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2004, off California's southern coast, air controllers aboard the U.S. Navy cruiser USS Princeton notice mysterious radar tracks suddenly appearing around the Santa Barbara Channel Islands.

When they pick up a visual, the unidentified objects are behaving in a way that they've never seen before.

The U.S. Navy reports seeing an object with flashing lights moving in a swerving pattern offshore, and there's actually a radar signature for this as well, which suggests it's a real object.

My gosh! They're all going against the wind. The wind's 120 knots from the west.

What do you want to think, dude?

The airspace is very, very strictly controlled, and unless the aircraft can be identified and communication established, it can be very disturbing for a controller.

Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Jim Slate are on a routine training mission with the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group.

It is revealed that the USS Princeton has been tracking the mysterious aircraft for days.

This object hadn't just suddenly appeared.

It had been there for a considerable period of time, and it was observing these military ships.

So, what exactly was going on?

Oh, my gosh, dude. Wow! Look at the plane! Look at the plane!

If an airplane was cruising around in the area that was unidentified, and they couldn't establish communication with the pilot,

then they would scramble interceptors to go out and see, using the eyeballs, what they were dealing with.

The two fighter jets head out to investigate.

As they approach the area, all four naval aviators observe a 12-meter-long, tic-tac-shaped craft hovering and making erratic movements just above the surface of the ocean.

After descending tens of thousands of feet in less than a second, the UFO reappears on radar 97 kilometers away and flying at unimaginably fast velocities before disappearing out of sight.

Fravor would go on record to say he believes that what he saw that day was not from this world.

The object shot away and reappeared 60 miles away in a split second. How was this even possible?

From swarms of unidentified objects stalking military warships, to claims of large, possibly non-human skeletal remains.

These recent encounters represent just a fraction of UFO lore that has been woven into California's history.

With one of the highest numbers of reported UFO sightings of any U.S. state, the question remains, what could be drawing otherworldly visitors here?

All over the world, repeat sightings of UFOs baffle researchers.

UAP are in our airspace, but they are grossly underreported.

A pattern begins to emerge.

These sightings are not rare or isolated, they are routine.

What is the meaning behind these hotspots?

I can't go beyond what I've already stated publicly.

The government is not prepared.

Are we being mapped?

When people think of California, they often picture ethereal mountains, breathtaking ocean vistas, and mystical deserts.

Yet the Golden State also harbors an unsettling connection to the unexplained.

There's no doubt that the state of California is rich in stories and accounts of paranormal experiences, of UFO sightings.

And these are accounts corroborated by government officials, experts, and even scientists.

It is one of the places on Earth that's really a hub for astronomical research.

There are a number of universities there that are all looking to solve some of the greatest mysteries in outer space.

And so today, a lot of really important research is being done there to try and understand our universe better.

That area is sort of primed for people seeing weird things because it's California.

Since 2001, there's been something like 15,000 UFO sightings.

Among these hotspots is a picturesque island nestled in an archipelago located in the Gulf of Santa Catalina, known as Catalina Island.

The Channel Islands is an island archipelago, which is located in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Southern California.

This is really an idyllic, picture-perfect destination.

You've got pristine beaches.

You've got the beautiful flora and fauna and crystalline waters.

But what you also have is a lot of UFO sightings.

Catalina Island's history is rife with odd occurrences that some claim point to evidence of interstellar visitors to the region.

The range of places where there have been UFO sightings in California is simply incredible.

It includes the Mojave Desert, the city of Los Angeles.

One amazing event in UFO history is, of course, the Battle of L.A., which takes place in 1942.

A few hours before dawn, on February 25th, 1942, a truly inexplicable event is about to unfold.

Famously dubbed the Battle of Los Angeles, the incident will endure as one of the most enigmatic chapters in the Golden State's history.

What you have to remember is that the war was on, and the Japanese, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, showed that they could reach further than you would expect because they weren't planning to come back.

And with other things happening, the submarine that had recently been sighted in the area, there's a lot of concerns that the war was going to be brought to mainland U.S.

