19x06 - Cosmic Impacts

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19x06 - Cosmic Impacts

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A massive object

of unknown origin

soars by the Earth.

It was moving faster

than all chemical rockets

produced in human history.

A sh**ting star explodes over Mexico,

mysteriously altering the

environment of an entire region.

This area is completely devoid

of electromagnetic signals.

Your cell phone won’t work.

You won’t pick up

satellite signals like GPS.

It’s a really odd place.

And a meteorite that is believed

to be carrying unexpected cargo.

This object may contain

some type

of extraterrestrial technology

that points

towards intelligence.

Is it possible that

certain objects in outer space

are not simply wonders of nature

but could contain

alien technology

that is being deliberately sent

to Earth?

If you’re trying

to think of a way

for an extraterrestrial

civilization

to stimulate the evolution

of a species,

you couldn’t think

of a better way to do it

than through a meteorite.

There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is

the promise of truth.

It demands

we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is

right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

In the high-country desert,

just 35 miles southeast

of the city of Flagstaff,

lies the Barringer Crater,

one of the largest and

best-preserved impact craters

in North America.

The Barringer Crater

is out in the desert.

You’re driving south

on this small road

and then, suddenly,

you see the crater rim.

And there’s a building there.

You take an elevator up

to the top of the rim

and you’re looking down

at this amazing crater.

It’s like you’re looking

at something

that’s on another planet.

According to scientists,

the Barringer Crater was formed

roughly 50,000 years ago

when a massive asteroid

measuring 150 feet in diameter

and weighing

an incredible 300,000 tons

slammed

into the Earth’s surface.

The resulting expl*si*n

was 150 times more powerful

than the atomic b*mb that was

dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

However, it is only one

of many examples

of how asteroid impacts

have caused massive devastation

on Earth

and also shaped the world

that we live in today.

Asteroids hitting

the planet Earth

affect everything.

They’ve changed the climate.

They’ve created tremendous

disasters on the planet.

The most famous taking place

66 million years ago,

when an object

about six miles across

plowed into the Yucatán

Peninsula of Mexico

wiping out the dinosaurs.

It created

a whole new landscape on Earth,

and it allowed, perhaps, for

creatures like ourselves

to exist.

So, definitely,

rocks colliding with Earth

had a huge impact

on the evolution of life

on Earth.

While a major life-altering

asteroid impact

isn’t known to have occurred

on Earth for thousands of years,

smaller fragments

known as meteors

penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere

on a regular basis.

Statistically, we get hit

by meteors all the time.

You can go out any night

and you can see sh**ting stars

or falling stars,

which are objects outside

of the Earth

entering the atmosphere

and burning up.

Some of ’em actually make it

to the ground.

We sometimes forget

that the world we see around us

originally came

from outer space.

When you look at the history

of the Earth,

4.6 billion years ago,

back then

there was basically rubble.

Rubble, gas, particles

circulating around the Sun,

and gravity began to coalesce

much of this material,

which eventually became

the planet Earth.

The Earth was molten

for many billion years.

The elements like

the platinum-based materials

and uranium tend to be heavy.

Much of the heavy metals drifted

toward the center of the Earth

when the Earth was formed.

But as the Earth’s surface

cooled and solidified,

an extended period known as the

Late Heavy Bombardment ensued,

wherein billions of comets,

asteroids and meteors

made impact,

seeding our young planet

with numerous resources,

including water

and precious metals.

During that bombardment phase,

smaller impacts would hit

the crust and be trapped.

So, many of the precious metals

that we really value

on the Earth

actually came

from the asteroids.

Were it not for the metals

that arrived on Earth from space

during its formation,

the development

of a technologically advanced

human civilization

would not have been possible.

These asteroids and meteors,

they also contain

not just ordinary chemicals

like carbon and iron

but also materials

that are strong,

conduct electricity

things like platinum.

Platinum that is used

in the electronics industry.

Meteorites are providing

materials like iridium,

quasi-nanocrystals

that are ultimately used

in our technology,

and also gold.

