[josh] tonight on expedition x,
the conclusion of one of our most perplexing investigations ever.
[jessica] oh, my god.
Are you seeing what I'm seeing?
[josh] for over a century,
mysterious, unidentified objects have been spotted
above and below the water near southern california.
But what are they?
Captain, stop the boat!
We got something down there.
[josh] and what's attracting them to this spot?
Our government is taking this topic seriously,
that these things are indeed real.
[josh] the former director of the pentagon's
top secret ufo program speaks out,
we have something flying around
that we really have no idea what it is,
where it's from, what the intentions are.
Wait, you seeing that?
And joins my team to hunt down
strange crafts reported in these shadowy depths.
I don't know what the hell it is.
What are we looking at right here?
Can they explain the unexplainable?
We just got a big flash on the rov screen.
And uncover the secrets
[jessica] holy [bleep].
I just saw a light come out of the water.
Of the aliens of the deep.
What the...
[josh] my name is josh gates.
In my travels
I've experienced strange things
that defy logic
and made me question everything.
Oh, my god.
Now I've put together a team to investigate
the stranger side of the unknown.
Let's go!
Phil torres is a scientist who hunts for rational explanations.
[speaking]
[josh] jessica chobot's paranormal research
has made her a true believer.
Phil did you see that?
[jessica] I just saw something run across.
[josh] together, we're searching for answers
what is that?
To the world's most extraordinary mysteries.
This is expedition x.
My team is deep into an investigation on catalina island.
Off the coast of southern california,
a global hotspot for ufos
and usos,
unidentified submerged objects,
which includes the now iconic uss nimitz event.
When the u.S. Navy captured
an anomalous tic tac-shaped craft on camera
flying at supersonic speeds.
So far, phil and jess
have both had incredible encounters,
including capturing a strange object
on their state-of-the-art dap camera.
Whoa!
There's some sort of an underwater base down there.
Oh, holy [bleep]!
[jessica] right there! Right there!
[phil] jess I'm seeing a light up ahead.
Keep trying to pull me in.
[incoherent radio chatter]
phil are you okay in there?
[phil speaking over radio]
phil...
[bleep]. The light, it's gone.
Phil, are you okay in there?
Very rocky seas.
It's pitch black out here.
He's in a cave in a kayak by himself.
[jessica] if he doesn't respond, we're gonna go in after him.
[phil over radio] jess, you copy?
Can you hear me? Are you okay?
I'm out. I'm not sure where this thing sent me, but...
I'm out. I'm not seeing the ship.
Okay, what was going on? You didn't answer.
I could not hear you.
I'm not seeing the ship.
Let me flash the deck lights
and let me know if you can see 'em.
You see that?
Gotcha.
Heading your way.
[suspenseful music playing]
all right, coming in hot. You got me?
Yeah, I gotcha.
I'll maneuver here.
[jessica grunts] you saw a light?
I saw something.
What did it look like?
Saw a glow.
To me it just looked bright.
I'm not really sure,
but it was,
as far as I can tell, underwater.
So what you're telling me is you saw an unidentified submerged object.
I saw something under there.
[phil] what I saw under the water
definitely lines up with the countless reports of usos in this region.
Local eyewitnesses often report
strange and mysterious lights under the surface
but there could be a natural explanation.
The only other thing I could think of is,
maybe if we were seeing some bioluminescence.
Maybe there's something moving under the water
causing those phytoplankton to really light up.
Bioluminescence is sometimes caused by tiny algae
or a kind of plankton in the water, which when agitated
can light up as a defense mechanism.
And beyond algae, certain fish, squid,
and jellyfish are also bioluminescent.
So, I can't rule that out as a possibility.
I'm not gonna go full-blown, "I saw an alien uso."
I just wanted to make sure that
that I wasn't seeing something that wasn't there.
So, if you saw it too, I can live with that.
I saw it too.
[jessica] whether we witnessed bioluminescence
or the eerie glow from an unidentified object under the water,
we can't be sure.
The tide is too high to safely reenter the cave
so, we keep scanning the water around it.
Nothing right now.
By morning we have no new lights to report.
But josh sends us
an urgent message.
Hey, how'd it go last night?
Oh, well, phil almost died last night,
so pretty amazing.
Yeah, I kayaked into a sea cave
in choppy waters at high tide at night.
Oh, yeah. That's not safe.
