Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 13, Episode 11 - Russia Declassified - full transcript
A look at suspicions that the U.S. and Russia have been working together to prepare for an extraterrestrial encounter.
A secret alliance
hidden in plain sight.
Has a deal been done? I think
we don't know the whole picture.
Joint space missions
with undisclosed agendas.
Why do we not have
a good HD photograph
of whatever that big tower is?
Why?
Have the United States
and Russia
been working together
from the very beginning
of the Space Race...
Both Russia and the U.S. know
about working
extraterrestrial technology.
...in preparation
for the ultimate
extraterrestrial encounter?
Cooperation is the only way
that we could actually achieve
some sort
of mutual defense
of the planet Earth.
Seoul, South Korea.
March 26, 2012.
The leaders
of over 50 nations gather
for the Nuclear Security Summit,
a two-day conference
to discuss issues
regarding the proliferation and
safekeeping of nuclear weapons.
During a photo op between
American President Barack Obama
and Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev,
who was soon to be replaced
by then Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin,
the two leaders
have an off-the-record
conversation that raises more
than a few eyebrows.
But even more intriguing
were recorded
but not filmed comments
in which President Obama
told Medvedev,
"It's important for him
to give me space."
And to which Medvedev replied,
"I understand
your message about space."
The revelation
was extraordinary.
President Obama's quote was,
"It's important for him
to give me space."
What does that mean?
Some people think
it simply means breathing space,
space to operate,
room to maneuver politically.
But there is an interpretation
that suggests
he meant literally.
"It's important for him
to give me space."
Outer space.
Any time you hear
governments talk about space,
you hear them talk
about space exploration,
trust me, the-the underlying,
implied, unspoken reality
behind that
is the alien presence.
It is possible
that Russia and America,
in some aspects
of the space question
and maybe
the extraterrestrial question,
maybe they are working together
after all.
Is it possible
that, even between two
of the world's
most powerful political rivals,
there is a secret understanding,
one based
on America and Russia's past
and future roles in outer space?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
and they also believe that this
secret understanding extends
to numerous experiences
involving
extraterrestrial contact.
As evidence,
they point to an occasion
that took place
just a few months after
Medvedev's now-famous exchange
with Barack Obama.
On December 7, 2012,
after giving a primetime network
interview in Moscow,
Medvedev made remarks offstage
which seemed
to openly acknowledge
the existence
of extraterrestrials
and the Russian government's
efforts
to keep that existence a secret.
Although most
of the journalists in the room
believed
the Russian president's remarks
to have been made in jest,
there were others
who were not so certain.
This is one
of the most dramatic statements
that emanates out of Russia,
and so it's fascinating.
Dmitry Medvedev said, "When you
become president of Russia",
"you're given information
on aliens in our country
and the human groups
that are monitoring them."
He was totally with a straight
face during all of this.
Here he is on film saying
that there is a secret
governmental cooperation
occurring in the background
that has the highest levels
of classification
to really monitor
extraterrestrials
that are visiting our planet.
Forget all the differences.
Forget ideologies.
At the highest level,
the two nations work together.
After World War II,
there was a number
of UFO encounters,
very important encounters,
and this gave impetus to joint
cooperation between our nations.
Joint cooperation?
Even during the tension-filled
decades of the Cold War?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
that not only did such
a secret relationship exist
but that it began
several decades ago
as a consequence
of what they believe
to be the Soviet Union's
first documented UFO encounter,
an event
they commonly refer to
as the Russian Roswell.
Southern Russia.
June 19, 1948.
At a remote
Soviet military installation
known as Kapustin Yar,
an unidentified flying object
is detected over the base.
Strange blips
were seen on radar.
Something was tracked
performing extraordinary speeds
and maneuvers.
And a Russian fighter jet
was sent to intercept it.
The pilot saw
a silver cigar-shaped object
and was told,
"Shoot this thing down.
It's in restricted
military airspace."
The UFO fired some sort
of directed energy weapon,
a death ray.
But before the Russian jet
was downed,
it managed to launch a missile
and shoot down the UFO.
Some people have speculated
this was the time
that the Russians found out
about extraterrestrials.
According
to the myths and legends,
at Kapustin Yar,
they actually recovered bodies,
they recovered
the spacecraft itself,
and it was kept there for study
and reverse engineering.
We are told that there is
a underground facility
under Kapustin Yar,
similar, probably, to facilities
here in the States,
where a full examination
could be performed
on the pilots of these craft.
To ancient astronaut
theorists and researchers,
what makes the Kapustin Yar
story all the more significant
is that it occurred
within a year
of the now-infamous
Roswell incident,
in which a UFO reportedly
crashed in the New Mexico desert
sometime in June of 1947.
That took place
near the only active
military unit in the world
that had nuclear weapons.
That was
the Roswell 509th Bombing Unit,
and they had nukes.
Similarly,
over at the Soviet Union,
at places like Kapustin Yar,
we've got significant
UFO activity being reported,
military engagements,
just like in the United States.
And I personally believe
that extraterrestrials
had a strong interest
in the nuclear technologies
that were then developing
on planet Earth,
which is exactly why
they were there.
Could it be
that both the Kapustin Yar
and Roswell incidents
were attempts
by extraterrestrials
to make contact
because of mankind's
recent development
of nuclear weapons?
But if such contact did occur,
did it signal an era
of secret cooperation
between the world's
two great superpowers
or did it only trigger
a greater degree of rivalry
and competition?
In Roswell, you had the crash.
You had the recovered
alien bodies, but the aliens
were dead. There was no way
to communicate with them,
because they had been killed.
So we had the technology
but probably no really good idea
on how to start
reverse engineering it.
Whereas at Kapustin Yar,
as the story goes,
they not only got
the spacecraft itself
but, apparently, there was
at least one survivor
of the incident.
So what could the Russians
possibly have learned
from that alien extraterrestrial
biological entity
that we were not able to learn
from our Roswell incident?
Why were the Russians first
into space?
Why did they manage
to do Sputnik 1
and then send Yuri Gagarin up
into orbit
and leave the Americans
standing?
Because, on paper, you'd think
that the U.S. government
should have won that race,
but they didn't.
If the Russians got live aliens,
maybe they found out something
from what happened
at Kapustin Yar that gave them
the edge in the Space Race.
Is it possible
that the Soviet Union
gained a strategic advantage
in the so-called Space Race
because of help it received from
an extraterrestrial visitor?
But if so,
then how did the United States
so quickly catch up
and... some would argue...
overtake them
by being the first
to put humans on the moon?