So there was a heightened alert at the time.

What we know is that a military radar spotted an object about 120 miles west of Los Angeles at 1.30 in the morning on February 25th, 1942.

Fearing that this could signal an unexpected Japanese assault on the west coast of America, the U.S. Army puts its anti-aircraft batteries around the Los Angeles area on high alert.

Just after 2 a.m., a citywide blackout is ordered.

Shortly afterwards, the unidentified target simply vanishes from the radar.

But that doesn't stop the ensuing chaos.

Just after 3 a.m., several accounts from local residents report a large object over Santa Monica airspace, triggering an artillery bombardment as the military lights up the sky over Los Angeles.

Somebody gives the signal to basically start firing, and they start firing their anti-aircraft weapons, guns just blazing away in the night.

The military was shooting at something that they couldn't really see.

They weren't sure that anything was there at all, really.

You have to imagine that the city is experiencing this ear-splitting noise of bombardment by the U.S. military.

But when the smoke clears, there's nothing there.

Nothing's been brought down.

Nothing is in the skies.

There's no enemy.

There's nothing at all.

The story takes an even stranger turn when it's revealed by the authorities that there was perhaps never a threat at all, or at least not one of earthly origin.

It becomes a mystery.

People love mysteries.

People love talking about mysteries and coming up with ideas behind it.

And you get into this mass story that is written together by people that now has focused on maybe it was alien.

It's not until 1947 that the modern era of UFOs kind of begins, and people start seeing flying saucers in the sky.

And so it's years later when people actually connect the battle for L.A. to the UFO phenomenon.

It's fascinating the way that interest in UFOs goes through cycles, peaks, and troughs for whatever reason.

And undoubtedly in the Second World War, it was not primary interest.

But if we fast forward to the 1950s, the 1970s, the 1990s, people are really focused and fixated on the extraterrestrial.

And they begin to look at events not only in the present but in the past, wondering if the real reason for those events was intervention by forces from beyond planet Earth.

Across the nation, research has found a consistent link between areas of military operation and public reports of UFOs.

One popular theory to explain UFO sightings is to connect them to military bases and conflicts.

Yes, a number of military bases in California, I believe it's around 30, 31 or 32, all services, Navy, Marines, Air Force.

Although UFOlogists may be eager to jump to otherworldly explanations, the answer to some of these mysteries could reside not only within the confines of our planet, but even within U.S. borders.

California has 32 military bases.

This means there's going to be a lot of aircraft activity.

And where you have a lot of military bases around, you have the potential for people to interpret new technologies as being UFOs.

In the period before the announcement of the B-2 stealth bomber's existence comes to society, people are actually likely seeing this aircraft and interpreting it as a UFO because they don't have any context for how something in this shape and this color could possibly be man-made.

While it is possible that some of these mysterious circumstances could be explained by the testing of new military technology, other possible theories involve the paranormal and the parascientific.

It has been said that the sightings around these military sites are attributed to these otherworldly beings who are curious about the way we handle our conflicts.

This has been floated as a theory for the Battle of Los Angeles.

Aliens who could travel interstellar distances and survive space being knocked down by some 1942 anti-aircraft guns, if not having any wreckage there to show for it, it's hard to believe it was enemy action.

What caused it?

We won't know.

A lot of the sightings tend to be around military activity.

And one argument has always been that, well, that's because it's actually military activity and you're misrepresenting it.

But some of the other arguments have been put out there is that the aliens are trying to see what capabilities we humans have.

Almost 20 years after the Nimitz encounter with the so-called Tic-Tac UFO, the U.S. government still hasn't provided any explanation.

Let's remember that these reports were coming from trained and experienced fighter pilots and therefore had to be taken a lot more seriously.

Typically, a UFO sighting is made by civilians.

This is very different because we have a number of highly trained professionals who are very used to seeing things in the sky.

That's their job, frankly.

And so to get this kind of very detailed report and physical evidence on radar and otherwise is very unusual.

It just makes it all that much more credible.

One thing that's remarkable about this sighting is that the government very clearly acknowledged that they don't know what this is.

