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NARRATOR: Festering disease.
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MILTON WAINWRIGHT, PH.D.:
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Everything was going on okay one
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minute, and then all of a
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sudden, people are kind of
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rotting in front of you.
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NARRATOR: Raging pestilence.
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RICHARD RADER: The civilized
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world went out the window.
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NARRATOR: And death of almost
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unspeakable agony.
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GEORGE NOORY: Are we the
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laboratory of the universe?
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NARRATOR: But what if the
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source of all this very human
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suffering has a strangely
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non-human origin?
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JEFFREY GALPIN, MD: It would
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be narrow-minded to accept
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viruses wouldn't occur in other
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planets around the universe.
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PHILIP COPPENS: Is there
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somebody who has the technology
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to actually send things to
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Earth, and are part of
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intergalactic warfare?
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GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: To suggest
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that ETs would come here and
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annihilate us in the way we see
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it in the movies... why go
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through all the trouble when all
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you have to do...
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is release a toxin into the air?
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NARRATOR: Millions of people
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around the world believe we have
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been visited in the past by
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extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really help
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to shape our history?
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And could they even be the
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source of our deadliest
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epidemics?
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NARRATOR: Portugal.
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October 13, 1917.
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During what had been a bright
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and cloudless day...
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(booming thunder)
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...the skies suddenly turned
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dark and foreboding.
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For those who were there to
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witness it, their world was
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about to turn upside down.
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Three children had claimed to
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see what they believed was the
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Virgin Mary.
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She promised to give the people
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a sign from God.
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CHRIS PITTMAN: Perhaps as
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many as 100,000 people watched
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as the sun seemed to change into
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an opaque spinning disc in the
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sky.
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PHILIP IMBROGNO: During those
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manifestations, the children
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were told that God was very,
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very angry with the world, and
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that there would be punishment.
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NARRATOR: The incident near
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the small village of Fatima was
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labeled a miracle by some, and
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a hoax by others.
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But to ancient astronaut
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theorists, the event is
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considered an extraterrestrial
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encounter.
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COPPENS: In Fatima, we see
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mysterious events happening.
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But we do not really know
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whether we are dealing with a
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religious phenomenon, or whether
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we are dealing with an
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extraterrestrial UFO kind of
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phenomenon.
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We know that the apparition
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didn't really identify herself
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as who she was.
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It's within the context of
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religion that she is named the
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Virgin Mary.
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The question is, if she's not
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the Virgin Mary, then who is
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she?
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NARRATOR: Perhaps even more
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bizarre is the fact that less
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than one year after the event,
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an estimated 50 million people
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were dead, victims of the worst
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plague in recorded history.
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Could this deadly pandemic,
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known as the Spanish influenza,
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have been somehow connected to
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the incidents at Fatima?
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DAVID CHILDRESS: it's quite
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possible that many of the
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plagues really occurred because
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alien beings came here and
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brought with them microbes and
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bacteria and diseases.
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NARRATOR: Disease has been
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responsible for more deaths than
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every war in human history
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combined.
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And right from the start, we
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have looked for an answer...
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in the heavens.
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ADRIENNE MAYOR, PH.D.: In
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antiquity, when pestilence or
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plague would strike, it was very
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mysterious and frightening.
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(thunder rumbling)
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Of course, people did try to
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explain it.
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The easiest way to imagine
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disease was like a shower coming
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down from the sky, perhaps sent
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by an angry or wrathful god.
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RADER: In the mythological
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imagination, plagues were always
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the result of the gods being
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angry or upset with us.
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(wind whistling)
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NARRATOR: Examples abound in
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the ancient world of diseases
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being linked to the gods.
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In ancient Egypt, the god of
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disease was called Seth.
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And the Hittites called their
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plague god lrra.
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MAYOR: The name means "fire"
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or "burning..."
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...and this was their way of
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explaining raging fevers
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that were something like
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wildfires sweeping through
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the land.
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RADER: There was a
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conception of plague as a
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physical ailment, something that
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attacks the body, but lots of
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physical ailments were conceived
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of as the result of supernatural
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intervention.
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NARRATOR: The ancient Chinese
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also connected plagues and
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diseases to the supernatural,
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and took it one step further.
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They kept meticulous records
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about when there were outbreaks
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of disease and actual
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celestial events.
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WILLIAM BRAMLEY: They
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connected reports of unusual
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comets, things that we today
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would call UFOs, to outbreaks
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of plague.
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So this has been universal.
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It's not just been a few places.
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It's not just been a few
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plagues.
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It's actually been very
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consistent throughout history.
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CHANDRA WICKRAMASINGHE,
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PH.D.: So many different ancient
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cultures right across the world
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had this point of view that
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plagues were caused by things
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that happened in the skies.
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(wind whistling)
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NARRATOR: Greece. 430 B.C.
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Athens is at war with Sparta.
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The battles are brutal and
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bloody.
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But the war casualties pale in
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comparison to the scenes
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of horror...
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when plague descends
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on the people.
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GALPIN: They were thirsty
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beyond thirst.
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They turned red.
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They vomited.
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They had terrible diarrhea.
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Their fingers, at times, turned
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black.
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RADER: Graves are being
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stacked with 12 to 15 bodies,
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and when that fails, they're
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just simply left onto the
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street... dead, putrid,
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decomposing bodies all over the
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city, thousands of people.
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NARRATOR: But was the Plague
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of Athens some biological
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consequence of the war?
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Or something else?
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Something... not of this Earth?
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(whirring)
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RADER: The civilized world
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went out the window as soon as
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this plague hit.
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You can certainly correlate
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plagues, epidemics, disease with
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the decline and fall of various
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empires.
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NARRATOR: As far as the
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ancient Greeks were concerned,
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the plague was very likely a
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curse from the gods.
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NOORY: The wrath of God could
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very well have been the wrath of
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ETs who wanted to control us,
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manipulate us, change us.
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And they did so in a very
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deliberate, evil way.
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(people screaming)
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NARRATOR: In the middle of
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the sixth century, another virus
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nearly succeeded in wiping out
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most of humanity...
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the Justinian Plague.
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GALPIN: There aren't really
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good records back then of how
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many millions of people died,
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but a significant percentage of
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the world died.
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WAINWRIGHT: You know,
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everything was going on okay one
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minute, and then all of a
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sudden, people are kind of
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rotting in front of you.
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Wow. Where has this come from?
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NARRATOR: Like the Plague
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of Athens, the Justinian Plague
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was accompanied by multiple
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reports...
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of strange sightings in the sky.
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IMBROGNO: People reported
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seeing strange objects in the
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sky... that they called "glowing
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gold shields," and visions of
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bronze ships in the sky and
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headless creatures.
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TSOUKALOS: And whenever
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these events took place...
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in the middle of daylight,
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by the way... people fell ill.
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And something would be witnessed
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again, up in the sky, and there
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would be another outbreak.
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NARRATOR: According to
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modern-day astronomers, at the
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time of the Justinian Plague,
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there was an unusually high
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concentration of
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cosmic activity.
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WICKRAMASINGHE: Islamic
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literature of the day was very
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clear in stating that the skies
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were darkened on many occasions
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and people were frightened by
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meteor storms and comets
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impacting the Earth.
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There's also direct evidence,
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I think, from a subject called
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dendrochronology... thicknesses
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of tree rings... an indication of
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the amount of light that we
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receive during the summer
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months.
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For the period from 530 to 550,
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or thereabouts... A.D... we find
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that the tree-ring thicknesses
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almost vanish...