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
the answers are easily obtained,
not by examining
what the two nations were
each admitting to in public,
but what they
were doing together...
in secret.
July 17, 1975.
Moscow is go for docking.
Houston is go for docking.
It's up to you guys.
High above the Earth,
an American Apollo
Command/Service Module docks
with its Soviet counterpart,
the Soyuz 19.
A few hours later,
the two mission commanders,
Thomas Stafford
and Alexey Leonov,
shake hands
through the open hatch,
the first
international handshake
to take place in space.
The historic mission,
officially known as
the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project,
marked the end of the Space Race
that began when the Soviets
launched Sputnik back in 1957
and ushered in a new era
of open collaboration in space
between the United States
and the Soviet Union.
The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission
was in itself an expression of
cooperation of our two nations.
Detente was coming.
Hopes for cooperation.
Hopes for future
space exploration.
Friendship.
While Apollo-Soyuz was
the first public demonstration
of American and Soviet
cooperation in space,
there were many who believed
that that collaboration
began decades earlier,
following two separate events
that involved
extraterrestrial visitations:
one in Roswell, New Mexico,
and another,
known as Kapustin Yar,
which happened
near the town of Znamensk,
in the western region
of the former Soviet Union.
There's an argument
that suggests
the Apollo-Soyuz mission
was actually
a sort of soft disclosure.
Getting the story out there
in a quiet way
so that there would be no great
bombshell revelation later.
Moscow.
July 1965.
Exactly one decade prior to the
historic Apollo-Soyuz mission,
scientists at the Sternberg
Astronomical Institute analyze
a series of 25 photographs
of the Moon
transmitted from the Soviet
unmanned probe, Zond 3.
The images, taken
approximately 7,000 miles away
from the lunar surface,
are unprecedented in quality
and offer the first clear view
of the far side of the moon.
In the years following
the Zond 3 mission,
researchers have argued
that the 25 photographs
show structures on the Moon
that did not occur naturally.
There were clear anomalies
that had been seen on camera
for the first time.
One was kind of a giant dome
that appeared to have
a glass-like structure
to the top of it that had been
shattered and beaten up.
And in another image,
there was a 20-mile-high tower
that was plainly visible on the
photographs that were published.
Knowing the secrecy
of the Soviets during this era,
it's quite possible
that they had other pictures
that might reveal
what these structures are.
Why do we not have
a good HD photograph
of whatever that big tower is
that the Zond 3 probe
took in 1965?
Why?
Those pictures
are still classified in Russia,
as they were
in the Soviet Union.
Apparently, some 25 pictures
were transferred to NASA.
I don't know how.
Was this a CIA operation,
or was this an actual transfer
of information,
which again shows you
the level of exchange
of cooperation
between our governments?
Something that's classified
in Russia
is openly available
in the United States?
Did the Russians
discover evidence
of artificial structures
on the Moon
four years before the American
astronauts landed there?
And if so,
did they secretly communicate
their findings
in order to help guide
NASA's plans
for the first manned mission
to the Moon?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe that such
an audacious notion may be true,
and also suggest that,
while the United States
later became focused
on launching
its Space Shuttle program,
the Russians journeyed
even deeper into space
in search of further evidence
of extraterrestrial activity
in our solar system.
Baikonur Cosmodrome.
July 1988.
The Soviet Union
launches two probes
which are each programmed
to photograph Phobos,
one of the two moons
that orbit the planet Mars.
Although the first probe fails
to reach its target,
the second proves
more successful.
Named Phobos 2,
it uses sophisticated cameras
and infrared lasers to collect
and transmit photos and data
about the atmosphere and surface
of the Martian moon.
In the final stage
of its mission,
the probe attempts a landing
on the moon's surface.
Suddenly, without warning,
the Russian craft
stops transmitting...
but not until it relays
one last incredible photo.
As they got closer with Phobos,
we see one last frame
that seems to have showed up.
What appears to be
some type of laser beam,
or some type of object,
coming from Phobos
and disabling the satellite.
And a very large
cigar-shaped shadow,
as if it's possibly
a large craft of some kind
hovering above the surface.
There have been members
of the Soviet Science Academy
and actual cosmonauts,
like Marina Popovich,
who came right out and said
that the reports
inside the Soviet Union
indicated that Phobos 2
had been shot down.
What happened
to the Phobos 2 probe?
Did it really photograph
an alien craft?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
and point
to another Mars mission,
almost a decade later,
as proof of an extraterrestrial
presence on Phobos.
In 1998,
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor
took images of Phobos...
revealing a monolith
279 feet in length.
Instantly, ancient astronaut
theorists and others
connected this to what
the Soviets had discovered
in the 1980s
and hypothesized
that perhaps there is
a working extraterrestrial
element on Mars that seeks
to prevent us from discovering
the secrets of Phobos.
Now we have a situation
where both Russia and the U.S.
know about this.
And perhaps
it's not just artifacts
and ancient civilizations
but working
extraterrestrial technology.
Were otherworldly forces
guiding both the U.S.
and Soviet space programs
in an effort to encourage
peaceful cooperation
between the world's
two great nuclear adversaries?
Although such a far-fetched
notion seems absurd,
there are many who believe that
not only was extraterrestrial
contact taking place
but that it had been happening
for dozens of years,
and that one such incident
involved a number
of top secret communications
between a Russian scientist
and what he believed to be
his alien ancestors.
Kaluga, Russia.
May 1903.
Little-known
Russian schoolteacher
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
publishes a landmark paper
on rocket science titled
"Exploration of Outer Space
by Means of Rocket Devices."
At a time
when the Wright Brothers
are still working to achieve
the first powered flight,
Tsiolkovsky writes
about groundbreaking concepts
for the exploration of space,
including what he calls
the "ideal rocket equation,"
a formula which calculates
the amount of velocity needed
to lift a body into outer space.
Incredibly, his theories
would prove instrumental
in helping the Soviet Union
launch the first man-made object
into orbit
more than 50 years later.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wasn't
a classically trained scientist,
he was a secondary school
math teacher.
But he was so enamored
with getting into space
that he created the rocket
science and mathematics
in the early 1900s
that led to the first thing
created by humanity to be
launched into space, Sputnik.
To put into perspective
how influential
Tsiolkovsky's work was,
this is the basis work
that everybody had to use later.
Von Braun used it
during his research on rockets,
and most of the world sees
the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
as the beginning
of modern rocket science.
Where did he get those ideas?
Where does his knowledge
come from?
