 Hi, I'm David Hatcher-Chillris. Please join me now as we investigate the secret space program NASA and a British television hoax known as Alternative 3. Alternative 3 was a television program broadcast in the UK in 1977. Incredibly, it is banned from being shown on television in the United States. Why you ask? Could this even be possible that it's banned? We will explain this in a minute. The Anglia television show on Alternative 3 was purportedly an investigation into Britain's contemporary brain drain. It was supposed to uncover a plan to make the moon and Mars habitable in the event of some terminal catastrophe here on Earth. There were two earlier alternatives, Alternative 1 and 2, which were reportedly scrapped as impractical, and only in certain elite persons were be relocated to the moon and Mars, and this was the so-called Alternative 3. The environmental catastrophe in question was overpopulation, and the three alternatives were 1. Cut the population down, 2. Cut the consumption of people down, but the third alternative was get the hell off planet Earth and go to the moon and Mars on other planets. Alternative 3 began as a fictional hoax. It was an heir to the Orson Welles radio production of the War of the Worlds. The original program was supposed to be broadcast on April Fool's Day 1977 in Britain, but it was delayed to a June broadcast because of an industrial strike. So the show wasn't able to air on April 1st. Let's watch the beginning of Alternative 3 now. We have to go back in time some 18 months when we began work on another film which examined the scientific brain drain from Britain. That film was never completed because our enquiries led us into some strange and unexpected byways. And they, in their turn, led uniformly to a blank wall. A blank wall below where I'm standing now at the car park of Terminal 3 of London's Heathrow Airport. We begin this special report with part of that uncompleted film from our reporter Colin Benson. Dr Anne Clark, who works in this building, is one of Britain's younger generation of research scientists. Her specialty is solar energy. Like many others in her position, Anne Clark is contemplating joining the brain drain and leaving the country. Well, it's entirely a question of facilities. I mean, look, look at the mess I'm supposed to work out of. Look at this building. If I and people like me are going to do the job we've been trained to do and are capable of doing, then we must be given the means of doing it. It's thinking far better today. After this film was taken, Anne Clark made a decision. It was not, however, a decision she felt able to talk about. They won't let us into the building. They say they've had orders not to. Yes, I know. I'm sorry. Well, can you tell us exactly what's going on? No, I'm sorry. I can't go on with this film. I'm going away. What exactly is happening? I can't say anything. That is the last piece of film we have of Dr Anne Clark. Anne Clark here to the car park of number three terminal Heathrow Airport. She told friends she was going to New York. Base two of New York, flight 501. Passengers should go through... And yet there's no record of Anne Clark leaving this airport on that or any other day. The only evidence she was here at all is her abandoned car. Beyond that, nothing. I've done everything I can to try to get some kind of answer. But there's nothing. They just say, we're sorry, but we don't know anything about your brother. Robert Patterson is, or rather was, a senior lecturer in mathematics at St Andrews University. These photos were taken by his sister when he, with his wife Eileen and two children, left this house on the morning of November the 9th, 1975 and set out by car to London's Heathrow Airport. What happened after that? We don't know. On leaving the Royal Air Force, where he worked in special projects, Brian Pendelbury had told his parents that he was going to work for an electronics firm in Sydney, Australia. He sent photographs of his life out there. And for a time kept in touch by letter. Then there was this friend of ours who was going out there and we said, why don't you look up our violin and give him a surprise? Well, he got there, the address we'd given him. They never heard of Brian. Despite the letters and photographs, which remain unexplained, there's no further evidence about Brian Pendelbury other than the fact that his name appears to have been checked in at London's Heathrow Airport for a flight to Sydney. That, so far as we can discover, is the last anyone ever saw of him. Ann Clark, Robert Patterson, and Brian Pendelbury. Just three of the 400 names compiled for our projected science report, Brain Drain from Britain. From this office, our researchers began checking through every one of them. We were looking for patterns. Who were the people leaving this country? What were their reasons? And what were their feelings about it afterwards? But out of those 400 names, it became apparent that 24 had disappeared without trace, some alone, others with their families. Where