1 00:00:02,127 --> 00:00:03,503 - Tonight on "The Proof Is Out There." 2 00:00:03,503 --> 00:00:05,547 A photo bomb in Brazil. 3 00:00:05,547 --> 00:00:09,635 Did this man capture a UFO while snapping a selfie? 4 00:00:09,635 --> 00:00:12,513 - He alleges that his home was raided 5 00:00:12,513 --> 00:00:15,766 by soldiers looking for more evidence. 6 00:00:15,766 --> 00:00:18,018 - [Tony] Could a massive burst of energy 7 00:00:18,018 --> 00:00:20,562 be a sign that we are not alone? 8 00:00:20,562 --> 00:00:23,857 - Some say that the burst of energy would be something 9 00:00:23,857 --> 00:00:26,485 that's propelling a giant spacecraft. 10 00:00:26,485 --> 00:00:29,321 - [Tony] A mystery over Skinwalker Ranch? 11 00:00:29,321 --> 00:00:31,198 What's this flying above one 12 00:00:31,198 --> 00:00:33,909 of America's most notorious paranormal hotspots? 13 00:00:33,909 --> 00:00:36,745 - I was about to pass Skinwalker Ranch. 14 00:00:36,745 --> 00:00:39,748 They were just leapfrogging between clouds. 15 00:00:39,748 --> 00:00:41,667 I was so dumbfounded. 16 00:00:41,667 --> 00:00:45,128 - [Tony] A mysterious Roman artifact. 17 00:00:45,128 --> 00:00:48,465 Did the ancients master stunning modern technology? 18 00:00:48,465 --> 00:00:50,050 - There are some who believe 19 00:00:50,050 --> 00:00:52,135 that the Lycurgus Cup is so advanced 20 00:00:52,135 --> 00:00:55,222 that the Romans simply could not have created it themselves. 21 00:00:55,222 --> 00:00:58,016 - [Tony] And, a gigantic creature is lurking 22 00:00:58,016 --> 00:00:59,518 by the side of a road. 23 00:00:59,518 --> 00:01:01,520 Is it a hungry Bigfoot? 24 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,022 - Sasquatches are known scavengers. 25 00:01:04,022 --> 00:01:06,817 People have reported seeing these things eating roadkill. 26 00:01:11,863 --> 00:01:14,157 - Around the globe are videos, 27 00:01:14,157 --> 00:01:15,617 [witness screaming] 28 00:01:15,617 --> 00:01:16,868 photos, 29 00:01:17,869 --> 00:01:20,372 And sounds that defy explanation. 30 00:01:20,372 --> 00:01:22,332 [electric whirring] 31 00:01:25,460 --> 00:01:27,629 - [Expert] We don't know where they come from, 32 00:01:27,629 --> 00:01:29,172 who made them, or how they operate. 33 00:01:29,172 --> 00:01:30,382 - [Tony] What are they? 34 00:01:30,382 --> 00:01:32,467 - [MJ] Some sort of bizarre mutation. 35 00:01:32,467 --> 00:01:34,469 - [Marc] What's exciting is nobody really knows. 36 00:01:34,469 --> 00:01:37,139 - Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof. 37 00:01:39,141 --> 00:01:40,767 - I'm Tony Harris, 38 00:01:40,767 --> 00:01:42,936 and as a journalist for more than 30 years, 39 00:01:42,936 --> 00:01:45,230 I've followed the facts where they take me. 40 00:01:45,230 --> 00:01:47,858 Now, I'm bringing that spirit of investigation 41 00:01:47,858 --> 00:01:50,152 to the world's strangest sounds and images. 42 00:01:50,152 --> 00:01:51,903 - [Witness] It's coming towards us. 43 00:01:51,903 --> 00:01:54,656 - [Tony] We'll analyze each one with top experts. 44 00:01:54,656 --> 00:01:57,743 - It's a credible case, it's a credible video. 45 00:01:57,743 --> 00:02:00,620 - [Tony] And pass a verdict on what it is. 46 00:02:00,620 --> 00:02:02,205 - This video was clearly faked. 47 00:02:02,205 --> 00:02:04,916 - The proof starts now. 48 00:02:04,916 --> 00:02:07,210 [dramatic music] 49 00:02:12,883 --> 00:02:16,053 Good evening and welcome to "The Proof Is Out There." 50 00:02:16,053 --> 00:02:19,139 Can you guess the Oxford English Dictionary's 51 00:02:19,139 --> 00:02:21,600 Word of the Year for 2013? 52 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,645 It wasn't swag, it wasn't YOLO. 53 00:02:24,645 --> 00:02:26,355 It was selfie. 54 00:02:26,355 --> 00:02:27,856 That means both the word 55 00:02:27,856 --> 00:02:30,484 and the pictures have become commonplace. 56 00:02:30,484 --> 00:02:34,529 But have you ever seen a selfie photobombed by a UFO? 57 00:02:34,529 --> 00:02:36,531 You're about to. 58 00:02:36,531 --> 00:02:42,746 It's 2011 at Chapada Diamantina National Park in Brazil. 59 00:02:42,746 --> 00:02:44,623 Eddie Moralez is driving out 60 00:02:44,623 --> 00:02:46,541 to a remote waterfall when he says 61 00:02:46,541 --> 00:02:50,462 he notices a mysterious craft hovering above his car. 62 00:02:50,462 --> 00:02:52,422 Eddie quickly jumps out of the vehicle 63 00:02:52,422 --> 00:02:56,051 and makes a run for it, but not before capturing this. 64 00:02:57,052 --> 00:02:59,846 A perfectly spherical orb appears to float 65 00:02:59,846 --> 00:03:01,890 behind a visibly shocked Eddie. 66 00:03:01,890 --> 00:03:04,142 He takes several photos with the object, 67 00:03:04,142 --> 00:03:06,687 each one adding to the mystery. 68 00:03:06,687 --> 00:03:09,147 In some, the objects appear metallic. 69 00:03:09,147 --> 00:03:11,733 Others show what look like three 70 00:03:11,733 --> 00:03:13,860 small landing lights around the bottom. 71 00:03:13,860 --> 00:03:16,238 But Eddie isn't out of the woods yet. 72 00:03:16,238 --> 00:03:18,281 - According to Eddie, he was unable 73 00:03:18,281 --> 00:03:20,659 to start the car immediately after his sighting. 74 00:03:20,659 --> 00:03:22,619 And there's a lot of accounts 75 00:03:22,619 --> 00:03:24,663 where people see objects hovering in the sky 76 00:03:24,663 --> 00:03:26,456 and experience car trouble. 77 00:03:26,456 --> 00:03:28,458 Electrical systems fail, 78 00:03:28,458 --> 00:03:32,170 and the belief is that the UFO is somehow disrupting 79 00:03:32,170 --> 00:03:34,506 the electrical signals from the technology. 80 00:03:34,506 --> 00:03:36,925 - [Tony] When Eddie finally does make it home, 81 00:03:36,925 --> 00:03:39,136 he shares the photos online, 82 00:03:39,136 --> 00:03:42,222 dubbing them the first ever UFO selfies. 83 00:03:42,222 --> 00:03:45,183 The pictures draw massive attention, 84 00:03:45,183 --> 00:03:48,019 but according to Eddie, it's not all good. 85 00:03:48,019 --> 00:03:50,063 - He alleges that his home 86 00:03:50,063 --> 00:03:52,149 was raided by soldiers 87 00:03:52,149 --> 00:03:55,193 in military camouflage, looking for more evidence. 88 00:03:55,193 --> 00:03:58,989 And they subjected him to intense interrogation, 89 00:03:58,989 --> 00:04:02,576 so intense, in fact, that he was hospitalized as a result. 90 00:04:02,576 --> 00:04:05,245 - [Tony] According to some, this wouldn't be the first time 91 00:04:05,245 --> 00:04:07,873 the Brazilian government has concealed claims 92 00:04:07,873 --> 00:04:09,624 of UFO activity. 93 00:04:09,624 --> 00:04:10,917 It all goes back to one 94 00:04:10,917 --> 00:04:13,211 of the country's most famous UFO cases, 95 00:04:13,211 --> 00:04:16,964 which occurred 34 years prior and about 1,000 miles north 96 00:04:16,964 --> 00:04:19,593 in a town called Colares. 