And that's very unusual.

Governments, especially those with UFO investigation units, are very, very hesitant about admitting much of anything, but especially that they simply don't know what's going on.

When the U.S. military went public about the Nimitz incident, they did acknowledge that there was no way that the craft involved that was making all these strange movements and going at great speed, great altitude, could have been something that the Soviet Union or China could have developed at that time.

If this wasn't China, if this wasn't Russia, if this wasn't a U.S. military craft, then what could it have been?

Doesn't leave many options.

What are we talking about with the Nimitz incident?

Very likely, very possibly, a UFO.

In May of 2019, a team of scientists published a paper investigating several UFOs, including the Nimitz encounter.

These sightings reported encounters with aircraft exhibiting impossible flight characteristics.

The paper concluded that these high-profile sightings were down to either being false claims, errors, or from technology that was far more advanced than what we have on Earth.

The authors of the paper suggested that the UFOs and technologies recorded could potentially be of interstellar origin.

The Navy possesses some pretty impressive binoculars and telescopes to see objects at a great distance.

If the Navy did the investigation, I'm kind of surprised that they didn't have a much more detailed explanation as to what exactly they were looking at.

Since the Battle of Los Angeles and the Nimitz encounter, the Channel Islands have remained an area with a startling trend of UFO reports.

In 2019, a further disturbing incident involving UFOs and U.S. warships prompted an investigation involving the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and FBI.

With credible accounts like the Nimitz encounter on record, and countless anecdotal sightings in this UFO hotspot,

The new reports of UFOs hovering and flying near Navy vessels in the Channel Islands were given high priority.

The video footage from the 2019 sightings is a little unique.

There's a couple different kinds.

The first one is a little more conventional.

It's an unidentified craft, of course, with lights on it that make certain movements that might fit in well with the UFO lore.

But there's another video that I find more particularly interesting of some kind of spherical object that is in the air and then descends directly into the water.

And it descends in a way that appears like it's not really trying to hide itself.

Often UFOs are very hard to track, very hard to photograph and take video because of their erratic movements.

But this doesn't quite do that.

It descends pretty uniformly into the water.

The 2019 incident involving the amphibious UFO sparked a sweeping, high-level probe into what was going on.

Unlike the Tic Tac, it wasn't the speed of the craft which intrigued observers.

But rather, its behavioral characteristics.

This is really unusual.

To have a radar signature, to move in an unusual manner, and to descend into the ocean and then not be detected thereafter.

This isn't something that man-made things normally do.

The drone speed at 45 miles an hour, absolutely.

Modern drones can reach those speeds.

As to the range of 100 miles, that is unusual.

That's weird.

If we have really slow-moving devices around military aircraft or even military installations,

the first thing that comes to mind is that it's some type of surveillance.

And, you know, when we think about what foreign bodies or even corporations will want to do,

sometimes for nefarious reasons, sometimes for, you know, bona fide reasons,

is to move aircraft very slow and map the surface of the earth or investigate what's going on at ground level.

It has been posited that some of these unexplained encounters between military and unidentified flying objects could be directly hostile,

rather than simply wayward or observational.

One of the things that we don't always think about when we think about UFOs is that it may simply be foreign technology.

So where we have a UFO, it may just be another country testing a device or even spying.

What comes to my mind is the recent use of balloons by China flying over the US to capture images.

So foreign players, whether they be countries or even corporations,

may be developing and deploying devices that are intended to spy on people around the world.

And some of these devices may be interpreted as being UFOs.

There's no doubt that we can be a very warlike, aggressive, violent species.

And for that reason alone, I think that extraterrestrials will be very interested in studying us,

studying our damaged psyche, trying to work out what it is that makes us so murderous, so awful in certain periods of our history.

About 290 kilometers inland from the Channel Islands lies the town of 29 Palms,

a city in San Bernardino County, California,

which serves as one of the entry points to Joshua Tree National Park and the Mojave Desert.

The stories coming out of the town of 29 Palms are interesting,

I think mostly because of its proximity to the infamous Site Area 51.

