觉醒字幕组作品
洛杉矶上空的太空船.... 脑控.... Space ships over Los Angeles... body snatchers controlling our minds...
外星人接触 E.T.'s making contact.
那些基于外星人的情节 These and other alien-based scenarios have been the plotlines of countless
无数次出现在科幻电影和电视中 science-fiction movies and television shows.
但是假如明天外星人真的来到地球 But what if extraterrestrial beings came to Earth tomorrow?
他们带来的是河蟹的新世纪 Would they signal the birth of a new age of peace and
还是一触即发的战争？ prosperity, or trigger a war of the worlds?
从那一天起我们被宣告 从此地球人不再孤独 The day that it's announced we're not alone is the day that
并且将永远改变我们的星球 this planet changes forever.
政府机构和宗教体系 The very structures of government and the very
将彻底崩溃 structures of religion will crumble.
人人都想看看外星人 Everybody wants to meet an alien.
但开始最好是小心行事 But we have to start small.
我们在学会跑之前要先学会走 We have to learn how to walk before we can run.
世界上很多人相信我们曾经 Millions of people around the world believe we have
被外星人拜访过 been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.
如果这是真的 What if it were true?
外星人真的帮助塑造过我们的历史么？ Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?
如果真的这样，它们再次回来会发生什么？ And if so, what might happen... when they return?
觉醒字幕组（Awakening） 翻译：Wanderer9、司徒北、鲁鲁修、dreamSdf 校对：Wanderer9 压制：米死干净
远古外星人系列
第五集 回归
纵观人类历史 人类对繁星都抱有 Throughout human history, man has gazed up at the
崇高的敬畏并为之惊叹 stars in awe and with wonder.
我们的祖先描绘星体的运动 Our ancient ancestors charted their movements, identified
标识星座，并根据天体运行制定历法 constellations, and marked time by creating celestial-based calendars.
繁星同样也是诸多神话传说灵感的来源 The stars also became the source of countless myths and legends.
许多神话描述了访客们从星空某处 Many of these describe visitors coming down to Earth from
降临地球 somewhere out there.
还有一些故事则说宇宙中充满了文明 Others speak of entire civilizations existing out in the cosmos.
例如，印度的古梵文告诉我们 The ancient Sanskrit writings of India tell us, for example, there are
40万个类人种族分布在 400,000 human-like species scattered throughout the cosmos
宇宙的不同行星上，不同规模的星系上 in different planets, different solar systems, even different dimensions.
但是那些外星人在哪呢？ But where are these alien beings?
根据远古外星人理论，它们在过去来过地球么？ Did they come to Earth in the past, as the Ancient Astronaut
它们离开了么？ theory suggests, and then leave?
如果离开了，它们会回来么？ If so, will they ever come back?
如今，全世界的科学家已经不再坐以待毙 Today, scientists around the world have stopped waiting
而是主动行动起来去寻找地外智慧文明 around and are taking steps to find intelligent extraterrestrial life.
现代科技能最终证明我们祖先 Will technology finally be able to prove what our ancient
在数千年前所信仰的（天外来客理论）么？ ancestors believed thousands of years ago?
1960年，天文学家和物理学家 Frank Drake(法兰克·德雷克) In 1960, astronomer and physicist Frank Drake set up an
在西弗吉尼亚州的群山中 组建了一个非同寻常的望远镜 unusual telescope in the hills of West Virginia.
这个奇特的装置由二战剩下的雷达制成 The strange device was made from surplus World War II radar
而不是传统的光学透镜 equipment, but rather than containing a traditional
它由一个定向无线电天线封装起来 optical lens, it housed a directional radio antenna.
几次简单的计算表明，射电望远镜具有 A few simple calculations showed that radio telescopes have the power to
星际间发送和接收信号的能力 transmit and receive across literally interstellar distances.
我们讨论的可是n光年的距离啊 We're talking many light-years.
于是 Frank Drake 将射电望远镜对准一对较近的星体 So Frank Drake turned a radio telescope on a couple of nearby
试试看能不能从那里收到外星人的信息 stars and tuned in to see if he could pick up a message from the aliens.
这是一件疯狂的事 So this was a sort of crazy thing to do.
最终，那天 Drake 未能收到任何声音 Drake failed to pick up any sounds that day, but
但是“射电天文学”从此诞生了 the science of radio astronomy was born.
如果我们在太空中看不到外星人 也许我们能“听见”它们 If we couldn't see aliens in space, maybe we could hear them.
我们长久以来重点关注的主要集中在 The things we've focused on in the past for searching for extraterrestrial
寻找地外文明的基础信号，而且过于被动 life is really passively trying to discover signals on the basis
如果外星科技够先进 它们也会像我们一样使用电力 that if they were technologically advanced, they would have some form of
而所有的电又会产生电磁波 electricity like we do, and all electricity generates radiation.
有可能我们就能捕捉到这些电磁波信号 And it sends out the signals, and hopefully we detect it.
1961年 Frank Drake 和一群天文学家 In 1961, Frank Drake and a group of astronomers, physicists and
物理学家以及生物学家共同组建了一个基金会 biologists formed a privately funded organization called SETI:
叫做SETI（寻找地外智慧） The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.
他们的目标是集中尽可能多的射电望远镜 进行太空监听 Their goal was to focus massive radio telescopes towards space and listen.
Drake 估计宇宙中存在生命的概率 Drake estimated the probability that intelligent life existed
可以用公式来计算的 这就是著名的德雷克方程式(Drake Equation) out in the universe in a formula that became known as the Drake Equation.
德雷克方程式像一座连接科学家与非科学家之间的桥梁 The Drake equation is like a bridge between scientists and
因为它解释了你想知道的 non-scientists, because it explains what you would want to
存在外星生命的可能性到底有多大 know to give a number about how common alien life could be.
影响德雷克方程结果的有多种因素 There are multiple factors within the Drake equation.
比如恒星拥有行星的的概率 Like the fraction of stars that could have planets; and the
那些行星适合居住的概率 fraction of those planets that could be habitable; and the
行星有液态水的概率 fraction of those that might have liquid water; and how many
又有多少能进化出智能生命？ could have evolved intelligent life?
最重要的是那些文明存在的时间有多长 And then one important factor is the lifetime of those
这也是最难确定的 civilizations, and that is a big unknown.
我们只知道一个文明的存在时间 那就是我们自己 We only know of one-- that's ourselves.
我们的文明又能持续多久呢？ And how long are we gonna be
around?
这仍是个未知数 That's to be determined.
通过方程式计算，Drake 估计大约有超过 Using his equation, Drake estimated that over one hundred million advanced
一亿个高级文明存在于银河系中 civilizations could exist in just the Milky Way galaxy.
SETI 预计 如果外星文明有能力 SETI presupposes that if you've got an alien civilization capable of
使用先进的电力传输，那一定会留下蛛丝马迹 traveling that's developed electronics, they have a fingerprint.
这个蛛丝马迹就是重复的电磁波信号 That fingerprint is a repetitive signal.
重复的信号说明这不是噪音 A repetitive signal will tell them that it's not just noise,
虽然也有很多杂音，但是它们也许 junk frequencies out there, but a real attempt at communicating,
不是要和我们联系而是和其它外星人联系 maybe not with us, but with each other.
1977年8月15日，天文学家 Jerry Ehman 博士 On August 15, 1977, astronomer Dr. Jerry Ehman
在俄亥俄州立大学从事SETI项目时 was working on a SETI project at Ohio State University when he
记录到了一个来自射手座的 recorded an intermittent signal coming from the direction of the
间断性的信号 constellation Sagittarius.
信号在消失前持续了72秒 The signal lasted 72 seconds before being lost.
Ehman 相信这是由外星人发出的信号 Ehman believed that it was of extraterrestrial origin.
但是尽管投入了更大规模的望远镜去搜索 But despite repeated searches and increasingly larger
那个信号再也没有出现过 telescopes, the signal has never again been detected.
如果SETI真的拦截到了外星信号将会怎样呢？ But what if SETI intercepts a transmission from another world?
接下来会发生什么？ What would happen next?
根据SETI的“后探测协议” According to SETI's Post-Detection Protocols, once
一旦外星人无线电信号被确认 an extraterrestrial radio signal is confirmed, news of the event
在未得到官方证实前是不能公布的 should be kept secret until the authorities have been notified.
政府将决定是否进行接触 The government will then decide whether or not to try and make contact.
我认为我们日常计划都将无法兑现 I think all bets are off.
因为这些外星人信息 Because here's this message.
这些大量的重要的信息 It could contain enormously important information that
将改变我们的社会结构并且会使社会动荡 would transform our society and maybe destabilize it.
我们文明的未来将有何种意义？ What is it gonna mean for the future of our civilization?
这是很关切的问题 These are momentous questions.
如今，SETI 仍致力于使用全球范围内的 Today, SETI continues to scan the vicinities of nearby stars for
大型望远镜对临近行星的 artificially produced signals using several of the world's
人工无线电信号进行搜索 largest telescopes.
在接下来的几年里，当SETI的新的 In the next several years, when it becomes fully operational,
“艾伦射电望远镜阵列”全面运转起来之时 SETI's new Allen Telescope Array will allow for the
它将能侦测到百万颗行星的信号 reconnaissance of up to a million stars.
SETI已经对大片大片的区域进行了搜索 SETI has to search a huge, huge area.
但是他们所搜索过的范围对于整个宇宙来说 They'll tell you that now they have searched the equivalent of,
有如一杯水相对整个海洋 like, a glass of water compared to the entire ocean on Earth.
他们还有很长的路要走 They have a long way to go.
当SETI 还在被动的监听外太空的信号时 While SETI listens passively to signals from outer
NASA已经开始尝试直接与外星人联系了 space, NASA has attempted to contact alien life directly,
通过航天器向太空发送信息 through messages sent aboard its space probes.
虽然希望渺茫，但是期盼某些地方能进化出生命 It's a long shot, but there's no reason, in my
这是不需要理由的 mind, not to expect that life evolved elsewhere.
真正难以预测、或者尝试和理解的是 What's harder to predict, or try and understand, is how
我们能够真真切切和某人（外星人） likely is it that it happened close enough that there'd be
沟通交流的可能性有多大 someone we could actually communicate with.
1972年，NASA同意在 先驱者号太空探测器 In 1972, NASA agreed to attach small plaques onto the outside of its twin
这个第一个飞出太阳系的人造物体的表面 Pioneer space probes, the first human-built objects destined to
贴上一个小的铭片 leave our solar system.
NASA联络康纳尔大学的教授 NASA contacted Cornell University professor, Dr.
Carl Sagan 博士去精心制作了铭片上的信息 Carl Sagan, to craft the message.
Carl Sagan是主动寻找地外生命的 Carl Sagan was one of the most active astronomers in
天文学家之一 the search for life outside our planet.
他是一个非常卓越的科学家，杰出的天文学家 He was a very prominent scientist, he was an excellent
他确确实实的帮助我们去理解 astronomer, and he really did a lot to help us understand how
如何与其他生命联系和探测地外文明 we might contact other life or detect life elsewhere in the universe.
Sagan 与SETI 的创始人Frank Drake 设计了一个镀了黄金的铝饰板 Sagan, along with SETI founder Frank Drake, designed a gold-anodized
面积6英寸×9英寸 aluminum plaque, measuring roughly six by nine inches, that
上面汇集了代表了人类和地球的符号图像 contained a collection of symbolic images representing humans and Earth.
一个男人和一个女人的全裸形象 男的把胳膊举起来，像这样 The man and the woman were nude, and the gentleman was holding one arm up
看上去像是在打招呼的样子 like this in what was intended to be a sign of, uh, a sign of greeting.
同时此设计也展示了我们的太阳系 A schematic design of the solar system was also shown, with the planned
以及制造 先驱者号探测器 的地球 trajectory of the Pioneer spacecraft marked on it, and a
还有由太阳和它周围14颗脉冲星制成的图表 diagram of 14 pulsar stars around the sun made a chart that
目的是帮助某人(外星人)辨别此飞行器的出发地 might help someone work out where the craft originated.
我们试着去告诉它们我们的位置 We tried to give them an idea of where we're located-- and that's an
这是个有趣的问题 你要如何告诉它们 interesting problem, is to figure out how you would tell
我们在宇宙中的位置 因为我们不知道 someone where you're located in space, 'cause you don't know
它们会在哪发现这个信息 where they're gonna find it.
虽然这是很格式化的设计 And it was all in a very stylistic design, but in an attempt to hopefully
但这是为了尽可能的去传达那些信息 communicate at least some of these ideas.
5年后的1977年，Sagan博士再次获得了一个机会 Five years later, in 1977, Dr. Sagan got a second chance at designing an
为 旅行者号探测器 interstellar message when NASA agreed to attach another one to
设计一个星际信息 the Voyager space probes.
这一次 Sagan 做了一个唱片 This time, Sagan created a record album made of
它的材质是铜并且表面镀金 上面还有如何使用的 gold-plated copper, along with a series of basic instructions
基本操作指南 in how to make it work.
Sagan 估计这个金属碟片 Sagan estimated that the metallic disc could survive in
在太空中可以保存至少十亿年 space for at least a billion years.
一个具有挑战性的技术是 One of the challenges with technology is trying to
如何向别人说明你想要表达的东西 比如我们对音频编码 figure out one that can do what you want-- so here you want to
还有对视频图像也进行编码 encode audio, and even some video images, but do it in a way
但是你又如何保证其他先进的文明 能够理解这些（音频视频编码）呢 that almost any other technologically advanced society could figure out.