His ideas about space
and civilizations that
populate it were incredible,
and he persisted
that when humans
will go into outer space,
we will become like
other alien civilizations.
Alien civilizations?
How did a Russian math teacher,
who grew up in a small village
in eastern Russia,
come to believe that there were
other intelligent beings
in the universe...
and that it was
mankind's destiny
to join them in the cosmos?
The answer is simple.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky,
like millions of other Russians
of his day,
subscribed to a philosophy
known as cosmism,
which promoted
the idea that humanity
has an ancient connection to
extraterrestrial beings.
Russian cosmism began in the mid
and late 19th century.
Within the traditions of cosmism
there are many who believe
that our origins are actually
alien in nature,
that is to say,
the human civilization
is an alien transplant,
and that, in going into space,
we are actually going back home.
From that perspective,
it's very much in alignment
with the ancient astronaut
theory
where human beings strive
to reconnect with these
ancient gods,
through efforts like creating
a more advanced space program.
What made Tsiolkovsky,
and others like him,
so certain that aliens existed,
and that space travel held
the key to humans reconnecting
with these otherworldly beings?
For the answer, ancient
astronaut theorists point
to Tsiolkovsky's writings,
in which he described
extraterrestrial beings
sending messages
and information to mankind
from the stars.
He also wrote that he himself
had personally received
a number of interplanetary
communications.
Tsiolkovsky experienced
tremendous sightings
in his life.
One was in 1889.
He was looking at the sky
and all of a sudden he saw
a perfect cloud
in the shape of
a four-pointed cross
flying over him.
He also felt
that he was receiving
telepathic messages
from, um, extraterrestrials.
This leaves us to ponder
was he actually in contact
with intelligences
from out there?
Did they guide his hand?
Did they supply this equation?
Some of his models
of what a spacecraft
would look like
are very much in alignment
with the descriptions
of various UFOs,
this cigar elongated shape.
Was he actually in communication
with the beings that are
piloting these craft?
Is it a vision that he got
showing how they manipulate
and pilot these vehicles,
and that's why he was able
to come up with such
an accurate representation
for that model?
For many ancient
astronaut theorists,
Russia's widespread embrace
of cosmism
might help explain why the
Soviet Union's reaction
to the UFO incident
at Kapustin Yar
was likely very different
than the American military's
reaction to Roswell.
The United States approached
the Space Race with an eye
toward achieving scientific
and technological superiority.
The Soviet Union seemed less
focused on technological goals,
such as that of landing a man
on the Moon,
and more interested
in using space travel
as a means of realizing
a kind of extraterrestrial
destiny.
So the Space Race was really
a cover for creating
new technologies
in our defense industry.
To create rockets
that could put large amounts
of mass into space,
put a satellite into orbit.
All these things required
technological developments
that enabled spy satellites,
that enabled communication
satellites.
They enabled intercontinental
ballistic missiles.
Russians were the first ones
to promote this idea
of unity between outer space
and people on Earth.
Tsiolkovsky knew there were
other civilizations
in outer space,
and he wanted to meet them.
He put the seeds
in the minds of the people
that helped develop rockets
and space technology
in the Soviet Union.
Maybe cosmism
and then the Russian successes
with Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin
made the Americans realize
we need them.
The Russians can do things
we can't do.
They have a philosophical
outlook on this
which gives them
an inherent advantage.
And maybe in that sort
of situation,
each party brings something
to the table.
Could it be that when
the Soviets launched Sputnik,
it wasn't simply a show
of scientific superiority
or military might,
but an attempt
to directly connect
with extraterrestrial beings?
And, if so, could that have
motivated the United States
to work more closely with them,
and, ultimately,
partner with them?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining what happened
to the American
and Soviet space programs
after the Soviet Union
collapsed.
Moscow.
Christmas Day, 1991.
I am now concluding my activity
as president of the USSR.
In one of the most
significant events
of the 20th century,
Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev
announces his resignation.
Just five days short
of its 70th anniversary,
the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics
is officially dissolved.
The Soviet Union collapsed 1989,
1990, 1991,
and split up into
its constituent republics.
Russia, at that time in
the 1990s, was a hellhole.
Ethnic conflicts were brewing
all around the borders of
the Russian Federation,
incredibly high levels of crime,
the birth of the Russian Mafia.
But of all the problems
that now plagued
the former Soviet Union,
their space program
was not one of them.
Their Mir orbiting space station
was considered a huge success,
which often stood
in stark contrast
to the United States'
tragedy-plagued Shuttle program.
This contrast was so stark,
in fact,
that when the Shuttle program
quietly ended in 2011,
the United States suspended its
own manned space program
in favor of sending
its astronauts up to
the International Space Station
as little more than passengers
aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
It seems
that the U.S. ceded control
of space to the Russians,
certainly in relation
to manned missions.
But it is bizarre.
For whatever reason,
the Russians,
despite all their problems,
seem to be ahead of the U.S.,
in some respects,
when you talk about space.
A couple of examples
of where the U.S. seem
to have ceded control,
or certainly ceded
the leadership position
in space to the Russians,
are the International
Space Station,
where now, American astronauts
can't even get there
without going up
in Russian rockets.
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the partnership between the two
rival space programs
was simply an admission
of what had already been taking
place in secret for decades.
It also proved
that both the U.S.
and Russian space programs
were going to continue
working together
in the interest
of furthering the goal
of extraterrestrial contact.
But this time
there was a difference:
Russia was now
largely controlled
by deep-pocketed oligarchs,
and run by tight-gripped
autocrats like Vladimir Putin.
They were free of the kind of
public scrutiny
that would force full disclosure
about just what they were doing
in outer space.
If there are
alien-human encounters
taking place in space
or in low Earth orbit,
the Russians could bring back
the information
and share it with us.
There is a certain
level of secrecy
that is very different
in Russia
than it is in the United States.
So it could be that most
sensitive information
is being handled
by the Russian side
so to make sure that it doesn't
get released
and doesn't spook
the populations
in different nations.
But while information coming out
of Russia is now under
tight control,
the same could not be said
for the period
when the Soviet Union
was imploding.
And it was during
this brief period
that Russia's extensive history
of extraterrestrial encounters
became all but fully exposed.
In the waning days
of the Soviet Union,
a lot of interesting documents
pertaining to UFOs
were declassified.
For example,
the KGB, so-called Blue File,
124 pages of information
about UFO cases that came
within... to the KGB.
It was declassified.
