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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