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We don't know what protocols governments might have

for how we interact with our extraterrestrial visitors.

Two, one, let it go!

We've never found an official sanctioned document

that says, if we're invaded by aliens, this is what we do.

Doesn't mean that there isn't one.

In we go, huh?

I believe that these protocols

are already established, and, in fact,

we are already in contact with extraterrestrials.

What we actually could be looking at here

is a genuine alien life-form.

The question I have is, what are we gonna do?

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October 19, 2017.

The Hawaiian island of Maui.

Here, perched atop a 10,000-foot summit,

stands the Haleakala Observatory.

Astronomers using The Panoramic Survey Telescope

and Rapid Response System, or Pan-STARRS,

detect a mysterious object

traveling at high speed through our solar system.

The trajectory of this object is unlike any

that has ever been seen before.

I was in charge of coordinating the observing

to characterize the object.

The object was discovered.

And, at that point, there were images taken

that showed an object moving rapidly

with respect to the stars.

The stars are individual dots of light,

and this object was a streak,

so they knew it was moving fast.

At that point, they started to compute

an orbit to try and understand what this object was.

This was a really dramatic difference

from what had been seen previously.

The object was found

to have a highly unusual hyperbolic orbit,

suggesting that it was traveling

at such a high rate of speed

that it was not being pulled into a more circular orbit

by the force of gravity.

Everything in the solar system

is either on a circular or an elliptical orbit.

This was a particularly exciting observation,

because we had never seen anything like this

come through the solar system.

The object, which was classified

as an asteroid and named 'Oumuamua,

a Hawaiian word meaning "scout" or "messenger,"

is the first object of its kind

to be officially recognized as interstellar.

An asteroid was discovered coming into our solar system.

Let that sink in.

An asteroid was discovered coming into our solar system.

From where we don't know.

It just came from outside our solar system,

meaning it's from a different star system, somewhere else.

That's historic, that we've actually seen it.

We now know objects can travel from one star system to another.

Researchers engaged in the Search

for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI,

were intrigued not only by 'Oumuamua's origins,

but also by its unusual shape.

It had a very funny shape.

It's shaped like a cigar.

You know, it's maybe five or ten times as long as it is across.

No asteroid that we know of looks like a cigar.

Inevitably, there were people saying,

"Well, are you sure it's a rock?

"Maybe there's somebody inside this thing.

Maybe they've come to visit."

Now, if I were gonna build

a spaceship that was gonna take hundreds of years,

or maybe thousands or millions of years to go

from one star to another, I would start by finding

a big asteroid that I like, that had all the minerals on it.

And I would use that and just turn it into the ship I wanted.

Mainstream astronomers such as Avi Loeb, the chair

of Harvard University's astronomy department,

noted that the cigar shape of 'Oumuamua

is the optimal design for a vessel to travel through space.

This has led ancient astronaut theorists

and even some astronomers to question

if the so-called asteroid is actually

an extraterrestrial vessel.

What I think is interesting is that 'Oumuamua is cigar-shaped.

Because there are stories

and eyewitness reports of cigar-shaped UFOs.

So is it possible that there is some type of a connection?

Reports of strange, cigar-shaped UFOs

date back hundreds of years.

This famous woodcut from 1561, for example,

is based on a firsthand account by someone

who claimed that a number of round and tubular objects

could be seen battling in the sky

over the town of Nuremberg, Germany.

This first documented UFO photograph captured

what looks like a long, cylindrical craft

hovering over Mount Washington, New Hampshire in 1870.

And in modern times, sightings of cigar-shaped UFOs

are commonly reported, as are those which are described

as so-called "flying saucers."

It is possible that an asteroid

has been taken, hollowed out,

made into a spaceship,

and then put into a special orbit or trajectory.

And what might be inside of 'Oumuamua is anyone's guess.

Discoveries like 'Oumuamua

certainly have swayed the scientific community

towards our ideas,

because for the first time in my life

have I heard an astronomer say that this object

that is floating through our solar system right now,

may be an extraterrestrial craft.

That doesn't come from me; it comes from an astronomer.

Maybe 'Oumuamua was a false alarm,

but maybe it was the real thing.

However, it does inform us that we need a protocol.

We need steps in place that will help us

to determine what we are actually seeing

and what the response should be.

This was a tremendous wake-up call, because it started

to give us a sense of how would we respond

if there were such an intrusion, if you will.

Does humanity have a plan for what to do in the event

that a spacecraft carrying extraterrestrial beings

comes to our planet?

