Ancient Aliens - Ancient Aliens On Location: Evidence of Alien Life

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

Ancient Aliens has followed investigators across the globe as they’ve gone directly to the sites where signs of alien life have been found. Now, Giorgio Tsoukalos takes a look back at the m...ost incredible evidence ever uncovered that could offer definitive proof that we are not alone in the universe.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Strange signals from outer space. And we're trying to pick up very special sort of radio waves, namely some that would tell us somebody's out there. The building blocks of life traveling on a meteorite. You're looking at its back of water in a meteorite. This is extraordinary. An otherworldly presence found in our atmosphere. So this is a titanium sphere with life inside and life on the outside. Now what on earth is it?
Starting point is 00:00:30 Absolutely amazing. It's blown my head off. For more than a decade, Agent Aliens has followed investigators across the globe as they've gone directly to the sites where signs of alien life have been found. Now, we take a look back at some of the most incredible evidence we've seen, evidence that, according to ancient astronaut theorist, provides an undeniable proof that we are not alone in the universe.
Starting point is 00:00:58 There is a doorway in the universe. Beyond it is the promise of truth. It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. The evidence is all around us. The future is right before our eyes. We are not alone. We have never been alone. Here is ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Succolos.
Starting point is 00:01:30 On ancient aliens we have traveled the globe and investigating everything from tiny microbes to massive megaliths, all in the quest to find proof of extraterrestrial life. And one of the most incredible places we've ever visited is a field study site for an organization called SETI or the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. In 2016, I got the rare opportunity to tour the grounds and learn about how they listen for signs of intelligent life in the universe. Shasta County, Northern California, March 2016.
Starting point is 00:02:10 Ancient astronaut theorist Georgiosuclos travels to Allen Telescope Array in Hat Creek to meet with the director for SETI Research, Seth Shostak. This is truly amazing. What can you tell me about this place? Well, this place is an observatory, but it's a radio observatory. So these things around us, these 42 antennas, they pick up radio. And we're trying to pick up very special sort of radio waves, namely some that would tell us somebody's out there. By having lots of these dishes here,
Starting point is 00:02:38 we can look at more of the sky at once. We can look at multiple star systems at once. Why radio waves? What's so significant about radio waves? Radio waves go at the speed of light. And they also, by the way, go through all the gas and dust that's between the stars. So, you know, if you want to communicate from one part of the galaxy
Starting point is 00:02:59 to another, radio waves are a great way to do it. So the way this works is actually kind of simple. I mean, the cosmic radiostatic, it comes in from the sky, and it bounces off that big reflector there, that first one. Okay, that's a mirror for radio waves. And that redirects them to this secondary reflector on the end, on the nose there. And then they're directed to the receiver, and that's inside. That information goes through a fiber optic over to the control room.
Starting point is 00:03:26 So this is where the data coming through the fiber optic kind of ends up. after it's been processed in a display like this. So we're looking, in this case, at three star systems at once. Okay, so that speeds up the search. It also allows us to determine whether we're really seeing ET or just interference. The data from one of these star systems is being displayed over on this part of the screen here. This is called a waterfall plot. Can you see that line of brighter dots there?
Starting point is 00:03:51 Yeah, that's a slightly more static at that frequency, slowly going down the dock. That's the kind of thing we're looking for. So then if this here were an actual... ET signal, how would it differentiate itself? Would it be a bit thicker, a bit more pronounced, a bit longer, or what are you looking for? It could be all of those things. So what you do is when you find a signal like this, you make a test. You'll just move the antennas a little bit and see if the signal goes away and then point it back at the star and see if it comes back. You say, well, that's looking promising. You do that again, go off, go on, go off, go on. If you do that five or ten
Starting point is 00:04:24 times, you start to get excited. I hope that that day will come very soon. Although the The SETI Institute formally came into existence in 1984. The practice of listening for extraterrestrial life has been underway since the 1960s. Astronomers based at various universities throughout the U.S. have pointed their radio telescopes into the cosmos in hopes of capturing signals of intelligent life. And sometimes, they receive a transmission they can't explain. Delaware, Ohio, August 15, 1977. At Ohio State University's Big Ear Radio Telescope,
Starting point is 00:05:07 Astronomy Jerry R. Iman conducts research for SETI. While reviewing recorded data, he detects a highly unusual signal originating from the constellation Sagittarius. Here is David Childress, author of Technology of the Gods. They were looking for a 72-second signal that would be coming from extraterrestrial. And as Dr. Jerry Eamon monitored the output of the pages that were coming from space, he suddenly found a signal that matched exactly what they were looking for.
