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NARRATOR: 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.
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NARRATOR: The stunning news
was followed 10 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's
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.
We're reaching the
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.
NARRATOR: As far as
ancient astronaut theorists
are concerned, the US-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.
In actuality, the
idea of space race
is not correct because
there were never space race.
It was a 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.
NARRATOR: 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.
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