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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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