Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 7, Episode 5 - Aliens and the Red Planet - full transcript

Nuclear annihilation...

This would have been an
absolutely devastating event.

...mysterious pyramids...

There are, apparently, these
unusual structures there.

and evidence of life
billions of years ago.

Researchers found
objects that looked

extremely similar to
microorganisms here on Earth.

Throughout human history,
the planet Mars has

captured our imagination.
But is it simply because of its

striking red color and
prominence in the night sky?

Or might we have a more profound
extraterrestrial connection?



NASA knows there is life on Mars,
but for some reason, it does not

want that information out.

Millions of people
around the world believe

we have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history?

And if so, might they have
come from the red planet of Mars?

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Cape Canaveral,
Florida, August 20, 1975.

Ignition, we have liftoff!

The United States launches
a Titan rocket carrying

the Viking spacecraft.
Viking is embarking on a

420-million-mile journey to one
of the most prominent sights in



the night sky...

Mars.

If all goes well, in 11 months,
the unmanned probe will

touch down on the Martian surface
and search for evidence of life.

Mainstream scientists say Mars

is most likely a dead planet
because of its incredible

temperature swings and high
levels of solar radiation.

So why is NASA spending a
billion dollars to explore it?

The night sky is an
astounding thing.

And to the naked eye, the red
planet could be seen with its

special color.
After all, it's the

biggest thing you see up there
past the moon.

So it's been a special object
of fascination and reverence

because religious systems
often were associated

with the planets and the
stars, the sky in general.

Speculations about what's
there, is intelligent life

there, are the gods there?
That's gone on for a long time.

Our dream for
life on Mars probably

goes back to the ancient times
when we were just doing

naked eye observation.

It's the planet that really
stands out, that we now know is

very close to Earth in terms of
physical conditions.

Even though Venus is much more
like Earth in size and gravity,

it's a hellhole in
the solar system.

But Mars, Mars is out there
within our grasp.

Among the first to
record this fiery red ball in

the night sky were ancient
Egyptian astronomers.

In 1534 BC, they placed Mars
on humanity's first chart of the

the Senenmut star map.

Two and a half centuries later,
the Egyptians painted the planet

Mars on the ceiling of the tomb
of Seti I.

But while the Egyptians honored
Mars, many other ancient

cultures feared it because they
associated the red planet with

death, destruction, and war.
According to some

anthropologists, this is because
the planet glows red like the

color of blood spilled on
the battlefield.

The association of the
red planet with the gods of war

goes way back.
In ancient Babylon, Mars was

named after Nergal, the god of
fire, death, and destruction,

essentially a god of war.
The Greeks named Mars after

Ares, their god of war.
The Romans, "Mars," that

is their god of war.

Rome was a warrior culture,
so this martial emphasis, all

connected to the red planet, is
accounting for the great armies

that conquered the known world;
a very successful story and very

much aligned with
the planet Mars.

In 42 BC, the Roman forces
of Augustus waged the

Battle of Philippi against
Marcus Brutus, as Augustus tried

to avenge the assassination of
his adopted father, Julius Caesar.

Augustus pledged

to the god of war, Mars, that if
he won this battle, he would

build a great temple for him.

So he won the battle, became
Caesar Augustus, one of the

greatest of the Roman
emperors, and he created the

temple of Mars, and whenever
Rome would declare war,

the temple doors would
be thrown open.

It was called the temple
to Mars the Avenger.

Famously, we say the "gates
of" "war" nowadays, right?

And it was the gates of Mars'
temple that were opened or

closed depending upon whether
there was a war going on.

From India to Rome, all
of the ancient societies had

a reverence for Mars, a
great closeness to Mars.

Very important in their
pantheon, very important in the

imagination of the people that
some kind of connection with

that red planet be maintained.

But while many ancient
societies felt a bond

with Mars, most did not identify
it as a planet like Earth.

The ancients thought planets were
as uninhabitable as the Sun.

They saw them as
wandering stars.

In fact, the word "planet" means in
Greek "wandering star," planeta.

You have the fixed stars, the
constellations, but then you

have these stars wandering about.
They seem to follow the sun

because they appear to move
against the background of the

fixed stars the same
way the Sun does.

It wasn't until the 17th
and 18th centuries, when

astronomers finally had
telescopes powerful enough to

make out features on the surface
of Mars, that we started to

imagine life on the red
planet as a real possibility.

By the 1860s, an Italian
astronomer by the

name of Angelo Secchi thought
he saw straight lines

crisscrossing the surface of our
little ruddy buddy up there, Mars.