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showing that the skies were
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really darkened.
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That's, again, consistent with
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comets breaking up, meteors
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breaking up in the sky.
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So one has to then speculate if
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these dust particles that were
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darkening the skies also
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contained viruses and bacteria.
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COPPENS: ls there somewhere,
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out there in deep space, where
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somebody has the technology to
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actually send over things to
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Earth, so that what looks to be
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a normal mechanism of delivery,
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actually becomes a very
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high-tech method of delivery,
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and we have no idea that we are
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part of an intergalactic
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warfare.
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(explosion)
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NARRATOR: The connection
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between deadly plagues and
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phenomena in the sky appears
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frequently throughout
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ancient histories.
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Most scientists today call it
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superstition.
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3,000 years ago, they called
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it fact.
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But might an ancient sculpture
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discovered in 19th century
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Egypt prove that our ancestors
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knew more than we give them
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credit for?
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NARRATOR: Naqada, Egypt.
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1897.
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A treasure trove of ancient
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artifacts sees the light of day
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after being entombed for 6,000
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years.
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Among the findings is this
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statue of what looks like a
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bearded man.
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It is dubbed "MacGregor Man,"
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for the Reverend William
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MacGregor, in whose antiquities
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collection it once resided.
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TSOUKALOS: In Egyptology,
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this ancient statue is referred
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to as "the bearded man."
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However, if you look a little
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bit closer, you can see that
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what he's wearing on his head,
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and what extends from his chin,
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is not necessarily a beard, but
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it looks like a skullcap.
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His entire body seems to be
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inside some type of an overall,
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some type of a suit, because
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even where his cuffs are, there
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is no shirt opening.
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No matter from what angle, it
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looks like a guy inside a hazmat
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suit.
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NARRATOR: Other figures found
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at Naqada also have pointed
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beards that extend from the
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chin, but without any hood.
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Adding to the mystery is the
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fact that Naqada was believed
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to be the ancestral home of
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Seth, the Egyptian god of
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plague.
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PITTMAN: We don't know
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whether these things were
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depictions of some kind of
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realistic apparatus that was
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used to protect perhaps
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extraterrestrials from very
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dangerous chemicals, diseases
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that they were spreading across
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humanity.
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BILL BIRNES: if you were an
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extraterrestrial visitor, you'd
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wear something to protect
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yourself from the bacteria and
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the viruses that were rampant.
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That's one reason for the hazmat
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suits.
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Another reason would be not to
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protect yourself, but to protect
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the population you were
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visiting.
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TSOUKALOS: Whatever the
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Bearded Man wears around his
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hips, to me looks more like some
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type of a technological
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device than what Egyptology
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suggests.
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Egyptology suggests that he is
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wearing a penis sheath.
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Now, to me, it is clear that
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whatever is attached to his
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front of his belly is anything
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but a penis sheath.
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Is it possible that this is a
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carving of a potential
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extraterrestrial?
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NARRATOR: But among
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antiquities, Macgregor Man
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is not alone.
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Throughout the world, there are
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scores of ancient carvings and
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figurines that seem to depict
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otherworldly creatures in what
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some claim is astronaut-type
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clothing.
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ERICH VON DANIKEN: Central
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America is full of these suits.
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You really have beings chiseled
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in stone which have helmets on.
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Out of the helmet you have
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something like a trunk coming
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up, and in some cases you see,
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on the shoulder of the helmet,
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something like a tank.
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NARRATOR: But strange
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depictions of cloaked figures
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wearing what appear to be
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breathing apparatuses aren't
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limited to the ancient world.
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In 1347, ships full of Italian
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sailors died suddenly... after
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being covered in oozing black
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boils filled with blood and pus.
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The disease spread rapidly
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throughout Europe... and soon
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had a name... the Black Plague.
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JONATHAN YOUNG: The Black
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Plague was widely seen as an
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act of God for the sinfulness
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of the people.
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(thunder crashes)
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WAINWRIGHT: What you get is
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a slow, lingering, painful
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death.
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And, uh, that's what...
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(chuckles) is nasty.
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And it completely decimates
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populations.
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NARRATOR: Within five years,
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this previously unknown
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disease had wiped out nearly
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one-third of Europe...
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the equivalent, in today's
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numbers, of more than
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300 million dead.
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And just like previous
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epidemics, the outbreaks of
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plague were accompanied by
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sightings of strange aerial
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phenomena.
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IMBROGNO: People saw strange
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bronze ships spreading a mist
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around the entire area, and
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shortly after that, people began
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to become very sick and die.
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NARRATOR: Bronze ships,
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just like those reported
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during the Justinian Plague
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800 years earlier.
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But what natural phenomenon
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could appear in the sky that
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would fit such a description?
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And what was the mysterious mist
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that people saw floating down
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from the sky?
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IMBROGNO: if you ask a
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historian today, they would say
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that they were hallucinating
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because of the illness.
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But how do you get thousands of
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people hallucinating the same
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thing?
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NARRATOR: One of these
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supposed hallucinations featured
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reports of mysterious cloaked
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figures spraying mist on the
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ground.
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It was this report that gave
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rise to rumors of a black-hooded
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messenger of death, later known
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as the Grim Reaper.
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PITTMAN: In one case, the
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chronicle recounts a group of
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men mowing down wheat, and their
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scythes were making, uh, loud
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swishing sounds, but not
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actually cutting down crops.
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We can imagine that maybe what
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was perceived in medieval times
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as scythes, making swishing
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sounds, were perhaps some kind
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of wand shooting some kind of
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aerosol into the air, that was a
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pathogen that made so many
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people sick.
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IMBROGNO: People reported a
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number of strange beings that
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would spray onto the wheat, and
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shortly after that, the Black
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Death occurred.
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And maybe our idea of the Reaper
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was extraterrestrial in origin.
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NARRATOR: Mysterious plagues
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accompanied by extraterrestrial
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sightings.
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And gruesome deaths preceded by
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ominous apparitions.
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But were those strange metallic
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objects seen in the skies over
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Europe really misunderstood
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cosmic events... like meteors and
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comets... as most mainstream
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scientists believe?
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TSOUKALOS: In 1731, there
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were UFO sightings over England,
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Ireland and Romania, and they
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predated the worldwide flu
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epidemic of 1732.
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IMBROGNO: People saw a red
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object in the sky, and at times,
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this object generated so much
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heat that people had to take off
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their shirts.
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I mean, they were just glowing
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up there in the sky.
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Later on, a plague broke out.
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BRAMLEY: What people called
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comets back in those days,
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we would not call comets today,
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because anything that moved in
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the sky that was unusual, that
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was bright, they would call a
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comet.
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For example, in the Chronicle
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of Marvels. by Conrad
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Lycosthenes, which was published
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in the 1500s, he talked about a
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comet that was seen in Arabia in
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the 1400s.
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But when you look at the
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woodcut, it looks like a
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rocket ship.
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(engines roaring)
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NARRATOR: But if alien
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invaders really have been coming
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to Earth and spreading disease
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and plague over the centuries,
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why?
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To kill us?
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To strengthen us?
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Or is it simply to reduce our
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numbers?
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NOORY: Why would you drop a
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virus down on this planet?
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Are you trying to build up our
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immune system?
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Are you trying to wipe us out?
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Are we the laboratory of the
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universe?
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"Let's see if this bug wipes out
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this civilization in order to
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protect ourselves."
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All possibilities.
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NARRATOR: if
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extraterrestrials do have a
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sinister agenda, why not just
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attack our planet with a weapon
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of mass destruction?
