Mysteries.of.the.Abandoned.S09E11.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-BTN_track3_[und] Subtitles

At 00:00:04,400, Character said: [narrator] A cosmic wreck
that seemed to have
made contact.

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At 00:00:08,367, Character said: It really looked like
the signal was coming from

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At 00:00:11,267, Character said: a faraway planet.

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At 00:00:17,067, Character said: [narrator] Clandestine ruins
that decided a nation's fate.

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At 00:00:21,267, Character said: A lot of what went on here
was top secret,
for good reason.

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At 00:00:28,667, Character said: [narrator] And a fantastical
old castle built on
a deception.

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At 00:00:30,000, Character said: [narrator] And a fantastical
old castle built on
a deception.

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At 00:00:32,867, Character said: I see a lot of storybook.

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At 00:00:35,067, Character said: There's a lot more to
this place than meets the eye.

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At 00:00:41,467, Character said: [narrator] Decaying relics,

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At 00:00:44,467, Character said: ruins of lost worlds,

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At 00:00:48,367, Character said: sights haunted by the past,

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At 00:00:52,000, Character said: their secrets waiting
to be revealed.

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At 00:01:05,367, Character said: In Georgia's Piedmont region,

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At 00:01:07,767, Character said: two lonely structures
gaze at the heavens.

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At 00:01:16,400, Character said: You've g***t all these trees.

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At 00:01:18,067, Character said: And then all of a sudden,
it breaks through

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At 00:01:21,167, Character said: and you see something
that you completely
don't expect to see here.

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At 00:01:25,067, Character said: There's no mystery as to
what these are.

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At 00:01:27,267, Character said: They're two great, big
satellite dishes.

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At 00:01:30,000, Character said: They're two great, big
satellite dishes.

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At 00:01:31,067, Character said: They've clearly been
sitting there in the weather

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At 00:01:33,867, Character said: and not being used
for some time.

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At 00:01:37,767, Character said: [narrator] Built at
great expense,

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At 00:01:39,967, Character said: what is unclear is
the exact purpose
of this facility.

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At 00:01:43,967, Character said: [Jaega] Cold, white walls,
no windows, air vents,

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At 00:01:47,967, Character said: these two great, big
dishes on top,

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At 00:01:50,867, Character said: surrounded by fencing.

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At 00:01:52,667, Character said: It's like some sort of
villain's lair.

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At 00:01:54,967, Character said: [Jim Meigs] When you get
inside, you can see that it'd
been stripped pretty bare.

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At 00:01:58,067, Character said: Any valuable equipment
was taken away long ago.

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At 00:02:00,000, Character said: Any valuable equipment
was taken away long ago.

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At 00:02:01,567, Character said: Now, it's just kind of a
hodgepodge of junk.

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At 00:02:03,667, Character said: There's stacks of
wooden chairs,

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At 00:02:05,467, Character said: there's even
an old refrigerator.

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At 00:02:07,767, Character said: [narrator] Once occupied by
brilliant scientists,

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At 00:02:11,067, Character said: this complex was engaged
in the search for
something extraordinary,

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At 00:02:15,567, Character said: beyond planet Earth.

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At 00:02:17,967, Character said: There was a moment
when we thought we had proof
that something was out there.

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At 00:02:21,967, Character said: And this complex was
at the center of that story.

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At 00:02:31,067, Character said: When these structures were
built in 1976,

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At 00:02:34,567, Character said: it was called
the Woodbury Earth Station.

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At 00:02:37,467, Character said: It was built by AT&T,
the giant telecoms company.

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At 00:02:41,167, Character said: [Jim] In the 1970s,
the telephone industry was
going through a revolution.

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At 00:02:45,867, Character said: It was becoming feasible to

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At 00:02:48,867, Character said: send all kinds of data,
including telephone calls,

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At 00:02:52,167, Character said: up to satellites in orbit.

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At 00:02:54,067, Character said: So, AT&T built these
two dishes to serve as
an uplink and downlink

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At 00:02:58,767, Character said: for this satellite phone
transmission system.

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At 00:03:00,000, Character said: for this satellite phone
transmission system.

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At 00:03:03,267, Character said: [narrator] The unique
landscape here made it
perfect for the Earth station.

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At 00:03:07,467, Character said: Scott Harris is
a planetary geologist,

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At 00:03:10,067, Character said: who has investigated
its extraterrestrial origins.

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At 00:03:14,167, Character said: [Scott] Well, we're in this
unique depression,
called the Cove.

