1 00:00:01,958 --> 00:00:03,582 Tonight on "The Proof Is Out there," 2 00:00:03,583 --> 00:00:06,499 did a UFO buzz the 2024 solar eclipse? 3 00:00:06,500 --> 00:00:08,625 Now don't blink or you'll miss the coolest part. 4 00:00:10,042 --> 00:00:11,749 What did this train passenger see 5 00:00:11,750 --> 00:00:13,207 in a Canadian River? 6 00:00:13,208 --> 00:00:16,666 It's not every day you wake up to a sea monster. 7 00:00:16,667 --> 00:00:19,624 Archelon is the largest turtle that ever lived. 8 00:00:19,625 --> 00:00:22,207 It was about 12 to 13-feet long, 9 00:00:22,208 --> 00:00:25,291 and maybe as wide as 15-feet across. 10 00:00:25,292 --> 00:00:27,291 Is this moving metallic sphere 11 00:00:27,292 --> 00:00:29,791 a piece of alien technology? 12 00:00:29,792 --> 00:00:31,166 He would place it on the floor, 13 00:00:31,167 --> 00:00:34,374 and it would follow members of the house around. 14 00:00:34,375 --> 00:00:36,707 And does this medieval cathedral prove 15 00:00:36,708 --> 00:00:40,457 it's possible for 300 years to simply vanish? 16 00:00:40,458 --> 00:00:43,874 According to this theory, Charlemagne never even existed. 17 00:00:48,042 --> 00:00:50,207 Around the globe are videos... 18 00:00:50,208 --> 00:00:51,791 Oh my God! 19 00:00:51,792 --> 00:00:52,458 Photos, 20 00:00:53,708 --> 00:00:54,666 and sounds 21 00:00:54,667 --> 00:00:56,041 that defy explanation. 22 00:01:01,542 --> 00:01:03,374 We don't know where they come from, 23 00:01:03,375 --> 00:01:05,082 who made them, or how they operate. 24 00:01:05,083 --> 00:01:06,416 What are they? 25 00:01:06,417 --> 00:01:08,291 Some sort of bizarre mutation. 26 00:01:08,292 --> 00:01:10,166 What's exciting is nobody really knows. 27 00:01:10,167 --> 00:01:13,292 Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof. 28 00:01:15,208 --> 00:01:16,416 I'm Tony Harris, 29 00:01:16,417 --> 00:01:18,666 and as a journalist for more than 30 years, 30 00:01:18,667 --> 00:01:21,249 I've followed the facts where they take me. 31 00:01:21,250 --> 00:01:23,707 Now I'm bringing that spirit of investigation 32 00:01:23,708 --> 00:01:26,207 to the world's strangest sounds and images. 33 00:01:26,208 --> 00:01:27,582 It's coming towards us. 34 00:01:27,583 --> 00:01:29,874 We'll analyze each one with top experts. 35 00:01:31,208 --> 00:01:33,541 It's a credible case, it's a credible video. 36 00:01:33,542 --> 00:01:36,332 And pass a verdict on what it is. 37 00:01:36,333 --> 00:01:38,374 This video was clearly faked. 38 00:01:38,375 --> 00:01:40,707 The proof starts now. 39 00:01:48,333 --> 00:01:49,666 Good evening, everyone, 40 00:01:49,667 --> 00:01:51,874 and welcome to "The Proof Is Out There." 41 00:01:51,875 --> 00:01:56,792 Total solar eclipses actually happen every 18 months or so, 42 00:01:57,833 --> 00:01:59,041 but they usually go unseen 43 00:01:59,042 --> 00:02:01,332 as they're only visible from the ocean. 44 00:02:01,333 --> 00:02:04,249 April, 2024 was a rare exception. 45 00:02:04,250 --> 00:02:07,624 Sky watchers put on special eclipse glasses 46 00:02:07,625 --> 00:02:11,541 across North America to witness this cosmic event. 47 00:02:11,542 --> 00:02:14,166 But did this eclipse also attract attention 48 00:02:14,167 --> 00:02:15,457 from out of this world? 49 00:02:17,042 --> 00:02:20,375 April 8th, 2024, Arlington, Texas. 50 00:02:21,750 --> 00:02:25,207 It's mid-afternoon, and all eyes are trained on the sky 51 00:02:25,208 --> 00:02:28,249 as the eclipse makes its way across Texas. 52 00:02:28,250 --> 00:02:31,124 Everyone in the neighborhood is watching and recording, 53 00:02:31,125 --> 00:02:33,666 when all of a sudden this happens. 54 00:02:33,667 --> 00:02:35,082 This is so cool. 55 00:02:35,083 --> 00:02:36,499 What was that? 56 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:38,374 - What is that? - What was that? 57 00:02:38,375 --> 00:02:39,416 What was that? 58 00:02:39,417 --> 00:02:40,541 Did you see that? 59 00:02:40,542 --> 00:02:42,457 Let's play it back in slow motion. 60 00:02:42,458 --> 00:02:43,874 What was that? 61 00:02:43,875 --> 00:02:45,874 - What is that? - What was that? 62 00:02:45,875 --> 00:02:47,249 What was that? 63 00:02:47,250 --> 00:02:49,041 As the sky watcher zooms in and out 64 00:02:49,042 --> 00:02:50,624 to better capture the eclipse, 65 00:02:50,625 --> 00:02:53,916 a cigar-shaped object emerges from the darkened clouds, 66 00:02:53,917 --> 00:02:57,666 darts across the sky, and disappears just as quickly. 67 00:02:57,667 --> 00:02:59,707 - What is that? - What was that? 68 00:02:59,708 --> 00:03:01,999 These spectators weren't the only ones 69 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,249 asking that question. 70 00:03:03,250 --> 00:03:04,707 This video has gone viral 71 00:03:04,708 --> 00:03:07,499 and been viewed over eight million times. 72 00:03:07,500 --> 00:03:10,750 It's very exciting, it's a very close encounter. 73 00:03:12,333 --> 00:03:14,457 News outlets around the world pick up the story, 74 00:03:14,458 --> 00:03:15,875 leaving everyone astounded. 75 00:03:17,083 --> 00:03:19,416 But perhaps we shouldn't be surprised. 76 00:03:19,417 --> 00:03:22,207 Legends of strange and supernatural events 77 00:03:22,208 --> 00:03:25,374 tied to eclipses go back millennia. 78 00:03:25,375 --> 00:03:27,332 In ancient Mesopotamia 79 00:03:27,333 --> 00:03:29,832 a solar eclipse was deep cause for concern. 80 00:03:29,833 --> 00:03:32,207 Many people thought that a solar eclipse 81 00:03:32,208 --> 00:03:34,832 meant great danger for their king. 82 00:03:34,833 --> 00:03:36,207 So what they would do 83 00:03:36,208 --> 00:03:40,207 is they would appoint a temporary king to rule 84 00:03:40,208 --> 00:03:42,666 until their solar eclipse had subsided, 85 00:03:42,667 --> 00:03:45,583 and then they would put their original king back in place. 86 00:03:46,708 --> 00:03:48,707 There's a theory that UFOs 87 00:03:48,708 --> 00:03:51,874 are more likely to appear during eclipses. 88 00:03:51,875 --> 00:03:57,124 Take, for instance, a mass sighting in July, 1991, 89 00:03:57,125 --> 00:03:59,707 when thousands of Mexico City residents 90 00:03:59,708 --> 00:04:03,667 witnessed this UFO during the total eclipse. 91 00:04:05,042 --> 00:04:08,374 Or, the July, 2009, eclipse, 92 00:04:08,375 --> 00:04:11,874 when Chinese scientists recorded an unidentified object 93 00:04:11,875 --> 00:04:15,707 behind the sun for more than 40 minutes. 94 00:04:15,708 --> 00:04:19,291 Or, the earliest known recorded eclipse 95 00:04:19,292 --> 00:04:21,916 carved 5,000 years ago in Ireland, 96 00:04:21,917 --> 00:04:26,291 which appears to be surrounded by unidentified objects. 97 00:04:26,292 --> 00:04:29,041 I think aliens would be interested 98 00:04:29,042 --> 00:04:31,874 in how we react to a solar eclipse. 99 00:04:31,875 --> 00:04:34,916 We're no longer making sacrifices to our gods 100 00:04:34,917 --> 00:04:36,041 because of the eclipse, 101 00:04:36,042 --> 00:04:37,249 we're actually looking at it 102 00:04:37,250 --> 00:04:40,499 as a scientific event of importance. 103 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:41,707 What was that? 104 00:04:43,417 --> 00:04:45,874 We won't see another total solar eclipse 105 00:04:45,875 --> 00:04:50,582 over the contiguous United States until August, 2044. 106 00:04:50,583 --> 00:04:55,041 Could this video be proof that eclipses are linked to UFOs, 107 00:04:55,042 --> 00:04:58,416 or will we have to wait two more decades to find out? 108 00:04:58,417 --> 00:05:00,374 Let's see what our experts think. 109 00:05:04,125 --> 00:05:05,624 First, we need to ask, 110 00:05:05,625 --> 00:05:08,749 are there really more UFOs during eclipses, 111 00:05:08,750 --> 00:05:11,207 or just more potential eyewitnesses? 112 00:05:11,208 --> 00:05:13,166 During an eclipse, what's everybody doing? 