Oh, whoa. Here we go. Here we go. Directly out in front of me.
-What the [bleep]? Phil, do you see that? -You got something.
Hurry up and get into position as soon as you can.
Okay, let's move. Let's move.
All right, Jess, I'm getting there.
[Josh Gates] On this episode of Expedition X,
my team heads to Japan,
where the ill-fated Fukushima nuclear power plant
has been linked to a surge in Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
in the skies above its irradiated ghost towns.
When we start getting above 100, we are in a radiated zone.
-[device beeps] -[Phil Torres] Level's going up.
We need to get out of here, get out.
Keep moving. No.
[Josh] And when they take to flight
to investigate anomalies
above an infamous pyramid-shaped mountain.
[Jessica Chobot] Look at that. It starts following the plane back.
[Josh] They soon discover that "The Land of the Rising Sun"
could be attracting otherworldly visitors.
It's traveling east to west.
Holy [bleep]! What is that?
[Josh] The question is, why?
[Jess] Hold on.
Holy [bleep]!
-Okay, guys, you're headed to Japan. -[both] Yes!
Well, don't get too excited. You're going to Fukushima.
Oh, where there was a nuclear disaster
more destructive than Chernobyl.
That's the one. Yes, Fukushima suffered a... a triple disaster,
an earthquake, a tsunami,
and a nuclear meltdown.
On March 11th, 2011,
a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck its eastern coast.
Huge waves of water from a tsunami rushed inland,
devastating everything in their path.
In the end, more than 20,000 people were killed.
Entire towns were wiped off the map.
And water flooded the Fukushima nuclear power plant,
which for weeks leaked significant amounts of radiation.
Yeah, it was very tragic.
[Josh] Absolutely. If there is any good news here,
more than a decade later, the radiation has been contained.
Fukushima has been largely rehabilitated,
and some of the population has actually moved back into the area.
Here's where things get weird.
Since then, there have also been a ton of UFO sightings.
-What? -UFOs?
UFOs. Since the disaster in 2011,
UFO sightings all around Fukushima have been off the charts.
So much so that the Japanese government has actually established
a dedicated UFO research center,
and what they have found is shocking.
Japanese stories of unidentified flying objects
have roots as far back as the ninth century.
In the legendary tale of the bamboo cutter,
a man discovers a beautiful humanoid alien in a forest,
Princess Kaguya.
She is offered love on Earth,
but she chooses to return to her home in the stars.
Reports of extraterrestrial encounters
continue throughout the centuries.
In 1803,
a strange saucer-like craft known as the "hollow ship"
reportedly washes onto Japanese shores.
A mysterious female alien emerges, but is unable to communicate.
The fishermen who find her return her to her strange craft
and it drifts away, never to be seen again.
Believers say ancient artistic depictions corroborate the event.
Reports of UFO sightings persist,
but it's in the 21st century that tales of alien encounters
really take off.
In 2007, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura
says he believes UFOs definitely exist.
Two years later, Japan's then first lady, Miyuki Hatoyama
publicly claims she had been abducted by a triangular-shaped UFO.
Then comes the Fukushima disaster.
In the shocking aftermath,
a spectrum of possible UAP sightings floods social media,
including this video, of alleged glowing anomalies
flying in the airspace above the doomed power plant.
Some theorize aliens could be attracted to radiation,
while others wonder if they're trying to stop us
from ruining our planet before it's too late.
All this speculation finally comes to a head in 2021
when, after considerable public pressure,
the government forms the International UFO Laboratory near Fukushima,
the world's first state-funded research center of its kind.
So what is going on in the skies above Fukushima?
Has science fiction become reality in Japan?
I mean, that's a lot to process.
You've got a country with a long fascination with UFOs.
Then they go through a triple disaster
and then begin to see even more UFOs.
Right. So, what do you think?
Well, I mean, when we've researched UFO sightings in the past,
they do have a tendency to show up around nuclear facilities.
So are UFOs attracted to radiation?
I think it's a real big possibility.
