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Narrator:
A visionary scientist.
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WILLIAM HENRY:
He provided the greatest leap
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in human history.
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Narrator:
A single-minded obsession.
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ROBERT PEARLMAN: We wanted to go to
space because he wanted to go to space.
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Narrator:
And a mysterious past.
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You have to wonder
where this knowledge came from.
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Narrator: He developed the means
to put a man on the moon,
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but was Wernher von Braun's passion fueled
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by his own ambition?
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Or might he have been influenced
by otherworldly beings?
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DAVID WILCOCK: Wernher von Braun
was in touch with some sort
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of extraterrestrial force
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that is steering us even further
out into space.
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Narrator:
Since the dawn of civilization,
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mankind has credited its origins to gods
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and other visitors from the stars.
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What if it were true?
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Did extraterrestrial beings
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really help to shape our history?
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And if so,
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might aliens have influenced
Wernher von Braun?
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Narrator:
Huntsville, Alabama.
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July 24, 1969.
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A crowd of thousands gathers
in Courthouse Square
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to cheer on the triumphant
return of Dr. Wernher von Braun,
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just hours after Apollo 11's
Columbia Command Module
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splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.
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The United States had achieved
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what many believed was impossible:
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putting a man on the moon.
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The picture ran in newspapers around America
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the following day,
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celebrating the genius rocket
engineer who was behind it all.
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Von Braun is a titan.
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You know, he's one of the major
figures of the last century.
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And he was way ahead of his time.
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Von Braun adamantly believed
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that humanity's future was in space.
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He's the greatest voice we've had
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in the history of the space program.
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Narrator: Considered by NASA to be
the "Father of Rocket Science,"
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von Braun is credited with either inventing
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or helping to develop many
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of the most sophisticated aerial
technologies that exist today,
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like the supersonic
anti-aircraft missile,
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the ballistic missile,
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the first American satellite,
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and the first
U.S. space vehicles,
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including the enormous Saturn V rocket
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that enabled man to reach the moon.
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Without exaggeration, the Apollo
program has been called
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"the greatest achievement that
mankind has ever accomplished."
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Without Wernher von Braun, we
would have not reached the moon.
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To date, the Saturn V is
the most powerful rocket
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that we've ever built.
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Narrator: Von Braun's incredible
engineering feats were matched
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only by his all-consuming
crusade to send man into space.
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In the 1950s, when space travel
seemed a fantasy,
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Wernher von Braun teamed up with Walt Disney
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to convince a skeptical public
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that putting man on the moon
was not only possible,
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but that it would happen in their lifetimes.
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In these films, watched by an
estimated 42 million people,
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von Braun boldly predicted
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not only how we would send men into space,
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but also the use of protective suits,
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lunar landing vehicles,
orbiting space stations,
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and even manned trips to Mars.
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If we were to start today
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on an organized and
well-supported space program,
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I believe a practical passenger rocket
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could be built and tested within ten years.
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Narrator: But who exactly was
this engineering genius
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with such extraordinary
visions for the future?
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Why did he believe so strongly
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that man could and should travel into space?
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And what did he expect to find
when we got there?
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Wernher von Braun was born March 23, 1912,
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in a small town in Eastern Prussia.
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The second of three sons,
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Wernher grew up a child
of wealth and privilege.
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But while he was born
into an accomplished family,
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Wernher's keen intellect
and unusual passions stood out.
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His father once said,
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"I don't know where his talent comes from,"
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and stated on more than one occasion
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that he considered his son a mystery.
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IMPEY: Wernher von Braun
was multitalented.
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Both sides of his brain were working.
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He could think about technical things
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and imagine rocketry and space travel,
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but he was an accomplished musician.
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And these traits manifested very early.
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I think his parents knew
by the time he was four or five
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that he was very special.
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His mother gave him a telescope
when he was young,
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and he looked at the moon
and said, "I want to go there.
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I want to build the machine
that will go to the moon."
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And of course he did half a century later.
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Narrator: Wernher von Braun
grew up in a time
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when German science fiction authors focused
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on science utopian novels
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that often featured
an idealized German engineer
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who solves the world's problems
through science and technology.
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Movies such as Fritz Lang's Metropolis
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and Woman in the Moon also
stirred the public's imagination
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and no doubt had a powerful
influence on von Braun.
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For a young man growing up
in the 1920s and '30s,
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space travel was considered
too fantastic and far-fetched
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to ever be possible.
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And although
the Wright brothers had achieved
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the first powered flight in 1903,
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the horse and buggy was still
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a widely used mode of transportation.
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The achievement of putting a man on the moon
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is something that was at the
time really almost impossible
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and almost unthinkable.
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Wernher von Braun was obsessed
with going to the moon
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and going to Mars from
the time he was a little boy.
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And that was his destiny.
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Narrator: In his teens, von Braun
wrote papers on orbital flight,
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and by the incredibly young age of 20,
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he was named the head
of Germany's rocket program
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by army artillery officer
Captain Walter Dornberger.