And, if so, what are the protocols?

And who is responsible for implementing them?

The International Academy of Astronautics

set up something called the Post Detection Task Group,

and I chaired that for some years.

And it was just an informal, uh, collection of people

who, uh, whose job was to simply deliberate on

if there should be some sort of putative signal,

or detection of alien technology, what next?

What do we do? Who do we tell?

How do we respond?

What would the impact be on society?

In 1989,

the International Academy of Astronautics, working with SETI,

published the "Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities"

Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence."

It stated that if proof of an alien presence is confirmed,

the next consideration should be to decide which government

or scientific entity should begin communication,

so that the situation does not quickly turn

into an international free-for-all.

The SETI protocols, however,

are only binding on the astronomical community.

There are many more players in the equation.

The SETI protocols may cover astronomers,

but they don't cover governments

and they're not even legally binding.

Nobody can tell a radio astronomer, or anybody else,

that they're not allowed to transmit.

And even if the United States

and other major nations decided

that there should be some sort

of moratorium on using radio telescopes for that purpose,

there's nothing to prevent North Korea,

for example, from doing it.

I think it's totally "unpoliceable,"

which is why we have to think through rather carefully

what the consequences would be,

in the event that there was this exciting discovery.

Considering the enormous global impact

of any first communication or contact between someone

from Earth and an intelligent being from another planet,

wouldn't world governments already have their own protocols

in place to handle such a situation?

Protocols that would govern... Not just individual countries...

But everyone in the world?

I spent the better part of about four years researching,

uh, a book that myself and, uh, and some colleagues

were working on to create a protocol:

if we were invaded by aliens, what would we do?

And we searched everywhere we could,

and we had several databases available to us,

and we've never found

an official sanctioned government document

that says if we're invaded by aliens, this is what we do.

Doesn't mean that there isn't one.

With my experience of the British Ministry of Defence,

I'd be surprised if there wasn't a protocol for this.

So I suspect that somewhere, deep in the bowels

of the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Defense,

there is a plan.

But I also suspect that it's highly classified.

But while many of the world's top governments continue

to deny the existence of any plans or protocols

that would be used in the event

of an extraterrestrial encounter,

many ancient astronaut theorists believe

that not only do such plans exist,

but that they have been in place for decades.

And that contact between Earth governments

and extraterrestrial visitors has been happening...

In secret... For thousands of years.

December 2017.

The New York Times publishes a bombshell story.

It reveals the existence

of a $22 million black budget program

within the Pentagon

created to investigate whether unidentified flying objects

pose a threat to national security.

From 2007 until 2012,

the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program

collected a compilation of videos

that show inexplicable aerial phenomena,

some of which have been released to the public.

One of these videos, at least,

comes from the gun camera of an F-18.

And you don't just jump out in your plane

and fly out and chase something because you saw it go by.

You were told to do so,

and it took a lot of people to know this was going on.

Although the complete findings of the program

otherwise known as AATIP are still considered

highly classified and may never be released,

its very existence provides proof

that the United States military had protocols in place

for how to investigate unidentified flying objects.

But do the videos imply something else?

Something of even greater significance?

Could they be evidence not only that UFOs exist,

but that the government has been studying them

and not shooting them down for a reason?

We simulate all sorts of scenarios

in war gaming simulations.

I've seen these simulations

where they can teleport their soldiers

from one place to another instantaneously.

Or they have shields

that keep anything below extremely high-caliber weapons

from penetrating their armor.

A lot of times this is called an engagement for 2075.

Now, think about that.

We can prepare and plan

for engagements against forces in the future.

That's almost like preparing for a force

that's just that much more advanced than us.

Is it possible

that by gathering and then studying evidence

of UFO activity,

the U.S. military is developing protocols

which will prepare future soldiers

to face what could be extraterrestrial forces?

And if not here on Earth, on other planets?

We've got to have space capabilities.

We've got to be able to run out into our vehicle,

turn it on, and fly up into space.

Right now it takes months to prepare to go into space.

We need to have bases on the Moon

and on Mars and Europa,

various other places in the solar system

so that we don't have to play on one staging ground: Earth.

We can't fight wearing a space suit.

We're gonna have to have some other type

of environment capability, like powered armor suits,

like in Iron Man, that improves your abilities

instead of hinders them.

So we need some other technology for that.

But if the United States military

has secret protocols for how to identify

and combat extraterrestrial threats,

could they also have protocols for more peaceful encounters?