Starting point is 00:05:46 And so he circled the page of data that had that 72-second window on it and wrote, wow next to it. And this became known as the wow signal. And it essentially was the, was the kind of extraterrestrial SETI signal that they were all looking for and had suddenly briefly found it. While there are various theories
Starting point is 00:06:12 as to what may have caused the now famous wow signal, from terrestrial radio broadcast to comet trails, SETI has not ruled out the possibility that it may represent modern man's first radio contact with extraterrestrials. The wow signal continues to intrigue people. So we are going to be.
Starting point is 00:06:31 to use the Allen Telescope array to re-observe the wow signal, look in the same spot on the sky, look over a wider range of frequencies, and if there's something up there and it's still broadcasting, of course, we would find it. Might the discovery of the wow signal bring us one step closer to discovering that we are not alone in the universe? Perhaps further clues can be found by examining life forms on Earth that are capable of surviving inside a comet. The possibility of finding evidence of alien life by receiving a message from space is a thrilling prospect.
Starting point is 00:07:07 But many scientists are looking for clues right here on Earth. And in 2019, I got the incredible opportunity to meet with a scientist who believes he may have found extraterrestrial life in one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet. Whistler Canada. April 17, 2019. Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Suclos and retired NASA scientist Dr. Richard Hoover are about to board a helicopter bound for a massive ice cave in the Canadian wilderness. Dr. Hoover spent most of his career studying fossils for signs of extraterrestrial microscopic life and is a leading proponent of panspermia, the idea that life on Earth originally rained down from comets in outer space. He has invited Giorgio to accompany him while he investigates the Whistler Ice Cave,
Starting point is 00:08:03 where he is confident that they will find the glacial ice teeming with microbial and perhaps even more sophisticated life forms, life forms that may be thousands of years old. If alien microbes are reaching Earth, Dr. Hoover suggests that they could survive within such an environment for long periods of time. Today, he'll examine the glacier for the perfect samples to analyze in his laboratory. So Richard, how excited are you to be here to conduct his experiment? Well, I'm tremendously excited.
Starting point is 00:08:39 This is absolutely a marvelous opportunity to do more studies of life than ice. After a 20-minute helicopter ride, the team arrives at the Whistler Ice Cave in the Pemberton Glacier. Wow. This is incredible. Yeah, look at that. There must be a thousand shades of blue in this ice cave. It's absolutely fantastic. And here we see all of these magnificent shades of blue
Starting point is 00:09:06 and up there you see big streaks of black. Glaciers like to eat rocks. And as they eat rocks, the rocks gather inside. And when the sun shines through the ice and hits the rocks, it can cause it to melt and form nice little pools of water and then when bacteria and algae grow in there and respire and produce their photosynthetic products, they make their own atmosphere. So around every tiny rock in this glacier, there is a tiny planetary system with its own biology, its own atmosphere, its own soil in effect, and it's on oceans.
Starting point is 00:09:44 The ice here is tens of thousands of years old, but Dr. Hoover believes it is teeming with life. So you just described basically our environment on a microscopic level. Exactly. There is an enormous amount of biology above us and throughout this wonderful glacier. What we are about to do is take a core sample of this beautiful blue ice.
Starting point is 00:10:09 So what are you looking for specifically right now? What I want to do first is chop away an outer layer and get into the inner ice. And we'll be looking inside of the ice for the ice microorganisms. All the microorganisms. All the microorganisms that grow in ice typically grow very, very slowly. So in fact, there are some microorganisms that only reproduce once every half century or once a century. So the microbes that are found in here, are they in suspend animation or are they moving around?