113 00:05:13,167 --> 00:05:14,332 They're looking up. 114 00:05:14,333 --> 00:05:16,374 So, the chances of seeing something 115 00:05:16,375 --> 00:05:18,124 are higher, statistically, 116 00:05:18,125 --> 00:05:20,666 when you've got hundreds of thousands or millions of people 117 00:05:20,667 --> 00:05:22,582 looking up in the sky at once. 118 00:05:22,583 --> 00:05:24,916 They many times will see things 119 00:05:24,917 --> 00:05:27,707 that they're not used to seeing in the sky, 120 00:05:27,708 --> 00:05:29,791 but when we actually go and investigate, 121 00:05:29,792 --> 00:05:33,916 we're usually able to explain all those reported UFOs. 122 00:05:33,917 --> 00:05:35,707 Then what is this? 123 00:05:35,708 --> 00:05:38,749 You can make out the fact that it's fuselage shape, 124 00:05:38,750 --> 00:05:41,666 and then if you get down into the pixel, the closer look, 125 00:05:41,667 --> 00:05:43,207 you can actually see that it does have 126 00:05:43,208 --> 00:05:45,416 some sort of wing structure to it. 127 00:05:45,417 --> 00:05:48,749 This typically matches up with being an aircraft 128 00:05:48,750 --> 00:05:51,207 flying above the cloud layer. 129 00:05:51,208 --> 00:05:52,958 Wait, wings? 130 00:05:54,042 --> 00:05:56,749 We slow down and magnify the video, 131 00:05:56,750 --> 00:05:59,124 and look for the wings in question. 132 00:05:59,125 --> 00:06:00,707 And we're just not seeing them. 133 00:06:00,708 --> 00:06:03,541 But that's not the only proof of a plane. 134 00:06:03,542 --> 00:06:05,166 It's near an airport, 135 00:06:05,167 --> 00:06:09,374 and so, there's gonna be a lot of aircraft activity. 136 00:06:09,375 --> 00:06:11,041 And given these conditions, 137 00:06:11,042 --> 00:06:14,750 a passing plane's shadow could look just like this. 138 00:06:15,750 --> 00:06:16,999 These are cumulus clouds 139 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,416 that are roughly at 3000-feet altitude. 140 00:06:19,417 --> 00:06:20,874 So somewhere above that, 141 00:06:20,875 --> 00:06:22,874 you potentially have got something moving along, 142 00:06:22,875 --> 00:06:26,624 and you would also have the sun in the background. 143 00:06:26,625 --> 00:06:28,332 During an eclipse, 144 00:06:28,333 --> 00:06:30,791 anything running parallel with the crescent sun, 145 00:06:30,792 --> 00:06:34,166 like the plane's fuselage, will have sharp shadows, 146 00:06:34,167 --> 00:06:36,541 while anything running perpendicular, 147 00:06:36,542 --> 00:06:39,582 like the plane's wings, will have fuzzier shadows. 148 00:06:39,583 --> 00:06:42,874 That could explain why the wings aren't visible here. 149 00:06:42,875 --> 00:06:44,582 Potentially, what you're seeing then 150 00:06:44,583 --> 00:06:46,750 would be the shadow of an aircraft. 151 00:06:52,333 --> 00:06:53,916 Our verdict; 152 00:06:53,917 --> 00:06:57,124 this is likely a plane casting one ominous looking shadow 153 00:06:57,125 --> 00:06:58,624 down on the clouds. 154 00:06:58,625 --> 00:07:00,957 During the April, 2024, eclipse, 155 00:07:00,958 --> 00:07:04,832 some airlines even offered special eclipse flights 156 00:07:04,833 --> 00:07:08,874 that offered an extra-long view of this celestial sight. 157 00:07:10,292 --> 00:07:13,541 But now, let's talk about a different kind of tourism: 158 00:07:13,542 --> 00:07:15,207 train travel. 159 00:07:15,208 --> 00:07:18,166 Recently, we profiled a couple of vacationers on a train 160 00:07:18,167 --> 00:07:21,874 who thought they caught a passing glimpse of a Bigfoot. 161 00:07:21,875 --> 00:07:24,541 Well, now, a couple of train passengers 162 00:07:24,542 --> 00:07:28,624 think their video captured a real-life river monster. 163 00:07:29,875 --> 00:07:34,207 July, 2022, Kamloops, British Columbia. 164 00:07:34,208 --> 00:07:36,207 Arti Rani is taking a scenic 165 00:07:36,208 --> 00:07:38,499 Canadian train ride with her family, 166 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:40,457 when she decides to capture some video 167 00:07:40,458 --> 00:07:42,542 of the picturesque Thompson River. 168 00:07:43,750 --> 00:07:46,041 And that's when she captures this. 169 00:07:47,375 --> 00:07:49,707 Look at the waters churning 170 00:07:49,708 --> 00:07:51,416 apparently because of something massive 171 00:07:51,417 --> 00:07:53,541 just beneath the surface. 172 00:07:53,542 --> 00:07:55,041 I just opened the window and said 173 00:07:55,042 --> 00:07:58,624 "Something is very big there, really big." 174 00:07:58,625 --> 00:08:00,832 And when I saw that, I couldn't take off my eyes, 175 00:08:00,833 --> 00:08:03,291 I said "It's something there." 176 00:08:03,292 --> 00:08:04,874 And I was waiting, 177 00:08:04,875 --> 00:08:07,624 because I thought "Maybe, I'll see something else too." 178 00:08:07,625 --> 00:08:09,082 Unfortunately for Arti, 179 00:08:09,083 --> 00:08:12,707 whatever it was never fully revealed itself. 180 00:08:12,708 --> 00:08:14,957 But some believe that this could be evidence 181 00:08:14,958 --> 00:08:17,624 of a creature we've covered in the past. 182 00:08:17,625 --> 00:08:19,082 Looking at this footage, I'm reminded 183 00:08:19,083 --> 00:08:21,916 of one of the most famous sea monsters of all time: 184 00:08:21,917 --> 00:08:25,332 the Cadborosaurus, also known as Caddy. 185 00:08:26,875 --> 00:08:28,916 Named after Cadboro Bay, 186 00:08:28,917 --> 00:08:32,791 located just 200-miles from where Arti's video was shot, 187 00:08:32,792 --> 00:08:34,874 the Cadborosaurus is thought to be 188 00:08:34,875 --> 00:08:37,874 a massive serpentine-like creature 189 00:08:37,875 --> 00:08:40,291 that can reach nearly 60-feet in length. 190 00:08:40,292 --> 00:08:41,791 And according to some reports, 191 00:08:41,792 --> 00:08:43,332 there could be more than one. 192 00:08:43,333 --> 00:08:44,874 There's a very famous sighting 193 00:08:44,875 --> 00:08:48,582 that evolved two float plane pilots in the 1990s. 194 00:08:48,583 --> 00:08:51,082 They were performing maneuvers off the coast, 195 00:08:51,083 --> 00:08:55,541 and they suddenly saw these two 30-foot serpentine animals 196 00:08:55,542 --> 00:08:57,207 swimming in unison through the surf, 197 00:08:57,208 --> 00:09:01,624 and leaving giant wakes in the water with their bodies. 198 00:09:01,625 --> 00:09:04,207 While normally spotted along the ocean, 199 00:09:04,208 --> 00:09:07,499 some have theorized that Caddy could have made its way 200 00:09:07,500 --> 00:09:10,707 up through the numerous connecting rivers. 201 00:09:10,708 --> 00:09:12,332 Meanwhile, others have wondered 202 00:09:12,333 --> 00:09:15,916 if the giant circular shell shape inside this wave 203 00:09:15,917 --> 00:09:19,250 is reminiscent of something like a giant circular shell. 204 00:09:20,583 --> 00:09:22,791 We can kind of see the scutes, the plates 205 00:09:22,792 --> 00:09:25,542 that we would expect to see on a turtle's shell. 206 00:09:26,792 --> 00:09:30,416 There have been accounts of massive turtles 207 00:09:30,417 --> 00:09:31,707 in the world's oceans, 208 00:09:31,708 --> 00:09:34,707 often described as being up to 12-feet long. 209 00:09:36,042 --> 00:09:37,749 And one such prehistoric monster 210 00:09:37,750 --> 00:09:39,582 could be linked to this area. 211 00:09:39,583 --> 00:09:42,624 Archelon is the largest turtle that ever lived. 212 00:09:42,625 --> 00:09:46,499 It was around about 65, 66 million years ago. 213 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:48,457 It lived in the shallow Cretaceous seas 214 00:09:48,458 --> 00:09:50,207 that once covered North America, 215 00:09:50,208 --> 00:09:52,749 it was about 12 to 13-feet long, 216 00:09:52,750 --> 00:09:55,874 and maybe as wide as 15-feet across. 217 00:09:55,875 --> 00:09:57,499 Certainly one could make an argument 218 00:09:57,500 --> 00:09:59,666 that it's not impossible 219 00:09:59,667 --> 00:10:02,124 that something like the Archelon still exists. 220 00:10:03,583 --> 00:10:04,874 Now perhaps you're thinking 221 00:10:04,875 --> 00:10:06,916 what many people on the internet thought 222 00:10:06,917 --> 00:10:09,541 when they first saw this video; 223 00:10:09,542 --> 00:10:11,749 this is just a rock or some object 224 00:10:11,750 --> 00:10:15,832 creating, what looks like, a creature moving underwater, 225 00:10:15,833 --> 00:10:18,541 because the video is shot from a moving train. 