唱片机的优势在于它可以由机械制成 And the advantage of a record player is, it's both mechanical
也可以由电子制成 and electrical.
（唱片的）刻纹是很明显的 The grooves are obvious.
所以，他们在封面上制作了操作指南 And so, they actually put on the cover instructions on how to play it.
唱片记录了多种多样的声音 有婴儿的哭声...风声... The recording included a wide variety of sounds-- a baby's cry... wind...
海浪声，雨声，动物叫声 当然还有古典音乐 Surf and rain, animal noises, as well as classical and
和全球各地的文化音乐 cultural music from around the world.
其中一首有意思的歌是选自Chuck Berry的摇滚乐 One interesting song selection was Chuck Berry's rock 'n roll
叫做“Johnny B. Goode” hit, "Johnny B. Goode."
音乐是个很好的选择 因为几乎任何振动都产生声音 Music is a good choice 'cause almost anything vibrates and makes sound.
所以我敢打赌说每个文明都有自己的音乐 So I would have bet that almost any culture would develop music.
唱片中时间最长的是巴赫的音乐 I believe it's Bach who gets the most time on the record.
老实说我不知道当初为什么选巴赫 I don't know why they picked that, to be honest, but he is
他是比较的具有数理作曲家之一 这也许就是选他的原因之一 one of the more mathematical composers, and that might have
因为数学是通用的语言 been one of the reasons, because math is a more universal language.
Sagan 也包含了大量的著名的标志性建筑的照片 Sagan also included a wide array of photographs of
还有用55种语言的问候语 well-known man-made structures and greetings in 55 different languages.
我认为其中最重要的是苏美尔语 I think the most important one is the Sumerian language.
现在问题是为什么要把苏美尔语也放进去？ Now, why would they include Sumerian on that record?
根据远古外星人理论 Well, according to the ancient alien theory, ancient Sumeria is
古苏美尔应该是我们与天外来客初次接触的地方 the first place where we made contact with an extraterrestrial entity.
根据这点，显然我们并没有从外星人那学到什么 At this point, we obviously haven't learned anything yet about
因为我们再也没有被它们接触过了 extraterrestrial life, because we haven't been contacted back.
但是我认为,出于我们自己的目的 But I think for our own purposes, any time you try and
每次当你要试图与某物通讯时 go and figure out how you want to communicate something, it
通讯本身也扩展了我们认知的领域 pushes your boundaries and understanding of communication itself.
我们都想找到外星人 We all want to find aliens.
无论是在遥远的星球上 Whether it's the planetary scientists looking for signs of
寻找外星生命迹象的行星学家 life on another distant planet.
无论是在遥远的过去 Whether it's the ancient alien proponents who want to find
寻找外星生命迹象的远古外星人理论支持者 signs of life of aliens who visited in the past.
无论是最近被外星人 And whether it's people today who want to have experiences
UFO劫持的那些人 with UFOs and aliens that have visited them recently.
所有这些人都在做着同样的事 All of us are trying to do the same thing.
地外生命搜寻的工作仍在继续，与此同时 While the search for extraterrestrial beings continues, a new space-based
一个太空望远镜正在对可能有生命的星球进行观测 telescope is hunting for planets that may contain life.
那里是否有另一个地球呢？ Are there other earths out there?
如果真的有，我们会发现她么？ And if so, how will we find them?
点火 Ignition.
发射 Lift off.
发射... 在2009年3月6日，NASA发射了Delta二型火箭 Lift off... On March 6, 2009, NASA launched a Delta II rocket into space.
上面搭载的是一个以德国著名的天文学家 On board was a new telescope named in honor of German
开普勒命名的新望远镜 astronomer, Johannes Kepler.
这个太空望远镜被设计来用于 The space-based telescope was designed specifically to
探索太阳系以外的 discover the existence of Earth-like planets located
类地行星 outside our own solar system.
开普勒望远镜所对着的区域 The Kepler search is focused on a specific section of the Milky
正是我们所熟知的猎户星座 Way known as Orion's Spur.
开普勒望远镜的工作是为了回答一个问题: 我们的地球,到底有多普遍? Kepler's job is to answer the question, how common are other Earths?
为了回答这一问题,开普勒望远镜对着星空某一处 To do this, Kepler's looking at one part of the sky for three-
三年半来一直没停过 and-a-half years.
试想一下,你的眼睛睁得比牛眼还大 Imagine, like, keeping your eyes open and staring at just one
但就只盯着天空的一部分 part of the sky.
他们要做的就是观察星空 And what they're doing is they're looking at stars.
行星在绕着恒星运行 And then, as a planet goes around that star, when the
当行星运行到恒星与我们之间的时候 恒星的光芒会变得模糊 planet gets in front of the star, the starlight dims, just
这是从我们的观测角度来看的 a little bit, from our vantage point, 'cause it is being
因为恒星的光芒被行星挡住了 blocked by the planet.
所以只要观察到那些恒星光芒有所减弱, And so, you look for that dimming of those stars.
我们便能发现那些行星 And then that's how you're able to detect these planets.
迄今为止,开普勒望远镜已经发现了 So far, the Kepler telescope has confirmed the existence of five planets
5个太阳系以外的类地行星 outside our own solar system.
NASA的工作人员期待在此项任务完成之前 NASA officials expect to find several hundred more exoplanets
能找到几百个更多的此类星球 like these before their mission is completed.
当我们定位了一个行星后 科学家便会分析 Once a planet has been located, scientists must then determine
该星球是否存在水 if it might contain water.
根据地球生命论,我们认为生命需要液态水 We know from Earth that all life on Earth requires liquid water.
根据这一个推论,我们寻找地外生命的 So that is the approach that we've been taking for looking
一个重要依据便是找到“液态水” for life elsewhere in the universe-- follow the water.
所以说,这只是第一步 And so, that is the step one.
在地球上,只要有水的地方就有生命的存在 On Earth, wherever we find liquid water, we find life.
而且事实如此 And it's true.
地球上的生命在极端环境下都能生存下来 Life on Earth can exist under an extraordinary range of conditions.
一些有机体可以存活在 There are extreme organisms that live in the scalding effluent
海底地壳滚烫的热流里面 coming out of the Earth's crust deep beneath the ocean.
也有一些有机体可以存活在 There are other remarkable organisms living in the waste
核反应堆的废水池里这种辐射极强的环境 当然还有其他类似的例子 pools of nuclear reactors of extreme radiation environments and so on.
这样看来貌似生命的一个绝对前提 But the one thing that seems to be absolutely necessary for life
便是对液态水的需求 as we know it is liquid water.
为了搞清楚某颗行星是否有生命体的存在 To determine if a planet contains water and possibly life, scientists use
科学家会用特殊的望远镜分析其大气成分 special telescopes to analyze its atmosphere.
我们观察行星的光谱 We look at the light coming from the planet.
然后对光谱进行分析 And we split that light up, like a rainbow.
如果你仔细观察过彩虹的话 Now if you look at a rainbow in the sky, and you look really,
你会发现其间有一些黑色的间隔 really carefully, you will see some dark lines.
你会发现彩虹缺失了一些颜色 You'll see some colors missing from the rainbow.
这是因为那些颜色被地球大气吸收 And those colors are missing because of absorption by gases
而导致的 in Earth's atmosphere.
所以我们就观察另一个行星的彩虹 So effectively, we're getting a rainbow from another planet, and
分析其彩虹的缺失色彩 we're looking for dark lines that tell us what kinds of gases
来确定其大气构成气体成分 are in the atmosphere.
为了更好的了解生命体如何影响大气环境 To better understand how life affects its atmosphere, NASA scientists
NASA的砖家在加州某湿地保护区里研究藻垫 study microbial mats at California's Moss Landing Wildlife Area.
对NASA来说藻垫有各自重要的用途 Microbial mats are important to NASA for a whole bunch of reasons.
藻垫里的有机物 The organisms that are in microbial mats have been on
比地球上其他有机物都要古老 Earth just about longer than any other kind of organism.
它们会形成称为“生物标记物”的样本 They make a number of things which we call biomarkers which
这对于我们寻找地外生命相当重要 are important in our search for life on other planets.
这就是结构性“生物标记物” So, there are textural biomarkers, so when you pull up
我们弄出一块藻垫,然后观察一下它的表层 a piece of microbial mat and look at the surface-- what does
这个看起来像什么? that look like?
研究“生物标记物”的目的之一 One of the things that we're doing with these microbial mats
就是测量其所含的甲烷 is, we're measuring the fluxes of methane.
甲烷是一种由多种有机物产生的气体 Methane is a gas that's produced by certain kinds of
藻垫中均含有这些有机物 organisms that use the organic matter that's in these mats.
当甲烷游走于大气的时候 And when that methane goes into our atmosphere, it can be
会被NASA系外行星探索任务的类地行星探测器检测到 detected by other missions, such as terrestrial planet finder, is
这个探测器的功能之一就是 one of NASA's concept missions for looking for gases that
探测是否有生物产生的气体 produced by life on exoplanets.
我们在地外行星上寻找氧气和水的迹象 We can look for the signature of oxygen or water on
至少基于人类生命形态观点 a planet, and at least that would give us an idea of
我们的生命形态是基于碳结构 life-forms like ourselves-- ones that are carbon-based, and use
使用氧气以及二氧化碳循环的 oxygen and carbon dioxide cycles.
如果没有生命的话 我们的大气便会很不稳定 Our atmosphere is not stable without living organisms.
大气早就被蒸发掉了 It would have evaporated away by now.
所以,当我们在探索地外行星时 And so, if you're looking out in space, and you detect around a
如果探测到某个行星有由生物产生的化学物质 star a signature of the chemicals that we know exist for
那么很有可能意味着那里有生命的存在 life, that's very strong evidence that life is there.
虽然这并不意味着智慧生命的存在 That doesn't help you know if it's intelligent life, but it
但是这确实的是生命存在的证据 does give you an evidence for life.
这个宇宙中充满了可能 With a universe literally full of possibilities,
行星搜索者将注意力放在一块叫做"金凤花区域"的地方 planet hunters focus their search on an area they call a Goldilocks Zone.
行星的金凤花区域是指 The Goldilocks Zone for planets is the place where
某颗行星温度不太热也不太冷 a planet is not too hot, not too cold, but just the right
适合生命的生存 temperature for life.
但是目前为止,在金凤花区域没有找到一颗类地行星 Right now, we know of no planets like Earth in a Goldilocks Zone.
不过有一颗行星接近这个标准了 One planet comes close.
葛利斯581D星（Gliese 581D） It's called Gliese 581D.
但是我们并不能确定这颗星算不算在 But we're not entirely sure if that planet is really in the
金凤花区域里 Goldilocks Zone or not.
但是近几年来,人们认为 In recent years, it's been recognized that there's
金凤花区域很可能不止一个 more than one Goldilocks Zone.
例如在表明覆盖冰的行星的冰层下可能有生命 For example, there could be life inside icy planetesimals,
这些行星可能是小行星或者是体型较大的卫星 these like small planets or large moons.
欧罗巴是木星的一颗卫星,便是一个很好的例子 The moon of Jupiter, Europa, is a very good example.
欧罗巴的冰盖下面便是液体的 Europa is liquid beneath an ice cap.
这些冰层下的液体是由潮汐的热能以及 It's liquid underneath because of tidal heating and friction
内部板块摩擦而导致的 going on inside the planet.
所以说,欧罗巴的冰盖之下 So it could be that there is life, microbial probably only,
极有可能存在着微生物之类的生命 deep down under the ice on Europa.
能否在太阳系内找到其他生命的存在 这是一个相当具有挑战性的问题 It's a very challenging question-- if there is life elsewhere in our solar
system.
如此多的因素在影响着我们 You have so many components that have to come together.
我们必须对科学有相当的理解 We have to have an understanding on the science.
我们必须问对问题 We have to ask the right questions.
真希望我能有个三度仪 （在《星际迷航》系列，通过这种仪器扫描并 收集某一区域的地理、物理及生物信息） I wish I had a tricorder that I could just go and, like, point,
它会告诉我:有生命或没生命，对吧 and it would say: life, or no life, right?
但我们并没有这么一个东西 But we don't have that.
我们必须变得更加聪明,睿智 So, we have to be smart, and we have to be clever, and, we have
制造出更加先进的仪器 to develop instruments that can actually address the questions
来解决我们的心中的问题 we're trying to answer.
这是无法避免的. It's inevitable.
宇宙中这么多星球 There are so many planets out there, it's inevitable that
总有一天我们能在金凤花区域找到一颗类地行星 we'll find one in the Goldilocks Zone any day.
当开普勒望远镜才刚刚开始它的使命的时候 But while the Kepler telescope has only just
NASA已经开始 begun scanning the horizon, NASA is already planning the next
下一步寻找外星生命的计划了: step in its search for extraterrestrial life: the 2014
将于2014发射的詹姆士·韦伯（James Webb）望远镜 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.
人们总是问我："你觉得在你有生之年里能找到另一个地球吗?" People always ask me, "Do you expect to find an Earth in your lifetime?"
我会回答说："当然,绝对可以." And I say, "Yes, absolutely."
当我还是个学生的时候,几乎没有人会去考虑这么个问题 When I was a student, there was almost nobody prepared to argue that way.
在六七十年代的时候 The feeling back in the '60s and '70s was that even if there
即便是真有这么一个类地星球 were other Earth-like planets, life is such an improbable freak
上面是否存在生命这种问题看起来是十分荒谬的 event that it would never ever happen anywhere else.