[jessica] we update josh
about the mysterious blue light we both saw under the water.
While phil thinks
bioluminescence is the most likely explanation,
as far as I'm concerned
these lights are most likely usos
and could be originating from an underwater base.
I can't wait to see the footage.
I have more good news.
Which is that,
the guy that we were speaking about,
luis elizondo, the former head of the pentagon ufo program,
tracked him down,
and not only is he willing to talk to you,
he is on his way out to you.
-That's awesome! -No way.
This is a huge get.
I mean, this guy is one of the most
credible ufo experts in the world
and he's coming out there to see if he can help you guys crack this case.
I really do feel like, with him out here
we're gonna blow the lid off this thing.
Oh yeah.
Listen, this guy is the real deal,
so I'm very hopeful
that you guys are gonna be able to find some answers here.
Fantastic.
Keep me posted.
Let me know how it goes.
Happy ufo hunting.
Awesome, thanks!
[josh] with documented sightings
of unidentified objects above and below the ocean's surface
mounting for decades,
the u.S. Government
could no longer ignore them.
In 2007, the pentagon established
the advanced aerospace threat program or aatip,
and luis elizondo was appointed director.
Elizondo has had a long career in the military.
After several years in the army,
he began working with counter narcotics
and counterinsurgency in latin america.
And when 9/11 happened
he worked in counter terrorism in afghanistan.
But his next mission was to spearhead
the top secret investigation of ufos from the pentagon
until his abrupt resignation in 2017.
[jessica] hey!
All right, let's go.
Well, thank you for coming out here.
[luis] absolutely. My pleasure.
So you were the head of aatip,
the pentagon's program of looking at ufos.
What made you resign
and go public with what you've seen?
[luis] well, we had very compelling data
that we have something
flying around in controlled u.S. Airspace
that we really have no idea what it is,
where it's from, what the intentions are.
But the bureaucracy at the pentagon
wasn't allowing me
and my office
to report this information where it needed to go.
And so, I resigned as a matter of protest,
knowing that resignation letter would go straight to the boss.
And then he would finally know what was going on
and the truth behind the matter.
-And that's not just him -ah!
But the public would find out.
Well, yeah.
Because of that,
more military eyewitnesses have come forward
and decided to discuss with us
collectively, as a nation,
their experiences.
And in fact, just because of them,
congress is now taking this seriously,
that these things are indeed real.
-We still don't know what they are, -yeah.
But they're real.
We had our own experience.
I mean, this seems to be a hot spot.
So, what makes this area around catalina island so active?
Why don't we go up on the bird real quick
and let me show you firsthand.
[helicopter whirring]
all right, up we go!
Oh, my gosh.
[dramatic music playing]
gorgeous.
Hello.
Oh, boy.
[jessica] we're barely off the ground
and I can already feel the wind knocking us around.
Oh lord.
How're we doin', pilot?
[pilot mumbles incoherently]
oh, my. Yeah, great.
Why does chasing down ufos
always lead to me being up in a helicopter
and having my life flash before my eyes.
Jessica's favorite thing.
Helicopters, heights, and turbulence.
Yeah.
-Ooh! -[jessica screams]
-ooh! -[jessica screams]
[speaking]
[phil] all right, lou.
So, what is special about where we are?
[luis] the first thing, you have los angeles over here,
when you look south a little bit here on the coastline,
you come to camp pendleton.
Camp pendleton is where the united states marine corps does a lot of their training.
But you also have a defunct nuclear power plant.
The one thing that we have
a pretty good grasp on within the government,
is that there seems to be some sort of nuclear connection with ufos.
Let's not forget that you had the nimitz carrier group,
right here in this area in 2004. You had a nuclear powered submarine.
You also had nuclear capable vessels that are escorting the fleet.
That's a huge, huge footprint from a nuclear technology perspective.
So, the question we were having in the pentagon was, is it possible
that "tic tac" event was really an attempt to surveil our capabilities?
[jessica] ufo encounters near nuclear technology have been reported for decades.
Phil and I even investigated the possible connection between nuclear sites
and ufos back in new mexico.
We saw a ufo!
An unidentified flying object.
There have been 8,500 sightings near nuclear facilities in the u.S. Alone.
But as far as we know, there are no sources of nuclear power
beneath the waters around catalina island
attracting ufos under the surface.
[phil] why do you think there's been so many
sightings in this area and under the water?
