Ancient Aliens - The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Episode Date: May 29, 2025

For thousands of years, humankind has attempted to make contact with beings from beyond Earth. Now, in the 21st century, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is ramping up like never before, with powerful new technologies allowing us to explore billions of stars across the universe. Are we on the verge of first contact?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What if the stories of gods, angels, and ancient technology weren't myths, but memories of alien contact? On ancient aliens, we investigate the evidence from mysterious ruins to strange celestial alignments, asking bold questions about humanity's origins. Could visitors from the stars have influenced our greatest civilizations? Journey into the unknown and challenge what you think you know about history in episodes like, Secrets of the Sumerians, Mysteries of the Mayo, or The Chosen. Now let us satisfy your curiosities and enjoy the show. For thousands of years, humankind has attempted to make contact with beings from beyond Earth.

Even our ancestors tried to send messages to the sky, and we're still doing it today. Now, in the 21st century, the search for extraterrestrial. intelligence is ramping up like never before. We might find life on another planet in the next few years. We might even find civilizations. We're that close. And powerful new technologies are allowing us to explore trillions of stars all across the universe.

We've never had this many eyes, this many lenses, this many radio dishes, looking for things at the same time. It's now only a matter of time before science finds other Earths. And where there are other Earths, there'll be other life and other civilizations. 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. French Guiana, South America, December 25th, 2021. At the Guyana Space Center, NASA launches the James Webb Space Telescope, which is 100 times more powerful than any telescope that's come before. It represents an ambitious $10 billion effort by NASA to see the deepest parts of the universe. To many, this highly sophisticated device will finally enable scientists to answer the age-old

question. Are we alone in the universe? G. Borbosli, Ph.D. is an astrophysicist at UC Berkeley. The James Webb Telescope is our latest and greatest space telescope, which has two basic missions. One is to understand how stars and galaxies began. And its other mission is to understand whether there's life out there. This is author and investigative mythologist William Henry, an ancient astronaut theorist

Giorgio Suclos. The James Webb Telescope has the ability to detect chemical signatures on planets that suggests that life is in fact present in those worlds. We can now look into space with more clarity than in all of our previous human history. And with the new James Webb Telescope, scientists are looking for extraterrestrial intelligence, not just extraterrestrial biology. The fact that we are investigating is something very exciting because the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is the ultimate quest of humanity to find out.

How did it all begin? With the launch of the James Webb Telescope, astronomers are now able to examine thousands of planets outside our own solar system, often referred to as exoplanets, and they are discovering more and more that are located within the so-called Goldilocks zone. Michiocaku, PhD, is a theoretical physicist. There's something called the Goldilag Zone, where everything is just right. You're just right from the sun in terms of distance, in terms of heat, in terms of ecology, and that's where to find life.

Here is astrophysicist and aerospace engineer, Travis Taylor. Now we're discovering many tens of planets that seem to be in the Goldilocks zone where it can have water and an atmosphere that's warm enough for life. We now realize there could be hundreds, thousands of twins of the Earth in outer space. This is big news because it may mean that life could be much more readily abundant in our galaxy than we previously thought. This is David Childress, author of Technology of the Gods. These new discoveries by the Web Telescope are pretty amazing. They're finding these exoplanets that can hold life. And now the search for extra terrestrials is on like steroids.

We've got NASA involved in it. We've got Chinese and Japanese scientists who are looking at this. We have a wide array of international players who are so, who are searching for extraterrestrials. As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, our willingness to devote so much time, energy, and resources towards the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is firmly rooted in the distant past.

Since the very beginning of human civilization, we have been looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. You go back to the most ancient civilizations, the Samarians, the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Mayans, They all tracked the stars, they tracked the planets, they built incredible monuments like the pyramids that were in alignment with various star systems. You have multiple ancient megalithic structures

that are in the form of constellations, mainly Sirius, Orion, and Pleides. Why those three? Well, we are suggesting that that is where the exterrestrials who taught us a long time ago came from. Could it be that our earliest ancestors had encounters with other worldly beings? And did they align their most important structures with the stars because they hoped this

would be noticed by extraterrestrials who had visited Earth? Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that support for this notion can be found by examining the theories of prominent 19th century German scientist named Carl Friedrich Gauss. In 1820, Carl Frederick Gauss was on the cutting edge of our science and He's a mathematician and a businessman, and a businessman, but he has one question, can we communicate with extraterrestrials? He thought it was entirely possible.