We know that most of the
documents pertaining
to the SETKA program,
which was the official Soviet
top secret UFO program,
which existed for 13 years,
from '78 to 1991,
most of those cases
are not available,
but the cases that we know
about, that I've studied,
are enough
to make you amazed to know,
and of what they have
discovered,
and what may be in store.
If the United States
and the Soviet Union each
experienced decades
of extraterrestrial contact,
and had been secretly sharing
their experiences
and information with each other,
what is their ultimate agenda?
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
the answers can be found
in recently revealed
Russian research
that is intended to change
the human body,
in order to prepare it
to travel the galaxy.
Voronezh, Russia.
September 27, 1989.
A group of children
playing in a park
witness a shining ball
in the sky that transforms
into a disc-shaped craft
and lands nearby.
They see strange beings emerge
from the craft,
beings that do not appear
to be human.
In the days after the encounter,
as many as 30 other eyewitnesses
corroborate their account.
Many people were out
and observed it,
children as well as adults.
Observers watched a hatch open
and two beings come out,
a very tall one
and a modest-sized one.
The tall one was described as,
um, rather mechanical-looking
but a being
that estimates were from nine
to 12 feet tall.
The small one
looked like a robot.
Both were distinguished
by very small heads.
They began
to move about the park.
People reacted.
One report has a boy in shock...
the taller being pointing
an apparatus at the boy
and freezing him.
He was reactivated, so to say,
before the craft took off.
This is one of these cases
where there are
so many witnesses
and they have
all been interviewed
and they're just all sincere.
They all saw something.
Some of the witnesses definitely
described those things
as artificial-looking
and mechanical.
Well, we, ourselves, seem
to be moving in that direction.
Are we creating ourselves as
synthetic beings in the future?
And the answer is
we sure may be.
That's the way
it seems to be going.
If there are
extraterrestrial beings
visiting Earth,
is it possible that
they are not biological like us
but have adopted
synthetic bodies
better suited
for traveling the cosmos?
And if so, might humanity
be forced to do the same
in order to travel
into deep space?
Many scientists believe this
to be the case,
and there is a growing movement
in Russia
to take the first steps
of this transformation.
Moscow.
February 2012.
Russian billionaire
Dmitry Itskov brings together
over 50 leading scientists
to discuss what he believes
is the next step
in human evolution,
immortality.
Through his ambitious project,
called the 2045 Initiative,
Itskov hopes
to create technology
that would ultimately upload
the human brain
into a computer
by the year 2045.
The 2045 Initiative,
it really is a call
to bring minds together
to solve the problem
of, essentially, digitizing
a human being.
And in that case,
you could download it.
You could, uh, transfer it
to another source.
You could allow it
to go into space.
They want
to make human being immortal,
being that can explore farthest
reaches of the universe.
To me, this exactly ties in
with what the Russian,
uh, philosophers
and scientists talked about
in the beginning
of the 20th century,
Russian cosmism.
In this, we hear echoes
of the vision of Tsiolkovsky.
He told us
that he was in contact
with extraterrestrial beings.
He specifically noted
that they were,
in fact, light beings.
So, is it possible
that what we are doing
is catching up with his vision,
that, if we create
avatar humans,
are we, in fact, then recreating
the extraterrestrials
who originally connected
with him?
Who knows if the Russians
could actually achieve
this 2045 Initiative,
but they are thinking about it.
And they don't seem to be upset
with the process that's planned.
The United States,
on the other hand,
wouldn't even consider
such an idea.
Doing experiments on a human
of transplanting a brain
into a robot
is probably gonna take a lot
of approval and a long time
for anyone to sign on to that.
But is it the same
if you were in Russia?
Their system of government
is a little different,
and they might do experiments
like that
easier than the United States.
In the U.S. and in the West,
it is perhaps
a long, hard journey
to convince people
that these things
should be done.
Maybe we will never
convince them.
But in Russia, through cosmism,
through transhumanism,
as the Russians practice it,
you're trying to do things
that Russians already believe in
and aspire to.
There's real benefit to the U.S.
in making the Russians
our partners.
Is it possible that humanity,
led by the United States
and Russia,
is poised to take bold steps
into deep space?
If so,
is this escalation
limited to space travel
or might it also include
something like
a military space force?
The White House.
June 18, 2018.
At a meeting
of the National Space Council,
President Donald J. Trump
calls on the Pentagon
to develop a sixth branch
of the United States military,
a space force.
I'm hereby directing
the Department of Defense
and Pentagon to establish
a space force
as the sixth branch
of the armed forces.
That's a big statement.
The stunning news
was followed ten days later
by the announcement
that President Trump
and Russian President
Vladimir Putin
would have a private,
behind-closed-doors meeting
the following month.
Is it possible that
these two high-profile events
were strategically related?
If both nations are aware
that there is
an extraterrestrial presence
and that it is
potentially hostile,
then cooperation
is the only route to go.
It's the only way
that we could actually achieve
some sort of mutual defense
of the planet Earth.
This one-on-one between Trump
and Putin may just be
the latest in a long line
of secret,
high-level communications
between the world leaders.
And it may be that things
like the creation
of the space force
show that there's been
an escalation.
Well, the reason
you create a force
of any kind
is to deal with a threat.
- Liftoff.
- We're reaching a point
in our civilization here
on Earth that we're beginning
to send probes
and... maybe even soon... people
throughout the solar system,
maybe even into deeper space.
It's quite possible
the space force
could be set up in an outpost
in case there was
some incident on Mars
or in the asteroid belt
or at Jupiter
or way out at the Kuiper belt.
As far
as ancient astronaut theorists
are concerned,
the U.S.-Russia relationship
in space
is the direct result
of an extraordinary agenda
not on the part of world leaders
but by an extraterrestrial
intelligence,
an intelligence that believes
that each nation
has the unique ability
to complement
the other's strengths
and weaknesses
and that outer space
should be explored
not as a function of competition
but as the result
of mankind's shared need
to fulfill its ultimate destiny.
It seems that Russia and America
have been inextricably bound
together
in this Space Race,
a space race run, perhaps,
not between nations
but with nations
racing alongside each other.
In actuality,
the, uh, idea of Space Race
is not correct,
because there were n-never
Space Race.
There was cooperation
which had to be kept secret
for a while.
But sooner or later,
you could see fruits
of such cooperation.
We actually have
to work together
and explore together
and cooperate together
to prevent any danger to Earth.
As humans prepare
for their journey
to Mars and beyond,
they will become
the extraterrestrial visitors
of other worlds.