Perhaps there is a hot spot based upon where we are.
So, what I have here is the magnetic survey superimposed on a map.
You can see the coastline here.
And we are at catalina island, in a field of nothing for thousands of miles,
all of a sudden you have this weird magnetic anomaly.
There's a lot of energy there.
[phil] a magnetic anomaly is a variation in strength of the earth's magnetic field.
This can be caused by large concentration of rocks with high metal content
or large metal structures.
On luis's map, the red areas represent a constant magnetic field
and the blue, just northwest of catalina, is an area with a stronger magnetic pull.
Could that be the thing that's actually attracting ufos to this area?
We get multiple reports and a lot of data
that indicate these things are somehow related
to these magnetic anomalies.
Right now, we're hovering over the area which indicated a high level of magnetism
on luis's map and has seen the highest concentration of uso reports.
Could whatever's causing that energy be attracting ufos
and explain so many uso sightings?
It's the same area where jess and I saw a mysterious light under the water last night.
So, are there other encounters that are as well documented
as the nimitz encounter that just aren't public yet?
I have to be careful what I say.
I will tell you, there are absolutely multiple, multiple other encounters
that are very well documented
with a tremendous amount of fidelity to the data.
But I unfortunately, can't discuss those.
I still have a security clearance.
-And that's about all I'm prepared to say right now. -Okay.
[jessica] after we touch down, I'm splintering off to try to make sense
of the mysterious light we saw in the water the other night.
Phil thinks it was bioluminescence created by algae.
But I'm not so convinced.
I need to find any recent reports that describe a similar light
below the surface to figure out what we, and others, are seeing around here.
Meanwhile, phil and luis head out to our research vessel
to see if they can find what's responsible for the magnetic anomaly
deep below the surface.
A lot of the locals here,
they actually swear that there is some sort of underwater facility,
a base, a location.
[phil] do you think something like that is possible out here?
[luis] well, I think if you look back, even just with our own technology,
going back to world war two and what not, we've always had secret submarine bases.
We've had all sorts of top secret locations
to support our war machine. But the question is, is it not man-made?
[phil] the idea of underwater bases is not science fiction
and definitely not new.
We've had a naval testing facility 1100 feet below the surface
of an idaho lake since world war two.
And near the bahamas, autec, the atlantic undersea test and evaluation center,
located at depths of 6,000 feet,
was specifically built to test underwater vehicles, weapons and systems.
Interestingly, ufos have also been reported around autec.
If there were some kind of base under the waters here,
I feel like it would have to be in that deeper water.
[luis] certainly, if you want to keep something secret,
probably the best way to do that would be out of the prying eyes
of your enemy. And in this case, the deeper the water, the better.
[jessica] after scouring sources online and in catalina,
I found an eye-witness who saw an unusual light underwater
off the island's northern coast around the same time we did.
Andrew quintana is a longtime resident of catalina
and he knows the coastline well.
So, I've been talking to folks around the island.
They said you were the guy to meet up with.
I've lived here for about 15 years
and I've seen a lot of things out here that have happened out here on catalina.
[jessica] andrew runs an ecotourism company in catalina
and he has led tours of the surrounding waters for years.
I live right by the ocean. I know what dolphin pods look like.
I know what bioluminescence look like.
I saw something that I couldn't really explain.
Were you nervous? Scared?
It was more of a, I need to assess what's going on
right now, before I start thinking I'm crazy.
When you hear someone say that they saw a ufo, and they're certain it's a ufo,
with your background, you know, how do you call out the bs, essentially?
First of all, do these things fall squarely within the five categories of observables,
that we at the pentagon were able to determine
are they u.S. Technology or are they something completely different?
So, there's five observables?
[luis] the first one is instantaneous acceleration.
The second one is hypersonic velocity.
The third one is low observability.
The fourth observable is trans medium travel,
the ability to travel, not just in our atmosphere,
but in space and possibly underwater.
And the last observable is something that can defy
the natural effects of earth's gravity
without any obvious signs of propulsion, any obvious signs of lift,
any control surfaces. Nothing that we would normally associate
as being an aircraft or a rocket.
So, when we talk about those five observables,
does the nimitz encounter from 2004 hit all five?
Absolutely. Every single one.
Imagine now having a vehicle that can do all five of those observables,
you're now talking a real serious national security threat.
Wow.