226 00:10:18,542 --> 00:10:20,707 We've seen cases like that before. 227 00:10:20,708 --> 00:10:22,707 But when we showed this to our experts, 228 00:10:22,708 --> 00:10:24,416 they had another opinion. 229 00:10:30,375 --> 00:10:33,249 Some people have proposed that what we see here 230 00:10:33,250 --> 00:10:36,041 is just a stationary rock in the water. 231 00:10:36,042 --> 00:10:37,707 I don't think that's the case, 232 00:10:37,708 --> 00:10:41,249 because this wave is propagating at a fairly high velocity 233 00:10:41,250 --> 00:10:42,707 with a lot of force 234 00:10:42,708 --> 00:10:45,416 going towards the left side of the camera. 235 00:10:45,417 --> 00:10:48,624 In fact, it looks like it could be some kind of animal. 236 00:10:48,625 --> 00:10:50,249 If it's biological, 237 00:10:50,250 --> 00:10:53,791 could this be Canada's infamous Cadborosaurus? 238 00:10:53,792 --> 00:10:56,749 What we see here doesn't match the Cadborosaurus. 239 00:10:56,750 --> 00:11:00,124 If a long, sinuous body is moving through water, 240 00:11:00,125 --> 00:11:02,707 you wouldn't expect very much disturbance at all. 241 00:11:02,708 --> 00:11:06,041 Animals in the water are shaped in very specific ways 242 00:11:06,042 --> 00:11:08,957 to preserve energy and retain body heat. 243 00:11:08,958 --> 00:11:10,249 I don't think this is the wake 244 00:11:10,250 --> 00:11:13,041 from a really long snake-like creature, 245 00:11:13,042 --> 00:11:15,707 I would expect a much different wake pattern. 246 00:11:15,708 --> 00:11:17,832 When we're looking at reportings 247 00:11:17,833 --> 00:11:21,749 of Caddy, or Cadborosaurus, in the wild, 248 00:11:21,750 --> 00:11:25,999 typically people are misiding oarfish, seals. 249 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,749 So even if it was some sort of misidentification like that, 250 00:11:29,750 --> 00:11:32,457 again, I would expect to see part of the animal 251 00:11:32,458 --> 00:11:34,791 to be visible on the surface. 252 00:11:34,792 --> 00:11:37,249 And as far as it being an archaic turtle, 253 00:11:37,250 --> 00:11:38,749 like the Archelon, 254 00:11:38,750 --> 00:11:40,374 we're not buying that one either. 255 00:11:40,375 --> 00:11:43,207 There's a few reasons why I wouldn't lean that way. 256 00:11:43,208 --> 00:11:46,041 One, turtles do have to surface to breathe. 257 00:11:46,042 --> 00:11:48,999 So if we are looking at a big sea turtle like that, 258 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:50,957 you would see a nose coming up. 259 00:11:50,958 --> 00:11:53,124 And also, in the lake Cretaceous, 260 00:11:53,125 --> 00:11:55,041 temperatures in the seas over here 261 00:11:55,042 --> 00:11:57,999 used to be a lot warmer than they are now. 262 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,999 Due to the changes in climate, 263 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,042 that sea turtle could no longer exist in this region today. 264 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,249 I've taken into account the location 265 00:12:06,250 --> 00:12:08,749 and all the possible animals this could be, 266 00:12:08,750 --> 00:12:10,874 and I think it's safe to say, 267 00:12:10,875 --> 00:12:13,374 I don't actually know what this is, 268 00:12:13,375 --> 00:12:14,582 or what's causing the wake, 269 00:12:14,583 --> 00:12:16,707 but I know it's very large. 270 00:12:16,708 --> 00:12:19,457 What we're seeing is some kind of large animal 271 00:12:19,458 --> 00:12:21,124 that is creating this wake. 272 00:12:21,125 --> 00:12:22,457 That being said, 273 00:12:22,458 --> 00:12:25,207 I don't see a lot of defining physical features 274 00:12:25,208 --> 00:12:27,874 that would tell me what kind of animal this is. 275 00:12:27,875 --> 00:12:29,749 So it's kind of a mystery. 276 00:12:33,917 --> 00:12:37,207 Our verdict; unidentified creature. 277 00:12:37,208 --> 00:12:38,332 Our experts agree 278 00:12:38,333 --> 00:12:40,874 that whatever this thing is, it's biological, 279 00:12:40,875 --> 00:12:42,624 and it's definitely large. 280 00:12:42,625 --> 00:12:45,082 However, without further evidence, 281 00:12:45,083 --> 00:12:47,500 our investigation is dead in the water. 282 00:12:51,375 --> 00:12:51,500 A question for you. 283 00:12:52,875 --> 00:12:54,832 What's the wildest thing you found lying on the ground? 284 00:12:54,833 --> 00:12:58,207 Maybe some money, some jewelry, a phone? 285 00:12:58,208 --> 00:13:02,041 Well, one family came upon a curious sphere 286 00:13:02,042 --> 00:13:04,666 that appeared to move on its own, 287 00:13:04,667 --> 00:13:06,166 and then it vanished. 288 00:13:06,167 --> 00:13:07,457 What was it? 289 00:13:07,458 --> 00:13:10,207 A mystery that's lasted 50 years. 290 00:13:11,375 --> 00:13:16,167 March 27th, 1974, Fort George Island, Florida, 291 00:13:17,375 --> 00:13:20,207 Jerri and Antoine Betz, along with their son Terry, 292 00:13:20,208 --> 00:13:22,707 are walking in a wooded area near their home 293 00:13:22,708 --> 00:13:24,291 when they find something on the ground 294 00:13:24,292 --> 00:13:26,917 that looks like it's from another planet. 295 00:13:27,667 --> 00:13:29,957 It's a strange metallic sphere, 296 00:13:29,958 --> 00:13:32,041 approximately eight-inches in diameter, 297 00:13:32,042 --> 00:13:34,666 and weighing nearly 22-pounds. 298 00:13:34,667 --> 00:13:37,874 As you can see in this local news footage from the time, 299 00:13:37,875 --> 00:13:41,707 the shiny artifact has no seams or weld marks, 300 00:13:41,708 --> 00:13:44,291 there's nothing to indicate its provenance. 301 00:13:44,292 --> 00:13:47,916 When the Betz family brought this round object home, 302 00:13:47,917 --> 00:13:50,916 they realized it began to behave in some unusual ways. 303 00:13:50,917 --> 00:13:52,582 They would place it on the table, 304 00:13:52,583 --> 00:13:56,082 and it would just randomly roll around and not fall off, 305 00:13:56,083 --> 00:13:57,957 or they would place it on the floor 306 00:13:57,958 --> 00:14:00,999 and it would follow members of the house around. 307 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,082 As word about this sphere began to spread, 308 00:14:04,083 --> 00:14:07,041 scientists conducted a series of tests. 309 00:14:07,042 --> 00:14:08,874 They made a few interesting discoveries. 310 00:14:08,875 --> 00:14:12,166 First, the ball could withstand extreme heat. 311 00:14:12,167 --> 00:14:14,249 It was made out of a stainless steel alloy, 312 00:14:14,250 --> 00:14:18,041 so it was clearly designed to take on a lot of pressure, 313 00:14:18,042 --> 00:14:20,791 about 120,000-pounds per square inch. 314 00:14:20,792 --> 00:14:23,582 So we're dealing with a heavy industrial 315 00:14:23,583 --> 00:14:25,166 piece of metal here. 316 00:14:25,167 --> 00:14:26,707 Could we looking at something 317 00:14:26,708 --> 00:14:28,875 as simple as a massive ball bearing? 318 00:14:30,042 --> 00:14:33,374 A peek inside the sphere only deepens the mystery. 319 00:14:33,375 --> 00:14:36,082 Scientists later performed X-ray of the sphere, 320 00:14:36,083 --> 00:14:37,791 and they discovered that inside 321 00:14:37,792 --> 00:14:40,332 were actually two smaller magnetic spheres 322 00:14:40,333 --> 00:14:43,374 that had four magnetic poles total, 323 00:14:43,375 --> 00:14:45,457 so two positives and two negatives. 324 00:14:46,667 --> 00:14:48,041 Not long after its discovery, 325 00:14:48,042 --> 00:14:50,207 the sphere was examined by a panel of experts, 326 00:14:50,208 --> 00:14:52,707 including astronomer J. Allen Hynek, 327 00:14:52,708 --> 00:14:54,582 the man who was Chief Scientific Advisor 328 00:14:54,583 --> 00:14:56,082 for Project Blue Book, 329 00:14:56,083 --> 00:14:57,916 the Air Force's top secret effort 330 00:14:57,917 --> 00:15:00,541 to investigate suspected UFOs. 331 00:15:02,167 --> 00:15:05,125 Hynek didn't observe anything unusual about the sphere, 332 00:15:06,750 --> 00:15:08,624 but an engineer on the panel revealed 333 00:15:08,625 --> 00:15:12,916 that its magnetic field is over 1000 times more powerful 334 00:15:12,917 --> 00:15:15,416 than that of any known substance. 