但现在的主流观点却是,宇宙肯定还有其他的生命存在 Now the prevailing view is, yes, the universe is teeming with life.
每个人都想见一下外星人 Everybody wants to meet an alien.
但是我们必须小心行事 But we have to start small, we have to learn how to walk
要学会跑必须先学会走才行 before we can run.
令我着迷的是： The fascinating thing for me is that we're only
地球只有45亿年历史 但是宇宙却有 four-and-a-half billion years old in a universe that's close
将近140亿年的历史 to 14 billion years old.
某些类地行星的历史可能比地球要早 What would happen with some of these Earth-like planets that
50亿甚至是100亿年 他们的文明会领先我们多少？ had a five- or ten-billion-year head start on us?
天啊,这恐怕连想都想不到 Gosh, you can only imagine.
也许人类不是唯一一个 But what if humans are not the only intelligent
在宇宙中寻找同类的智慧生命 creatures searching for life in the universe?
会不会别在别的星球上 也有其它生命 What if there are beings on other planets conducting a
在做着同样的事情呢? search of their own?
会不会他们更先一步找到我们呢? And what if, in their search, they find us before we find them?
有些人认为它们其实早就发现我们了 Some believe they already have.
1938年10月30日,美国的收音机听众们 On October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the
在听到一系列火星人入侵地球的新闻后 United States sat stunned as a series of news bulletins
都被震惊了 described Martians invading Earth.
火星的飞船在我国全境登陆 Martian cylinders are falling all over the country.
世界末日到了 This is the end now.
尽管广播听起来相当的真实 While the broadcast sounded real, it was a fictional
但这却是Orson Welles的自编自导自演的科幻作品 production, directed and narrated by Orson Welles.
令人惊讶的是,很多听众居然相信了,而且陷入了恐慌 Incredibly, many of those listening believed it to be true, and panicked.
报纸报道说 很多家庭举家逃往深山 Newspaper reports described families fleeing their homes
有些人则全副武装 for the mountains, while others armed themselves with weapons
准备和外星入侵者干上一架 and prepared to fight off the alien invaders.
好像是有这么一则友情提示说 It was just presented, maybe, with a brief introduction saying it was not
这并不是真的 really happening.
但是从那时起，这事好像是真的上演过一样 But from then on, it was played as if it was really
happening.
听到这广播的绝大多数人都相信这是真的 Well, most people who heard that thought that it was really happening.
人们开始变得沮丧 People became upset.
真的有些人逃向了山区 Some of those literally headed for the hills.
他们开车去带上家人或者是朋友 They drove places to try to, uh, pick up other people, family and friends.
他们前往军队希望入伍. They reported to the army for duty
这个外星人入侵地球的科幻广播 The response to this fictional alien attack resulted in many people
导致很多人做了最坏的打算 preparing for the worst.
但是这个科幻虚构的广播剧 But if the public's reaction to a radio dramatization resulted
都能让一个国家如此恐慌,那万一这是真的呢? in a nationwide wave of terror, what would happen if they really came?
加州,洛杉矶 Los Angeles, California.
在1942年的头几个月,整个城市都紧张不安 In the early months of 1942, the city was on edge.
日本对珍珠港的奇袭 The recent surprise attack on Pearl Harbor had propelled
将美国卷入了二战 日本对美国本土及领空的威胁 America into World War II... and the threat of a Japanese
让美国军方高度的紧张与戒备 invasion, by sea or by air, kept the military on full alert.
珍珠港事件离现在并不久远 Pearl Harbor was a very recent memory for people.
人们都高度紧张 People were in high alert.
到处都是怀疑的目光与猜测. There was a great deal of suspicion.
日裔美国人被押送进了拘留所. Japanese-Americans were being put in internment camps.
德国的U级潜艇在大西洋横行 There were German U-boats in the Atlantic, Japanese
日本的潜艇在太平洋蠢蠢欲动,民众都非常的害怕 submarines in the Pacific, and people were very fearful.
紧凑严密的防御系统被启用 In a well-organized defense operation, air-raid
防空监测站和海岸守卫 wardens and the coast guard were monitoring the Pacific
一刻不停的监视着太平洋沿岸 shoreline as never before.
二战已经开始了 The war had started.
那时我还是个13岁的正太,然后一天晚上 I was a 13-year-old kid, and this one night, which was
应该是1942年的二月的一天,防空警报在半夜响起 February 1942, the sirens started wailing in the middle of the night.
灯火管制 Blackout.
之前我们也有过几次灯火管制 And we'd had several blackouts before this.
2月25号,凌晨3:12到4:15之间 On February 25, between the hours of 3:12 and 4:15 a.m., the 37th Coast
37海岸炮兵旅对着 Artillery Brigade in Los Angeles fired off a barrage of
一个不明飞行物进行了密集炮击 antiaircraft shells at an unidentified flying object.
站在哥伦比亚广播电视大楼顶端的哨兵 Watchers on the rooftop of the Columbia Broadcasting Building in the
正位于好莱坞的中心,可以清晰的看见 heart of Hollywood could plainly see the flashes of guns
炮火和天空中的探照灯 and searchlights sweeping the skies in a wide arc along the coastal area.
我想刚开始我是被防空炮声吵醒的 I think what woke me up initially was the sound of antiaircraft guns.
我下了床,发现我的父母也醒了 I jumped out of bed, and my parents were up.
我父亲当时是防空警卫员 My father was an air-raid warden.
他认为,小日本打过来了 He figured, this has to be the real thing. (chuckles)
我母亲告诫我和我的哥哥："躲到床下面去! My mother was telling my brother and I, "Get under the bed, get under the
呆着那别出来!" bed! Stay there!"
当然,我们悄悄的爬了出来偷看 And, of course, we got out and we peeked.
到处都是火光 There was all this firing.
就像独立日的烟火一样 It was almost like a Fourth of July.
我听见了剧烈的爆炸声 I started hearing a lot of loud explosions.
我和我哥哥从卧室窗户里望出去 My brother and I looked out the bedroom window, saw searchlights
看见整个天空都是明晃晃的探照灯 twisting and turning in the sky.
但是探照灯对准的是UFO吗? But what was the strange UFO that the searchlights were focused on?
它是从哪里来的? Where had it come from?
日本? Japan?
或是来自另一个世界呢? Or somewhere from out of this world?
这张第二天刊登在 Could this incredible photograph, published the
洛杉矶时报上的不可思议的照片 next morning in the Los Angeles
真的为UFO的存在提供了证据吗? Times, provide the proof?
远古外星人理论一直以来都是对的吗? Could Ancient Astronaut theorists have been right all along?
那东西可以说就出现在我的头上，就在我头顶 It was practically overhead-- and I mean overhead.
已退休的人类学教授 Retired anthropology professor C.
C.Scott Littleton当年住在赫摩海滩,当年只有九岁 Scott Littleton, was nine years old and growing up in Hermosa
看见了一个奇怪的物体就在他家上面悬停着 Beach when he spotted the strange object hovering right over his house.
我们看见了母亲经常说的"银虫"的东西 We saw what my mother always called a "silver bug."
现在让我描述的话 它是一个菱形，一个长椭圆形的东西 I'd characterize it today as a lozenge, a long oval.
我永远不会忘记它的样子 It was something I'll never, ever forget.
当探照灯打在它的身上 It was caught in searchlight beams, and antiaircraft shells
防空火炮在它的身边炸开 were exploding all around it.
它渐渐地运动,然后开始逐渐下降高度 It gradually went like this, and then began to lose altitude
向着曾经的雷东多海滩离去 a little bit as it moved over what had to have been Redondo Beach.
我们虽然无法追踪到它了 但是炮击并未停止 We lost track of it, but the banging continued.
仅仅过了一会,我,嗯,我们都看见 And very quickly afterward, I saw-- we all saw-- a flight of
战斗机群向那个方向跟了过去 planes following the track of the object going overhead,
大概有三到五部截击机 anywhere from three to five interceptors, clearly
明显是美国的活塞式飞机 piston-driven U.S. planes.
但从来没有人承认过那晚有飞机 No one has ever admitted that those planes were in the sky.
我们第一反应便是日本人的侦察机 Our first thought immediately was a Japanese observation plane.
但晚些时候,日方记录没有显示 Later, the Japanese records definitively prove there were
有飞机出现在南加州,从来也没有过 no Japanese planes over Southern California that night, or indeed ever.
当人们排除了日本飞机 After ruling out the possibility that a Japanese
侵犯美国领空 海军部长Frank Knox plane had invaded American airspace, Secretary of the
将这次事件定义为"战争紧张情绪" Navy Frank Knox attributed the incident to "war nerves."
但是战争部长Henry Stimson But Secretary of War Henry Stimson quickly refuted this
很快的否认了这种解释 并且隐晦的说明 explanation, defensively declaring that an actual
的确有飞行物被当作攻击目标 aircraft had been the target of the assault.
直至今天,没有人能够知道 To this day, no one seems to know just what-- or who-- was
谁或者是什么东西在那晚出现在了洛杉矶上空 hovering over Los Angeles that night.
有人宣称当晚只是一个精心设计的演习 Some claimed that the Los Angeles air raid was nothing
是军方的人希望通过 more than an elaborate training exercise, a show put on by the
这次"训练"来让人们提高警惕 military to keep citizens on the ready in case of a real attack.
有人则断言那个不明飞行物 Others alleged that the unidentified flying object was,
实际上是一个断了线的防空气球而已 in fact, a barrage balloon that had broken loose from its tether.
但是这样的解释对于那些目击者来说 But even that explanation doesn't seem credible to those
显然是无法接受的 who witnessed the actual event.
防空气球的确被部署在 One place where there were barrage balloons that were anchored
北美的El Segundo，Douglas above the aircraft plants in El Segundo, Douglas North American.
假设它真的断线了 It would have to have slipped its tether, floated north up
并一直向北漂到圣莫尼卡山脉 难道它还会原路漂回来? to the Santa Monica Mountains, and then back down this way.
防空气球不会那样运动的 Barrage balloons don't maneuver like that.
暂且不提那些争论 据估计大约有 Regardless of the controversy, one fact is an estimated 14,000
14000颗炮弹向UFO发射 shells were fired at the strange object, and shrapnel
弹片不断从空中掉落，至少持续有一个钟头 rained from the sky for over an hour.
那些防空炮瞄准的是什么呢? But what were the guns aimed at?
军队真的会为一次演习将民众的性命置于危险之中？ Would the army really have put civilian lives in danger for a drill?
真让人非常恐慌啊 Major panic.
有6个人被落下的弹片砸中 Six people got killed, uh, due to car accidents and hit by
或由此引发的车祸中丧生 falling shrapnel in all.
我的一个朋友说他看到一个弹片穿过 A friend of mine said he witnessed a piece of shrapnel go through his
邻居的车库屋顶 neighbor's garage roof.
这次事件肯定会造成一定的伤害 So, oh, yeah, there were some damage from falling shrapnel.
第二天早晨，我妈妈告诉我后院有什么东西 The next morning, there was something in our backyard my mother told me to
并让我把它收拾一下 那个东西就像一块布或类似的东西 go roll up-- it was, like, a tarp or something.
当我弯下腰时，跪在草丛中 And when I bent down... or kneeled down in the grass, I cut
我的膝盖被弹片割到了 my knee, and I have my piece of shrapnel.
这些年我一直保存着它 I've kept it all these years.
这就是我的弹片，真的很尖利 There's my shrapnel, and it's very sharp.
以一个学者的观点来看，通过排除法来推算的话， By a process of elimination, the most efficient-- and I say this as a
我认为最合理的解释就是 scholar-- the most efficient explanation is that it was what
它就是我们今天称为UFO的另一个世界的东西 we would call today a UFO-- something not of this world,
另一类科技的产物 something that belonged to another technology.
如果这是真的 这件事就是历史上最大规模的 If that's true, then this event was one of the largest mass UFO
UFO目击事件 sightings in history.
超过一百万人亲眼目睹 Over a million people saw it.
但无论是不是UFO But whether it was a UFO or not, the memories
记忆仍然历历在目地呈现在 remain vivid for those who saw something in the sky that
那晚的目击者脑海里 night.
事实上，由于印象过于深刻 他们中的许多人每年都聚集在 So vivid, in fact, that many of them gather each year at Fort
加州圣佩德罗 的 麦克阿瑟要塞 以重现当时的神秘事件 MacArthur, in San Pedro, California, to reenact this mysterious event.
城市都为此疯狂 The city went crazy.
他们想，我们是被日本飞机袭击了 They thought it was we were being attacked by Japanese planes.
也有些人说气象气球 Some theories said weather balloon.
其他人说，“哦，我看到了一架飞机 Others said, you know, "Oh, I saw a plane, I know I saw a
我知道我看到了一架飞机”。 剩下人说，“扯淡吧，没有飞机” plane," and others say, "Nope, no such plane."
回想那一刻，真是一件恐怖的事 Back then it was a scary thing.
我认为他们不知道他们攻击的是什么 I think to this day they don't know what they were firing at.
如果它是一个气象气球或是一个飞碟 If it was a weather balloon or a flying saucer.
对那些相信看见一艘外星飞船的人 But for those who believe they saw an alien craft
一个重要的问题依然存在 that night, one important question remains:
它发生了什么？ What happened to it?
有流言说它最后坠毁在水里 The rumor is that it finally crashed in the water
并被海军潜水员收回 and was recovered by navy divers.