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TSOUKALOS: Why go through
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that trouble if all you have to
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do is release a toxin into the
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air, a plague, some type of
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virus?
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It's way more efficient.
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NARRATOR: But there is
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another theory.
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One more incredible than tales
577
00:21:45,637 --> 00:21:47,105
of bronze spaceships and grim
578
00:21:47,172 --> 00:21:48,834
reapers.
579
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Because it is a theory so simple
580
00:21:51,576 --> 00:21:54,740
and so potentially devastating,
581
00:21:54,813 --> 00:21:56,577
it has mainstream scientists
582
00:21:56,648 --> 00:21:58,014
scratching their heads and
583
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running for cover.
584
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(wind whistling)
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NARRATOR: 1540.
586
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The Rio Grande Valley.
587
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When Francisco Coronado and the
588
00:22:13,332 --> 00:22:16,359
Spanish first explored the area
589
00:22:16,435 --> 00:22:19,098
that is now New Mexico, they
590
00:22:19,171 --> 00:22:21,106
brought with them a devastating
591
00:22:21,173 --> 00:22:22,505
weapon they did not even realize
592
00:22:22,574 --> 00:22:25,100
was part of their arsenal...
593
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disease.
594
00:22:26,912 --> 00:22:30,280
Smallpox, chicken pox, and
595
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measles spread through the
596
00:22:32,517 --> 00:22:34,179
indigenous peoples far faster
597
00:22:34,252 --> 00:22:35,550
than the Conquistadores
598
00:22:35,620 --> 00:22:37,111
themselves could actually
599
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travel.
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MICHAEL B.A. OLDSTONE, M.D.:
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Viruses and bacteria have caused
602
00:22:42,527 --> 00:22:44,120
severe plagues that have really
603
00:22:44,196 --> 00:22:46,961
changed the course of history.
604
00:22:47,032 --> 00:22:48,796
So when the Conquistadores came
605
00:22:48,867 --> 00:22:50,358
over to the New World, they
606
00:22:50,435 --> 00:22:52,301
inadvertently carried smallpox.
607
00:22:52,371 --> 00:22:53,805
They were immune to it, but the
608
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Native Americans had never seen
609
00:22:55,540 --> 00:22:57,372
smallpox, and they were
610
00:22:57,442 --> 00:22:58,774
devastated.
611
00:22:58,844 --> 00:23:00,972
That led to the Conquistadores,
612
00:23:01,046 --> 00:23:03,242
with 900 or so soldiers, who
613
00:23:03,315 --> 00:23:04,647
were able to destroy the Aztec
614
00:23:04,716 --> 00:23:05,877
Empire.
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COPPENS: Hundreds of
616
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thousands of people, maybe even
617
00:23:08,620 --> 00:23:10,486
a million or more people, died
618
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simply because they were exposed
619
00:23:12,224 --> 00:23:14,750
to the viruses of the white man.
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NARRATOR: The native
621
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populations in the American
622
00:23:19,231 --> 00:23:21,166
Northeast suffered a similar
623
00:23:21,233 --> 00:23:23,327
fate when the European colonists
624
00:23:23,402 --> 00:23:26,395
first arrived on their shores.
625
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The islands of the South Pacific
626
00:23:28,907 --> 00:23:30,341
also had their populations
627
00:23:30,409 --> 00:23:32,173
decimated by Captain James Cook
628
00:23:32,244 --> 00:23:34,179
and his crew.
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GALPIN: Are we like these
630
00:23:35,514 --> 00:23:37,574
other places, where if we get
631
00:23:37,649 --> 00:23:39,515
something we haven't seen
632
00:23:39,584 --> 00:23:41,917
before, could it wipe us out too
633
00:23:41,987 --> 00:23:45,185
quickly for us to react?
634
00:23:45,257 --> 00:23:47,920
The War of the Worlds was a
635
00:23:47,993 --> 00:23:49,256
beautiful story in the sense
636
00:23:49,327 --> 00:23:51,262
that, at the very end, the
637
00:23:51,329 --> 00:23:53,525
common cold killed the aliens.
638
00:23:53,598 --> 00:23:54,878
Because it's too hard to believe
639
00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:56,060
the other thing could happen,
640
00:23:56,067 --> 00:23:57,501
that the alien sneezed on us,
641
00:23:57,569 --> 00:23:58,832
and they didn't have to do
642
00:23:58,904 --> 00:24:00,270
anything more than that.
643
00:24:00,338 --> 00:24:03,206
Why is that any more farfetched?
644
00:24:03,275 --> 00:24:04,538
NARRATOR: For many ancient
645
00:24:04,609 --> 00:24:05,975
astronaut theorists, the
646
00:24:06,044 --> 00:24:08,275
possibility of alien diseases
647
00:24:08,346 --> 00:24:10,281
being transmitted in much the
648
00:24:10,348 --> 00:24:11,372
same way is a distinct
649
00:24:11,450 --> 00:24:13,385
possibility.
650
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NOORY: My take is, if we've
651
00:24:14,886 --> 00:24:16,479
had diseases since the beginning
652
00:24:16,555 --> 00:24:19,047
of time, and we've had
653
00:24:19,124 --> 00:24:22,060
visitations, it's very possible
654
00:24:22,127 --> 00:24:23,220
that they accidentally brought
655
00:24:23,295 --> 00:24:25,560
these diseases to us.
656
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NARRATOR: Here on Earth,
657
00:24:27,466 --> 00:24:29,401
viruses often thrive in new
658
00:24:29,468 --> 00:24:31,232
environments.
659
00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:32,669
Could the same be true of
660
00:24:32,737 --> 00:24:34,638
viruses entering our planet from
661
00:24:34,706 --> 00:24:36,402
another world?
662
00:24:36,475 --> 00:24:39,309
And if extraterrestrial viruses
663
00:24:39,377 --> 00:24:42,245
do exist, could they survive the
664
00:24:42,314 --> 00:24:46,251
interstellar journey to Earth?
665
00:24:46,318 --> 00:24:48,310
Many scientists believe the
666
00:24:48,386 --> 00:24:50,321
answer can be found in
667
00:24:50,388 --> 00:24:51,509
microscopic organisms called
668
00:24:51,556 --> 00:24:54,048
extremophiles.
669
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WAINWRIGHT: An extremophile
670
00:24:56,061 --> 00:24:57,757
is an organism that can survive
671
00:24:57,829 --> 00:24:59,161
extreme conditions... high
672
00:24:59,231 --> 00:25:00,096
temperatures, low temperatures,
673
00:25:00,165 --> 00:25:01,258
high pressure, low pressure and
674
00:25:01,333 --> 00:25:03,268
so on.
675
00:25:03,335 --> 00:25:05,361
Now of course, the term is based
676
00:25:05,437 --> 00:25:07,997
on humans, what we find extreme.
677
00:25:08,073 --> 00:25:09,353
But from its perspective, we are
678
00:25:09,407 --> 00:25:10,534
extremophiles.
679
00:25:10,609 --> 00:25:11,838
You know, we live in oxygen,
680
00:25:11,910 --> 00:25:13,037
which is poisonous to this
681
00:25:13,111 --> 00:25:14,340
anaerobic organism.
682
00:25:14,412 --> 00:25:15,607
So if it was studying us, it
683
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,273
would say, "Hey, them humans are
684
00:25:17,349 --> 00:25:17,782
amazing extremophiles.
685
00:25:17,849 --> 00:25:19,784
They can breathe oxygen."
