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>> NARRATOR: Unexplained

sightings in space...

>> SETH SHOSTAK: Shuttle

astronauts will report

that they've seen things that

might be due to

an alien presence.

>> NARRATOR: ...strange

formations on the surface of

Mars...

>> ERICH VON DANIKEN: Now, some

NASA scientists say this is all

just a light and shadow game.

>> NARRATOR: ..and lunar

missions rumored to have secret

agendas.

>> LOGAN HAWKES: The race for

the Moon, was it a race to

reach technology that

was left behind by an

extraterrestrial race?

>> NARRATOR: Is NASA sharing

all that it knows

about the universe?

Or are they protecting us

from the truth?

>> MICHAEL BARA: The Brookings

Report says very specifically,

number one, don't tell anybody.

If you tell anybody, it will

shatter the fabric

of our civilization.

>> NARRATOR: Millions of people

around the world believe we have

been visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help

to shape our history?

And, if so, might our

extraterrestrial origins

be revealed through

the NASA connection?

>> NARRATOR: July 20, 1969.

>> Okay, engine stop.

>> We copy you down, Eagle.

>> Tranquility Base here.

The Eagle has landed.

>> NARRATOR: American astronauts

Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz"

Aldrin become the first humans

to land on the Moon.

>> "That's one small step for

man, one giant leap for

mankind."

>> BUZZ ALDRIN: We aliens

who happened to...

go down the ladder on July 20,

1969, were certainly part of a

magnificent race that was able

to all of sudden appear in the

garden of Eden.

>> STORY MUSGRAVE: Landing

on the Moon happened

because of courage.

We had the courage.

We were willing to take

the risk.

We had a president who was

behind us and said you're

gonna do it.

>> DAVID MORRISON: I look at

those people from the Apollo era

as heroes, not just the

astronauts that went, but the

hundred thousand people on the

ground that made it possible.

They worked on an exact plan.

They knew where they

wanted to go.

They developed the technology,

And, by golly, they

pulled it off.

It was a tremendous

accomplishment, perhaps the

greatest scientific technical

accomplishment in human history.

>> Houston, it's Tranquility,

how do you read?

>> Tranquility Base, this is

Houston, loud and clear.

>> NARRATOR: For more than two

and a half hours, Armstrong and

Aldrin stood on the surface

of the Moon.

Video transmissions showed the

two astronauts collecting rock

samples, taking photographs, and

planting an American flag

in the lunar soil.

But what might these men have

done away from the camera?

Could there have been another,

perhaps, top‐secret mission,

as ancient astronaut

theorists believe?

>> DAVID CHILDRESS: When Apollo

11 first landed on the Moon,

there were certain sites that

they were to look at.

And even as they orbited the

Moon there were certain areas of

the Moon that they were to

examine carefully

and photograph.

And you have to ask yourself if

NASA already had certain parts

of the Moon picked out,

and the reason they had picked

out these areas was because

there was artificial structures

on the Moon and they knew it.

>> NARRATOR: According to NASA

records, the area of the Moon

called the Sea of Tranquility

was chosen for the first lunar

landing based on its

flat surface.

But some researchers suggest

this site was chosen because on

that date, its coordinates lined

up directly under Orion's Belt.

>> BARA: The way they

picked the landing sites was

that they first chose the

specific date, the specific

latitude and longitude, the

specific time that they

would land.

And then you have to work your

way back from that to create

what's called the launch window.

The person who picked all of the

Apollo landing dates and landing

times, including the mission for

Apollo 11, was a man

named Farouk El‐Baz.

His father just happened to be

an expert on the ancient

Egyptian stellar religion.

>> NARRATOR: According to

ancient Egyptian beliefs,

ceremonies performed directly

under Orion's Belt produce a

sacred alignment, one through

which humans could communicate

with Osiris.

>> BARA: To the ancient

Egyptians, that constellation

actually was a literal living

embodiment of the great

god Osiris.

Sirius was the same

representation of his wife,

sister and consort, Isis.

Together, those two essentially

ruled the skies, and the life of

the Egyptian people themselves

was dictated by the rotation,

the movement and the placement

of those two celestial objects

in the heavens.

>> BARA: Apollo 11 had

landed at a specific day and a

specific time where the three

belt stars of Orion were

on the horizon.