And most people who know anything about the UFO literature will recognize that, of course,

as a secret military installation and really the site of all kinds of strange stories,

aliens of various kinds, all kinds of sightings,

all kinds of things that are not explained by conventional phenomenon.

April, 2021.

A mass UFO sighting takes place over a military base in 29 Palms.

More than 50 eyewitnesses observe the 10-minute event,

describing a triangular formation of lights as high as a two-story house.

It hovers over the US Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center for about nine minutes.

But when Marines start firing flares at it,

it disappears just before they get close enough to expose the mysterious craft.

In April 2021, the UFO sighting at 29 Palms is remarkably similar to the 1997 incident in Phoenix.

It looks very similar. It sounds very similar.

The accounts are remarkably similar.

Initially, the US Air Force explained the March 1997 Phoenix lights in Arizona

as flares dropped during a military training exercise.

However, skeptics argue that what they saw did not exhibit the behavior of typical flares.

The sighting at 29 Palms elicits a similar response.

Given that the craft seen at Phoenix in 97 and the one seen at 29 Palms in 2021

seems to be the same craft,

it does suggest that this is an alien craft

that is returning over and over again to the same area

in some kind of surveillance-related activity,

that it's gathering data and information.

When it comes to the vast open landscape of the Mojave Desert,

UFO hotspots appear to extend far beyond the scope of military operations.

Some 56 kilometers northeast of 29 Palms,

in the early morning on February 21, 2000,

a gargantuan boulder splits in two without warning.

Before the incident, the aptly named Giant Rock weighed more than 25,000 tons,

covered 540 square meters,

and was estimated to have been formed some 65 to 136 million years ago.

Really enigmatic structure, Giant Rock.

It's a massive boulder, just unbelievably big.

Dubbed the world's biggest rock,

its claimed association with extraterrestrial activity draws hundreds of people to it every year.

For centuries it's believed to have had some kind of spiritual significance,

but it's something that New Agers in particular have latched onto,

believing that it could be a confluence of ley lines or a vortex,

and that it is emitting some kind of energy.

About three miles away from Giant Rock,

a peculiar white dome rises in the desert,

reminiscent of an alien spaceship.

It is called the Integratron.

It was built to be a time machine that would heal and strengthen humans,

and the story of how it came to be is deeply connected to Giant Rock.

In 1947, an Ohio resident called George Van Tassel decides to go and live next to the Giant Rock.

He's so enthusiastic about it.

He's important to UFO lore for a few reasons.

He's important to the development of the contactee movement,

people who claim not just to see UFOs but to have some kind of contact with them,

whether that was being taken up in the craft and being given secret knowledge

or just having interactions with them on the ground.

Five years after moving to Giant Rock in the early 1950s,

Van Tassel publishes a book called I Wrote a Flying Saucer,

where he describes meeting ten space creatures

who transmitted knowledge to him via telepathy.

He claims that while at Giant Rock, he has seen many alien craft and hitched a ride.

Tassel's claim to fame really is that he was in contact with aliens from Venus,

including an individual called Solganda,

and these aliens were there to share their kind of spiritual knowledge

and scientific knowledge with human beings.

According to Van Tassel, his contact with these extraterrestrials

led him to believe that he was instructed to build what he called a time machine,

and he did so.

He built a very strange-looking structure.

It very much looks like a flying saucer of sorts.

It's this very large white dome in the desert,

and whether or not it works as a time machine,

it certainly was a draw for people coming to hear from Van Tassel

and to try to learn from him.

Van Tassel claimed the machine's design came from a 17-page alien equation,

but his research in creating his masterpiece is actually rooted in science,

implementing ideas from the minds of Nikola Tesla and George Lakovsky.

Van Tassel builds up a cult following because he talks about, you know, from his dreams,

having engaged with aliens and then telling him how to build something,

but the following is from other UFO believers.

The Integraton is the only alien-designed building on Earth.

And the purpose of the Integraton was, as Van Tassel mentions in his book,

I Wrote a Flying Saucer, that through the use of electromagnetic waves

and through electromagnetic radiation, cellular damage could be reversed.