686
00:25:19,851 --> 00:25:21,012
SARA SEAGER, PH.D.: Life has
687
00:25:21,086 --> 00:25:22,281
been found in almost every
688
00:25:22,354 --> 00:25:23,788
single environment on Earth.
689
00:25:23,855 --> 00:25:25,517
And this is so exciting, because
690
00:25:25,590 --> 00:25:26,523
other planets have conditions
691
00:25:26,591 --> 00:25:27,559
very different from Earth's.
692
00:25:27,626 --> 00:25:29,060
And it gives us hope that if
693
00:25:29,127 --> 00:25:31,028
life can exist on almost any
694
00:25:31,096 --> 00:25:32,336
single condition on Earth, that
695
00:25:32,364 --> 00:25:33,354
it can also live on another
696
00:25:33,431 --> 00:25:36,697
planet.
697
00:25:36,768 --> 00:25:38,896
NARRATOR: Space.
698
00:25:38,970 --> 00:25:40,962
2007.
699
00:25:41,039 --> 00:25:42,701
A bacteria-ridden chunk of rock
700
00:25:42,774 --> 00:25:45,141
is strapped to the outside of
701
00:25:45,210 --> 00:25:47,475
the international Space Station.
702
00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:49,811
After 18 months in the hostile
703
00:25:49,881 --> 00:25:52,146
environment of space, the rock
704
00:25:52,217 --> 00:25:53,378
is retrieved.
705
00:25:53,451 --> 00:25:54,451
SEAGER: And one colony of
706
00:25:54,519 --> 00:25:56,112
bacteria actually survived.
707
00:25:56,187 --> 00:25:57,450
And the international Space
708
00:25:57,522 --> 00:25:58,722
Station is in low Earth orbit.
709
00:25:58,723 --> 00:25:59,884
It's going into orbit day and
710
00:25:59,958 --> 00:26:00,891
orbit night.
711
00:26:00,959 --> 00:26:02,427
It has wild temperature swings.
712
00:26:02,494 --> 00:26:03,826
It gets cosmic radiation, and
713
00:26:03,895 --> 00:26:05,830
the vacuum of space, and the
714
00:26:05,897 --> 00:26:08,423
life still survived.
715
00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:10,162
NARRATOR: Though many
716
00:26:10,235 --> 00:26:12,830
scientists still reject the idea
717
00:26:12,904 --> 00:26:14,839
of microscopic forms of life
718
00:26:14,906 --> 00:26:18,001
existing in space, even NASA
719
00:26:18,076 --> 00:26:19,510
takes great precautions in
720
00:26:19,578 --> 00:26:21,740
protecting people from any
721
00:26:21,813 --> 00:26:24,578
potential alien contamination.
722
00:26:24,649 --> 00:26:25,582
IMBROGNO: When the
723
00:26:25,650 --> 00:26:26,583
astronauts went to the moon,
724
00:26:26,651 --> 00:26:28,847
they were in two weeks of
725
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,015
isolation, because the idea of
726
00:26:32,090 --> 00:26:34,787
dormant viruses on our moon's
727
00:26:34,859 --> 00:26:37,124
surface was taken very
728
00:26:37,195 --> 00:26:38,629
seriously.
729
00:26:38,697 --> 00:26:39,926
BIRNES: In the same way
730
00:26:39,998 --> 00:26:41,796
that ancient aliens might have
731
00:26:41,866 --> 00:26:43,630
come to planet Earth in hazmat
732
00:26:43,702 --> 00:26:45,466
suits to protect themselves,
733
00:26:45,537 --> 00:26:48,166
and us, from contamination,
734
00:26:48,239 --> 00:26:49,502
so NASA does that
735
00:26:49,574 --> 00:26:51,941
very thing today.
736
00:26:52,010 --> 00:26:54,946
NARRATOR: In 2006 and 2008,
737
00:26:55,013 --> 00:26:57,278
biologists on board separate
738
00:26:57,349 --> 00:26:59,113
space shuttle missions made
739
00:26:59,184 --> 00:27:02,120
a frightening discovery.
740
00:27:02,187 --> 00:27:04,383
Salmonella bacteria exposed to
741
00:27:04,456 --> 00:27:06,550
zero gravity actually got
742
00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:09,720
deadlier by as much as 700%.
743
00:27:09,794 --> 00:27:10,727
WICKRAMASINGHE: it's
744
00:27:10,795 --> 00:27:12,730
interesting that what they found
745
00:27:12,797 --> 00:27:14,390
was that, at zero gravity, there
746
00:27:14,466 --> 00:27:16,458
were mutations in the culture
747
00:27:16,534 --> 00:27:18,969
that led to a huge increase in
748
00:27:19,037 --> 00:27:20,835
virulence of the salmonella
749
00:27:20,905 --> 00:27:22,567
super bug.
750
00:27:22,641 --> 00:27:24,007
They do the best in terms of
751
00:27:24,075 --> 00:27:26,135
their mission to self-replicate
752
00:27:26,211 --> 00:27:28,146
under zero gravity.
753
00:27:28,213 --> 00:27:29,453
To me, it is another indication
754
00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:31,746
that bacteria are space
755
00:27:31,816 --> 00:27:35,253
travelers.
756
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:36,441
BRAMLEY: What you have is
757
00:27:36,488 --> 00:27:38,684
this risk that if you are
758
00:27:38,757 --> 00:27:41,818
bringing in viruses or elements
759
00:27:41,893 --> 00:27:44,089
from outer space, it could
760
00:27:44,162 --> 00:27:46,188
become a much more deadly form
761
00:27:46,264 --> 00:27:47,755
of that same germ than if it
762
00:27:47,832 --> 00:27:49,994
had developed on Earth.
763
00:27:50,068 --> 00:27:51,058
NARRATOR: The ability of
764
00:27:51,136 --> 00:27:52,832
viruses to evolve and mutate
765
00:27:52,904 --> 00:27:54,998
at an incredibly rapid rate was
766
00:27:55,073 --> 00:27:56,905
also at the root of the
767
00:27:56,975 --> 00:27:59,240
deadliest pandemic in recorded
768
00:27:59,310 --> 00:28:01,541
history... the same one that
769
00:28:01,613 --> 00:28:03,047
followed the Fatima event in
770
00:28:03,114 --> 00:28:06,710
Portugal: the Spanish influenza.
771
00:28:06,785 --> 00:28:07,985
GALPIN: We don't know where
772
00:28:08,019 --> 00:28:09,112
it came, why it left.
773
00:28:09,187 --> 00:28:11,452
It made World War I look puny.
774
00:28:11,523 --> 00:28:13,549
No weapons, cost of armaments,
775
00:28:13,625 --> 00:28:15,287
nobody had to raise the level
776
00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:16,953
for defense.
777
00:28:17,028 --> 00:28:19,623
It killed with little effort.
778
00:28:19,698 --> 00:28:21,291
LAN LIPKIN: Thinking in terms
779
00:28:21,366 --> 00:28:22,857
of today's numbers, the 50 to
780
00:28:22,934 --> 00:28:24,300
100 million people who died
781
00:28:24,369 --> 00:28:26,133
during the course of that
782
00:28:26,204 --> 00:28:28,298
outbreak would represent perhaps
783
00:28:28,373 --> 00:28:29,636
300 to 400 million in today's
784
00:28:29,708 --> 00:28:31,472
terms.
785
00:28:31,543 --> 00:28:32,476
WAINWRIGHT: it was a normal
786
00:28:32,544 --> 00:28:33,705
influenza, but it changed.