When we were in the chopper, you showed us a map of the magnetic activity.
Like, is that near us right now?
Yeah. It's actually right here.
[luis] right off your starboard side.
I'll tell you what, we have a sonar on board that I think we should put into action
and just see if we can pick up anything down below.
Let's do it.
[phil] now that we're in our target zone, we'll use two sonar scanners,
which will help locate anything unusual and identified steps.
-Hey there, captain. -How we doing?
We're doing good. So we think we're in the target area
where we'd want to start looking down below. So can we kick up the sonar?
Okay, so start here on this sonar.
-Correct. -Pick something up.
And then, these ones up here actually tell you their depth?
Correct. The difference in colors that we're seeing here,
can you describe what those actually mean?
The darker the color, the denser the object we're targeting.
-Okay. -So, the dark red you're seeing there
is the ball of fish.
Nothing yet that screams underwater ufo base.
Maybe that can be dinner. If we don't find anything.
I'm up for that.
So what should be the plan of action? If we want to cover a lot of ground here,
should we just, kind of, go back and forth on the boat?
We're gonna make numerous passes in the general area.
See if we can pick it up here on the sonar. And then we'll narrow in
and get the depth meter directly over what we're looking for.
All right.
See what we can find.
[phil] you seeing that?
We're getting a little hit right there.
It could be kelp or small fish.
All right.
So, the dark red you're seeing there is the sea floor.
And then the shadowing coming off the sea floor there is fish.
A lot of fish out here.
So we're seeing more fish.
Hold up!
[captain] so, now we're starting to get a big target.
So, what we're seeing right here, that's gonna show up on this pretty soon?
Correct. As we move across it, we'll pick it up directly underneath us.
Come on.
-Oh wow. -That is not fish!
[phil] that is incredibly dense.
It's on the bottom of the ocean right here.
That is not a ball of fish. That is structure.
Look at the size of that thing.
You're saying there's a structure on the bottom of the ocean?
There is structure on the bottom. I don't know what it is.
Well, that's promising.
What the hell is that?
That is not small.
[josh] phil and luis elizondo,
the former head of the pentagon's ufo investigation program,
are scanning the waters off of catalina island.
And their research vessel's sonar has just detected
an unknown structure on the sea floor.
Is there anything natural that would explain a structure like that?
-Like coral reefs or... -It's not on the charts.
I feel like, we have to check this thing out.
Yeah, man. Let's go. Let's get wet.
Captain, we good to anchor here and go for a dive?
Absolutely.
[jessica] andrew quintana tells me the mysterious light he saw in the water,
wasn't bioluminescence.
We're out there, just me and three of my buddies.
I'd looked down over the boat and there was just something glowing down there.
I could tell that it was coming from somewhere very deep.
I was looking down. And then that ball, like, got big, it got small.
-And then it was gone. -Oh, it was pulsing.
-Yeah. -And then it just disappeared?
It was, like someone turned off the light.
So you don't think it was military or anything like that?
You try to rationalize what you're seeing. It's either...
The military with some fun toys they're not telling us about, or something
beyond that.
Have there been any other reports from locals of uso's underneath the water?
Say about 60% of the people in town have a story.
-Really? -Uh, yeah.
And all in that same area north?
Yeah.
[jessica] as someone who has witnessed bioluminescence in these waters many times,
andrew says the unusual light he saw underwater wasn't
naturally occurring phenomenon.
And the fact he saw it around the same time, phil and I saw an unusual light.
I'm convinced we're dealing with hell of a lot more than
just some algae that glows in the dark.
Well, thank you so much for all that information. I'll let you know what we find.
[phil] our sonar has detected an unidentified structure
that could be creating a magnetic field below the surface.
And potentially, attracting ufo's to the area.
On this dive, I'm bringing a waterproof electromagnetic field reader
or emf reader that will be able to detect and measure any
magnetic fields below the surface.
[phil] all right, I'm bringing down the emf,
'cause as you said this is a very magnetically active area underneath this right now
and perhaps the structure we found,
could be giving off some emf's as well.
And I'm gonna bring a water test kit, I wanna look for things like heavy metal,
other any traces of any type of radioactive isotopes that maybe we can detect.
More data is good data.
Oh, yeah.
[water splashing]
[phil and luis talking over radio]
[phil] our air tanks are filled with nitrox.
A mixture that contains higher amounts of oxygen than the air used in typical scuba tanks.
