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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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