And if ancient astronaut
theorists are correct,
their journey will have been
aided by alien visitors
who see our planet not
as a number of warring nations
but as a launching pad
filled with people
eager to explore
an amazing universe.
hidden in plain sight.
Has a deal been done? I think
we don't know the whole picture.
Joint space missions
with undisclosed agendas.
Why do we not have
a good HD photograph
of whatever that big tower is?
Why?
Have the United States
and Russia
been working together
from the very beginning
of the Space Race...
Both Russia and the U.S. know
about working
extraterrestrial technology.
...in preparation
for the ultimate
extraterrestrial encounter?
Cooperation is the only way
that we could actually achieve
some sort
of mutual defense
of the planet Earth.
Seoul, South Korea.
March 26, 2012.
The leaders
of over 50 nations gather
for the Nuclear Security Summit,
a two-day conference
to discuss issues
regarding the proliferation and
safekeeping of nuclear weapons.
During a photo op between
American President Barack Obama
and Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev,
who was soon to be replaced
by then Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin,
the two leaders
have an off-the-record
conversation that raises more
than a few eyebrows.
But even more intriguing
were recorded
but not filmed comments
in which President Obama
told Medvedev,
"It's important for him
to give me space."
And to which Medvedev replied,
"I understand
your message about space."
The revelation
was extraordinary.
President Obama's quote was,
"It's important for him
to give me space."
What does that mean?
Some people think
it simply means breathing space,
space to operate,
room to maneuver politically.
But there is an interpretation
that suggests
he meant literally.
"It's important for him
to give me space."
Outer space.
Any time you hear
governments talk about space,
you hear them talk
about space exploration,
trust me, the-the underlying,
implied, unspoken reality
behind that
is the alien presence.
It is possible
that Russia and America,
in some aspects
of the space question
and maybe
the extraterrestrial question,
maybe they are working together
after all.
Is it possible
that, even between two
of the world's
most powerful political rivals,
there is a secret understanding,
one based
on America and Russia's past
and future roles in outer space?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
and they also believe that this
secret understanding extends
to numerous experiences
involving
extraterrestrial contact.
As evidence,
they point to an occasion
that took place
just a few months after
Medvedev's now-famous exchange
with Barack Obama.
On December 7, 2012,
after giving a primetime network
interview in Moscow,
Medvedev made remarks offstage
which seemed
to openly acknowledge
the existence
of extraterrestrials
and the Russian government's
efforts
to keep that existence a secret.
Although most
of the journalists in the room
believed
the Russian president's remarks
to have been made in jest,
there were others
who were not so certain.
This is one
of the most dramatic statements
that emanates out of Russia,
and so it's fascinating.
Dmitry Medvedev said, "When you
become president of Russia",
"you're given information
on aliens in our country
and the human groups
that are monitoring them."
He was totally with a straight
face during all of this.
Here he is on film saying
that there is a secret
governmental cooperation
occurring in the background
that has the highest levels
of classification
to really monitor
extraterrestrials
that are visiting our planet.
Forget all the differences.
Forget ideologies.
At the highest level,
the two nations work together.
After World War II,
there was a number
of UFO encounters,
very important encounters,
and this gave impetus to joint
cooperation between our nations.
Joint cooperation?
Even during the tension-filled
decades of the Cold War?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
that not only did such
a secret relationship exist
but that it began
several decades ago
as a consequence
of what they believe
to be the Soviet Union's
first documented UFO encounter,
an event
they commonly refer to
as the Russian Roswell.
Southern Russia.
June 19, 1948.
At a remote
Soviet military installation
known as Kapustin Yar,
an unidentified flying object
is detected over the base.
Strange blips
were seen on radar.
Something was tracked
performing extraordinary speeds
and maneuvers.
And a Russian fighter jet
was sent to intercept it.
The pilot saw
a silver cigar-shaped object
and was told,
"Shoot this thing down.
It's in restricted
military airspace."
The UFO fired some sort
of directed energy weapon,
a death ray.
But before the Russian jet
was downed,
it managed to launch a missile
and shoot down the UFO.
Some people have speculated
this was the time
that the Russians found out
about extraterrestrials.
According
to the myths and legends,
at Kapustin Yar,
they actually recovered bodies,
they recovered
the spacecraft itself,
and it was kept there for study
and reverse engineering.
We are told that there is
a underground facility
under Kapustin Yar,
similar, probably, to facilities
here in the States,
where a full examination
could be performed
on the pilots of these craft.
To ancient astronaut
theorists and researchers,
what makes the Kapustin Yar
story all the more significant
is that it occurred
within a year
of the now-infamous
Roswell incident,
in which a UFO reportedly
crashed in the New Mexico desert
sometime in June of 1947.
That took place
near the only active
military unit in the world
that had nuclear weapons.
That was
the Roswell 509th Bombing Unit,
and they had nukes.
Similarly,
over at the Soviet Union,
at places like Kapustin Yar,
we've got significant
UFO activity being reported,
military engagements,
just like in the United States.
And I personally believe
that extraterrestrials
had a strong interest
in the nuclear technologies
that were then developing
on planet Earth,
which is exactly why
they were there.
Could it be
that both the Kapustin Yar
and Roswell incidents
were attempts
by extraterrestrials
to make contact
because of mankind's
recent development
of nuclear weapons?
But if such contact did occur,
did it signal an era
of secret cooperation
between the world's
two great superpowers
or did it only trigger
a greater degree of rivalry
and competition?
In Roswell, you had the crash.
You had the recovered
alien bodies, but the aliens
were dead. There was no way
to communicate with them,
because they had been killed.
So we had the technology
but probably no really good idea
on how to start
reverse engineering it.
Whereas at Kapustin Yar,
as the story goes,
they not only got
the spacecraft itself
but, apparently, there was
at least one survivor
of the incident.
So what could the Russians
possibly have learned
from that alien extraterrestrial
biological entity
that we were not able to learn
from our Roswell incident?
Why were the Russians first
into space?
Why did they manage
to do Sputnik 1
and then send Yuri Gagarin up
into orbit
and leave the Americans
standing?
Because, on paper, you'd think
that the U.S. government
should have won that race,
but they didn't.
If the Russians got live aliens,
maybe they found out something
from what happened
at Kapustin Yar that gave them
the edge in the Space Race.
Is it possible
that the Soviet Union
gained a strategic advantage
in the so-called Space Race
because of help it received from
an extraterrestrial visitor?
But if so,
then how did the United States
so quickly catch up
and... some would argue...
overtake them
by being the first
to put humans on the moon?
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
the answers are easily obtained,
not by examining
what the two nations were
each admitting to in public,
but what they
were doing together...
in secret.