This prevents nitrogen buildup in our system.
Too much nitrogen in the bloodstream can inhibit motor function
and lead to unconsciousness and even death.
Down 50 feet now.
[phil] plus the nitrox will double our time underwater so we can dive deeper.
[speaking]
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[phil] most shipwrecks close to the shore of catalina have been documented and mapped.
But just a few miles out and in deeper water,
it's a different story.
There could be 100's of uncatalogued wrecks down here.
This massive ship is definitely one of those
and could have been down here for decades.
So who knows what else could be hidden here.
[speaking]
[phil] it must be the object that showed up on sonar.
But so far, no unusual magnetism.
[speaking]
[phil] looks like we solved the mystery of the
unidentified structure that appeared on sonar.
But as far as identifying the magnetic anomaly that's been detected in the area,
I'm still not getting any readings.
This ship is definitely not the source of that energy.
[speaking]
[phil] so we venture beyond the wreck and keep searching.
[speaking]
look how deep it is out there.
[phil] the sea-force soon plummets down into a very deep
underwater canyon with no bottom in sight.
[emf buzzing]
wait. I'm getting a huge spike.
[device beeps]
[speaking]
[phil] the sea floor beyond the shipwreck plummets into an abyss.
So whatever's setting of the emf reader is a lot
farther down than our current dive gear or physiology can handle.
[speaking]
[phil] we collect the water sample so we can test for heavy metals,
radioactive isotopes
or anything else that could be rising from the sea floor 100's of feet below
and provide a new insight into what's causing the magnetic energy in the area.
[speaking]
[phil] and ascend back to the surface.
Whoo! I mean...
That was incredible!
Yeah, that was pretty incredible.
[luis] that hit I got on the emf reader from the deep water,
something is down there.
I mean this is the right area.
And that wreck, it goes to show just
how easy it is to hide a giant...
Object under the water.
[phil] the emf reading's didn't come from the shipwrecks,
so that can't be the source of the magnetic energy in the area.
There must be something deeper in the channel generating magnetism.
Well, I'm gonna be curious what this water sample shows.
Yeah, me too.
This is exactly where we think we would see something.
[phil] I'll send the water samples we collected back to the mainland for testing.
Luis has to leave but the captain and I are getting our hands on some heavier tech
to investigate what could be at the bottom of that deep trench.
But before we head out,
jess and I need to compare notes.
Andrew told me that, a lot of the locals have eye witnessed
craft overlooking from the shore overlooking the channel when you were with luis.
So I'm gonna head up there.
And I'll keep an eye on the sky watching for any ufo's
flying around or into the water.
Why don't you take the boat?
And that actually works out great because I have a new piece of tech to put to use.
-What is it? -It's a magnetometer.
It kinda looks like a missile that you drag in the water behind the boat.
But it also can detect, something metal underwater.
At much better depths and it is more accurate than my emf reader.
So really, you're gonna take out a gigantic emf metal
detector to try to find uso's underwater?
Sure, that about sums it up.
I'm into it. Cheers.
Cheers.
[phil] jess positions herself overlooking the waters between catalina and the mainland.
And I head out into the deeper waters of the channel
just past our previous dive location
to look for whatever caused my emf reader to spike.
If there is some kind of large magnetic structure down there
or as jess would put it "a secret underwater base"
creating the unusual magnetic signature in the area
this high powered marine magnetometer can pinpoint it's exact location.
I'm ready to pull us, so if you can kick it up to five or six knots.
I'll be able to drop it in nice and slow.
Yeah, I'm in troll gear.
Go ahead.
All right, going in.
There she goes.
All right. Great. It's in.
So...
Why don't we do a little back and forth pattern
around this area.
Try to cover as much ground as possible and see what we get.
You got it.
All right thank you.
Let's get this going.
[phil] we're going to make a series of passes across our search area.
Towing the magnetometer behind the boat.
I'll monitor the data feed, real time on my laptop.
Looking for any magnetic signature under water.
Which will appear red on the screen.
Okay, phil. Do you copy? I'm in my spot.
And I think I see the boat.
[phil] copy. We're in position.
Good luck up there.
[jessica] you too.
All right, so right now
I've got the dap cam set up.
So that is pointed straight up into the sky above the boat.
I also have the low light camera pointed at the
horizon line so that we're getting a little bit of sky
as well as little bit of the water.