Gauz proposed an incredible idea. He said, we need to go out into the Siberian tundra and create a giant Pythagorean triangle that would be so big it could be seen from the moon, and an extraterrestrial civilization would see it and know that we were mathematically advanced and make contact with us. While most scientists regarded Gauss' ideas as fanciful, ancient astronaut theorists suggest

there is evidence that our ancestors use this exact method to try to communicate with otherworldly beings. In the 1930s, more than a century after Gauss proposed his theory, pilots flying over southern Peru reported seeing enormous shapes carved into the earth, the Nazca Lines. The Nasca lines are the animals, the hummingbird, the monk, all these different things from the animal kingdom. And straight lines, some of which go up to 15 miles. The NASCAR lines clearly were created by humans

to signal somebody up there, not on the ground. Why? Well, according to the ancient astronaut theory, the local population was visited by extraterrestrials, but at some point they left. And so the local population wanted them to come back and that is why the NASCAR lines were created on a bigger scale. The NASCAR lines are a giant signal to someone up in the sky. Is it possible that ancient people created the NASCAR lines

to attract the attention of intelligent beings like Gauss proposed in 1820? Today, scientists believe that we will soon have the technology to see surface features on distant planets ourselves and the James Webb telescope is already allowing astronomers to observe the universe in greater detail than ever before. Our current technology isn't such that we can truly image Earth-sized planets around other stars, but we can look at what elements and what chemical compounds are in that planet's atmosphere. Here's Chrissy Newton, journalist for the debrief. The James Webb Telescope has found multiple different exoplanets that,

have markers of life, that have markers of carbon. We see that some of these exoplanets have water in them, and water is a major marker for life. So it's exciting to see what the James Webb Telescope is doing and what else it will find. Could it be that in searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, we are carrying out the work of our earliest ancestors, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And might new technology, like the James Webb Space Telescope, help us to finally succeed in achieving this goal. Many experts believe it will and suggest there is evidence that Earth has already received communication from an alien race. Yamava Resort and Casino at San Manuel is California's number one entertainment destination

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Nikola Tesla believed that extraterrestrial communication was possible. And this signal was exactly the type of signal he would have expected to have seen from an extraterrestrial civilization if they were trying to make contact. And Tesla himself believed he had received radio signals from Mars. More than 5,000 miles away, Italian radio pioneer Gullermo Marconi observed similar, seemingly extraterrestrial transmissions.

Marconi was the first to really broadcast radio across long distances, and he, of course, was also listening, and he also thought that he might have heard some radio signals from the planet Mars. Nikola Tesla and Marconi were on the cutting edge of this new frontier of discovery, believing in their hearts, in their minds, that radio waves would lead to our connection with an extraterrestrial civilization. Is it possible that the mysterious transmissions detected by both Nicola Tesson, Tesla and Gileermo Marconi came from an extraterrestrial intelligence. While the answer will likely never be known, the observations of these early radio pioneers

had a major impact on humanity's search for alien life. This is Seth Shostack, Ph.D., senior astronomer from the SETI Institute. Marconi and Tesla kind of got the ball rolling when it comes to trying to find the aliens by eavesdropping on radio signals. And it turns out, radio waves would be a great way to communicate over very long distances from one star system to another. They're better even than ordinary light

because they're dusty, dark clouds in the universe, and they can block the light. So the point about radio waves is that they would go right through the dust and gas that hangs between the stars. Tesla and Marconi may not have found definitive evidence of alien intelligence, but they were foundational in establishing the primary means by which scientists search for extraterrestrial civilizations today.