787
00:28:33,778 --> 00:28:35,041
It was mutated.
788
00:28:35,113 --> 00:28:36,638
We had a pandemic flu that was
789
00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:37,739
killing young people.
790
00:28:37,816 --> 00:28:38,977
They were dropping dead like
791
00:28:39,050 --> 00:28:42,487
flies.
792
00:28:42,554 --> 00:28:43,514
BRAMLEY: Scientists more
793
00:28:43,555 --> 00:28:44,488
recently have come up with this
794
00:28:44,556 --> 00:28:45,489
theory that, yeah, it must've
795
00:28:45,557 --> 00:28:47,890
come from space.
796
00:28:47,959 --> 00:28:49,587
It opens the possibility that
797
00:28:49,661 --> 00:28:51,323
there is a UFO connection.
798
00:28:51,396 --> 00:28:53,490
Perhaps they are managing us in
799
00:28:53,565 --> 00:28:56,091
a very brutal fashion.
800
00:28:56,167 --> 00:28:57,328
NARRATOR: The Spanish
801
00:28:57,402 --> 00:28:59,496
influenza eventually
802
00:28:59,571 --> 00:29:00,937
disappeared just as quickly as
803
00:29:01,005 --> 00:29:02,871
it had arrived, fading away
804
00:29:02,941 --> 00:29:04,933
completely just a year later in
805
00:29:05,009 --> 00:29:07,444
1919.
806
00:29:07,512 --> 00:29:09,105
Scientists believe it had
807
00:29:09,180 --> 00:29:11,513
mutated to the point it was
808
00:29:11,583 --> 00:29:15,543
no longer harmful to humans.
809
00:29:15,620 --> 00:29:17,452
But how did this incredibly
810
00:29:17,522 --> 00:29:19,184
deadly virus strike
811
00:29:19,257 --> 00:29:21,283
simultaneously all over the
812
00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:22,884
globe?
813
00:29:22,961 --> 00:29:24,793
Could it have had any connection
814
00:29:24,863 --> 00:29:27,799
to the strange events at Fatima,
815
00:29:27,866 --> 00:29:29,528
and the dire predictions
816
00:29:29,601 --> 00:29:31,797
communicated to three children,
817
00:29:31,870 --> 00:29:34,066
supposedly from a heavenly,
818
00:29:34,139 --> 00:29:36,301
or what some would call an
819
00:29:36,374 --> 00:29:44,374
extraterrestrial, source?
820
00:29:45,150 --> 00:29:50,555
NARRATOR: September 15, 2007.
821
00:29:50,622 --> 00:29:52,750
Residents of Carancas, Peru,
822
00:29:52,824 --> 00:29:54,918
watch in fascination as a
823
00:29:54,993 --> 00:29:57,258
gigantic fireball streaks across
824
00:29:57,328 --> 00:29:58,819
the sky.
825
00:29:58,897 --> 00:30:00,889
There is a loud explosion...
826
00:30:00,965 --> 00:30:02,433
(explosion thunders)
827
00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:04,093
...and a crash that shakes the
828
00:30:04,169 --> 00:30:07,833
ground violently.
829
00:30:07,906 --> 00:30:09,772
Something large and mysterious
830
00:30:09,841 --> 00:30:12,242
has fallen to Earth, causing a
831
00:30:12,310 --> 00:30:14,336
crater that scatters debris for
832
00:30:14,412 --> 00:30:15,778
nearly a mile in every
833
00:30:15,847 --> 00:30:19,909
direction.
834
00:30:19,984 --> 00:30:22,783
Fascination turns to fear when,
835
00:30:22,854 --> 00:30:24,447
just a few days later,
836
00:30:24,522 --> 00:30:26,514
hundreds of people become
837
00:30:26,591 --> 00:30:28,787
strangely and violently ill.
838
00:30:28,860 --> 00:30:30,294
PITTMAN: An extraterrestrial
839
00:30:30,361 --> 00:30:32,296
fireball impacted the grounds
840
00:30:32,363 --> 00:30:34,298
near Carancas in Peru.
841
00:30:34,365 --> 00:30:36,800
This impact sickened a great
842
00:30:36,868 --> 00:30:42,535
many people in that area.
843
00:30:42,607 --> 00:30:43,973
CHILDRESS: That was never
844
00:30:44,042 --> 00:30:45,977
explained by authorities, who
845
00:30:46,044 --> 00:30:47,979
couldn't really have an answer
846
00:30:48,046 --> 00:30:51,539
for why a meteorite strike would
847
00:30:51,616 --> 00:30:52,879
cause all these people
848
00:30:52,951 --> 00:30:54,214
to get sick.
849
00:30:54,285 --> 00:30:55,878
Meteorites are thought to be
850
00:30:55,954 --> 00:30:58,446
very clean and without bacteria
851
00:30:58,523 --> 00:31:01,550
or noxious gases.
852
00:31:01,626 --> 00:31:02,821
NARRATOR: Does this event
853
00:31:02,894 --> 00:31:05,159
suggest that microbes and other
854
00:31:05,230 --> 00:31:07,825
living organisms, not of this
855
00:31:07,899 --> 00:31:09,993
Earth, exist elsewhere in
856
00:31:10,068 --> 00:31:13,061
the universe?
857
00:31:13,137 --> 00:31:13,897
GALPIN: it would be
858
00:31:13,905 --> 00:31:15,066
narrow-minded to accept that all
859
00:31:15,139 --> 00:31:16,835
of our trillions of bacteria
860
00:31:16,908 --> 00:31:18,171
and viruses are so unique,
861
00:31:18,243 --> 00:31:19,836
since they occur everywhere in
862
00:31:19,911 --> 00:31:20,970
every part of this world,
863
00:31:21,045 --> 00:31:22,013
that they wouldn't occur
864
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:23,412
in other planets and other
865
00:31:23,481 --> 00:31:30,354
systems around the universe.
866
00:31:30,421 --> 00:31:31,184
NARRATOR: The Stardust
867
00:31:31,256 --> 00:31:33,987
mission.
868
00:31:34,058 --> 00:31:34,558
2006.
869
00:31:38,429 --> 00:31:40,022
A NASA spacecraft plunges
870
00:31:40,098 --> 00:31:41,532
through the tail of comet
871
00:31:41,599 --> 00:31:45,331
81P-Wild...
872
00:31:45,403 --> 00:31:46,996
collecting comet particles on
873
00:31:47,071 --> 00:31:49,006
blocks of a sticky material
874
00:31:49,073 --> 00:31:53,443
called aerogel.
875
00:31:53,511 --> 00:31:55,776
The findings stun even the most
876
00:31:55,847 --> 00:31:58,783
cynical scientists.
877
00:31:58,850 --> 00:31:59,771
SEAGER: The Stardust
878
00:31:59,817 --> 00:32:01,285
detector came back to Earth,
879
00:32:01,352 --> 00:32:02,877
the particles collected were
880
00:32:02,954 --> 00:32:04,889
studied in detail, and many
881
00:32:04,956 --> 00:32:06,891
organic compounds were found,
882
00:32:06,958 --> 00:32:08,392
including the amino acid
883
00:32:08,459 --> 00:32:10,394
glycine, which is a building
884
00:32:10,461 --> 00:32:14,956
block for life.
885
00:32:15,033 --> 00:32:16,228
NARRATOR: Might asteroids
886
00:32:16,301 --> 00:32:18,236
and meteors really be the
887
00:32:18,303 --> 00:32:19,896
delivery system for alien
888
00:32:19,971 --> 00:32:21,200
microbes and other
889
00:32:21,272 --> 00:32:26,404
extraterrestrial life-forms?