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Dornberger would later write
in his 1952 book,
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V-2, the Firing into Space,
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that he was deeply impressed
by the young von Braun's energy,
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shrewdness and astonishing
theoretical knowledge.
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IMPEY: When he worked towards one of
his goals, he would apply himself
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and master a subject in very short order.
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He'd been trained as an engineer,
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and doing a PhD in physics is not trivial.
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And he got his PhD at an age
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when most German students
were still undergraduates.
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Narrator: But how is it
that Wernher von Braun
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whose contemporaries included
such scientific geniuses
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as Nikola Tesla,
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Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein
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was so far ahead of everyone
when it came to rocketry?
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And what was behind his obsession
to travel to the stars?
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Some ancient astronaut theorists believe
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that the boy genius may have been guided
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by otherworldly forces.
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Maybe he drew his inspiration
from science fiction.
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Maybe it came from his...
his own imagination and vision
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of what the future should be.
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Or maybe it was inspired
by something extraterrestrial.
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WILCOCK: Some sort of extraterrestrial contact
might have happened with Wernher von Braun.
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Something or someone
might have reached him and saw
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where we needed to go as a civilization,
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and gave him the tools and the insights
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that he needed to be able
to build our way out into space.
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Some have suggested that people
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like Albert Einstein, Tesla,
that they've had
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this extraterrestrial intervention;
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that they have had access
to this abundance of knowledge.
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And the question has arisen
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did Wernher von Braun?
Was he also one of them?
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Because the vision he had, the ideas
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were incredible for their time.
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Narrator: Might extraterrestrials
have chosen Wernher von Braun
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to propel mankind to the moon and beyond,
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as some ancient astronaut theorists propose?
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Perhaps further clues can be found
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by examining von Braun's connection
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to a mysterious Nazi institution
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known as the Ahnenerbe.
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Narrator:
In 1933, Adolf Hitler
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rose to power and began consolidating
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Germany's military, political
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and economic institutions under the control
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of his Nazi Party apparatus.
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For years, Wernher von Braun avoided
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becoming a member of the Nazi Party,
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but on November 12, 1937,
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he was commanded to join and did so.
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To hear him tell it,
he was, uh, had no choice.
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That he... it was either do that
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or, um, face the same fate
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as everyone else who disobeyed the Nazis
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certain death.
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Von Braun didn't think the Nazi
movement was the way to go,
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but it was a means to an end
to develop his rockets.
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Narrator:
In 1944,
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with the help of additional funding
from the German government,
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von Braun launched the 45-foot,
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27,000-pound A-4,
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later rechristened the V-2,
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or "Vengeance Weapon."
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While von Braun's first rocket
only reached 1.4 miles,
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the V-2 climbed to an altitude
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of 108.5 miles,
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and became the first man-made
object to ever reach space.
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PEARLMAN:
The V-2 rocket was a one-stage,
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liquid-fueled rocket that was
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not comparable to any
other rocket at the time,
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because there weren't
other rockets at the time.
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You had rockets in development.
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What von Braun was able
to do with the V-2
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was combine the theory
with the practical application
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and develop the first rocket
ever to be able to reach space.
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Narrator: How was von Braun
able to advance
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in just a few short years?
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Was it due to a desperate nation
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supplying him with massive amounts
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of money and material?
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Or could there be another reason?
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On July 1, 1935,
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Hitler's SS commander, Heinrich Himmler,
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established Ahnenerbe
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an elite Nazi institute that purported
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to research the cultural and
archaeological history of the Germans.
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However, its true purpose
proved far more bizarre.
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BARA: Ahnenerbe was based
on the idea that the Aryan race
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was the most directly
descended from ancient,
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perhaps alien, gods.
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CHILDRESS: Part of their job
was to literally go
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all over the world looking
for special occult artifacts.
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Things like the Ark of the
Covenant and the Holy Grail.
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BARA: Von Braun became
closely associated with them
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through his association with the
SS and with Heinrich Himmler.
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And one of the main reasons
for that was that
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they felt like rocketry
was almost an arcane secret,
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um, a sort of black magic that would
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enable them to dominate the world.
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Narrator: As World War II
broke out across Europe...
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Ahnenerbe expanded its research
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into secret weapons programs,
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and Himmler tapped von Braun
as its technical director
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at Germany's large-scale
experimental research facility
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at Peenemunde in Northwest Germany.
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It was during these next
several years that von Braun
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advanced the science of propulsion,
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aerodynamics and rocket guidance systems
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beyond what anyone had thought possible.
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CHILDRESS: You have to ask yourself,
where would they have gotten
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that kind of knowledge so quickly?
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One of the possible reasons
is that the Ahnenerbe,
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with their researches,
had actually discovered
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technology through
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some of their expeditions
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to find ancient relics,
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and their search, really,
for ancient technology.
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Narrator: Is it possible
that the Ahnenerbe
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discovered artifacts that helped them
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advance their weapons research?
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Some ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the Nazis did,
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in fact, recover something
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not from the ancient world
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but from an extraterrestrial one.
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A multicolored orb of light
was seen in the sky
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in 1937 in Southwestern Poland.