也许它受创了，然后它坠落了 So maybe it was wounded, and it crashed, and this might explain
这也许可以解释5年后为什么军方可以 如此快速地对罗斯维尔事件做出反应 why the military was so quick to react to Roswell five years later.
因为他们也许已经获得了一些线索 Because they may already have had at least some inkling of
他们至少知道会在那里发现什么 what they would find there.
1942年2月25日的早晨 Was Earth really visited by an alien spacecraft
外星飞船是不是真的来过地球？ on the morning of February 25, 1942?
是不是二战产生的全球威胁 And could the global threats posed by World War II have
为此提供了一个契机？ provided a trigger?
也许这并不像有些人认为的那样牵强 Perhaps the idea is not as farfetched as some would think.
外星飞船有没有可能 Is it possible that alien spacecraft could have been
被误认为的希特勒的敌军飞机？ mistaken for enemy fighter planes in Adolf Hitler's Germany?
1993年出版的伊甸之神（The Gods of Eden）的作者 In his 1993 book, The Gods of Eden, author
William Bramley的理论是 William Bramley theorized that extraterrestrials played a part
外星文明几乎参与了人类历史上的每场大灾难 in nearly every catastrophe in human history, and have even
并使用战争作为控制人口增长的手段 used war as a means to control the growth of the human population.
许多人对他的说法保持怀疑 But while many are skeptic about Bramley's claims, there is
但是有一个现象却是得到共识 one thing on which they agree-- that the number of reported UFO
那就是，战争期间目击UFO的事件总是会增加 sightings always increases during wartime.
战争时期，大批百姓身处水深火热之中 In times of war, when vast civilizations are in
战乱中人们性命如草芥 conflict, and in c c conflict so terrible that it seems as
突然之间UFO就出现了 though the civilizations will wipe themselves out, suddenly
没人知道它们从哪来的 out of nowhere, UFOs appear.
当怀疑者和军事史学家 While skeptics and military historians attribute
将这些他们认为靠不住的目击事件归咎于 对战争的过度紧张或压力时 these alleged sightings to war nerves or stress, those who
很难让人忽略那些大量相信是UFO事件的人 believe in UFOs find the number of instances hard to dismiss.
1939年9月二战爆发 When World War II broke out in September of 1939, there were
有几份报告称有人看到不明飞行物 numerous reports of unidentified flying objects spotted over
出现在希特勒的德国上空 Hitler's Germany.
尽管那时UFO这个术语还没被使用 Although the term UFO had not yet been coined, the Allies
但盟军认为这些怪物 believed the bogeys, as they were then known, were new
是纳粹开发的新型战斗机 fighter planes being developed by the Nazis.
但是德国的第一架喷气式战斗机 梅赛施密特 ME-262 But the first combat bomber jets, the German Messerschmitt
直到1943年才被德国空军开发出来 ME-262, weren't deployed by the German Air Force until 1943.
我们当然不能忽视 It certainly doesn't escape notice just how advanced
纳粹的动力系统和他们的航空技术都很先进 the Nazi propulsion systems and their aeronautics technology really was.
他们拥有第一架可操纵的喷气式战斗机以观察战斗 They had the first operational jet fighter to see combat.
他们建造并测试飞行了 They were building and test-flying aircraft that look
看起来和现在人们所知道的UFO极度相似的飞行器 incredibly similar to UFOs that are reported even today.
他们还拥有非常尖端的火箭技术 They had greatly advanced rocket technology.
而且长久以来一直有流言 There have long been rumors about Nazi projects to build
声称纳粹使用UFO技术建造飞行器 aircraft using UFO technology.
19世纪末，亚历斯特.克劳力(19世纪著名的魔法师） H.G.威尔斯(《世界大战》,《时间机器》,《隐形人》作者） At the end of the 19th century, there was Aleister
布莱姆·斯托克(Bram Stoker)《吸血鬼德古拉》的作者 （1992年被翻拍为电影《惊情四百年》） Crowley, H.G. Wells, Bram Stoker, who wrote Dracula, avd
《从地球到月球》的作者儒勒·凡尔纳(Jules Verne) Jules Verne, who wrote From
(作品还有《海底两万里》、《地心游记》 《八十天环游世界》《亚马逊漂流记》《神秘岛》 ) Earth to the Moon.
他们都属于一个叫做 They were in a society called
金色黎明的组织 The Golden Dawn.
在这个组织里 In that society, they actually
他们不仅相信 believed in the existence, not
UFO的存在 only of UFOs, but
甚至外星文明的存在 extraterrestrials.
这种文化在20世纪20年代末 That culture influenced Hitler
到20世纪30年代前期 in the late 1920s, early into
对希特勒产生了影响 the 1930s.
为了寻找雅利安族的起源 In looking for the origins of
他们长途跋涉 the Aryan Race, they went all
走访了印度 the way to India and the Vedic
了解关于UFO的吠陀文 texts, which talk about UFOs.
所以希特勒是一个相信UFO的人 So Hitler, in his own way, was a
他以自己的方式 UFO believer, and sought to
根据有关UFO的吠陀文 develop his own version of a
开发他自己的UFO UFO, based on the Vedic texts.
这都是为了 To have a dramatic wunderwaffen,
拥有大规模杀伤性武器 a wonder weapon, that would end
以终结战争 the war.
尽管纳粹从没 Although the Nazis
发明出所谓的秘密武器 never developed this so-called
但是关于战争期间 wonder weapon, reports of
德国领空的 strange flying machines in
奇怪飞行物的报告 German airspace continued
却持续不断 throughout the war.
但是盟军飞行员 But just what was it that the
报告的又是什么呢？ Allied pilots were reporting?
20世纪40年代 In the 1940s, as
当大批美国轰炸机 waves of American bombers were
轰炸摧残德国的城市 literally obliterating German
德累斯顿，汉堡和柏林 cities-- Dresden, Hamburg,
都在轰炸之列 Berlin-- in these raids,
美国飞行员看到 American fighter pilots saw
光球朝他们的飞机冲来 these balls of light coming at
their planes.
他们不知道这些光球是什么 They didn't know what they were.
他们最初以为 They thought they were German
它们是德国的秘密武器 secret weapons at first.
所以他们称它们为 So they called them Foo
“喷火战机”(Foo Fighters) Fighters.
Feu这个词在法语里是“火焰”的意思 The word feu in French is fire,
这就是这个名字的由来 and these were balls of fire coming out.
只不过用Foo Fighters这个名字 代替了Feu Fighters而已 So, instead of Feu Fighters, they were Foo Fighters.
德国和西欧人们都看到过它们 They were seen in large numbers over Germany and
在德国和西欧，它们被称为 over Western Europe, where they were described variously as
结构飞行器，或更简单一点，光球 structured craft, or simply, balls of light.
军队注意到它们的时候 It was so important at the time that the military began
正是战事关键的时刻，所以军队就开始了调查 to notice it, and they began to investigate these things.
有数百个案例 There were hundreds of cases.
似乎没有一个对飞机造成了伤害 None seemed to be very harmful to planes.
但它们却四处出现 But they were all over the place.!
令人惊奇的是，当“喷火战机”出现时 Curiously, when the Foo Fighters appeared, Allied aircraft would sometimes
盟军飞机有时候会出现机械故障 experience mechanical failure.
也许这其中最神秘的一件事就是 And perhaps most mystifying of all was that some pilots
一些飞行员声称他们直接穿越了UFO 这些UFO好像不存在质量一般 reported flying right through the UFOs, as if they had no mass.
然而他们却从没发现“喷火战机”是什么 It was never discovered what the Foo Fighters were or where they
也不知道它们从何而来，但是那时的盟军飞行员 came from, but the theory that they were some sort of German
普遍认为它们是德国的某种秘密武器 secret weapon was widely accepted among Allied pilots at the time.
但是那时候第三帝国是否拥有 But could the Third Reich have possessed technology more
比现在的飞机还要先进的技术？ advanced than even our most modern aircraft?
一些人相信纳粹制造的是 Some believe what the Nazis had developed was an advanced
今天科学家依然在研究的 mechanism that scientists are still working on today--
以汞做动力的反重力系统 mercury-powered anti-gravity technology.
它设计到将汞应用于一个封闭系统中 就像灯泡一样 This involves mercury being in a closed system, like a glass bulb.
一旦汞在封闭系统中旋转起来 Once that mercury becomes spinning in a gyroscopic manner
就产生了上升力 within a closed system, that creates a lift.
这是由电力产生的上升力 同时也产生了强烈的白光 It's electrified lift, it's also a very bright light.
事实上，人们也正是这样描述UFO的 And in fact, many UFOs are described as exactly that.
在二战即将结束之际,德国人开始制造 Towards the end of World War II, the Germans started producing
大量的水银 massive amounts of mercury.
实际上,一些后来沉没的U级潜艇中 And in fact, a number of the U-boats that were later sunk--
一艘在新加坡附近沉没,另一艘则在挪威 one was sunk near Singapore, another in Norway-- only a few
几年前,人们才刚发现它,它的整个货仓都是水银 years ago, they actually found it, and its entire cargo was mercury.
少数科学家曾经描述过“喷火战机” What the few historians have actually written about Foo
显然至今它还是个迷 Fighters, which is still apparently a secret today, is
他们认为它是一种水银球 they were a kind of mercury plasma ball.
“喷火战机”的目的是为了 And the purpose of the Foo Fighters was to make a
在轰炸机周围营造出高脉冲的电磁场 highly pulsed magnetic charge and field around the bombers,
从而能够关闭飞机引擎 which would then cut out the engines and interfere with the
并对飞机内部电气系统产生干扰 electrical systems in the planes.
“喷火战机”可能源自于外星技术么? Could Foo Fighters really have been based on extraterrestrial technology?
如果是的,德国人又是如何得到的呢? If so, where did the Germans get it?
UFO理论家提到了德国在1936年 UFO theorists point to the discovery of a flying saucer
据说是在弗莱堡(德国城市)附件的黑森林 that allegedly crashed in the Black Forest, near Freiburg,
发现的碟状飞行物残骸 Germany, in 1936.
有人相信,德国科学家修好了飞行器 Some believe, German scientists repaired the craft to test its
来测试它的能源和推进系统 同时通过逆向工程 energy and pulsion systems, and through reverse engineering,
复制这些所谓的外星技术 were able to replicate some of these so-called alien technologies.
纳粹们是否拿走了这个飞行器？ 或者纳粹和外星人之间 Did the Nazis take this craft, and was there some sort of a pact that
达成了某种协议呢? happened there?
纳粹们是否修复了机身? Did the Nazis-- did they retrieve bodies?
很难确定他们到底有多少秘密 It's hard to pin down how much they had.
是否有接触事件? Was there contact?
有一个说法是他们曾经捕获了一个飞行器 There's always been that theory-- that they had a
并对它进行逆向工程研究 captured craft, and that they were reverse engineering it.
这可能性很大 It's very possible.
它们的技术确实在当时领先于任何国家 They were truly way more advanced than any culture at that time.
庆幸的是美国人知道该怎么做 Thank God for the American know-how, because we were
因为我们运用我们自己的知识和技术同他们斗争 combating them with our own kind of knowledge and technology, as well.
二战后,美国人组织了一次被称为 After World War II, there was an exercise mounted by the Americans called
别针行动的试验 Operation Paperclip.
盟军面对的都是德国 The Allies had been confronted with all this amazing technology
这种惊人的技术 from Germany.
喷气式飞机,火箭引擎飞机等所有 The jet engines, airplanes, the rocket engine airplanes, all
这些惊人的装备 these amazing devices.
给你们举个关于别针行动的例子 To give you an example of some of the material that was
在战争末期 collected by Operation Paperclip, right at the end of
Von Braun和他的团队开始设计分级式火箭 the war, Von Braun and his team had begun designing multistage
射程可以远至美国 rockets capable of reaching the United States.
他们也有关于空间站的计划 是那种经典的圆形的科幻的空间站 They also had plans for a space station, the classic circular
它有一个巨型的阳光收集器 sci-fi space station, and on this, they had a huge sunlight
一个镜子被设计用于将阳光聚集到地球上 collector, a mirror that was designed to focus sunlight down
如同某种死亡射线一样 on the Earth as a kind of death ray.
出自这个团队的这些疯狂的想法 There were all these wild ideas coming out of that team that
战后都被美国所占有 turned it into a very valuable coup for the United States.
最终,是Von Braun造出了载人登月的 Ultimately, it was Von Braun who built the Saturn Five rocket
土星5号火箭 that took people to the moon.
二战中“喷火战机”的故事 The story of the World War II Foo Fighters, much
类似洛杉矶之战,已经被传统的历史学家们 like that of the Battle of Los Angeles, has been largely
遗忘或者抛弃了 forgotten or dismissed by traditional historians.
但战后2年发生的一件事情甚至让那些 But an event that happened just two years after the war had even
怀疑论者都惊讶不已 the skeptics wondering.
如果外星人真实存在怎么办? What if aliens really did exist?
它们的一个飞行器是不是坠毁在地球上? And could one of their craft have crashed to Earth?
主流的考古学家长期反对 Mainstream archeologists have long rejected
外星人帮忙建造 the notion that extraterrestrial beings had a hand in creating
埃及金字塔的说法 the pyramids of Egypt.
神学家和虔诚的宗教信徒反驳了 Theologians and religious scholars refute the idea that
他们认为圣经和摩呵婆罗多（印度两大史诗之一）中的 stories of the Bible or the Mahabharata could be describing
可能是形容外星人的故事 alien encounters.