The meteorites bring

the surface gold.

A lot of, particularly,

the rare metals

that are critical in things

like cell phone technologies

and other electronic devices

are often as likely to be here

only because of meteor impacts

and that material coming

from elsewhere in space

rather

than having formed naturally

in just the Earth’s crust

as part of its evolution.

Although the evidence

that cosmic impacts

have been critical to sustaining

life on Earth is profound,

incredibly, scientists have

recently discovered new evidence

that meteors

may have seeded the Earth

with DNA.

Researchers

at Hokkaido University

make

an extraordinary announcement.

After analyzing three meteorites

that were formed

4.6 billion years ago

at the very dawn

of the solar system,

they discover that each object

contains all four components

of DNA,

the central building block

of life.

Could some of the origins

of life come from space?

One idea you could imagine is,

an asteroid broke off

from a planet

that had

the right chemicals for life.

It traveled through space,

entered the Earth’s atmosphere

as a meteorite,

and then those chemicals

interact

with the chemistry of the Earth.

And perhaps

that was the starting point

for life as we know it here.

For decades,

mainstream scientists

have studied the hypothesis

that life on Earth

may have evolved

from a so-called

primordial soup

meaning

that organic compounds

formed into living cells in

the planet’s primitive oceans.

It’s still a question how life

originated on Earth.

And oftentimes you’re told

that this all happened

due to a primordial soup.

But there needed to be

certain ingredients,

and astronomers are now saying

that the secret ingredients

were brought here

through meteor impacts.

For ancient astronaut theorists,

the possibility

that meteors carried

the building blocks

for human life on Earth

raises an intriguing question.

Could it be that

these ancient meteor impacts

did not happen by chance

but by design?

Bioastronomers have coined

a concept called panspermia.

Panspermia

essentially means seeding

"Pan" means "everything,"

"sperm" is "seeding."

So, "the-the seeding

of everything."

Now, often meteor impacts

are considered to be random.

But if you say

"directed panspermia,"

that means that

extraterrestrial intelligences

deliberately sent

the building blocks of life

somewhere that they knew

was going to be habitable.

Is it possible that meteors

were sent to Earth deliberately

because extraterrestrials knew

that Earth can host life?

Could it be that certain meteor

strikes in Earth’s history

did not happen by chance

but were, in fact, directed here

by an extraterrestrial

intelligence?

Perhaps further clues

can be found

by examining ancient cultures

that believe meteorites possess

an otherworldly connection.

Muslims believe that this stone

was sent down by God to Earth.

They believe that, through

meteorites, they can talk

with the gods.

Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

At the center of Islam’s holiest

city stands the Grand Mosque,

the largest house

of Islamic worship on Earth.

It is also the final destination

of the hajj pilgrimage,

which every Muslim is required

to complete once in their life

if they are physically able.

In the mosque’s

central courtyard

stands an ancient structure

called the Kaaba, or Cube.

And embedded

in one corner of the Kaaba

is the most sacred object

in Islam,

the Black Stone,

a mysterious rock

that is believed

to have come from the heavens.

For the world’s

1.8 billion Muslims,

this stone is crucial.

When Muslims face, they face

in the direction of Mecca.

They face in the direction

of that stone.

The Black Stone

of the Kaaba in Mecca

is some kind of fragment

that is held together

by a silver band,

and the object is actually said

to have fallen from heaven

and that is said

to have landed in paradise,

where it was picked up

by Adam and Eve.

The first human being, Adam,

in Islamic tradition,

builds the first temple

out of this stone,

the first place to worship God.

Then the story is that that

stone gets lost during the flood

and is then rediscovered

by Abraham.

So Abraham,

with his son Ishmael,

build in Mecca

the first place of prayer.

That’s why Mecca

is important to Muslims.

What survives

of that original building

going back

thousands of years earlier

is this black stone in

the eastern corner of the Kaaba.

If we’re scientific,

we may call that a meteorite.