97 00:04:19,593 --> 00:04:22,053 - The Colares UFO incident of 1977 98 00:04:22,053 --> 00:04:23,930 is what we call a mass sighting. 99 00:04:23,930 --> 00:04:26,808 So several hundred people in the town saw strange lights, 100 00:04:26,808 --> 00:04:30,645 and several alleged that they were injured by these lights. 101 00:04:30,645 --> 00:04:32,272 - [Tony] The Brazilian Air Force even 102 00:04:32,272 --> 00:04:34,775 investigated the claims, in an effort 103 00:04:34,775 --> 00:04:37,903 known as Operation Prato, which means Operation Saucer. 104 00:04:38,987 --> 00:04:40,947 - Officially, the Brazilian government has come out 105 00:04:40,947 --> 00:04:43,450 and said that it found no evidence of anything unusual. 106 00:04:43,450 --> 00:04:45,744 However, some ufologists believe 107 00:04:45,744 --> 00:04:47,496 that that's simply a coverup. 108 00:04:47,496 --> 00:04:49,956 - [Tony] So what's going on in Brazil? 109 00:04:49,956 --> 00:04:52,751 Maybe Eddie's photos can reveal the truth. 110 00:04:52,751 --> 00:04:55,796 - A lot of people online believe that the base 111 00:04:55,796 --> 00:04:59,549 of this round object, that reflective part, 112 00:04:59,549 --> 00:05:01,384 shows distant worlds 113 00:05:01,384 --> 00:05:04,554 and acts as a sort of portal to a far away place. 114 00:05:04,554 --> 00:05:07,307 There's people who believe that what Eddie saw 115 00:05:07,307 --> 00:05:10,560 was not necessarily a UFO as an object, 116 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,396 but rather a portal to another dimension. 117 00:05:17,025 --> 00:05:18,777 [camera clicks] 118 00:05:18,777 --> 00:05:21,071 - I'm terrible at this. 119 00:05:21,071 --> 00:05:24,825 Selfies are usually meant to capture our best selves, 120 00:05:24,825 --> 00:05:27,702 but they can capture a lot more than that. 121 00:05:27,702 --> 00:05:29,788 For example, in March of 2025, 122 00:05:29,788 --> 00:05:33,250 a South Carolina thief accidentally snapped a selfie 123 00:05:33,250 --> 00:05:36,378 while stealing a trail cam from someone's home. 124 00:05:36,378 --> 00:05:37,754 Take a look at that. 125 00:05:37,754 --> 00:05:40,590 He captured proof of his own crime. 126 00:05:40,590 --> 00:05:44,594 But did Eddie's selfie capture proof of a UFO? 127 00:05:44,594 --> 00:05:46,847 [tense music] 128 00:05:48,765 --> 00:05:50,350 - We don't see any propulsion system. 129 00:05:50,350 --> 00:05:52,686 We don't see any flight control surfaces. 130 00:05:52,686 --> 00:05:55,063 There aren't many conventional objects 131 00:05:55,063 --> 00:05:58,650 that can maintain a perfect spherical shape in flight. 132 00:05:58,650 --> 00:06:01,695 - [Tony] True, but we can think of one. 133 00:06:01,695 --> 00:06:04,739 - I think, perhaps, one of the more plausible theories 134 00:06:04,739 --> 00:06:07,659 is that this might be some kind of spherical drone, 135 00:06:07,659 --> 00:06:10,370 which is usually a permeable shell 136 00:06:10,370 --> 00:06:12,956 around a coaxial drone, 137 00:06:12,956 --> 00:06:15,125 but it looks a little bit too solid 138 00:06:15,125 --> 00:06:16,918 to be that type of drone to me. 139 00:06:16,918 --> 00:06:19,254 - [Tony] Then could this be something as simple 140 00:06:19,254 --> 00:06:21,548 as a water droplet on the camera lens? 141 00:06:21,548 --> 00:06:23,258 - This looks a little bit like a drop of water, 142 00:06:23,258 --> 00:06:25,093 but water drops on the lens, 143 00:06:25,093 --> 00:06:28,263 even if you use a macro lens, aren't in focus. 144 00:06:28,263 --> 00:06:30,056 You actually have to have the water drop 145 00:06:30,056 --> 00:06:31,975 some distance away from the lens. 146 00:06:31,975 --> 00:06:34,477 If you put the drop on the lens, you don't see that shape. 147 00:06:34,477 --> 00:06:36,855 So this is not a water drop on the lens. 148 00:06:36,855 --> 00:06:39,065 - [Tony] So could it just be a balloon? 149 00:06:39,065 --> 00:06:40,984 - I can't see a tether or string to the object 150 00:06:40,984 --> 00:06:42,736 that might indicate it's a balloon, 151 00:06:42,736 --> 00:06:44,529 but at the same time we know that, you know, 152 00:06:44,529 --> 00:06:46,197 balloons can be spherical, 153 00:06:46,197 --> 00:06:48,116 and so this could quite easily be some type 154 00:06:48,116 --> 00:06:50,327 of a mylar party balloon 155 00:06:50,327 --> 00:06:52,537 where you're looking at the back side of it, 156 00:06:52,537 --> 00:06:54,539 giving you that reflective quality. 157 00:06:54,539 --> 00:06:56,583 - [Tony] Of course, that would call 158 00:06:56,583 --> 00:06:58,209 Eddie's entire story into question, 159 00:06:58,209 --> 00:06:59,502 and maybe it should. 160 00:06:59,502 --> 00:07:01,296 - We're led to believe that something shut down 161 00:07:01,296 --> 00:07:04,132 the electronics in the eyewitness' vehicle 162 00:07:04,132 --> 00:07:08,136 but evidently had no effect on his camera phone 163 00:07:08,136 --> 00:07:09,888 or whatever he filmed the pictures with. 164 00:07:09,888 --> 00:07:11,765 - I don't think people will be taking the time 165 00:07:11,765 --> 00:07:14,517 to take selfies if there was a weird object 166 00:07:14,517 --> 00:07:16,519 floating around in the sky. 167 00:07:16,519 --> 00:07:18,772 [tense music] 168 00:07:20,607 --> 00:07:24,653 - Our verdict, this is a hoax made possible by a simple, 169 00:07:24,653 --> 00:07:26,321 spherical balloon. 170 00:07:26,321 --> 00:07:28,114 But as far as we're concerned, 171 00:07:28,114 --> 00:07:30,950 that Colares case is still open. 172 00:07:30,950 --> 00:07:33,328 Some people, including our own Lou Elizondo, 173 00:07:33,328 --> 00:07:35,955 are convinced the Brazilian government hasn't released 174 00:07:35,955 --> 00:07:38,416 all the information they have. 175 00:07:38,416 --> 00:07:40,835 We'll be ready when they do. 176 00:07:42,671 --> 00:07:45,006 Now let's talk about weaponry. 177 00:07:45,006 --> 00:07:47,842 If you're a "Star Wars" fan, like I am, 178 00:07:47,842 --> 00:07:51,513 you've probably dreamed of wielding a real-life lightsaber 179 00:07:51,513 --> 00:07:53,473 or firing a blaster gun, 180 00:07:53,473 --> 00:07:55,141 but that's impossible, right? 181 00:07:55,141 --> 00:07:59,646 Well, we know that military technology is rapidly advancing, 182 00:07:59,646 --> 00:08:02,982 and this next video might be proof of a laser weapon 183 00:08:02,982 --> 00:08:05,068 that could change everything. 184 00:08:06,027 --> 00:08:10,490 It's March 2023, at an unknown location. 185 00:08:10,490 --> 00:08:12,325 It seems to be an ordinary night 186 00:08:12,325 --> 00:08:16,037 until something strange flits across the landscape. 