而历史上的所有政府 And governments throughout history have officially denied
对外星飞行器拜访地球的报告都不正式承认 reports that the Earth has been visited by flying saucers.
但在1947年的7月8日的UFO目击报道 But on July 8, 1947, a UFO sighting was reported that even
让美国政府掩盖事实遇到了麻烦 the United States government had trouble denying.
为什么呢? Why?
因为这次,报告是由美国军方发布的 Because this time, the report was issued by the U.S. Army.
那是在新墨西哥州 我正行走在位于科罗那和罗斯威尔之间的一个农场 I'm walking on the Foster Ranch between Corona and Roswell, New Mexico.
距离被称为残骸区域的那座小山不远 Not far from what is called the debris field right over that hill.
那个残骸区域指的是1947年7月 And that debris field refers to headlines back in July of 1947
关于飞碟的头条新闻 一架神秘的UFO about a disc-- one of those mysterious UFOs-- actually
实际上正是坠毁在这儿 crashing right out here.
1947年7月初的一个晚上,一场大规模的雷阵雨 One night in early July, 1947, a major thunderstorm
席卷了新墨西哥州 rolled across New Mexico.
第二天早上,农场主Mac Brazel出去检查受损情况 The next morning, rancher Mac Brazel went out to check on the damage.
Mac Brazel原打算是出去看看 Mac Brazel went out to make sure everything
确保所有东西是不是都还完好 was where it was supposed to be.
当他经过这片极大的残骸区域 And he came across this really extensive area of debris, stuff
满地都是他从来没见过的东西 he had never seen before.
他把这些带到了附近的治安官员办公室 He brought it to the local sheriff's office.
当时,罗斯威尔是有空军基地的 In 1947, Roswell was home to Roswell Army Air Field.
这个治安官员呼叫了基地 基地把农场主Jesse Marcel带走了 The sheriff called the base, the base sent Major Jesse
从那时起,那个农场基本上变成了军事基地 Marcel, and at that point, it basically became a military site
因为军方试着找到尽可能多的残骸 as they gathered up every bit of debris they could find.
在他们最初的报告中,军方官员 In their initial report, army officials made a
对残骸的复原只给了一个含糊的说法 vague claim of having started the recovery of the debris
"上周的某个时间." "sometime last week."
但是为什么军方不立即报告他们的发现呢? But why didn't the army report their findings right away?
为什么他们对时间那么含糊不清? And why were they so ambiguous about the timeline?
1947年7月8日报纸上最大的新闻是 One of the biggest things we have is the newspaper
由Blanchard上校颁布 of July 8, 1947, where Colonel Blanchard issued an order to
给新闻发言人Walter Haught中尉的命令 Lieutenant Walter Haught, who was a public information
基本的意思是,我们在本土获得了一个飞碟 officer, saying basically, we have in our possession a flying
它已经被带到沃思堡市交给上级部门 saucer, it's being taken to Fort Worth, to higher headquarters.
罗斯威尔事件是飞碟学的一个转折点 Roswell was a real turning point for UFOlogy.
我认为因为军方第一次 I think that was because the military, for the first time,
承认他们拥有了一个坠毁的飞碟 admitted that they had a crashed disc.
也因为当时被承认了,这不可避免的引起了轰动 And because it was admitted at the time, of course, it caused a sensation.
但是不久,就在7月9号,Ramey将军 在新闻发布会上说搞错了 Ramey issued a press
这只是一个气象气球 release saying, no, it was a weather balloon.
从此诞生了对UFO“最好的官方掩饰口径” And that started the best-documented UFO cover-up ever.
军方官员指出那片残骸只是一个飞碟的部分 Army officials referred to the debris as being part of a flying disc.
内部备忘录甚至提及坠毁事件中有遇害者 Internal memos even referenced the crash site as having victims.
那么为什么,在事后的24小时内,他们突然改口 So why, less than 24 hours later, did they suddenly decide
说他们发现的仅仅是一个气象气球呢? that what they had retrieved was nothing more than a weather balloon?
尽管Blanchard和Ramey被故事的反复修改弄的进退两难 Although Blanchard and Ramey stuck by the revised story,
但是Haught中尉却一生都支持他最初 Lieutenant Haught stood by the contents of his initial report
的报告内容 his entire life.
并且那些相信他的人们最近找到了 And those who believe him think modern technology may have
他们一直在寻觅的现代科技无法解答的证据 recently provided the irrefutable evidence they have been looking for.
当农场主Marcel把碎片带到沃思堡市 When Major Marcel took the debris to Fort Worth,
Ramey将军在记者招待会上把这个碎片摊开 and General Ramey spread it out to give this press conference
以证明它是一个气象气球,这儿有一张当时的照片 that it was a weather balloon, there was a picture taken, and
在他手中的是一张纸 in his hand is a piece of paper.
一张很小的纸 It's a very little piece of paper.
这个是被放大的那张纸 I mean, and this has been blown up.
可以看得出是一个备忘录 And it is a memo.
在这个研究领域里有一位领导者 There is a leading researcher in the field who is pulling the
从其中解读出来一些词语 words out of this.
这些词语包括"沃思堡小组" And they include things like "team at Fort Worth",
"转移遇难者残骸","分离舱或底盘" "forwarded victims of the wreck", "pod or pan".
因此,随着技术的日新月异,Ramey将军 And so, every year that the technology improves, General
可能是唯一能解决这事情的人 Ramey may be the one to solve it.
Bob Wood,一个UFO的研究员 在1996年收到了泄露出来的文件 Bob Wood, a researcher in UFOs, had received leaked documents in 1996, and
并把文件同我和其他的一些人分享 shared them with me and a few others.
这份文件被称作星际现象单元 This document called the Interplanetary Phenomena Unit,
同时盖有美国陆军的印章 日期是1947年7月2日. with a war department stamp dated July 22nd, 1947.
"这调查最令人不安的部分是" "The most disturbing aspect of this investigation was that"
在离一号登陆区域不远处发现了其他生物的尸体 there were other bodies found not far from landing zone one,
它位于Mac Brazel,介于克罗纳和罗斯威尔之间 the Mac Brazel site between Corona and Roswell that looked
"如果将它们解剖,你会以为是青蛙". "as if they had been dissected as you would a frog."
不知道它是什么,这些是人类的身体么? It does not define, were those bodies human?
这些身体是非人类的么? Were those bodies non-human?
但突然,对我而言,如同被电击般震惊 But suddenly, for me, this electric jolt that came into
因为看到文件结束时间竟然是90年代 holding that document and reading at the end of the '90s
这将最终解释我们的政府很久以前就知道 what would explain finally that our government knew that
有从宇宙其它地方来的外星生物体 extraterrestrial biological entities from somewhere else in
同我们的星球进行交流 the cosmos was interacting with our planet for a very long time.
罗斯威尔事件的5年之后，美国空军提出了 Five years after Roswell, the United States Air Force coined the term
不明飞行物（UFO）这个词 Unidentified Flying Object or UFO.
那以后的几十年内,数以千计的UFO In the decades since, thousands of UFOs have been reported
被全世界报道、拍照和录像 photographed and videotaped all over the world.
哦,我的天哪 Oh, my God.
也许一个最大,最有革命性的 Perhaps one of the biggest, most revolutionary
改变我们对UFO和飞碟看法的技术手段 pieces of technology to change our view of UFOs and flying
就是摄影机了 saucers is the videocam.
哇,我看见那边有一片亮光 Whoa, I'm getting a series of lights right there.
我拍到它了,我拍到它了,我拍到它了 I got it, I got it, I got it.
你仅需看一下1997年3月亚利桑那州凤凰城发生了什么 You only have to look at what happened in Phoenix,
这些大型的飞行器 Arizona, in March of 1997, when these huge flying boomerangs
飞跃凤凰城，正好穿过整个山谷 went right across Phoenix, right through the whole valley,
向南朝着墨西哥边境而去 heading south to the Mexico border.
这些都被摄像机捕捉到了 These were all caught on cameras.
网络新闻报道到了这些 Network news caught these;
当地新闻也报道这些 Local news caught these.
你能在CNN上看到这个 你能在Larry King的脱口秀节目中看到这些 You saw these on CNN; you saw these on Larry King.
哦,它在那,就在左边. Oh, there it is, over to the left.
是的,人们把它们称为喇叭裤，确实很像 And yes, people called them flares-- of course they did.
-但是,事实是当你亲眼所见时... -看,老兄 But, the fact is, when you see something with your own eyes... Look, dude.
Pat,你看到了吗? Pat, you got it?
我看到了 I see it.
...即使是只是录像,你的观点也会突然改变 ...even if it's on a video camera, suddenly your perspective changes.
中间那个移动得好快 And that middle one is moving quick.
这仅仅才是开始,伙计们 It's only the beginning, you guys.
因此现在,根据最近的两项民意调查显示 So now, according to recent polls-- Gallup polls and
超过50%的 Roper polls-- well over 50%
美国人相信飞碟存在 of Americans believe that flying saucers exist, and close
有近50%的相信政府知道飞碟存在 to 50% believe that, the government knows that
并且在隐藏事实 flying saucers exist, and that the government is hiding that fact.
但是为什么如此多的UFO在罗斯威尔事件之后被发现? But why so many UFO sightings after Roswell?
这是不是个巧合? Is it a coincidence?
又或者是世界上相信外星人的人越来越多 Or is the world's growing belief in aliens providing
过去那些人因为怕被嘲笑 cover for those who might previously have been too afraid
而不敢表达自己的见闻 of ridicule to come forward?
也许这也是一个理由 Perhaps there is another reason.
也许这么多的目击事件是因为 Perhaps there are more sightings because there is a
外星人实际访问次数也在增加 genuine increase in alien visitations-- ever since the
尤其是我们进入了太空时代后 dawn of the Space Age.
曾今有许多的关于UFO和外星人的传说 There had been plenty of stories of UFOs and aliens, prior to that-- a
比这些目击事件还要早 lot of sightings.
他们没有被广泛报道,某种程度上也是由于 They weren't as widely reported, somewhat also because
在这之前,二战正在持续中 World War II had been going on, prior to that.
但是现在因为我们有了一次坠毁事件 同时报纸上的内容也越发丰富 But because now we had a crash and there was more room in the
可以说,我认为这真正帮助揭露了这个问题 newspaper, so to speak, I think that really helped the subject take off.
如果,外星人是从另一个世界来的说法是真的 If, as some suggest aliens from other worlds truly
并且几千年来它们都尽可能的伪装在我们中间 are among us and have done their best to keep themselves
他们会暴露自己的身份么? hidden for thousands of years-- will they ever reveal their presence?
更重要的是,如果他们这么做了会发生什么? More importantly, what happens if they do?
如果这已经发生了又会是什么情况? And what if it is already happening?
2010年3月,一道神秘的脉冲光线 扫过了俄亥俄州的克里夫兰市 In March 2010, a mysterious pulsating light floated over Cleveland, Ohio,
这一过程持续了11个晚上 for 11 consecutive nights.
现在我们在湖的正上方可以亲眼看见 We're having a sighting right now over the lake.
我要说的是南面270度的位置 I'm going to say 270 degrees south.
那有2个物体 There are two objects.
一个是从左边出现的 One is c from the left.
这2个东西彼此离的很近 These are extremely close to each other.
它们绝对不是飞机 There's absolutely no way these are planes.
此时此刻最早出现的那个物体 Right now what's happening is the initial object that came out
正那里,原地盘旋,变得非常亮 out-- it's sitting there, it's hovering, it's getting extremely bright.
它在变换不同的颜色 It's illuminating different colors.
而第二个物体从第一个的左上方出现 And the second object appeared from, I'm going to say the top left of it.
现在看起来它正绕着第一个移动 And now it looks like it's moving around it.
哇! Wow!
它们刚才完全互换了位置 They just completely just switched spots.
哦,我的上帝,这太漂亮了! Oh, my God, this is beautiful!
它知道我们在看! It knows we're watching!
克里夫兰市的目击事件是每年数千件报道之一 The Cleveland sighting is one of thousands reported each year.
当许多被证实是假的之后 And while many are proved to be false alarms, others are not so
其它的也不再被轻易相信 easily discredited.
在它的正下面 Right below it.
一道又大又亮的白光刚刚闪过 A big bright white flash just occurred.
1991年,英国国防部指派 In 1991, Britain's Ministry of Defense assigned
作家兼记者的Nick Pope,让他跟踪报道 author and journalist, Nick Pope, to track the hundreds of
每年在英格兰,苏格兰和威尔士出现的目击事件 sightings reported over England, Scotland and Wales every year.
国防部自从19世纪50年代开始就着力于寻找UFO The Ministry of Defence has been looking at the UFO issue since the 1950s.
而这么做的理由是非常的不充分的 And the whole reason for looking at these UFO sightings
仅仅是因为这个部门完全相信 is not necessarily because the department corporately believes
外星人拜访的说法 in extraterrestrial visitation.
而且还需留心监视 It's more to do with keeping a watchful eye on any unusual
英国领空的任何不寻常的活动 activity in British airspace.
很明显,如果发生的事情有一点不寻常 Clearly if there's something there that's a little bit out
我们就会想去了解它 of the ordinary, we want to know about it.
我有什么理由让他们 My beliefs when I was given this job were, I think, what on
雇佣我从事这项工作? earth have I let myself in for here?
我对UFO现象没有特别的知识或兴趣 I had no particular knowledge or interest in the UFO phenomenon.
当然也不会相信任何不寻常的事情 Certainly no belief in anything unusual.