And if so, could these protocols also be part

of a global strategy, one secretly shared

with other nations around the world?

Vatican City, May 2014.

In a sermon dedicated to concepts of inclusion,

Pope Francis shocks his congregation when he declares

that if alien life-forms ever arrive on Earth,

he would welcome them into the Catholic Church.

The pontiff's remarks stun the world,

as it is the first time that a sitting pope acknowledges

not only that extraterrestrial life exists,

but that it could be intelligent

and capable of interplanetary travel.

The Pope's action

is one little example of the broad shift in attitudes

toward the possibility of visitation.

Religious authorities

around the world, leaders of the world religions

are having to deal with the possibility,

if not the already known reality,

of the existence of extraterrestrial beings.

Whether a secretly held belief

or a recently evolved position,

faith-based organizations around the globe

have recently embraced a more open

and transparent view that intelligent life

beyond Earth is possible.

The Catholic Church's statements

are allied with the statements of the Dalai Lama,

who has recently been talking about openness and oneness

and the sameness of all the creatures in creation,

that we shouldn't treat

extraterrestrial beings as strangers,

but rather as similar to us.

When they will encounter us

or we will encounter them,

it does not have to be conflict

if we do not allow it to be so.

As far as ancient astronaut theorists

are concerned, the willingness of world religions

to embrace the notion of visitations

by extraterrestrial beings is not new

but dates back hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

They argue that most religions,

if not all, are based on the idea

that not only do otherworldly beings exist,

but that their purpose in coming to Earth

has been to provide everything from spiritual enlightenment

to scientific knowledge.

In 1999, NASA published a study

called "The Societal Implications of Astrobiology."

What this study was designed to do at its core

was evaluate the impact of disclosure on religion.

NASA views religion as an adaptive tool

that can help people to answer questions

that science can't answer

because, in their view, religion has been dealing

with extraterrestrials for a long time.

People have been told to have faith in otherworldly beings.

All of the major religions

have prophecies of the return of a Christ,

a messiah, a savior figure.

And very often these returns involve

what appear to be, in the description,

some method of cosmic transportation.

The Messiah comes with an army of angels.

And the angels we know from biblical definition

are certainly not human by any standards.

They are by every standard of definition extraterrestrial.

The shock of extraterrestrials being here

and having been here for thousands of years

will really change society.

Eventually, everyone on planet Earth will realize

that we are not alone.

Is it possible

that the religious concept of a messiah

who returns to Earth for the betterment of mankind

was based on a message given to our ancestors

by otherworldly beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

that the answer is a resounding yes

and that not only was such a visitation promised,

but that it is already occurring.

March 2018.

Author and researcher Andrew Collins

travels to Sheffield, England,

to witness a remarkable demonstration.

- Hi, guys. - Hello.

- Andrew, how are you? - Ah, Chris.

- Pleasure. - I'm Milton.

He is meeting

with microbiologist Milton Wainwright

and engineer Chris Rose,

two members of the research team who are convinced

that life on Earth may have originated in space

through a process known as panspermia,

a theory that dates as far back as the fifth century BC.

According to the theory, microbial life

is capable of traveling through the universe

and may on occasion survive entry into Earth's atmosphere.

I understand you've made

some incredible discoveries.

Please tell me all about it.

In the early 2000s, my colleague

Chandra Wickramasinghe,

um, we were launching balloons from India.

And these were sampling the air at 41 kilometers.

And they showed that organisms

are continually arriving all the time.

Panspermia is extremely simple idea.

Basically, it's the idea that life came from space.

Instead of being formed on this planet, it came from space.

My findings relate to panspermia simply,

and they show that organisms are coming in

at this very moment from space.

Tell me how you actually collect these samples.

This is our, our balloon

that's gonna give us the buoyancy from the...

the hydrogen gas here.

Now, our capture mechanism is right here.

Let me show you this.

This exposes little metal stubs to the environment.

And you're looking to see if you can get microbes

coming from the upper atmosphere

- and not from the Earth itself? - That's right.

All the critics say they're coming from Earth

because we're surrounded by life.

But we have lots of evidence that this material

is not coming from Earth.

It's incoming from space.

I mean, it sounds incredible.

I mean, have you ever lost any of these?

No, and we're not about to start today.

- So fingers crossed, guys. - Brilliant.

The team moves the balloon

into launch position, from which it will ascend

more than 37 kilometers, or 23 miles, into the air.

Okay, guys. Ready?

Andrew, on you. Countdown, please. Okay.