If we take

the scripture seriously,

this story tells us this stone

was the communication

between the two dimensions

from the heaven to the Earth

for Adam and Eve.

This was

the first altar to communicate

with the celestial realm.

The Black Stone of Mecca

is arguably the world’s

most venerated meteorite,

but it is hardly alone.

Many other ancient cultures

believe meteorites

and impact sites have

a connection to a higher realm.

In Roman times, a very,

uh, prominent meteorite

was found in Syria

and was worshipped.

It was referred to

as Helio Elagabalus,

which literally means "the Sun

touching down to the Earth."

In Delphi, a meteorite

was associated with Apollo

at his temple in Delphi.

So this is a constant theme that

we have in the ancient world,

tying physical objects

to the gods,

to the skies, to the heavens.

Historians of religion agree

that people

have venerated meteorites

and impact sites

throughout history.

The question is why.

Something that we find

repeated over and over again

in these crater impact sites

is that

they believe that,

through these meteorites,

they can talk with the gods

and the gods

can actually see them as well.

So the meteorite then becomes

a way of connecting

with the divine beings.

Is it possible

that numerous ancient cultures

around the world

simply passed down

similar mythological stories

that meteorites and earthly

impact sites could allow them

to communicate

with higher beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists

suggest

that these

otherworldly encounters

may have actually happened.

And for further evidence,

they point to one

of the most mysterious

and sacred sites

in North America.

Sprawling

across a large clearing

that divides a wooded landscape

sets a 1,370-foot-long monument

in the shape of a coiling snake.

It is known

as the Great Serpent Mound.

According to historians,

an Indigenous Native American

culture called the Adena

built the mound in 320 BC.

And, curiously, it is positioned

right on the edge

of an enormous crater.

It actually sits

right on a 300 million-year-old

meteor impact crater

which was so powerful

that it even went down

to the mantle inside the Earth.

And this has created

all sorts of gravitational

and magnetic anomalies

in the area.

And it’s thought that the reason

the Adena people

who built this site chose it

is because it has

these kind of energetic,

almost spiritual qualities

associated with it.

One of the great mysteries

of Serpent Mound

is that this meteorite

creates this impact site,

this impact crater,

250 million years ago.

Then, suddenly, 3,000 years ago,

the Adena people come along

and they’re somehow able

to identify its significance

and they build an effigy,

and it becomes this very

powerful place of reverence

for the Adena people

for the next 2,000 years or so.

When you look at

the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio,

you have to wonder

if there was some energy there

that they were feeling.

And so they built

the Serpent Mound there

as a testament to

the extraterrestrial connection,

perhaps,

that’s with this crater.

Serpent Mound

has long been talked about

as being, like, an otherworldly

connection point.

And in traditions

that go way, way back,

there’s talk of the star people.

They’re described

in certain ways in myths,

which, in modern terms,

we would see

as, like, UFOs landing

and interacting with

these extraterrestrial beings.

So, is Serpent Mound part

of this ancient tradition?

As unique

as the Great Serpent Mound is

against its forested landscape,

it is not the only

asteroid impact site on Earth

where ancient cultures believed

there was

an extraterrestrial connection.

In Australia, we find an

extraordinarily mysterious site,

the Wolfe Creek Crater.

The Indigenous people

call it Kandimalal,

"the star

that fell from the sky."

It’s a impact crater site

that’s 3,000 feet in diameter.

But even more interesting

than that

is the Indigenous legend

that is attached to it.

They talk about two serpents

that emerged from the dreamtime

and created this crater.

It suggests once again

that these Indigenous cultures

were in contact

with otherworldly beings

that either are connected with

the crater, the impact site,

or somehow emerged from it.

Did our ancestors bear witness

to the proof

that asteroids and meteors

could connect man

with otherworldly beings?

Perhaps further clues

can be found by examining

two mysterious objects

that have recently been detected

in outer space,

which some scientists believe

may be controlled

by extraterrestrials.

We have never seen

an object like this ever.

This was really exciting.