Starting point is 00:10:37 Probably both. So essentially what you're saying is that this entire cave is filled with life. Yes, but not just that. This entire ice cap is filled with life. There is this enormous amount of microorganisms that live and thrive and love to live in these low temperatures of the ice cave that we have here, and ice caves and icy glaciers all over the planet Earth,
Starting point is 00:11:06 and probably all over icy regions within our entire solar system and maybe widely distributed throughout the entire universe. Are we essentially inside the interior of a comic? Is this what it looks like? Yes. Microorganisms can live in ice, and ice is the dominant component of comets. That organisms can remain alive and protected by the icy material of the comet until it
Starting point is 00:11:35 arrives into another solar system and blows off chunks of material that can find a planet that it can consider a wonderful home. And so this basically ties into the whole idea of panspermia. Water is a wonderful radiation shield. And when you have a comet that is a few miles in diameter, on the inside of that cometary crust, there is all of this magnificent ice that has been frozen and then reworked with material going in and out.
Starting point is 00:12:06 So comets are not just a magnificent place for panspermia. I am convinced that comets are an absolutely wonderful place for the origin of life. As Giorgio and Dr. Hoover take their samples, to the lab to be analyzed, what kind of life forms might they find within the Pemberton Glacier? Could it support the theory that life on comets is more common than we ever thought possible? First sample that we got. Now, back in the lab, they are hoping to observe microorganisms that remain dormant within the glacial ice
Starting point is 00:12:41 and are just now returning to life for the first time in thousands of years. Do you see anything? Oh yes, yes. We've got bacteria. This is fantastic. I mean, look at this one spinning right here. Yeah. This one just moves straight across the screen.
Starting point is 00:12:57 And this one is tumbling. And notice there's a cell that has just undergone cell division. Here's another one that's just undergone cell division. Okay. The quest for extraterrestrial life, to me, has been a lifelong one, as it has been with you. So I've traveled around the world, climbing pyramids, I've looked at statues,
Starting point is 00:13:14 I've been to hundreds of museums. I've read countless ancient texts, and here we are looking at something that shows extraterrestrial life that may have come here millions of years ago. The fascinating thing is that a far more extraordinary hypothesis than the existence of extraterrestrial life
Starting point is 00:13:36 is the hypothesis that life exists on the planet Earth and nowhere else in the universe. If that were to turn out to be what really is the key, case, then we would be completely unique and we would be different from everywhere else in the universe. And that would be an amazing discovery, much more amazing, than finding out that bacteria or ice worms are crawling around on the surface of Europa today. This is incredibly fascinating. You know, and it's also refreshing to hear an actual NASA scientist telling me these things.
Starting point is 00:14:11 If, as Dr. Hoover's research indicates, icy comets are ideal incubators for extraterrestrial life, and if microorganisms are incredibly common in the universe, is the Earth being regularly bombarded by tiny alien life forms? Perhaps further clues can be found by examining recent scientific evidence that supports the once fringe theory, that life on Earth was seeded from outer space. and casino at San Manuel is California's number one entertainment destination for the biggest shows this summer. Catch vocal powerhouse Christina Aguilera July 21st. Rock out to Imagine Dragons July 23rd and enjoy the signature G-Funk sounds of Snoop Dog July 24th. Tickets are on sale now at Yamava Theater.com. Only at Yamava Resort and
Starting point is 00:15:07 casino celebrating its 40th anniversary. You win? Must be 21 to enter. On ancient aliens, we have found abundant evidence that alien life has made its way to Earth. But what if these life forms were deliberately sent out into the universe and possibly even directed right at our planet? In 2018, Andrew Collins met with researchers who believe that they have found proof that Earth is being regularly bombarded by microbial life forms. South Yorkshire, England, March 2018. Author and researcher Andrew Collins travels to Sheffield to witness a remarkable demonstration. Hi guys, Andrew. Chris, I presume, and Milton.