187 00:08:16,037 --> 00:08:18,707 This cell phone video shows a series 188 00:08:18,707 --> 00:08:21,626 of red beams firing down from the sky 189 00:08:21,626 --> 00:08:24,045 into a fenced-off area. 190 00:08:24,045 --> 00:08:27,382 As each beam approaches the ground, it takes a sharp turn, 191 00:08:27,382 --> 00:08:29,384 shooting straight toward the fence 192 00:08:29,384 --> 00:08:31,010 and whipping by the camera. 193 00:08:32,010 --> 00:08:35,056 Watch how the beams seem to pass through the fence. 194 00:08:35,056 --> 00:08:36,307 They don't destroy it, 195 00:08:36,307 --> 00:08:38,601 but they do appear to disturb it 196 00:08:38,601 --> 00:08:41,604 as if warping space in their wake. 197 00:08:41,604 --> 00:08:43,356 Many are quick to speculate 198 00:08:43,356 --> 00:08:45,650 that the beams could be some sort of laser 199 00:08:45,650 --> 00:08:47,152 or directed energy weapon. 200 00:08:47,152 --> 00:08:49,112 - What a directed energy weapon is 201 00:08:49,112 --> 00:08:50,864 is nothing more than taking a band 202 00:08:50,864 --> 00:08:52,949 of the electromagnetic spectrum, 203 00:08:52,949 --> 00:08:56,369 and then using that to either intercept missiles, 204 00:08:56,369 --> 00:08:58,496 for example, high-energy lasers, 205 00:08:58,496 --> 00:09:01,875 or even fry an enemy's communication system. 206 00:09:01,875 --> 00:09:04,461 - [Tony] But if it's a directed energy weapon, 207 00:09:04,461 --> 00:09:05,962 whose is it? 208 00:09:05,962 --> 00:09:08,715 - People may be surprised to learn that the US government 209 00:09:08,715 --> 00:09:11,468 and her adversaries have had a deep 210 00:09:11,468 --> 00:09:14,262 and rich involvement in the development 211 00:09:14,262 --> 00:09:16,973 of directed energy type weapons. 212 00:09:16,973 --> 00:09:19,768 And so every year, there's new developments in this. 213 00:09:19,768 --> 00:09:22,437 - [Tony] Believe it or not, this footage 214 00:09:22,437 --> 00:09:26,983 of a US-made laser weapon dates all the way back to 1973, 215 00:09:26,983 --> 00:09:30,236 and the technology has only gotten better 216 00:09:30,236 --> 00:09:32,489 and more widespread in the years since. 217 00:09:32,489 --> 00:09:35,950 - In fact, handheld laser weapons are being used 218 00:09:35,950 --> 00:09:38,661 in the field by soldiers today. 219 00:09:38,661 --> 00:09:41,831 We have a video from November of 2021 220 00:09:41,831 --> 00:09:45,001 that shows a conflagration between Polish 221 00:09:45,001 --> 00:09:46,669 and Belarusian troops. 222 00:09:46,669 --> 00:09:48,338 [beeping] 223 00:09:48,338 --> 00:09:51,966 And the Belarusian troops appear to be using a laser weapon 224 00:09:51,966 --> 00:09:55,762 to blind their Polish counterparts. 225 00:09:55,762 --> 00:09:57,430 - [Tony] There's also space-based 226 00:09:57,430 --> 00:10:00,475 laser technology, like this mysterious sight, 227 00:10:00,475 --> 00:10:02,352 caught on camera in the skies 228 00:10:02,352 --> 00:10:05,313 over Hawaii in 2023. 229 00:10:05,313 --> 00:10:06,981 That video sparked fear 230 00:10:06,981 --> 00:10:11,069 that laser weapons firing down from space may be closer 231 00:10:11,069 --> 00:10:12,821 than we realize. 232 00:10:15,073 --> 00:10:18,326 The US military officially started researching directed 233 00:10:18,326 --> 00:10:20,954 energy weapons in the 1960s. 234 00:10:20,954 --> 00:10:22,580 After all this time, 235 00:10:22,580 --> 00:10:25,583 is it possible someone else is beating us in the directed 236 00:10:25,583 --> 00:10:27,502 energy arms race? 237 00:10:27,502 --> 00:10:31,089 We asked our experts to take their best shots. 238 00:10:31,089 --> 00:10:33,299 [tense music] 239 00:10:35,135 --> 00:10:36,928 First, the good news. 240 00:10:36,928 --> 00:10:39,556 Those green lasers over Hawaii turned out 241 00:10:39,556 --> 00:10:43,226 to be pollution-detecting LiDAR, not a weapon. 242 00:10:43,226 --> 00:10:45,270 And when it comes to our video, 243 00:10:45,270 --> 00:10:49,107 we know that real laser weapons look less like "Star Wars," 244 00:10:49,107 --> 00:10:52,110 and more like those Belarusian beams. 245 00:10:52,110 --> 00:10:54,863 - You're not going to see them as we do in this video, 246 00:10:54,863 --> 00:10:59,242 so definitely isn't any type of sophisticated, 247 00:10:59,242 --> 00:11:02,245 classified, or secret direct energy weapon. 248 00:11:02,245 --> 00:11:04,414 - [Tony] So is it a faked video? 249 00:11:04,414 --> 00:11:07,417 Looking closer, we find an important clue. 250 00:11:07,417 --> 00:11:11,838 - What we're seeing here looks like slowed down video 251 00:11:11,838 --> 00:11:14,215 of something that's actually moving a lot faster, 252 00:11:14,215 --> 00:11:16,759 because we see these long streaks. 253 00:11:16,759 --> 00:11:19,888 So it seems to be footage that has been slowed down 254 00:11:19,888 --> 00:11:21,848 that has a lot of motion blur. 255 00:11:21,848 --> 00:11:23,933 - [Tony] And there's something else off about it. 256 00:11:23,933 --> 00:11:27,103 - It looks like this video has been reversed. 257 00:11:27,103 --> 00:11:29,522 The biggest tell is the fact that when they're coming down, 258 00:11:29,522 --> 00:11:32,108 they're coming from different points on the screen, 259 00:11:32,108 --> 00:11:35,361 whereas they're all going back to a single source. 260 00:11:35,361 --> 00:11:38,198 - With the video slowed down to its original speed 261 00:11:38,198 --> 00:11:39,699 and reversed, 262 00:11:39,699 --> 00:11:43,036 the origin and identity of the beams becomes clear. 263 00:11:43,036 --> 00:11:45,705 - What we're seeing here is very consistent to me 264 00:11:45,705 --> 00:11:47,582 with tracer fire, 265 00:11:47,582 --> 00:11:51,586 which is a type of munition that has a pyrotechnic in it 266 00:11:51,586 --> 00:11:53,004 that allows someone to see 267 00:11:53,004 --> 00:11:54,547 where they're firing at nighttime. 268 00:11:54,547 --> 00:11:56,466 And then the upward movement 269 00:11:56,466 --> 00:11:58,968 is the actual pyrotechnic going up 270 00:11:58,968 --> 00:12:02,513 after the bullet itself impacts with the target. 271 00:12:02,513 --> 00:12:05,767 - [Tony] That means the beams aren't going through the fence, 272 00:12:05,767 --> 00:12:08,436 they're being shot by someone inside of it. 273 00:12:08,436 --> 00:12:11,231 But then how come the chain links on the fence 274 00:12:11,231 --> 00:12:14,525 look like the bullets are hitting and moving them? 275 00:12:14,525 --> 00:12:17,528 - When you slow down a video 276 00:12:17,528 --> 00:12:19,614 to make things seem to move slower, 277 00:12:19,614 --> 00:12:22,742 you actually have to create additional frames. 278 00:12:22,742 --> 00:12:25,536 It seems to be using a frame blending technique 279 00:12:25,536 --> 00:12:27,997 called obstacle flow or motion flow, 280 00:12:27,997 --> 00:12:31,709 where the algorithm tries to figure out, 281 00:12:31,709 --> 00:12:36,005 from previous frames, what should be in the next frame. 