did they go? And why? And indeed, how? What, if anything, was the common factor? Bank radio telescope, where, although no one realized it at the time, the second part of our complex story was beginning to unfold. Sir William Valentine, a distinguished radio astronomer, was setting out on a journey he was never to complete. Valentine was a worried man. That much we know from a phone call he made from this isolated box, not far from the main London motorway. News agency manager and editor, John Hendry. And how did he seem to you? He sounded agitated, which was unusual, because he was a car self-possessed man, normally. He said he was driving up to London and wanted to see me later. I said, fine. And he also asked if I'd received a package, which he'd posted the day before. I said I had. It contained this spool of tape, which he told me to keep under lock and key till he arrived. And I waited. And of course, next morning I heard about the accident. These photographs of the crash were taken by an agency cameraman. Despite considerable news coverage, only one photo was made available to the national press and television. Independent experts examined those photographs and the site of the accident itself, where I'm standing now. They drew no firm conclusions, except to say that the cause of the accident remained, to them at least, peculiarly unclear. But what of the videotape, which Valentine had been so anxious to get safely to his friend, John Hendry? Apparently nothing. No picture, just the ceaseless noise of space. No different from countless other tapes in the archives of radio astronomy. There was, we were assured, no solution here to the mysteriously violent death of Sir William Valentine. But what it meant? What was the piece of vital information Sir William Valentine had deciphered from this apparently random cacophony? That was something we'd have to wait much longer to find out. In the meantime, however, something happened which, at least at first, seemed to offer us some sort of a clue. An outside telephone call was put through to the science report office. I found myself talking to a man with an American accent who refused to give his name or any other details of himself over the phone. He told me only that he had met Sir William Valentine on a visit the British astronomer had made shortly before his death to NASA Space Headquarters in Houston, Texas. We arranged to meet not far from here in one hour's time. OK, I'm ready. What you are about to see may be considered by many of you unethical. However, we believe that in the light of subsequent developments, our action was justified. Benson was equipped with a miniaturized transmitter so that we could record the conversation between them. And a hidden camera was positioned near the market where the meeting had been arranged. Paul and Benson. Yes, hello. Can we just clear it? We do like to go back to the office. No, no, no. We're all right here. This is something I have to know. How far are you going to go on this thing? I mean all the way. That's what I'm here for. Can you help? Oh, I can help. But we do this thing my way, OK? OK, fine. Let's, uh, let's walk on a little bit, OK? I'm sorry if I seem a little bit nervous. It's mainly because I am nervous of what? Contrary to your fatal case of measles, you know what I mean? Like Valentine. You, uh, you know what happened to him? I know why it happened. And I've got to get it on record before they find out I'm over here. Hey, who are they? Listen, let's just stick to me telling you what I have to tell you, OK? OK, fine. This address tomorrow morning 10 30. Bring everything you've got. Cameras, tape machines, witnesses. That's the kind of protection I need. I'll have everything for you there. Lynn Benson arrived at the address he was given shortly before 10 30 the next day. That's it. Together with a full camera crew. OK, drive in. The door was open. We show you the next part of the film, uncut, and exactly as we shot it on that day. Report, television, take one. Englir television. Science report. Who? This is number 88, isn't it? Yeah, 88. We're here with the television crew to see a missed, uh, who is there in America. I don't mean Harry. That's it. Can we come in, please? Look, is he on acid or something? I'll just get out of here, will you? Answer our questions. We saw of the mysterious young American. Despite returning with the police barely half an hour later, we kept watch on this house for several days. We found no one. Elsewhere, however, more pieces of this strange pattern continued to fit into place. The great world drought of that summer was unequaled in recorded history. Europe's normally green dairy country was reduced to a dustblow. Cattle, finding no moisture in the grass, had to be provided with increasingly scarce water and fed next winter's fodder. In Britain, it was the same story of parched fields and poor crops. In France, forest fires out of control devastated huge areas of woodland. Vast reservoirs dried up, and standpipes were brought into the worst-hit