Not to mention the fact, that phil is on the boat
with the magnetometer capturing things from his end.
So anything that's moving around in the sky or under water,
we should be able to catch it.
[phil] jess, we got the magnetometer in the water.
So, guess we'll see what happens.
[jessica] absolutely. I think we have this pretty well covered.
All right. Let's see if we get anything.
We're good to turn.
[phil] nothing yet.
Nothing around here either.
Several passes through our search zone and all is quiet under the water.
What's that?
Oh, it's a plane.
Plane.
[jessica] phil and I have been scouting the skies and the water for nearly five hours.
But haven't seen anything out of the ordinary.
[machine beeps]
damn.
Holy [bleep]
I'm getting a monster hit right here.
-Captain, can we stop the boat? -[captain] okay.
Do you mind marking these coordinates?
Yeah, I'll mark a way point.
Okay, I'm not sure if this is some kind of underwater pit
or some big chunk of iron rock or an object, but we got something down there.
[phil] jess, you, there.
Copy, I'm here.
We got something on the magnetometer.
No, you do not.
[phil] yeah, I can't quite tell what it is,
but it's definitely big, and it's definitely metallic.
See anything glowing in that area at all?
Not seeing anything in the water,
but the shape of what we're seeing on the magnetometer
makes me think it may not be natural.
[jessica] no way. That's...
That's awesome.
I know, so I'm gonna pull out the magnetometer, and then I'm gonna put the underwater rov
into the water and see if I can get eyes on this thing
[jessica] okay, absolutely. Let me know immediately what you
see when you come up on it.
[phil] you got it.
[phil] the depths of the magnetometer hit is past 1,000 feet.
Far too dangerous to dive on with the equipment we have.
So I'll be sending down a deep water remote operated vehicle or rov.
It's capable of operating at depths of nearly a 1,000 feet.
And equipped with powerful lights and a high definition camera.
[water splashing]
so whatever's down there, hopefully we'll get a good look at it.
All right, we've got the rov in the water.
Let's see what we can find. Wow.
Look at that.
Okay, pitch it down. Going deeper.
Right now, we're at about 75 feet. And so far,
I'm seeing about a million jellyfish.
No aliens yet, though they look alien.
Getting to deeper and deeper water.
Oh!
Check this out. I'm actually getting flashes of blue, even the bright green.
Which is bioluminescence.
Meaning there are things down there making light right now.
Good evidence.
[phil] bioluminescence is found in a large number of marine organisms,
including bacteria, algae, jellyfish.
But it isn't just found in small swimmers.
A new study in new zealand has found that three species of deep sea shark,
including the six-foot-long kite fin shark, are bioluminescent.
The jellyfish caught on the rov confirms bioluminescent organisms are in this water
and could explain some of the sightings of underwater lights reported here.
But it definitely doesn't explain the massive hit I got on the magnetometer.
Okay, I'm around 850 feet down.
Woah!
What the hell was that?
I just got a flash on the screen and it froze.
Getting no more signal on the video.
[phil] my rov is a depth of about 1000 feet.
There's a bright flash in the water, and the rov cuts out and dies.
One thing that can disable electronic devices is an emp
or electromagnetic pulse.
So whatever that flash was sent a burst of electromagnetic energy
that could have disabled the rov.
Jess, are you there?
Yeah, I'm here.
We just got a big flash on the rov screen.
Really?
We got a big light coming across the screen, and then it froze.
But, whatever the flash was messed this thing up.
The rov completely tanked?
It's still active, but the video feed that we had is just frozen.
No way. That's...
[bleeps]
phil, are you seeing what I'm seeing?
As jess and phil continue to investigate unidentified flying and submerged objects
off the coast of california.
You might be surprised to learn that this isn't the only place where these,
whatever they are have been caught on camera.
April 25th, 2013.
[josh] near the rafael hernandez airport in aguadilla, puerto rico,
an object is being tracked by an aircraft
from us customs and border protection.
And what the footage shows is truly remarkable.
The object, which looks like some kind of metallic sphere,
travels upwards of 120 miles per hour over land and sea.
With almost no splash. It disappears under the waves,
only to reemerge without losing speed.
Then something even crazier happens.
The object seems to split in two.
And I realized this is the part of the show called josh explains.
But I can't explain this one.