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And by all accounts,
this was a UFO sighting.
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But it's a lot more than that.
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This orb actually crashed into the ground.
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Narrator:
According to the account,
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when investigators reached
the suspected crash site,
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they found a strange
disc-shaped object.
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Nazi officials are said to have
taken the damaged craft
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to a nearby secure facility
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where it was examined by Germany's
top aeronautical experts,
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including Wernher von Braun.
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While no remains of any alleged
UFOs survived the war,
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German engineers did develop a
series of revolutionary aircraft,
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including the first
rocket-powered jet fighter,
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the first stealth bomber,
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and even antigravity-powered,
saucer-shaped vehicles.
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From what we're able to glean today,
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Nazi technology at the end of World War II
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was so advanced that they had things
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that are still science fiction today
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antigravity...
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beam weapons...
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flying saucers...
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flying triangles.
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Things that are still kept secret today.
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Narrator:
In June 1945,
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U.S. Army officials
holding German scientists
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reported that the Nazis were 25 years ahead
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of the United States in rocketry.
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You have to wonder
where this knowledge came from
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and also whether von Braun
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who was really the spearhead of
all the Nazi rocket technology
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if he had also gotten
information from other sources,
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perhaps extraterrestrials,
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that helped him advance so
quickly in rocket technology.
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Narrator:
Could the incredible advances
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made by von Braun's design team
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have been the result of alien technologies
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that were reverse-engineered?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes and claim
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the most compelling evidence
isn't the amazing technology
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achieved by the Nazis,
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but the incredible advancements
that came after the war
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in America.
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Narrator:
Oberjoch, Germany, May 1945.
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In the wake of Adolf Hitler's suicide
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and the German surrender, Wernher von Braun
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and hundreds of other
German rocket engineers
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surrendered to the U.S. Army's
Counterintelligence Corps.
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But it was a move von Braun
had planned months before.
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BARA: Von Braun
and his colleagues made
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a conscious decision
to surrender to the Americans
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because they felt they would
have access to higher technology
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and they would have
a better opportunity to fulfill
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his dream of going to the moon
and going to Mars,
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uh, to explore what was there.
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Narrator: Although he was
a known member of the SS,
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von Braun leveraged his position
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as the head of Germany's
V-2 rocket program
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to convince U.S. authorities
to bring him
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and roughly 100 hand-picked
members of his team to America.
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Eventually, some 1,500 German scientists
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and technicians would follow
von Braun to the U.S.
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through a top secret program
called Operation Paperclip.
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Operation Paperclip was a, uh,
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an executive-ordered,
uh, private secret operation
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to bring over Nazi scientists,
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mostly Nazi rocket scientists
and engineers, to the U.S.
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to help build up a rocketry
program for the United States.
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Operation Paperclip was kept
a secret for decades.
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And you have to wonder whether
it was this special knowledge,
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perhaps extraterrestrial knowledge,
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that these Nazi scientists had
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that we needed so desperately
for our own space program.
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Narrator: In the fall of 1945,
the U.S. Army assigned
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the 33-year-old von Braun
and his German colleagues
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to the White Sands Proving
Ground missile test range
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in New Mexico.
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Since the 1940s,
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White Sands has been
the military's testing site
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for cutting-edge developments
in rocketry and space travel.
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According to official records,
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von Braun's task was
to help teach the Americans
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how to rebuild and launch
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captured V-2 rockets
brought back from Germany.
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But there are others who believe
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von Braun had another top secret job.
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Former Army Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso,
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in his book, The Day after Roswell,
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claimed the facility also housed
classified R & D projects,
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including the study
of extraterrestrial craft.
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Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso served
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in the U.S. military
for many years,
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and he claimed that he actually worked
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on recovered alien technology,
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including the crashed vehicle
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that was recovered at Roswell,
New Mexico in 1947.
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Now, there is a theory that
alien technology from Roswell,
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and maybe from other crashes, too,
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was actually taken to the
White Sands Proving Ground
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that's where Wernher von Braun worked
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and that all this, uh, R & D
that was going on at White Sands
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was actually at least
in part alien technology.
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Narrator:
Corso claimed
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that these reverse-engineering
efforts resulted
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in today's integrated circuit chips,
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fiber optics and lasers.
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The sudden explosion
of post-World War II technology
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is unexplainable to many.
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This is why they point to
Wernher von Braun and the Nazis
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as the source of this technology.
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Narrator:
There are also claims
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that a top secret Nazi
superweapon called Die Glocke
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ended up in the hands of the Americans.
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Reportedly, "the Bell,"
as it came to be known,
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was brought to the United States
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in a secret deal
with SS General Hans Kammler,
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the same man behind the construction
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of Mittelwerk and Peenemunde.
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Die Glocke, or the Bell,
is said to represent
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the pinnacle of the Nazi SS
wonder-weapons program.
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It's a metallic bell,
about nine feet in diameter,
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with many mysterious properties.
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Scientists who have looked at this
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and the recollections of its
appearance and its usage suggest
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that it had antigravitational properties.