335 00:15:15,417 --> 00:15:18,832 Could it be some kind of extraterrestrial probe? 336 00:15:18,833 --> 00:15:21,749 If that sounds like a far-fetched theory, 337 00:15:21,750 --> 00:15:23,374 consider a recent discovery 338 00:15:23,375 --> 00:15:26,958 that some believe could be proof of alien tech. 339 00:15:28,042 --> 00:15:30,874 In 2023, Harvard Professor Avi Loeb 340 00:15:30,875 --> 00:15:34,707 went on an expedition to find and recover 50 or so pieces 341 00:15:34,708 --> 00:15:38,874 of these very tiny round kind of granules of meteorite 342 00:15:38,875 --> 00:15:40,041 that came from outer space. 343 00:15:40,042 --> 00:15:42,999 Dr. Loeb's belief is that this meteorite 344 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,041 is perhaps a probe from an intelligent species 345 00:15:46,042 --> 00:15:48,791 that made its way to Earth and crash landed. 346 00:15:51,958 --> 00:15:53,291 According to the Betz family, 347 00:15:53,292 --> 00:15:55,041 while examining the sphere, 348 00:15:55,042 --> 00:15:57,666 a researcher discovered that it was emitting 349 00:15:57,667 --> 00:16:00,082 some sort of radio signal. 350 00:16:00,083 --> 00:16:01,874 This led some to theorize that the object 351 00:16:01,875 --> 00:16:04,374 could be an alien listening device. 352 00:16:04,375 --> 00:16:06,082 To find out if they were right, 353 00:16:06,083 --> 00:16:07,874 we turn to our experts. 354 00:16:11,875 --> 00:16:14,374 Why did this orb move erratically 355 00:16:14,375 --> 00:16:17,291 when the Betz family placed it on a flat surface? 356 00:16:17,292 --> 00:16:20,749 We know that the Betz house was an older house, 357 00:16:20,750 --> 00:16:25,832 and most old houses do have some corner that sunk 358 00:16:25,833 --> 00:16:29,291 a little faster than the other, and the floors are uneven. 359 00:16:29,292 --> 00:16:31,207 That would be a simple explanation 360 00:16:31,208 --> 00:16:34,999 of why the Betz's ball rolled across their old floor. 361 00:16:36,417 --> 00:16:37,791 What about the idea that the Betz sphere 362 00:16:37,792 --> 00:16:41,832 was either an alien probe or part of a spacecraft? 363 00:16:41,833 --> 00:16:43,374 If it had been part of a spacecraft, 364 00:16:43,375 --> 00:16:45,707 you would expect to see some marks on it 365 00:16:45,708 --> 00:16:47,582 from through the atmosphere, 366 00:16:47,583 --> 00:16:49,207 and there's no marks on it. 367 00:16:49,208 --> 00:16:51,249 There's no burn marks, or what's called a fusion crust 368 00:16:51,250 --> 00:16:53,041 on meteorites when they come in. 369 00:16:53,042 --> 00:16:55,166 We don't see anything like that. 370 00:16:55,167 --> 00:16:58,499 Also, you can rule out the idea that it's extraterrestrial, 371 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:01,166 because most of the studies that have been done 372 00:17:01,167 --> 00:17:03,957 shows that all the materials that make up the ball 373 00:17:03,958 --> 00:17:05,582 are found on Earth. 374 00:17:05,583 --> 00:17:07,332 But the question is why would you wanna make 375 00:17:07,333 --> 00:17:09,999 something this big and out of stainless steel? 376 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,874 There could be one explanation. 377 00:17:11,875 --> 00:17:13,999 We know that tiny ball bearings 378 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,957 are in all sorts of machines today, 379 00:17:16,958 --> 00:17:20,707 and larger machines need larger ball bearings. 380 00:17:20,708 --> 00:17:24,457 So, you know, in terms of human technology, 381 00:17:24,458 --> 00:17:28,374 balls made of metal of all sorts of diameters 382 00:17:28,375 --> 00:17:33,041 are relatively common in the machine world. 383 00:17:33,042 --> 00:17:35,082 And as for those strange radio signals 384 00:17:35,083 --> 00:17:37,207 the sphere was emitting, 385 00:17:37,208 --> 00:17:38,999 maybe they weren't so strange. 386 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,249 The idea that it emitted radio signals, 387 00:17:41,250 --> 00:17:42,791 that wouldn't surprise me 388 00:17:42,792 --> 00:17:45,541 since it's really just a huge hunk of stainless steel. 389 00:17:45,542 --> 00:17:48,249 If it had some impurities in that metal, 390 00:17:48,250 --> 00:17:50,749 then it might be able to act like an antenna 391 00:17:50,750 --> 00:17:53,083 and pick up some minor stuff once in a while. 392 00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:56,707 Unfortunately, there's no way to be able to identify 393 00:17:56,708 --> 00:17:59,249 and actually look inside and see what's there, 394 00:17:59,250 --> 00:18:00,792 because the ball disappeared. 395 00:18:01,833 --> 00:18:02,791 That's right. 396 00:18:02,792 --> 00:18:04,832 For years, the sphere seen here 397 00:18:04,833 --> 00:18:07,416 at a panel of UFO investigators 398 00:18:07,417 --> 00:18:10,207 changed hands between different researchers 399 00:18:10,208 --> 00:18:12,124 and institutions, 400 00:18:12,125 --> 00:18:15,832 then it vanished without a trace. 401 00:18:15,833 --> 00:18:20,249 It's not available for study, which is a big red flag 402 00:18:20,250 --> 00:18:22,374 from the scientific point of view. 403 00:18:22,375 --> 00:18:25,249 As a person who looks into these kind of phenomenon, 404 00:18:25,250 --> 00:18:29,957 its non-existence alone makes me suspicious of its origin. 405 00:18:33,958 --> 00:18:36,499 Our verdict; unexplained. 406 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:40,624 The Betz sphere might just be an industrial ball bearing, 407 00:18:40,625 --> 00:18:44,249 but why the mysterious magnetic charges inside it? 408 00:18:44,250 --> 00:18:46,999 And where on Earth is this thing? 409 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,166 As of now, it's lost to history, 410 00:18:49,167 --> 00:18:51,749 leaving us with more questions than answers. 411 00:18:51,750 --> 00:18:54,833 In other words, this ball's up in the air. 412 00:18:59,000 --> 00:18:59,208 We've heard of moon truthers 413 00:19:00,208 --> 00:19:02,207 who think the lunar landings were hoaxes, 414 00:19:02,208 --> 00:19:05,457 but did you know there are also time truthers out there 415 00:19:05,458 --> 00:19:10,375 who claim we're actually closer to the year 1725 than 2025? 416 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:12,166 What's their proof? 417 00:19:12,167 --> 00:19:13,332 Take a look. 418 00:19:13,333 --> 00:19:15,457 We're in Aachen, Germany, for this one, 419 00:19:15,458 --> 00:19:18,082 specifically at the city's historic Cathedral 420 00:19:18,083 --> 00:19:20,999 constructed around the late eighth century. 421 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,541 Its chapel is where the great King Charlemagne was buried. 422 00:19:24,542 --> 00:19:29,542 He ruled much of the continent from 768 to 814 AD. 423 00:19:30,708 --> 00:19:33,749 But for some, that last part about Charlemagne's rule 424 00:19:33,750 --> 00:19:35,374 is a complete fiction. 425 00:19:35,375 --> 00:19:37,291 When some people look at this Cathedral, 426 00:19:37,292 --> 00:19:39,291 they see the impossible 427 00:19:39,292 --> 00:19:42,916 that it could not have been built in the year 800. 428 00:19:42,917 --> 00:19:44,332 And they're trying to prove 429 00:19:44,333 --> 00:19:46,957 that important historical figures like Charlemagne 430 00:19:46,958 --> 00:19:48,957 never actually existed. 431 00:19:48,958 --> 00:19:50,207 Excuse me? 432 00:19:50,208 --> 00:19:52,041 We've heard of rewriting history, 433 00:19:52,042 --> 00:19:54,874 but fabricating it, centuries worth? 434 00:19:54,875 --> 00:19:58,291 The idea is known as the Phantom Time Hypothesis. 435 00:19:58,292 --> 00:20:00,832 The Phantom Time Hypothesis was first floated 436 00:20:00,833 --> 00:20:04,416 by German historian, Heribert Illig, in 1991. 437 00:20:04,417 --> 00:20:05,874 According to this theory, 438 00:20:05,875 --> 00:20:10,750 the years between 614 and 911 simply didn't exist. 439 00:20:11,833 --> 00:20:13,082 Okay, this is tricky, 440 00:20:13,083 --> 00:20:16,082 so please pay attention as we explain. 