但是当我翻阅越来越多的旧档案 But the more I looked back through the archive of old
当我每天去调查这些报告 files, and the more I began to investigate the ones that were
我开始改变我的想法 being reported to me on a daily basis, I began to change my
并且意识到有些UFO目击事件 mind, and realized that some of these UFO sightings couldn't be
无法用言语来解释 explained in conventional terms.
它明显是在移动 It's definitely moving.
Pope研究的离奇事件大多数来自 Many of the most intriguing cases Pope researched involved eyewitness
飞行员,警察和军官的目击报告 reports from pilots, police and military officers-- while
其它的则是机密的雷达图像,视频记录或照片 others featured classified radar, video or photographic evidence.
对我来说有一个事件是特殊转折点 One case that was a particular turning point for
那就是Cosford事件 me was the so-called Cosford Incident.
如今,Cosford是英国的一个军事基地 Now, Cosford is a military base in the United Kingdom.
在1993年的3月30日,那毫无疑问是一个特别的夜晚 And on the particular night in question, which was 30th of
有一波目击事件持续了 March, 1993, there was a wave of sightings over a period of
约6个小时的时间 about six hours.
当时有许多警方和军方的目击者看到 And there were many police and military witnesses.
同时在Cosford和Shawbury的2个空军基地的上空 And two air force bases, Cosford and Shawbury, were
直接飞过了一个巨大的三角形飞行器 directly overflown by a vast triangular shaped craft.
其中一个基地的气象官员说 Now, the meteorological officer at one of these bases described
那个东西有一架大型喷气式飞机大小，悬停在那里 this to me as the size of a jumbo jet hovering, or moving
或者在慢慢的移动,然后突然加速 very, very slowly, and then accelerating away to the
以一个惊人的速度消失在地平线 horizon at incredible speed.
他说了很多次它比军方的喷气式飞机还快 He said many times faster than a military jet.
说这话的是一个在空军干了8年的军人 And this was a man with eight years experience in the air force.
这次事件被彻底调查,不仅有个体业余UFO研究者 This sighting was thoroughly investigated not only by private UFO
英国政府也参与其中 investigators, but also by the British government, who were
他们都无法解释这次目击事件 unable to explain all of the sightings reported during this incident.
另一个有趣的英国UFO目击事件发生在1980年12月 Another intriguing British UFO sighting took place in December 1980.
美国空军相关人员驻扎在英格兰的Suffolk U.S. Air Force personnel stationed in Suffolk, England,
他们报告说看见了一艘光芒四射的太空飞船 reported seeing a brilliantly illuminated spaceship that
连续2天降落在伦德尔沙姆森林 landed in Rendlesham Forest on two consecutive nights.
它从这边过来了
它确实从这边过来了
它释放了一片东西
对此毫无疑问
太奇怪了
让这事件变得很不寻常是 What made this case particularly unusual is that
当时天空很晴朗 this was not vague lights in the sky.
毫无疑问这是一艘降落的金属飞行物 This was a landed metallic craft that some of the
部分目击者说他们离的非常近 witnesses claimed they got so close to, they could actually
几乎就能触摸到它 touch the side of it.
一个目击者看见船身上奇怪的符号 One witness saw strange symbols on the hull, which he likened to
他认为很像埃及的象形文字 Egyptian hieroglyphs.
他在他的警员笔记本上画了一个素描 He made a sketch of this in his police notebook and took some
拍了几张照，随后他被告知它们并不存在 photos, though he was subsequently told they didn't come out.
国防部看到这些,并且他们的情报人员 The Ministry of Defence looked at this, and the Defence
采集了在飞船降落区域的辐射数据 intelligence staff assessed radiation readings that had
发现这一数据"显著高于周围地区" been taken at the landing site as being "significantly higher
than background."
这在政府自己的评估中直接被引用了 And that's a direct quote from the government's own assessment.
英国政府作了大量的关于这份 The British government generated a massive file of information about this
目击事件的报告 sighting report.
但在当时,事件的真相 But at this date, it's very unlikely that the actual truth
不太可能被公布 about the sighting will ever be known.
尽管有强有力的目击证据 But in spite of the compelling eyewitness testimony, the Ministry of
国防部还是立刻宣布封锁该地区 Defence soon declared the case closed.
22年后,当政府对Rendlesham事件的文件解密后 22 years later, when the government declassified files on the Rendlesham
那些证据却变得毫无定论了 incident, the evidence was inconclusive.
但最为突出的是主要目击者的可信度 But what stood out was the credibility of the main
他们都是受过训练的军方人员 witnesses, who were trained military personnel.
明显地,作为一个寻觅UFO的人,我见过很多的人 Obviously, as a UFO hunter, I've met a lot of people
他们都接触过UFO who've encountered UFOs.
举一个乘飞机的例子:你正在飞机上 Just flying on a plane for example: You're on a plane, and
但突然看见驾驶员从驾驶舱里出来了 suddenly the pilot comes out of the cockpit, and this has
这个情况在5个独立的场合发生过 happened on five separate occasions.
他会对我说,"我看见UFO飞过凤凰城和德克萨斯 And he'll say to me, "I saw a UFO over Phoenix, I saw a UFO
我的机组一半人都看到了UFO." over Texas, half my crew saw a UFO.
而你也会对飞行员说,"那么你报告这事情了么?" And you'll say to the pilot, "Well, well, do you report it?"
他们说机场的调度常问 And they say when the flight controller says at the airport,
"你们想要汇报目击了UFO么?"，接着就是一声冷笑 "Do you want to report a UFO sighting," and then bursts out
你还能怎么说，只能回答："不用了" laughing, what you say is, "No."
每天都有UFO事件 There are UFO sightings every single day.
有人真的 目击了真正的UFO Real people with real sightings of real UFOs.
当越来越多的人开始讨论它时这就变得非常普遍了 It is very prevalent as more and more people talk about it.
有些东西还在继续 Something is going on.
关于政府对此的回应,当然指的是英国政府 In terms of the government response to all this, certainly in Britain, the
国防部多年来的政策是试着减弱这一类 Ministry of Defence policy for many years has been to try and
事件的影响 downplay this subject.
并非所有主要欺骗性的手段都为了掩盖 Not really in any great sinister attempt to cover up
UFO的真相,不管它可能是什么 但总比无法解释 the truth about UFOs, whatever that might be, but more out of
而感到难堪的好 embarrassment.
它们在我们的领空,我们不知道它们是什么 There are things in our airspace, we don't know what
这对政府和军队来说 they are, and that's not a good place for the government and
无疑是个尴尬的处境 the military to be.
在2009年12月1日,英国国防部秘密地终结了它的 On December 1, 2009, the British Ministry of Defence quietly terminated its
UFO计划,宣称没有任何可信的证据 UFO project, citing that there had been no credible evidence
表明UFO形成了"对英国潜在的威胁" that UFOs posed "a potential threat to the United Kingdom."
这个决定在多方面 There are a number of aspects of this decision that
特别具有争议性 were particularly controversial.
首先,UFO的目击事件在英国长达10年之久 Firstly, UFO sightings are at a ten-year high in the United Kingdom.
因此,将50年的研究和调查 So, it seemed the most inopportune moment to pull the
归结为UFO之谜，实在是不合时机 plug on 50 years of research and investigation into the UFO mystery.
另一个颇具争议的原因是 The other point that made this particularly controversial was
这个决定发布的方式 the way in which the decision was announced.
并没有任何先兆 There was no proactive statement issued on this.
仅仅简单地提到:相关部门不再回应此类事件 It simply said: The department will not respond to any
并将不再调查那些目击事件 inquiries on this subject and will no longer investigate sightings.
全面揭示关于UFO的机密信息遇到的障碍 One hurdle confronting those in favor of fully disclosing classified
是大多数主流的 information related to UFOs is the fact that most mainstream
科学家认为研究外星现象 scientists believe that the study of alien phenomena is
不见得比研究边缘科学好多少 little more than just fringe science.
正是这种对于可能被解雇和被嘲笑的顾虑 It is this fear of dismissal or ridicule that keeps many
让很多科学家藏匿在了幕后 (霍金能说有外星人可想而知鸭梨很大) scientists hidden in the shadows.
我们最好的科学家 他们在全世界范围内互相交流 Our best scientists, who communicate with one another, around the world,
他们有他们的潜规则 have rules of protocol, which include-- they cannot appear to
包括不能有宗教信仰，呵呵，不能够相信飞碟 be religious... (laughs), they cannot believe in flying
当然也肯定不能和那些 saucers, and they certainly shouldn't hang around with
相信飞碟的家伙整天混在一起 anybody who believes in flying saucers.
但是这一切已经发生了 你可以说这一切 But it's all done, you might say, behind closed
都是秘密进行的 因为大家都想保持低调 doors, because nobody really wants to draw attention to it.
正如你所知，他们也都明白 You know that they understand, you know, that there is a
此类研究都是会被河蟹的 penalty associated with this kind of research, and so
因此这研究都是"在不可见的"情况下完成的 consequently, it's done, it's done "invisibly."
对我而言,被封杀或因为担心同事评审而被停止工作 To be blockaded and stopped by worries about peer reviews and
诸如此类的事，是很不适当的 so forth, to me, is wrong.
我们可以推测地球之外是否有生命 We can speculate whether there is life outside this planet.
我们可以推测是否有一种交流 We can speculate whether there has been a contact with, with
同其他文明之间的交流 other civilizations.
为什么不行呢? Why not?
但是当越来越多的科学家公开表示相信 But as more scientists openly embrace the probability that there is
在宇宙中有一定的几率存在其他智慧生物 intelligent life existing elsewhere in the universe,
那么外星人造访地球的说法 是不是更加容易被接受了? Will the belief that alien beings are visiting us also become more accepted?
如果外星生物真的来到地球 What might be the reaction today if extraterrestrials were to
并且告知我们的话,会出现什么反应呢? actually arrive on Earth, and make themselves known to us?
有数不清的科幻书籍和电影趋向把外星人 Countless science fiction books and films tend to portray
演绎成来警告或是来毁灭我们的 aliens coming either to warn us or destroy us.
自从19世纪60年代,人们开始思考:好吧,我们要怎么做? Since the 1960s, people have been thinking about: Well, what do we do?
如果外星人来的话 Do we have a Day the Earth
我们是否会经历同电影《地球停转之日》一样？ Stood Still scenario, if aliens
come?
他们会警告我们地球正面临灾难么? Do they warn us that our planet is facing disaster?
他们会像《世界大战》里的火星人一样 Do they attack us, the way the Martians did in War of the
攻击我们么? Worlds?
嗯,答案似乎没有 Well, the answer is more
看上去那么简单 complicated than it seems.
这不仅仅只是某个人降落 It's not just somebody landing,
然后说："带我去见你们的 and saying, "Take me to your
领导人" leader."
今天的舆论 The general
普遍认为 consensus today is that if
如果明天外星人就出现在我们面前 extraterrestrials were to show
他们将会成为敌人 up tomorrow, they'd be hostile,
他们将会奴役我们 and they would want to enslave
和我们打仗 us and, and battle us and, and
并且摧毁我们和所有这疯狂的 destroy us and all this crazy
一切 stuff.
在我看来 In my opinion, that won't be
事情不会变成这样 the case because any
因为任何掌握 civilization that's mastered to
星际旅行的文明 travel interstellar space would
会对一个科技水平 be benevolent to a lesser
欠发达的社会 advanced society
展示它们的仁慈 technologically speaking.
一个简单的统计显示 A simple statistic
如果我们 shows that if we make contact
同外星文明 with extraterrestrial
进行接触,我们就变成 civilization, we are the new
菜鸟了 kids on the block.
当涉及到智慧时 We're the ones who are at the
我们就成了排在队伍末尾的 back of the queue when it comes
那些人 to intelligence.
因此,他们将会教导我们 So, they'll be teaching us
一些东西 stuff.
我们却不会有太多的东西 We won't have a great deal to
去教他们 teach them.
如果 There are a
银河系的邻居们 wide range of benefits that can
来拜访我们 be derived from accepting that
我们将从中 we have neighbors in the galaxy
获得巨大的利益 that are visiting us.
有些报告指出 There are reports of medical
同外星人接触过的人 treatments that have been
获得了外星人 performed for the benefit of
的医疗帮助 several people who have had
contact.
我们也发现了先进的能量技术 There are advanced energy
technologies.
有报告称其中一些技术 Reports are that some of these
已经被进行了逆向工程破解 have been reverse-engineered
并早已应用于 already and are used in
军用飞行器上 military craft.
除此以外还有 There are communications
通讯技术 technology.
所以，现代生活中的方方面面 So, really, any area of life
会因为承认高文明的人存在 that we have could be
而从中获益 beneficially impacted by
这些高文明的人 acknowledging that there are
他们具备了信息 these other people out there
他们具备了知识 that they have information,
他们能和我们分享这一切 knowledge that they can share
从而使我们从中获益 with us that would benefit us.
这一切也将取决于 It's going to
我们的探索 depend how the discovery
进展得如何 comes about.
事实上 If, in fact, it's a
如果有一个远距离广播 distant radio broadcast,
我们或许期望能有所斩获 we might expect one thing.
如果存在符合我们对UFO的认知的 If in fact, there's, uh,
某种不速之客 some type of visitations that
与远距离广播的发现相比 fits in with beliefs about UFOs,
也许我们会有一些不同的发现 that might be something else.
但总的来说 But on the whole, I think
我认为人们已经变得更能接受 people are much more prepared
嗯，怎么说呢，和外星人的“第一类接触”？ for, uh, shall we say "contact"?