It came into our solar system,

went around the Sun

and flew by Earth as if

it was a probe looking at us.

The island of Maui.

Here, atop

a dramatic 10,000-foot summit,

stands the Haleakala Observatory.

On October 19, 2017,

astronomers detect

a mysterious object

traveling

through our solar system.

It is unlike anything

that has been seen before.

I was in charge

of coordinating the observing

to characterize the object.

There were four images taken

that showed

an object moving rapidly

with respect to the stars.

The stars

are individual dots of light,

and this object was a streak.

So they knew it was moving fast.

At that point,

they started to compute an orbit

to try and understand

what this object was.

Everything in the solar system’s

either on a circular

or an elliptical orbit.

But once more data came in,

it was very clear

that the orbit was hyperbolic,

meaning something coming

from outside the solar system.

We have never seen an object on

an orbit like this ever before.

And it’s an irregularly shaped

object that’s about 800 meters,

or half a kilometer, in length.

This was really exciting.

The landmark discovery

is the first time an object

is officially recognized

as interstellar.

To signify the importance

of the finding,

the astronomers give it

a fitting name.

In honor of this object

being discovered

by a telescope in Hawaii,

the team came up

with the name Oumuamua,

which means

"voyager from the distant past

reaching out to us."

Astronomers

were not only mystified

by where Oumuamua came from

but also by its strange

oblong shape,

which was like no asteroid

ever detected.

The interstellar object

moved steadily

through the solar system,

and astronomers were taken

by surprise once again

when, after passing by the Sun,

it appeared to accelerate.

Oumuamua was moving rapidly away

from the Sun.

When it made its closest pass

to the Sun,

uh, inside the orbit of Mercury,

it was moving very fast

a little more

than 195,000 miles per hour.

So this is moving rapidly out

of the solar system.

To Harvard astronomer

Dr. Avi Loeb,

the unusual behavior

indicated that the object

wasn’t an asteroid or a comet.

Instead, he proposed

an extraordinary hypothesis

Oumuamua was

an extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Oumuamua

was definitely an outlier.

And the question is, why would

the first interstellar meteor

be so unusual?

There was a question

as to what pushed Oumuamua away

from the Sun,

and my thought was,

that raises the possibility

that it may have been

a spacecraft

propelled artificially.

Oumuamua could possibly

have been a probe coming into

our solar system, the same way

we send probes to Jupiter.

It came into our solar system,

went around the Sun,

and flew by Earth as if, uh,

it was a probe looking at us.

Intrigued by the possibility

that Oumuamua

might actually be a probe

sent to our solar system

by an extraterrestrial

civilization,

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb

began searching for evidence

of other celestial objects

moving in a similar fashion.

I came across a meteor catalog

that the government

compiled using

its m*ssile warning system.

It’s called CNEOS,

and I asked my student

to check if any

of those meteors came

from outside the solar system.

He found that one of them

was actually moving at

60 kilometers per second,

clearly unbound to the Sun.

Astronomers determined

that this object, like Oumuamua,

did, in fact, originate

outside the solar system.

This new discovery

was first observed

by m*llitary satellites

in January 2014,

three years before

Oumuamua was identified.

But, unlike Oumuamua,

this object did not pass

by the planet

but actually entered

Earth’s atmosphere and exploded

over the Pacific Ocean.

The meteor b*rned up

about 100 miles off the coast

of Papua New Guinea,

and it released a few percent

of the energy

of the Hiroshima b*mb

when it exploded.

From that, we inferred

it was about half a meter

in size when it exploded.

Excited by the discovery,

Dr. Loeb closely examined

the data captured

by the m*llitary satellites,

and he noticed

something extraordinary.

The government released data

of the expl*si*n,

and from that we inferred

that the object must have been

tougher than iron.

So, not only was this object

the first interstellar meteor

but it was also tougher

than all other meteors detected

by the government

in that catalog.

And that raises

the possibility that it may

have been a spacecraft

propelled artificially

and made of some alloy

that is much tougher

than iron meteorites.

