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- Since the Big Bang
13.8 billion years ago,

the universe has been expanding

and during this expansion,
light from distant objects

has also been traveling toward us.

As a result, we can observe objects

that are now much farther
away than they were

when they emitted the light we see.

The vast distances between
stars in the universe

present significant challenges
for interstellar travel,

even for advanced civilizations.

Harnessing the energy of stars

or the forces at the center of black holes

requires more knowledge than humanity has.

But are there civilizations

that have managed what we cannot?

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These are the Alien Disclosure Files.

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Since the Big Bang light has
been flowing in every direction

for over 13 billion years,

and it seems to be
expanding faster and faster,

but that doesn't mean our
universe is only 13 billion

light years across.

It's bigger than that, much bigger.

- Our best guess is that
the observable universe

has a diameter of about
93 billion light years.

That's what we can detect
based on Hubble's observation,

that the light we see, which
might already be billions

of years old, is getting further
and further away from us.

- [John] Our ability to
observe the universe is limited

by several factors, including
the finite speed of light,

the age of the universe,
and the expansion of space.

There could be anything
out there, including life.

- Man is ego-centric.

We think we are the biggest,
the brightest, the smartest,

and the most special.

So we are the only planet
that contains life.

But when you look at the vastness

of this ever expanding universe,

I don't think that that is true.

- [John] Our understanding
of the observable universe

is continually evolving
as technology improves

and our observational capabilities expand.

New telescopes like Hubble

and the James Webb Telescope enable us

to explore deeper into space

and further back in time, allowing us

to learn more about the universe's
history and composition.

- It's difficult for scientists
to imagine aliens being able

to find our little planet

because of the infinite
size of the universe.

- [John] As of today, the
human race has only been

to our moon and back.

We may have sent machines
to the far reaches

of our solar system,

but we lack the means to travel
to the edge of our galaxy,

let alone to another habitable planet.

- I mean, there are different
ways that you can get

from here to there,

and one of them is by using black holes

by Einstein-Rosen bridges or wormholes.

- [John] Theoretical wormholes,

as described by general relativity,
are inherently unstable.

They tend to collapse
quickly, making them unusable

for practical travel.

- Even if stable wormholes were possible,

the energy requirements for creating

and maintaining them
would likely be immense,

possibly exceeding the capabilities

of any conceivable civilization.

- [John] But it is
naive to think that just

because the human race can't do it yet,

then it is impossible.

Humans a century ago,

couldn't imagine all the technology

currently available today.

So an ancient race of aliens
living on a planet thousands

of light years away might be
far more advanced than we.

- We must remember.

I believe that earth is a
relatively primitive planet

in the span of time.

We have only been here for
millions and millions of years.

The span of the universe,
this is a blink of an eye.

Basically, I think we're the
dumb asses of the universe.

- [John] There are challenges
that we can't answer

in the formation and creation
of synthetic wormholes,

the energy required

to create a theoretical wormhole
would have to be immense.

Where would aliens find a
sustainable energy source

big enough to create a wormhole.

We may not need to look farther

than our own sun for the answer.

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With greater advancements in
technology, we have been able

to identify the observable
universe as having a diameter

of 93 billion light years.

It's reasonable to believe

that there are other
civilizations out there

in such an unimaginably large area.

- There are so many planets

and so many that are apparently
in the Goldilocks zone

that the old idea of us being the center

of the universe is a joke.

There's 70 quintillion planets
and there's gotta be life.

Just the law of averages says.

- [John] Wormholes are
one option, but creating

and controlling a wormhole would take

vast amounts of energy.

Our civilization cannot access
the amount of energy needed

to create a wormhole in space,

but that's because humanity

is considered a type zero civilization.

This number is based
on the Kardashev Scale,

which ranks civilizations based

on their technological advancements.

- A typo civilization is
one that's not yet achieved

the capability to harness

and control all the energy resources

available on its own planet.

Such a civilization is typically
characterized by the use

of fossil fuels and
the limited utilization

of renewable energy sources.

It has not yet achieved
a unified global culture

or a significant presence
beyond its own planet.

- The first civilization
can control their planet.

They can control the weather,
they can control earthquakes

and volcanoes.

We are approximately 100

to 1000 years away from
the type one civilization.

The type two civilization
is stellar, which means

that they have managed
to harness the power

of their nearest star,

and for us, that would be
harnessing the power of our sun.

- This level of energy manipulation allows

for interstellar travel,
terraforming of planets,

and extensive exploration of the galaxy.

- [John] A type three
civilization has achieved control

over the energy resources
of an entire galaxy.