areas, some of which had barely 20 days' supply of water left. The river Thames was reduced to its lowest level in living memory. There was no panic. Only a growing sense of unease that what we were experiencing was unnatural and that the Earth's climate was moving towards a radical change. Melbourne, Australia, where the Yarrow River was reduced to a polluted trickle in which fish and water life were almost completely destroyed. Before water restrictions tightened, desperate efforts were made to save the rare and valuable trees in Melbourne's famous botanical gardens. Northern India was in the grip of the worst heat wave for over 50 years. In Bihar, the temperature reached 48 degrees centigrade, 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Thousands died, and the hardship to animals and crops was unimaginable. The African desert continued its encroachment on fertile land, destroying all in its wake. In the late 1970s, the UK's Anglia Television ran a weekly science series called Science Report. The very final episode of this series was the alternative three show. It retained the normal format and the presenter. It was written by a guy named Chris Myle and David Ambrose. Music on the show was by Brian Eno. And a portion of it was released on a 1978 album, Music for Films. The episode began by detailing the so-called Brain Drain, which was a number of supposedly mysterious disappearances and deaths of physicists, engineers, astronomers, and others related to the space field. Among the strange deaths reported was that of one Professor Ballantyne of Jodrel Bank. Before his death, Ballantyne delivers a videotape to an academic friend, and when viewed on an ordinary videotape machine, the only result is radio static. According to the research presented in this episode about alternative three, it was hypothesized that the missing scientists were involved in a secret American-Soviet plan in outer space. And it further suggested that space travel had been possible for much longer than was commonly accepted. The episode featured an Apollo astronaut, a fictional Bob Groden who claims to have stumbled on a mysterious lunar base during his moonwalk. It was claimed that scientists had determined that the Earth's surface would be unable to support life for much longer due to pollution leading to catastrophic climatic change. It was proposed that there were three alternatives to this problem. The first involved the detonation of nuclear bombs in the stratosphere in order to allow the pollution on Earth to escape. The second alternative was the construction of an elaborate underground city, a solution reminiscent of the finale of Dr. Strangelove. The third alternative, the so-called alternative three, was to populate Mars via a station on the moon. The alternative three program ends with some detective work acting on information by Groden. And the report determines that Valentine's videotape requires a special decoding device. After locating such a device, the resulting video turns out to depict a landing on the Martian surface in 1962. As Russian and American voices excitedly celebrate their achievement, something stirs beneath the Martian soil. What was going on in the show? Were the Russians and Americans actually working together? Is there a secret space program that already has created bases on the moon and even Mars? Let's look again at some of alternative three. Meanwhile, in China and the Middle East, unparalleled earthquakes killed millions, far more than might have been expected from a nuclear attack. On the far side of the Pacific, the whole of the Caribbean seemed on the point of eruption. Volcanoes thought to be extinct for thousands of years were suddenly erupting into dreadful life. Scientists from shifting land masses in central Europe destroyed centuries of history. In parts of Italy and Yugoslavia, many ancient towns were reduced to rubble. International rescue teams evacuated thousands from the threatened area, but many others were too broken by the experience to leave. Scientists began to suspect that the balance of the earth's ecology was far more delicately poised than they'd yet realized. At the height of the drought, we interviewed at Cambridge University someone prepared to offer the beginnings of an answer. That's something you'd expect in this country. Heat, of course. Gerstein's theories, when he first put them forward over 20 years ago, had been almost universally dismissed. He was called an alarmist and a pessimist. Events proved him, on the contrary, to be something of an optimist. By the late 60s, the earth was already so trapped within an envelope of its own pollution that heat from the sun and the earth's industrial processes was having increasing difficulty in escaping. Ten years earlier than Gerstein's prediction, the notorious greenhouse effect, a thickening of the outer atmosphere due to the eight-fold increase in the carbon dioxide levels, had become a reality. As the atmosphere became more dense, extreme variations of temperature were experienced, from