441 00:20:16,083 --> 00:20:18,707 The Phantom Time Hypothesis posits 442 00:20:18,708 --> 00:20:22,457 that Pope Sylvester II and Emperor Otto III, 443 00:20:22,458 --> 00:20:27,458 who ruled in about 1000 AD actually lived back in the 700s. 444 00:20:29,375 --> 00:20:31,916 And they forged historical documents 445 00:20:31,917 --> 00:20:35,082 to add 300 years to the timeline. 446 00:20:35,083 --> 00:20:37,249 But why would they go to this trouble? 447 00:20:37,250 --> 00:20:39,374 The idea is they wanted to align their reigns 448 00:20:39,375 --> 00:20:41,041 with the year 1000, 449 00:20:41,042 --> 00:20:44,291 exactly one millennium after the birth of Jesus Christ, 450 00:20:44,292 --> 00:20:46,249 which they believed would've made their reigns 451 00:20:46,250 --> 00:20:48,457 more historically significant. 452 00:20:48,458 --> 00:20:49,707 An interesting story. 453 00:20:49,708 --> 00:20:52,416 Who doesn't love a good papal conspiracy? 454 00:20:52,417 --> 00:20:53,874 But where's the proof? 455 00:20:53,875 --> 00:20:57,332 Inter German Researcher, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Niemitz, 456 00:20:57,333 --> 00:21:00,749 he pointed to several forged documents from the era, 457 00:21:00,750 --> 00:21:03,624 and believes the church faked these documents, 458 00:21:03,625 --> 00:21:06,457 deeds for land and other trivial papers. 459 00:21:06,458 --> 00:21:08,707 To make it look like things have been happening 460 00:21:08,708 --> 00:21:11,832 in those years, they fast-forwarded over. 461 00:21:11,833 --> 00:21:13,416 And there are others who claim to have found 462 00:21:13,417 --> 00:21:14,707 forged documents from that era, 463 00:21:14,708 --> 00:21:17,332 including a professor at Exeter University. 464 00:21:17,333 --> 00:21:20,249 He discovered 17 forged documents 465 00:21:20,250 --> 00:21:21,916 by monks at a monastery 466 00:21:21,917 --> 00:21:23,999 from the early 1000s. 467 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,624 How does Aachen Cathedral fit into all this? 468 00:21:27,625 --> 00:21:30,041 Niemitz said it was another example 469 00:21:30,042 --> 00:21:34,957 of the church fudging records to backfill missing centuries. 470 00:21:34,958 --> 00:21:36,457 He said the church 471 00:21:36,458 --> 00:21:40,041 was too architecturally advanced for the year 800, 472 00:21:40,042 --> 00:21:41,374 and was built later. 473 00:21:41,375 --> 00:21:42,749 According to Dr. Niemitz, 474 00:21:42,750 --> 00:21:46,374 there are no other cathedrals within 150 years 475 00:21:46,375 --> 00:21:49,124 of when Aachen Cathedral was said to have been built 476 00:21:49,125 --> 00:21:50,666 that have similar features. 477 00:21:50,667 --> 00:21:53,291 The cupola was built of stone, 478 00:21:53,292 --> 00:21:55,707 and the Franks at the time were building with wood. 479 00:21:55,708 --> 00:21:58,249 There were also more than 20 other features 480 00:21:58,250 --> 00:22:01,207 that he said he had not found in cathedrals 481 00:22:01,208 --> 00:22:04,625 built immediately before or after this one. 482 00:22:07,375 --> 00:22:11,207 Now, powerful people changing history to suit them 483 00:22:11,208 --> 00:22:12,707 is nothing new. 484 00:22:12,708 --> 00:22:16,166 In ancient Egypt, after the death of King Tutankhamun, 485 00:22:16,167 --> 00:22:17,541 court officials tried their best 486 00:22:17,542 --> 00:22:20,874 to erase any historical reference to the former pharaoh, 487 00:22:20,875 --> 00:22:24,291 but did a powerful cabal really fast forward the calendar 488 00:22:24,292 --> 00:22:26,291 and make up three centuries? 489 00:22:26,292 --> 00:22:29,124 Putting it mildly, we need some proof. 490 00:22:33,167 --> 00:22:35,916 One part of the theory is fact. 491 00:22:35,917 --> 00:22:39,541 Forgeries by clergy in the Middle Ages were widespread, 492 00:22:39,542 --> 00:22:41,707 especially when it came to land deeds. 493 00:22:41,708 --> 00:22:43,999 The best conspiracy theories 494 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,999 always have at their heart a grain of truth. 495 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,457 And, in this case, it is absolutely true 496 00:22:50,458 --> 00:22:53,624 that documents were being forged left and right 497 00:22:53,625 --> 00:22:55,291 in the medieval times. 498 00:22:55,292 --> 00:22:59,666 The priests were doing this for, sometimes, simple reasons, 499 00:22:59,667 --> 00:23:02,707 these forgeries were kind of precautions 500 00:23:02,708 --> 00:23:07,667 against the growingly powerful aristocracy 501 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,707 and their claims that they in fact owned the land, 502 00:23:10,708 --> 00:23:12,332 not the church. 503 00:23:12,333 --> 00:23:14,582 The missing time theory is extremely flawed. 504 00:23:14,583 --> 00:23:17,624 How can one pope in one country on one continent 505 00:23:17,625 --> 00:23:19,791 convince the entire planet, 506 00:23:19,792 --> 00:23:23,874 including people in Africa, Asia, and Australia, 507 00:23:23,875 --> 00:23:26,124 to all just make up a few hundred years 508 00:23:26,125 --> 00:23:29,249 in their history books and make up fictional people? 509 00:23:29,250 --> 00:23:31,666 The Phantom Time Hypothesis 510 00:23:31,667 --> 00:23:36,541 uses purely European historical examples 511 00:23:36,542 --> 00:23:37,957 to build its argument. 512 00:23:37,958 --> 00:23:42,332 We have probably thousands of documents from China 513 00:23:42,333 --> 00:23:45,874 that talk about a very verifiable narrative 514 00:23:45,875 --> 00:23:47,999 of history happening at that time. 515 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,374 We also have Maya writing 516 00:23:50,375 --> 00:23:52,499 that goes right through that time period, 517 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:55,707 and we connect those historical events 518 00:23:55,708 --> 00:23:58,124 through carbon-14 dates. 519 00:23:58,125 --> 00:24:02,666 So no other culture seems to be missing 300 years. 520 00:24:02,667 --> 00:24:06,207 Then why did Aachen Cathedral look so advanced for its time? 521 00:24:06,208 --> 00:24:09,832 When we look at what it is and what it represented, 522 00:24:09,833 --> 00:24:12,291 I think it makes sense in its context. 523 00:24:12,292 --> 00:24:16,874 Charlemagne had resources from the entire area of Europe. 524 00:24:16,875 --> 00:24:18,624 So even though there wasn't a tradition 525 00:24:18,625 --> 00:24:20,457 of this kind of architecture here, 526 00:24:20,458 --> 00:24:22,874 he took people from far, far away, 527 00:24:22,875 --> 00:24:25,707 and ideas and architecture from far away, 528 00:24:25,708 --> 00:24:28,749 and established his new kingdom there. 529 00:24:32,833 --> 00:24:35,582 Our verdict; debunked theory. 530 00:24:35,583 --> 00:24:36,874 Those three centuries 531 00:24:36,875 --> 00:24:40,041 are staying right where they've always been. 532 00:24:40,042 --> 00:24:42,249 So the old adage is true, 533 00:24:42,250 --> 00:24:44,083 none of us is getting any younger. 534 00:24:47,958 --> 00:24:48,042 UFO cloaking. 535 00:24:49,333 --> 00:24:51,707 The idea that UFOs can hide or disappear to avoid detection 536 00:24:51,708 --> 00:24:55,041 has been a hot topic among believers for years. 537 00:24:55,042 --> 00:24:57,707 Is alien tech lurking in plain sight? 538 00:24:57,708 --> 00:25:01,708 And do two classic UFO photos provide the proof? 539 00:25:02,542 --> 00:25:04,957 March 22nd, 1966. 540 00:25:04,958 --> 00:25:08,832 It's a clear morning on Chalk Mountain in Climax, Colorado, 541 00:25:08,833 --> 00:25:11,541 and technicians Robert Rinker and Wilbur Johnson 542 00:25:11,542 --> 00:25:13,457 are taking the snowcat for a spin, 543 00:25:13,458 --> 00:25:15,124 snapping photographs 544 00:25:15,125 --> 00:25:17,082 around their weather station. 545 00:25:17,083 --> 00:25:20,041 As far as they remember, it's an uneventful morning, 546 00:25:20,042 --> 00:25:23,750 but when Rinker develops the film, he discovers this. 547 00:25:24,833 --> 00:25:26,957 An enormous saucer-shaped object 548 00:25:26,958 --> 00:25:29,499 appears to hover above the mountains. 