You know, I love the idea that noble aliens are out there looking for us
and checking in on our nuclear disasters.
But I feel like the most likely explanation for all this is PTSD.
I mean, think about it. People lived through a 9.0 magnitude earthquake.
The entire world shook around them.
Then a wave the size of a building and then a nuclear disaster.
And sadly, it's well documented
that under cases of extreme trauma,
afterwards, you can have visual hallucinations.
And like trauma, these sightings, it just doesn't go away.
Here's the mission. Get to Fukushima
and talk to a local eyewitness, Manami Yabuki.
She swears that she saw something that is not from this world.
Try to get as close as you can to the nuclear power plant safely.
Replicate the vantage point of the power plant from the video,
and see if you can experience a UFO sighting for yourself.
-Yeah, will do. -Yeah, we're on it.
All right. Great. Also, the city's contaminated so bring radiation suits.
-Wait, what did you say? -You'll be fine.
It's a 14-hour flight from New York City to Tokyo.
From there, it's a four-hour drive north to Fukushima city,
Along the way, Phil and Jess pass through areas hard hit
by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster.
All right, Jess, first thing's first,
-we got the Geiger counter going. -Mmm-hmm.
So we can monitor our levels
because apparently, we're gonna be going through
-a patchwork of hot spots on our way. -[Jess] Ooh.
-How are we looking right now? -[Phil] Right now, we're good.
Not danger zone yet.
I'm assuming that the levels are gonna be pretty damn high.
It'll let you know if we're in danger, it'll start beeping.
What's good? Like, what are the levels?
Anything below 30 is considered relatively normal.
When we start getting above 100, we are in a radiated zone.
-So... -So this used to all be homes.
This was a town.
And now it is a field. The tsunami completely wiped this area off the map.
Oh, that's so sad.
-God. Unbelievable. -Yeah, it's weird.
Oh, we're getting some... some higher hits right now.
[Jess] What are we up to?
Around 30 right now.
-[Jess] It's still safe. -It's still safe.
Okay. A hundred's where you gotta start getting worried.
I mean, I'm gonna be honest.
I'm gonna start getting worried at around, like, 50.
We head into the outskirts of Fukushima city,
which is actually about 90 miles
from the Fukushima power plant.
There to greet us is Manami Yabuki,
who witnessed a UFO after the nuclear radiation leak,
Let's go.
-Hi, Manami. -Konichiwa.
-Konichiwa.
-Oh, nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you.
[Jess] Yabuki is a Fukushima City native
who's never put much stock in the paranormal.
But the triple disaster upended her world and her beliefs.
So we wanted to talk to you about your experience
with the UFOs that you've seen.
But first, if you're willing, do you mind sharing
what it was like to survive the earthquake here.
[speaking in Japanese]
[translated in English] It was actually a hot day in the afternoon,
I was sitting on the couch eating lunch,
The couch moved with the earthquake.
[furniture thudding]
I never felt that before.
It was the first time I feared death.
[Jess] I'm sorry you had to go through that,
but I'm glad to hear that you were okay.
After that event is that when you saw UFOs in the area?
[speaking in Japanese]
[translated in English] After the earthquake...
I witnessed a light in the sky...
...floating in the air.
The movement was pretty strange.
Zigzagging and no sounds at all.
What did you see? What did you hear?
How fast was it going?
[speaking in Japanese]
[translated in English] It was gray or black.
I remember the speed was just as fast as a bicycle.
Oh, that's very slow.
Could you tell what direction it was traveling in?
[speaking in Japanese]
[translated in English] The flying object was heading southeast.
It was hovering and then suddenly...
...it was really fast.
Is that also the same direction as the nuclear plant?
-[speaking Japanese] -[translated in English] Yes.
-[Jess] Okay, interesting. -Wow.
Was it not terrifying,
-If you have no idea what this thing is... -[Jess] Yeah.
...flying so close to you?
[speaking in Japanese]
[translated in English] Strangely, I wasn't scared at all. I was amazed.