This effort is led by the SETI Institute, established in 1984. This is Nick Pope, former member of the UK Ministry of Defense. SETI is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and a lot of it has been done by the SETI Institute, based in California. It is primarily the use of radio telescopes to listen for a signal from another civilization. The SETI Institute, its flagship program, is to use big antennas, point them in the direction of other nearby star systems, and, you know, tune over the radio dial to see if there's any transmission coming from those planets. The thinking is that we have been a detectable civilization for years

through our television and radio broadcasts, and almost any conceivable advanced civilization will be using that technology or will have used it in the past. Maybe they've gone on to more advanced things now, but that will be detectable. And people look for a beacon, maybe, to just draw our attention to the fact that there's life out there,

but also a message. Maybe there's scientific and technical knowledge encoded in a signal being sent to us. Well, if we don't listen, we'll never get it. The work of the study institute is so important for the fact that they are a pioneer. They are a pioneer in the world of academia, in the world of science,

and have pushed the boundaries, I would say, in the understanding and the acceptance of looking into extraterrestrials. But not all scientists were content to merely listen for alien communication. A decade before the establishment of the SETI Institute, one of its founders, famed astronomer Carl Sagan, was part of an effort to send a message out into the cosmos. Aricebo Observatory, Puerto Rico, November 16, 1974. Scientists, dignitaries, and other public officials gathered to watch as astronomers send out the first official radio communication directed two extraterrestrials using the largest.

most powerful telescope in the world. The message was just a series of, you know, dots and dashes, if you will, but you could order them into a matrix and actually get a picture. It's a way of sending a greeting card, if you will, from Earth. Designed by renowned scientists like Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, the Arecibo message contains binary encoded information, including the numbers 1 through 10, an image of human DNA, a human human,

figure and a graphic of the solar system, highlighting the position of Earth. This was a calling card from planet Earth. It was really reaching out across the galaxy and saying, we're here. Now some scientists condemned it, and in fact, SETI has been very controversial when it moves into active what's called METI, messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence. people have said it's like a suicide note to the universe because if there's a super predator species out there you were saying come and get us now setty scientists say well it's too late we've been a detectable civilization for decades because of our radio and

television broadcasts but it's still controversial in august 2001 almost three decades after the arcebo message was sent there was an extraordinary development workers at the Chil Bolton Observatory in Hampshire, England, discovered a mysterious crop circle in a nearby field that was an almost exact replica of the Aricebo message. It's actually called sometimes the Aricebo reply, because it's essentially very similar to the Arrocebo message, but with some subtle changes. For example, the DNA swaps out carbon for silicon. And also there's a representation of a figure, but it's not a human looks like an alien. Instantly, the astronomers proclaimed this a hoax. And as people started to investigate this,

they realized that maybe it was possible that it came from extraterrestrials. One reason why was that the message was so perfect, how likely is it that some crop circle hoaxer could have duplicated that message in a crop circle? Crop circles are a very important potential way that an extraterrestrial intelligence could use to communicate with us. They're very public, and they have caught the curiosity of humanity.

Was the so-called Arasiba reply a message sent to Earth by an extraterrestrial civilization? While its origin continues to be debated, some scientists suggest that the best evidence of intelligent life can be found by simply looking deep into space for what aliens may have built in the stars. Western Australia, July 2023. At the Murchison Radio Astronomy Observatory, one of the world's most powerful telescopes detects a signal that catches the attention of scientists from multiple institutions. They discover interstellar radio waves that are reaching Earth every 22 minutes. Even stranger, the signals have been sent, like clockwork, for more than 30 years. Astronomers in Australia made an amazing discovery.

a timed pulse, a radio wave pulse, that went completely undetected. This was a milestone, a benchmark in our search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The thought is it turns on and off every 20 minutes, a little too regular to be due to nature. And, you know, when you find something unexpected, of course you're excited. Here is Rod Pyle, author and journalist from Ad Astra magazine. Now, normally when you see a repeating signal like that, You think of either a pulsar, which is a rotating star that's sending out a radio burst on a regular schedule, or a magnetar, which is a similar kind of star that has a very intense magnetic field that's rotating,

and so you get spikes of a signal from that magnetic field. The problem is this signal doesn't match either of those. We don't know what this signal is, but we do know that it seems interesting and possibly artificial, which means it was broadcast by someone. We may find that there's a natural phenomena that explains it. We may not. Some people have speculated that this could mean that extraterrestrials have been signaling to us

for a very long time. Now, there's still a lot that we don't know about this, but there's something very odd about it. This is the kind of thing that we've been searching for for decades. It's tremendously important this discovery. Is it possible that the strange radio pulses detected in 2023 are signals being sent out by alien life forms? Perhaps further clues can be found by examining another discovery that some scientists believe is evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization. Louisiana State University 2016.