So it's a time machine in the sense that you can actually heal yourself from aging.

That's the purpose of the Integraton.

The Integraton's kind of interesting because it is this dome structure

and that's not a typical construction methodology.

We don't tend to build a lot of domes.

It's also built without any metal,

so it's basically doweled and glued together sections of wood.

It's a very unusual structure, not only in its shape,

but in its methodology of construction.

At the Integraton, there is a geomagnetic anomaly,

basically the Earth's magnetic field is different in this location.

Potentially, if somebody had a sense for geomagnetic fields,

it would feel different in that space.

So when you take the potential for infrasound from the underground rivers,

you take the potential for some geomagnetic anomaly that's sensed by people,

it could definitely give the person a really unworldly feeling that they're really out of their normal element.

Shortly after the giant rock split in two, in 2000,

theories began to circulate about the possible cause and the significance of its geophysical location.

One explanation for why the rock split in 2000

could be some kind of seismic activity, an earthquake, basically,

that the violence of which basically split the rock in two.

There is another view that bonfires that have been set over the years,

possibly even the centuries, around this giant rock,

have over time generated enough heat to cause a fracture to appear all the way through it.

Now, there's a lot of people who don't accept the idea that this huge rock split

because of an earthquake or bonfires,

and they believe that there is a far more credible reason for why it happened.

California, which sits on the Ring of Fire,

is no stranger to unpredictable tectonic activity.

But whilst thoughts inevitably turn to the paranormal

when tremors in the Earth's crust are paired with lights in the sky,

could there be a more straightforward scientific explanation?

August 24th, 2014.

Newsrooms in Napa receive calls from people reporting strange flashes of light in the sky.

A magnitude 6 earthquake hits that morning,

injuring over 170 people and causing severe damage to infrastructure.

While earthquakes aren't uncommon in a state living in constant fear of the big one,

the mysterious lights seen in the sky were baffling to many.

If earthquake lights are a thing, you would expect them in areas of higher geologic activity.

When we talk about something like the Ring of Fire,

which is the entire area of high geologic activity all the way around the Pacific Ocean.

That is an area that has a lot of earthquakes, has a lot of volcanoes, has a lot of tectonic movement.

So if you're going to see them, that's where you're going to see them.

They have been dubbed earthquake lights, and scientists are still working on fully understanding them.

Earthquake lights is definitely a phenomenon that people supposedly have observed.

There may even be some video evidence of it.

But it's one of those phenomena that are very rare and very difficult to study.

While the Earth's surface in California is often rattled by seismic tremors,

could delving deeper into its depths reveal clues about the origin stories of supposed interstellar visitors?

Throughout the history of North America,

legends have proliferated about abnormally large or even giant prehistoric humans.

For a long time, people have believed that there were a race of giant humans in the past.

And to support this, there have been bones discovered that seem to indicate the one-time existence of these giants on planet Earth.

And that includes bones discovered in California.

The theory that giants inhabited the Earth is a very popular and prevalent theory.

Catalina Island is one of the places where people have tried to uncover evidence to support this idea that giants once walked the Earth.

In the early 1900s, an archaeologist called Ralph Gliddens found the bones of a human being

that was about seven to eight feet tall on Catalina Island.

Gliddens went on to claim that there had once been a race of very tall, blonde and blue-eyed giants living on Catalina Island.

The concept that links this evidence of giants to extraterrestrials is the hollow Earth theory,

which takes believers deep beneath the Earth's surface to a supposed subterranean world concealed from our everyday reality.

It is suggested by its proponents that the hollow Earth is home to advanced civilizations that have established hidden societies within our Earth's interior.

The idea of the hollow Earth is basically that the surface of the Earth is not the only occupied area of the planet,

that the inside of the Earth is not dense rock.

It is hollow and there are ancient civilizations which inhabit the interior of this hollow Earth.

This race that exists way down below the Earth under our feet is known as the Lemurians.