intense heat to equally unprecedented cold. North America suffered the worst winter on record. Rivers froze solid, and even the Great Niagara Falls was halted. In many areas, a state of emergency was ordered by the newly elected President Carter. But the most frightening discovery which scientists made was that last year's un-melted snow line is the next step to a future and unavoidable ice age. With the Huntsville Halledrama Conference of 1957, my ideas were at last being taken seriously by a small group of senior physicists and government advisors. But by then, of course, it was too late. What was this with those people? Can you tell me what happened at Huntsville? The usual thing. The politicians come running to us as though we can reverse the course of nature. When we tell them we can't, they say, why didn't we do something earlier? When we tell them they prevented us, they start squabbling among themselves. Was anything achieved by the conference? There was some discussion. Secret. Can you tell me anything about that? Jean, on the very same vertical. Well, look, I can understand you over and over. Look. All I'm prepared to say is there were three alternatives to discussion. The first two were crazy. Forget about them. The third alternative. Maybe not so crazy. But I don't know if anything was ever done of us. Can you tell me what it was? At the time that interview was filmed, Carl Gerstein refused to say anything further about alternative three. In the second part of this special program, we shall show you how we uncovered that information for ourselves. We'll also be bringing you a remarkable interview with former astronaut Bob Groden, filmed in secret at his hideaway in New England. Stay with us then. Even though Anglia TV had to announce that the alternative three TV show was a hoax, the interest in it was tremendous. In 1978, a book was written about alternative three based on the screenplay of the episode by a writer named Leslie Watkins. Watkins had previously written a few moderately suspenseful thriller novels and his alternative three novelization detailed many of the claims presented in the television episode. This book was published in the late 70s in both the UK and in America. Then, in 1990, Jim Keith began work on his book, Mind Control and UFOs, casebook on alternative three. In this book, he argued that many of the elements of the 1977 broadcast were in fact true. This is astronaut Bob Groden before his first moonwalk. More than one of the men who were part of that first Apollo program found it difficult to readjust a life back on Earth, but no one more so than this man. Here he is as he is today. Five years on, psychological factors it seemed which on the surface could explain away the changes in personality, the instability, the breakdown of former relationships. But what exactly were those psychological factors? Jezebel, a form of code, but meaning what? Certainly nothing to the 600 million people listening on Earth below. From Boston, Massachusetts, we arranged for ex-astronaut Bob Groden to talk to us. The interview was filmed to be edited later. Can you hear me all right? Can you hear me in Boston? Groden showed no reluctance to discuss the breakdown he'd suffered after his return from space. But nothing remarkable seemed likely to come from the interview until I asked this question. It's been suggested, among others, by some very responsible people that you, all of you on the Apollo program, saw far more out there than you've been allowed to admit publicly. Would you like to comment on that suggestion? Well, I was only trying to... Are you trying to screw me? Are you trying to screw me? Well, why me? I'm up there to do a job, man. That's all I was up there to do. I don't have to answer that. Oh, hell, what's the matter with this thing now? It's not this, then. Somebody's called a switch somewhere. That somewhere, so far as we could discover, was neither in London nor in Boston. But in the satellite connecting the two, the incident has never been explained. Nevertheless, that one word, Valentine, was enough to send Colin Benson and a camera operator with some very innocent-looking home movie equipment across the Atlantic posing as tourists. This is what they brought back on 8mm film. I would never have found Bob Groden unless he had been willing that I should. But starting with the few leads I had, I was brought eventually to the remote bungalow where he now lives. Do you want a beer? Mm-hmm. This one. Oh, would you? Hank, we have a couple of cold beers. Well, what do you want to do? Do you want to do it out here or in there? It doesn't make any difference. I don't think we're going to have a private conversation. What's on here? There. Michael, baby. I'll meet the professor. All right. Thank you. You want to reveal all? Why, sir Annie? She's not my daughter, right? You put that on the record. All right? You got it, Bob. She's a great kid. Well, without her, I, uh, I'm pretty lucky. We talked for an hour before Groden became willing to discuss our