Five, four, three, two, one.

Let it go! Oh, there it goes.

Once the balloon reaches its target altitude

within the Earth's stratosphere,

the capture mechanism will hopefully collect samples

of non-Earth-based microbial life.

After the sampling is complete, the balloon bursts,

and the capture mechanism descends back to Earth

under the safety of a parachute.

The team uses GPS tracking to locate

where the mechanism lands.

Once retrieved, the sample is quickly secured

in a sealed container

so that it does not become contaminated

with microbes from Earth.

Moments later,

Andrew joins Milton and Chris at a nearby laboratory.

Here they will extract

the microbes inside a sterilized clean room

and then analyze them

to make sure no Earth microbes

have contaminated the sample.

A clean room.

- Mm-hmm. - How can you ensure the sterilization?

What are the protocols

- behind this process? - Right.

It's really all about sterilizing the air inside,

to make sure the air inside contains no microorganisms.

So all the air is filtered.

Milton and Chris remove the carbon tabs

from the capture mechanism

and place them into vacuum-sealed containers.

This will further prevent contamination while they view

the samples with a scanning electron microscope.

Wow. What on earth is that?

I can tell that this is biological.

If you analyze this, I'm pretty certain

this will show as carbon, oxygen,

and a little bit of nitrogen.

Now, that's the signature for life.

We're saying that this piece

of biological life could

- potentially be extraterrestrial in origin? - Right.

There's nothing from Earth around it. It's pristine.

So it's incoming.

Now, if we do a bit of, um, modeling studies,

we come to the conclusion that nothing bigger

than six microns can go out.

And this is 200.

So it's a very large particle, and it's coming in.

What we actually could be looking at here

is a genuine alien life-form?

What you're looking at there

is an organism or a clump of organisms

that is incoming from space to Earth.

Nothing bigger than six microns

can go from the surface of the Earth

to these altitudes that we sample at.

And yet we are finding particles

all the way up to 200.

They can't be coming up from Earth.

Absolutely amazing.

It's blown my head off.

Biological organisms

not from Earth but from somewhere in space?

Could we be looking at actual evidence

of a living organism from a world other than our own?

We've actually found evidence of what could be

extraterrestrial biological entities.

To see those images was extraordinary,

and it's convinced me that the Earth

is surrounded by life that almost certainly came

from outer space.

This is one we took earlier, as they say.

This is the most amazing image I've ever seen in my life.

It's got biological material here.

And this material we know contains

carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen.

So this is biological.

When we analyzed the ball, we found it contained titanium

and a small amount of vanadium.

So this is a titanium sphere

with life inside and life on the outside.

Now, what on earth is it?

One possibility is that this is directed panspermia.

Some civilization has put biological material

inside and just on the outside of this thing

and they've spewed it out.

And this suggests that some alien

civilization is seeding planets.

This smoking gun of, uh, panspermia

or even directed panspermia

could give us the best evidence yet

that aliens, in some form,

seeded life on this Earth,

which is an incredible thought.

NASA have, uh,

a department known as the Office of Planetary Protection

- to safeguard, uh, the Earth - Right.

From extraterrestrial biological entities...

- whatever you want to call them... - Yeah.

From actually penetrating into the Earth's atmosphere.

There are extremely detailed plans and protocols

for bringing back any probe

that we send to another planet or moon

or asteroid.

The protocols that are in place

shut out the possibility of us studying

actual biological entities that may exist

on the edge of our own stratosphere

that have arrived here from deep space themself.

Uh, and I find that very sad, very tragic.

If extraterrestrial microbes

are landing on our planet,

can NASA's strict protocols really protect us

from biological contamination?

Or could it be that the contamination

is not only unstoppable but it is the very method

by which life on Earth began to evolve

millions of years ago?

October 4, 1957.

The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1,

the first satellite to orbit the Earth.

Its success stunned the world

and shocked the United States into action.

The space race was on.

And with it came the creation of NASA,

the government's first fully funded agency charged

with not only putting humans into space

but to have a man land on the Moon by 1969.

In fact, so thorough was NASA's focus

on all aspects of space exploration

that it commissioned a study on "the implications"

of a discovery of extraterrestrial life,"

otherwise known as the Brookings Report.

The Brookings Institute report didn't just ask,

are there aliens out there?

It took it to the next level and said,

what happens when we find them?

The implications

of discovering extraterrestrial life are profound,

and they're implications that go across all levels of society.

Politics, economics, religion, technology, science.