Astronomer Tabitha Boyagian publishes a paper in the monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. that captures the attention of the scientific world. Using data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, Voyagian documented strange behavior in a distant star. The Kepler telescope was searching for exoplanets by waiting for them to cross in front of their star and block a little bit of light. Well, she found a star where the amount of light that was blocked

kept changing, it was much more light than a planet could block. So Tabby's star was kind of a... was kind of a surprising discovery at the time. Tabby's star suddenly diminished in terms of its intensity by quite a bit, and then flared up again, and has been doing this for years. What could cause that? What is big enough to diminish starlight by that much? It must be huge.

The bizarre dimming led some astronomers to consider a profound possibility that the dimming was caused by an extraterrestrial megastructure known as a Dyson sphere. This hypothetical technology was first proposed by Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson in a 1960s science magazine article. One of the Manhattan Project scientist Freeman Dyson had the idea that a really advanced civilization could build a sphere around their star

at about an Earth orbit distance from that star. and it could capture all of the energy from that star on the surface of this sphere. This idea that advanced societies will build stuff that they put into orbit around the star, their sun, you know, that makes perfect sense. There are a lot of reasons why you might want to do that. Maybe just collecting solar energy. I mean, who knows? But if they built anything like that, then we would see a star that gets dimmer and then it gets brighter and it gets dimmer.

Is it possible that Tabitha Boyagian discovered an enormous alien spacecraft? One so big it could block out the light of a star. It's an idea that seems ripped from the pages of science fiction. But not only do NASA scientists believe such structures could exist, they are actively searching for them. Here's Anne-Marie Cody, Ph.D., principal investigator at the SETI Institute Carl Sagan Center for research. The effort that I lead at SETI is a search for what we call alien megastructures. These are large panel-like objects that may have been put in orbit around other stars by civilizations well beyond Earth.

It would immediately indicate to us that there are beings out there in the universe that are more advanced than us. Alien megastructures should not be that hard to find. I mean, if they're out there, there are various telltale signs that a big enough telescope, especially a space telescope, should be able to spot if we have an idea what we're looking for. The problem is going through hundreds and thousands of hours of data. So Anne-Marie Cody started a project specifically targeting alien megastructures with artificial intelligence AI.

The fact that Dr. Cody is getting funding to investigate this is unheard of. And the fact that it is happening means that a paradigm shift has happened. We need to know who is out there possibly so that we can learn more about ourselves and what sort of course humanity is going to take. Right now we are dealing with unprecedented, problems on Earth. If we found beings out there that were more intelligent than us, they may offer useful information if we were ever to learn from them.

Might strange radio pulses and the mysterious dimming of stars be evidence that we are not alone in the universe? According to some scientists, the best evidence of alien technology can be found closer to home, right here on Earth. Ever since the first radio telescope was invented in the 1930s, astronomers have listened to the heavens for signals from extraterrestrial beings. But in 2021, Harvard professor Avi Loeb breaks with tradition and sets out to find alien life, not by scanning for radio waves, but by looking for physical evidence. He calls it the Galileo Project.

Professor Loeb says, why not monitor meteors and things in out of space. Perhaps one of them is remnants of an advanced civilization. For example, if an advanced civilization is like us, they would be coke bottles everywhere, and why not search for them? The previous paradigm was sit, wait, open your telescope, open your computer, and cross your fingers.

That's the way science is usually done in astronomy. Now he's saying, why not reach out? Here's Dr. Avi Loeb. All we need to do is a chariotrots. and we might find objects that were sent by civilizations. Those civilizations, they could have launched probes to interstellar space that would have populated the entire Milky Way galaxy by now.

And the only question is, do we live in such a reality? According to Dr. Lowe, if alien civilizations do exist, their spacecraft might appear to us as something as simple as a meteor. The Galileo project, The Galileo Project involves the idea that alien probes may have visited our solar system and possibly crashed on the Earth's surface or the oceans in the past. If extraterrestrial craft have landed on Earth, is it possible that the Galileo Project could find them?