549 00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:31,166 It has two distinct parts, 550 00:25:31,167 --> 00:25:35,416 a wide-domed top and a ridge wrapping around the bottom. 551 00:25:35,417 --> 00:25:37,582 What's most peculiar about the object 552 00:25:37,583 --> 00:25:39,874 is that it appears to be translucent. 553 00:25:39,875 --> 00:25:42,791 Coincidentally, this wasn't the only picture 554 00:25:42,792 --> 00:25:44,624 that was taken that year 555 00:25:44,625 --> 00:25:48,791 that showed some sort of translucent or transparent UFO. 556 00:25:48,792 --> 00:25:51,749 In fact, in Hillsdale County, Michigan, 557 00:25:51,750 --> 00:25:55,124 there's another photograph of something similar. 558 00:25:55,125 --> 00:25:58,207 Just one day before the Colorado photo is snapped, 559 00:25:58,208 --> 00:26:01,041 the Hillsdale County Civil Defense Director, 560 00:26:01,042 --> 00:26:04,291 William van Horn, arrives at Hillsdale College 561 00:26:04,292 --> 00:26:06,291 to investigate strange lights 562 00:26:06,292 --> 00:26:08,541 spotted by a group of students. 563 00:26:08,542 --> 00:26:10,624 Their sighting is just the latest 564 00:26:10,625 --> 00:26:13,374 in a wave of sightings across Michigan. 565 00:26:13,375 --> 00:26:14,832 And when William arrives, 566 00:26:14,833 --> 00:26:18,207 he too sees the strange object in the sky. 567 00:26:18,208 --> 00:26:20,374 After that, it doesn't take long 568 00:26:20,375 --> 00:26:21,957 for the Air Force to get involved. 569 00:26:21,958 --> 00:26:24,457 The Air Force conducted its own investigation. 570 00:26:24,458 --> 00:26:28,332 And surprise, surprise, they concluded it was swamp gas. 571 00:26:28,333 --> 00:26:30,624 So Mr. William van Horn 572 00:26:30,625 --> 00:26:33,374 decided to release this photograph 573 00:26:33,375 --> 00:26:37,041 in order to challenge the Air Force's official position. 574 00:26:37,042 --> 00:26:41,541 Van Horn's UFO picture was also translucent 575 00:26:41,542 --> 00:26:42,874 and saucer-shaped. 576 00:26:44,042 --> 00:26:45,749 Could these translucent saucers 577 00:26:45,750 --> 00:26:49,625 be proof of a theory popular among UFO believers? 578 00:26:50,667 --> 00:26:51,916 There was discussion whether or not 579 00:26:51,917 --> 00:26:53,666 this was evidence of cloaking, 580 00:26:53,667 --> 00:26:56,666 whether an alien was using some technology 581 00:26:56,667 --> 00:26:59,207 to camouflage itself within its surroundings. 582 00:26:59,208 --> 00:27:02,374 The idea is that UFOs have the technology 583 00:27:02,375 --> 00:27:06,832 to turn invisible, or cloak, to evade detection, 584 00:27:06,833 --> 00:27:08,207 which would explain 585 00:27:08,208 --> 00:27:10,874 why there are so few clear photos of them. 586 00:27:10,875 --> 00:27:13,624 Could this be evidence that aliens have been hiding 587 00:27:13,625 --> 00:27:15,708 in plain sight this whole time? 588 00:27:17,875 --> 00:27:20,541 If aliens invisible to the human eye 589 00:27:20,542 --> 00:27:22,249 really are living among us, 590 00:27:22,250 --> 00:27:26,125 does that mean there could be one here or here? 591 00:27:27,708 --> 00:27:30,874 And do these photos offer proof that they've arrived? 592 00:27:30,875 --> 00:27:33,082 Our experts look into it. 593 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,707 Before we stampede towards some exotic theory, 594 00:27:40,708 --> 00:27:43,749 we ask if this UFO could just be a cloud. 595 00:27:43,750 --> 00:27:45,582 My first thought when I first saw this image 596 00:27:45,583 --> 00:27:48,416 is that we're looking at a lenticular cloud. 597 00:27:48,417 --> 00:27:51,374 Lenticular clouds often look like a contact lens, 598 00:27:51,375 --> 00:27:53,083 a concave shape. 599 00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:56,082 Lenticular clouds form 600 00:27:56,083 --> 00:27:59,999 when wind pushes moist air up onto a mountaintop, 601 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,957 then, as the air cools, it forms a cloud. 602 00:28:03,958 --> 00:28:08,041 Interestingly enough, the weather on March 22nd, 1966, 603 00:28:08,042 --> 00:28:11,707 showed that the lowest wind speeds across the country 604 00:28:11,708 --> 00:28:13,874 were right over Chalk Mountain. 605 00:28:13,875 --> 00:28:16,707 So I don't think the conditions were right 606 00:28:16,708 --> 00:28:18,667 for a lenticular cloud to form. 607 00:28:19,833 --> 00:28:21,832 Plus, a cloud would've been plain to see 608 00:28:21,833 --> 00:28:23,124 for the two eyewitnesses. 609 00:28:23,125 --> 00:28:26,207 So, could it be that an invisible UFO 610 00:28:26,208 --> 00:28:28,707 was hiding right before their very eyes 611 00:28:28,708 --> 00:28:30,541 only to be captured on film? 612 00:28:31,750 --> 00:28:34,541 If a UFO is visible only in the UV, 613 00:28:34,542 --> 00:28:35,791 the ultraviolet spectrum, 614 00:28:35,792 --> 00:28:37,582 then we wouldn't see it with our eyes, 615 00:28:37,583 --> 00:28:39,166 we would only see it with a camera 616 00:28:39,167 --> 00:28:41,374 that can look at ultraviolet spectrum. 617 00:28:41,375 --> 00:28:44,957 But this photo was taken with a Zeiss Ikon camera, 618 00:28:44,958 --> 00:28:47,374 which wasn't any such type. 619 00:28:47,375 --> 00:28:49,624 Then what the heck is that thing 620 00:28:49,625 --> 00:28:52,541 hovering just outside the snowcat? 621 00:28:52,542 --> 00:28:55,332 Well, maybe it was inside. 622 00:28:55,333 --> 00:28:58,541 This is very likely a reflection in the window 623 00:28:58,542 --> 00:29:00,041 through which the photo was taken. 624 00:29:00,042 --> 00:29:02,541 And if he's in a close-quarters cockpit 625 00:29:02,542 --> 00:29:04,332 of a snowcat or something, 626 00:29:04,333 --> 00:29:07,416 that dome light fixture is gonna be right over his head. 627 00:29:07,417 --> 00:29:09,082 And so, he's gonna probably take that picture 628 00:29:09,083 --> 00:29:11,624 through the window, lean toward the window, 629 00:29:11,625 --> 00:29:14,082 and then you're gonna see the virtual image of the cockpit, 630 00:29:14,083 --> 00:29:16,791 of light, in the background. 631 00:29:16,792 --> 00:29:19,249 And we think something similar happened 632 00:29:19,250 --> 00:29:20,582 in the Michigan photo. 633 00:29:20,583 --> 00:29:21,791 One thing that tells you 634 00:29:21,792 --> 00:29:24,082 that it's not something in the sky 635 00:29:24,083 --> 00:29:26,999 is the fact that the sun is exactly as far away 636 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,457 from the center as this is away from the center. 637 00:29:29,458 --> 00:29:33,624 That is one of the hallmarks of the photo artifact 638 00:29:33,625 --> 00:29:35,207 we call a lens flare, 639 00:29:35,208 --> 00:29:37,000 and that's what we're seeing here. 640 00:29:42,875 --> 00:29:46,707 Our verdict; a reflection and a lens flare. 641 00:29:46,708 --> 00:29:50,041 These weren't UFOs in hidden light spectrums, 642 00:29:50,042 --> 00:29:52,875 they were tricks of light in the spectrum we do see. 643 00:29:57,083 --> 00:29:58,541 We know whales are one of the smartest species 644 00:29:58,542 --> 00:29:59,874 on the planet, 645 00:29:59,875 --> 00:30:01,666 and they communicate with each other, 646 00:30:01,667 --> 00:30:05,166 but are they also trying to talk to us? 647 00:30:05,167 --> 00:30:08,000 And if so, are they doing it with math? 648 00:30:09,292 --> 00:30:11,166 January, 2024, 649 00:30:11,167 --> 00:30:14,166 wildlife photographer Piet van den Bemd 650 00:30:14,167 --> 00:30:17,166 is flying a drone over the dark Antarctic waters 651 00:30:17,167 --> 00:30:19,082 filming some humpback whales, 652 00:30:19,083 --> 00:30:21,791 when he captures something stunning. 653 00:30:23,250 --> 00:30:27,041 Two formations of a spiral pattern emerge in the water 654 00:30:27,042 --> 00:30:28,416 made up of little bubbles, 655 00:30:28,417 --> 00:30:31,874 slowly rising and then bursting at the surface. 