Ancient Aliens

Many governments all of a sudden

are now involved in the search for extraterrestrial life.

You have to wonder why.

Between 1948 and 1969,

the U.S. Air Force collected 12,618 UFO reports.

It was actually required

that all officers fill out a form if they saw anything

that might be regarded as a flying saucer.

And they were told not to discuss their sighting

with anyone.

We have to be open

to the possibility that the U.S. government is absolutely aware

of extraterrestrial involvement in human affairs.

Since the dawn of civilization,

mankind has credited its origins to gods

and other visitors from the stars.

What if it were true?

Did extraterrestrial beings

really help to shape our history?

And if so, could the truth be exposed by the alien hunters?

London, England.

July 20, 2015.

A consortium of the world's leading scientists,

including theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking

and SETI founder Frank Drake,

gather at London's Royal Society

as Russian billionaire and technology tycoon Yuri Milner

announces his ambitious initiative: Breakthrough Listen.

The scope of our search will be unprecedented.

The project is a ten-year, $100 million search

for intelligent extraterrestrial life

that is widely regarded as the most comprehensive search

for alien communications in recorded history.

The endowment will fund thousands of hours yearly

on radio telescopes in North America and Australia,

as well as data processing to look for

radio signals in distant solar systems.

This Breakthrough Listen Project

is revolutionary because not only

are they going to survey a very long list of stars,

they're going to survey ten times more area

overall compared to previous surveys.

I think there's definitely been a turning point

regarding the overall consensus

about the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

Now that we're able to document

and scientifically see out in the universe

the possibility of planets that could sustain life,

it also allows us the opportunity to know the odds

that there is life out there is undoubtable.

Breakthrough Listen marks the first time

that mainstream scientists have launched a major project

with the explicit purpose

of finding intelligent extraterrestrial life.

During the announcement, Stephen Hawking stated...

While this new initiative is monumental,

the hunt for the existence of life beyond Earth

has persisted for many decades.

Starting around 1947,

a series of events forced certain high-level members

within the United States government

to officially become alien hunters.

When you look at the year 1947,

the statistics are that there were at least 800 reports

to police and airports of people saying

that they were seeing something in the sky,

they didn't know what it was.

And probably the most important,

and the one that made worldwide headlines

was near Mt. Rainier, Washington.

On June 24, 1947, a businessman and pilot

named Kenneth Arnold was flying near Mt. Rainier

in Washington state.

As he was flying around the mountain,

he suddenly caught sight

of a squadron of strange-looking objects.

He could not figure out what they were.

He was able to time them

as they went between two mountain peaks,

which he knew the exact distance of,

and calculated their speed at between 1,200

and 1,700 miles an hour.

Well, in that day, we didn't have aircraft

that could go faster than about 500 or 600 miles an hour,

so this was definitely something not of terrestrial origin.

He later described the objects

as being somewhat delta shaped

and flying as if you were to skip a saucer

across a body of water.

And this gave rise to the term "flying saucer."

Within days of Arnold's report being published,

there were literally 20 other reports

of-of similar objects seen

in the sky around the northwest of the United States.

This opened the floodgates

for literally hundreds of reports to pour in.

Just two weeks after this flurry of UFO sightings,

the infamous Roswell Incident occurred.

But it was actually a sighting that happened a day earlier

that thrust military officials into the hunt.

On July 7, 1947, at Edwards Air Force Base,

then called Muroc Air Base,

Major J.C. Wise was sitting in his XP-84 fighter jet,

experimental aircraft,

when he noticed that people on the ground

were watching an object off in the distance.

He looked and saw a bright, spinning, yellow object

about 10,000 feet in the air

that was a ball of about five to ten feet in diameter.

After the sighting, it was actually required

that all officers fill out a form if they saw anything

that might be regarded as a UFO or a flying saucer.

And in addition to that,

they were told not to discuss their sighting

or what was on their report with anyone.

In the wake of the incredible number of UFO reports

that reached the military in the summer of 1947,

Lieutenant General Nathan Twining at Wright Field

created a new order

to ensure that all UFO reports reached the military.

This led to the creation

of the first official UFO research program

on the part of the military known as Project Sign.

On January 22, 1948,

the U.S. government authorized its first official study

of the UFO phenomenon.

The highly classified agenda was known as Project Sign.

Project Sign officially argued

that these UFO sightings were authentic

and hinted that they were, in fact,

extraterrestrial in nature.

But the higher-ups in the military stepped in

and redacted those statements, canceled Project Sign,

turned it into Project Grudge,

which ultimately became Project Blue Book.

The Air Force closed down Blue Book

because essentially they said they didn't find any evidence

that UFOs were real

or represented a threat to national security.

Between 1948 and 1969,

the U.S. Air Force collected 12,618 UFO reports.

Of that number, 701 remained unexplained.

While the Air Force's official stance was

that Project Blue Book produced no compelling evidence

that extraterrestrial craft occupied Earth's airspace,

one important contributor to the study strongly disagreed.

Dr. J. Allen Hynek,

a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy

at Ohio State University,

was appointed as scientific advisor for UFO studies

during Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book.

Dr. Hynek was a pure skeptic

at the very beginning of his career

as a consultant to the United States Air Force.

In fact, he considered these UFOs to be utterly ridiculous.

But as he got more and more involved

and began talking to more and more quality witnesses,

like military fighter pilots,

it became clear to him that there really was

something to this whole UFO question.

When asked in his later years what turned him around

on the whole UFO question, Dr. Hynek said two things.

The first is that the Air Force was dead set

on putting an answer on every single UFO report,

even if they had to force the answer.

The second is that he started talking

to very, very credible witnesses

that led him to believe that these objects

were, in fact, real.

In the intervening years, UFO investigators

and scholars have attempted

to access Project Blue Book case files

utilizing the Freedom of Information Act.

But the names, details and other personal information

of all the witnesses and sightings have been blacked out

from the documents, preventing any further examination.

Considering the way the U.S. government

has labeled UFOs "top secret," we have to at least be open

to the possibility that higher-ups

within the U.S. government,

or even those higher than U.S. government,

are absolutely aware

of extraterrestrial involvement in human affairs

and have sought to cover up this phenomena

for the past six decades.

Considering the top-secret nature

of these projects, is it possible that

the incredible claims of Dr. J. Allen Hynek are true,

and that actual contact with extraterrestrial craft

has been concealed from the general population?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and claim

that mankind has had contact with aliens

since our earliest civilizations.

Humboldt University.

Berlin, Germany.

January 28, 2016.

Astroarchaeologist Mathieu Ossendrijver

announces what he calls "a truly astonishing find."

He has discovered evidence that astronomers living

in the ancient city of Babylon