While the idea of a Harvard scientist searching for a crashed UFO struck many in the scientific community as laughable, In 2023, Dr. Loeb shocked the world when he announced he found one. June, 2003, 100 miles north of Papua New Guinea, Dr. Loeb and members of the Galileo Project are combing the Pacific Ocean in search of a meteor that exploded over the region 10 years earlier. I came across a meteor catalog that the government compiled using its missile warning system. the meteor burned up about 100 miles off the coast of Papua Nugini, and it released a few percent of the energy of the Hiroshima bomb when it exploded. The government released data of the explosion,

and from that we inferred that the object has material strength that is very unusual. It's made of some alloy that is much tougher than iron meteorites, and that raises the possibility that it may be made. have been a spacecraft. For two weeks, Dr. Loeb and a team of scientists drag a large magnetic sled along the ocean floor, and then they make what could be an extraordinary find. Loeb did find a number of beads, little spirials, not much bigger than a bee-be, that they were able to dredge up.

Upon first glance, they look kind of exotic. They have little swirls in them. They're almost perfectly round. The spheres are sub-millimeter-syllum. When they get back to the lab and they put these spheres underneath the microscope, they describe them as beautiful, metallic marbles. This suggests in a preliminary way that we're dealing with perhaps an extraterrestrial technology, something that was not made by nature.

Just finding little metal beads isn't proof that they're ball bearings for an alien spaceship or something. But they could be, and that's the exciting part. You can't prove it yet, but you can't disprove it either. Initial testing showed that some of the spherials had an unusually high concentration of beryllium, lanthanum, and uranium, in a composition that is unlike anything found in our solar system. This is geo-archologist Carolyn Whitehill, PhD. That composition does not exist in any known mineral or rock that we know of,

which would imply something about the conditions under which it was formed, the temperatures, the pressures, And when you combine that with the sphericaloidal shape, it does speak to his hypothesis that they're manufactured extraterraterially. Could the strange spherials found on the ocean floor really be of alien origin? While more tests are underway, Dr. Lope continues to recruit experts to the Galileo Project, like renowned UFO researcher Jacques Ville, retired intelligence officer Chris Mellon, and former British Ministry of Defense, UFO investigator, Nick Pope. Now, I'm not a scientist, but I'm one of a number of people who are involved and actually part of Galileo Project as a research affiliate.

So people like myself with government backgrounds who can perhaps help the science team with this, we've come on board, and it's fascinating work. And think about this, Harvard, Alien Hunter. This represents an enormous step forward in humanity's quest for extraterrestrial intelligence because we're seeing signs and signposts of academic acceptance of the reality that we are not alone. Just the fact that Harvard University has the Galileo Project, this shows that we're in a brand new era where prestigious universities and scientists associated with them are trying to find extraterrestrial life. Will the Galileo Project find irrefutable proof that we are not alone in the universe?

Only time will tell. But while researchers like Avi Loeb are making great strides in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, some believe even more exciting evidence is being discovered by NASA scientists, who recently found strong indications of a planet inhabited by alien beings. Pullman, Washington, October 2020, a team of astrobiologists at Washington State University complete an analysis of more than 4,500 exoplanets. After combing through the data, they are surprised to find 24 planets that fit the classification of superhabitable.

Very recently, we've discovered many planets that might be better for life than Earth is. Earth is still in an ice age right now. We have polar caps on both sides of the planet. So these planets might be even more habitable or better for life to spring up on than here on Earth. For the most part, they're larger than Earth. They tend to be older. They longer give life to evolve,

the more likely you're going to see advanced life forms there. The first exoplanets were discovered in the 1990s, and since then, scientists have been astounded by the number of potentially habitable planets they have found throughout the universe. Before 1995, we didn't know whether there were other planets out there. Today, we know that the majority of stars have planets orbiting them, and, you know, one in ten of those will have a planet

that's at the right distance from that star so that the temperatures, you know, are agreeable for life, and there might be liquid water on the surface and that sort of thing. So what we're finding is that the Earth may not be unique, that there are other planets that also have things like atmospheres and oceans. And if you're looking for ET, well, it's good to find that there are other locales that might at least have life. It's only recently with the launch of the James Webb Telescope that scientists have been able to study nearby planets for signs of life.

