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Liftoff from a tropical rain forest
to the edge of time itself.
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NASA launches the most powerful telescope
ever constructed.
The James Webb Space Telescope
represents an ambitious $10 billion effort by NASA
to see further than ever before
into the deepest parts of the universe.
Nearly six months into its mission
on July 11,
James Webb delivers its first incredible images
of previously unknown galaxies,
stars forming, and black holes.
To many, the early success of this powerful tool
demonstrates new promise that scientists
may soon answer an age-old question:
are we alone in the universe?
We can now look into space
with more clarity than in
all of our previous human history.
And with the new James Webb telescope,
some of those amazing images
that we've gotten from Hubble,
20, 30 years ago,
now are even more rich,
more detailed,
more amazing.
And with James Webb too, you know,
we will discover more and more exoplanets,
and some of those exoplanets may contain
similar intelligent life like on Earth.
Part of what the Webb Space Telescope is designed to do
is to look for planets that exist
in what's called the habitable or the Goldilocks Zone.
So they're the right distance from that kind of star
to possibly be able to support life.
Looking in the future, ten, 20 years,
I think, and a lot of people a lot smarter than me think,
that we're probably gonna have found something
we can classify as extraterrestrial life.
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that the James Webb Space Telescope has produced,
UFO hunters are asking,
"What would we find if NASA
applied their incredible technology
to search for evidence of extraterrestrials
already visiting Earth?"
The question may soon be answered,
because on June 9, 2022, one month before the release
of the first Webb telescope images,
NASA officials announced their plans
to commission an independent study
on UAPs.
[man]
NASA is the perfect organization
to conduct research. They run the space station.
They have satellites that probe deep into space.
They have interstellar missions out there
in the far reaches of the cosmos.
If they're coming into our atmosphere
from deep outer space,
NASA would be the first one, uh, to be able to detect that.
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NASA held its first public hearing
to discuss the agency's mission
in studying UAPs.
And it's now our collective responsibility
to investigate these occurrences
with the rigorous scientific scrutiny that they deserve.
It provides an opportunity for us
to expand our understanding
of the world around us.
As an organization dedicated
to exploring the unknown,
this work is in our DNA.
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to join the hunt for UFOs
ultimately provide the tipping point
in finding evidence of extraterrestrial life?
And is it possible,
as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,
that NASA already possesses strong evidence
that intelligent beings exist
beyond Earth?
NASA's experience with UFOs
dates right through from the very first Gemini missions
all the way through the Apollo missions,
all the way through to the moon landings.
We have encountered UFOs.
Former Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell,
who I knew personally,
spoke openly about his knowledge
of not even just having seen UFOs,
but alien bodies and technology
in the possession of the United States government.
You had other NASA astronauts.
Gordon Cooper, famously
talked about UFOs that he saw as a pilot.
You had James McDivitt,
a NASA astronaut, and quite a few others
having seen UFOs.
There's the astonishing photo of a triangular craft
taken in 1986 from the space shuttle.
And it too is a bright daylight photograph,
and you can clearly see this triangular craft
there outside the window
of the space shuttle.
Now, the image is labeled "space debris."
So that's the official view on what this is.
But this is an interesting image.
Uh, it shows something obviously quite structured
and it is unmistakably triangular.
There have been multiple accounts
of strange things
picked up on NASA videos and photos.
They've got huge databases.
And one of the things, when NASA announced
that they were going to do this study is they said,
"We are going to be looking at data."
And people were asking themselves,
"What data are they talking about?"
Well, the data they already have
and have been collecting for decades.
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might we soon have definitive evidence
that there is an alien presence on Earth?
While the world's premiere space agency
may be better equipped than anyone
to uncover the truth about unidentified aerial phenomena,
some researchers believe
our greatest weapon in the hunt for UFOs
is the smart phone,
carried by ordinary citizens all over the world
who are now capturing
high-definition footage
of events that defy all conventional explanations.