890
00:32:26,477 --> 00:32:28,912
Could strange germs and deadly
891
00:32:28,980 --> 00:32:30,573
diseases be the result of
892
00:32:30,648 --> 00:32:34,915
biological hitchhikers in space?
893
00:32:34,986 --> 00:32:36,079
WICKRAMASINGHE: if you look
894
00:32:36,154 --> 00:32:39,716
at the historical records...
895
00:32:39,791 --> 00:32:41,919
plagues come suddenly,
896
00:32:41,993 --> 00:32:44,394
from almost nowhere.
897
00:32:44,462 --> 00:32:45,589
So I think comets are the
898
00:32:45,663 --> 00:32:48,656
natural carriers that one could
899
00:32:48,733 --> 00:32:51,828
look to as being the source of
900
00:32:51,903 --> 00:32:55,237
these epidemics.
901
00:32:55,306 --> 00:32:57,070
Comets were feared by almost all
902
00:32:57,141 --> 00:33:00,805
ancient civilizations...
903
00:33:00,878 --> 00:33:02,176
as bringers of pestilence and
904
00:33:02,246 --> 00:33:03,942
death.
905
00:33:04,015 --> 00:33:05,074
But were they really primitive
906
00:33:05,149 --> 00:33:08,950
superstitions?
907
00:33:09,020 --> 00:33:11,182
NARRATOR: In the 1960's,
908
00:33:11,255 --> 00:33:13,281
Nobel Laureate Harold Urey
909
00:33:13,358 --> 00:33:15,589
developed a new field of science
910
00:33:15,660 --> 00:33:17,959
called cosmochemistry.
911
00:33:18,029 --> 00:33:20,294
He theorized that meteorites
912
00:33:20,365 --> 00:33:21,958
contained the fossilized remains
913
00:33:22,033 --> 00:33:24,798
of space bacteria.
914
00:33:24,869 --> 00:33:25,962
WICKRAMASINGHE: it was
915
00:33:26,037 --> 00:33:28,529
dismissed almost instantly by
916
00:33:28,606 --> 00:33:30,973
a huge establishment of American
917
00:33:31,042 --> 00:33:33,978
meteoritic scientists.
918
00:33:34,045 --> 00:33:35,980
There's no way, they argued,
919
00:33:36,047 --> 00:33:37,481
that life could be inside a
920
00:33:37,548 --> 00:33:40,484
comet, and so it was sort of...
921
00:33:40,551 --> 00:33:47,549
essentially swept under the rug.
922
00:33:47,625 --> 00:33:50,390
NARRATOR: In 1996, NASA
923
00:33:50,461 --> 00:33:53,056
researchers, led by David McKay
924
00:33:53,131 --> 00:33:54,724
of the Johnson Space Center,
925
00:33:54,799 --> 00:33:56,563
announced that another space
926
00:33:56,634 --> 00:33:58,728
rock found in Antarctica...
927
00:33:58,803 --> 00:34:02,331
meteorite ALH84001...
928
00:34:02,407 --> 00:34:03,670
contained the fossilized
929
00:34:03,741 --> 00:34:06,802
remains of life on Mars.
930
00:34:06,878 --> 00:34:08,471
PRESIDENT CLINTON: it must be
931
00:34:08,546 --> 00:34:10,640
confirmed by other scientists,
932
00:34:10,715 --> 00:34:13,810
but clearly, the fact that
933
00:34:13,885 --> 00:34:15,148
something of this magnitude is
934
00:34:15,219 --> 00:34:17,347
being explored is another
935
00:34:17,422 --> 00:34:19,482
vindication of America's space
936
00:34:19,557 --> 00:34:21,321
program and our continuing
937
00:34:21,392 --> 00:34:23,190
support for it, even in these
938
00:34:23,261 --> 00:34:28,029
tough financial times.
939
00:34:28,099 --> 00:34:29,259
NARRATOR: Even as recently
940
00:34:29,267 --> 00:34:32,362
as March of 2011, NASA scientist
941
00:34:32,437 --> 00:34:34,372
Richard Hoover published
942
00:34:34,439 --> 00:34:36,032
evidence of life found in
943
00:34:36,107 --> 00:34:37,871
meteorites.
944
00:34:37,942 --> 00:34:38,875
WICKRAMASINGHE: Richard
945
00:34:38,943 --> 00:34:40,605
Hoover found really stunning
946
00:34:40,678 --> 00:34:43,876
images of microscopic organisms
947
00:34:43,948 --> 00:34:48,215
resembling modern organisms.
948
00:34:48,286 --> 00:34:50,346
This was published in March of
949
00:34:50,421 --> 00:34:53,414
2011 in the Journal of
950
00:34:53,491 --> 00:34:55,960
Cosmology, and it's caused the
951
00:34:56,027 --> 00:34:58,360
biggest rumpus in science that I
952
00:34:58,429 --> 00:35:02,059
recall in my entire career.
953
00:35:02,133 --> 00:35:03,726
High officials of NASA were
954
00:35:03,801 --> 00:35:05,463
livid, because here was this guy
955
00:35:05,536 --> 00:35:07,402
at Marshall Space Flight Center
956
00:35:07,472 --> 00:35:10,067
trying to overturn a paradigm.
957
00:35:10,141 --> 00:35:11,803
BIRNES: if alien bacteria
958
00:35:11,876 --> 00:35:13,742
has entered the Earth's
959
00:35:13,811 --> 00:35:15,074
atmosphere, could it have been
960
00:35:15,146 --> 00:35:16,739
sent here deliberately?
961
00:35:16,814 --> 00:35:18,248
Well, the answer is yes.
962
00:35:18,316 --> 00:35:19,579
If they were trying to invade
963
00:35:19,650 --> 00:35:21,551
a planet, they would do it by
964
00:35:21,619 --> 00:35:23,417
putting their own bacteria on
965
00:35:23,488 --> 00:35:26,390
pieces of rock and making sure
966
00:35:26,457 --> 00:35:28,392
that landed on planet Earth, and
967
00:35:28,459 --> 00:35:30,394
in so doing, create a series of
968
00:35:30,461 --> 00:35:32,089
violent epidemics that would
969
00:35:32,163 --> 00:35:33,256
wipe out the planet's
970
00:35:33,331 --> 00:35:34,079
population.
971
00:35:39,737 --> 00:35:41,763
NARRATOR: Kerala, lndia.
972
00:35:41,839 --> 00:35:44,741
2001.
973
00:35:44,809 --> 00:35:48,109
A cosmic bang...
974
00:35:48,179 --> 00:35:49,738
a massive explosion in
975
00:35:49,814 --> 00:35:51,510
the atmosphere, and then...
976
00:35:51,582 --> 00:35:53,642
(thunder cracks)
977
00:35:53,718 --> 00:35:57,746
...a downpour of red rain.
978
00:35:57,822 --> 00:35:59,688
It is eerily reminiscent of
979
00:35:59,757 --> 00:36:02,124
ancient myths and stories about
980
00:36:02,193 --> 00:36:05,527
blood coming down from the sky.
981
00:36:05,596 --> 00:36:07,462
Homer writes in The Iliad about
982
00:36:07,532 --> 00:36:09,467
a blood rain foreshadowing
983
00:36:09,534 --> 00:36:12,129
slaughter in battle.