How sure are you that it wasn't a government airplane,
or a stealth plane, or a drone?
[speaking in Japanese]
[translated in English] It was so close.
Usually, if it's a plane, you can hear a sound.
But I didn't hear anything.
-Yeah, I mean, even a drone will make noise. -Yeah.
-[Jess] Actually, they're really noisy. -[Phil] Yeah.
Thank you very much for speaking with us.
-Arigatou gozaimasu. -[Phil] Arigatou gozaimasu.
[Jess] Bye, bye.
Yabuki's UFO sighting occurred north of the Fukushima power plant.
The video Josh showed us was taken from the south.
The plan tonight is to split up and cover both.
Phil is headed north to find the best vantage point to observe the area.
While I'll head to the south
to try and replicate the perspective from the video,
and see if I can document similar floating orbs above the plant.
[Phil] There's a gate up ahead. This has gotta be it.
[Jess] That is, if we can make it through the checkpoints.
Our route intersects a hot zone
where radiation levels in the air
are still dangerously high all these years later,
-This is chaos. -[Phil] Is it?
[Jess] This is the most chaotic thing.
[speaking in Japanese]
[Jess] No one gets through here without special clearance.
-[speaking Japanese] -[Jess] Arigatou.
[Phil] More than 300,000 people were forced to evacuate
during the Fukushima disaster.
In the years since, cleanup and decontamination efforts
have made it possible for some residents to return,
and many communities in the no-go zones have since reopened.
So, armed with a Geiger counter to detect radiation levels,
I'm able to ditch my hazmat suit
and proceed at my own risk as Jess drops me off.
Many neighborhoods remain ghost towns,
and the areas closest to the power plant
resemble something out of a post-apocalyptic movie.
So the challenge for us is that we're essentially
in a patchwork of dangerous zones,
So right now, we're reading medium.
This is okay to be in.
It's not necessarily a place you'd want to live.
However, if we go just over the other side of that building,
or if the wind changes direction,
you could suddenly enter an area
where you're in very high levels of radiation,
an area where you would not want to spend more than an hour,
or you're risking increasing your exposure
and increasing your risk to something like cancer a few years down the road.
So we're gonna be careful.
We have our suits that we can put on at a moment's notice,
but I think for now, our best tool is our legs,
and we're just gonna keep walking,
try to find that vantage point.
[Jess] After dropping Phil off, I hike up a hill
that overlooks the southern side of the Fukushima plant.
At the summit sits the surveillance camera station,
where the bizarre UFO footage was recorded.
I'm most interested in the uniformity of the glowing UAPs
and how they appear to be flying in a coordinated manner.
Here we go.
You can see they've disassembled the wires,
both down here, probably leading into power.
And then up there at the top
is where the camera would have been pointed out towards the power plant.
This is perfect. I got a good view of the plant.
I've got the ocean in the background.
Let's just set up the IR camera here.
[Phil] Back on the north side, my search for a vantage point of Fukushima continues.
It's been completely abandoned
and completely overgrown. Look at this.
Unbelievable.
[Geiger counter beeping] Level's going up, 165 CPM.
We need to get outta here. Get out.
I don't know if the wind just shifted.
-A second ago, we were at... -[Geiger counter beeping]
...medium levels, that was doable, but right now it's hot.
Keep going. Keep moving.
[Geiger counter beeping]
-[Geiger counter beeping] -[Phil exhales]
[Phil] It's going down a little bit over here.
Let's keep going this direction.
High school building, totally abandoned.
Forced to flee a pocket of radioactive air,
I approach an abandoned school still searching for higher ground
and a better view of the Fukushima power plant.
[whispers] Let's check the radiation levels.
All safe.
This is probably...
...the most eerie place I've ever been in my life.
Well, there's no water damage in here.
So at least it seems like this area
was safe from the tsunami, from the earthquake.
Look at this, 2010.
That is a year before the tsunami hit.
This is such a time capsule right here.
The clock on the wall stands still.
