NARRATOR: Washington,
DC, May, 2014, NASA
researchers in conjunction
with CETI scientists
publish a manual
enlisting archaeologists
and anthropologists
in the search
for evidence of
extraterrestrial communication.
The 330 page document, entitled
"Archeology, Anthropology
and Interstellar
Communication," details
means and methods beyond
binary code and radio signals
that scientists should consider
as potential communication
from extraterrestrials.
Singled out in the document
are rock art and carvings,
including the
Neolithic petroglyphs
of Northumberland, England.
Although the document does
not directly attribute the art
to extraterrestrials,
it does propose
the possibility that
it could be tied
to otherworldly communication.
Roswell, New Mexico,
September 4, 2004,
while tracking
deer in the desert
just 11 miles from the
famous Roswell crash site,
Robert Ridge came
across an object
sticking out of the sand, a
small, triangular shaped rock
that is completely
uniform in color
and has a circular
design on top of it
that isn't etched into the rock
but actually protrudes from it.
ROBERT RIDGE: I thought
it was really cool
when I first picked it up,
then got into the truck,
brushed it off.
And then I was like,
you know, in awe.
NARRATOR: The Roswell Rock,
as it has come to me known,
measures roughly 1 and 1/2
inches thick by two inches
wide.
Meticulously etched out of the
face of the triangular stone
are circles and crescents.
Robert Ridge is convinced
that this symbol
is meant to convey a message.
And after studying
the rock he discovered
an uncanny correlation
between the symbols
and the magnetism of the stone.
ROBERT RIDGE: We found the
rock has magnetic properties.
A friend of mine kept
hounding me about it.
And he finally brought
a magnet of his own
and said, here, do this.
So we did.
And we found out that it has--
it's pretty cool.
NARRATOR: But with all
the strange qualities
that the Roswell Rock possesses,
what researchers find most
fascinating is that the design
protruding from its surface
has also been found in England,
nearly 5,000 miles away.
DAVID WILCOCK: The pattern
of the sun and moon
inside a circle that
we see on the rock
is precisely the
same as what we see
in a crop circle
formation dating
to 1996 in southern England.
NARRATOR: The crop circle
appeared eight years
before Robert Ridge discovered
the Roswell Rock, a fact
that has led some to suggest the
rock is simply a man made copy.
Ancient astronaut
theorists also contend
that if someone had
made the rock as a hoax,
it's unlikely they
would have left it
half buried in the
middle of the desert,
where it may never be found.
But what has truly convinced
Robert, and many others,
that the rock is not
a made fabrication
is a comparison that was
done under a microscope
between the Roswell Rock
and a sandblasted replica.
ROBERT RIDGE: We started looking
at it under magnification.
It blew me away.
And I'm like, wow, what is this?
It's proven to be
everything that I thought
it was so far, in my opinion.
NARRATOR: One of the
first researchers
to investigate the connection
between the Roswell Rock
and the crop circle in England
was investigative journalist
Linda Moulton Howe.
She is convinced that within
the design is a message.
LINDA MOULTON HOWE:
If we are dealing
with advanced intelligences,
and you assume
that throughout the universe,
all solar systems all galaxies,
there have to be
some, we'll call them,
baselines, moons,
suns, and skies would
be the common denominator.
Something is trying to teach
us humans about astronomy.
The moon, and the sun, and the
tracking of the symbols, this
is reflecting past,
present, and future.
And that comes back to
what is on that rock?
Well, some people would
say that that is a date.
NARRATOR: A date?
But why?
Could there be a message encoded
in the design on the Roswell
Rock that reveals some
significant turning point
that lies ahead for mankind?
