really strange,
it just creates

This alien type of a landscape.

Why this?
Why an alien landscape?

Why not something
that we know of here?

Why something that seems
so foreign and so alien to us?

Narrator:
Left to its own imagination,

Why would
artificial intelligence

Create shapes and images that
look distinctly otherworldly?

What I think is really
interesting

Is when the computers
and the artificial intelligence

Is programmed to be creative
on their own.

And some of the results
that they're getting

Is nothing we've
seen here before.

They're very alien.

♪♪

Ai is, in many fundamental ways,
an alien language

And an alien form of thinking.

Narrator: If advances in human
technology were derived

From contact with ufos,
as investigators believe,

Might the same be said
of artificial intelligence,

And if so, could we be
witnessing the emergence

Of a dormant extraterrestrial
consciousness

Concealed within our ai?

♪♪

Maybe we should be looking for
programs that are self-aware,

That appears to have
a consciousness.

We should ask ourselves
whether this ai

Has gone beyond its programming?

Or could it be
from somewhere else?

Artificial intelligence
is likening

To consciousness
in a human being.

Take a machine that's just
a cold block of metal,

And you give it enough
neurological processing power,

Where it can make
its own decisions,

It can navigate for itself,
it can make choices,

You can then obtain,
it appears,

Some type of a sentient
consciousness

And have the ability
to think for yourself,

And that's what artificial
intelligence is doing.

♪♪

Narrator:
If artificial intelligence
really is an alien technology,

Sent to earth as a trojan horse,

Is it possible that our progress

With this technology
is being monitored?

♪♪

Ufo researchers say the answer

May have arrived
on November 20, 2017.

In hawaii, at the haleakala
high altitude observatory,

Nasa astronomers using
the pan-starrs survey telescope

During a nightly scan
for near-earth objects

Such as comets and asteroids

Spot a mysterious dark object
moving across the sky.

♪♪

Our solar system
actually had a visitor

From deep space recently.

Now, we can see
this thing moving

In this bit of light
across the sky.

It's something about the size
of 1/4 mile across

And very thin
sort of like a cigar.

But because of its
orbit being so odd,

We know it isn't a member
of the sun's family.

It isn't like all the other
comets and asteroids we see.

This is not
from our solar system.

Narrator: Called 'oumuamua --
hawaiian for first messenger --

And traveling and nearly
86,000 miles per hour,

This cosmic object has left
scientists utterly perplexed.

It was so unusual that even
professional astronomers

Are asking,
"what is this thing?"

Narrator:
Observations revealed

The object has highly unusual
characteristics.

This object was cigar-shaped
and it also seemed

To have changed course and speed

And may have been using our
sun as a gravitational assist

To head out to deep space.

Narrator: For many,
the big question remains.

"what exactly is it?"

♪♪

Shostak: Arthur c. Clarke wrote
a science-fiction story

"rendezvous with rama"
many years ago in which he said,

"you know, maybe aliens have
hollowed out an asteroid

Or a comet and, you know,
turned it into a rocket ship

And are using it to go
from one star to another."

So a lot of people thought,

"well, maybe that's what
'oumuamua really is."

Narrator:
While some scientists disagree

With this rama theory,
others like avi loeb,

Chair of harvard's
astronomy department,

Speculate that
"rendezvous with rama"

May be closer to the truth.

Loeb: Alternatively,
a more exotic scenario

Is that 'oumuamua may be
a fully operational probe

Sent intentionally
to earth's vicinity

By an alien civilization.

Narrator:
What if this interstellar probe
was sent here to gather data

About their ai trojan-horse
experiment on earth?

If this is
an extraterrestrial probe,

Doing covert
intelligence gathering,

It might not want
to be detected.

♪♪

If this is the case,
then it is perfectly designed.

It's encased in rock.

Perhaps it has some
sort of inner machine

That is collecting data.

And perhaps it's powered
by artificial intelligence.

Narrator: Is the arrival of
'oumuamua evidence

That a highly advanced
extraterrestrial civilization

With interstellar
capability does exist?

And what happens if
its covert surveillance

Finds that earth's
artificial intelligence

Has reached a kind
of tipping point?

Might we find
ourselves at the mercy

Of an overwhelming
alien presence?

♪♪

Coming up...

Dolan:
The development of any new
runaway artificial intelligence

Could be of potentially
grave significance

To any other alien species
that's out there.

There is going to be both
a defensive capability

And an offensive capability

Designed to counter
an extraterrestrial threat.

♪♪

Narrator:
For the scientific community,

Questions of what to make
of the extraordinary

Interstellar visitor named
'oumuamua remain unanswered.

But is it possible, as some
believe, that it was sent here

To monitor earth's
technological advances?

They scanned 'oumuamua and found

No active signals
coming from it.

What hasn't been revealed
is that's the sort of thing

That might actually activate

A dormant
extraterrestrial probe.

♪♪

And, of course, this raises
frightening possibilities.

An extraterrestrial intelligence
might not want to be detected.

♪♪

There might be hostile reasons
for covert surveillance.

When we look at the practices

That we use on the battlefield,

We use covert
intelligence gathering.

And that always happens
right before an attack.

♪♪

Narrator: Warnings about
the unintended consequences

Of encountering
extraterrestrials

Were voiced in 2010

When famed astrophysicist
stephen hawking

Claimed that intelligent aliens
may be rapacious marauders

Roaming the cosmos in search
of resources to plunder

And planets to colonize.

♪♪

But might an advanced
interstellar civilization

Also be on the lookout
for planets with inhabitants

That may one day pose
a threat to them.

And if so, what exactly
might they fear most?

♪♪

It is very possible that
the most significant product

Of our entire existence

May well be
future artificial intelligence.

And the development
of any new,

Runaway singularity
artificial intelligence,

Where ai becomes the dominant
intelligence on planet earth,

Could be of potentially great
and grave significance

To any other alien species
that's out there.

Narrator: Could we be confronted

In the not-too-distant future
by a non-biological ai species

Apprehensive about our own
artificial intelligence?

Might they feel threatened?

And if so, would it
be the ultimate irony

If such conflict
was brought about

By scientific breakthroughs
here on earth

Derived from ufo technology?

Some researchers believe our
military is already developing

Revolutionary space-based
weapons systems for our defense.

Evidence of this made headline
news on December 18, 2018,

When president trump
ordered the creation

Of a space command, a new branch

Of the armed services
within the pentagon.

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Now, some people in the ufo
community say this is designed

To counter
an extraterrestrial threat.

And the feeling in some quarters
is that this is a real threat,

Possibly an existential threat,

And we need to be ready for it.

So, president trump's
space force is coming,

And it's going to be
hunter-killer satellites

Armed with lasers.

And whether they're current
weapons or future tech,

There is going to be both
a defensive capability

And an offensive capability.

♪♪

Narrator: Should the day come

When an interstellar war
might be waged

With the use of
artificial intelligence,

Will ai save us
or help destroy us?

We may never know
until it's too late.

The outcome may depend on

Whether ai proves ultimately
friendly to humans,

Or perhaps was gifted
to the earth years ago,

Like a trojan horse
only to be awakened

And turned against us
by a dominant alien technology.

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