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We have to legitimately consider
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that the German scientists
were at the root of all this
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and that their transferred technology
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is exactly what is now being used
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in advanced so-called
"alien reproduction vehicles,"
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built by our own military
industrial complex.
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Narrator: It was rumored that much of
the Nazis' secret weaponry was hidden
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at the Mittelwerk underground
research facility.
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In the 1990s,
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German archaeologist
and scientist Willi Kramer
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determined that somehow 70 tons of material
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that used to exist
at Mittelwerk is now missing.
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Is it possible that the missing
material ended up in U.S. hands?
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Perhaps further clues can
be found by examining the story
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of how Wernher von Braun
put a man on the moon.
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Narrator:
In the early 1950s,
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the American public seemed
to have an insatiable appetite
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for science fiction.
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It seemed that in the wake
of the atomic bomb,
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anything was possible.
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Wernher von Braun viewed
this fixation as his opportunity
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to get the public to share in
his dream of space exploration
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and initiated a plan
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to turn science fiction into science fact.
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In 1952, he captured
the public's imagination
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with an illustrated series of
articles in Collier's magazine,
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depicting life in space.
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And it was two years later
that von Braun teamed up
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with perhaps the only man just
as passionate as him
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at the notion of turning dreams
into reality: Walt Disney.
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Over the course of three films,
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von Braun used Disney's model
and animation artists
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to illustrate his vision
for our future space program.
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Here we have a scale drawing of the earth
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with the moon 240,000 miles away.
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This is the elliptical path
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which our rocket ship will follow,
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going out... and coming back.
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We must aim the ship well ahead of the moon
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so that they both arrive
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at about the same point
in space at the same time.
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Even though we now have
the theoretical knowledge
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to make a trip to the moon,
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it will be many years yet before
our plans can fully materialize.
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Wernher von Braun was a mixture
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of scientist, engineer and visionary.
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Von Braun was that rare combination,
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and perhaps the mystic visionary
in him lifted his work
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above the common sphere
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of scientific and engineering achievement.
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Narrator:
October 4, 1957.
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Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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The Soviet Union shocks the world
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when they launch Sputnik into Earth's orbit
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and beat the United States
at becoming the first country
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to send a man-made object
into space.
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PEARLMAN: The Soviet Union
had shocked the United States
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by putting the first man-made
satellite into space.
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Sputnik flying overhead not only
was a scary proposition,
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because if they could put
a satellite above us,
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why couldn't they put
a nuclear missile above us?
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It was also, uh, sort of a wakeup call,
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because most people considered the Russians
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to be behind us technologically.
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Narrator: America's interest
in space shifted into high gear,
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and over the next several years,
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Wernher von Braun led the design team
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that sent the first
American satellite into space
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and the first man into orbit...
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all aboard rockets based on
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von Braun's
original V-2 designs.
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MAN:
Three, two, one...
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Narrator: But as impressive
as these feats were,
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the next step man would take
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would be far greater
than any that had come before.
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On July 20, 1969,
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57-year-old
Wernher von Braun watched
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from inside Mission Control
as a human being,
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for the first time in history,
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stepped foot on a celestial body
other than Earth.
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CHARLIE DUKE:
We copy you down, Eagle.
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NEIL ARMSTRONG: Tranquility Base here.
The Eagle has landed.
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That's one small step for man,
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one giant leap for mankind.
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Narrator: Wernher von Braun's
boyhood dream,
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which so many had called an impossible feat,
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had become a reality.
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POPE: We effectively went
from horse and buggy
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to landing people on the moon in 60 years.
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It's an exponential increase in technology.
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It's an absolute explosion.
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It's phenomenal that we came so far so fast.
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IMPEY: Getting to the moon involves
extremely precise orbital calculations
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and the possibility of missing the moon,
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of not capturing into an orbit,
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is a matter of a tiny fraction
of a degree in the trajectory
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and a small percentage
of the speed coming in.
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So the ability to adjust
the orbit in real time
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and adjust those calculations
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it was a stunning achievement.
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Narrator:
But how did von Braun know
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all the specific information
needed to calculate
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not only how to send man to the moon
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but to bring him back to Earth?
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Where did he get data such as
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the exact gravitational pull of the moon,
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the speed needed to break Earth's orbit,
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or the effects of
space radiation on the ship?
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BUZZ ALDRIN: We're now in the approach phase.
Everything looking good.
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Narrator: And how did von Braun
know the answers
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15 years earlier,
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when he appeared in Walt Disney's
"Man In Space" programs?
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I consider it to be entirely possible
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that the endowment
of extraterrestrial technology
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that fell into the hands of guys
like Wernher von Braun
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was, in fact, a key element
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that allowed us to make
technological leaps forward
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much faster than we ever
would have been able to do
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if we were without the benefit
of this advanced technology.
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POPE: Wernher von Braun
wanted to go further
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than just send people
to the moon and bring them back.
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Ultimately he was talking
about colonies in space.
503
00:29:15,675 --> 00:29:19,256
Maybe it was inspired
by something extraterrestrial.