There are different variations on the history of the Lemurians,

but they lived on a kind of continent-sized land called Lemuria,

which was destroyed in some kind of conflict.

and then the Lemurians went underground.

They went below the surface to protect themselves,

possibly in the area of Mount Shasta.

There have been journalists writing on this as recently as 2011,

really pushing the idea that this could be real and merits further exploration.

Although hollow Earthers believe that the majority of entry points into the underworld

are located at the Earth's polar extremes.

They claim that there are a multitude of alternate portals scattered across the globe.

Catalina Island among them.

These are people not without means.

They have access to extraterrestrial intelligence,

which provides them with all kinds of technology.

So the UFOs that we see are not necessarily extraterrestrial.

we are told they are ultra-terrestrial, which means from within the Earth.

Tales of alien societies and international portals hidden deep beneath the Earth

aren't limited to coastal California.

1,100 kilometers from the Channel Islands lies Mount Shasta,

an imposing volcanic peak in Northern California,

which has long stood as a beacon of mysticism and spiritual fascination.

Revered by indigenous peoples for centuries,

it has become a focal point for seekers of the supernatural and extraterrestrial.

Mount Shasta is a stratovolcano, part of the Cascade Range,

and it is something which is very striking.

But it's also a place of high strangeness

because it has so many stories and so much lore attached to it

of people living in the mountains without contact with society,

of lost treasure, of UFOs routinely being seen in the area.

And it draws your attention and your focus toward it.

Mount Shasta is a hotspot for alleged UFO sightings and activity.

In 2008, five people witnessed what they described as a jellyfish-like craft,

with what appears to be a fire raging inside of it,

hovering silently over a nearby neighborhood.

Lifelong resident Dick Carey told the Mount Shasta Herald,

I really don't believe in flying saucers,

but I do know that something weird is happening here.

Mount Shasta is a kind of like a zoo of UFO phenomena.

Every type of UFO has been seen there.

The black triangles have been seen there.

The burning orbs have been seen there.

And also the flying saucers.

Flying saucers are drawn to Mount Shasta.

In February, 2020, a slew of well-documented reports came in of a strange object

hovering over the potentially active 4,200-meter volcano peak.

Experts were quick to jump on an explanation for this particular sighting.

A lenticular cloud, they claimed, is often shaped like a lentil or a UFO,

and have spawned UFO reports for decades.

Might this then have been the apparition seen hovering above Shasta in early 2020?

Lenticular clouds are formed as air moves over a solid object

or moves between an area of high density and low density.

You'll have air moving along towards a mountain,

and it might be sitting just below 100% humidity.

And when it hits a mountain, it's what we call orographic lift,

and it instantly condenses, and then begins on the other side,

it drops back down again.

So you get a little wave.

And what's really neat is you'll have the cloud form around the top of the mountain,

but then if you go further downstream,

you'll actually get more lenticular clouds downstream of the mountain.

Lenticular clouds quite literally look like motherships.

Like, when you see them, you go like, that's a UFO.

That is absolutely a UFO because they'll quite often be round.

The edges will be perfectly smooth.

You'll sometimes have multiple layers of these perfectly smooth shelves,

and this is not what people expect clouds to look like.

While the explanation is straightforward for some,

for others, nothing could dissuade them that what they'd seen

was not from this earth.

That the US Forest Service was forced to put out a statement

denying its extraterrestrial origins.

But many remain convinced that Mount Shasta is a portal to another dimension.

Mount Shasta is seen as a kind of entry point to the Lemurian world,

and they are down there possibly making contact over our heads

with the extraterrestrial universe.

The theories are rooted in part in the mountain's complex geology.

Its lush forests conceal hidden caves and underground labyrinths,

which some believe are inhabited by an ancient race of otherworldly beings.

Mount Shasta is kind of interesting because it has these kind of shape-shifting properties.

Basically, because of the natural elements and erosion of ice

and movement of water and debris,

the mountain actually changes appearance periodically.

Basically, we've had erosion and loss of material on one side

and a build-up of ice and snow and material and debris on the other side,

which has given the visual impression that the entire mountain

has shifted its position within the landscape itself.