previous and abortive satellite interview. You try that. What exactly can you tell us about Valentine? Well, I don't remember Valentine. He showed up at, um, at NASA with some, uh, some tape he made. And he got pretty damn excited when they put it back in that jukebox. Jukebox? Well, it decoded. I mean, you can pick up a signal if you got the equipment, but you can't, uh, you can't unscramble that. Without NASA's equipment? That's right. And, uh, some young guy. Help him do it. He should have known better than that. Was it this man? Yeah, it could be. Yeah, it looks like him. Well, are you sure you don't want Berber? No, no, no, this one. What you're saying is that, uh, Valentine was killed because of what he discovered on that tape. Well, I'm saying nothing, um, I just saw the way that they, uh, those guys looked at him, and, uh, I know those looks, because they looked at me the same way. Those guys? Look, come on, get a real drink, will you? Come on. The moon landing. Well, we had, um, a big disappointment. We didn't get there first. What do you mean? There are polos. There's a smoke screen. The cover-up was really going on out there. I'm a bastard. They didn't even tell us. Nothing. Well, what is going on? Well, how in hell should I know? You asked the Pentagon, you, you phoned the Kremlin? After all, they were pushed out of the space. I mean, you don't think they just gave up? Do you? Give up? You want a drink? No, I don't. You, uh, you got to tell me, what is going on? I mean, what did you see? Well, we came down the wrong place. And it was crawling. I remember we were on the ground in the middle of nowhere. Is it you talking about men from Earth? Do you think that they need all that crap down in Florida to get two guys up there on a bicycle? Now, hell, they do. You know, you know why we're there? To give them a good PR story for all the hardware that's you and I in this space. Nothing, that would, Christ, were nothing. To keep you bums happy, to stop you from asking questions about what, what the hell is really going on out there. Look, that's it, that, that's it. And this story, that's a finish. That's a lot, that's a lot. Fear, suspicion, unanswered questions, possibly murder. What were we dealing with? Back in London, we did what we could to investigate the claims made by ex-Astronaut Bob Grodin. Catherine White reports. The Institute of International Political Studies is a non-government organization based in London, Sir James's. It was Grodin's linking of the Pentagon with the Kremlin and the implications behind it that brought me here to talk to Professor G. Gordon Broadbent, author of a major study of U.S. Soviet diplomacy since the 1950s. The short answer is that I know nothing of U.S.-Soviet relations beyond what has already been made public. We had the celebrated docking space some time ago. This was presented as an isolated exercise, and as far as I know, it was exactly that. Maybe paving the way for more to come. Order issues of Soviet U.S. cooperation there is an element of mystery which puzzles many people in my field. To put it it is simplest. None of us can understand how it is that the peace has been maintained for the past 25 years. You mean the experts have baffled? But also, for once, in agreement. The popular myth that it's been improved for the balance of nuclear power frankly held up entirely. And the more you look at it, the less sense it makes. There are too many imbalances, especially when you put it in the perspective of history. So what is your explanation? Essentially what we're suggesting is that at the very highest level of East-West diplomacy there is operating a factor of which we know nothing. Now, it could just be, could, that this unknown factor is a massive but covered operation in space. As for the reason behind it, well, we're not in the business of speculation. Interest in Alternative 3 continued throughout the 1980s and even the magazine Omni started to pick up on Alternative 3. Then a letter that was reportedly written by Watkins said that, so summing up, he said, the book is fiction based on fact. But I now feel that I inadvertently got very close to a secret truth. Watkins, in fact, moved to Australia, felt he was being followed, and he disappeared for about ten years. Interest is internal. Nine. Ignition sequence starts. Six. Five. Is the colossal power needed to pull clear from the Earth's gravitational field and put, in Grodin's words, two men on a bicycle on the surface of the moon? But suppose such immense power did not have to be chiefly consumed in merely getting into space, but could start from space. What kind of travel would that bring within our grasp? Obviously, we could go further with less power or send a much larger craft. In fact, the only way we're going to see space travel on any scale is by this kind of extraterrestrial launching. For instance, from a space platform orbiting the Earth. Or the moon. Sure, if we could get the material there to build the craft, it would make real good sense. Could we transport the