984
00:36:12,203 --> 00:36:14,195
Gregory of Tours witnessed a
985
00:36:14,272 --> 00:36:16,138
blood rain before the outbreak
986
00:36:16,207 --> 00:36:19,803
of the Justinian Plague.
987
00:36:19,877 --> 00:36:22,142
And in 14th century Germany,
988
00:36:22,213 --> 00:36:23,374
a shower of blood reportedly
989
00:36:23,447 --> 00:36:25,382
preceded the Black Death.
990
00:36:25,449 --> 00:36:27,816
RADER: it is like the human
991
00:36:27,885 --> 00:36:30,150
world seeing the effect of the
992
00:36:30,221 --> 00:36:32,156
immortal world.
993
00:36:32,223 --> 00:36:33,816
The gods are so affected by our
994
00:36:33,891 --> 00:36:35,792
lives that they are willing to
995
00:36:35,860 --> 00:36:37,658
change the laws of the physical
996
00:36:37,728 --> 00:36:39,162
world so that something we
997
00:36:39,230 --> 00:36:40,789
experience as rain, in fact,
998
00:36:40,865 --> 00:36:44,825
comes down as blood.
999
00:36:44,902 --> 00:36:46,666
NARRATOR: After the incident
1000
00:36:46,737 --> 00:36:49,571
in Kerala, biologist Dr. Godfrey
1001
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,235
Louis is able to collect samples
1002
00:36:52,310 --> 00:36:53,471
of the strange red liquid.
1003
00:36:53,544 --> 00:36:54,784
WICKRAMASINGHE: He collected
1004
00:36:54,812 --> 00:36:56,747
the rain as clean as possible,
1005
00:36:56,814 --> 00:36:58,976
and it was discovered that they
1006
00:36:59,050 --> 00:37:01,918
contained cells that looked like
1007
00:37:01,986 --> 00:37:04,182
living cells.
1008
00:37:04,255 --> 00:37:06,349
WAINWRIGHT: So it's some kind
1009
00:37:06,424 --> 00:37:07,585
of organism.
1010
00:37:07,658 --> 00:37:08,682
Now where's it come from?
1011
00:37:08,759 --> 00:37:09,852
Does it come from space or does
1012
00:37:09,927 --> 00:37:10,687
it come from Earth?
1013
00:37:10,728 --> 00:37:12,663
This is the big question.
1014
00:37:12,730 --> 00:37:13,663
Because, of course, the
1015
00:37:13,731 --> 00:37:15,199
meteorite bang immediately puts
1016
00:37:15,266 --> 00:37:18,498
it into the realms of mystery,
1017
00:37:18,569 --> 00:37:21,198
space.
1018
00:37:21,272 --> 00:37:23,366
NARRATOR: To date, there have
1019
00:37:23,441 --> 00:37:25,774
been no verifiable reports of
1020
00:37:25,843 --> 00:37:27,209
illness connected with the blood
1021
00:37:27,278 --> 00:37:31,875
rain in Kerala... but if meteors
1022
00:37:31,949 --> 00:37:33,349
and other falling objects from
1023
00:37:33,417 --> 00:37:36,444
space really do contain deadly
1024
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,513
bacteria, is it simply an
1025
00:37:39,590 --> 00:37:42,219
accident...
1026
00:37:42,293 --> 00:37:43,886
or is it possible that what
1027
00:37:43,961 --> 00:37:45,896
we think of as natural
1028
00:37:45,963 --> 00:37:48,523
phenomena are really part of
1029
00:37:48,599 --> 00:37:51,797
another, perhaps more insidious
1030
00:37:51,869 --> 00:37:52,369
plan?
1031
00:37:56,407 --> 00:37:58,672
NARRATOR: In 2001, Mary
1032
00:37:58,743 --> 00:38:00,939
Leitao, a former hospital lab
1033
00:38:01,012 --> 00:38:03,538
technician in Boston, discovers
1034
00:38:03,614 --> 00:38:05,378
red, blue, black, and white
1035
00:38:05,449 --> 00:38:08,078
fibers in sores under her
1036
00:38:08,152 --> 00:38:12,783
two-year-old son's lip.
1037
00:38:12,857 --> 00:38:14,792
Eight different doctors are
1038
00:38:14,859 --> 00:38:16,953
unable to find any disease,
1039
00:38:17,028 --> 00:38:19,623
allergy, or anything unusual
1040
00:38:19,697 --> 00:38:21,290
that might be causing her son's
1041
00:38:21,365 --> 00:38:23,800
condition.
1042
00:38:23,868 --> 00:38:25,928
Today this condition has a
1043
00:38:26,003 --> 00:38:29,963
name... Morgellons disease...
1044
00:38:30,041 --> 00:38:31,304
and according to the Morgellons
1045
00:38:31,375 --> 00:38:33,310
Research Foundation, it has
1046
00:38:33,377 --> 00:38:35,312
affected more than 12,000
1047
00:38:35,379 --> 00:38:38,110
families from all 50 states and
1048
00:38:38,182 --> 00:38:40,310
15 other countries.
1049
00:38:40,384 --> 00:38:42,444
CLIFF MICKELSON: No one knows
1050
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:43,783
what Morgellons is.
1051
00:38:43,854 --> 00:38:46,153
It appears to be a brand-new
1052
00:38:46,223 --> 00:38:47,987
arrival on the medical scene.
1053
00:38:48,059 --> 00:38:50,324
To have Morgellons disease is to
1054
00:38:50,394 --> 00:38:51,953
live a waking nightmare without
1055
00:38:52,029 --> 00:38:52,962
end.
1056
00:38:53,030 --> 00:38:54,151
RANDY WYMORE: To the best of
1057
00:38:54,165 --> 00:38:55,155
my knowledge there have been no
1058
00:38:55,232 --> 00:38:56,666
cures of Morgellons, and I think
1059
00:38:56,734 --> 00:38:57,934
partly that's because we don't
1060
00:38:58,002 --> 00:38:59,994
know what the cause is.
1061
00:39:00,071 --> 00:39:01,334
A physician who's trying to
1062
00:39:01,405 --> 00:39:03,431
treat a patient with Morgellons
1063
00:39:03,507 --> 00:39:04,747
is pretty much just shooting in
1064
00:39:04,809 --> 00:39:06,744
the dark.
1065
00:39:06,811 --> 00:39:08,575
NARRATOR: Sufferers of the
1066
00:39:08,646 --> 00:39:10,911
mysterious disease complain of
1067
00:39:10,981 --> 00:39:13,280
neurological problems similar to
1068
00:39:13,351 --> 00:39:16,947
multiple sclerosis and massive
1069
00:39:17,021 --> 00:39:19,286
oozing skin rashes that seem to
1070
00:39:19,357 --> 00:39:21,292
have a life of their own.
1071
00:39:21,359 --> 00:39:22,622
MICKELSON: The overt
1072
00:39:22,693 --> 00:39:24,889
dermatological symptoms would be
1073
00:39:24,962 --> 00:39:27,557
open sores on the skin... usually
1074
00:39:27,631 --> 00:39:29,065
round, volcanic, almost,
1075
00:39:29,133 --> 00:39:30,066
looking in nature.
1076
00:39:30,134 --> 00:39:31,898
WYMORE: Most people with
1077
00:39:31,969 --> 00:39:33,301
Morgellons have crawling
1078
00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:35,306
sensations in their skin.
1079
00:39:35,373 --> 00:39:36,807
Sometimes they describe it as
1080
00:39:36,874 --> 00:39:38,069
almost as though something is
1081
00:39:38,142 --> 00:39:39,804
inside there, biting or
1082
00:39:39,877 --> 00:39:43,644
stinging.