656 00:30:31,875 --> 00:30:36,041 Then, in the center, the two aquatic artists emerge, 657 00:30:36,042 --> 00:30:38,916 breaching from the water and disrupting the pattern, 658 00:30:38,917 --> 00:30:39,917 before moving on. 659 00:30:41,208 --> 00:30:42,707 I started to follow particular whales, 660 00:30:42,708 --> 00:30:45,707 and you can see the dive sequences, 661 00:30:45,708 --> 00:30:47,374 and then they blow bubbles. 662 00:30:47,375 --> 00:30:50,041 So these bubbles, they created that spiral. 663 00:30:50,042 --> 00:30:52,291 There were only two whales involved, 664 00:30:52,292 --> 00:30:54,832 and they just synchronized perfectly. 665 00:30:54,833 --> 00:30:56,166 And they did it only once, 666 00:30:56,167 --> 00:30:58,499 and I was lucky enough to be there. 667 00:30:58,500 --> 00:30:59,874 Some have speculated 668 00:30:59,875 --> 00:31:02,082 the whales were trying to communicate 669 00:31:02,083 --> 00:31:04,624 using a mysterious mathematical formula 670 00:31:04,625 --> 00:31:06,916 called the Fibonacci sequence. 671 00:31:06,917 --> 00:31:09,707 It's named after the 13th century mathematician, 672 00:31:09,708 --> 00:31:14,457 Leonardo Fibonacci, who first noticed it, well, everywhere. 673 00:31:16,292 --> 00:31:21,333 The sequence is often found in nature where each number 674 00:31:22,458 --> 00:31:24,332 is the sum of the two digits proceeding it. 675 00:31:24,333 --> 00:31:28,874 Imagine a tree branch splitting into two, 676 00:31:28,875 --> 00:31:32,874 and then into three, and then into five. 677 00:31:32,875 --> 00:31:34,207 And if you build a table 678 00:31:34,208 --> 00:31:36,416 with all these numbers in sequence, 679 00:31:36,417 --> 00:31:39,707 and draw a line through them, it forms a shape 680 00:31:39,708 --> 00:31:40,791 you'll recognize. 681 00:31:40,792 --> 00:31:42,791 The Fibonacci sequence 682 00:31:42,792 --> 00:31:44,832 looks very much like a spiral. 683 00:31:44,833 --> 00:31:47,041 These types of spirals are well represented 684 00:31:47,042 --> 00:31:48,374 in the natural world. 685 00:31:48,375 --> 00:31:51,041 We can see them in the shells of the nautilus, 686 00:31:51,042 --> 00:31:53,207 in certain types of snails, 687 00:31:53,208 --> 00:31:56,374 and most certainly in different types of plant life. 688 00:31:56,375 --> 00:31:58,249 This has led people to speculate 689 00:31:58,250 --> 00:32:00,957 that the Fibonacci sequence is a sign 690 00:32:00,958 --> 00:32:02,666 that the universe is connected, 691 00:32:02,667 --> 00:32:06,749 and that God or some other divine force is behind it. 692 00:32:06,750 --> 00:32:09,082 Are the whales tapped into that, 693 00:32:09,083 --> 00:32:10,332 and trying to tell us something? 694 00:32:10,333 --> 00:32:12,541 It really begs the question, 695 00:32:12,542 --> 00:32:15,332 are these animals trying to communicate with us? 696 00:32:15,333 --> 00:32:16,999 Perhaps they're trying to warn us 697 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,041 about pollution in the Earth's oceans 698 00:32:19,042 --> 00:32:21,374 or other natural catastrophes. 699 00:32:21,375 --> 00:32:23,999 Certainly, the Fibonacci sequence 700 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,791 would be recognized by all life forms 701 00:32:26,792 --> 00:32:28,916 as a universal code or language. 702 00:32:32,792 --> 00:32:34,374 Right before the disastrous 703 00:32:34,375 --> 00:32:37,291 Indian ocean tsunami hit in 2004, 704 00:32:37,292 --> 00:32:41,082 several elephants in Sri Lanka refused to go near the shore, 705 00:32:41,083 --> 00:32:43,541 and some even fled to higher ground. 706 00:32:43,542 --> 00:32:45,707 Locals believe that they actually sensed 707 00:32:45,708 --> 00:32:47,416 the devastation to come. 708 00:32:47,417 --> 00:32:50,249 Could these whales be sensing something too? 709 00:32:50,250 --> 00:32:53,374 And are they trying to warn us? 710 00:32:53,375 --> 00:32:55,249 Let's see what our experts think. 711 00:32:59,625 --> 00:33:03,624 First things first, can whales actually talk to us? 712 00:33:03,625 --> 00:33:06,041 The answer is, sort of. 713 00:33:06,042 --> 00:33:07,499 A recent study has shown 714 00:33:07,500 --> 00:33:09,916 that there is potential for some kind of dialogue 715 00:33:09,917 --> 00:33:12,541 between humans and whales. 716 00:33:12,542 --> 00:33:15,624 That being said, we initiated that conversation... 717 00:33:15,625 --> 00:33:16,832 Hello. 718 00:33:16,833 --> 00:33:18,499 Hello. 719 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:19,874 And they responded. 720 00:33:19,875 --> 00:33:22,082 We don't know at what level 721 00:33:22,083 --> 00:33:26,082 that was actually a conversation versus mimicry. 722 00:33:26,083 --> 00:33:27,374 What about the idea 723 00:33:27,375 --> 00:33:29,874 that they're using the Fibonacci sequence here 724 00:33:29,875 --> 00:33:31,333 to communicate through math? 725 00:33:32,083 --> 00:33:33,707 Well, it turns out 726 00:33:33,708 --> 00:33:37,041 this may not be a Fibonacci spiral after all. 727 00:33:37,042 --> 00:33:40,207 The Fibonacci spiral is nonlinear, 728 00:33:40,208 --> 00:33:42,207 it's a logarithmic spiral. 729 00:33:42,208 --> 00:33:46,707 That means it keeps expanding more with each turn. 730 00:33:46,708 --> 00:33:48,374 If we look at the spiral 731 00:33:48,375 --> 00:33:52,374 that's being generated by these whales here, 732 00:33:52,375 --> 00:33:56,332 the bubbles are approximately equally spaced. 733 00:33:56,333 --> 00:33:59,041 While this is a beautiful spiral, 734 00:33:59,042 --> 00:34:01,874 it is not a Fibonacci spiral. 735 00:34:01,875 --> 00:34:04,416 So what are we looking at? 736 00:34:04,417 --> 00:34:07,707 What we're seeing here is known as bubble net feeding. 737 00:34:07,708 --> 00:34:09,166 What the animals are doing 738 00:34:09,167 --> 00:34:12,207 are creating an increasingly narrow set of circles 739 00:34:12,208 --> 00:34:14,541 that herd a group of fish together 740 00:34:14,542 --> 00:34:17,416 so that when they reach the surface of the water, 741 00:34:17,417 --> 00:34:20,166 they can essentially engulf all of them at once, 742 00:34:20,167 --> 00:34:22,291 multiple whales work together 743 00:34:22,292 --> 00:34:24,624 to create a net out of bubbles. 744 00:34:24,625 --> 00:34:27,499 And the net that they're creating looks like a spiral 745 00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:29,207 on the surface. 746 00:34:29,208 --> 00:34:31,041 This footage is pretty incredible 747 00:34:31,042 --> 00:34:33,207 in the marine biology world. 748 00:34:33,208 --> 00:34:35,041 It's only in the last decade or so 749 00:34:35,042 --> 00:34:37,374 that our technology, like drones, 750 00:34:37,375 --> 00:34:41,082 have been able to actually capture above ground shots 751 00:34:41,083 --> 00:34:43,874 of these animals in doing these behaviors. 752 00:34:49,542 --> 00:34:52,499 Our verdict; we agree with Shea Steingass. 753 00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:56,374 What we are seeing here are bubble net formations. 754 00:34:56,375 --> 00:34:59,291 One study found that humpbacks even tailor their nets 755 00:34:59,292 --> 00:35:01,416 depending on the type of food they're eating. 756 00:35:01,417 --> 00:35:05,291 And while not as extraordinary as sending a coded message, 757 00:35:05,292 --> 00:35:08,458 this is a phenomenon that's extremely rare to see. 758 00:35:12,208 --> 00:35:13,541 What if there were an extraterrestrial technology 759 00:35:13,542 --> 00:35:16,499 that could harness the power of a star? 760 00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:19,791 In 1960, Physicist Freeman Dyson theorized 761 00:35:19,792 --> 00:35:23,707 that advanced aliens might create mega structures 762 00:35:23,708 --> 00:35:27,374 to surround stars and capture their energy. 763 00:35:27,375 --> 00:35:31,208 Are a set of deep space photos proof it's already happened? 764 00:35:32,208 --> 00:35:35,375 May, 2024, London, England, 765 00:35:36,375 --> 00:35:38,207 an international team of scientists 766 00:35:38,208 --> 00:35:40,249 releases a groundbreaking study 767 00:35:40,250 --> 00:35:42,332 in the Royal Astronomical Journal 768 00:35:42,333 --> 00:35:45,332 naming their endeavor Project Hephaistos. 