At that time, 33 minutes after

landing, Buzz Aldrin, the second

man to walk on the Moon,

a 33 Degree Scottish Rite

Freemason was, in fact,

performing a ceremony on board

the lunar module

with Neil Armstrong.

What they were doing was pouring

wine into chalices, breaking

bread and doing what essentially

is called a communion ceremony.

Now the interesting thing about

the communion ceremony is that

although its Catholic,

it actually has its origins in a

much deeper, farther back ritual

which was an offering to

the god Osiris himself.

So they are performing,

essentially, an offering to

Osiris himself.

So I think that's why

that they landed on the Moon

at that date and time.

>> PHILIP COPPENS: Certain

rituals have to be performed at

certain moments in time, whereby

this link with this nonhuman

intelligence will happen.

The priestly class of our

ancestors, either through

technology or through certain

means, really re very much the

class which sought out contact

with this nonhuman intelligence.

And they were the ones who were

trned to do this, very much

like the scientists of today,

which we have trained to be the

people who are going to go

into outer space.

>> NARRATOR: Left behind on the

Moon were scientific

instruments, an American flag,

and a small plaque commemorating

the Apollo 11 mission.

But there were other items left

as well‐‐ a bag containing

a gold replica of an

olive branch,

and a silicon disk with recorded

messages of peace and goodwill

from 73 world leaders.

Why were these symbolic messages

sent up into space?

Who was NASA expecting

to meet on the Moon?

>> HAWKES: When we talk

about the Apollo Moon mission,

there's some theory

at suggest that massive

cities may exist on the dark

side of the Moon,

cities that NASA was aware of,

that the Moon missions were all

about and that artifacts from

these ancient ruin sites have

been brought back to Earth.

Is it possible it wasn't Moon

rocks we were picking up and

bringing back as specimens,

but perhaps alien technology?

>> VON DANIKEN: If

extraterrestrials were here on

planet, I'm sure they were here,

we should also find evidence

on the Moon because the Moon is

the place for a stopover.

You have a mother spaceship.

You need some sort of refuel.

Whatever this refuel is, could

be raw material, could be stone,

could be uranium, could be

whatever is in the surface

of the Moon.

So it would make sense that we

find some indications on the

Moon, technological indications,

that somebody was here.

>> NARRATOR: Over the past

several years, officials with

NASA's space program have

admitted to misplacing original

recordings of some Moon

landings, and losing rocks

collected from the lunar

surface.

Could this be, as ancient

astronaut theorists believe,

lost evidence of possible alien

contact?

Some claim that photos NASA has

taken of both the Moon and Mars

indicate they know more than

they are telling us.

>> DAVID ICKE: We're going to

have to come to terms with the

with the fact that we have been

told the most monumental

collective lie, all our lives,

about technologically‐advanced,

nonhuman groups that are

fundamentally impacting upon

life on Earth.

And you will find the evidence

for that on the far side of the

Moon, and no doubt, Mars, too.

>> BARA: Every time you look at

a photograph from an unmanned

probe of the planet Mars,

there's almost always something

truly weird that doesn't belong

there that looks structural.

Carl Sagan himself used to talk

about the pyramids of Elysium,

which were these very large,

tetrahedral pyramids on Mars.

>> VON DANIKEN: We have some

strange pictures from the

surface of the back of the Moon

and from the surface of Mars.

Some strange pictures which

seems to show artificial stuff,

some ancient buildings.

On Mars, we had one day

photograph by Mariner, we had a

face on Mars.

And in later picture, the face

did not exist anymore.

But around the face, there was

still something like a gate.

Now, some NASA scientists say

this is all just a light and

shadow game.

Otrs, also from NASA, say the

pyramids are real on Mars.

So, at this moment, I don't know

what is true.

>> BARA: There are some people

that think that with the Roswell

crash, that the U. S. government

established communications with

extraterrestrial beings.

There are some who think that we

did not establish such contact

until the Apollo missions

themselves.

And there are other people who

think that we really don't have

any direct contact with

extraterrestrial species.

My personal belief is that at

some point along the way, NASA

did have a direct pipeline to

the ETs.

>> NARRATOR: But if NASA has

possessed evidence of

extraterrestrial life, as

ancient astronaut theorists

believe, what are they hiding?