Starting point is 00:15:57 He is meeting with microbiologist Milton Wainwright and engineer Chris Rose, two members of the research team who are convinced that life on Earth may have originated in space through a process known as panspermia. I understand you've made some incredible discoveries. Please tell me all about it. In the early 2000s, my colleague Chandro Wiccaramasinghi, we were launching balloons from India and these were sampling the air at 41 kilometers
Starting point is 00:16:26 and that they show that organisms are continually arriving all the time. Planspermia is extremely simple idea. Basically it's the idea that life came from space. Instead of being formed on this planet, it came from space. My findings relate to panspermia simply and that they show that organisms are coming in at this very moment from space. Tell me how you actually collect these samples. This is our balloon that's going to give us the buoyancy from the hydrogen gas here. Now our capture mechanism is right here. Let me show you this. This
Starting point is 00:16:58 exposes little metal stubs to the environment and you're looking to see if you can get microbes coming from the upper atmosphere and not from the Earth it's That's right. All the critics say they're coming from Earth because we're surrounded by life. But we have lots of evidence that this material is not coming from Earth, it's incoming from space. I mean, it sounds incredible. I mean, have you ever lost any of these? No, and we're not about to start today, so fingers crossed guys. Brilliant. The team moves the balloon into launch position, from which it will ascend more than 37 kilometers or 23 miles into the air.
Starting point is 00:17:35 Okay, guys, ready? Andrew, on you. Countdown, please. On you, count down please. Okay, three, two, one, let it go. Ah, there she goes. Once the balloon reaches its target altitude within the Earth's stratosphere, the capture mechanism will hopefully collect samples of non-Earth-based microbial life. After the sampling is complete, the balloon bursts and the capture mechanism descends back to Earth under the safety of a parachute.
Starting point is 00:18:04 The team uses GPS tracking to locate where the mechanism. lands. Once retrieved, the sample is quickly secured in a sealed container so that it does not become contaminated with microbes from Earth. Moments later, Andrew joins Milton and Chris at a nearby laboratory. Here they will extract the microbes inside a sterilized clean room and then analyze them to make sure no Earth microbes have contaminated the sample. A clean room. How can you ensure the sterilization. What are the protocols behind this process? It's really all about sterilizing the air inside to make sure the air inside contains no microorganisms. So all the air is filtered. Milton and
Starting point is 00:18:50 Chris remove the carbon tabs from the capture mechanism and place them into vacuum sealed containers. This will further prevent contamination while they view the samples with a scanning electron microscope. Wow. What on earth is that? I can tell that this is biological. If you analyse this, I'm pretty certain this would show as carbon, oxygen and a little bit of nitrogen. Now that's the signature for life. We're saying that this piece of biological life could potentially be extraterrestrial in origin. Right. There's nothing from Earth around it.
Starting point is 00:19:24 It's pristine, so it's incoming. Now if we do a bit of modelling studies, we come to the conclusion that nothing bigger than six microns can't go out. Okay. And this is 200. So it's a very large particle, and it's coming in. What we actually could be looking at here is a genuine alien life form. What you're looking at there is an organism or a clump of organisms that is incoming from space to Earth.
Starting point is 00:19:55 Nothing bigger than 6 microns can go from the surface of the Earth to these altitudes that we sample at. And yet we are finding particles all the... the way up to 200. They can't be coming up from Earth. Absolutely amazing. It's blown my head off. Biological organisms, not from Earth, but from somewhere in space. Could this be actual evidence of a living organism from another world other than our own? We've actually found evidence of what could be extraterrestrial biological entities.
Starting point is 00:20:34 To see those images was extraordinary, and it's convinced me that the Earth is surrounded by life that almost certainly came from outer space. This is what we took earlier, as they say. This is the most amazing image I've ever seen in my life. So this is a titanium sphere with life inside and life on the outside. Now, what on Earth is it?