And he called them "canali."
The idea was picked up by an

American astronomer by the
name of Percival Lowell.

And Percival Lowell built his
own observatory down in

Flagstaff, Arizona.
He spent a lot of time looking

through a telescope at Mars.
And he wrote books about this.

He was articulate.
He was clever and he convinced a

lot of the public and some of
the scientific establishment

that there really was a
civilization on Mars busy

digging up their planet because
they needed to irrigate their crops.

But why has Mars fascinated
humankind throughout

history? Is it simply due to the

planet's proximity to Earth and
its striking red color in the

night sky?
Or is it possible... as ancient

astronaut theorists contend...
that Mars really was at one time

inhabited by intelligent life?

The Cydonia region of Mars,
July 20, 1976.

An alien spacecraft sent from Earth
touches down on the red planet.

Nav is green for touchdown.

After a ten-month journey,
Viking I has reached its destination.

Touchdown.
We have touchdown.

To NASA scientists,

it's a momentous event.
For the first time in its

history, the United States
has a probe on another planet.

Viking was the
first spacecraft to actually

attempt a soft landing on Mars,
and give us an actual feel, a

taste for what the conditions
were on the surface.

We looked out at those
pictures of the surface, and

they looked so much like the
Pacific deserts here,

like Death Valley.
We all half expected to see

a miner and his burro come
walking up over the nearest rise.

Scientists knew that finding definitive
signs of life on Mars was a long shot.

But when the Viking lander
performed four tests on the

Martian soil looking for
microbial life, it returned

surprising and controversial
results.

Dr. Gil Levin designed one of the tests
that the Viking probe performed.

Microorganisms breathe just like you
or I or anything else, and then

they give off carbon dioxide.

So we got a tiny sample, a
thimbleful of the soil, put into

a little container.

It was monitored for seven
days continuously to see

if there are any bubbles
forming in the tube.

Surprisingly, the tests came up
positive for life by the

criteria that had been
approved by NASA.

However, the result
of another important test... one

looking for organic matter on
the Martian surface...

was negative. But
Dr. Levin says the other

test wasn't nearly as
sensitive as his experiment.

It needed three million bacteria
in a thimbleful of Martian soil to

find signs of life, while Dr. Levin's
test only required 30 bacteria.

So there was a vast

discrepancy in the sensitivity
of the two experiments,

and I immediately said, "Well,
you know, they both could be"

right. We detected
life, but maybe

there aren't enough bacteria per
unit of soil for the organic

"analysis instrument to find."
But NASA was very cautious,

and they opted to say
no organic matter.

There goes the ball game.
No life.

Dr. Levin has fought
NASA for almost 40 years

on whether the Viking probe
found evidence of life on Mars.

If he was right about the
results of his test, this would

be the first proof accepted by
mainstream science that life

exists outside our planet,
but ancient astronaut theorists

say an even more profound
discovery regarding the red

planet has been uncovered right
here on Earth... mysterious

relics that may reveal an
actual visitation of beings

from Mars.

Teotihuacan,
Mexico.

In 2003, archeologists in this
ancient city made a startling

discovery. A previously
unknown tunnel lies

45 feet beneath the Temple of
the Feathered Serpent, one of

the most sacred pyramids
on the continent.

Working underground,
scientists methodically explored

the debris-filled tunnel using a
robotic probe with an infrared

scanner. After some 250 feet,
they reached a side-cave.

The tail end of the
tunnel, terminus of the

tunnel, was loaded with, um,
yellowish metallic-looking orbs,

apparently colored clay.

The orbs are
very interesting objects.

I've never seen anything like
them in any kind of other

archaeological context.

On the inside, they are clay.
On the outside, they're coated

with some sort of gold flecks,
so they look like golden balls.

What purpose these
golden balls served is unknown,

but some archeologists believe
the cavern in which they were

found was a place
of sacred ritual.

Like the clay balls, the walls
were also covered in gold

flecks, so if the cavern
illuminated it with a

torch during a ceremony, the
cavern would have shimmered with

a thousand points of light,
resembling the cosmos.

These beautiful orbs of yellow

material strongly suggests that
someone was illustrating planets.

We do know that the Mayan
calendar is heavily calibrated

to the orbital parameters of the
planets in our solar system,

specifically the inner planets.

The red planet's connection

to the Mayan calendar is
portrayed in The Dresden Codex.

This rare book from Mayan

antiquity describes the
calendar in relation to Mars'

movements across the sky.

