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"Ancient Aliens" explores the controversial theory that extraterrestrials have visited Earth for millions of years.

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November, 1966

Three years before the Apollo astronauts
made it to the Moon,

the Orbiter 2 Spacecraft
situates itself in lunar orbit.

It was designed to capture
high-resolution images of the surface

to assist with the selection
of landing sites for the Apollo missions.

One image in particular
catches the eye of researchers,

as it shows what appear to be
the shadows of several pointed spires.

On November 20, 1966,

the lunar Orbiter 2, NASA's probe,

photographs this area on the Moon

that was actually
in the Sea of Tranquility,

only 300 kilometers away

from where Apollo 11 ended up landing.

And what's so bizarre

is that this area
has undeniable architecture

that looks like what
you would see from obelisks.

There're eight different spires.

And scientists calculated
that the largest of these spires

would be an obelisk
that is 15 stories tall.

These do appear to be just
like an Egyptian-style obelisk.

But what the heck
are they doing on the Moon?

Of the multiple
anomalies on the Moon,

I think the spires are some
of the most fascinating ones

because astronomers have calculated

that these spires are very tall

for them to be exclusively
natural occurrences.

They have to be artificial,

simply from the fact
that the Moon has been bombarded

in kind of an incessant meteoric rain

for 4.5 billion years.

There is no way that anything
bigger than a basketball

can be standing straight up
on the lunar surface.

The inference
is that NASA would have known this

and that one of the reasons
that they sent their mission there

was so that the astronauts
of the Apollo mission

could gain more information

about these artificial
structures on the Moon.

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On Apollo 11, when the astronauts
were descending to the lunar surface

they got this very strange computer alarm.

The famous "1202" computer alarm.

And basically, nobody knew what it was.

What it came out to,

was that the computer itself
was overwhelmed with information...

...because Buzz Aldrin,
the lunar module pilot,

had turned on the radars
on the lunar lander.

It had two radars.

It had a side looking radar

and it had a docking radar.

So, in other words,
you had one that pointed down,

and one that pointed to the side.

Now, if there's nothing
on the surface of the Moon,

if there are no artificial structures,

if there are no spires
sticking 10-20 stories up into the sky,

why would you turn on the side radar?

There's no reason to, but Aldrin did it.

And I think it's because he knew
and NASA knew

that there was some danger
of running into these things.

Is it possible that NASA actually
has knowledge of structures on the Moon?

In 1960, NASA officials commissioned
a report from the Brookings Institute

to weigh the implications of the discovery
of evidence of extraterrestrial life.

Due to the findings of the report,

researchers believe it was determined
before the Moon missions

to keep any extraterrestrial findings
hidden from the public,

for fear of social unrest.

Since the time of the very first
Apollo Moon missions,

researchers have pored over NASA
and Russian photos of the Moon

looking for structures.

And they found some unusual things.

You would think in fact

that if extraterrestrials
are on the Moon or were

that they would've built
all kinds of structures.

And we're able to see some of these,

even though NASA scientists
don't acknowledge them as genuine.

Huntsville, Alabama.

July 24, 1969.

A crowd of thousands
gathers in Courthouse Square

to cheer on the triumphant return
of Dr. Wernher von Braun,

just hours after Apollo 11's
Columbia Command Module

splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.

The United States had achieved
what many believed was impossible:

putting a man on the Moon.

The picture ran in newspapers
around America, the following day,

celebrating the genius rocket engineer
who was behind it all.

Von Braun is a titan, you know,

he's one of the major figures
of the last century.

And he was way ahead of his time.

Von Braun adamantly believed
that humanity's future was in space.

He's the greatest voice we've had
in the history of the space program.

Considered by NASA to be
the "Father of Rocket Science,"

von Braun is credited
with either inventing

or helping to develop many
of the most sophisticated

aerial technologies that exist today,

like the supersonic anti-aircraft missile,

the ballistic missile,

the first American satellite,

and the first U.S. space vehicles,

including the enormous Saturn V rocket

that enabled man to reach the Moon.