Starting point is 00:20:59 It's got biological material here, and this material, we know, can tell you. It contains carbon, oxygen and nitrogen. So this is biologically. When we analyzed the ball, we found it contained titanium and a small amount of vanadium. One possibility is that this is directed panspermia. Some civilization has put biological material inside
Starting point is 00:21:21 and just on the outside of this thing and then spewed it out. And this suggests that some alien civilization is seeding planets. This smoking gun of panspermia or even directed pansepermia could give us the best evidence yet that aliens in some form seeded life on this earth, which is an incredible thought. Is it possible that extraterrestrial life forms are being deliberately sent to planet Earth? Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, and suggest that archaeologists may have actually found physical remains of the beings who are sending them. On ancient aliens, we have traveled around the world looking for definitive evidence to prove that we are not alone in the universe. And what could be more definitive than a human-like skull
Starting point is 00:22:16 that appears to be something other than human? In 2017, I got to examine an elongated skull up close, and what I discovered was absolutely mind-blowing. New York City, February 2017. At New York University, Giorgio Suclos meets with art collector Jared Collins, who is in possession of a 2,000-year-old elongated skull. The skull is incredibly well-preserved, and Jared is having it tested at the university to find out if it might possibly contain abnormalities that indicate it is something other than human. He agreed to meet Giorgio outside of the anthropology lab for a first look at the skull. So how did this come to be in your possession?
Starting point is 00:23:06 Well, it's not actually mine. It is on loan to me. Me and one of my colleagues contacted a museum, and we asked them, do you have an elongated skull in your collection? And they said they have just one. This one. And have they told you anything about it?
Starting point is 00:23:21 Actually, like the provenance? Strangely, this has been in storage for decades. They have never tested it. They had very little information on it. They know it's absolutely Pyracus. So this skull was found in the Paracas region of Peru. That's right. But no real modern testing has ever been done on this.
Starting point is 00:23:41 Oh, this is amazing. So let's go, right? NYU professor of anthropology, Dr. Todd Disotel, agreed to conduct a forensic evaluation of the elongated skull. I've seen casts, I've never seen one in person. Wow, that is freaky. I mean, I just can't come up with it. another term.
Starting point is 00:24:04 I love that your first reaction is that it's freaky, because I agree with you. Well, I mean, look at it. It's quite bizarre. Let me just move it over to the sterile bench surface. It's what's very fascinating, besides the shape. The sagittal suture looks like it has completely fused. I'm holding it, I'm looking at it, and it's just been completely obliterated. The sagittal suture is the scene where the scene where the
Starting point is 00:24:33 the two parietal bones of the skull come together. Although the markings may be faint due to fusing over time, all human skulls are expected to have some evidence of this feature. So it is curious that this skull does not. Nor do the skulls of a number of other mysterious specimens that have been collected and examined by various experts. One of the great enigmas of planet Earth is that all over the world, we find
Starting point is 00:25:03 find skeletons with people having these elongated skulls. For centuries, various native cultures have engaged in the ritual practice of artificially elongating their skulls by tightly wrapping the heads of their children through infancy. However, these skulls still feature evidence of the cranial sutures. Okay, let's move on to extracting some tooth and bone powder to get DNA out of that. Okay. Excellent. In order to obtain the needed genetic material from the artifact, Dr. DeSotel will need to remove a tooth and drill into it to extract the samples.
Starting point is 00:25:45 The analysis of the material will determine the sex, ancestral lineage of both the father and the mother, and any DNA anomalies when compared with the current human genetic database. We will pack this up and send it off. And in four to six weeks, they should have the result. Four to six weeks, okay. Thank you very much. Really appreciate your input on this. Take care, gentlemen.
Starting point is 00:26:09 You got it. Los Angeles, California, April 2017. All right, Todd, you got the results? Yeah, and they're very, very interesting. Two months after their initial examination, Giorgio is online with Dr. Dissotel to receive the results of the DNA test they performed on the elongated skull. skull.
Starting point is 00:26:30 They did get a good, clean DNA profile from the maternally inherited DNA. So this particular specimen is actually not found in the new world, not found amongst Native Americans, and it's typically found amongst Europeans and Middle Easterners. In fact, the 100% match was to a Scottish individual. This makes no sense whatsoever. Really? In a South American skull, this is all very strange. That could mean that people from Europe got to South America
Starting point is 00:27:07 1500 years earlier than we currently understand that. That's amazing. Unfortunately, the condition of the sample did not yield any Y chromosome, but that's not surprising. There is between a couple hundred to a couple thousand times as much maternal DNA in every cell of the body. So what does that mean?