504
00:29:22,292 --> 00:29:25,710
Narrator: Could it be that
von Braun was not only guided
505
00:29:25,835 --> 00:29:27,431
by an alien intelligence,
506
00:29:28,093 --> 00:29:30,999
but that the incredible
achievement of reaching the moon
507
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,035
really was made possible
508
00:29:33,070 --> 00:29:36,040
with the help of
extraterrestrial technology?
509
00:29:38,726 --> 00:29:41,077
Some ancient astronaut theorists say
510
00:29:41,343 --> 00:29:43,640
that not only is this the case,
511
00:29:44,109 --> 00:29:45,365
but there is evidence
512
00:29:45,390 --> 00:29:48,457
that NASA encountered more on the moon
513
00:29:48,482 --> 00:29:50,390
than they have revealed.
514
00:29:55,180 --> 00:29:57,312
RONALD EVANS:
Tranquility Base, uh, Houston.
515
00:29:57,410 --> 00:29:59,986
Guidance recommendation, uh, is PGNS,
516
00:30:00,018 --> 00:30:01,675
and you're cleared for takeoff.
517
00:30:02,615 --> 00:30:06,001
Narrator:
July 21, 1969.
518
00:30:06,667 --> 00:30:10,687
Approximately 21h hours
after landing on the moon,
519
00:30:10,944 --> 00:30:13,561
the Lunar Module Eagle lifts off
520
00:30:14,108 --> 00:30:17,043
to rejoin the Command Module Columbia
521
00:30:17,068 --> 00:30:19,232
and begin the return to Earth.
522
00:30:19,944 --> 00:30:21,872
The astronauts take with them
523
00:30:21,934 --> 00:30:25,572
47.5 pounds of lunar
surface material,
524
00:30:25,950 --> 00:30:28,676
and they leave some items behind as well,
525
00:30:29,020 --> 00:30:30,719
like scientific instruments,
526
00:30:31,278 --> 00:30:32,990
an American flag,
527
00:30:33,481 --> 00:30:37,353
and a small plaque commemorating
the Apollo 11 mission.
528
00:30:37,707 --> 00:30:41,653
But perhaps most curious
of the items left on the moon
529
00:30:41,793 --> 00:30:43,667
was a small bag containing
530
00:30:43,692 --> 00:30:46,239
a gold replica of an olive branch
531
00:30:46,730 --> 00:30:48,449
and a silicon disk
532
00:30:48,474 --> 00:30:51,211
with recorded messages of peace and goodwill
533
00:30:51,416 --> 00:30:53,685
from 73 world leaders.
534
00:30:54,809 --> 00:30:58,258
Why were these symbolic messages
sent up into space?
535
00:30:58,864 --> 00:31:02,622
Some ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the mastermind
536
00:31:02,647 --> 00:31:05,617
behind the Apollo program Wernher von Braun
537
00:31:05,833 --> 00:31:08,567
was expecting to find more on the moon
538
00:31:08,592 --> 00:31:11,148
than NASA wanted the public to know.
539
00:31:12,256 --> 00:31:14,479
Wernher von Braun famously said
540
00:31:14,504 --> 00:31:18,492
that the next world war will be
the war against the ETs.
541
00:31:18,899 --> 00:31:21,134
His remarks were hugely controversial.
542
00:31:21,159 --> 00:31:23,394
Some people have said
that he was simply saying
543
00:31:23,419 --> 00:31:26,884
there can't be another world war
544
00:31:26,909 --> 00:31:28,987
now that we've got atomic weapons.
545
00:31:29,335 --> 00:31:32,658
Other people have speculated
that he knew something
546
00:31:32,683 --> 00:31:36,286
and he was hinting at some terrible truth.
547
00:31:36,919 --> 00:31:39,879
Another story relates
that, uh, von Braun claimed
548
00:31:39,904 --> 00:31:42,595
that we had help from "them"
549
00:31:42,958 --> 00:31:44,571
to get us into space.
550
00:31:45,051 --> 00:31:47,747
If anybody knew about the extraterrestrials,
551
00:31:47,772 --> 00:31:49,839
it would've been a guy
like Wernher von Braun.
552
00:31:52,927 --> 00:31:56,731
Narrator: Some ancient astronaut
theorists propose that not only
553
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,416
did alien beings have a hand
in man reaching the moon,
554
00:32:00,910 --> 00:32:04,418
but that once there,
we discovered further evidence
555
00:32:04,548 --> 00:32:06,415
that we are not alone.
556
00:32:07,101 --> 00:32:10,163
And they claim
the strongest proof can be found
557
00:32:10,392 --> 00:32:13,456
by examining our last
manned trip to the moon:
558
00:32:14,244 --> 00:32:17,970
the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
559
00:32:18,394 --> 00:32:20,283
We definitely weren't told everything,
560
00:32:20,308 --> 00:32:22,939
and there's monkey business
played with the moon landings,
561
00:32:22,964 --> 00:32:25,067
of course,
as far as what we know about them.
562
00:32:26,127 --> 00:32:29,400
BARA: Apollo 17 was, in fact,
a technology salvaging mission.