282 00:12:36,005 --> 00:12:38,091 - [Tony] West demonstrates with a video 283 00:12:38,091 --> 00:12:40,718 of himself waving a flashlight, 284 00:12:40,718 --> 00:12:42,470 - I take that same video 285 00:12:42,470 --> 00:12:46,599 and turn it to 1/4 speed with optical flow 286 00:12:46,599 --> 00:12:49,269 and you see straight away the light itself looks like 287 00:12:49,269 --> 00:12:50,812 it's moving correctly, 288 00:12:50,812 --> 00:12:53,022 but the background is being distorted. 289 00:12:53,022 --> 00:12:55,066 So this is exactly the same thing 290 00:12:55,066 --> 00:12:58,653 that is happening in this video. 291 00:13:00,863 --> 00:13:03,116 [tense music] 292 00:13:05,076 --> 00:13:07,537 - Our verdict, tracer fire. 293 00:13:07,537 --> 00:13:10,832 This video is not proof of an advanced laser attack. 294 00:13:10,832 --> 00:13:12,125 It's a hoax. 295 00:13:12,125 --> 00:13:14,377 But be advised, in 2024, 296 00:13:14,377 --> 00:13:17,505 the Belarusian Defense Ministry announced plans 297 00:13:17,505 --> 00:13:20,717 to develop more laser weapons based on, quote, 298 00:13:20,717 --> 00:13:22,802 "New physical principles." 299 00:13:22,802 --> 00:13:25,096 We will be on the lookout for those weapons 300 00:13:25,096 --> 00:13:25,972 in the near future. 301 00:13:30,059 --> 00:13:31,936 - The only place more Bigfoot-ish 302 00:13:31,936 --> 00:13:34,188 than Washington State and Oregon, 303 00:13:34,188 --> 00:13:35,690 is Canada, 304 00:13:35,690 --> 00:13:37,942 where the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization 305 00:13:37,942 --> 00:13:40,695 has documented more than 300 credible 306 00:13:40,695 --> 00:13:42,196 reports of the creature. 307 00:13:42,196 --> 00:13:45,366 Can we add this next video to the list? 308 00:13:46,451 --> 00:13:50,079 March 4th, 2007, a man and his son 309 00:13:50,079 --> 00:13:53,374 are driving down a back road in Peguis, Manitoba, 310 00:13:53,374 --> 00:13:56,794 when they spot something strange up ahead. 311 00:13:56,794 --> 00:13:59,589 The son quickly grabs his dad's video camera 312 00:13:59,589 --> 00:14:01,340 and captures this. 313 00:14:01,340 --> 00:14:04,135 The shot zooms in, and we're able to see 314 00:14:04,135 --> 00:14:06,512 a blurry figure from a good distance away, 315 00:14:06,512 --> 00:14:08,890 emerging from behind a ridge. 316 00:14:10,224 --> 00:14:12,685 It's dark and uniform in color, 317 00:14:12,685 --> 00:14:16,856 with a bouncy step and arms swinging widely at its sides. 318 00:14:16,856 --> 00:14:18,066 The camera shakes, 319 00:14:18,066 --> 00:14:19,942 and by the time we're back on the figure, 320 00:14:19,942 --> 00:14:22,737 it's disappearing into the forest. 321 00:14:22,737 --> 00:14:26,449 According to the experts, there's an interesting reason 322 00:14:26,449 --> 00:14:28,159 so many Bigfoot sightings 323 00:14:28,159 --> 00:14:30,620 happen next to major roadways. 324 00:14:30,620 --> 00:14:32,246 - Roadkill. 325 00:14:32,246 --> 00:14:34,415 Sasquatches are known scavengers. 326 00:14:34,415 --> 00:14:36,501 That's a very easy food supply. 327 00:14:36,501 --> 00:14:38,795 And if you're gonna walk the roadsides looking 328 00:14:38,795 --> 00:14:40,671 for dead animals to eat, 329 00:14:40,671 --> 00:14:43,966 that's an efficient way to bring calories in 330 00:14:43,966 --> 00:14:45,676 without expending practically any. 331 00:14:45,676 --> 00:14:48,971 And, you know, about half of Sasquatch reports 332 00:14:48,971 --> 00:14:51,099 happen as road crossings. 333 00:14:51,099 --> 00:14:54,060 - [Tony] And in Manitoba, Sasquatch sightings 334 00:14:54,060 --> 00:14:55,978 go back nearly a century. 335 00:14:55,978 --> 00:14:59,107 - One of the most compelling stories happen in 1941 336 00:14:59,107 --> 00:15:01,651 to a 17-year-old named Peter. 337 00:15:01,651 --> 00:15:03,861 He was hunting meat for his family. 338 00:15:03,861 --> 00:15:05,655 He was out there and he saw a moose, 339 00:15:05,655 --> 00:15:08,032 and he took a shot at it, and dropped it. 340 00:15:08,032 --> 00:15:10,701 But as he approached, he was aghast 341 00:15:10,701 --> 00:15:15,373 to see a human-shaped figure covered in hair, 342 00:15:15,373 --> 00:15:17,458 lying dead on the ground in front of him. 343 00:15:17,458 --> 00:15:18,960 - [Tony] According to the story, 344 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,213 the young hunter was perplexed as to what he had shot, 345 00:15:22,213 --> 00:15:25,258 since the term Bigfoot hadn't even been invented yet. 346 00:15:25,258 --> 00:15:26,968 - He estimates the animal was probably 347 00:15:26,968 --> 00:15:30,638 at least 7.5 or 8 feet, and he was terrified. 348 00:15:30,638 --> 00:15:32,181 He thought he might have killed somebody. 349 00:15:32,181 --> 00:15:34,392 But he started looking into Bigfoot stuff himself 350 00:15:34,392 --> 00:15:36,853 and a researcher named Kurt Nelson came along. 351 00:15:36,853 --> 00:15:42,066 And Kurt recorded this story 62 years after it happened. 352 00:15:44,527 --> 00:15:47,321 - The late comedian Mitch Hedberg may have put it best 353 00:15:47,321 --> 00:15:50,700 when he said, "Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. 354 00:15:50,700 --> 00:15:52,994 It's not the photographer's fault." 355 00:15:52,994 --> 00:15:55,913 Maybe so, Mitch, but we still need to get to the bottom 356 00:15:55,913 --> 00:15:58,666 of this blurry Bigfootage. 357 00:15:58,666 --> 00:16:00,877 [tense music] 358 00:16:02,461 --> 00:16:04,046 First things first, 359 00:16:04,046 --> 00:16:07,216 could this possibly be the misidentification of a bear, 360 00:16:07,216 --> 00:16:09,886 since this particular region is filled with them? 361 00:16:09,886 --> 00:16:12,430 - The northern area of Manitoba is one 362 00:16:12,430 --> 00:16:15,933 of the only places in the world where all three species 363 00:16:15,933 --> 00:16:18,769 of North American bears coexist. 364 00:16:18,769 --> 00:16:21,063 The American black bear, the grizzly bear, 365 00:16:21,063 --> 00:16:22,481 and the polar bear. 366 00:16:22,481 --> 00:16:26,360 However, although bears stand on their hind legs 367 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:27,945 when they're curious 368 00:16:27,945 --> 00:16:29,739 or they're trying to get a better view of something, 369 00:16:29,739 --> 00:16:32,116 they rarely just walk around on their back two legs 370 00:16:32,116 --> 00:16:35,036 when they could be using all four. 371 00:16:35,036 --> 00:16:37,371 - [Tony] So, could this bipedal beast 372 00:16:37,371 --> 00:16:39,248 be a Canadian Sasquatch? 373 00:16:39,248 --> 00:16:41,834 - Especially interesting is the line between the shoulders 374 00:16:41,834 --> 00:16:44,378 and the upper back of the head. 375 00:16:44,378 --> 00:16:49,258 Instead of a contour of the back of the skull 376 00:16:49,258 --> 00:16:51,719 and the taper of the neck as in the human, 377 00:16:51,719 --> 00:16:56,891 there's a remarkably straight line from shoulder to head. 378 00:16:56,891 --> 00:16:59,185 This is kind of suggestive of the Sasquatch 379 00:16:59,185 --> 00:17:03,064 because of its very high attachment on the skull. 