Starting point is 00:27:37 What have we not found out because of that? Well, so one, that would allow us to definitively determine the sex and knowing who the father was would be very, very informative. Unfortunately, we're missing that. Do you think that a case can be made at all? And again, this is completely, speculation that perhaps it is not necessarily human.
Starting point is 00:28:03 Is that a possibility? Well, it's possible, but still we actually don't know what this is. Since we didn't get any definitive result, obviously a scientist always wants to try to do that. This is extraordinary. Yeah, it still leaves open the possibility of something interesting. The results confirmed the fact that there is a mystery there. a mystery there. First of all, we couldn't figure out who the father is of that thing. Number two,
Starting point is 00:28:34 it has European DNA, two things that make no sense, and it had a missing sagittal suture. So I do think that that is an extraterrestrial skull. Could the elongated skull analyzed by Dr. Disotel provide evidence that a human-like species walked planet Earth that wasn't in the same? entirely human. Perhaps further clues can be found by examining recent scientific evidence that supports the theory that life can exist, where we least expect it. Many of the scientists we've spoken to on ancient aliens believe that the best place to search for evidence of alien life is on meteorites that have crashed to Earth. A few years ago, I met with a planetary scientist in England who showed me incredible evidence. that these space rocks could be delivering microbial,
Starting point is 00:29:31 extraterrestrial life forms right here to our planet. Milton Keynes, England, March 2019. Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Succolos travels to Open University to meet with planetary scientist, Dr. Queenie Chan. Dr. Chan? George-o! Hello. Great pleasure to meet you.
Starting point is 00:29:54 Welcome here. Nice to meet you, too. Welcome. Thank you so much for bringing me here. Dr. Chan recently analyzed two meteorites recovered in 1998 and discovered something incredibly unexpected. A salt crystal containing liquid water. Giorgio is eager to find out what the implications of this discovery could be,
Starting point is 00:30:15 and if it might provide further evidence that life on Earth was seeded by extraterrestrials. Within a stone image, right, we've got something called the conjurricular. Arctic meteorite. They are interesting because they have organic materials in it. The meteorite that I found extremely interesting, special to meteorites actually, Zach and Monaghan's meteorite, they are both ordinary chondrites, but they are not ordinary. They both fell to Earth in 1998. And what's more interesting is both of these meteorite has salt crystal. that's stunning blue coloration to them. More interesting is within these salt crystals.
Starting point is 00:31:02 We found water, liquid water inclusion within them. I'm trying to wrap my mind around this. So you're telling me that you found meteorites that actually contain liquid water in them. Should we have a look at it in the clean lab? Yes, please. That would be amazing. Absolutely. Before they can examine the meteorite sample, Giorgio and Dr. Chan change into protective gear.
Starting point is 00:31:24 that will keep the laboratory sterile. And so this is it. This is it. Should we have a look at the microscope? Yes, please. Yes. This is it. You're looking at a speck of water in a meteorite.
Starting point is 00:31:36 This is the first time that we found amino acids with water. This is extraordinary. Amino acids. These organic compounds are the building blocks of life. So finding them within liquid water on a meteorite is extraordinary. Could alien proteins? like these have started life on Earth. Here is physicist Michael Denin, Ph.D.,
Starting point is 00:32:01 from the University of California, Irvine. One of the exciting things about the discovery of the blue salt crystals and the asteroids that crashed to Earth is really the amino acids. Amino acids are the building block of protein. And so it really shows that Earth isn't the only place where the right chemistry exists for which you can get life.
Starting point is 00:32:22 In another laboratory, Dr. Chan, shows Giorgio the machine that analyzed the meteorite samples on a nanometer scale. The results are then displayed on a computer screen, showing a comparison between amino acids found on Earth and those that arrived here from space. This is very interesting because first of all, we're seeing a bunch of amino acids that are common in terrestrial life. And over here we've got other extraterrestrial amino acids, you say. This is a revolutionary discovery.
Starting point is 00:32:57 I immediately go to the idea of panspermia that life has been brought throughout the entire galaxy by means with which we can't even fathom how it was done. The building blocks of protein that we know to be necessary for life, these very building blocks, the same amino acids that we found on Earth, is ubiquitous in the universe. It's everywhere. It's found on an asteroid. is found on comets too.