That also goes for the us government by the way, and for pretty much everybody else
we just got a big flash on the rov screen
and then froze, like, whatever the flash was messed this thing up.
No way. That's...
[bleep]
phil are you seeing what I'm seeing?
Uh, I'm not seeing anything up here.
What, are you seeing something?
Yeah, I just saw a light come out of the water right by the boat
and go right up into the sky.
What the...
[phil] like, the water right by me. You just saw something?
Yeah, I was watching the boat
and I saw that there was light, kind of like,
looked like it was underneath the water and then
out of nowhere, it just goes straight up into the sky.
[phil mumbling over radio]
lens aberration, some kind of reflection of the moonlight?
I haven't rotated or moved this camera at all,
while it's been sitting here recording the horizon line. So, no.
[phil] there is a chance that whatever you saw
could be what I got a brief look at on the rov.
Oh, absolutely.
I think we scared whatever it was out of the water.
[jessica] why don't you try and kickstart the rov?
I'll leave the low light camera running,
so that maybe we can capture something else.
All right. We got something so far, let's see what else we get.
Okay, copy. Walkie me if you see anything.
[phil] you got it.
Look at that.
It's working again.
[phil] after resetting the rov, it's working perfectly again.
Which makes the light encounter even more bizarre.
Jess and I continue to search above and below the water.
But after several more hours we don't find anything else.
So, we decided to meet back up at the dock to take a closer look
at the footage she captured on the low light camera.
You should check this out.
-[jessica] so that light, that's you guys, that big one. -Okay.
If you look down in that light trail you guys are casting,
-[jessica] I saw that. See that? -[phil] oh.
-[phil] holy [bleep] -[jessica laughing]
-[jessica] check that out. -[phil] what?
-[jessica] yeah. -[phil] it's still going.
[jessica] all the way. All the way off-screen. All the way up into the sky.
[bleep]
I think you scared something up out of the water.
I think... I don't know what to think.
I mean, that's a crazy video.
-That's a crazy video. -That was crazy.
[jessica] while the dap camera was scanning another portion of the sky at the time,
the footage I captured on our low light camera,
represents something I've never seen before.
A craft emerging from the ocean and taking flight.
This video
with what sean and gary were talking to us about,
and what lou told us about,
not to mention eyewitness accounts,
I mean,
I truly think there's something weird going on out here.
You think we are surrounded by aliens right here?
I kinda legit do, yeah.
It's so hard not to trust what they saw on the nimitz.
That's a real thing that can't be explained.
And you can bind that with whatever the hell that is.
I gotta admit.
I feel like I'm getting scarily close to going full-blown alien believer.
Wait, what?
[josh] santa catalina island
has been a ufo and uso hotspot
for nearly a century.
And the evidence that my team collected over the last several days,
only adds fuel to the fire.
Adding even more legitimacy
to the hundreds of reports that have poured in
from both locals and military personnel operating in the area.
Based on the eyewitness testimony from two highly trained naval officers
and luis elizondo,
the former director of the pentagon's ufo research team,
these objects possess capabilities
far beyond our own.
It may not either be our technology
or foreign technology, it could really be something else.
[josh] analysis of the dap camera footage
set up on mount orizaba,
found that the unidentified object was moving at speeds
of nearly 21,000 miles per hour.
Traveling approximately 30 miles in just under five seconds.
The g-force is created by it's rate of acceleration,
which would surely have killed a human pilot.
Look, it's over here now. And there it is over here.
Look, it's dashing all over the place.
[josh] phil and jess also recorded mysterious objects
moving beneath the surface of the water.
One of which shorted out a state-of-the-art
remotely operated vehicle,
nearly a thousand feet down.
Another intriguing detail,
is the result from the water sample
taken in the same area.
The analysis shows
an above average presence of the radioactive isotope, cesium,
which is been found at numerous alleged ufo landing sites
around the world.
If there's one thing to take from my team's extensive investigation,
it's that the data they collected,
corroborates our own government's official stance
that this phenomenon is still far
from a reasonable explanation.
Similar incidents are still taking place in this area.
And even more unidentified objects
are being spotted by the military.
So, we've to wonder,
if our own government is still perplexed by these objects,
is a more other worldly,
dare I say, extraterrestrial explanation
becoming more plausible?
While questions continue to linger,
perhaps the answer to the great debate,
"are we alone in the universe,"
could one day be decided in the skies
and below the waves
near catalina island.
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