The James Webb Telescope is now powerful enough to pick out some of those planets and actually measure their atmospheric composition. And then we'll be a step closer to actually knowing whether there's life out there. The James Webb Telescope has the ability to peer into the infrared level, where it can detect heat signatures and also chemicals on exoplanets that previously have gone undetected. Early results are astonishing. It's already made major discoveries on two planets that are suggestive

that life might actually be present on these planets. The web allows you to see things that tell you whether or not there might be life there and more excitingly might tell you that there's been technology there. When you start seeing radioactive isotopes, now you've got a better idea that there might be technology, it's probably high technology, and that's what we're looking for. In September 2023,

scientists found what many considered to be the best evidence yet that life is not unique to planet Earth. In the atmosphere of a planet, 124 light years from Earth called K2-18B, the James Webb Telescope detected the presence of a molecule called dimethyl sulfide. Dymethyl sulfide is created through organic processes only, as far as we know, meaning some living creature

during its life cycle secretes or excretes this material. The very fact that that chemical is there indicates as a high probability that a life form was responsible for creating it. In other words, this could be the first sign of life in outer space. Is it possible that NASA has finally discovered life on an alien planet? While scientists need more evidence before they can be certain, the presence of dimethyl sulfide suggests this is a strong possibility. If proven true, the next question is,

Are these life forms intelligent? Could it be that planet K2-ATB is home to an extraterrestrial civilization? The fact that they've discovered DMS on a planet out there, and if this can be corroborated, well, there you go. And now the next step will be, we now know ET exists. And number two will be, not only are we not alone, but they've been here. We are right on the edge with our modern day technology that we might find life on another planet in the next few years. We might even find civilizations that have sprung up on these planets in the next few years. We're that close. Our technology is there.

Could advances in human technology like the James Webb Space Telescope be the key to finally discovering life, and maybe even intelligent life beyond Earth? Some scientists predict our search will end with direct contact from advanced alien civilizations, not at some distant point in the future, but any day now. January, 2023. Astronomers at the University of Toronto announced they are using artificial intelligence to search for evidence of extraterrestrial technology from 820 nearby stars, and have detected some highly intriguing signals. Astronomers have used a machine learning algorithm to zip through 480 hours of tapes,

and they found eight signals that they believe potentially could be a techno-signature. A signal suggesting an advanced extraterrestrial civilization might even be inhabiting these planets. While more research needs to be conducted to determine exactly what is producing these mysterious signals, many experts believe the use of AI will astronomically accelerate the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important role in the search for extraterrestrial technology and intelligence, simply because there is so much data coming through astronomers telescopes nowadays that we need help with our needle in the haystack searches

to find the most unusually behaving stars and signals embedded in that starlight. What AI is particularly good at is it's really good at recognizing patterns. And patterns are really what we're looking for in SETI. So we want to find patterns that we don't think nature would produce. Feeding all the radio signals that we receive from the stars into the right AI system would help enormously in identifying patterns that humans might not find. While scientists are excited by the prospect of humankind's first encounter, with an advanced alien civilization in the near future.

Ancient astronaut theorist viewed this possibility through a different lens. To them, such an event would not be a first contact, but a reunion. Does official contact mean a signal that has been received through SETI? Or will it be a validation of the ancient astronaut theory that, you know, hey, not only are we not alone in the universe, but they've visited in the past, they've been here. In my opinion, the ETs are here, they're observing us, and SETI is one way with which to prepare the masses. It may be at the moment that civilizations are aware of us, visiting us, but don't make open contact. But all that secrecy will end the day we find out

about them because the cat will be out of the bag. And we'll have open first contact. close and personal interaction between extraterrestrials and humanity. And that will tell us something interesting about the extraterrestrials, but it may also tell us something rather interesting about ourselves. It's very likely that we're right at that edge of the next era for humanity. When we realize we're not alone in the universe, extraterrestrials make contact with us. That's going to change humanity more than you can imagine. We need protocols in place.

We need to begin to prepare human civilization for this reality and the transformation that will result once contact is established. I think planet Earth will be ready for it, and we will hopefully rejoice in the fact that we are in contact with extraterrestrials and that we are not alone in the universe. Now that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been taken up by top scientists and academics all over the world, are we on the verge of making contact with an alien race?

Could powerful new technologies detect life and even civilizations on other planets? Or might we even uncover an otherworldly presence right here on Earth? Perhaps one day soon, we will learn the truth that we've been seeking. since the beginning of humankind. We are not alone.