Starting point is 00:33:25 So in your estimation, what is the likelihood of life having begun elsewhere? We've got so many different galaxy, and there are so many Earth-like planets, and we could have water elsewhere. We know that amino acid, or building blocks of life are ubiquitous. So I think it's totally possible.
Starting point is 00:33:48 Could these incredible findings be proof that the seeds of life, life travel to Earth from other planets in our galaxy. Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, and believe that further evidence can be found in the recent NASA discovery that there might be life on Mars. The search for evidence of extraterrestrial life has taken ancient aliens from deep in the jungle all the way up to a remote mountain cave. But perhaps one of the most compelling places to look is not on our planet at all. In recent years, new research has suggested that Mars may actually support life. And in 2018, aerospace engineer Dr. Travis Taylor traveled to
Starting point is 00:34:34 NASA to learn about an exciting new discovery and to see a piece of the red planet right here on Earth. Houston, Texas, June 2018. Scientist and aerospace engineer, Dr. Travis Taylor travels to Johnson Space Center and meets with NASA Exploration Mission Scientist Dr. Elizabeth Rampi. Dr. Rampi analyzes data obtained by the Mars Curiosity rover, which over six years into its mission is sending back some of the most extraordinary findings yet. So there was very late-breaking news recently from the Curiosity rover and some interesting information came out of the sample analysis at Mars or SAM instrument. Okay.
Starting point is 00:35:22 So SAM can measure gases in the atmosphere and it can also measure gases that are evolved from samples. So basically we drill a rock, deliver that powder to the instrument, and then that instrument heats up the sample and measures the gases that are coming off. Whatever outgasses, it can tell you what that is, right? Exactly. So a big piece of information from the atmosphere is that we We've been tracking methane over the last few Martian years.
Starting point is 00:35:51 And what we see is that there is a cycle to it, where it spikes late summer, early autumn, and then dips again. Wow. Yeah, so the big question is why is that happening? So that could possibly be due to an organic material, right? Or biological source. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:36:10 Meaning life. Right, I know. So huge. Wow. It's not the only hypothesis out there. Sure. But, you know, there is the possibility that there is extant life on Mars that is creating this methane. Wow.
Starting point is 00:36:25 The fact that NASA has now released information that they've measured a cycle of methane that goes up in the summer and down in the winter. It sounds very similar to how biological processes create methane here on Earth. That could be evidence that there's life right now on Mars. Life on Mars. According to NASA, such a profound notion is a distinct possibility. And other discoveries made by the space agency could reveal something even more incredible, that life on Earth actually originated on Mars. So what is this? Tell me what this is.
Starting point is 00:37:07 Okay, so this is a Martian meteorite. So this is a rock that came from Mars. How long ago? The rock itself is about 180 million years old, so that's what it crystallized on Mars. And to give you some context, 180 million years ago dinosaurs were roaming the Earth. Right. Well, we know that this rock came from Mars. So if there was organic material on Mars three and a half billion years ago, something could have caused that organic material to go from there to here, right? Right. And what's interesting about three and a half billion years ago is that's when life was taking
Starting point is 00:37:43 holding on Earth. Right. And Mars was once very Earth-like with rivers and lakes. So why not Mars? We've got all the building blocks for life on Mars, so why couldn't it happen there? So it's very possible that we're descendants of Martians. I'm not going to rule that out. When you look at all of the evidence that's out there, from microbes in the stratosphere
Starting point is 00:38:10 to strange signals coming from space and even ancient bones that defy explanation, you have to ask, have we already discovered alien life? The answer is a resounding yes, and I have no doubt that far more incredible proof is yet to come. Aw. Pay off your home, travel for life, drive a Ferrari. In celebration of the world premiere of the Monopoly Big Board Buckslot Machine by Aristocrat Gaming, Yamava Resort and Casino at San Manuel is giving one person a $1.6 million dream package. The biggest prize. in Yamava's history. Club's Toronto members can earn daily instant prizes and secure a spot in the finale May 29.
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