That's a perfect metaphor.
[exhales deeply]
Unable to find roof access,
my search for an elevated spot to observe the skies above the power plant
goes well into the night.
Then, an idea hits me about where to find the perfect spot.
So if you listen,
I'm hearing the ocean crashing,
which means we're getting close,
because about five years after the disaster here,
they built these giant seawalls.
Because where I'm standing right now, during the tsunami,
would have been under 15 to 20 feet of water.
So these seawalls are essentially
the first line of defense against the next tsunami.
But also for me,
they'll give me great visibility of the entire ocean
and the skies. Let's go.
[Jess] Okay, so sun's finally down.
I've got IR on.
Let's just start scanning and see what we get.
All right, so that right there,
that's that red tower, blinking tower up there,
and we've got the city over here.
So I'm just trying to kind of get a sense of location
so that I don't misread some of these blinking lights
'cause there are a lot of lights in the area.
I got really excited for a minute there, but it was a bug. [chuckles]
So the tricky thing is, is it's a little bit of a hazy night.
So you're getting these stars that seem to be going in and out, but,
because they're not moving...
...it makes it pretty obvious that that's some sort of constellation.
And then... And then if one's moving pretty steady, you know it's a satellite.
That right there...
...that is a reflection of that.
So if somebody was out here with binoculars or something else,
with their own IR,
they might mistake that for a UFO.
But really, that's just a reflection of those lights down there.
Oh, whoa. Here we go. Here we go. Right over here.
Directly out in front of me.
What the [bleep]?
Phil, you copy?
-Yeah. What's up? -I actually see something.
-Do you see that? -I'm not in position yet.
-What do you got? -I need you to hurry up and get into position
-as soon as you can. -[Phil] Okay. Let's move. Let's move.
All right, Jess, I'm getting there. Give me a second.
[breathing deeply]
Oh, God, look at this thing.
All right, we're up.
So right now I see...
...I see your tall, blinking light above the nuclear power plant.
What are you seeing?
Okay, so...
Hold on.
Holy [bleep]!
[Jess] Oh, my God, I just saw a light go across the horizon,
up and down, and like roll off to the side.
What direction, Jess? Guide me.
East to west.
Uh, starting where the plant is all the way across.
It was definitely not a boat.
It was just, like, moving independently of its own,
and it was kinda, like, going up a little bit and then down a little bit.
It was not above the horizon line.
It was actually in between where the plant would be
and where I'm standing on the mountain.
-[Phil] That sounds pretty close. -[Jess] I know.
I didn't even see anything with my bare eyes.
It was only with the binoculars.
East to west.
Wild.
I don't know what I just saw.
Oh, it's gone.
[Phil] Okay. We got something.
I'm gonna set my camera up on a tripod
'cause I've... I've really good visibility up here.
Didn't see what you saw,
but maybe if we keep the camera running we'll get lucky.
[Jess] I definitely wanna keep the camera's going tonight.
Absolutely.
[Phil] We set up static cameras in both of our locations
to observe the skies for further activity.
Okay, so we have Fukushima here on the right.
So you go to the horizon.
And the sky has taken up everything else.
Okay, we got it recording. Let's see what happens.
Jess and I proceed to monitor the Fukushima plant through the night,
but our stakeout yields no additional UFO sightings.
The next morning, we meet back up to download with Josh.
-Hey, Josh. -Hey, Josh.
Hey, guys. How are you?
You've got a special glow about you.
[laughing]
I don't know if you should be making that joke, Josh.
It's honestly been a really haunting experience
going through some of those radiation zones
where the radiation levels are still incredibly dangerous.
There are some areas where people still cannot live.
-Yeah, our... our alarms went off a couple of times. -Yeah.
All right. That's terrifying. Stay safe out there.
How did that first investigation go?
So first night investigation actually was interesting.
We got something that I can't quite explain.
Hold on.
Holy [bleep]!
-Wow. -Yeah, and it only showed up on IR and night vision.
It was not there with naked eyes.