To find out, we need

to find the material.

If we do end up concluding

that it was artificial

in origin, perhaps a spacecraft,

that would have

huge implications

for the future of humanity.

Some people are saying

this object

came from outside

the solar system.

Maybe, just maybe,

it’s a techno-signature

of intelligent life.

And that has created a sensation

because this is

a new branch of science.

We’re not just looking

at asteroids anymore.

We’re looking for remnants

of intelligence.

When you consider the vastness

of space and just how tiny

our planet is

it’s literally a tiny speck

within the Milky Way galaxy

and then you factor in

direct hits by meteorites

that came from beyond

our solar system,

you have to wonder,

are these meteorites

somehow intelligently directed?

Is it possible that the meteor

that exploded near

Papua New Guinea in 2014

was carrying

extraterrestrial technology?

If so, could

an advanced civilization

be sending such objects

to Earth deliberately?

Ancient astronaut

theorists suggest,

further clues can be found

at an impact crater

in northern Mexico

that some believe functions

as a beacon for UFOs.

This area is completely devoid

of electromagnetic signals.

Your cell phone won’t work,

you won’t pick up GPS.

People see UFOs

and mysterious lights.

The U.S. Air Force launches

an Athena V-123-D m*ssile

from the Green River Test Site.

The rocket is programmed

to land 700 miles away

at the White Sands m*ssile Range

in New Mexico.

But the m*ssile veers

hundreds of miles off course

and crashes

in the remote Mapimí desert

in northern Mexico.

When workers arrive

to clean up the crash site,

they notice something

very unusual.

During the cleanup process

it was noted that

radio communications

didn’t work well,

compasses didn’t work right.

This area is completely devoid

of electromagnetic signals.

Meaning your cell phone

won’t work,

you won’t pick up

satellite signals like GPS.

It’s a really odd place.

The area quickly earned

the nickname

La Zona del Silencio,

or the "Zone of Silence."

The Zone of Silence

has become notorious,

um, in the last 50-odd years

through the fact that many

mysterious events have occurred.

And the origins of this location

seem to be of a cosmic nature.

The Athena rocket was just

the latest object to fall

from the heavens and land

in the Mapimí desert.

Prior to the crash,

the Zone of Silence

had been bombarded

by more meteor strikes

than any other spot on Earth.

The Zona del Silencio

was well-known for the

numerous meteorite impacts,

over and over, over thousands

of years hitting that one spot.

Perhaps the most

intriguing impact

occurred in February 1969.

The year

before the Athena rocket,

there was a meteor crash

in that Zone of Silence.

It was the Allende meteor.

And what that meteor

brought to this planet

was the element curium.

We know what curium is,

and it doesn’t occur naturally

on this planet.

Now, curium is a material

that we create

in nuclear reactors

or in nuclear explosions or

it’s created inside

the nuclear fire of the Sun.

So it doesn’t just

occur randomly anywhere

and it’s not a decay product.

It has to be created.

So the question arose then,

was this meteor

that impacted in Mexico

created in a reactor

by some advanced civilization?

Created in a reactor

by an advanced civilization?

Is it possible

that the Allende meteorite,

and perhaps others that

struck the area before it,

contained

extraterrestrial technology?

And if so, how did it get here?

Some researchers believe

it was sent deliberately.

And as evidence

they point to numerous UFOs

that have been reported

in the area.

There’s no question

that the Zone of Silence

is a very mysterious area.

In the last 50-odd years,

many mysterious events

have occurred.

People see UFOs,

mysterious lights,

and experience other types

of paranormal activity.

In 2008, I was filming

in the Zone of Silence,

and the locals

in the town of Coyame

talked about how strange beings

came up out of the ground.

Whether these beings

were extraterrestrials,

whether these things were

something else, we don’t know.

Is it more than mere coincidence

that in the Zone of Silence,

where a high number

of meteor impacts have occurred

and strange electromagnetic

anomalies have been recorded,

there have also been reports of

UFOs and otherworldly entities?

