Ancient Aliens

Mysterious objects arriving from space.

Not only was it interstellar,

but it was exotic.

It's a riddle wrapped in an enigma.

The meteorite weighs 15 tons,

and there was no crater.

Where did it come from?

Sacred stones,

sent by the gods.

Was this Black Stone supposed to

interact with humans on Earth?

Perhaps it's through these meteorites

that we're gonna learn

of our cosmic origins,

and more about these extraterrestrial beings.

Are meteorites simply falling rocks,

or could they be examples of alien technology?

And if so, why were they sent here?

This is the kind of meteorite that has everything in it

to start life.

Winslow, Arizona,

located in the northern Arizona desert of the United States.

Here, at an elevation of 5,700 feet above sea level,

is located the largest crater in North America.

Formed by an enormous meteor that fell to Earth

an estimated 50,000 years ago,

the Barringer Crater measures some 3,900 feet in diameter

and is approximately 560 feet deep.

Each year, literally thousands of asteroids

make their way to our planet

through the vast regions of space.

Most are burned up while entering our atmosphere,

while those that make it through are known as meteors.

And while most of these are tiny,

or fall largely unnoticed into the oceans,

there are a handful that succeed in ending their journey

on dry land.

And when they do,

they are capable of having an impact

more environmentally devastating then any bomb devised by man.

Everybody is kind of aware of the general effects

of a meteorite impact.

It creates a hole in the ground,

it might throw up some dust in the air,

and if it's big enough,

it could cause some weather changes.

But what else might it do?

If it had certain chemicals in it,

or certain biological agents in there,

it could actually change the environment.

It could be used, in a way, to terraform an environment.

Terraform?

The process of artificially making

an otherwise uninhabitable planet

capable of supporting human life?

Could such an audacious notion be possible?

April 7, 2016.

NASA announces funding for a bold new initiative,

one that will define the future of interstellar transportation.

Called "RAMA," the program will focus on repurposing asteroids

for space exploration.

NASA is currently working on this project called RAMA:

"reconstituting asteroids for mechanical automata."

The idea is to take an asteroid, and turn it into a probe

that we would then send to another star system.

If the RAMA program is successful,

it is NASA's belief that asteroids will not only become

useful tools in the exploration of space,

but also in the terraforming of other planets.

But why would an advanced society

choose to explore and colonize the cosmos

by using asteroids?

A rocket is very expensive to launch from the Earth,

and what you really want to do is

take something very small and light,

like a few key robots-- not a heavy payload--

get it out into space, and then use

the raw materials in space to, from scratch, build a rocket.

And once it's out there,

it's got all the raw materials it needs

to actually build another spaceship

that's viable for space travel.

While the idea of using asteroids

as a method of space travel does seem far-fetched,

it is far less so when taking into consideration

what many asteroids are made of: minerals.

There is a bodacious amount of resources.

In fact, meteors and our meteor samples

show us that the asteroid belt contains organics,

it has metals, it has refractories...

everything we could possibly want

to build a space program.

Meteors are made of

a very strong material, like iron and nickel and cobalt.

Things like that.

These are alien objects,

and we really don't understand everything about them.

Ancient astronaut theorists are convinced

that the notion of using asteroids

as a form of spacecraft is not only possible,

but that it has been happening

and affecting the history of our planet

for thousands of years.

West Linn, Oregon, 1902.

Walking home after a day's work,

pioneer Ellis Hughes spots an enormous

and unusually shaped boulder hidden in the woods.

Curious, he pulls out his hammer and strikes the rock.

He jumps, startled,

as it rings loudly, like a bell.

Over the next several days, Hughes digs tirelessly

to uncover a historic treasure:

the largest meteorite ever found in North America,

the Willamette Meteorite.

The Willamette meteor is enormous.

The actual shape of the meteor has changed over time.

It now looks something like a piece of modern art.

It is fascinating and enormous; the thing's the size of a car.

If we look at the makeup of the Willamette Meteorite,

it's got iridium, germanium, gallium and nickel.

It weighs about 15 tons. A very large object.

The nickel actually helps it from not corroding.

And it, of course, shows evidence

of having gone through the atmosphere.

You know, it's pitted.

And what's interesting, it landed intact

and didn't break into a billion pieces.

So it's a quite remarkable meteorite.

The Willamette Meteorite is an example

not only of a strange meteorite arriving intact,

but also that it had a profound effect on the local people.

It became kind of a shrine to them, a message from the gods.

Long before Ellis Hughes

discovered the meteorite in 1902,

a Native American tribe called the Clackamas,

who've inhabited western Oregon for centuries,

were aware of this extraterrestrial object.

They also believed it had special powers.

The Clackamas tribe,

they had a long, long history

of interaction with this rock.

They would look at this rock

as a gift, a conduit which united

heaven, Earth, and with water.

Within the stone itself,

there are holes in there from erosion and the like,

which gathered pools of water.

Now, this water was used for healing purposes, for blessing.

In other words, there was something in the water

which was gathered from this meteor that had energetic power.

They would dip their arrowheads

and their spear tips into the water,

thinking that this ritual would sharpen the blades

and help them in their hunt.

The Clackamas named the meteorite Tomanowos,

and believed that it was in fact a messenger of their sky god.

This is hugely significant because it tells us that,

in fact, that rock is not just a rock,

it's an actual link to an extraterrestrial being.

We're talking about a 15-ton meteorite that crash-landed,

but yet there's no evidence of an impact.

I think we have to go back

to the original Clackamas connection

that says that, perhaps,

there's extraterrestrial intervention involved

in the positioning of this meteorite.

They firmly believed

it was brought here by someone intentionally.

They actually thought that it came from the gods,

not by chance that it fell from the sky.

But how did the Clackamas people

believe the Willamette Meteorite came from the sky,

considering that it is believed to have fallen to Earth

thousands of years ago?

Is it possible that it once possessed powers,

not of a spiritual, but of a technological kind?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest that the strange holes

found in this giant metal object

may once have held technological apparatus

that burned up in the atmosphere as it fell to Earth,

the same kind of apparatus that NASA is planning to install

on asteroids being harnessed for space travel.

So now you have to look at NASA's RAMA initiative

and how they are planning to take asteroids,

hollow them out,

make them into self-powered spacecraft,

pack them with DNA and technology

and send them to other planets.

And so you have to wonder,

are we just perpetuating this cycle where, eons ago,

extraterrestrials sent meteorites here

and the Clackamas discovered the remains

of a highly technical little spaceship

that has been sent as a space probe to other planets?

Meteorites do have a lot of unanswered questions

about their origins, their composition,

and why is it exactly that they arrive here on Earth.

Is there some type of intelligent design?

Are these meteorites being harnessed,