许多人相信 Many who believe
和外星人的接触是无可避免的 contact with extraterrestrials
他们建议 is inevitable suggest
政府也需要做好心理准备 governments need to prepare
themselves.
这是一个我们称为 It's a field of study known as
“星际政治”的研究领域 "exopolitics."
星际政治提出了一个问题 Exopolitics poses
“我们应该怎样 the question: "What should our
在社交的层面上 response be to that situation
对（和ET接触）的情形作出回应？” at a societal level?"
不一定是 Not necessarily at a
在政府层面上 governmental level, but
在个人方面 actually individuals-- how can
我们应该怎样接触 we reach o with the hand
甚至建立友谊？ of friendship?
星际政治 Exopolitics has
其实是个草根运动 really been a grassroots
它是由那些 movement of people concerned
关心这方面问题的人 about this issue and want
并提出对UFO揭秘的人们组成的 disclosure on the UFO subject,
他们也希望能够 and also want to help organize
帮助这个世界上的其他人 people locally to get the
获得他们政府的真实信息 information out to their
并深刻地 governments and make this big
改变现状 change happen.
然后即便我们 But if we reach out
伸出友谊的手 in friendship, what guarantee do
我们怎能保证得到的回报 we have that it will be
是我们所期盼的呢？ returned in kind?
许多科学家 Many scientists, including
包括著名的理论物理学家史蒂芬·霍金 famed theoretical physicist
相信外星生命 Stephen Hawking, believe alien
会给我们带来威胁 beings could pose a threat and
他们建议我们 suggest we do everything
尽可能避免接触 possible to prevent contact.
如果外星人 If extraterrestrials,
是个充满侵略性的物种 or aliens, were aggressive, were
是个好战的种族 warlike, and they came here, is
会不会出现我们被砍瓜切菜 it a case where resistance
却无力抵抗的局面？ is futile?
你会想，他们会怎么对地球上的生命 How do you wipe out life on
进行灭族 planet Earth?
简单的很---瘟疫 That's easy-- a plague.
简单到不需要UFO Simple-- no UFOs, no zorching
不需要从天而降的激光 beams from the sky, no
不需要爆炸 explosions, no Empire State
不需要摧毁帝国大厦 Building collapsing,
不用大费周章就能做到 none of that.
连我们自己都能毁灭自己 We can do that.
外星人又怎么会做不到？ Why can't aliens do that?
想想看吧 To think that
我们也许能够用得上 we would be able to come up
某些防御机制 with some type of a defense
用来抵御 mechanism or have defenses
那些可以进行星际飞行的文明 against interstellar traveling
这无异于以卵击石 society is ludicrous.
无论来的是 Whethercame
朋友或是敌人 as friend or foe, if
如果外星文明降落在 extraterrestrials did land
美国的什么地方 somewhere in the United States,
可能外星人会受到政府的欢迎 it's possible the aliens would
或者 be greeted by government or
军方人员 military personnel wearing
穿着防化服 Hazmat suits and testing for
检测有害的病原体和放射性物质 harmful pathogens and radiation.
许多阴谋论者 Many conspiracy theorists
怀疑政府的下一步 suspect the government's next
会向世人揭示 step would be to cover up
这些来访者 the visitation.
他们引用了一个在1952年 They cite as evidence a reputed
华盛顿特区发生的著名的目击事件 sighting that took place over
作为证据 Washington, D.C. in 1952.
在全世界的关注下 In full view of the
一队UFO entire world, a squadron,
触动了华盛顿的警戒 a formation of UFOs buzzed
并和我们的F-93喷气式战斗机 Washington and fought our own
空中交涉 F-93 jet fighters.
Samford上将 General Samford willingly and
有意地 deliberately-- maybe on
或者按照杜鲁门总统的授意 instructions from Harry Truman,
对美国人民 who was president-- lied to the
撒了谎 American people.
我们收到 We have received
并分析了 and analyzed between one and
1000到2000份的目击报告 two thousand reports.
在这些卷宗浩繁的报告中 Of this great mass of reports,
我们能够充分地 we have been able, adequately,
解释其中的大部分 to explain the great bulk
of them.
他的下属 His own Captain
Ruppelt上尉在他 Ruppelt, in his own book on
关于飞碟的书中 flying saucers, says
称Samford在撒谎 Samford was lying.
在空军寄给 We have the letter from the air
Dean Condon的信里说 force to Dean Condon, saying
“排除飞碟” "Deep-six UFOs."
所以，UFO是否 So, have UFOs come to planet
来到过地球 Earth in full view, have
它们是否显现 manifested themselves, have
是否展现过它们？ shown themselves?
答案是肯定的 Yes.
我们见过飞碟？ Did we see it?
当然 Yes.
对于此类事件是否有 Was there a protocol for
统一的解释口径？ handling it?
有的 Yes.
这个口径就是“否认” That protocol was called "deny."
但如果外星人拜访 But if an alien
被证明是无可否认的 visitation proved undeniable,
谁会被选择作为代表 who might be chosen to then
去和那些飞碟里的人 speak to those inside the
交涉？ spacecraft?
谁最适合 Who could best represent all
代表世界各国 the nations and interests
和地球的利益？ of Earth?
如果外星人真的 If aliens do land
降临地球，我认为 on Earth, I think we should
我们应该派出 send our best world leaders who
最好的领袖，他具备了开放的思维 are the most open-minded
通情达理 and reasonable, but who also
但也要具有与外星人谈判的 have the ability to defend
外交能力 themselves against those aliens.
在我看来 In my opinion,
这也是我们组建联合国的 that's one of the reasons we
原因之一 have a United Nations.
是的，它阻止了战争 Yes, it prevents wars and
运送救援食品 delivers food, but on the other
另一个方面 hand, just imagine the Security
想象一下一个大屏幕播放着 Council itself convening to
联合国安理会 deal with aliens-- an image
开会讨论如何处理 on a big screen at the
外星人事宜 United Nations.
问题的答案要 The answer is I think it all
追溯到20世纪40年代 happened back in the 1940s,
这也是 and that was one of the reasons
罗斯福总统和他夫人 that Roosevelt and Eleanor
为之奋斗的原因之一 Roosevelt pushed so hard for
他们希望组建联合国 the formation of a United
以取代国家间结盟 Nations to replace the League
of Nations.
总有人需要站出来 Somebody had to confront
和外星人交涉 the aliens.
我们通过选举 The notion that
或其他方式整出来的领导人 our leaders-- elected or
应该为民请命 otherwise-- should speak on our
不过我倒不觉得 behalf, I don't necessarily
这样的事一定合理 think that makes sense.
许多人有着更好的想法 There are a lot of people who
比那些政府里的人更出色 might have better ideas than
然而他们却不问政事 the people who are in
government.
我情愿看到一个 I'd like to see a profoundly
彻底的民主 democratic-- with a small d--
一个非独裁者 unauthoritarian interaction
能和外星人沟通 with aliens.
现在 Currently, there
并不存在 are no known official protocols
与外星访客交涉的 in place for an alien
官方的协议 visitation.
然而有些人认为 But there are those
与外星人接触的事 who think that contact with
需要被提上日程 extraterrestrials is imminent,
他们认为各国的领导人们现在 and that our world leaders must
有必要计划此事了 plan for the event now.
我们在宇宙里 We are not alone
可不是孤独的 in the universe.
我们在银河系里 We have friends and relatives
有着朋友和亲戚 out there in the galaxies.
无论如何 And we need to take on this
我们都必须接受这么个任务 task, one way or the other, of
并完成它 just getting the job done, and
我们要尽可能地 getting to the point where we're
把这项与外太空的亲朋好友 considering the practical
沟通的任务 details of interacting with
做到尽善尽美 these friends and neighbors
out there.
谁该对此 Who is responsle
负责呢？ for that relationship?
好吧，政府你们还是打酱油去吧 Well, the State Department
这没你们什么事 isn't.
联合国也一边凉快去 The United Nations isn't.
我真的觉得是一个很严肃的 And I think this is a very big
问题啊 problem.
这需要 So where there needs to
让一些更为开明的人 be a diplomatic effort to make
负责这事 contact with these interstellar
付出一些外交努力 civilizations in such a way
和星际文明 that it puts wiser people in
沟通交流 charge of that.
如果这人不能 Even if you don't
对外星文明的存在融会贯通 corporately believe in
甚至如果这人认为 extraterrestrials, if you think
外星访客存在的可能性 the possibility of alien
微乎其微 visitation is vanishingly
如果这事真的大量发生了 small, the consequences if it
那这哥们承受的后果可是很严重的 does happen are immense, and
所以就该谨慎点 therefore, it's prudent to have
让一些合适的人来 something in place to deal
处理 with it.
我个人认为 Personally, I think
这让人灰常灰常鸡冻 it would be very, very exciting.
我的意思 I mean, it would be just like
这就像欧洲的探险家们 the first time, you know, the
第一次来到美洲 explorers came from Europe to
发现一种前所未闻的文化 the Americas and discovered a
他们不得不去打交道 whole new culture, and they had
to interact.
所幸的是 Hopefully, it won't work out as
这不会是亡羊补牢 some of the bad things that
这会是 occurred then, it would be a
一个积极的经历 more positive experience, and
也许我们从中学到些什么 maybe we've learned from that
我们可以进步 and we can go forward.
在外星人 What would happen
与我们接触之后 after any potential
可能会发生什么 extraterrestrial contact is
仍然留待人们猜测 open to much speculation.
但大部分人们承认一件事 But most people concede one
这个我们熟知的世界 thing: The world as we know it
将会发生巨大的改变 would change dramatically.
结果可能是 The result would
世界各地 be that the fundamentalist
原教旨主义的宗教信仰者 orthodox belief systems of
和有组织的宗教体系 every organized religion on
将彻底崩溃 Earth would collapse.
这意味着 Meaning that it would really
人类起源的问题 bring into question the origins
将会被质疑 of the human race, uh, the
包括那些创世纪故事 genesis stories and a whole lot
以及其它类似的故事 of other issues.
政府结构 The very structures
和宗教体系 of government and the very
也会逐渐瓦解 structures of religion
will crumble.
然而在2008年 But in 2008, a
一个令人惊讶的消息源发布了 stunning announcement was made
一个令人震惊的通告 from a very surprising source.
一些材料证明 Proof to some that miracles,
比如外星人，真的存在 like aliens, do indeed exist.
罗马，梵蒂冈 The Vatican, Rome.
这个被墙围起来的国中国 自十五世纪以来 This walled enclave has been the center of power for the
已经成为天主教的势力核心 Catholic Church since the fifth century.
这不仅仅是教皇的住所 更是十亿天主教徒的心灵家园 It's not only the Pope's residence, but a place of homage for one billion
代表了有着2000年历史的 Catholics, and represents nearly 2,000 years of Christian
基督教教义和传统 teaching and tradition.
但在2008年，梵蒂冈声称 But in 2008, the Vatican made an announcement that some say
有人威胁到它的存在 might threaten its own existence.
梵蒂冈天文台的首席天文学家 The Chief Astronomer of the Vatican Observatory, Father
Gabriel Funes神父承认 Gabriel Funes, acknowledged the possibility alien life exists
其他星球上存在生命的可能性 on other planets.
他们说地外生命的存在 They basically said that belief in planetary
并不否认人们对上帝的信仰 life outside of Earth does not negate one's belief in God.
换做500年前，如果梵蒂冈这么说了 Now, 500 years ago, if the Vatican would have said that,
那一定是把这么说的所有人都烧死 they would've burned everybody on the stake.
现任教皇Benedict当然很有科学的理念 The present Pope, Benedict, of course, has a very scientific bent, and he
他对智慧生命报以极大的尊重 能这么做确实很杰出 respects intellectual life in, in a way that is, is quite extraordinary.
他似乎对其他星球 He seemed quite open to entertain the idea: What if
是否有生命的想法看得很开 there is life on other planets?
这是一个很有意思的问题 It's certainly an interesting question for a Christian to
尤其对能以科学态度思考的基督徒来说 approach it scientifically, and challenges your belief of how
这挑战了自己对上帝的忠诚度 much of this you attribute to God.
许多人很好奇教会这么做的动机和时机 Many wondered about the church's motives and timing.
在几个世纪中上帝至上的造物理念 Why, after centuries of belief in man as God's supreme
以及人是宇宙中唯一的智慧生命 creation and the only intelligent life in the
这一直是人类的信仰，而梵蒂冈却发表了个 universe, did the Vatican make an announcement that could tn
自相矛盾的公告？ Christianity on its head?
他们是不是知道一些我们不知道的内幕 Did they know something the rest of us did not?
这在教会的历史上可真是件新鲜事 This is something that is completely new in the history of the
不仅仅解决了人们对外星文明的疑问 church that the extraterrestrial question is
同时还表示木有压力 not only addressed, but at the same time, it's okay.
我的意思是，这可是一个观念上的大改变 I mean, that is a major change in opinion.
对现状的巨变 A major change in the status quo.
我不禁要问：为什么？ And I ask: Why?
这是不是会有严重的后果？ Would it have huge ramifications?
当然咯 Of course.
它会改变所有事情么？ Does it change anything?
当然咯 Of course.
但会不会改变对上帝的信仰？ But at the same time, would that change religion or belief in God?
那倒不一定 Not really.
一些人说，天主教教会肯定知道内幕 Some people say, well, the Catholic Church must know something.
也许他们是想先下手为强 Maybe they're trying to get ahead of the game here.