The Dresden Codex

is one of four remaining books
that the Maya wrote.

It is, in many regards,
an astronomical almanac.

There are many different
sections of the book that talk

about different astronomical
phenomena.

One of them is the planet Mars.

There is an almanac
near the end of the book,

that breaks up days into ten groups
of 78 days equaling 780 days,

which is the cyanotic period of
Mars, in other words, the time

in which it takes Mars to get
back to the same place on the

horizon from a human
perspective.

Scholars believe Mars
played an important role in

the Maya astrology that's
described in The Dresden Codex.

Above that almanac
is a sky band shown

with various aspects of
celestial symbols we recognize

out of hieroglyphs,
and hanging off of it is this

interesting
dragon-like creature.

at dragon-like creature is
recognized as the face of Mars.

Why did the planet Mars
feature so prominently in

Maya astronomy?
Ancient astronaut theorists

suggest the answer may be
found in a little-known myth

surrounding the story of the
feathered serpent god,

whose temple sits above the
secret tunnel that contains

the golden orbs.

In the Mayan tradition,
their great god,

often pictured as a feathered
serpent, was said to have been

responsible for the death of the
god of Mars, flayed him to death.

That's stripping off the skin.
It's a horrific ritual that was

actually done in other ways in
that culture, but the idea is

death by that means absorbs
the power of the enemy.

But the name of their god also
is associated with the comets.

There are certain drawings
that show comets that

look like they have feathers
coming off the back.

The flames are
depicted as feathers.

And some scholars believe
there's a connection between the

look of the flying feathered
serpent and these comets.

Is it possible that the
Mayan myth of the feathered

serpent describes an actual
event, a cataclysmic comet

strike that destroyed the
Martian atmosphere?

After studying the red planet
for decades, mainstream

scientists admit it's entirely
possible this impact occurred on

Mars in the distant past.

If you look at the
Martian landscape, it is

heavily cratered
compared to Earth.

Mars is next to the
asteroid belt.

In fact, in some ways, it
defines the inner edge of the

asteroid belt.
So Mars is constantly being

hammered by asteroids
relative to earth.

You always have the risk,
and of course we've seen

it here on Earth, of having
large asteroids or comets hit

the planet and cause
tremendous ecological damage.

The most famous example of that
is the Chicxulub asteroid that

may or may not have been the
final nail in the dinosaurs' coffin.

And certainly that could've

happened at Mars because
it doesn't have a large moon to

help shield the planet and
possibly deflect asteroids.

In his book, Life and
Death on Mars, physicist

John Brandenburg describes an
impact crater in the Lyot region

of Mars that's more than 125
miles in diameter.

He believes this comet strike
may have caused a profound

disruption to Mars'
planetary system.

It's a large double-ring crater.

This happened to a planet
that only gets half the sunlight

of earth and has one quarter of
the surface area, so this would

have been an absolutely
devastating planet

climate-changing event.

There may have been
a very dramatic event where

some other leftover piece from
the birth of the solar system,

some big asteroid, sort of
made a close fly-by, sort of

a fender-bender collision with
Mars and just stripped off a

lot of the atmosphere.

That's a very popular way to look at
what may have gone wrong with Mars.

But if Mars fostered
life long ago, before

losing its atmosphere, could
intelligent life, and perhaps

even civilization, have existed
and even flourished

on the red planet?
And if so, where would the

inhabitants have gone
after the cataclysm?

Some say the answers to these
questions can be found in the

origin story of Earth's
first civilization.

Mosul, Iraq,
1849.

During an excavation of the
Biblical city of Nineveh, a team

led by the eminent British
archeologist Austen Henry

Layard, discovers the ruins of
the ancient Assyrian library

of Ashurbanipal.
Among the priceless relics

Layard recovered from the
library is a series of cuneiform

tablets called the En?ma Eli?,
also known as "The Seven Tablets"

of Creation."

The tablets are,
essentially, text in

columnar style, no more than
eight to ten inches tall,

uh, six to seven inches wide,
which were made of clay.

And while the clay was just
in the process of setting,

a stylus would be used by a
trained scribe to etch

the stories of our
existence on this planet.

The Seven Tablets of Creation
tell a story about a

group of gods called the
Anunnaki who came from heaven to

give birth to the human race,
but some ancient astronaut

theorists believe the original
translations, completed in the

19th century by some of the best
scholars of the day, are flawed.

The professors'
certainly brilliant

brains had no idea of space
travel, not to speak of

extraterrestrials.

So they all, without exception,
made the translations in the

belief that the stories had to
do with the Almighty God.