In 2009, a mysterious hole about 5 meters wide and 18 meters deep

suddenly appeared out of nowhere on Mount Shasta's side.

Despite its impressive size, the hole appears to have been dug out by hand overnight

using a simple pulley system to remove the dirt.

Of course, the natural question to ask if a hole just suddenly appears on the side of a mountain is,

how did it get there? Unfortunately, nobody really knows.

There are many theories, as there usually are with these kinds of things,

but nobody has a clear answer to this.

And it's strange given that it's a full 15 feet across, about 60 feet deep.

It's a pretty sizable hole for really no explanation to give any credence to it.

The tales surrounding Mount Shasta, including the existence of Lemurians in its hidden depths,

exist largely within the realms of folklore and personal belief,

rather than any established science.

The idea is basically that, again, it comes back to Hollow Earth, right?

That underneath Mount Shasta, one can gain access to the lost continent of Lemuria.

Just as Atlantis is supposed to have been a civilization that is kind of lost,

Lemuria is another civilization that is supposed to have also been lost,

and Mount Shasta is the last, one of the last remaining doorways, entrances to the continent of Lemuria.

In more extreme versions of the theory,

Mount Shasta has been linked to the idea of a human-alien secret breeding program

that is going on beneath Mount Shasta, deep underground.

A mere 110 kilometers from Mount Shasta, a team of researchers is scouring the skies

for scientific proof that humanity is not alone in the universe.

The Allen Telescope Array is a group of telescopes that are being used to search for signals in outer space,

and in particular for SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Life.

So much of the work that's being done by SETI is combing through copious amounts of data, radio signals,

searching, for example, patterns in the data that could not possibly be produced by just random noise.

And those patterns might indicate evidence of life.

Space isn't quiet. Not in the radio.

And so, as scientists from SETI listen to outer space,

they are constantly collecting data and that data has noise.

And so even if they see something, a blip, something that might look interesting,

they have to keep listening because if intelligent life is producing it,

we would expect to see it repeated over time.

One of the most challenging things about this work is we don't know exactly what we're looking for.

It's a bit like a needle in a haystack.

While the primary objective of SETI is to search for signals from extraterrestrial intelligence,

detecting any signs of interstellar activity of any kind would be of monumental significance.

If alien life forms do exist and are indeed visiting the planet we call home,

it's not only a question of why, but why now and why here?

California, it turns out, may be a perfect place for aliens.

There is enormous mineral wealth.

There is, of course, a lot of military bases.

And California is just generally a fascinating place.

And if there's a part of the planet that aliens are going to be interested in,

well, I suggest that California will be that place.

Another thing that might draw a UFO or extraterrestrials to California in particular are nuclear power plants.

There seems to be some relationship between UFO sightings and nuclear power plants.

People have spotted these around them, especially around times of meltdown or disaster.

I don't think it's actually that surprising that if UFOs are real,

that they would be surveilling those sites.

They would be gold mines for information, frankly, of how we think about ourselves

and what we're trying to achieve with our nations or with the world in general,

and especially the destructive capacity that we're capable of.

I am skeptical of alien traffic that enters our atmosphere of any description unless they've discovered a new kind of physics.

Entering our atmosphere is not an easy thing to do, and it would be noticed.

To date, I think there's probably an explanation for any sighting that can't be explained either by the naked eye or by a physical identification.

To date, SETI has not detected any confirmed examples of signals from extraterrestrial life.

But given the sheer opportunities for life that exist out in the universe, even within our own Milky Way galaxy,

I still feel like it's an incredibly important thing to keep listening.

And I would not be surprised if potentially, even within my own lifetime, we do detect something.

You can barely see the dead eye.

You can never see the dead eye.

You are hidden and I will not be surprised if you know what what not.

The sun is filled with knowledge.

The moon is filled with the eyes.

The sun is filled with the eyes and your eyes.

You won't be surprised if the sun is filled with the eyes.

That's what we see on the moon is filled with the eye.

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