After looking at both of the recordings that she got of this thing,
-it's pretty weird. -So, Phil, are you telling me it could be a UFO?
Well, let's just say we should keep our eyes on the nuclear power plant.
There... There could be some things flying around there.
Okay, great.
And I wanted to touch base because I just got an update
on the access to the International UFO Laboratory.
You're in. This place is in Iino
which is referred to sometimes as the "Roswell of Japan,"
and they have a treasure trove of sensitive documents there,
and you have been granted full clearance to go and take a look at them.
I mean, that sounds awesome.
And there's more.
It's right next to Mount Senganmori.
Now, dating back to feudal times in Japan,
this mountain was a supposed hotbed of UFO activity.
Sightings have actually been picking up recently.
So keep an eye on the skies.
-Cool. -Yeah, that sounds amazing.
Good luck. Can't wait to see what you find.
-See you, Josh. -Bye, Josh.
[Phil] It's a 90-minute drive from Fukushima to the UFO mecca of Iino,
where Jess and I pull into the International UFO Laboratory.
Opening its doors in 2021,
the lab contains countless examples of documentation
claiming to prove the existence of UFOs,
including photos, video clips and declassified documents.
[Jess] We're, like, right around here, yeah.
-Oh, that's us. -[Phil] Yeah.
-[Jess] Look at all these hot spots. -[Phil] Yeah.
And you know what's down there?
[Jess] The power plant.
Ooh. Recent sightings right here.
[Jess] Oh, nice.
These are all '20, '21.
So these are recent. Look at that.
[Jess] This is the stuff that I'm like, "What the heck?" Right?
Because you could no get a drone that high.
[Phil] Uh-uh. Little white dot again.
Hard to make out what that is, but it doesn't look like a plane.
They've kind of got it all here.
They did a really good job curating all of these,
-you know, potentially legitimate sightings. -[Jess] Yeah.
I've honestly never seen so many UFO photos in one spot.
[Phil] Yeah, this is something different.
-[Jess] It's pretty astounding. -[Phil] Yeah.
After a quick walk through the lab,
we were able to visit with one of its founders,
Tsugio Kinoshita.
With decades of UFO research under his belt,
Kinoshita is the foremost authority
-on unexplained aerial phenomena in the region. -Wow.
Kinoshita-san, how did you get involved in researching UFOs?
[speaking in Japanese]
[translated in English] It really started when I saw my first UFO.
I was 25 years old,
and that was the first time I saw something in the sky that I couldn't explain.
It was just hovering in the sky,
and then it suddenly disappeared.
I made up this picture after the incident
because I was always asked about it.
It's just how I remember it.
It looked silver and metallic.
[speaking in Japanese]
How many sightings have you had personally over the course of your life?
[translated in English] Five sightings total.
[Jess] Wow. When did you decide to start collecting
other people's experiences and stories and documenting them?
[speaking in Japanese]
[translated in English] I started collecting witness testimonials
around age 31.
More and more people just kept coming to me
with their sightings and their stories like the ones I had.
[Jess] Kinoshita claims he's collected eyewitness testimony
from more than 300 separate UFO sightings over the years.
Many of them center around this mysterious Mount Senganmori.
So why do you think Senganmori is in the center of all this activity?
What's attracting the UFOs to that particular area?
[speaking in Japanese]
[translated in English] I think it's because
of the geography of the mountain.
It's not like any other mountain around here.
It's almost a perfect pyramid.
And I think that shape might act as some kind of beacon for UFOs.
We also installed a powerful spotlight on the top of the mountain,
and that might act as an even greater beacon
because there have been a lot of UFO sightings there since.
If you go to the top of the mountain tonight,
your chances of seeing a UFO are very high.
-[Phil] Arigatou. -Arigatou gozaimasu.
[Phil] After that bold prediction from Kinoshita,
we head out to investigate Mount Senganmori itself.
Like our Fukushima power plant investigation,
we devise a plan to split up.