In the old texts, we have, for
example, a word like "heaven."

So, for example, Abraham
was taken up to heaven

and brought back to Earth.
So we should change the word

"heaven" into the word
"space" so it makes sense.

Using what they say is a
more accurate translation

of this origin myth, ancient
astronaut theorists believe the

tablets tell a story about the
Anunnaki coming from space to

colonize both Mars and Earth.

According to some
researchers, the Sumerians

had a number of myths about
Mars, including that the

Anunnaki used Mars as a supply
base to come here to Earth.

And subsequently the Anunnaki
then ruled the earth as these

extraterrestrial god-kings, while
humans began to create the

many civilizations
on our planet.

And eventually the Anunnaki left
to go back to their own planet.

Or did they?

Is it possible that

the Anunnaki gods in our ancient
origin stories were actually

extraterrestrial beings and that
they created the structures that

some believe they see on Mars? And if
so, did they then journey to Earth?

We see multiple references
in the cuneiform

tablets that are allegedly
the records of the Anunnaki.

That, in fact, they did
originate from Mars,

that this is not a dead,
isolated, rocky world

with nothing on it,
but there was life.

But according to
the modern translation of

Sumerian and Babylonian origin
myths, a cataclysmic event

occurred on Mars, an event
that sounds remarkably

similar to ancient Mesoamerican
myths about a feathered serpent

flaying the red planet.

While the Anunnaki were using

Mars as a supply base
for earth, at some

point there was a catastrophe.
There was some asteroid or comet

strike on Mars.

It ripped the atmosphere
from Mars.

It changed the climate, and Mars
couldn't be used as a habitable

space base for the
Anunnaki anymore.

And so therefore, as we explore
Mars more and more, we may find

structures, pyramids, ziggurats,
even giant statues

carved into rock on Mars,
which are really relics of

the Anunnaki and the time when
they occupied that planet.

Some have suggested
that Mars may

have had an atmosphere, and it
got annihilated about

65 million years ago.

What some have suggested is
that before this annihilation

occurred, that that
civilization was able to

escape to Earth.

Now, according to this view, we
might, in fact, be the Martians.

Some scientists say
they've found powerful evidence

of this lost civilization.
They believe they may have

discovered a nuclear signature
in the Martian atmosphere that

matches Earth's after a nuclear test.

During the height
of the Cold War, we

were detonating very large
hydrogen bombs in the open air,

and it produces a lot of
a gas called xenon 129.

On Mars, we've also found
a lot of xenon 129.

The only process we know to
produce this xenon 129 is a

nuclear explosion.

So apparently, a very large

nuclear weapon or weapons
was detonated on Mars.

If we look at the Sumerian
cuneiform tablets there

are very clear references to a
variety of advanced forms of

technology.
And it would seem

pretty clear that if we were
able to get a nuclear bomb,

then why couldn't a civilization
that was superior to our own

have developed the same
technology?

There is a Sumerian
myth concerning the

planet Mars having to do with
some colossal battle of the

gods, so there is elements in
mythology that look very much

like descriptions of
nuclear war.

Signs of a possible
nuclear blast,

myths of a comet flaying
the planet...

and a controversial NASA
experiment that may have

found life. Could these
really be traces of

an ancient alien
civilization on Mars?

And if so, is it possible there
are artificial structures buried

beneath the surface
even to this day?

The Ares Vallis region
of Mars, July 4, 1997.

NASA's Pathfinder spacecraft
lands on the red planet.

The first probe to reach the
Martian surface since Viking,

Pathfinder will look
for signs of water.

Since the Viking missions in the
1970s, mainstream scientists

have come to the conclusion that
the planet may have once boasted

oceans full of water and
complex life.

Billions of years
ago, earlier in the

history of the solar system,
Mars probably looked, in many

ways, the way the Earth did.

It did build up an
atmosphere and oceans.

The atmosphere probably
would have been equivalent to

Earth's atmosphere at that time.
Life could well have

formed in the oceans.

One day after the
Pathfinder touched down,

the Sojourner rover began exploring
the Martian surface for signs of

these ancient life-forms using
an X-ray spectrometer

and a high-powered camera.

What they discovered

was, yes, Mars, in certain
places, looks like the high

desert on Earth.
And maybe there are areas

which do seem to be
dried-out riverbeds.

Maybe there's water
under the surface.

The thing we've learned
from the rovers that's

most interesting, I think, is the fact
that Mars once had a wet past.