380 00:17:03,064 --> 00:17:05,691 On the other hand, I must say, it looks 381 00:17:05,691 --> 00:17:07,693 remarkably like a hoodie. 382 00:17:07,693 --> 00:17:10,320 - [Tony] And as far as the figure itself is concerned, 383 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:12,198 there are some red flags. 384 00:17:12,198 --> 00:17:15,367 - Sasquatch descriptions by eyewitnesses 385 00:17:15,367 --> 00:17:16,911 usually describe something 386 00:17:16,911 --> 00:17:19,288 that's much bulkier, that's much larger. 387 00:17:19,288 --> 00:17:22,500 It's almost like a gorilla on long legs. 388 00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:25,461 Whereas this has the proportions 389 00:17:25,461 --> 00:17:29,715 and the slenderness of a typical person. 390 00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:34,178 - [Tony] And it's not just the figure itself that's suspicious. 391 00:17:34,178 --> 00:17:38,099 - The person who recorded it does not want to be interviewed. 392 00:17:38,099 --> 00:17:41,727 It seems like they are trying to be low-key about it, 393 00:17:41,727 --> 00:17:43,771 but still put it out there. 394 00:17:43,771 --> 00:17:45,773 If they really did find something incredible, 395 00:17:45,773 --> 00:17:48,526 why wouldn't they want to talk about it? 396 00:17:48,526 --> 00:17:50,111 - [Tony] So we dug deeper, 397 00:17:50,111 --> 00:17:52,572 and found out local police reports said 398 00:17:52,572 --> 00:17:55,449 a hoaxer was running rampant in the area. 399 00:17:55,449 --> 00:17:58,244 - At this time and in this vicinity, 400 00:17:58,244 --> 00:18:00,413 the mounties apprehended a youngster 401 00:18:00,413 --> 00:18:03,457 who was terrorizing campers 402 00:18:03,457 --> 00:18:06,002 with a gorilla costume. 403 00:18:06,002 --> 00:18:08,254 [tense music] 404 00:18:10,214 --> 00:18:14,176 - Our verdict, whether this was a merry prankster or not, 405 00:18:14,176 --> 00:18:17,096 we agree this figure is definitely human, 406 00:18:17,096 --> 00:18:18,723 but our friends from the north 407 00:18:18,723 --> 00:18:21,309 are still furiously hunting the creature. 408 00:18:21,309 --> 00:18:23,728 In fact, a recent Canadian man's obsession 409 00:18:23,728 --> 00:18:26,480 with the beast was cited in a judge's decision 410 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:29,984 about paying alimony in his divorce. 411 00:18:29,984 --> 00:18:31,527 That's about as real as it gets. 412 00:18:35,698 --> 00:18:37,992 - [Tony] Utah's world famous paranormal hotspot, 413 00:18:37,992 --> 00:18:43,456 Skinwalker Ranch, is 512 acres of anomalous activity. 414 00:18:43,456 --> 00:18:45,791 The site has been monitored for decades, 415 00:18:45,791 --> 00:18:47,793 but have you ever wondered what goes on 416 00:18:47,793 --> 00:18:50,254 just outside the property? 417 00:18:50,254 --> 00:18:51,922 In this next video, one local 418 00:18:51,922 --> 00:18:54,925 saw something down the road from Skinwalker Ranch 419 00:18:54,925 --> 00:18:58,554 that she couldn't explain and we couldn't ignore. 420 00:18:59,555 --> 00:19:03,184 November 6th, 2022, it's 5:00 PM 421 00:19:03,184 --> 00:19:06,687 in a region of Utah known as Uinta Basin. 422 00:19:06,687 --> 00:19:10,941 Jessica Blunt is driving her bus down Highway 191 423 00:19:10,941 --> 00:19:13,527 when she notices something out of the ordinary 424 00:19:13,527 --> 00:19:15,863 materializing in the sky. 425 00:19:15,863 --> 00:19:19,367 - I continued driving, but I watched it for a few minutes 426 00:19:19,367 --> 00:19:23,579 before I could even grasp that something was happening. 427 00:19:23,579 --> 00:19:25,956 - [Tony] Jessica pulls over to the side of the road 428 00:19:25,956 --> 00:19:27,333 and records this. 429 00:19:28,626 --> 00:19:31,295 Two amorphous lights float high above a group 430 00:19:31,295 --> 00:19:33,255 of trees at sunset. 431 00:19:33,255 --> 00:19:36,425 As the left light drifts to the side, 432 00:19:36,425 --> 00:19:39,053 another seems to drop from the light on the right. 433 00:19:40,471 --> 00:19:43,474 Then, the lights undulate and morph a bit 434 00:19:43,474 --> 00:19:46,977 before dissolving into the air one after the other. 435 00:19:46,977 --> 00:19:51,023 - This thing had to have been several football fields wide. 436 00:19:51,023 --> 00:19:54,110 It shifted from this dome shape 437 00:19:54,110 --> 00:19:56,487 into this triangular shape, 438 00:19:56,487 --> 00:19:59,824 and it like, opens out and then just disappeared. 439 00:19:59,824 --> 00:20:02,660 - [Tony] The sighting leaves Jessica confounded. 440 00:20:02,660 --> 00:20:05,996 - I haven't been able to find anybody that could say 441 00:20:05,996 --> 00:20:08,874 that it is a explainable object, 442 00:20:08,874 --> 00:20:10,876 but I would love to know if anybody else 443 00:20:10,876 --> 00:20:12,628 has seen anything like it. 444 00:20:12,628 --> 00:20:14,880 - [Tony] As it turns out, plenty of people 445 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,134 have seen plenty of things right around here. 446 00:20:18,134 --> 00:20:20,761 That's because Jessica's sighting is just down the road 447 00:20:20,761 --> 00:20:23,389 from the legendary Skinwalker Ranch. 448 00:20:23,389 --> 00:20:25,641 - We have these very, kind of spooky tales. 449 00:20:25,641 --> 00:20:28,811 There have been stories of strange animal mutilations. 450 00:20:28,811 --> 00:20:31,105 There have been stories of ghost sightings. 451 00:20:31,105 --> 00:20:34,692 There have been stories of UFO and UAP sightings. 452 00:20:34,692 --> 00:20:38,529 There have been stories of strange electrical phenomena, 453 00:20:38,529 --> 00:20:41,240 and apparitions, and that type of thing. 454 00:20:44,618 --> 00:20:46,829 - I've been to Skinwalker Ranch myself. 455 00:20:46,829 --> 00:20:50,082 And while our team didn't experience anything unusual 456 00:20:50,082 --> 00:20:51,751 that particular day, 457 00:20:51,751 --> 00:20:55,087 other visitors have reported strange symptoms like vertigo, 458 00:20:55,087 --> 00:20:58,466 nausea, and even temporary paralysis. 459 00:20:58,466 --> 00:21:02,636 Is Jessica's sighting tied to the ranch's uncanny energy? 460 00:21:02,636 --> 00:21:04,889 [tense music] 461 00:21:06,766 --> 00:21:09,727 Before we start scanning for Skinwalkers, 462 00:21:09,727 --> 00:21:11,228 could these strange shapes 463 00:21:11,228 --> 00:21:13,355 actually be something completely normal? 464 00:21:13,355 --> 00:21:16,734 - It could be a distant cloud that is only illuminated 465 00:21:16,734 --> 00:21:19,403 in the very top portion of the cloud. 