materials there? Did it take one hell of a shuttle, but yeah. We have the machines now. In theory, we could do it. Especially if we had some sort of international cooperation. International cooperation. In space. A space shuttle. But shuttling what? To where? We also hear talk of Russian and American sky labs and the men who live and work in them for several months at a time. But what are they all doing up there in space? We tend to think of the arms race as a space race as practically the same thing. Visits by one side to the other. Here, Soviet technicians and astronauts are greeted by their American counterparts have been dismissed as diplomatic courtesies. We have a working relationship that's quite good with the Soviet Union. I'm sure it's going to continue. But the Russians were the first in space with their Sputnik in 1957. And later the same year, the first were the living creature, Leica, the dog. Then they made three years later the gigantic step with the first man in space, Yorega Garin. And later on the first woman, Valentina. The drive to make the first man on the moon an American was launched by President Kennedy. The first wave of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it. We mean to lead it. By the late 60s, the Russians it seemed had simply dropped out and stopped trying. And yet today, Cape Canaveral is virtually abandoned, a desert of reinforced concrete and steel. The most ambitious project in the history of mankind seemed to be over. Are we to believe that this is where it all ends? Of the estimated 2,000 launchings from Earth to space, at least 60% have been by the Russians. The near side of the moon's surface, the side visible to us here on Earth. The flags indicate acknowledged landings of American and Soviet craft. Among the spaceships the Russians sent up was the Vostok, supposedly not intended to reach the moon's surface. But in 1972, this sighting was recorded, Russian Vostok flights took place in the early 60s. They were, as we've said, Earth-orbiting spaceships, not designed to reach the moon. We're going to make of this casual suggestion by Houston Mission Control and an equally casual acceptance by the lunar module pilot that in 1972, an obsolete Russian spaceship is orbiting the moon flashing its lights. Russians were the first on the moon with their unmanned rocket which landed here in 1959. Here, exactly ten years later, Neil Armstrong landed. But our researches show another pattern of landings on the far side of the moon, the dark side, the side hidden from us here on Earth. Are we to assume that this remarkable grouping of American and Soviet landings is mere coincidence? When we returned to Cambridge and presented Dr. Carl Gerstein with the information we'd so far acquired, he finally agreed to speak on record about alternative three. We had agreed at the Huntsville Conference that there was nothing we could do to cut either world population or the consumption of resources essential for survival on Earth. Alternative three was a much more limited option. It was an attempt to ensure that at least some of the human race survived the consequences. We were theorists, not technicians, but we realized we were talking about a kind of space travel appeared in scientific fiction so far. What? You mean go to some other planet? I mean get the hell off this one whilst there's still time. Dr. Carl Gerstein then went on to discuss the kind of cross-section they would like to see get away, a balance of the sciences and the arts. In fact, all aspects as far as possible of human culture. He said that the list would never be complete, but it would be better than nothing. These are the cards you saw earlier. All of them people who disappeared without trace or explanation during the last 18 months. In other countries, they have similar lists. All people forming that same kind of cross-section that Carl Gerstein described. All were in good health and all under the age 55. But where have they gone? Here is a picture of a supposedly dead planet, the nearest one to Earth. Mars would appear to offer an aspect of survival if these photographs from Viking tour were to be believed. But are they? Charles Wellborn himself seemed surprised that the Americans, after spending so much money and putting the probe on the surface of Mars, should then equip it with a camera that only focused up to 100 meters. Or, as Colin Benson suggested, the average size of a large film studio. What's your answer? Well, you've got to remember that from NASA and then they're given to the rest of us. If they say it's Mars, we have to believe them. It's the same thing with audio. I mean, we don't hear everything that's said between mission control and the spacecraft. There's a second channel. They call it the biological channel. Officially, it's just for reporting on medical details. And in fact, it's the one they switched to when they have something to say they don't want the whole world to listen in on. Sure. That could be a studio in Burbank. But I mean... for God's sake. Mariner 4 asked