Without exaggeration,
the Apollo program has been called

"the greatest achievement
that mankind has ever accomplished."

Without Wernher von Braun,
we would have not reached the Moon.

To date, the Saturn V
is the most powerful rocket

that we've ever built.

Von Braun's incredible engineering feats

were matched only
by his all-consuming crusade

to send man into space.

In the 1950s, when space travel
seemed a fantasy,

Wernher von Braun
teamed up with Walt Disney

to convince a skeptical public

that putting man on the Moon
was not only possible,

but that it would happen
in their lifetimes.

In these films, watched
by an estimated 42 million people,

von Braun boldly predicted

not only how we would
send men into space,

but also the use of protective suits,

lunar landing vehicles,

orbiting space stations,

and even manned trips to Mars.

If we were to start today

on an organized
and well-supported space program,

I believe a practical passenger rocket

could be built and tested
within ten years.

But who exactly was
this engineering genius

with such extraordinary visions
for the future?

Why did he believe so strongly

that man could and should
travel into space?

And what did he expect to find
when we got there?

Wernher von Braun was born March 23, 1912,

in a small town in Eastern Prussia.

The second of three sons,

Wernher grew up a child
of wealth and privilege.

But while he was born
into an accomplished family,

Wernher's keen intellect
and unusual passions stood out.

His father once said,

"I don't know where
his talent comes from,"

and stated on more than one occasion

that he considered his son a mystery.

Wernher von Braun was multitalented.

Both sides of his brain were working.

He could think about technical things
and imagine rocketry and space travel,

but he was an accomplished musician.

And these traits manifested very early.

I think his parents knew

by the time he was four or five
that he was very special.

His mother gave him a telescope
when he was young,

and he looked at the moon and said,

"I want to go there. I want to build
the machine that will go to the Moon."

And of course, he did
half a century later.

Tranquility Base, Houston.

Guidance recommendation, is PGNS,

and you're cleared for takeoff.

July 21, 1969.

Approximately 21 and a half hours
after landing on the Moon,

the lunar module Eagle lifts off

to rejoin the command module Columbia

and begin the return to Earth.

The astronauts take with them
47.5 pounds of lunar surface material,

and they leave some items behind as well,

like scientific instruments,

an American flag,

and a small plaque
commemorating the Apollo 11 mission.

But perhaps most curious
of the items left on the moon

was a small bag containing
a gold replica of an olive branch

and a silicon disk

with recorded messages
of peace and goodwill

from 73 world leaders.

Why were these symbolic
messages sent up into space?

Some ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that the mastermind
behind the Apollo program,

Wernher von Braun, was expecting
to find more on the Moon

than NASA wanted the public to know.

Wernher von Braun famously said

that the next world war
will be the war against the ETs,

his remarks were hugely controversial.

Some people have said
that he was simply saying

there can't be another world war
now that we've got atomic weapons.

Other people have speculated
that he knew something

and he was hinting at some terrible truth.

Another story relates that
von Braun claimed

that "we had help from 'them'
to get us into space".

If anybody knew
about the extraterrestrials,

it would've been a guy
like Wernher von Braun.

Some ancient astronaut theorists propose

that not only did alien beings
have a hand in man reaching the moon,

but that once there,

we discovered further evidence
that we are not alone.

And they claim
the strongest proof can be found

by examining our last
manned trip to the Moon:

the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.

We definitely weren't told everything,

and there's monkey business played
with the moon landings, of course,

as far as what we know about them.

Apollo 17 was, in fact,
a technology salvaging mission.

Yeah, looks like there's been
a geologist here before us.

Some of it has to do
with the actual landing site itself.

There were several mountains in the area

that don't look like mountains.

One of them is very hexagonal-looking.

And they bear a striking resemblance
to actual artificial structures.

The astronauts went directly
for this hexagonal mountain.