769 00:35:45,333 --> 00:35:48,707 They sifted through decades of research on millions of stars 770 00:35:48,708 --> 00:35:52,374 in search of evidence to prove Dyson's theory. 771 00:35:52,375 --> 00:35:54,332 And they found this. 772 00:35:54,333 --> 00:35:56,957 You're looking at infrared readings 773 00:35:56,958 --> 00:35:59,166 from deep space telescopes. 774 00:35:59,167 --> 00:36:01,332 The dense black dots stand out, 775 00:36:01,333 --> 00:36:05,249 because they are giving off massive amounts of infrared heat 776 00:36:05,250 --> 00:36:06,667 from an unknown source. 777 00:36:07,792 --> 00:36:09,707 The researchers say that heat 778 00:36:09,708 --> 00:36:12,249 could be one of these Dyson spheres 779 00:36:12,250 --> 00:36:15,041 harvesting the power of a star. 780 00:36:15,042 --> 00:36:17,041 Freeman Dyson initially proposed 781 00:36:17,042 --> 00:36:20,041 that it was a large structure 782 00:36:20,042 --> 00:36:22,332 that a very advanced civilization 783 00:36:22,333 --> 00:36:25,541 could build around their host star. 784 00:36:25,542 --> 00:36:28,749 But as his theory developed and progressed, 785 00:36:28,750 --> 00:36:31,249 Dyson postulated that perhaps a Dyson sphere 786 00:36:31,250 --> 00:36:34,166 doesn't necessarily need to be one structure, 787 00:36:34,167 --> 00:36:39,249 but rather a series of smaller objects that surround the sun 788 00:36:39,250 --> 00:36:41,707 that are connected via some sort of network, 789 00:36:41,708 --> 00:36:45,707 and are able to collect energy from that sun. 790 00:36:45,708 --> 00:36:49,499 Now the sun emits as much energy in 15 minutes 791 00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:52,749 as the entire Earth consumes in a year. 792 00:36:52,750 --> 00:36:56,332 And any technology that could harness such energy 793 00:36:56,333 --> 00:36:59,458 would leave telltale clues in the infrared spectrum. 794 00:37:00,750 --> 00:37:02,707 These are what scientists call technosignatures. 795 00:37:02,708 --> 00:37:04,457 They're not really sure what they are, 796 00:37:04,458 --> 00:37:06,291 but the reason why they look 797 00:37:06,292 --> 00:37:08,374 for these excessive infrared emissions 798 00:37:08,375 --> 00:37:11,041 is because any Dyson sphere 799 00:37:11,042 --> 00:37:12,541 is gonna start generating a lot of heat, 800 00:37:12,542 --> 00:37:14,249 because it's soaking up solar energy. 801 00:37:14,250 --> 00:37:16,249 Think of it like a car engine. 802 00:37:16,250 --> 00:37:18,499 The harder you run a car engine, 803 00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:21,041 it's gonna generate more heat. 804 00:37:22,583 --> 00:37:24,874 Fresh off the groundbreaking discovery from England, 805 00:37:24,875 --> 00:37:29,291 a second study from Italy found a whopping 53 stars 806 00:37:29,292 --> 00:37:32,582 showing similar potential technosignatures. 807 00:37:32,583 --> 00:37:35,207 Did this new research reveal definitive proof 808 00:37:35,208 --> 00:37:39,374 of Dyson spheres and advanced alien life? 809 00:37:39,375 --> 00:37:41,707 We turned to our experts to find out. 810 00:37:45,833 --> 00:37:49,582 First, is something natural heating up around these stars 811 00:37:49,583 --> 00:37:52,541 that would explain this extreme heat signature? 812 00:37:52,542 --> 00:37:56,249 It's possible that we are observing 813 00:37:56,250 --> 00:37:58,707 an excess infrared radiation 814 00:37:58,708 --> 00:38:02,624 because of discs of dust and debris. 815 00:38:02,625 --> 00:38:04,874 These discs form around stars 816 00:38:04,875 --> 00:38:08,124 when stars are forming planetary systems. 817 00:38:08,125 --> 00:38:09,291 And they're disc-shaped, 818 00:38:09,292 --> 00:38:11,624 because they tend to get flattened 819 00:38:11,625 --> 00:38:16,457 because of the angular momentum of stars as they rotate. 820 00:38:16,458 --> 00:38:21,458 This can cause a heating that generates infrared radiation 821 00:38:22,542 --> 00:38:24,791 that we can observe with our infrared telescopes. 822 00:38:24,792 --> 00:38:26,916 But there's a problem with that theory, 823 00:38:26,917 --> 00:38:29,291 because the stars in this study 824 00:38:29,292 --> 00:38:32,291 are identified as red dwarf stars. 825 00:38:32,292 --> 00:38:35,207 And that's key, because red dwarf stars 826 00:38:35,208 --> 00:38:38,082 rarely exhibit the kind of debris discs. 827 00:38:38,083 --> 00:38:40,457 Professor Szydagis described. 828 00:38:40,458 --> 00:38:42,874 But there may be another explanation. 829 00:38:42,875 --> 00:38:46,082 Maybe we're looking at a galaxy 830 00:38:46,083 --> 00:38:49,374 that is hiding behind this star, 831 00:38:49,375 --> 00:38:52,374 and the infrared radiation that we're picking up 832 00:38:52,375 --> 00:38:53,916 is from a galaxy. 833 00:38:53,917 --> 00:38:57,541 It gets confusing because a picture is flat, 834 00:38:57,542 --> 00:39:01,707 a picture is two-dimensional, reality is three-dimensional, 835 00:39:01,708 --> 00:39:06,625 and therefore what could be masquerading as a Dyson sphere 836 00:39:07,708 --> 00:39:11,958 is really a galaxy hiding behind your star. 837 00:39:13,333 --> 00:39:14,666 Researchers 838 00:39:14,667 --> 00:39:17,166 at the American Astronomical Society agree, 839 00:39:17,167 --> 00:39:20,082 arguing that the heat in these images are a false positive 840 00:39:20,083 --> 00:39:23,042 resulting from the star's alignment with distant galaxies. 841 00:39:24,292 --> 00:39:27,707 In other words, it's all a matter of perspective. 842 00:39:27,708 --> 00:39:31,499 The telescope that's picking up a so-called Dyson sphere 843 00:39:31,500 --> 00:39:33,666 might actually be looking at a star 844 00:39:33,667 --> 00:39:37,207 with a galaxy way out in the distance behind it. 845 00:39:37,208 --> 00:39:38,749 When they're aligned, 846 00:39:38,750 --> 00:39:41,749 the telescope reads it as just one very bright signature. 847 00:39:41,750 --> 00:39:43,916 And maybe this could explain 848 00:39:43,917 --> 00:39:48,249 why we're seeing some excess amount of infrared radiation 849 00:39:48,250 --> 00:39:49,791 in the data. 850 00:39:49,792 --> 00:39:53,291 Does that mean that these aren't Dyson spheres? 851 00:39:53,292 --> 00:39:56,082 I think even from a theoretical perspective, 852 00:39:56,083 --> 00:39:58,957 the concept of a Dyson sphere is very shaky. 853 00:39:58,958 --> 00:40:02,832 If a Dyson sphere is going to be measurable at a distance, 854 00:40:02,833 --> 00:40:04,499 because of its infrared signature 855 00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:06,582 from the other side of the Dyson sphere, 856 00:40:06,583 --> 00:40:09,249 that means it's probably not very efficient then 857 00:40:09,250 --> 00:40:10,874 at holding all that energy. 858 00:40:10,875 --> 00:40:12,707 And even if there are civilizations out there 859 00:40:12,708 --> 00:40:14,874 millions and billions of years older than us, 860 00:40:14,875 --> 00:40:19,041 I can think of a lot better ways of harnessing energy 861 00:40:19,042 --> 00:40:21,375 than the construction of a Dyson sphere. 862 00:40:22,417 --> 00:40:23,707 But despite some skepticism, 863 00:40:23,708 --> 00:40:26,249 Dyson spheres remain on NASA's list 864 00:40:26,250 --> 00:40:28,374 of potential technosignatures 865 00:40:28,375 --> 00:40:32,332 to help identify extraterrestrial civilizations. 866 00:40:36,583 --> 00:40:38,999 Our verdict; galaxies. 867 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,874 Professor Szydagis and Kaku both say these infrared readings 868 00:40:42,875 --> 00:40:46,499 are probably not catching a Dyson sphere in action. 869 00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:48,666 So, for now, the search for intelligent life 870 00:40:48,667 --> 00:40:51,582 and unlimited energy continues, 871 00:40:51,583 --> 00:40:54,791 tonight's show, however, has come to an end. 872 00:40:54,792 --> 00:40:56,374 Thank you so much for watching, 873 00:40:56,375 --> 00:40:59,291 and remember to keep those cameras rolling.