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.