>> NARRATOR: Might NASA really

have found evidence of the

existence of extraterrestrial

life on the Moon?

And could there be further proof

of an alien presence as

witnessed by astronauts on the

space shuttle and the

International Space Station?

>> NARRATOR: NASA Ames Research

Center, Moffett Field,

California.

On December 5, 2011, astronomers

working with the Kepler space

telescope announced the

discovery of a planet they

called Kepler‐22b, orbiting

within what's known as the

habitable zone of a distant

star.

>> SIMON P. WORDToday's

discovery is a tantalizing

indication that, with time,

Kepler may find true earth

analogs.

>> SETH SHOSTAK: Kepler‐22b is

about 600 light‐years away from

Earth, so that's a long way.

But it is, in fact, in an orbit

that means that the daytime

temperatures on that planet

might be comparable to a summer

in San Francisco, so that's the

first time we found a planet

that might have liquid oceans,

maybe a thick atmosphere, maybe

even life.

>> DAVID MORRISON, PH. D.: What

we'd ultimately like to do,

first, is just understand how

other planetary systems are made

up.

But then, we really would like

to find Earth‐like planets.

Planets in the habitable zone

of sun‐like stars.

>> NARRATOR: But is it possible

that NASA scientists have been

searching for life they already

know exists?

Some believe previous voyages

into space have uncovered

evidence of an extraterrestrial

presence.

Houston, Discovery, how do you

read? Over.

>> Discovery, Houston,

read you loud and clear.

>> Go for main engines start.

Main engines up and burning.

Three, two, one, zero and

liftoff!

>> Roger. Roll, Discovery.

>> NARRATOR: On September 12,

1991, the space shuttle

Discovery STS‐48 flew nearly

350 miles above the surface of

the Earth.

Its crew, led by Captain John

Creighton, performed several

missions, including the

deployment of an upper

atmosphere research satellite.

>> He is go for free drift.

>> Okay, we're in free drift.

>> NARRATOR: While the

astronauts occupied themselves

with various tasks, a video

camera at the rear cargo bay

door captured footage that NASA

claims no longer exists.

But a number of amateurs who

were directly monitoring the

transmissions have produced what

they allege is genuine footage

from STS‐48.

The video shows what appears to

be a series of unidentified

glowing objects and flashing

lights that change direction

and accelerate rapidly.

>> CHILDRESS: Apparently, the

space shuttle was surrounded by

some kind of UFO, flying saucer

type of craft, some kind of a

shield, at one point, was

supposedly put around the

shuttle briefly, and then, the

craft and everything

disappeared.

>> BARA: One of the astronauts

openly states over an open

channel, "Hey, we're being

tracked by an alien spacecraft."

(rhythmic beeping)

Then all of a sudden, all the

transmission just ceases.

And I think what happened was,

is that he must have realized he

was on the public channel, not

the private channel, and he

probably very, very quickly

switched over to the private

channel to describe what it was

he was seeing.

>> MUSGRAVE: I knew everyone,

and I heard stories

from everyone.

Nobody brought me any evidence.

So, one side of the coin‐‐ it's

everywhere out there.

Has it been here?

I have no evidence.

>> NARRATOR: NASA officials

claim the video images show ice

particles glinting in the sun.

But is it possible that video

transmissions from the space

shuttle captured more than wha

NASA officials want to admit?

>> SHOSTAK: Occasionally,

astronauts, shuttle astronauts,

will report that they've seen

things or experienced things in

space that they can't explain

and that might be due to an

alien presence.

>> GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Ever

since humankind launched itself

into space, there have been

reports where astronauts

describe something that they saw

while being up in the spaceship.

And we have to remind ourselves

that those stories were reported

by astronauts, and not by some

kind of crazy people.

>> NARRATOR: In 1996, video

captured aboard the space

shuttle Columbia STS‐80

reportedly shows a number of

fast‐moving objects just outside

the craft.

These unidentified objects

appear as bright streaks.

Analysis of their speeds and

directions have prompted some

researchers to dismiss the

claims that the objects were

shuttle debris or meteors.

>> BARA: There's space shuttle

video of two very specific

missions‐‐ STS‐48 and STS‐80‐‐

which clearly show what appear

to be powered vehicles operating

in low earth orbit, defying all

the laws of physics and clearly

performing the way UFOs or

extraterrestrial spacecraft are

supposedly able to perform.