It can manipulate the
energy of billions of stars

and possesses the technology

for intergalactic travel and colonization.

- The third civilization is galactic,

which means that they have
been able to harness the power

of the plunk energy on a quantum level.

For this type of civilization,

the universe is their playground.

They are able to traverse many galaxies.

They are able to go
down through wormholes,

and they're able to bend time

and space for this type of
type three civilization.

For us to be able to
understand what they're doing

and how they get here
is like trying to tell

a dog about quantum mechanics.

- [John] The kardashev Scale

is a theoretical classification system,

but with billions of stars in the sky.

That's a lot of energy,

and though we may only be
a type zero civilization,

we have already begun the process.

Solar power is just the first step

of many in harnessing a star's energy,

the mass of a typical star is
many times greater than that

of all planets in its
solar system combined,

stars like our sun, for
example, have masses

on the order of hundreds of thousands

of times the mass of earth.

- There are methods of
tapping into a star's power.

A Dyson sphere is a
theoretical mega structure

that would encircle a star capturing all

of its energy output.

It's often depicted as a solid shell

or swarm of solar collecting satellites

orbiting the star.

- [John] Stars are the
primary sources of energy

in the universe.

They emit immense amounts of
energy in the form of light

and heat, and there are
billions upon billions of them.

But in 2014, NASA's Kepler
spacecraft observed a star

that dimmed too much

for when a planet passes in front of it.

The rate and amount of
dimming was a mystery,

but one potential
explanation was the presence

of a Dyson sphere

- Tabby Star, well, bothered
the astrophysicists.

They still trying to
kind of figure it out.

It dims and brightens like a variable star

or like a binary star, but
it's not a binary star.

It doesn't have a twin that's
less bright that occludes it,

and they believe that one possibility

is that there could be an
artifact built around Tabby's Star

that causes it to eclipse
and causes it to blink.

- [John] Tabby's Star
continues to be a subject

of scientific interest and research.

Astronomers use various telescopes

and instruments to monitor its behavior

and gather more data

to refine their
understanding of the star's.

unusual dimming events.

- It is plausible

that if Tabby Star has a
Dyson sphere built around it,

that an alien civilization
might have the technological

advancements to create and be
able to utilize a wormhole.

It would make them a type two civilization

at the very least.

- [John] While wormholes
would require a huge amount

of energy to create and maintain,

it is a fairly trivial amount

compared to how much
energy a star produces.

We have only begun to harness
the energy from our own star,

but a more advanced civilization
could have figured out how

to make the most of their own,

and once they had harnessed one,

they would have the energy they needed

to start harvesting more.

And there are certainly lots
of stars to choose from.

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The theory tells us that
wormholes could provide a way

to travel through the universe
at faster than light speeds

as long as we have access
to vast amounts of power.

With the billions of stars out there,

the energy is certainly
ready to be utilized.

Our galaxy alone is home to intense heat

and light produced by
stars both large and small.

- The Milky Way galaxy is
estimated to contain anywhere

from a hundred billion
to 400 billion stars.

- [John] The estimated number

of galaxies in the observable
universe has been a subject

of research and refinement over the years.

Astronomers estimate that there
are approximately 2 trillion

galaxies in the observable universe.

- Well, we have to understand
first off, that the universe

is 13 billion years old,

approximately 13.7 billion years old,

and within the span of this
ever expanding universe,

there are seven quintillion planets.

Now, if you don't know
what seven quintillion is,

put a number seven and 20 zeros behind it.

That's a lot of zeros.

So it is a safe approximation to assume

that there would be life on other planets.

- [John] Galaxies contain
a wide variety of stars

ranging from massive hot

and bright stars to smaller,
cooler, and dimmer ones.

Interstellar gas and dust are
scattered throughout galaxies.

These materials play a
crucial role in star formation

and can obscure our view

of distant objects within the galaxy.

- Apparently without the dark matter,

galaxies would fly apart.

There wouldn't be enough mass
for them to hold together.

- [John] But there are
other galactic objects

that could offer aliens
a potential energy source

or means of transportation.

Objects that are even more
strange and powerful than stars.

- Black holes don't
get near one, you know,

you don't wanna get near one.

It'll turn into a little
like squirting toothpaste

out of a tube, beat it up.

Time stops at the event horizon.

So an astronaut that got close enough

to the event horizon is
just gonna be there forever

and ever and ever and ever.

- [John] Approaching a black
hole is incredibly dangerous

due to its strong gravitational pull.

- Advanced aliens would
need to discover a way

to stabilize a black hole.