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At 00:03:17,767, Character said: My colleagues and I have been
researching the site for
about 20 years,

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At 00:03:21,867, Character said: looking at the possibility
that these radio telescopes

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At 00:03:25,567, Character said: actually sit in the middle of
an ancient impact structure.

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At 00:03:29,667, Character said: [Jim] This cove dome crater
appears to be the remnant

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At 00:03:30,000, Character said: [Jim] This cove dome crater
appears to be the remnant

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At 00:03:33,667, Character said: of a large meteor strike.

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At 00:03:35,667, Character said: Whatever hit this,
hit it hard enough

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At 00:03:37,767, Character said: to pulverize rock,
even melt the rock,

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At 00:03:40,267, Character said: and then leave that
crater ring around the side.

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At 00:03:43,967, Character said: [Scott] There's no coincidence
that these dishes are
in the middle of that crater

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At 00:03:47,367, Character said: because the deep depression,
about 300 feet deep,

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At 00:03:51,100, Character said: provides a radio and microwave
free zone.

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At 00:03:57,067, Character said: [Jim] You can build your
big dishes here,

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At 00:03:59,067, Character said: and they'd have
very little interference

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At 00:04:00,000, Character said: and they'd have
very little interference

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At 00:04:01,667, Character said: from surrounding
electromagnetic sources.

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At 00:04:05,467, Character said: [narrator] But Woodbury
Earth Station's service
would be short lived.

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At 00:04:10,467, Character said: The thing about
satellite technology is
it changes so rapidly.

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At 00:04:14,667, Character said: So by 1980, just a few years
after they'd built it,

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At 00:04:17,967, Character said: AT&T retired this facility
and abandoned it.

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At 00:04:21,967, Character said: But that was not the end
of the story here,
far from it.

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At 00:04:25,467, Character said: Soon, these giant dishes
would be involved
in a close call.

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At 00:04:29,067, Character said: Something truly
out of this world.

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At 00:04:30,000, Character said: Something truly
out of this world.

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At 00:04:32,467, Character said: [narrator] Paul Steffes
is a former NASA scientist

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At 00:04:35,267, Character said: and was on the ground when
the Woodbury site

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At 00:04:37,567, Character said: was at the center
of this "close call."

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At 00:04:40,267, Character said: [Paul] Our team leader always
kept a bottle of champagne
in her refrigerator.

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At 00:04:44,467, Character said: After this detection was made,

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At 00:04:46,467, Character said: they made sure the bottle
was still there and full.

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At 00:04:49,767, Character said: [narrator] In 1996,
Paul wasn't working for NASA,

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At 00:04:53,467, Character said: but an independent
organization known as SETI.

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At 00:04:57,367, Character said: [Katherine] This was
an organization that
originally had been funded by

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At 00:05:00,000, Character said: [Katherine] This was
an organization that
originally had been funded by

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At 00:05:01,267, Character said: the American Federal
Government.

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At 00:05:03,067, Character said: Their funding gets cut
and they become a non-profit.

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At 00:05:06,567, Character said: Their mission is
to find evidence of
extraterrestrial intelligence

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At 00:05:11,067, Character said: by searching space for signs
that something is out there.

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At 00:05:15,367, Character said: [narrator] And Woodbury
would play a key role
in their latest search,

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At 00:05:19,467, Character said: Project Phoenix.

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At 00:05:21,233, Character said: [Paul] We operated as part of
the Project Phoenix
of the SETI institute

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At 00:05:25,267, Character said: from 1996, all the way
through the year 2000.

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At 00:05:28,067, Character said: Project Phoenix was
a successor
to our NASA program

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At 00:05:30,000, Character said: Project Phoenix was
a successor
to our NASA program

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At 00:05:31,167, Character said: of searching the skies
for artificial signals

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At 00:05:33,567, Character said: emanated by foreign,
or rather,
distant civilizations.

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At 00:05:38,167, Character said: [Jim] Why would you wanna
use a radio telescope
to look for intelligent life?

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At 00:05:42,767, Character said: Well, the theory is,

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At 00:05:44,367, Character said: that if some intelligent
civilization developed
anything like humans did,

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At 00:05:50,367, Character said: at some stage, they might
invent something like radio,

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At 00:05:53,967, Character said: or something like television,

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At 00:05:55,867, Character said: beaming signals
around their planet.

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At 00:05:59,167, Character said: So, that's what they
started looking for.

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At 00:06:00,000, Character said: So, that's what they
started looking for.

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At 00:06:02,067, Character said: [narrator] SETI had big plans
for the Woodbury Earth Station

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At 00:06:05,467, Character said: But it had not been built to
scour the heavens for
signs of life.

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At 00:06:10,467, Character said: The...