>> NARRATOR: But American

astronauts are not the only

space travelers reporting

otherworldly encounters.

In 1985, Soviet cosmonauts

aboard the Salyut 7 reported

seeing seven celestial beings

orbiting Earth.

>> CHILDRESS: Six cosmonauts

claimed that, as they looked out

of the window of the space

station, they saw what they

described as winged angels

surrounding their ship, and that

these were luminous beings

looking like people but also

having‐‐ bizarrely‐‐ wings on

them, and they're in space.

So you have to wonder, what's

going on here, and were these

angels some kind of

extraterrestrials in special

space suits or with fields

around them, and they were

investigating the Soviet space

station?

And then suddenly, bang, they

just vanished.

>> NARRATOR: If reports from

trained scientists are true, is

this proof that extraterrestrial

intelligence has been trying to

contact us?

>> SEAN DAVID MORTON: Gordon

Cooper approached the United

Nations about them actually

setting up a bureau at the

United Nations for

extraterrestrial contact.

>> EDGAR MITCHELL: This is not

unknown knowledge.

There are people that know and

there seems to be perhaps

several different species of

aliens visiting here, and it

looks like, likely, they have

been for a long, long time.

>> NARRATOR: Might NASA really

be withholding classified

information regarding the

existence of extraterrestrial

beings?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by taking a look at NASA's

curious origins.

>> NARRATOR: July 29, 1958.

Responding to the successful

launch of the Soviet space

satellite Sputnik, President

Dwight Eisenhower signs the

National Aeronautics and Space

Act, officially establishing

NASA.

>> MORRISON: NASA was formed in

1958 partly out of a previously

existing government agency

called NACA that just dealt with

aeronautics and then with the

early space program that was

being developed by the army and

the air force.

>> MITCHELL: NASA was

established to take the United

States into space and to be a

contender in the new direction

that humanity was moving of

exploring space and out into our

solar system.

>> NARRATOR: The president and

congress established NASA as

part of the Department of

Defense.

The official reason was to

prevent the Soviets from

stealing our technology, but

some believe the real motive for

this classification was not to

hide information from the

Soviets but to keep it secret

from the American public.

>> BARA: A lot of people have

the idea that NASA is a civilian

science agency, and it's not.

It says right there in the act

of Congress that created it,

anything that they discover is

subject to classification and

being kept secret and being kept

from the American people.

The Brookings Report, which was

commissioned by NASA right after

NASA itself was created,

essentially was commissioned for

the purpose of deciding what

NASA should do if in fact they

made some sort of

extraterrestrial contact... if

they either found artifacts on

the Moon or on Mars or if they

had direct contact with a

superior intelligence, what they

should do, and the Brookings

Report says very specifically,

number one, don't tell anybody.

If you tell anybody, it will

shatter the fabric of our

civilization.

It will destroy us.

>> NARRATOR: Some researchers

believe the evidence of NASA's

hidden agenda can be found in

the close ties between its

founding scientists and secret

societies.

>> BARA: These secret societies

had at their core essentially a

belief that they were directly

descended from these great gods

of ancient Egypt‐‐ Isis, Osiris,

and Horus‐‐ and they considered

these gods to be truly the

source of their bloodline but

also that these gods themselves

came from space.

At the very top, you had the

Freemasons.

You had James Webb, who was a

director of NASA.

You had a man named Kenneth

Kleinknecht, who was the head of

the Mercury Program, the Apollo

Program, the Gemini Program.

He was a 33rd Degree Scottish

Rite Freemason.

Below them, you had the Hermetic

Order of the Golden Dawn, or

followers of Aleister Crowley.

People like Jack Parsons down at

JPL were all put together, and

so they all ended up under the

very same roof with the very

same agenda and the very same

belief system.

>> HAWKES: We see this practice

of passing knowledge down

through a secret society go back

all the way to the days of the

Illuminati... who believed that

a select few of the elite were

smart enough, were capable of

handling this secret knowledge

but not the population at large.

So the question remains, has

this knowledge been passed down

through secret societies for

generations?

And this may predate the secret

societies that we know about in

modern times all the way back to

the days of the pharaohs.

>> NARRATOR: Like the ancient

Egyptians, could NASA's founding

fathers have shared the belief

that humans descended from

extraterrestrial beings?