And if there was liquid
water on the surface of

Mars long enough, not just for a
couple of weeks, a couple of

years, a couple of thousand
years, but for millions of

years, hundreds of millions of
years, maybe something cooked up

in that liquid, maybe life.

As the Pathfinder

rover snapped photographs of the
Martian surface, it captured

images of something that
puzzled some scientists...

a mountain range
they nicknamed The Twin Peaks.

In his book, Life and Death on
Mars, Dr. John Brandenburg says

that because Mars has limited
volcanic and tectonic activity,

it's an open question as to how
these mountains were formed.

This interesting formation
is the tallest thing

for hundreds of miles.

Most of the volcanic activity on Mars
is concentrated in the Tharsis region.

How many miles away is
that approximately?

Oh, it's, like 2,000
miles away, to the west.

All right, so, this
area is not known for any

volcanoes or anything like that?

No, no. And because we
now know so much more

about the climate of Mars than
we did 20 years ago,

it had an ocean.
It had long periods,

apparently, of liquid water
flowing on its surface, so all

of this causes us to look at
everything on Mars with new eyes.

Mm-hmm.

And so we have these two
interesting objects.

They're conjoined.
Not only are they the tallest

things for 200 miles but
they're linked to each other.

And this reminds me of what we
have found on planet Earth.

Now, there's alignment.

Mm-hmm.

And what's interesting,
this is the Giza

Plateau from Egypt.

And it is near Cairo, which,
name in Arabic derives from the

name in Arabic... Al-Qahirah,
which means Camp of Mars,

Place of Mars.

- Very interesting.
- Fascinating.

Huh.

And we also have found
out recently that at one

time, the Sphinx was
covered with red paint.

So, imagine we are looking at the
Giza complex and the Sphinx.

And a million years of
erosion has happened.

Wouldn't these things all look kind
of rounded and mounded like this?

It's conjectural.

Mm-hmm.
Now I notice over here,

because it's the Giza
Plateau, we have the Sphinx.

Has something similar been
discovered on Mars, specifically

around the Twin Peaks area?

Well, we have

this strange object which is
nearby, and we see that from

space and also in the picture.
And look at this.

At this alignment.
Here is the Sphinx on Earth.

Here is the pyramid.
Here is this object.

And there is what looks
like a mound of stuff.

Who knows if it is
degraded archeology?

We must look at everything on
Mars now with new eyes.

In fact, when the Sphinx
was originally found in

modern times, it was buried up
to its neck in rubble

- and had to be excavated.
- So something

similar could be
going on right here.

There could be a much larger
structure buried beneath.

Could the Twin Peaks
be evidence that an

ancient civilization may have
once existed on Mars?

A civilization whose structures
appear to resemble those on Earth?

Ancient astronaut theorists

say yes, and that evidence
for this startling

conclusion has been accumulating
for four decades.

When Viking orbiters
originally started

taking pictures of
the surface of Mars,

they took pictures of very intriguing
features on the plain of Cydonia.

On July 25, 1976,
they took a picture of

something that looked for all
the world like a human face.

The whole thing kind of blew up
when a NASA project scientist

named Toby Owen put a magnifying
glass over a frame number named

"35A72," and said,
"Hey, look at this."

NASA actually held a press
conference the next day, where

Owen and Gerald Soffen, who was
the chief Viking project

scientist said, "You know, isn't
it peculiar what tricks of light"

and shadow can do?
The whole thing kind of went

"away a couple hours later when
we took another picture."

The problem with that is that a
couple hours later, the Viking

orbiter was nowhere near Cydonia
and it was dark, so there's no

way that picture could
have ever existed.

Some believe they found
not only a human

face carved into Martian rock,
but also a pyramid, a cliff.

In fact, an entire city buried
by thousands of years of sand

and soil. By the late 1980s, one

researcher had even discovered
what he thought were

mathematical relationships among
the features of Cydonia.

A cartographer and
satellite imagery expert from

the Defense Mapping Agency
named Erol Torun took a look at

the pyramid and concluded that
it was what he called the

Rosetta Stone of Mars.
He found a bunch of mathematical

relationships that pointed to
other objects in the area that

he thought were artificial-
looking.

They included the face, an
object called the cliff, which

is a straight line that goes on
for hundreds of meters, a

rounded mound called the tholos
which appears to have a pathway

that goes up to the top.

More than 20 years after
the Viking mission, NASA

rephotographed the Cydonia region
in 1998 and again in 2001.

The face no longer looked
human, but some scientists

believe that was because of when
and how NASA took the newer pictures.