563
00:32:29,425 --> 00:32:32,063
HARRISON SCHMITT: Yeah, looks like
there's been a geologist here before us.
564
00:32:32,088 --> 00:32:34,947
BARA: Some of it has to do with
the actual landing site itself.
565
00:32:34,972 --> 00:32:38,391
There were several mountains in the area
that don't really look like mountains.
566
00:32:38,416 --> 00:32:40,807
One of them
is very hexagonal-looking.
567
00:32:40,870 --> 00:32:44,854
And they bear a striking resemblance
to actual artificial structures.
568
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,920
The astronauts went directly
for this hexagonal mountain.
569
00:32:49,479 --> 00:32:51,123
They parked on the hill above it
570
00:32:51,155 --> 00:32:53,257
and then they got out of the lunar rover.
571
00:32:53,531 --> 00:32:56,717
What's interesting is that,
for the next 20 or 30 minutes,
572
00:32:56,787 --> 00:32:59,349
NASA has control of the camera on the rover,
573
00:32:59,459 --> 00:33:03,180
and they point it at everything
except what the astronauts are doing.
574
00:33:03,544 --> 00:33:07,762
They had plenty of time to rappel down
inside of this V-shaped depression.
575
00:33:07,787 --> 00:33:09,787
JOHN YOUNG: Okay, let's go on back.
DUKE: I am.
576
00:33:09,812 --> 00:33:12,489
BARA: It's really interesting that we
don't see any of the astronauts at all
577
00:33:12,514 --> 00:33:14,612
until they come back to the lunar rover.
578
00:33:14,637 --> 00:33:16,551
There's no question
that the mystery would be
579
00:33:16,576 --> 00:33:18,505
what they were looking for, what they found,
580
00:33:18,530 --> 00:33:21,222
could it possibly have been
ancient alien technology?
581
00:33:23,066 --> 00:33:25,463
Narrator: Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
582
00:33:25,488 --> 00:33:28,922
that even more compelling
than the hexagonal formation
583
00:33:28,947 --> 00:33:32,233
is what appears at another spot
that was filmed:
584
00:33:33,391 --> 00:33:34,989
the Shorty Crater.
585
00:33:35,962 --> 00:33:38,704
SCHMITT:
There is orange soil!
586
00:33:38,868 --> 00:33:41,144
CERNAN: Well, don't move it
until I see it.
587
00:33:41,954 --> 00:33:44,703
SCHMITT: It's all over!
Orange!
588
00:33:45,687 --> 00:33:49,579
BARA: In Shorty Crater, you can see orange
soil that was discovered at the landing site.
589
00:33:49,614 --> 00:33:51,737
And the reason
the soil was orange was because
590
00:33:51,762 --> 00:33:54,629
it had a great deal of oxygen in
it, which was kind of a surprise.
591
00:33:56,215 --> 00:33:59,018
But the biggest surprise is, if
you actually look in the crater,
592
00:33:59,043 --> 00:34:01,433
what you see are objects that at first
593
00:34:01,458 --> 00:34:03,729
might to the naked eye appear to be rocks,
594
00:34:04,691 --> 00:34:07,742
but in fact, as you study it
with an engineer's eye,
595
00:34:07,767 --> 00:34:10,269
what you see is mechanisms.
596
00:34:11,088 --> 00:34:14,559
And right in the middle of it,
there's a very interesting object
597
00:34:14,592 --> 00:34:17,028
that as you zoom up on it, it begins to look
598
00:34:17,525 --> 00:34:20,494
more and more like a human head.
599
00:34:22,396 --> 00:34:25,603
Narrator: Mike Bara and fellow
researcher Richard Hoagland
600
00:34:25,790 --> 00:34:28,845
obtained early generation
negatives from Shorty Crater,
601
00:34:29,235 --> 00:34:32,207
and upon enhancing the colors
present in the film,
602
00:34:32,476 --> 00:34:35,311
found that the object appears metallic.
603
00:34:35,962 --> 00:34:37,849
BARA: The most intriguing thing
is that, on the upper part
604
00:34:37,882 --> 00:34:40,050
of the mouth, there was a bright, distinct
605
00:34:40,083 --> 00:34:42,052
red stripe painted across it.
606
00:34:42,086 --> 00:34:44,292
And it glowed and shone
607
00:34:44,421 --> 00:34:46,075
as if it were metallic.
608
00:34:46,578 --> 00:34:49,927
You then come to the realization
that what you're probably looking at
609
00:34:49,961 --> 00:34:53,274
is the head
of a humanoid-appearing robot.
610
00:34:54,093 --> 00:34:57,181
The leftovers of an explosion
that damaged and destroyed
611
00:34:57,212 --> 00:34:59,632
a bunch of mechanical stuff.
612
00:35:02,014 --> 00:35:06,068
Narrator: Did NASA really recover
alien artifacts from the moon?
613
00:35:06,709 --> 00:35:10,482
Curiously, on June 30, 1972
614
00:35:10,882 --> 00:35:14,369
just 5 months before the Apollo 17 mission
615
00:35:14,818 --> 00:35:17,541
Wernher von Braun retired from NASA,
616
00:35:17,809 --> 00:35:21,547
frustrated over the direction
the Apollo program was headed.