What did the members of these

secret societies know about

space travel?

And how did the ancient past

influence their work?

Those who suspect these NASA

officials operated a hidden

agenda point to the repeated use

of the number 33‐‐ an extremely

important symbolic figure in

secret societies.

>> BARA: If you look at the very

first landing strip at Cape

Canaveral, where we would be

landing aircraft and eventually

bringing the space shuttle back,

it was runway 33.

If you look at the launchpad at

White Sands, New Mexico, the

only launchpad is launchpad

number 33.

So it seems to permeate

throughout NASA‐‐ this number

33‐‐ over and over again, and

the fact that it's connected to

Freemasonry makes you kind of

wonder if maybe there was some

other deeper symbolism working.

>> Houston.

You are a go for landing.

Over.

>> 700 feet, 21 down, 33

degrees.

>> NARRATOR: Researchers believe

the connection to ancient

Egyptian beliefs can also be

found in the emblem of NASA's

Apollo Space Program.

They claim that the large "A" in

the star field stands not for

the Greek god Apollo but for

Asar‐‐ the Egyptian god more

commonly known as Osiris.

This is indicated by the cluster

of three stars in the center of

the "A," which represent the

stars of Orion's Belt.

>> CHILDRESS: You have to wonder

if stars like Orion and Sirius

are very important to NASA,

because this is where the...

ancient traditions, including

Egyptian, have said that the

space gods came from, this is

our origins.

>> NARRATOR: Similarly,

researchers point out that the

symbol on the Mercury Mission

patches is nearly identical to a

major iconancient Egypt.

>> BARA: If you look at the

mission patches, the symbol for

Mercury is really similar to the

Egyptian ankh, and it's kind of

ironic that you have this sort

of Egyptian symbolism in what's

supposed to be a representation

of Mercury the Messenger.

It's supposed to be a Greek

mythology rather than an

Egyptian mythology.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible

that, like ancient alien

theorists, NASA scientists

believe extraterrestrials

visited Earth in the distant

past?

Perhaps further evidence can be

found in the inventions of the

unlikely mastermind behind

NASA's space program‐‐ former

Nazi SS officer Wernher Von

Braun.

>> NARRATOR: London, England.

September 8, 1944.

(missile whistling through air)

(explosion)

A 13‐ton ballistic missile

explodes on impact...

killing three and wounding 17.

The Vengeance Weapon 2, more

commonly known as the V‐2

rocket, had been fired from deep

within Nazi Germany.

The liquid‐propellant weapon

proved to be the world's first

long‐range computer‐guided

missile, and the first man‐made

object to enter outer space.

This incredible new technology

was the brainchild of a man who

would eventually become the face

of NASA‐‐ a 32‐year‐old

engineering genius named Wernher

Von Braun.

>> HENRY STEVENS: Dr. Von Braun

was acknowledged by everyone as

the greatest scientific mind in

Germany.

He found a way to steer a rocket

at 4,000 miles an hour.

He put a combustion chamber that

was cooled by the liquid fuel

itself, and redesigned the fuel

chamber, and he put a guidance

system on it.

He was an expert at every facet

of rocketry, which is really

unheard of.

>> NARRATOR: Von Braun's passion

for rocketry began at an early

age.

As a youth, he read science

fiction novels by H. G. Wells and

Jules Verne, and was exposed to

mythical stories of the Norse

god Tyr, a sky god that ruled

over Mars and provided knowledge

and technology to humans.

>> COPPENS: Wernher Von Braun,

from childhood, was absolutely

convinced that we had to go "out

there."

It possessed him.

And so he was absolutely

convinced that mankind had a

mission, and also that he had a

role to perform.

He feels absolutely confident

that he will be able to go to

Mars, find evidence of an

extraterrestrial civilization

there, and from then onwards,

will actually go further into

space to do this.

>> MUSGRAVE: Von Braun wanted to

go into space.

He wanted to go to the stars.

But then, of course, he got so

good at rocketry, the Germans

wanted him dropping V‐2's on

London.

He was very good at that.

>> NARRATOR: During World War II

Von Braun worked as the

technical director at Germany's

Peenemunde Research Center,

where he built rockets not for

space travel but as weapons of

war.

His brilliance as a rocket

scientist earned him a spot in

the SS, among Hitler's most

trusted scientists and officers.