Natural black holes are
incredibly destructive

and are known for their
intense gravitational forces,

which can rip apart anything
that comes too close

to make a black hole usable as a wormhole.

- But if there's a way to
get through the event horizon

and people are theorizing that you can,

then what you have is an
Einstein-Rosen bridge,

which is a good way

to have a shortcut across the cosmos.

- [John] Perhaps at the center of each

of the 2 trillion galaxies is a gateway

that advanced alien races have
perfected a cosmic bus stop

to other places offering
a method of travel

that is faster than light.

But galaxies are made up
of other strange material,

dark matter and dark energy.

- Dark matter is believed to
make up a significant portion

of the universe mass.

So if it could be converted
into usable energy,

it would provide an almost
limitless power source.

- Dark matter is what the
universe is mostly made out of.

80 to 85% of the universe we cannot see.

We see 15 to 20% of the universe.

You know, you can't see it with infrared,

you can't see it in ultraviolet light.

There's no way to detect it,

but it's the missing mass of the universe

and the way that we can see
the symptoms that this causes.

- [John] As exciting as
these ideas are dark matter

and dark energy remain poorly
understood, their properties

and behavior are still
subject of active research.

But aliens could easily
have completed this research

and harnessed these mysterious forces.

- So it's still science
fiction to use dark matter

or dark energy and concrete ways,

but we are talking about alien races

that have developed methods of
traveling across unimaginably

long distances in the universe.

So if true, it's feasible to believe

that they have advanced
past the theoretical phase

and into the practical.

- [John] Galaxies are distributed
throughout the cosmos,

forming clusters and super clusters.

At the heart

of these massive structures,
black holes are often found.

The energy and radiation emitted
from these massive objects

might provide alien
civilizations, the power they need

to visit, far reaching
parts of the universe,

or maybe our local neighborhood.

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The universe is expanding

currently at 93 billion light years

in diameter and counting.

But what is it expanding from?

- And what happened
during the the Big Bang,

it not only sent all the carbon,
hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen

that life is composed of
out into the universe,

but it also possibly could have spread.

It could have spread life.

- [John] The Big Bang theory speculates

that the universe originated
from a singularity,

a point in space and time
where all the universes matter

and energy were concentrated.

At this singularity,

the universe was incredibly
hot, dense, and tiny,

and then it expanded.

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- Panspermia is the belief that organisms

naturally are able to migrate
from planet to planet,

whether it be through comets
or asteroids or meteorites.

Example of that, some
people actually hypothesize

that cephalopods, such
as octopus, cuttlefish

and squid come from another planet

because they're so dramatically different,

zoologically than other
animals on this planet

in their ability to change
shape, change, color,

and the advancement of their eyes.

They're so highly intelligent
that people think that perhaps

they are a product of panspermia.

- [John] And if life developed on earth,

it is certainly possible

that whatever vessel brought
life to earth billions

of years ago in the form
of single cell organisms

could have also crashed
into other planets.

But why haven't we found anything yet?

- The firmly paradox
raises the question of why.

Given the vast number of stars

and planets in the Milky Way

and the age of the universe,

we've not yet detected
extraterrestrial civilizations.

Some theories propose the
existence of a great filter,

a hypothetical obstacle challenges

that significantly reduces the likelihood

of intelligent civilizations
emerging or surviving.

- I also wonder if this plane

of reality here on earth is
actually multi-dimensional.

There we're living in
different energy fields,

and so on occasion we will
actually see a glimpse

of the other energy fields.

- You know, I lean towards
the inter-dimensional origin

of a lot of UFOs.

I think it makes a lot of sense.

- [John] Perhaps the UAPs
we see in the night sky

and video on our smartphones
are from a different universe,

that they aren't scattered
throughout the cosmos

and the 93 billion lightyear
backyard we come from,

but instead, our visitors
from another universe

that somehow they found a
way perhaps through wormholes

or black holes, it might
explain why their aircraft

do not seem to follow the laws
of our universe or physics.

- I think for a civilization
that is perhaps type three

to be able to manipulate the
surroundings here on earth,

we don't know how many
dimensions are actually here.

And like I said, I think
the universe has many,

many Easter eggs that are
waiting for us to find.

- An alien race that has developed means

of intergalactic travel
would certainly be capable

of confusing our radar

and traveling at incredible
speeds in the blink of an eye,

a race high up on the Kardashev Scale.

In theory, as the advancements
necessary to achieve

such modes of transportation,

our own technology will
continue to increase,

as will our understanding of the universe.

Perhaps with the right breakthroughs,

we might discover how
to harness a fraction

of the awesome power of
this incredible universe

and become a UAP to another world.

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