July 17, 1975.
Moscow is go for docking.
Houston is go for docking.
It's up to you guys.
High above the Earth,
an American Apollo
Command/Service Module docks
with its Soviet counterpart,
the Soyuz 19.
A few hours later,
the two mission commanders,
Thomas Stafford
and Alexey Leonov,
shake hands
through the open hatch,
the first
international handshake
to take place in space.
The historic mission,
officially known as
the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project,
marked the end of the Space Race
that began when the Soviets
launched Sputnik back in 1957
and ushered in a new era
of open collaboration in space
between the United States
and the Soviet Union.
The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission
was in itself an expression of
cooperation of our two nations.
Detente was coming.
Hopes for cooperation.
Hopes for future
space exploration.
Friendship.
While Apollo-Soyuz was
the first public demonstration
of American and Soviet
cooperation in space,
there were many who believed
that that collaboration
began decades earlier,
following two separate events
that involved
extraterrestrial visitations:
one in Roswell, New Mexico,
and another,
known as Kapustin Yar,
which happened
near the town of Znamensk,
in the western region
of the former Soviet Union.
There's an argument
that suggests
the Apollo-Soyuz mission
was actually
a sort of soft disclosure.
Getting the story out there
in a quiet way
so that there would be no great
bombshell revelation later.
Moscow.
July 1965.
Exactly one decade prior to the
historic Apollo-Soyuz mission,
scientists at the Sternberg
Astronomical Institute analyze
a series of 25 photographs
of the Moon
transmitted from the Soviet
unmanned probe, Zond 3.
The images, taken
approximately 7,000 miles away
from the lunar surface,
are unprecedented in quality
and offer the first clear view
of the far side of the moon.
In the years following
the Zond 3 mission,
researchers have argued
that the 25 photographs
show structures on the Moon
that did not occur naturally.
There were clear anomalies
that had been seen on camera
for the first time.
One was kind of a giant dome
that appeared to have
a glass-like structure
to the top of it that had been
shattered and beaten up.
And in another image,
there was a 20-mile-high tower
that was plainly visible on the
photographs that were published.
Knowing the secrecy
of the Soviets during this era,
it's quite possible
that they had other pictures
that might reveal
what these structures are.
Why do we not have
a good HD photograph
of whatever that big tower is
that the Zond 3 probe
took in 1965?
Why?
Those pictures
are still classified in Russia,
as they were
in the Soviet Union.
Apparently, some 25 pictures
were transferred to NASA.
I don't know how.
Was this a CIA operation,
or was this an actual transfer
of information,
which again shows you
the level of exchange
of cooperation
between our governments?
Something that's classified
in Russia
is openly available
in the United States?
Did the Russians
discover evidence
of artificial structures
on the Moon
four years before the American
astronauts landed there?
And if so,
did they secretly communicate
their findings
in order to help guide
NASA's plans
for the first manned mission
to the Moon?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe that such
an audacious notion may be true,
and also suggest that,
while the United States
later became focused
on launching
its Space Shuttle program,
the Russians journeyed
even deeper into space
in search of further evidence
of extraterrestrial activity
in our solar system.
Baikonur Cosmodrome.
July 1988.
The Soviet Union
launches two probes
which are each programmed
to photograph Phobos,
one of the two moons
that orbit the planet Mars.
Although the first probe fails
to reach its target,
the second proves
more successful.
Named Phobos 2,
it uses sophisticated cameras
and infrared lasers to collect
and transmit photos and data
about the atmosphere and surface
of the Martian moon.
In the final stage
of its mission,
the probe attempts a landing
on the moon's surface.
Suddenly, without warning,
the Russian craft
stops transmitting...
but not until it relays
one last incredible photo.
As they got closer with Phobos,
we see one last frame
that seems to have showed up.
What appears to be
some type of laser beam,
or some type of object,
coming from Phobos
and disabling the satellite.
And a very large
cigar-shaped shadow,
as if it's possibly
a large craft of some kind
hovering above the surface.
There have been members
of the Soviet Science Academy
and actual cosmonauts,
like Marina Popovich,
who came right out and said
that the reports
inside the Soviet Union
indicated that Phobos 2
had been shot down.
What happened
to the Phobos 2 probe?
Did it really photograph
an alien craft?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
and point
to another Mars mission,
almost a decade later,
as proof of an extraterrestrial
presence on Phobos.
In 1998,
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor
took images of Phobos...
revealing a monolith
279 feet in length.
Instantly, ancient astronaut
theorists and others
connected this to what
the Soviets had discovered
in the 1980s
and hypothesized
that perhaps there is
a working extraterrestrial
element on Mars that seeks
to prevent us from discovering
the secrets of Phobos.
Now we have a situation
where both Russia and the U.S.
know about this.
And perhaps
it's not just artifacts
and ancient civilizations
but working
extraterrestrial technology.
Were otherworldly forces
guiding both the U.S.
and Soviet space programs
in an effort to encourage
peaceful cooperation
between the world's
two great nuclear adversaries?
Although such a far-fetched
notion seems absurd,
there are many who believe that
not only was extraterrestrial
contact taking place
but that it had been happening
for dozens of years,
and that one such incident
involved a number
of top secret communications
between a Russian scientist
and what he believed to be
his alien ancestors.
Kaluga, Russia.
May 1903.
Little-known
Russian schoolteacher
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
publishes a landmark paper
on rocket science titled
"Exploration of Outer Space
by Means of Rocket Devices."
At a time
when the Wright Brothers
are still working to achieve
the first powered flight,
Tsiolkovsky writes
about groundbreaking concepts
for the exploration of space,
including what he calls
the "ideal rocket equation,"
a formula which calculates
the amount of velocity needed
to lift a body into outer space.
Incredibly, his theories
would prove instrumental
in helping the Soviet Union
launch the first man-made object
into orbit
more than 50 years later.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wasn't
a classically trained scientist,
he was a secondary school
math teacher.
But he was so enamored
with getting into space
that he created the rocket
science and mathematics
in the early 1900s
that led to the first thing
created by humanity to be
launched into space, Sputnik.
To put into perspective
how influential
Tsiolkovsky's work was,
this is the basis work
that everybody had to use later.
Von Braun used it
during his research on rockets,
and most of the world sees
the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
as the beginning
of modern rocket science.
Where did he get those ideas?
Where does his knowledge
come from?
His ideas about space
and civilizations that
populate it were incredible,
and he persisted
that when humans
will go into outer space,
we will become like
other alien civilizations.