1083
00:39:43,714 --> 00:39:45,615
NARRATOR: inside the lesions,
1084
00:39:45,683 --> 00:39:47,083
sufferers have discovered
1085
00:39:47,151 --> 00:39:49,814
colored fibers, like those found
1086
00:39:49,887 --> 00:39:51,048
on Mary Leitao's son.
1087
00:39:51,122 --> 00:39:52,385
WYMORE: You wouldn't believe
1088
00:39:52,456 --> 00:39:53,389
how many dermatologists I've
1089
00:39:53,457 --> 00:39:54,516
gotten phone calls and e-mails
1090
00:39:54,592 --> 00:39:55,821
from, saying, "Sorry, humans
1091
00:39:55,893 --> 00:39:57,862
don't grow red and blue fibers."
1092
00:39:57,928 --> 00:39:59,226
Well, as a physiologist, I'm
1093
00:39:59,296 --> 00:40:00,889
quite aware of that fact, but it
1094
00:40:00,965 --> 00:40:02,160
doesn't change the fact that
1095
00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:05,067
these fibers are present, and
1096
00:40:05,136 --> 00:40:06,416
this mystery is, well, where are
1097
00:40:06,470 --> 00:40:07,699
the fibers coming from?
1098
00:40:07,772 --> 00:40:09,900
Is there a microorganism that is
1099
00:40:09,974 --> 00:40:12,569
producing these fibers?
1100
00:40:12,643 --> 00:40:14,703
We have absolutely no idea.
1101
00:40:14,779 --> 00:40:16,077
MICKELSON: The university
1102
00:40:16,147 --> 00:40:18,013
forwarded a number of samples to
1103
00:40:18,082 --> 00:40:20,415
the Tulsa Crime Lab, who ran
1104
00:40:20,484 --> 00:40:22,749
them through their database, the
1105
00:40:22,820 --> 00:40:24,846
FBI database, were unable to
1106
00:40:24,922 --> 00:40:30,418
find any match.
1107
00:40:30,494 --> 00:40:32,554
WYMORE: The Earth is being
1108
00:40:32,630 --> 00:40:34,258
bombarded by tons of debris from
1109
00:40:34,331 --> 00:40:37,426
outer space every year, and so,
1110
00:40:37,501 --> 00:40:39,436
is it possible that an organism
1111
00:40:39,503 --> 00:40:40,743
that we wouldn't recognize came
1112
00:40:40,771 --> 00:40:42,103
down with that debris, and
1113
00:40:42,173 --> 00:40:44,108
that's the cause of Morgellons?
1114
00:40:44,175 --> 00:40:45,768
Well, I just try and stay open-
1115
00:40:45,843 --> 00:40:47,072
minded.
1116
00:40:47,144 --> 00:40:48,442
We can't really say yes, we
1117
00:40:48,512 --> 00:40:50,504
can't say no.
1118
00:40:50,581 --> 00:40:52,777
NARRATOR: But what is the
1119
00:40:52,850 --> 00:40:55,684
cause of Morgellons disease?
1120
00:40:55,753 --> 00:40:57,949
Is it simply an Earth-based
1121
00:40:58,022 --> 00:41:01,515
mutation of a known virus?
1122
00:41:01,592 --> 00:41:03,618
Or does it have other, perhaps
1123
00:41:03,694 --> 00:41:06,459
interplanetary, origins?
1124
00:41:06,530 --> 00:41:08,590
GALPIN: if we look at
1125
00:41:08,666 --> 00:41:09,793
something that came from a
1126
00:41:09,867 --> 00:41:12,598
distant planet, so different
1127
00:41:12,670 --> 00:41:15,139
that it can do anything from
1128
00:41:15,206 --> 00:41:17,141
make us better, make us the
1129
00:41:17,208 --> 00:41:18,488
same, or in the long run, create
1130
00:41:18,542 --> 00:41:20,477
a new disease, or maybe it
1131
00:41:20,544 --> 00:41:23,981
doesn't produce disease...
1132
00:41:24,048 --> 00:41:25,277
because diseases don't just
1133
00:41:25,349 --> 00:41:27,284
produce fever, headache... they
1134
00:41:27,351 --> 00:41:29,479
may change our thought
1135
00:41:29,553 --> 00:41:30,953
process, our reality, how we
1136
00:41:31,021 --> 00:41:32,489
move, how we think, how long we
1137
00:41:32,556 --> 00:41:37,494
live, even our emotions.
1138
00:41:37,561 --> 00:41:39,257
NARRATOR: Living microbes in
1139
00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:42,300
outer space.
1140
00:41:42,366 --> 00:41:44,995
Bacteria capable of mutating and
1141
00:41:45,069 --> 00:41:47,004
becoming more powerful in zero
1142
00:41:47,071 --> 00:41:49,040
gravity.
1143
00:41:49,106 --> 00:41:51,905
Comets carrying deadly, alien
1144
00:41:51,976 --> 00:41:54,571
life-forms.
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Could humankind be at the mercy
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of extraterrestrial forces that
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are invisible to the naked eye?
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LIPKIN: The best estimates
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that I've heard of the number of
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bacteria in the world is
1151
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somewhere in the range of five
1152
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followed by 30 zeros.
1153
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It's a staggering number.
1154
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We're discovering more and more
1155
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all the time.
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GALPIN: The real question
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exists, who's really leading the
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world... us or the trillions and
1159
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trillions of viruses that we
1160
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walk upon and may be playing
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much more of an intimate part of
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our lives than we had ever
1163
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thought?
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COPPENS: Is it possible that
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we are somehow being prepared
1166
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for something, which is going to
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affect Earth as a global
1168
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civilization?
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Is, somehow, it very important
1170
00:42:42,126 --> 00:42:44,027
that we are strong enough so
1171
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that we will be able to cope
1172
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with something which might be
1173
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coming our way?
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GALPIN: The more you know all
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the details, the more
1176
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frightening the thoughts are
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about what's coming next.
1178
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The clock begins when the
1179
00:42:55,873 --> 00:42:57,739
disease hits, and we don't know
1180
00:42:57,808 --> 00:42:58,969
how much time the clock is
1181
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giving us.
1182
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That's the fear of the future.
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NARRATOR: For thousands of
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years, we have wondered if we
1185
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are alone in the universe, but
1186
00:43:10,955 --> 00:43:12,389
could alien life-forms have been
1187
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among us all along?
1188
00:43:15,793 --> 00:43:17,386
If countless strains of deadly
1189
00:43:17,461 --> 00:43:19,589
bacteria are coming to Earth
1190
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from other worlds, is this the
1191
00:43:23,167 --> 00:43:25,398
proof we need that there is life
1192
00:43:25,469 --> 00:43:28,598
on other planets?
1193
00:43:28,672 --> 00:43:30,607
Could it be only by coincidence
1194
00:43:30,674 --> 00:43:32,438
that these life-forms have made
1195
00:43:32,509 --> 00:43:34,034
contact with us in the form of
1196
00:43:34,111 --> 00:43:38,105
plagues and epidemics, or is
1197
00:43:38,182 --> 00:43:40,617
there another, perhaps alien,
1198
00:43:40,684 --> 00:43:44,621
intelligence at work...
1199
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an intelligence which seeks to
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00:43:46,023 --> 00:43:49,357
reduce our numbers or maybe
1201
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prepare us for something?
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If so, what and when?
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