>> BARA: Hitler's SS was nothing

more than a secret society.

What the SS believed was that

the Aryan himself was this

direct, pure bloodline that came

from Isis and Osiris and Horus

and Seth.

Von Braun learned about the

myths of the superiority of the

Aryan race and their rightful

place in the stars and where

they had come from.

So it makes complete sense that

Von Braun would become

fascinated with space.

The mission became to get back

up to the stars, to rejoin the

gods, to show them that we could

do as they had done and travel

to the stars, travel to the

planets, and basically go back

and reclaim our proper place in

the universe.

>> NARRATOR: Although the V‐2

rocket was far more advanced

than any other fired during

World War II, it was not enough

to prevent Germany's defeat.

Six weeks after the last V‐2

fell on England, Von Braun

surrendered to the advancing

American forces.

>> VON BRAUN: I myself, and

everybody you see here, have

decided to go west.

>> NARRATOR: Von Braun and his

team of scientists were brought

to the United States under a

controversial classified program

known as Operation Paperclip.

(camera shutter clicks)

>> JIM MARRS: After the war, we

decided that we were gonna be

adversaries with the Soviet

Union and that we needed to have

the technological jump on them,

so we brought these Nazi

scientists over, whitewashed

their Nazi background and rolled

them into our military

industrial complex.

>> NARRATOR: While continuing

his work designing military

missiles, Von Braun published a

series of books and magazine

articles that described his

concepts for a lunar landing...

a manned mission to Mars...

and even an orbiting space

station.

>> VON BRAUN: The entire wheel

will slowly rotate at ree

revolutions per minute.

The resulting centrifugal force

will produce an artificial

gravity for the men in the rim.

Notice that the floors are

placed so that the men stand

with their heads towards the

hub.

>> NARRATOR: But why was Von

Braun so intent on traveling

into space?

>> MORTON: Wernher Von Braun was

very much the public scientific

face of the American space

program.

He was obsessed, by the way,

with not just going to the Moon

but also going beyond that and

eventually building colonies on

Mars.

>> SHOSTAK: The deal was to

build a rocket that didn't just

go up a couple of hundred miles,

but a rocket that could make it

a quarter of a million miles,

all the way to the Moon.

>> VON BRAUN: If we were to

start today on an organized and

well‐supported space program, I

believe a practical passenger

rocket could be built and tested

within ten years.

>> MUSGRAVE: Von Braun went to

work on a Jupiter‐C, which was

an upgraded V‐2.

But what is unbelievable is, he

went from an upgraded V‐2 to a

Saturn F‐1, which is even today,

45 years later, still the most

powerful and the most reliable

and the best rocket engine

that's ever existed‐‐ even

though he did that 45 years ago.

>> NARRATOR: On May 5, 1961,

less than three years after

joining NASA, Von Braun stood

watch as one of his Saturn V

rockets carried Alan Shepard up

into space.

20 days later, on May 25, 1961,

President Kennedy announced his

goal to send a man to the Moon.

>> PRESIDENT KENNEDY: We choose

to go to the Moon in this decade

and do the other things, not

because they are easy but

because they are hard.

Because that goal will serve to

organize and measure the best of

our energies and skills.

>> NARRATOR: But then, according

to the National Security Action

Memorandum number 271, JFK

followed up his dramatic

announcement by secretly

proposing to merge NASA's space

program with that of the

Soviets.

But why, when it appeared that

Americans were finally moving

ahead in the race for space,

would JFK offer to share

technologies with America's

rival?

>> HAWKES: According to

conspiracy theorists, it's

because something was discovered

along the way, and that

discovery was alien visitation

did exist, and they already knew

about it.

The race for the Moon, was it a

race between two nations, or was

it a race by two nations to

reach technology on the Moon

that was left behind by an

extraterrestrial race?

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible Von

Braun's rockets had drawn the

attention of otherworldly

beings, as some ancient

astronaut theorists believe?

What did NASA's scientists

expect to find on the Moon?

And might they also have been

looking for evidence of life on

Mars?

>> NARRATOR: The Kennedy Space

Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

>> Three, two, one.

Engines start.

>> NARRATOR: On November 26,

2011, scientists with NASA's Jet

Propulsion Laboratory launched

their 19th unmanned mission to

Mars.