Alien civilizations?
How did a Russian math teacher,
who grew up in a small village
in eastern Russia,
come to believe that there were
other intelligent beings
in the universe...
and that it was
mankind's destiny
to join them in the cosmos?
The answer is simple.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky,
like millions of other Russians
of his day,
subscribed to a philosophy
known as cosmism,
which promoted
the idea that humanity
has an ancient connection to
extraterrestrial beings.
Russian cosmism began in the mid
and late 19th century.
Within the traditions of cosmism
there are many who believe
that our origins are actually
alien in nature,
that is to say,
the human civilization
is an alien transplant,
and that, in going into space,
we are actually going back home.
From that perspective,
it's very much in alignment
with the ancient astronaut
theory
where human beings strive
to reconnect with these
ancient gods,
through efforts like creating
a more advanced space program.
What made Tsiolkovsky,
and others like him,
so certain that aliens existed,
and that space travel held
the key to humans reconnecting
with these otherworldly beings?
For the answer, ancient
astronaut theorists point
to Tsiolkovsky's writings,
in which he described
extraterrestrial beings
sending messages
and information to mankind
from the stars.
He also wrote that he himself
had personally received
a number of interplanetary
communications.
Tsiolkovsky experienced
tremendous sightings
in his life.
One was in 1889.
He was looking at the sky
and all of a sudden he saw
a perfect cloud
in the shape of
a four-pointed cross
flying over him.
He also felt
that he was receiving
telepathic messages
from, um, extraterrestrials.
This leaves us to ponder
was he actually in contact
with intelligences
from out there?
Did they guide his hand?
Did they supply this equation?
Some of his models
of what a spacecraft
would look like
are very much in alignment
with the descriptions
of various UFOs,
this cigar elongated shape.
Was he actually in communication
with the beings that are
piloting these craft?
Is it a vision that he got
showing how they manipulate
and pilot these vehicles,
and that's why he was able
to come up with such
an accurate representation
for that model?
For many ancient
astronaut theorists,
Russia's widespread embrace
of cosmism
might help explain why the
Soviet Union's reaction
to the UFO incident
at Kapustin Yar
was likely very different
than the American military's
reaction to Roswell.
The United States approached
the Space Race with an eye
toward achieving scientific
and technological superiority.
The Soviet Union seemed less
focused on technological goals,
such as that of landing a man
on the Moon,
and more interested
in using space travel
as a means of realizing
a kind of extraterrestrial
destiny.
So the Space Race was really
a cover for creating
new technologies
in our defense industry.
To create rockets
that could put large amounts
of mass into space,
put a satellite into orbit.
All these things required
technological developments
that enabled spy satellites,
that enabled communication
satellites.
They enabled intercontinental
ballistic missiles.
Russians were the first ones
to promote this idea
of unity between outer space
and people on Earth.
Tsiolkovsky knew there were
other civilizations
in outer space,
and he wanted to meet them.
He put the seeds
in the minds of the people
that helped develop rockets
and space technology
in the Soviet Union.
Maybe cosmism
and then the Russian successes
with Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin
made the Americans realize
we need them.
The Russians can do things
we can't do.
They have a philosophical
outlook on this
which gives them
an inherent advantage.
And maybe in that sort
of situation,
each party brings something
to the table.
Could it be that when
the Soviets launched Sputnik,
it wasn't simply a show
of scientific superiority
or military might,
but an attempt
to directly connect
with extraterrestrial beings?
And, if so, could that have
motivated the United States
to work more closely with them,
and, ultimately,
partner with them?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining what happened
to the American
and Soviet space programs
after the Soviet Union
collapsed.
Moscow.
Christmas Day, 1991.
I am now concluding my activity
as president of the USSR.
In one of the most
significant events
of the 20th century,
Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev
announces his resignation.
Just five days short
of its 70th anniversary,
the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics
is officially dissolved.
The Soviet Union collapsed 1989,
1990, 1991,
and split up into
its constituent republics.
Russia, at that time in
the 1990s, was a hellhole.
Ethnic conflicts were brewing
all around the borders of
the Russian Federation,
incredibly high levels of crime,
the birth of the Russian Mafia.
But of all the problems
that now plagued
the former Soviet Union,
their space program
was not one of them.
Their Mir orbiting space station
was considered a huge success,
which often stood
in stark contrast
to the United States'
tragedy-plagued Shuttle program.
This contrast was so stark,
in fact,
that when the Shuttle program
quietly ended in 2011,
the United States suspended its
own manned space program
in favor of sending
its astronauts up to
the International Space Station
as little more than passengers
aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
It seems
that the U.S. ceded control
of space to the Russians,
certainly in relation
to manned missions.
But it is bizarre.
For whatever reason,
the Russians,
despite all their problems,
seem to be ahead of the U.S.,
in some respects,
when you talk about space.
A couple of examples
of where the U.S. seem
to have ceded control,
or certainly ceded
the leadership position
in space to the Russians,
are the International
Space Station,
where now, American astronauts
can't even get there
without going up
in Russian rockets.
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the partnership between the two
rival space programs
was simply an admission
of what had already been taking
place in secret for decades.
It also proved
that both the U.S.
and Russian space programs
were going to continue
working together
in the interest
of furthering the goal
of extraterrestrial contact.
But this time
there was a difference:
Russia was now
largely controlled
by deep-pocketed oligarchs,
and run by tight-gripped
autocrats like Vladimir Putin.
They were free of the kind of
public scrutiny
that would force full disclosure
about just what they were doing
in outer space.
If there are
alien-human encounters
taking place in space
or in low Earth orbit,
the Russians could bring back
the information
and share it with us.
There is a certain
level of secrecy
that is very different
in Russia
than it is in the United States.
So it could be that most
sensitive information
is being handled
by the Russian side
so to make sure that it doesn't
get released
and doesn't spook
the populations
in different nations.
But while information coming out
of Russia is now under
tight control,
the same could not be said
for the period
when the Soviet Union
was imploding.
And it was during
this brief period
that Russia's extensive history
of extraterrestrial encounters
became all but fully exposed.
In the waning days
of the Soviet Union,
a lot of interesting documents
pertaining to UFOs
were declassified.
For example,
the KGB, so-called Blue File,
124 pages of information
about UFO cases that came
within... to the KGB.
It was declassified.
We know that most of the
documents pertaining
to the SETKA program,
which was the official Soviet
top secret UFO program,
which existed for 13 years,
from '78 to 1991,
most of those cases
are not available,
but the cases that we know
about, that I've studied,
are enough
to make you amazed to know,
and of what they have
discovered,
and what may be in store.