Could it be,

as researchers have argued,

that the impacts

over and over in that area

have created

a whole anomalous area?

And that the Zone of Silence

is so magnetically

and electronically potent, that

it’s somehow attracted the ETs?

And you might ask yourself, why?

Do they need the magnetic energy

from that spot?

Maybe they are

terraforming our planet

for their own purposes,

and we don’t know why.

The idea that,

through meteor impacts,

one could influence

the development

and the evolution of a planet

is feasible to me,

and many astronomers

and bioastronomers

are looking at these ideas

as actual concepts in reality.

And so, has this potentially

happened on Earth?

And the answer to that

is a resounding yes.

Are meteorite impacts

responsible

for the mysterious phenomena

in the Zone of Silence?

And if so,

might they be connected

to UFO activity in the area?

Some researchers believe

that further clues can be found

in similar anomalies

that occur 1,500 miles away

in a mysterious area known

as Skinwalker Ranch.

Skinwalker Ranch

is one of the most

anomalous areas on this planet.

There are strange

magnetic field anomalies.

Is it possible that this is from

some extraterrestrial origin?

Uintah County, Utah.

Located in the northeastern

part of the state

is a 512-acre property

known as Skinwalker Ranch,

one of the most intensely

studied paranormal hot spots

in the world.

Skinwalker Ranch

is one of the most

anomalous areas on this planet.

Here’s what people have seen

in that ranch:

strange creatures suddenly

appearing out of nowhere,

UFOs, instruments don’t work.

The people around the ranch

set up observation posts

to see what’s going on.

And they’re the ones

that are recording

all kinds of strange creatures.

Astrophysicist

and aerospace engineer

Dr. Travis Taylor has spent

nearly 20 years

working on high-tech programs

for the Department of Defense

and NASA.

It is going nuts.

In 2019, he joined

a research team investigating

the strange phenomena

at Skinwalker Ranch.

It just jumped to 18.

We need to get

out of here, guys.

Let’s get out of here.

Since that time,

Dr. Taylor has come to believe

that the mysterious events

are connected

to the unique geology

of the Uintah Basin

where Skinwalker Ranch

is located.

The Uintah Basin

appears to be the epicenter

of some really unusual

phenomena, including

UAP sightings,

strange energy measurements,

strange electric

and magnetic field anomalies,

and even other anomalies

that look like

something out of

a science-fiction movie.

What is that solid light?

It’s got a black dot

in the center of it.

What?

As part of the investigation,

Dr. Taylor and the research team

drilled core samples

of the soil in the area

around Skinwalker Ranch.

And what they found

was unexpected.

We made an immense amount

of measurements and taken

an immense amount of data,

and from all those measurements,

what we’ve discovered is,

there seems to be

an interesting mix of things

underneath the ground

here at Skinwalker Ranch

that are the makeup elements

that you would need to create

computers, spacecraft,

and so on.

The geology looks like

an ancient impact crater.

And there was an impact here

maybe 50 million years ago.

Is it possible that

this different phenomena

that happen at

Skinwalker Ranch is from

some extraterrestrial origin,

uh, an ancient impact site,

an ancient crash site?

Skinwalker Ranch, it appears

to be similar to Mexico

where there is a Zone of Silence

right where there’s

odd phenomena being seen that

could be potentially a

side effect of a meteor impact.

Could it be that meteorites

are responsible

for the phenomena

at Skinwalker Ranch

and the Zone of Silence?

Dr. Taylor believes not only

that this is possible

but that the same might be true

for other areas

across the globe

where electromagnetic anomalies

are present.

There are other similar places

around the world,

like near Roosevelt in Utah.

There’s places in Iraq

where this, uh, occurs.

There’s places in Australia

where compasses

and other electromagnetic

phenomena occur.

Where we have,

uh, communications

that don’t function properly,

sort of like

radio silent regions.

And all these seem to be near

meteor impact sites.

And people that are near those,

they see UFOs,

they-they think they see

entities and things like that

maybe they do.