Everything will be affected.

The Brookings Report specifically says

you should release information,

little by little, bit by bit,

so that people get culturally acclimated

to the idea of aliens and extraterrestrials.

We've always speculated,

those of us in broadcasting,

why isn't government coming forward,

telling us what's going on, telling us the truth?

And a lot of people cite the old Brookings Report

that basically said we can't handle the truth.

There'd be mass chaos.

Religions would collapse.

Governments would collapse.

So the government has decided,

we're not saying anything.

Does the existence of the Brookings Report

provide evidence that not only

does the United States have protocols and procedures

in place in the event of extraterrestrial contact

but that such protocols have deliberately been kept a secret

from the American public for nearly 60 years?

But if so, why?

I do not believe that government, essentially,

is negative, evil and harmful, deceptive or lying.

We should look back to 1938,

when Orson Welles did his famous radio program on Halloween night

called War of the Worlds,

wherein which, through an enactment,

New York was to be invaded.

People around the country listening to this radio program

were terrified.

The machines are close together now,

and we're ready to attack.

Planes circling, ready to strike.

Our government's learned from this.

People will panic.

Some people have thought that

it's important to-to prepare the public.

You know, I've always said I think

the American public can handle the truth.

The government would do well to be more open

about what it's done in the past,

what it learned in the past,

what it's doing today, uh, and what it'll do in the future.

But while the U.S. government does not acknowledge

having any official protocols for first contact,

it makes no secret of its ongoing efforts

to explore the possibilities of extraterrestrial communication.

Cape Canaveral, Florida.

September 5, 1977.

NASA launches the Voyager 1 probe.

Its mission is to journey to Jupiter, Saturn,

Uranus, and Neptune and send back important information.

But perhaps more interesting than the information

Voyager 1 was programmed to collect

was the information it was carrying with it.

The two Voyager spacecraft were each launched

in 1977 on a mission of exploration

of the outer solar system.

And both of them kept on going,

to leave the solar system, uh, forever.

They weren't coming back.

And as a result of this, NASA invited Carl

to put a message on both of the Voyager spacecraft.

As conceived by a team of experts

led by famed astronomer Carl Sagan,

Voyager's so-called Golden Record

was designed to send greetings from the people of planet Earth

to whatever form of alien life it might encounter

that had intelligence enough to decode it.

I'd been collaborating with Carl for about five years.

We shared a passion for this topic...

Extraterrestrial intelligence and how to communicate with it...

And I happened to be at the right place at the right time

when he was trying to form a small team

to actually make the message.

I was a design director on the project,

and my main role was designing,

with Frank Drake, the series of photographs

and diagrams that show what the Earth and human beings are like.

The Golden Record kick-started

this thought process, this approach to philosophy of,

how do we define who we are

if we came across an intelligent civilization?

How would we represent ourselves?

The Golden Record shows Earth on a good day.

Some of our best music,

a lot of pleasant-looking people saying hello.

No war, no poverty, no injustice.

And this was by design.

First of all, it's not obvious how you would show these things

to an extraterrestrial.

I mean, a starving baby evokes a huge emotional reaction from us.

Maybe a baby is supposed to look that way. They wouldn't know.

It seemed important to me,

in being asked to design this thing,

that it should tell a story.

And the story is, of course, our story.

It's a story of our planet, it's a story of life,

it's a story of humans, and it's a story of our future.

In terms of the protocols

that we would use in actually replying back

to a message that we got from an intelligent civilization,

different experts have different opinions.

Some people believe that we should try

and represent the best version of ourselves.

On the other end of the spectrum,

you could potentially upload the entire Internet,

along with all of our dark sides,

so that you could have a full and complete picture

of who we are as a species.

Does NASA's involvement in the design

and implementation of Carl Sagan's Golden Record

provide evidence of the government's belief

that intelligent life exists in the universe?

If so, is that belief the product

of mere scientific speculation, or a conviction

based on previous extraterrestrial encounters?

For the answer, ancient astronaut theorists point

to the government's long history

of trying to establish secret alien communications.

Washington, D.C.

March 24, 1961.

The Brookings Report, the first official government document

to suggest protocols for what to do

in the event of alien contact, is submitted

to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics

and entered into the Congressional Record.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that those protocols weren't new,

but, in fact, had been in place

ever since President Harry Truman ordered an investigation

into the famed Roswell incident in 1947.

Truman, inside of his administration,

reached out to scientists,

reached out to military people, reached out to businessmen,

formed this group called Majestic 12... MJ-12...