Jess and the crew will climb up to the observation station
at the top of the mountain,
while I secure my own view from the air.
-Captain Jim. -Hi.
[breathing deeply]
[Jess] We've got a shrine over here.
Oh, look at this.
Oh, my God, look at this view!
[gasps]
[Jess] The DAP camera is one of the most
sophisticated pieces of tech that we have.
It stands for Data Acquisition Project,
and it uses a pan-tilt zoom camera with optical software
to enable moving target detection and tracking.
If there's anything in the skies flying over this mountain,
this camera will zero in on it
and recognize all airborne objects in its database,
like an airplane or a helicopter.
All right. DAPs up. We are running.
We got a clear view of the sky.
Cameras north, south, east, west. They're set.
And just in time because I'm pretty sure
I can hear a helicopter on the horizon,
which means Phil is on his way, not too far off.
So we did this just in time.
-[Phil] Oh, my gosh. -[Jim speaking]
-[Phil laughing] -[Jim speaking]
[Phil] Ooh!
[laughing]
-[Jim speaking] -[Phil speaking]
Copy. I see you.
What does the shape of the mountain look like?
Does it look like a pyramid?
[Phil speaking]
Okay? I'm, uh, I'm watching the DAP.
You just let me know if you see anything weird on your end.
Phil, you copy?
It's traveling east to west, so heading inland.
It just disappeared on my end. Do you see it?
[Phil speaking]
Um, wait.
[Jess] It should be right by you.
I caught something on the DAP.
It was headed towards the west.
I don't see it with my eyes, but, I mean, we've got it.
I'm recording.
One of the most important engineers in Japan's history,
took the study of UFOs very seriously.
Engineer Jiro Horikoshi designed the zero fighter plane
used in the attack on Pearl Harbor,
and he also researched UFOs.
Horikoshi's fascination with flying saucers began, as it did for many,
when he heard the account of American pilot Kenneth Arnold.
Arnold was jetting over Washington State on June 24th, 1947,
when he observed a string of nine bright saucer-like objects.
Shockingly, the unidentified objects appear to travel at 1,200 miles per hour,
twice the speed of any plane at the time.
News of Arnold's sightings spread around the world
and inspired the term "flying saucer."
June 24th became known as World UFO Day,
and to celebrate it, in 2021,
the International UFO Lab in Iino first opened its doors.
I'm losing you. I'm sorry. I can't copy.
[Jess speaking]
All right, go ahead and land.
Oh, yeah, they're out.
We got it on the DAP, though.
And I swear to God, I heard Phil say that he got something.
So I think we're good.
[Phil] As the UFO phenomenon has grown over the decades,
so too has the international response trying to engage them.
One of the most famous examples of fighter jets
tracking an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
is this video of a 2004 incident,
since dubbed the "Tic Tac" event.
Taken aboard a US Navy aircraft over the Pacific,
the pilots encountered a cylindrical flying object moving at unfathomable speeds.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[pilot] Whoa! Got it! [laughing]
[Phil] But the growing wave of aerial engagement
is not exclusive to the US military.
In early 2023,
it was reported that there have been 45 separate incidents
where Russian military has scrambled fighter jets to follow UFOs.
File saved.
I'm gonna leave these things running
just in case we get another hit.
I'm gonna have Phil meet me here,
and let's just go over everything we got
'cause I wanna see what he ended up catching on his end.
While I wait for Phil to return
and for the powerful beacon lights to turn on,
I make sure all of our digital eyes are pointed to the skies and recording.
All right, so cameras are up.
We're covered pretty much all the way around this platform.
Car is down there.
Lots of dust and bugs,
so we gotta be careful not to make any false positives.
But so far, everything's been pretty still.
Okay, so we've got about a minute
before these beacon lights turn on.
They're right behind the sign here.
Oh, yeah, I see them.
Nice!
All right, so that reaches up into space.
Well, hopefully, we see some UFOs.
Time to check the DAP.
I think we got something. Hold on.
Let me see. Play this back really quick.