Is it the impactor that created

some kind of strange phenomena?

Or it might be

some other technology

that we don’t understand

at play here.

Could these impact sites

be directed crashes

from an ancient or an advanced

extraterrestrial civilization,

and that’s why we see

these strange phenomena?

Another facet of these impact

crater sites is the materials

and the energy

that is left behind,

and you have to wonder, well,

what is the role

of those materials,

and is it possible

that they are responsible

for altering the planet

for an unknown purpose?

Could it be

that extraterrestrials

are intentionally depositing

exotic materials on Earth

through meteor impacts

as part of an ongoing mission

to transform the planet

and direct the future

of humanity?

Perhaps further clues

will be revealed

by an audacious new mission

designed to retrieve

a piece of a meteor

that might contain

extraterrestrial technology.

Theoretical physicist

Dr. Avi Loeb

announces an ambitious

new expedition.

Its goal is to recover fragments

of the interstellar meteor

that exploded

over the Pacific Ocean

in February 2014.

This meteor was roughly

half a meter in size,

bigger than a basketball,

and it b*rned up

about 100 miles off the coast

of Papua New Guinea.

The ocean is very deep.

It’s about a mile deep there,

but we plan to use a sled

equipped with a magnet that will

attract the small fragments

and collect them,

and we will go back and forth

across the region of interest,

just like mowing the lawn,

for a couple of weeks, and

we hope to find those fragments.

We hope, just like detectives,

to collect enough evidence

that will tell

us the origins of this object.

If the project is successful,

it will mark the first time

humanity has recovered material

from another solar system.

Whatever we find

will have a big impact

on our understanding

of interstellar objects.

But what excited

Dr. Loeb the most

about the meteor

isn’t where it came from

but what it might contain.

The reason that the meteor

is interesting

is because the possibility

that it may have been

a spacecraft

propelled artificially

and made of some alloy

that is much tougher

than iron meteorites.

If we do end up concluding

that it was

artificial in origin,

perhaps a spacecraft,

that would be the first time

that we found evidence

for an object that originated

from another civilization.

Could the remnants of

an extraterrestrial spacecraft

really be lying at the bottom

of the Pacific Ocean?

While it may be

a sensational notion,

the possibility has excited

researchers around the world.

So, there’s talk that maybe

we should try to capture

this material that plunged

into the Pacific.

Because who knows?

Maybe it was sent here

by an alien civilization

in outer space.

Now, the probability

of that happening

is very small, let’s face it.

It’s a long sh*t.

But, hey,

science is based on long sh*ts.

You never know where the next

discovery is being made.

And so I think

it’s worthwhile to try to see

whether we can retrieve

this object.

This object may contain

some type of

extraterrestrial technology

or some type of an

extraterrestrial signature

that points towards

intelligence.

If they can find this object

and study it,

it could potentially be

one of the greatest discoveries

in human history.

According to

ancient astronaut theorists,

the findings may help answer

an essential question.

Have alien civilizations

from across the galaxy

been sending materials

to Earth for eons,

with the deliberate intention

of developing our planet,

altering evolution,

and setting us

on a path to our future?

Perhaps, out of all

these things that crash

into the Earth’s atmosphere,

some percentage of them

could be of

extraterrestrial origin.

And if we go and look

at all these,

as many as we can find,

perhaps we’ll find

that one needle in the haystack

that tells us this is a device,

or was a device

before it impacted the Earth,

that came from outside

of our solar system and from

some advanced civilization.

Maybe we’ll find new DNA

or we’ll find

new building blocks for life,

life that we didn’t even know

could even exist.

And what implications

does that have for us?

Were meteors

deliberately sent to Earth

to terraform the planet,

enabling the development

of intelligent life

and a technologically

advanced civilization?

And if so, are extraterrestrials

continuing to direct

the evolution of both the planet

and humanity

through meteor impacts today?

Perhaps the proof lies

not in the skies above

but in plain sight

here on Earth.

And it is there we must look

for the undeniable evidence

of our connection to the cosmos.
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