617
00:35:22,594 --> 00:35:26,340
However, he continued his
efforts to return to space,
618
00:35:26,945 --> 00:35:30,183
turning to his wealthy and
high-powered friends for help.
619
00:35:31,242 --> 00:35:32,937
But what did he tell them?
620
00:35:34,109 --> 00:35:36,476
Is it possible that there exists
621
00:35:36,574 --> 00:35:38,694
a secret space program?
622
00:35:44,030 --> 00:35:45,888
Narrator:
Pasadena, California.
623
00:35:46,788 --> 00:35:50,053
January 22, 2015.
624
00:35:51,311 --> 00:35:53,826
Officials with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
625
00:35:53,982 --> 00:35:56,693
announce plans for the Mars Helicopter
626
00:35:56,718 --> 00:35:59,037
a drone that will triple the distance
627
00:35:59,068 --> 00:36:00,693
a rover can explore.
628
00:36:01,582 --> 00:36:05,619
Meanwhile, the privatization
of space exploration
629
00:36:05,644 --> 00:36:08,990
has created a new $300 billion industry
630
00:36:09,589 --> 00:36:12,628
that may soon surpass
the advancements of NASA.
631
00:36:14,326 --> 00:36:17,534
And there are some ancient
astronaut theorists who believe
632
00:36:17,748 --> 00:36:19,732
that this private space industry
633
00:36:19,767 --> 00:36:22,829
is the brainchild of Wernher von Braun.
634
00:36:25,774 --> 00:36:29,059
Wernher von Braun had the ear
of seven American presidents,
635
00:36:29,163 --> 00:36:30,894
the top scientists of the world
636
00:36:31,047 --> 00:36:33,494
and many of the world's industrial leaders.
637
00:36:35,717 --> 00:36:38,684
It's natural that you might find the links
638
00:36:38,709 --> 00:36:42,020
to the private groups
that have the resources,
639
00:36:42,045 --> 00:36:44,832
the means and the dedication
640
00:36:44,857 --> 00:36:48,953
to develop their own advanced technology
641
00:36:49,035 --> 00:36:52,961
independent of the governments,
independent of the-the public,
642
00:36:53,058 --> 00:36:54,635
the-the people of the world.
643
00:36:56,660 --> 00:36:59,876
Narrator: After retiring
from NASA in 1972,
644
00:37:00,438 --> 00:37:04,168
Wernher von Braun was invited to
meetings of the Bohemian Club
645
00:37:04,907 --> 00:37:07,382
a secretive group
of high-powered men
646
00:37:07,508 --> 00:37:09,808
famous for their rustic retreats.
647
00:37:11,135 --> 00:37:13,799
But why?
What went on there?
648
00:37:16,148 --> 00:37:19,517
It is rumored that some members
of the Bohemian Club
649
00:37:19,650 --> 00:37:23,837
also belonged to private groups
called "breakaway civilizations"
650
00:37:23,937 --> 00:37:25,858
that have developed advanced technologies
651
00:37:25,891 --> 00:37:28,743
independent of world governments.
652
00:37:30,655 --> 00:37:34,382
WILCOCK: I've had insiders that have told
me that they worked in this space program,
653
00:37:34,429 --> 00:37:38,615
that we do have a breakaway civilization
that is extremely advanced.
654
00:37:39,858 --> 00:37:42,074
That we already have
diplomatic relationships
655
00:37:42,108 --> 00:37:43,866
with a variety of extraterrestrial
656
00:37:43,891 --> 00:37:45,466
species and cultures.
657
00:37:48,828 --> 00:37:50,916
Narrator:
Is it possible von Braun knew
658
00:37:50,949 --> 00:37:53,665
of the existence of extraterrestrials?
659
00:37:56,185 --> 00:37:59,103
Might his extraordinary
efforts to reach space
660
00:37:59,324 --> 00:38:01,260
have been motivated by a desire
661
00:38:01,293 --> 00:38:04,660
to come in contact with otherworldly beings?
662
00:38:06,644 --> 00:38:09,246
Could it have been part
of his plan all along
663
00:38:09,387 --> 00:38:13,833
for us to have a private space
industry that operated in secret?
664
00:38:16,058 --> 00:38:17,711
For the last 60-some years,
665
00:38:17,742 --> 00:38:20,590
we've developed no new
propulsion technologies at all.
666
00:38:20,950 --> 00:38:23,016
And that seems very, very unlikely.
667
00:38:23,182 --> 00:38:25,885
So the question becomes, at what point
668
00:38:25,918 --> 00:38:28,458
did NASA actually develop the next level
669
00:38:28,483 --> 00:38:31,552
of propulsion technology
and maybe take it secret?
670
00:38:35,530 --> 00:38:38,583
Narrator:
On June 16, 1977,
671
00:38:39,100 --> 00:38:41,739
after a four-year-long battle
with cancer,
672
00:38:42,092 --> 00:38:45,463
65-year-old
Wernher von Braun died.