Let's see. Oh, yeah, we do!
Watch. Okay. So that's a plane, right?
So then we saw that.
Look at that, and it starts following the plane back.
So the DAP locked onto the plane movement,
and then that second light, whatever that is,
started following the plane.
We've got another hit.
That is a lot of activity for this area.
I mean, that combined with what I saw earlier,
and hopefully Phil got eyes on,
and was able to capture on his end, I mean...
...this is a pretty busy mountain for UFOs. [chuckles]
[Phil grunts]
I see the bat signal's been deployed.
Jess, this thing's amazing.
-[Jess] Pretty cool, huh? -[Phil] Yeah.
-[grunts] -[Jess] All right. First things first.
Did you get it on camera?
-Let me show you. Okay, so I immediately... -Oh, good, okay.
-[Jess] Let's see. Uh-huh. -...downloaded the footage because...
-Yes. Look right there. Look right here. -[Jess] Uh-huh.
-[Phil] Look at that. -[Jess] Oh, [bleep]!
Oh, my God. You totally did.
-Right. -[Jess] Yeah.
-That was what you saw. -[Jess] That's what I was--
Well, that's what the DAP saw.
I could see the helicopter with my eyes.
-I could not see whatever it was. -It was tiny.
I could barely see it.
Let me show you this other clip. Okay.
So here's where it gets kind of insane.
-[Jess] Okay. -You see what's on that side of the screen.
[Jess] Oh, whoa! those are military jets.
[Phil] There's two of them. It almost looks like they're flying in formation.
-Oh, yeah, it does. -And then do you see, from this perspective,
it almost looks like they're doing a flyby.
-I'm stoked. -No, I'm very impressed.
I'm very happy also.
After that, we've been getting...
-Check this out. -On the DAP?
-On the DAP. -Let me see this.
-That's the plane that the DAP grabs onto, right? -[Phil] Gotcha. Gotcha.
-Whoa. -[Jess] Check that out. Did you see?
-[Phil] Whoa! -See that second light and how it starts to follow it.
-Uh, what? -'Cause see that... you can tell that's the plane
-because of the way it's flickering its lights. -That is a plane.
-You can almost see the... the tail. -[Jess] I know.
It's compelling footage. Between what I saw up there...
-[Jess] Yeah. -...and that,
they're not flying saucers in the sky
that are coming close to us and hovering,
but they're still really weird.
Super weird.
I've never been that confused by what I saw in the sky.
How many hours do we have left on the generator for the DAP cam?
I think we got, like, six to eight.
That's basically until the sun comes up.
-But let's just leave it running. -[Jess] Leave it running.
-I think we'll get more stuff. -Yeah.
[Josh] Phil and Jess continued to scan the skies above Mount Senganmori
well into the early morning,
and it would prove to be one of the busiest nights of their lives.
All of the following images were captured on the DAP camera
in the predawn hours.
Each clip shows one or more unidentified phenomena
flying in the Earth's atmosphere above or near the mountain.
What's truly bizarre,
is that some of the objects that the DAP zeros in on
appear to exhibit propulsion capabilities
that defy conventional physics.
While others almost seem to engage
and possibly mimic known aircraft flying nearby.
As for the infamous Fukushima UFO video,
after leaving her camera running throughout the night,
Jess was able to recreate that mysterious footage fairly convincingly,
chalking up the alleged lights in the sky to boats out on the sea.
In the end, It seems to be a case of forced perspective,
and can be clearly debunked.
But what remains a mystery is the rogue illuminated object
that Jess captured flying much closer to her location.
-[Phil] Whoa! -See that second light and how it starts to follow it.
-Uh, what? -'Cause see that's--
[Josh] And we cannot say whether that object
might be somehow connected to the unusual telemetry observed on the DAP cam.
My team has conducted countless skywatching expeditions over the years
to answer the age-old question,
are we being visited by otherworldly beings?
Clearly more evidence is necessary.
But never before has our technology
provided such a strong indication
that the answer could be an astonishing, yes.