They shot it from the side.
They shot it at morning.

It was as much a different
viewing geometry and lighting

geometry as possible from
the original pictures.

Based on that evidence,
the face on Mars,

evidence of past climate on
Mars, a past ocean,

I have concluded that Mars
was apparently the home of

a civilization in the past.

Is it possible that

an alien civilization existed
on Mars in the distant past,

and built the structures that
recent Martian probes have

photographed?
If so, does the government know

more than it's telling us
about life and death

on the red planet?

Washington, D.C.,
August 7, 1996.

On the South Lawn of the White
House, 30 years after NASA

announced the Viking mission had
not found evidence of life on

Mars, President Bill Clinton
held an historic press

conference to announce some
momentous news:

microbial life may exist
on the red planet after all.

Scientists had found what they
believed to be fossilized

remains on a Martian meteorite
that crashed to Earth

12,000 years ago.

It must be confirmed
by other scientists,

but clearly the fact that
something of this magnitude

is being explored is another
vindication of America's space

program and our continuing
support for it, even in these

tough financial times.

There was enormous
excitement over this discovery.

Based on the chemical
composition of the meteorite,

we could tell that
it was from Mars.

Inside the rock, researchers
found different chemicals and,

in particular, different
physical shapes of objects that

looked extremely similar to
microorganisms here on Earth.

Soon after the president's
press conference,

scientists began to backpedal on
whether the meteorite actually

showed signs of life.
They said the original team of

experts may have been wrong.

The image certainly
looks like some kind of

a microorganism, but
the opponents said the

microorganism remains are too small
to have DNA to be inside it.

And therefore, it
can't be a fossil.

Since then, microorganisms have
been found that small, which

have DNA in them,
but it has not been resolved.

But given the
controversy surrounding the

possibility that life may have
been discovered on Mars,

starting with the Viking mission
of the 1970s and continuing to

- the present day...
- Liftoff.

some scientists say
NASA almost seems to be

avoiding the issue.
The space agency has never

retried Gil Levin's test for
signs of life on the red planet.

It is very puzzling

as to why NASA has refused to
send life detection experiments

back to Mars.
My experiment discovered

the most remarkable thing
yet known about Mars.

That there is something highly
reactive in the soil, chemical

or biological. But we
really should find out

what it is. It is
startling that NASA has

made no attempt to
determine that issue.

I truly think NASA knows
there is life on Mars,

but for some reason
unbeknownst to me, it does not

want that information out.

Has NASA found definitive
signs of life on Mars

that they're intentionally
keeping from the public?

And if so, have they found
evidence that an advanced

civilization once lived
on the red planet?

Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe they have, and as

evidence, point to a report
commissioned by NASA in 1960...

that offers advice for how to
reveal the news if the American

space program should ever find
proof of extraterrestrial life.

The so-called Brookings
Report essentially

said that in your travels
throughout the solar system,

there is a distinct possibility
that you will discover

artifacts, that you will
actually discover evidence

of an ancient alien presence on
Venus, on the moon or on Mars.

And the implications of such an
announcement, if it were made,

would be potentially devastating
to the human race.

It could be catastrophic. In fact,
it used the word "disintegrate."

I would imagine that

it would be something that
would be kept secret for awhile.

I don't think it's a bunch of
men sitting in a room and

smoking cigarettes and saying
we're gonna keep this secret.

But it is a responsibility,
and I think that they would

certainly be very, very
careful as to how to let

out this knowledge.

Is it possible that not
just microbial life, but

also intelligent beings, once
called the red planet their

home? And if so,
what would that mean

for the existence of life
elsewhere in the cosmos?

If life used to exist
on Mars, particularly if

it formed independently of Earth
life, life in the universe

is all over the place.

That means that of
the billions of planets

discovered now
similar to Earth,

through our universe,
many of them would have

life on them.
And if there is life different

from life on Earth that has
evolved, there would be every

reason to suspect such evolution
would have gone on on countless

other Earths.
And that there would be

intelligent life
out there as well.

We want there
to be life on Mars.

We want there to be life
somewhere beyond here.

We want that transcendent
connection to the heavens.

We don't want it to be invaders,
but we don't want to be alone

in the universe.

Are tales of life
on Mars, found in cultures

across the world,
simply mythology?

Or might Martians really have
visited Earth in the distant

past, as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

If so, could there be evidence
waiting to be discovered on the

red planet?

Perhaps with further missions to
Mars we'll find that not only

was it home to alien beings thousands
of years ago, but it still is today.

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