close enough to Mars to send back the best photographs of its surface we'd had so far. But was it all just like this? Mars has always been a source of fascination to mankind. And a mystery. In the early days of astronomy, Mars was believed to have artificially constructed canals which was taken as evidence of intelligent life on the planet. But later, this theory was discredited. In its place, we had a picture of barren, inhospitable planet inimical to the survival of any form of life. Then more recently, an interesting idea was put forward. Suppose life had existed on Mars as the climate and other conditions worsened. Any surviving life would have formed into a state of hibernation awaiting the return of more favorable conditions. It was even suggested that the atmosphere which had sustained life may have become entrapped in the surface soil of the planet. There was an occurrence several years ago which made this theory very persuasive. Mars has always had a covering of cloud varying in density at different times until the time of which Dr. Gerstein spoke when the cloud thickened to a degree never previously observed. This happened and was scientifically recorded in 1961. It was obvious that storms of colossal proportions were taking place on Mars. When the clouds eventually cleared, some remarkable changes were seen. The polar ice caps had substantially decreased in size and around the equatorial regions a broad band of darker coloring had appeared. This, it has been suggested, was vegetation. Carl Gerstein's theory was that these storms could have been caused by a nuclear explosion delivered from Earth. The same year the Russians had a great space disaster, only the various facts are recorded, the rest was kept secret. A rocket blew up at launching. Numbers of people were killed. Large area devastated. What were the Russians trying to launch and did they succeed? Was the rocket carrying a nuclear device which would account for the devastation cause? A nuclear device which at a second attempt was delivered to the surface of Mars causing the dynamic changes recorded in 1961. 48 hours ago, Catherine White was at her desk in the production office. As a matter of course by now all incoming phone calls were recorded. Hello, science report from Brinton or Colin Benson. I'm afraid they're not here just now. Who is it, please? Can you get a message to them? Yes, I can. Just tell them the record, okay? What happened to Harry? No. They promised me that if I throw you off the track. What are they? I wanted you to have this. I have no idea what it is. Please, you've got to get me somewhere to hide. Don't worry, we'll do that. No idea what it is, I don't know what it does. It's a printed circuit. He said that you had to fit it to an I-C something 40. And you get a jukebox. Does that mean anything? We've heard of it. And he said that you got to play back Valentine's tape. That's all. We connected up the printed circuit and played once again the videotape that Sir William Valentine before his death had sent to his friend John Hendry. This time we obtained an acceptable picture which are now about to see as we saw it be an authentic record of the first and secret landing on Mars by an unmanned space probe from Earth. We also believe the date given, May the 22nd, 1962, to be accurate. The blanket of total security by which this information has been covered could only have been maintained by the active cooperation of governments at very high level. Equally clearly, there must have been powerful reasons why the true conditions on Mars, suitable as they appear to be for human habitat, have been kept secret. Indeed, the effort which has gone into persuading the rest of the world that the opposite is true, argues that some operation of supreme importance has been going on beneath the security cover. We believe that that operation is Dr. Carl Gerstein's alternative three. Whether a human survival colony has already been established on Mars or whether plans are still in preparation for its transportation from the moon to Mars, we don't know. But we put out this program tonight as a challenge to those who do now to tell us the truth. We regret if the implications of what you've seen are less than optimistic for the future of life on this planet. It has been our task, however, to present the facts as we understand them and to await the response. Good night. On February 25th, 2008, the Pentagon confirmed that they had used a missile to shoot down a spy satellite. The Pentagon confirmed that it was able to destroy and disable a spy satellite with a missile fired from the Earth. Now, what's interesting about this is that back in the late 1980s, the Americans announced briefly that they were putting a web of killer satellites into orbit, a literal death star in space. These killer satellites could have actually taken out other satellites from space-based weapons rather than from the Earth. Does the Pentagon actually have a space-based weapons system already in orbit around our planet? So now we see the