To do research and report to him.

And no one outside is to know anything

about UFOs, E.T.s, crash retrievals,

bodies, any of it.

There is actually a document called

The Majestic 12 Special Operations Manual,

which actually describes

what a military officer or enlisted man should do

should he encounter a crashed UFO,

should he encounter an extraterrestrial being,

alive or dead, and how the body should be disposed of.

And it's a very, very detailed set of protocols,

basically for how to handle it if you run into E.T.

Aerospace engineer Dr. Robert Wood

was one of the first people to examine the MJ-12 documents.

It is his opinion, based in part

on the descriptions of spacecraft in the documents,

that the Special Operations Manual is genuine.

The Special Operations Manual is remarkable in several ways.

It gives detailed descriptions of four shapes of UFOs.

Another thing is that it talks

about extraterrestrial biological entities.

The Majestic 12 talks very frankly

about extraterrestrial biological entities,

and their protocols.

There is under Chapter Five, "Encounters..."

And that is tied

to what happened to Lonnie Zamora down in Socorro.

On April 24, 1964, there was a New Mexico police officer

in Socorro, New Mexico named Lonnie Zamora who noticed

what appeared to him to be some sort of wrecked vehicle

off the side of the road.

So he pulled his police car over

and he started to walk towards it.

When he got closer to the vehicle,

he realized that it was some sort of egg-shaped craft

with these four landing legs

that were stuck into the ground, and he saw two beings

who were in silver suits.

And the two beings went back inside the craft,

and the object took off and sped away.

And when another officer came back out to the site,

they went to where the craft had landed, and they discovered

four holes in the ground

where the landing legs had stuck into the dirt.

Lonnie Zamora's encounter made headlines in 1964.

Since then, further information

about the incident has become available online

from leaked government files.

Files, which, if genuine, corroborate the protocols

that are described in the MJ-12 documents.

In the Serpo documents, they talk

about the Ebens, as they were named, and arrangements

for them to actually land and have a diplomatic exchange

with U.S. government officials

at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

What's explained in the documents

is that the Zamora sighting is actually

the two emissaries who had got the coordinates wrong

and had actually landed in the wrong place.

Is it possible

that the United States government is not only aware of,

but possibly in contact with, extraterrestrial beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest

that the United Nations may even have an ambassador

to extraterrestrials.

September 2010.

News organizations across the globe report

that the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs intends

to draft a series of protocols on what to do when first contact

with an extraterrestrial civilization is officially made.

The story causes a sensation,

but then, after a few days,

the story mysteriously disappears.

When pressed for further information,

officials at the United Nations have refused to comment.

The United Nations announced

that it would create some protocols

for extraterrestrial contact,

but so far they have not given those to us.

Just because protocols have not been announced

doesn't mean that they don't exist.

I believe that these protocols are already established,

and, in fact, we are already in contact with extraterrestrials.

The United Nations have said,

"Do not come to us with questions like this

until there's an international consensus."

Well, there is no international consensus on this.

Imagine if aliens showed up here tomorrow

and said, "Take me to your leader,"

like you always see in the movies or hear in the stories.

Well, who would that be? A lot of people think,

"Oh, it's the Secretary General of the U.N."

Uh, well, maybe, maybe not.

What they would look at is

who has the largest industrial machine on the planet.

And I would say it would have to be

the president of the United States,

the president of Russia and of China.

They'd have to be there together.

But if intelligent beings

are technologically advanced enough to travel to Earth,

whose protocols will matter more... ours or theirs?

As we prepare for this worldwide reality

of extraterrestrial life being known here on planet Earth,

we have to see that the extraterrestrials

are gonna have different protocols than we would have

that will be far more sophisticated

than anything we can conceive.

And we will have to really follow their lead

in how we interact with them and other extraterrestrials

as we go into space ourselves.

Are these two worlds that are about to meet...

Are they compatible?

And I say yes because we come from out there.

Because in Native American culture, there are legends

of 13 inhabited worlds, planets out there,

and we are the youngest.

This world is called "the planet of the children."

And what does a child do?

I think children... they listen, they soak up the knowledge.

So I think it's time for us to look more at our ancient past,

look at the traditions,

and see and learn that we've never been alone.

As NASA eagerly prepares

to send astronauts to Mars,

it must face the fact that it will be humans

that will become the alien visitors to another planet.

And what will we do if we come face-to-face with living proof

that we are not alone?

Will we welcome them, or will they welcome us?

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