另一方面也许他们 On the other hand, it may just be that they're being very
只是想聪明地简单地把 clever and simply trying to cover all the bases in case
所有外星生命的发现掩盖过去而已 there is some great announcement or discovery about alien life.
因为这么做肯定不会犯错 Because make no mistake about it, if it is announced that
如果外星生命被发现了 alien life has been discovered, people are going to look to
人们去找宗教领袖寻求指引 their religious leaders for some sort of guidance about
不管是基督徒、犹太教徒、穆斯林、印度教徒 this, whether it's Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus.
如果外星生命被发现了 If extraterrestrial life was found, then the church would react
教会大概会这么说：看，我早就说过了 presumably as it does with any data-- see what there is.
我也不认为这和我们的人性 I don't think there would be any conflict in the way that we
有什么矛盾 look on our humanity.
我们可能发现上帝只是用不同的方式 What we would find is that God creates intelligent life
创造了智慧生命罢了 in a variety of ways.
而且我认为，我们应该了解 我们总不能限制上帝只创造 And I think what we would learn from that is, we can't restrict
我们这一种智慧生命吧 God to any one mode of making intelligent life.
宇宙存在其他智慧生命的观点 The idea that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe has
曾经被宗教领袖，历史学家，科学家们争辩过 been debated by religious leaders, historians and
但不是所有人都同意这会 scientists, but not everyone agrees how its proof would
影响人类的灵性或宗教体系 affect human spirituality or the many religious institutions.
这对我们解读《创世纪》有什么变化呢？ What would happen to our interpretation of the Book of Genesis?
呃，可以这么说，《创世纪》 Well, the Book of Genesis looks at the universe from the point
是从地球的角度写的 of view of Earth.
我们看着太阳、月亮、星星 We look at the sun, we look at the moon, we look at the stars.
然后意识到地球只是宇宙中 So, to realize that the Earth is just one small, pale-blue
一个小小的湛蓝色的点罢了 dot in this immense universe, I think it would only expand
我认为这将扩展我们对《创世纪》的解读 our interpretation of Genesis.
但不会彻底颠覆它 I don't think it would change it in any fundamental way.
这对基督教来说是个有趣的问题 It's an interesting question for Christianity in
因为基督教教导人们 general, since Christianity would teach that salvation comes
救赎来自于耶稣，阿耶哥是个地球人 through Jesus who was apparently an earthling.
呃，如果火星上有人，你会怎么想？ Um, what do you do if there are people on Mars?
他们会被主保佑么？ Are they saved?
我只能说，我也不知道 According to our viewpoint, I don't know.
所以基督徒总是有这样的问题 Christians have always had this problem that if
外星人会不会被保佑？ there are aliens out there, are they not to be saved?
但犹太人没什么顾虑 It's not a problem for Jews.
对佛教徒和印度教徒，这更不是问题了 It's certainly not a problem for Buddhists or Hindus.
但是基督徒需要修改一下 But Christians are in a particular fix.
有个很简单的原因： For a very simple reason that Christianity alone among the
世界上只有基督教有一个化身 world's religions has an incarnation.
也就是说，他们认为 What they mean by that is that God became incarnate in the
上帝化身为耶稣来拯救人类 form of Jesus Christ in order to be the savior.
你和基督徒聊聊 When you talk to Christians they sort of say, oh, well,
他们大概会说，哦，这不是什么问题吧 there isn't a problem really because, you know, we have
我们接受了伽利略，接受了达尔文 accommodated Galileo, we've accommodated Darwin.
我们怎么会接受不了外星人？ Why can't we accommodate E.T.?
其实不然，这可不一样 Well, I think there is a big difference.
科学和宗教共同之处莫过于 I think science and religion have more in common than perhaps the
都由大众的观察提出 popular perception suggests.
科学给我们逻辑和事实 The one hand, we have science, which deals with reason and fact.
宗教赐予我们信仰 On the other hand, we have religion, which deals with faith.
科学是进化的主题 Science is an evolving proposition, and what we know
我们今天所知的在未来可能 today will almost certainly be reformed and maybe even
被完全颠覆 replaced at some point in the future.
所以我想拿科学提供的真理 So, to think that science somehow provides the truth in
去和宗教相比，这本身就是错误的 contrast to religion, I think is a mistake.
当科学家和宗教领袖 While scientists and religious leaders may still
思考外星访客时 ponder the notion of aliens visiting Earth, ancient
远古外星人理论者声称 astronaut theorists claim that the evidence exists in plain
世界到处都存在证据 sight around the world.
如果这个理论被接受了 But if this theory was accepted, would we have to
我们是否会改变我们的信仰 change our beliefs about our knowledge, our history and the
我们的历史，以及人类文明的起源？ very beginnings of human civilization?
几千年来，人们记录的事实似乎在提醒我们 For thousands of years, humans have recorded events that seem to suggest
其他世界的生物曾经从天而降 other-worldly beings came down from the skies to visit Earth.
这些远古的来访记录 These ancient visitations represent the foundations of
描绘了地球在过去被 those who believe Earth was visited in the past by advanced
其他星球的高级文明造访 beings from other planets.
这些目击事件也可以用来解释 These sightings are also said to explain many mysteries
过去的许多疑团 surrounding our past.
最重要的一个恰就是宗教 The most important was religion.
神在我们祖先的年代曾经降临 The Gods have descended to our ancestors' time.
现在他们进入神圣的书中 Now it enters into the holy books.
成为神话 Into mythology.
现在，以后，人们尝试去理解这一切 Now, later, people try, the reason the people try to
于是创造了宗教 understand this, they make out religions of it.
总之，问题的核心在于，外星文明曾经来过 But the core is, extraterrestrials have come here.
那是所有大型宗教的起源 That was the beginning of all the big religions.
有两个因素铸就今天的我们 There are two main components why we are who we are today as a species.
一、有人改变了我们的基因 One, someone tampered with our genetic make up and two, technology.
二、突然间古人就获得了科技 Because all of a sudden, we were doing and building things
在闲的蛋痛时建造了那些至今仍尚存的古老遗迹 that we would still have difficulties recreating today.
古代文本很清楚地提到 And the ancient texts are very clear that many of our
我们过去的许多成就 achievements in the past happened due to a direct intervention of
源自于外星文明的直接干涉 extraterrestrials that arrived from the skies.
远古外星人理论家也将地球上 Ancient astronaut theorists also cite as evidence the amazing similarities
各个独立文明间的高度相似之处作为证据 between isolated cultures all over the planet.
为什么不同的文明都用巨石建造 Why did different civilizations build immense megalithic
建筑以膜拜另一个世界的人？ structures to honor other-worldly beings?
为什么这么多的古书似乎都在表达人在天空中飞行？ Why do so many ancient texts seem to reference men flying in the sky?
为什么古代埃及人，霍皮印第安人 And why do the ancient Egyptians, Hopi Indians and
北非多贡族都相信他们的祖先 the Dogon tribe of North Africa all believe their ancestors
来自于天狼星星群？ came from what we know as the constellation Sirius?
如果地外文明想留下些信息 TSOUKALOS If the extraterrestrials wanted to
来告诉我们他们是从哪里来的 leave behind a message of where they came from, then it would
那么建造这些指向他们来源位置的巨石建筑 serve them very well to build those structures with a
倒是再合适不过了 reference to their location of origin.
所以，如果我们联系上天狼星系统 So, if we have connections to the Sirius star system, well,
那么我们就会相信这些巨石建筑 it would lend us to believe that here we have a reference
就是指向他们的故乡 of where they might come from.
问题是地外生命也是和他们的文明一样悠久 The question of extraterrestrial life is as old as civilization itself.
远古外星人理论以及很多著名科学家 Ancient astronaut theorists, as well as many noted scientists,
指出宇宙如此巨大并承认 point to the immense size of the universe and concede that
肯定有其他地外生物的存在 other beings must exist somewhere else besides Earth.
但问题依旧是：外星人过去来访过么？ But the question remains: Did aliens visit us in the past?
他们还会再来么？ And is it happening again?
我们看待历史的方式是脆弱的 The way we look at history is very fragile.
任何可能的发现 Any discovery, which is made somewhere, can change the way
都可能改变我们的历史观 we look upon history.
我想如果要证明 I think if we were to identify that an alien presence has been
外星人曾在地球出现过，有两个重要问题 here on Earth in the past, I think there are two very important questions.
外星人是不是仅仅来参观一下，然后就走了？ Did E.T. just come by and visit, and then disappear?
还是来了，留下并帮助文明的发展？ Or did E.T. come, stay and contribute to civilization?
第二个我认为更重要 I think the second one is far more important, because it
因为它更有内涵 shows us far more.
它真正改写了人类的身份 It actually rewrites mankind's identity rather than just
而不是仅仅来度假 whether or not, you know, some extraterrestrial being came
轻轻地来，又轻轻地走，不带走一片云彩 here on a holiday and then left without really leaving something behind.
在所有的古代文本里，有一件事情非常清楚 In all of the ancient texts, there is one thing that is very clear, and
总有一天，神会回来的 that is that these gods one day will return.
但是要不是外星飞船停在白宫门前 But short of an alien spacecraft landing on the White House lawn, ancient
谁都不会相信他们回来了 astronaut theorists know there will always be skeptics.
人们总是在寻找一个终极的证据 People are always looking for an ultimate proof of the existence of
证明地外星人的存在 extraterrestrial intelligent beings.
但我认为一个更为重要真诚的问题是： But I think a more useful and honest question is: how much
要有多少证据，要有怎样的证据 and what kind of evidence would be enough for you to believe
才能让你相信它们的存在？ that they are out there?
才能让你们相信它们一直在接触我们？ That they have been visiting us?
我相信通过古代巫师在万年前经历 I believe through the experiences that shamans have been documenting
和他们记录下的“档案” and reporting for tens of thousands of years, that we are
得知我们正在和地外生命接触 in contact with enentities and beings that are not of this Earth.
但这些地外生命具体是怎样的 But precisely what those entities and beings are,
仍然有待考察 remains to be established.
有证据表明 There is evidence that indicates that it's possible that humans were
人类在远古和外星人接触过 visited by extraterrestrials in the distant past.
如果我们太快抛弃这些可能性 And if we are too quick to discard that possibility, then
那么我们也许就是在闭门造车 we might be shutting ourselves out from something that might
我们可能无法提升到令人难以想象的 be really fascinating and might take us to a next level that we
下一个阶段 （这是不是在暗示第四密度?） can't even imagine.
这些据说这几千年来到这里的外星人 It's very possible that those extraterrestrials who've
很有可能，嗯，我的意思是，他们就是我们 allegedly been coming here for thousands of years, I mean, they are us.
他们看起来和我们一样 They look like us.
事实上，这又是圣经上的内容了 And, in fact, that's part again of the Bible in that the God,
上帝以他们自己的形象创造了我们 or the Gods created us in their image.
好吧，其实我们就是他们 I mean, we are to be like them.
我们看起来像他们 We are to look like them.
我们将会有他们已经拥有的技术 We are to have the technology they have.
我们将进入太空，这和他们以前一样 We're to go into space just like they did.
我想其他星球上有生命 I think there is life, simple life, bacterial
简单的生命体，细菌，微生物 life, microbial life on other planets.
我们将会发现的 I think we're going to find that.
谁知道呢？ And who knows?
也许有一天我们会发现 Maybe one day we'll find some other planet that's capable of
其他适合生存的星球 sustaining life that has evolved people over a long
上面也有人，而且他们也喜欢仰望星空 period of time that are also looking up at the stars,
好奇的问：“是不是也有外星人？” wondering: Is there anybody else out there? Are we the only ones?
我们身体里流着探险家的血液 We are a species of explorers.
所以，总有一天 So, ultimately, we will come
我们会遇到其他类型的智慧生命 across some other type of intelligence.
当这些发生的时候，从技术层面上说 And when that happens, if that society, technologically speaking, is
如果那些文明很初级，我们就变成了他们的远古外星人了 primitive, we'll become ancient astronauts with that culture.
人类的历史早已经变成了 Human history has become too much a matter of
象牙塔里那些人传授的教义，说得跟真的似的 dogma taught by professionals in ivory towers as though it's all fact.
事实上，很多人类的历史也是生搬硬造的 Actually, much of human history is up for grabs.
越遥远的过去 The further back you go, the more that the history that's
那些学校里教的历史 taught in the schools and universities begins to look
就越像是童话故事 like some kind of fairy story.
我们有逻辑思维，有了直觉，也有理智 We have logic, we have intuition, we have our senses.
将我们自己限制在科学的范畴是错误的 And to limit ourselves to the scientific route is a mistake.
我们能送人上月球 我们能规划去火星探索 We can send people on the moon, we can plan journeys to Mars,
我们还能制造手机 we can make cell phones, but we haven't explained the
但是我们解决不了最最基本的问题 fundamental questions that we should be dealing with.
我们是从哪里来的？ Where do we come from?
我们为什么而存在？ What are we supposed to do here?
我们将往什么方向发展？ And where are we going?
我们真的不知道答案 We really have not come with the answers, and we know no
我们也没法提出比古人更好的解释 better than the ancients that we're trying to explain.
探索远古外星人理论是一个终极的挑战 Exploring the ancient astronaut theory is the ultimate quest to find out
我们以此探索我们的来源 where did we come from?
一切都是怎么开始的？ How did it all begin?
更重要的是，我们是谁？ And most importantly, who are we?
远古外星人理论 And the ancient astronaut theory has the capability of
也许能回答这一切 answering all those questions.
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