466 00:21:19,403 --> 00:21:22,865 This is due to the curvature of the Earth as the sun is setting. 467 00:21:22,865 --> 00:21:25,701 However, we don't have any clouds reported 468 00:21:25,701 --> 00:21:28,579 anywhere across northeastern Utah 469 00:21:28,579 --> 00:21:30,623 on November 6th, 2022. 470 00:21:30,623 --> 00:21:33,626 - [Tony] Okay, not clouds, fine. 471 00:21:33,626 --> 00:21:36,670 But Utah is home to several military bases 472 00:21:36,670 --> 00:21:39,381 like the Dugway Proving Ground. 473 00:21:39,381 --> 00:21:40,883 Could we be looking at something 474 00:21:40,883 --> 00:21:43,427 made by afterburners from a fighter jet? 475 00:21:43,427 --> 00:21:45,679 - This could potentially explain 476 00:21:45,679 --> 00:21:47,848 why there's a pair of features, 477 00:21:47,848 --> 00:21:50,559 if we're talking about a pair of engines on a jet. 478 00:21:50,559 --> 00:21:55,981 However, this would not explain why these two features 479 00:21:55,981 --> 00:21:59,777 are not perfectly the same and symmetric in their behavior. 480 00:21:59,777 --> 00:22:02,154 With jet afterburners, you're typically gonna see 481 00:22:02,154 --> 00:22:04,865 a shock, diamond, or ring formation. 482 00:22:04,865 --> 00:22:08,786 That's not exactly what we see in this video. 483 00:22:08,786 --> 00:22:12,373 - [Tony] Instead, we consider another feature of the area. 484 00:22:12,373 --> 00:22:13,958 - There are a lot of oil 485 00:22:13,958 --> 00:22:16,836 and gas fields across the Uinta Basin. 486 00:22:16,836 --> 00:22:19,547 About 280 billion cubic feet 487 00:22:19,547 --> 00:22:22,383 of gas are extracted every year. 488 00:22:22,383 --> 00:22:24,468 My leading theory is that what we're looking at 489 00:22:24,468 --> 00:22:27,888 is gas flares due to the oil and gas fields. 490 00:22:27,888 --> 00:22:32,017 - Gas flaring is the practice of burning excess gas, 491 00:22:32,017 --> 00:22:35,187 often to relieve pressure and prevent explosions. 492 00:22:35,187 --> 00:22:38,274 - There might be a stack in this general vicinity. 493 00:22:38,274 --> 00:22:39,608 We just can't see it 494 00:22:39,608 --> 00:22:41,569 because the sun is starting to set, 495 00:22:41,569 --> 00:22:42,945 it's getting dark out there. 496 00:22:42,945 --> 00:22:44,780 Maybe there's some fog or something 497 00:22:44,780 --> 00:22:46,991 that is impeding our visibility. 498 00:22:46,991 --> 00:22:50,286 This area has always been known for peculiar sights, 499 00:22:50,286 --> 00:22:52,580 but I don't believe it's a UFO. 500 00:22:52,580 --> 00:22:55,833 If it is a UFO, then it needs to call the fire department. 501 00:22:56,792 --> 00:22:59,086 [tense music] 502 00:23:00,963 --> 00:23:03,007 - Our verdict, given all the oil 503 00:23:03,007 --> 00:23:05,342 and gas fields in the Uinta Basin, 504 00:23:05,342 --> 00:23:08,178 we think the probability Jessica saw fire 505 00:23:08,178 --> 00:23:10,806 from a gas flare is high. 506 00:23:10,806 --> 00:23:13,642 But that doesn't explain all the other strange phenomena 507 00:23:13,642 --> 00:23:15,477 on Skinwalker Ranch. 508 00:23:15,477 --> 00:23:19,315 We think the probability we'll see more oddities in the area 509 00:23:19,315 --> 00:23:20,608 is also high. 510 00:23:24,778 --> 00:23:27,364 - "Islands in the Stream" is a famous duet 511 00:23:27,364 --> 00:23:29,033 between Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers. 512 00:23:29,033 --> 00:23:30,576 If we could afford to license it, 513 00:23:30,576 --> 00:23:32,411 we would be playing it right now. 514 00:23:32,411 --> 00:23:35,497 Well, you know, it might also be the perfect title 515 00:23:35,497 --> 00:23:38,083 for our next story, in which a pair of islands 516 00:23:38,083 --> 00:23:41,545 seemingly move or float to their own beat. 517 00:23:41,545 --> 00:23:42,671 Check it out. 518 00:23:43,672 --> 00:23:46,133 July 10th, 2022, 519 00:23:46,133 --> 00:23:48,177 Begansar Protected Lake, Indonesia. 520 00:23:48,177 --> 00:23:49,470 It's an overcast afternoon, 521 00:23:49,470 --> 00:23:52,097 but a serene moment by the lake is broken 522 00:23:52,097 --> 00:23:53,641 when an eyewitness sees something 523 00:23:53,641 --> 00:23:57,645 shifting in the landscape and records this. 524 00:23:57,645 --> 00:24:01,148 What at first appears to be an ordinary stand of trees 525 00:24:01,148 --> 00:24:04,735 reveals itself to be an island on the move. 526 00:24:04,735 --> 00:24:08,030 Moments later, we can see a second small landmass 527 00:24:08,030 --> 00:24:10,282 following in the wake of the first. 528 00:24:10,282 --> 00:24:11,659 In this sped-up footage, 529 00:24:11,659 --> 00:24:14,036 we can see these strange islands rotating 530 00:24:14,036 --> 00:24:15,621 and changing direction. 531 00:24:15,621 --> 00:24:16,914 - According to some estimates, 532 00:24:16,914 --> 00:24:18,916 as many as 50 people have hitched a ride 533 00:24:18,916 --> 00:24:21,085 around the lake on these land masses. 534 00:24:21,085 --> 00:24:23,420 And according to the people who live around the lake, 535 00:24:23,420 --> 00:24:25,547 they actually move in a recognizable pattern. 536 00:24:25,547 --> 00:24:28,968 They begin their journey around 8:00 AM, and by 3:00 PM, 537 00:24:28,968 --> 00:24:31,428 they're back in their original position. 538 00:24:31,428 --> 00:24:35,224 - [Tony] It's almost as though these islands are alive 539 00:24:35,224 --> 00:24:37,768 or being moved by a sentient force. 540 00:24:37,768 --> 00:24:40,354 - There's an Indonesian legend about a large, 541 00:24:40,354 --> 00:24:43,273 snake-like creature called Naga Padoha 542 00:24:43,273 --> 00:24:45,985 that lives in the underworld and is said to support 543 00:24:45,985 --> 00:24:49,154 and even move around the Earthly realm above. 544 00:24:49,154 --> 00:24:51,365 But there's also a more scientific explanation 545 00:24:51,365 --> 00:24:53,909 for what might be happening with these islands. 546 00:24:53,909 --> 00:24:55,869 According to one paleobiologist, 547 00:24:55,869 --> 00:24:59,248 he's actually seen trees move 65 feet 548 00:24:59,248 --> 00:25:01,667 in search of better soil or better sun, 549 00:25:01,667 --> 00:25:04,420 a process that he says takes up to two years. 550 00:25:04,420 --> 00:25:06,422 So could the trees on these islands actually be 551 00:25:06,422 --> 00:25:07,798 looking for better light? 552 00:25:07,798 --> 00:25:11,760 - [Tony] And islands do move for other reasons. 553 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:18,142 - In 2019, a husband and wife team of Australian sailors 554 00:25:18,142 --> 00:25:23,022 encountered this extraordinary floating landmass 555 00:25:23,022 --> 00:25:26,567 in the midst of their voyage to the Fiji Islands. 