They parked on the hill above it

and then they got out of the lunar rover.

What's interesting is that,
for the next 20 or 30 minutes,

NASA has control
of the camera on the rover,

and they point it at everything
except what the astronauts are doing.

They had plenty of time to rappel down
inside of this V-shaped depression.

It's really interesting that we don't see
any of the astronauts at all

until they come back to the lunar rover.

There's no question
that the mystery would be

what they were looking for,
what they found,

could it possibly have been
ancient alien technology?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that even more compelling
than the hexagonal formation

is what appears
at another spot that was filmed:

the Shorty Crater.

- There is orange soil!"
- Well, don't move it until I see it.

- It's all over! Orange!

In Shorty Crater, you can see orange soil
that was discovered at the landing site.

And the reason the soil was orange

was because it had
a great deal of oxygen in it,

which was kind of a surprise.

But the biggest surprise
is, if you actually look in the crater,

what you see are objects
that at first,

might to the naked eye appear to be rocks,

but in fact, as you study it
with an engineer's eye,

what you see is mechanisms.

And right in the middle of it,
there's a very interesting object

that as you zoom up on it,
it begins to look

more and more like a human head.

Mike Bara and fellow researcher
Richard Hoagland

obtained early generation negatives
from Shorty Crater,

and upon enhancing
the colors present in the film,

found that the object appears metallic.

The most intriguing thing is that,
on the upper part of the mouth,

there was a bright, distinct
red stripe painted across it.

And it glowed and shone
as if it were metallic.

You then come to the realization
that what you're probably looking at

is the head of a humanoid-appearing robot.

The leftovers of an explosion
that damaged and destroyed

a bunch of mechanical stuff.

Reaching the Moon
was such an unbelievable feat

that even to this day,
many people are convinced

the entire event was actually staged
in a Hollywood studio.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

not only did we land on the Moon,

but what we found there
was more incredible than we know.

During the 1969 Apollo Moon mission,

after the landing there was
a very strange two-minute gap

in radio transmissions.

And what happened
during those two minutes

has been subject to a lot of controversy.

Neil, this is Houston, radio check, over.

Columbia, this is Houston, over.

According to scientist
and NASA researcher Otto Binder,

various ham radio operators
were able to intercept

secret communications with Mission Control

that were not made public.

The astronauts apparently talked about

seeing extraterrestrial
objects on the Moon,

including flying saucers
parked along the edge of a crater

within their view.

Now, the truth of it is,

is that each of the astronauts
had a separate medical channel.

That channel was not public

and it could have been very easily
used to communicate information

that you didn't want to be heard
over the general public transmissions.

What's really interesting
about that story, though,

is the fact that, within 30 minutes
of the landing on the Moon,

that story was circulating
around NASA, that

"Hey, guess what. They saw
something on the rim of a crater.

"They were all upset.
They didn't know what to do.

"They didn't know if they should go out."

It is interesting when you watch the feed
of when they came back from the Moon.

They're not sitting there
jumping up and down for joy

and saying, "I had the most
incredible experience in my life,

I was on the Moon."

They're not saying that.

They look very solemn, very depressed.

They're looking down.

They almost look like they want to vomit,
that's how disturbed they look.

Could they have seen something there

that they didn't want to tell the public
because of the implications?

I believe that...

what this country set out to do

was something that was going
to be done sooner or later.

We find for the first time

that man has the flexibility
or the option

of, either walking this planet
or some other planet.

It's the beginning of a new age.

After Apollo 11, NASA would send

six more manned missions to the Moon,

culminating with Apollo 17
in 1972.

One of the most interesting questions

with regard to our interaction
with the Moon

is why we have never gone back there again
since the Apollo missions

and what else is very telling

is that although the URSS at the time

was getting to be quite able
to send its own astronauts to the Moon,

it never seems to have done so.

Could it be that there were agencies
associated with the Moon?

Aliens or other beings
who had warned humanity

to stay away for some reason?