The Mars Science Laboratory is

expected to enter the Martian

atmosphere in August 2012.

After deploying its parachute

and landing on the surface, an

automobile‐sized remote‐

controlled rover named Curiosity

will probe the Red Planet's past

and present ability to sustain

microbial life.

>> SHOSTAK: It's going to be

able to roam around the surface

of Mars.

It's pretty fast compared to our

old rovers.

It can go the length of a

football field in an hour.

But it can also analyze the

surface of Mars and it's trying

to find out, look, was there

ever liquid water here, lakes,

oceans, that kind of thing?

What about the chemical

composition of the soil?

Is it the kind of thing that

indicates that Mars was once a

kinder, gentler world?

It's not looking directly for

life.

We still don't do that.

>> MORRISON: We have evidence

that, although Mars is very cold

now, has a very thin atmosphere,

it once had a thick atmosphere,

blue sky, clouds, rain, liquid

water‐‐ the ingredients we think

would be possible for life.

So it's quite reasonable to

imagine that life formed there

long ago.

The question is: could the life

have survived as the planet got

colder?

Could it have gone below the

surface, for instance?

We think so.

>> NARRATOR: If Wernher Von

Braun's visions of space travel

could become reality and land a

man on the Moon, could his

concept of human travel to Mars

become a fact as well?

And might NASA still be secretly

developing his ideas‐‐ plans

first drawn up nearly 60 years

ago?

>> BARA: If you look at the

research that was being done in

field dynamics and very, very

exotic physics back in the 1950s

and even into the early 1960s,

it's pretty clear that we were

on a very exciting path towards

very, very powerful breakthrough

propulsion systems that would

essentially allow us to create

flying saucers that could travel

very easily and very short

amounts of time between the

Earth and the Moon and between

the Earth and Mars, so it makes

complete sense that we do have

this secret private program that

maybe even a lot of guys

inside NASA themselves don't

know about.

>> ROBERT H. FRISBEE: In the

more near term, NASA and other

space agencies talk about moving

out into the solar system, and

there we're looking at using a

variety of extraterrestrial

materials to produce propellants

for rockets, oxygen for life

support, even building

materials.

>> CHILDRESS: Many researchers

believe that the overt NASA

missions are really a cover for

what they call a secret space

program and that the secret

space program is using different

technology than rockets, more of

an alien‐type technology, some

kind of antigravity type of

craft, and that those craft,

rather than rockets, could be

going to bases on the Moon that

would be secret bases, also

manned by the American

government or the secret space

program, and that from those

bases on the Moon, we could even

be journeying in these retro‐

engineered spacecraft to Mars.

>> NARRATOR: According to

scientists, the possibility of

transforming Mars into an Earth‐

like planet is theoretically

possible.

>> MUSGRAVE: I think Mars is

terraformable.

Terraforming means to take life

to a place that has no life and

start growing the life there.

I think Mars is unbelievably

terraformable.

>> MORRISON: I can't imagine

we'll ever reach a destination

that answers all our questions,

but as an astrobiologist, I

think in the next 25 or 30

years, we have a very good

chance of finding evidence of

life beyond Earth.

There's a real prospect we'll be

able to answer that fundamental

tion: are we alone?

>> NARRATOR: Most NASA

scientists agree that future

exploration of space will

uncover life on other planets.

But could it also reveal proof

that the gods of the ancient

world were, in fact,

aterrestrials, as ancient

astronaut theorists believe?

>> BARA: NASA'S real core

mission in the beginning was

essentially to go to the Moon,

retrieve evidence of the fact

that there was a prior advanced

civilization in the solar

system, and bring it back.

In other words, prove that, in

fact, we are descended from

these gods Isis, Osiris, Horus,

and Seth.

Now that that goal has been

accomplished, NASA's purpose

seems to be to be part of this

very, very slow revelation of

information.

>> TSOUKALOS: NASA asks the

question of human origins.

Where did we come from, why are

we here, and where are we going?

They're deg with space.

And according to the ancient

alien theory our origins are not

here on Earth... but up there.

Space truly is the final

frontier.

>> NARRATOR: If ancient

knowledge guided us to the Moon,

what might the ancient past

reveal about our future here on

Earth?

explorations of space, might we

finally find proof of alien

beings or proof of our own alien

origins?

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