556 00:25:26,567 --> 00:25:30,112 It was 58 square miles, 557 00:25:30,112 --> 00:25:34,241 about the size of 20,000 football fields, 558 00:25:34,241 --> 00:25:36,577 and it was later identified 559 00:25:36,577 --> 00:25:41,915 as a textbook example of a floating pumice raft. 560 00:25:42,875 --> 00:25:45,002 A pumice raft is a landmass 561 00:25:45,002 --> 00:25:48,297 of porous, soft pumice stone. 562 00:25:48,297 --> 00:25:51,050 Active underwater volcanoes 563 00:25:51,050 --> 00:25:53,218 spew out lava. 564 00:25:53,218 --> 00:25:55,763 As this lava cools, 565 00:25:55,763 --> 00:25:59,224 it congeals into pumice stone, 566 00:25:59,224 --> 00:26:03,270 which can form, essentially, a floating island. 567 00:26:06,482 --> 00:26:08,358 - It is a scientific fact 568 00:26:08,358 --> 00:26:11,278 that all land on Earth is on the move. 569 00:26:11,278 --> 00:26:13,530 Experts say that, on average, 570 00:26:13,530 --> 00:26:15,532 land masses naturally move at a rate 571 00:26:15,532 --> 00:26:18,118 of about 1.5 centimeters a year. 572 00:26:18,118 --> 00:26:20,621 Incidentally, that's about the same growth rate 573 00:26:20,621 --> 00:26:22,498 as our toenails. 574 00:26:22,498 --> 00:26:24,333 But these islands are moving much farther 575 00:26:24,333 --> 00:26:25,793 and faster than that. 576 00:26:25,793 --> 00:26:28,796 So what exactly is pulling the strings here? 577 00:26:28,796 --> 00:26:30,380 Let's check with the experts. 578 00:26:30,380 --> 00:26:32,549 [tense music] 579 00:26:34,009 --> 00:26:38,347 Some wonder if this could simply be an optical illusion, 580 00:26:38,347 --> 00:26:40,682 known as the parallax effect, 581 00:26:41,850 --> 00:26:43,519 which we've seen before. 582 00:26:44,478 --> 00:26:46,730 Is that what's happening here? 583 00:26:46,730 --> 00:26:49,108 - With optical illusions like parallax, 584 00:26:49,108 --> 00:26:53,070 if something is closer to the camera and it's being recorded 585 00:26:53,070 --> 00:26:55,989 and the camera is moving at a high rate of speed, 586 00:26:55,989 --> 00:26:57,449 it can make it look like the thing 587 00:26:57,449 --> 00:26:59,535 that we're passing is moving at a high rate of speed. 588 00:26:59,535 --> 00:27:01,912 In this case, different situation. 589 00:27:01,912 --> 00:27:05,499 We have a stationary camera and an object that's moving, 590 00:27:05,499 --> 00:27:07,793 thus giving a fixed perspective 591 00:27:07,793 --> 00:27:11,547 and not the result of an optical illusion like parallax. 592 00:27:11,547 --> 00:27:13,674 - [Tony] What about that pumice raft theory? 593 00:27:13,674 --> 00:27:15,509 Well, it won't float. 594 00:27:15,509 --> 00:27:17,636 We checked, and there are no reports 595 00:27:17,636 --> 00:27:20,514 of an underwater volcano here to form one, 596 00:27:20,514 --> 00:27:23,475 but the answer might be a different geological phenomenon. 597 00:27:23,475 --> 00:27:26,186 - There is a plant that, it grows in this water 598 00:27:26,186 --> 00:27:29,189 and it actually has the consistency to hold together 599 00:27:29,189 --> 00:27:30,983 and form, like a mat. 600 00:27:30,983 --> 00:27:33,360 And what you see is this mat is broken off 601 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:36,822 and it's moving with respect to the water currents. 602 00:27:36,822 --> 00:27:39,533 - [Tony] These masses, called tussocks, 603 00:27:39,533 --> 00:27:41,618 typically occur in wetland areas 604 00:27:41,618 --> 00:27:43,370 when growths of vegetation 605 00:27:43,370 --> 00:27:47,207 move outward from the shoreline and break off. 606 00:27:47,207 --> 00:27:50,460 As the land mass floats into deeper waters, 607 00:27:50,460 --> 00:27:54,214 it uses the oxygen in its root mass for buoyancy. 608 00:27:54,214 --> 00:27:57,718 - Although these islands here are very similar 609 00:27:57,718 --> 00:27:59,303 to floating islands, 610 00:27:59,303 --> 00:28:02,306 they're unique in Indonesia because of their size. 611 00:28:02,306 --> 00:28:04,308 You don't normally see these large trees 612 00:28:04,308 --> 00:28:06,810 and everything forming and floating on these things 613 00:28:06,810 --> 00:28:09,104 in the other parts of the world. 614 00:28:09,104 --> 00:28:11,273 [tense music] 615 00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:15,777 - Our verdict, natural phenomenon. 616 00:28:15,777 --> 00:28:19,781 We agree with our experts that these islands are tussocks 617 00:28:19,781 --> 00:28:22,159 propelled by the water's current. 618 00:28:22,159 --> 00:28:24,244 Let's just hope they don't stray too far 619 00:28:24,244 --> 00:28:26,246 before our next trip to Indonesia. 620 00:28:30,375 --> 00:28:32,294 - In ancient Rome, there was no shortage 621 00:28:32,294 --> 00:28:33,503 of lasting innovation. 622 00:28:33,503 --> 00:28:35,088 Consider the massive aqueducts, 623 00:28:35,088 --> 00:28:38,258 one of which still feeds into the Trevi Fountain 624 00:28:38,258 --> 00:28:41,261 more than 2,000 years after its construction. 625 00:28:41,261 --> 00:28:43,221 But what we are about to show you 626 00:28:43,221 --> 00:28:45,515 is such a wonder of design, 627 00:28:45,515 --> 00:28:47,893 it's a mystery how the Romans ever made it. 628 00:28:49,686 --> 00:28:52,898 Rome, the fourth century AD. 629 00:28:52,898 --> 00:28:57,194 The empire begins a monumental conversion to Christianity. 630 00:28:57,194 --> 00:29:00,697 But before the pagan gods are banished altogether, 631 00:29:00,697 --> 00:29:03,283 one is immortalized in an object 632 00:29:03,283 --> 00:29:05,619 as mysterious as it is beautiful. 633 00:29:06,745 --> 00:29:09,581 This is the Lycurgus Cup. 634 00:29:09,581 --> 00:29:12,584 Its carved glass depicts the mythological conflict 635 00:29:12,584 --> 00:29:16,713 between the cup's namesake, King Lycurgus of Thrace, 636 00:29:16,713 --> 00:29:20,217 and the Roman god of wine, Bacchus. 637 00:29:20,217 --> 00:29:24,721 When the cup is lit from the front, it appears a jade green, 638 00:29:24,721 --> 00:29:26,390 but watch it as it transforms 639 00:29:26,390 --> 00:29:29,810 into a ruby red when it's lit from behind. 640 00:29:29,810 --> 00:29:31,895 How is this possible? 641 00:29:31,895 --> 00:29:34,731 - One of the reasons the Lycurgus Cup attracts 642 00:29:34,731 --> 00:29:36,692 so much attention now is because 643 00:29:36,692 --> 00:29:41,113 it's an early example of nanotechnology. 644 00:29:41,113 --> 00:29:43,699 So, you've got these minute particles, 645 00:29:43,699 --> 00:29:48,412 literally hundreds of atoms across, in the glass. 646 00:29:48,412 --> 00:29:50,414 In the case of the Lycurgus Cup, 647 00:29:50,414 --> 00:29:53,834 they're made of an alloy of gold and silver. 648 00:29:53,834 --> 00:29:55,293 - [Tony] Hang on. 649 00:29:55,293 --> 00:29:58,839 Nanotechnology is a modern innovation, right? 650 00:29:58,839 --> 00:30:03,218 That's how, today, we make dichroic glass, 651 00:30:03,218 --> 00:30:06,596 famed for changing color based on light exposure. 