If the United States
and the Soviet Union each
experienced decades
of extraterrestrial contact,
and had been secretly sharing
their experiences
and information with each other,
what is their ultimate agenda?
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
the answers can be found
in recently revealed
Russian research
that is intended to change
the human body,
in order to prepare it
to travel the galaxy.
Voronezh, Russia.
September 27, 1989.
A group of children
playing in a park
witness a shining ball
in the sky that transforms
into a disc-shaped craft
and lands nearby.
They see strange beings emerge
from the craft,
beings that do not appear
to be human.
In the days after the encounter,
as many as 30 other eyewitnesses
corroborate their account.
Many people were out
and observed it,
children as well as adults.
Observers watched a hatch open
and two beings come out,
a very tall one
and a modest-sized one.
The tall one was described as,
um, rather mechanical-looking
but a being
that estimates were from nine
to 12 feet tall.
The small one
looked like a robot.
Both were distinguished
by very small heads.
They began
to move about the park.
People reacted.
One report has a boy in shock...
the taller being pointing
an apparatus at the boy
and freezing him.
He was reactivated, so to say,
before the craft took off.
This is one of these cases
where there are
so many witnesses
and they have
all been interviewed
and they're just all sincere.
They all saw something.
Some of the witnesses definitely
described those things
as artificial-looking
and mechanical.
Well, we, ourselves, seem
to be moving in that direction.
Are we creating ourselves as
synthetic beings in the future?
And the answer is
we sure may be.
That's the way
it seems to be going.
If there are
extraterrestrial beings
visiting Earth,
is it possible that
they are not biological like us
but have adopted
synthetic bodies
better suited
for traveling the cosmos?
And if so, might humanity
be forced to do the same
in order to travel
into deep space?
Many scientists believe this
to be the case,
and there is a growing movement
in Russia
to take the first steps
of this transformation.
Moscow.
February 2012.
Russian billionaire
Dmitry Itskov brings together
over 50 leading scientists
to discuss what he believes
is the next step
in human evolution,
immortality.
Through his ambitious project,
called the 2045 Initiative,
Itskov hopes
to create technology
that would ultimately upload
the human brain
into a computer
by the year 2045.
The 2045 Initiative,
it really is a call
to bring minds together
to solve the problem
of, essentially, digitizing
a human being.
And in that case,
you could download it.
You could, uh, transfer it
to another source.
You could allow it
to go into space.
They want
to make human being immortal,
being that can explore farthest
reaches of the universe.
To me, this exactly ties in
with what the Russian,
uh, philosophers
and scientists talked about
in the beginning
of the 20th century,
Russian cosmism.
In this, we hear echoes
of the vision of Tsiolkovsky.
He told us
that he was in contact
with extraterrestrial beings.
He specifically noted
that they were,
in fact, light beings.
So, is it possible
that what we are doing
is catching up with his vision,
that, if we create
avatar humans,
are we, in fact, then recreating
the extraterrestrials
who originally connected
with him?
Who knows if the Russians
could actually achieve
this 2045 Initiative,
but they are thinking about it.
And they don't seem to be upset
with the process that's planned.
The United States,
on the other hand,
wouldn't even consider
such an idea.
Doing experiments on a human
of transplanting a brain
into a robot
is probably gonna take a lot
of approval and a long time
for anyone to sign on to that.
But is it the same
if you were in Russia?
Their system of government
is a little different,
and they might do experiments
like that
easier than the United States.
In the U.S. and in the West,
it is perhaps
a long, hard journey
to convince people
that these things
should be done.
Maybe we will never
convince them.
But in Russia, through cosmism,
through transhumanism,
as the Russians practice it,
you're trying to do things
that Russians already believe in
and aspire to.
There's real benefit to the U.S.
in making the Russians
our partners.
Is it possible that humanity,
led by the United States
and Russia,
is poised to take bold steps
into deep space?
If so,
is this escalation
limited to space travel
or might it also include
something like
a military space force?
The White House.
June 18, 2018.
At a meeting
of the National Space Council,
President Donald J. Trump
calls on the Pentagon
to develop a sixth branch
of the United States military,
a space force.
I'm hereby directing
the Department of Defense
and Pentagon to establish
a space force
as the sixth branch
of the armed forces.
That's a big statement.
The stunning news
was followed ten days later
by the announcement
that President Trump
and Russian President
Vladimir Putin
would have a private,
behind-closed-doors meeting
the following month.
Is it possible that
these two high-profile events
were strategically related?
If both nations are aware
that there is
an extraterrestrial presence
and that it is
potentially hostile,
then cooperation
is the only route to go.
It's the only way
that we could actually achieve
some sort of mutual defense
of the planet Earth.
This one-on-one between Trump
and Putin may just be
the latest in a long line
of secret,
high-level communications
between the world leaders.
And it may be that things
like the creation
of the space force
show that there's been
an escalation.
Well, the reason
you create a force
of any kind
is to deal with a threat.
- Liftoff.
- We're reaching a point
in our civilization here
on Earth that we're beginning
to send probes
and... maybe even soon... people
throughout the solar system,
maybe even into deeper space.
It's quite possible
the space force
could be set up in an outpost
in case there was
some incident on Mars
or in the asteroid belt
or at Jupiter
or way out at the Kuiper belt.
As far
as ancient astronaut theorists
are concerned,
the U.S.-Russia relationship
in space
is the direct result
of an extraordinary agenda
not on the part of world leaders
but by an extraterrestrial
intelligence,
an intelligence that believes
that each nation
has the unique ability
to complement
the other's strengths
and weaknesses
and that outer space
should be explored
not as a function of competition
but as the result
of mankind's shared need
to fulfill its ultimate destiny.
It seems that Russia and America
have been inextricably bound
together
in this Space Race,
a space race run, perhaps,
not between nations
but with nations
racing alongside each other.
In actuality,
the, uh, idea of Space Race
is not correct,
because there were n-never
Space Race.
There was cooperation
which had to be kept secret
for a while.
But sooner or later,
you could see fruits
of such cooperation.
We actually have
to work together
and explore together
and cooperate together
to prevent any danger to Earth.
As humans prepare
for their journey
to Mars and beyond,
they will become
the extraterrestrial visitors
of other worlds.
And if ancient astronaut
theorists are correct,
their journey will have been
aided by alien visitors
who see our planet not
as a number of warring nations
but as a launching pad
filled with people
eager to explore
an amazing universe.