673
00:38:46,865 --> 00:38:49,745
His gravestone contains no epitaph,
674
00:38:50,439 --> 00:38:53,237
simply a reference
to Psalms 19:1
675
00:38:54,513 --> 00:38:56,710
a biblical passage that reads
676
00:38:56,983 --> 00:38:59,353
"The heavens declare the glory of God;
677
00:38:59,773 --> 00:39:03,065
the skies proclaim
the work of his hands."
678
00:39:03,693 --> 00:39:06,067
Wernher von Braun's bold predictions
679
00:39:06,324 --> 00:39:08,371
that we would put a man on the moon,
680
00:39:09,189 --> 00:39:10,862
explore Mars
681
00:39:11,262 --> 00:39:13,031
and build a space station
682
00:39:13,376 --> 00:39:15,257
have all come to pass.
683
00:39:17,376 --> 00:39:19,737
But was this incredible visionary
684
00:39:19,762 --> 00:39:23,239
perhaps preparing us
for something even greater?
685
00:39:25,969 --> 00:39:29,095
On January 20, 2015,
686
00:39:29,478 --> 00:39:31,648
President Barack Obama announced
687
00:39:31,695 --> 00:39:33,506
in his State of the Union address
688
00:39:33,742 --> 00:39:36,732
that the next step for
the United States space program
689
00:39:36,953 --> 00:39:39,162
is a manned mission to Mars.
690
00:39:39,187 --> 00:39:42,858
Last month, we launched a new spacecraft
as part of a reenergized space program
691
00:39:42,883 --> 00:39:45,444
that will send American astronauts to Mars.
692
00:39:46,679 --> 00:39:49,269
Narrator: Photographs
taken on Mars have revealed
693
00:39:49,300 --> 00:39:52,376
mysterious formations
that some have interpreted
694
00:39:52,401 --> 00:39:55,493
as man-made structures
like pyramids,
695
00:39:56,620 --> 00:39:58,465
the outline of a sphinx,
696
00:39:59,423 --> 00:40:02,064
and even a carving of what appears to be
697
00:40:02,150 --> 00:40:04,042
a human-like face.
698
00:40:05,284 --> 00:40:08,071
Might life exist on the Red Planet?
699
00:40:09,196 --> 00:40:13,501
And could it be that NASA's next
mission isn't to travel there
700
00:40:13,793 --> 00:40:17,847
but to disclose the fact
that we have been there before?
701
00:40:19,398 --> 00:40:21,902
There's no question when you
look at the surface of Mars
702
00:40:21,934 --> 00:40:24,613
that there are ruined
artificial structures there.
703
00:40:26,241 --> 00:40:28,912
There's no question when you
look at photographs of the moon
704
00:40:28,937 --> 00:40:31,540
that there are ruined
artificial structures there.
705
00:40:32,069 --> 00:40:34,757
And it seems very unlikely
that it was just us,
706
00:40:34,782 --> 00:40:36,684
that it was human beings that built this.
707
00:40:36,883 --> 00:40:39,750
The question becomes,
did NASA go to different places
708
00:40:39,775 --> 00:40:42,421
like the moon and Mars and find things
709
00:40:42,446 --> 00:40:45,906
that we would all like to know about
but are being hidden from us?
710
00:40:47,750 --> 00:40:51,097
WILCOCK: What if we actually are on the moon
711
00:40:51,766 --> 00:40:53,563
and it's all classified?
712
00:40:55,296 --> 00:40:58,116
What if there is a whole
secret infrastructure
713
00:40:58,141 --> 00:41:00,702
and that there is already a vast amount
714
00:41:00,727 --> 00:41:03,546
of colonization of the moon, of Mars,
715
00:41:03,850 --> 00:41:06,219
and of other moons
in our solar system as well?
716
00:41:07,217 --> 00:41:09,883
Let's all hope that the time is coming soon
717
00:41:09,914 --> 00:41:11,595
where we will get disclosure,
718
00:41:11,771 --> 00:41:14,563
where the walls of secrecy
will finally break down,
719
00:41:14,716 --> 00:41:16,959
and we will be told the truth.
720
00:41:19,391 --> 00:41:22,220
Narrator: Is it possible that
the greatest rocket scientist
721
00:41:22,245 --> 00:41:23,867
the world has ever known
722
00:41:23,992 --> 00:41:28,399
found his inspiration
not on our world but another?
723
00:41:29,745 --> 00:41:32,282
Could Wernher von Braun have been chosen
724
00:41:32,307 --> 00:41:35,046
to propel mankind into space?
725
00:41:36,443 --> 00:41:38,329
And might he have been responsible
726
00:41:38,354 --> 00:41:41,481
for much more than we are even aware of?
727
00:41:42,521 --> 00:41:44,244
Perhaps one day soon,
728
00:41:44,550 --> 00:41:48,354
we will realize von Braun's
full vision for space travel
729
00:41:48,742 --> 00:41:53,953
and finally come face-to-face
with our alien ancestors.
730
00:41:54,174 --> 00:41:55,984
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