U.S. Navy shooting a satellite out of the sky. Yet when we watch these Pentagon videos from the 1980s that claim that the Navy has already developed a network of killer satellites in space, we have to wonder if this is all part of the secret space program. Originally, they claimed that this killer satellite network was for the protection of America from communist intercontinental ballistic missiles coming from the former Soviet Union. With the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, there was apparently no further need for this space-based maser weapons system. Or was there? Did the military continue to develop these weapons systems in space? And meanwhile, what about alternative 3's other claims? One interesting claim that was made in alternative 3 was that the Cold War was a hoax, and the Russians and Americans were secretly working together. Another claim was that the current NASA space program was largely a hoax itself, and that what was seen on television, such as the Apollo mission, was some sort of deception. Much as the popular belief that these Apollo moon mission photos were also hoped and contained obvious mistakes, other errors and giveaways, still, the NASA deception was one of having a secret space program with the Russians, and that it all started at the end of World War II. Alternative 3 may have been a hoax, but were parts of it true? Had the writers accidentally stumbled onto something real? But, were the Soviets and Americans really working together in the 1960s, 70s and 80s as they claimed? What about the Cold War? Weren't the Soviets our enemy? Similarly, the Americans of the Soviets shared an actual space station called Skylab in the 1970s during the height of the Cold War. Did this make sense? The Alternative 3 scenario was saying that the space race and the arms race between the Soviets and the Americans was a cover for something bigger, a secret space program that included missing scientists going to secret bases on the moon and Mars. In this scenario, flying saucers weren't extraterrestrials, but being piloted by a secret government that controlled both the Russians and the Americans. Jim Keith called them the Illuminati, and one of his books was called Saucers of the Illuminati. So what is really going on in space? Is there already a Death Star Mazer network in orbit above us? Have there been man bases on our moon since the 1950s? Were the Apollo missions a cover for the secret space program and their photos cleverly hoaxed? What about the missions to Mars and beyond? If the secret government has electro-gravitic space ships that are capable of traveling through space more efficiently than a rocket, could they have already established these bases on other planets? It seems incredible. This is David Hatcher Childress saying goodbye and good night. We're going at alarm. Good radar data. We're now in the approach phase. Everything looking good. Altitude 4200. Roger understand, go for landing. 3,000 feet. Altitude 1,600. 1,400 feet, still looking very good. 7,000 feet, 21,000. 33 degrees. 100 feet, down to 19. 12,01. Rocket 12,01 alarm. Same time, we're going. Altitude, velocity light. 1,500, there's 20 feet. 13 forward. We're going down nicely, 200 feet. 4,500, 5,500. Lights on, down to 1,500. We're picking up some dust before we're drifting to the right level. Yes. Okay, engine stopped. We copy it down, Eagle. Stand quality base here, the Eagle has landed. The unseen grips the populace as a human being made invisible and insane by a potent drug. Praise on the citizenry. Intent conventions. Prison walls cannot hold him. Scotland yard cannot stop him. And while science works practically while a loved one waits and hopes the invisible hands of a condemned murderer deal out death and destruction. I don't understand. Japanese invisible. Why can't I see him? Oh, he's here isn't he? I just catch him and expect he wants to kill me. I think I could leave any moment I like that. I'll be all right. Helen, don't look at me like that. He didn't kill Michael. Oh, didn't he? That shows how little you know, dear old Richard. To cheer up a lot of bedclothes? Come clean about how this machine works. Make me invisible. I did not invent that machine to make killers like you invisible. Oh, this has got to be good. You will be of great help to us. Is his amazing mission. See the invisible agent suggested by H.G. Wells' Invisible Man. Starring Elona Massey and John Hall. With Peter Lorre, Sir Cedric Hardwick, J. Edward Bromberg, Albert Wasserman, in the most amazing story of our time. Frank, how can you talk like that? You'll be caught here and electrically transferred to the projector in my laboratory. What am I? A million light years distant. I leave my secret with you. It is all there. More power than man has ever possessed. Power to destroy. And everyone I touch, they die. If your men fail to capture him at the gate, then at midnight we bolt all doors in Darden's entire house. His face in hands will appear like phosphorus. And, uh, if he touches anyone, they die.