652 00:30:06,596 --> 00:30:08,598 The very concept of nanotechnology 653 00:30:08,598 --> 00:30:12,394 wasn't introduced until 1959. 654 00:30:12,394 --> 00:30:16,148 So how can we explain the ancient Romans using it 655 00:30:16,148 --> 00:30:19,860 to create this cup at least 1,600 years ago? 656 00:30:19,860 --> 00:30:22,029 - There are some who believe that the Lycurgus Cup 657 00:30:22,029 --> 00:30:23,947 is so advanced that the Romans simply 658 00:30:23,947 --> 00:30:26,241 could not have created it themselves. 659 00:30:26,241 --> 00:30:29,036 You might think this sounds kind of far out there, 660 00:30:29,036 --> 00:30:32,122 but the annals of imperial Rome actually have 661 00:30:32,122 --> 00:30:35,917 what some people believe are encounters with UFOs. 662 00:30:35,917 --> 00:30:39,004 One from the year 100 BC has two Roman consuls 663 00:30:39,004 --> 00:30:40,797 seeing an unknown circular object 664 00:30:40,797 --> 00:30:43,550 in the sky, moving from west to east. 665 00:30:43,550 --> 00:30:46,261 That's made some people wonder if the Lycurgus Cup's 666 00:30:46,261 --> 00:30:49,347 advanced technology was actually given to the Romans 667 00:30:49,347 --> 00:30:51,349 by ancient astronauts. 668 00:30:51,349 --> 00:30:53,769 - [Tony] This isn't the only example 669 00:30:53,769 --> 00:30:56,772 of a seemingly advanced Roman artifact 670 00:30:56,772 --> 00:30:59,775 whose origins have been lost to time. 671 00:30:59,775 --> 00:31:01,443 - There's another bizarre piece 672 00:31:01,443 --> 00:31:03,987 of Roman technology called the dodecahedra. 673 00:31:03,987 --> 00:31:06,448 They're these 12-sided bronze objects. 674 00:31:06,448 --> 00:31:08,867 Hundreds of experts have posed guesses 675 00:31:08,867 --> 00:31:10,494 as to what these things could be, 676 00:31:10,494 --> 00:31:13,747 from a weapon, to a talisman for good luck, 677 00:31:13,747 --> 00:31:16,124 to a device for divination. 678 00:31:16,124 --> 00:31:18,919 So the verdict is still out on that one. 679 00:31:20,629 --> 00:31:23,799 - How advanced is the Lycurgus Cup? 680 00:31:23,799 --> 00:31:25,467 Well, scientists are studying it 681 00:31:25,467 --> 00:31:28,804 in an effort to improve cloaking technology. 682 00:31:28,804 --> 00:31:31,098 Theoretical simulations suggest 683 00:31:31,098 --> 00:31:34,142 that modifications in the cup can turn objects 684 00:31:34,142 --> 00:31:36,728 placed inside it invisible. 685 00:31:36,728 --> 00:31:40,273 How did the ancients create this remarkable artifact? 686 00:31:40,273 --> 00:31:42,943 We turn now to our experts to find out. 687 00:31:42,943 --> 00:31:45,112 [tense music] 688 00:31:46,738 --> 00:31:49,741 With technology this advanced, is it possible 689 00:31:49,741 --> 00:31:52,577 that extraterrestrials really were involved? 690 00:31:52,577 --> 00:31:56,998 - We would expect in the vast corpus of Roman art 691 00:31:56,998 --> 00:32:00,710 to find at least one example that clearly was 692 00:32:00,710 --> 00:32:04,589 some sort of extraterrestrial teaching techniques. 693 00:32:04,589 --> 00:32:07,592 And yet, we have nothing like that. 694 00:32:07,592 --> 00:32:09,594 - [Tony] But perhaps the Romans 695 00:32:09,594 --> 00:32:14,182 did represent extraterrestrials in their art all the time. 696 00:32:14,182 --> 00:32:16,476 Some have argued that images of Roman gods 697 00:32:16,476 --> 00:32:19,563 with all their assorted powers are interpretations 698 00:32:19,563 --> 00:32:21,523 of extraterrestrials. 699 00:32:21,523 --> 00:32:26,278 That includes gods like the one carved into the cup, Bacchus. 700 00:32:26,278 --> 00:32:28,989 - People suggest that perhaps this is the God 701 00:32:28,989 --> 00:32:33,034 who taught them this kind of technology, 702 00:32:33,034 --> 00:32:35,162 being extraterrestrial. 703 00:32:35,162 --> 00:32:38,081 But Bacchus is a party god [transition whooshing] 704 00:32:38,081 --> 00:32:42,043 He's in charge of fun and libations and drunkness. 705 00:32:42,043 --> 00:32:45,463 And if we were gonna see one connected to technology, 706 00:32:45,463 --> 00:32:47,757 we'd expect perhaps Vulcan 707 00:32:47,757 --> 00:32:52,470 or another god that was connected to craftsmen. 708 00:32:53,972 --> 00:32:55,515 - [Tony] But we still have to explain 709 00:32:55,515 --> 00:32:58,393 how the Romans mastered nanotechnology. 710 00:32:58,393 --> 00:33:00,854 - The gold and silver particles 711 00:33:00,854 --> 00:33:04,357 that create the color change effect are approximately 712 00:33:04,357 --> 00:33:08,111 50 nanometers in size in this cup. 713 00:33:08,111 --> 00:33:11,489 But particles or particulates of such a small size 714 00:33:11,489 --> 00:33:16,411 can be created through patient grinding of silver and gold. 715 00:33:16,411 --> 00:33:18,747 - When you're making something at scale, 716 00:33:18,747 --> 00:33:22,417 that's an opportunity for both experimentation 717 00:33:22,417 --> 00:33:25,337 but also accidental discovery. 718 00:33:25,337 --> 00:33:27,756 And I think either it was a happy accident 719 00:33:27,756 --> 00:33:30,133 that happened during mass production, 720 00:33:30,133 --> 00:33:33,803 or experts who spent their entire life 721 00:33:33,803 --> 00:33:37,057 studying glass made an innovation. 722 00:33:37,057 --> 00:33:38,975 - [Tony] But then, why don't we see 723 00:33:38,975 --> 00:33:41,186 more ancient objects like this? 724 00:33:41,186 --> 00:33:44,189 Well, there probably were others. 725 00:33:44,189 --> 00:33:46,316 They just didn't survive the centuries. 726 00:33:46,316 --> 00:33:48,401 - This is the only intact example. 727 00:33:48,401 --> 00:33:52,155 But we do have fragments of the type of glass used here 728 00:33:52,155 --> 00:33:55,700 that go back to a similar ancient timeframe. 729 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:59,621 So things get forgotten and they get rediscovered. 730 00:33:59,621 --> 00:34:03,083 So I think it's a mistake to look at all of human history 731 00:34:03,083 --> 00:34:05,835 as some sort of linear progression 732 00:34:05,835 --> 00:34:10,257 and then claim that if something is too advanced, 733 00:34:10,257 --> 00:34:13,635 allegedly, for a certain ancient time period. 734 00:34:13,635 --> 00:34:15,887 [tense music] 735 00:34:17,806 --> 00:34:21,893 - Our verdict, this is a case of trial and error. 736 00:34:21,893 --> 00:34:25,855 We can't say exactly what trials and errors were involved, 737 00:34:25,855 --> 00:34:27,690 but to the ancient Roman artisan 738 00:34:27,690 --> 00:34:31,444 who created this masterpiece, cheers. 739 00:34:35,407 --> 00:34:37,367 - The search for extraterrestrial life 740 00:34:37,367 --> 00:34:39,995 isn't just about biological specimens. 741 00:34:39,995 --> 00:34:43,206 Scientists are increasingly searching for techno signatures 742 00:34:43,206 --> 00:34:46,251 or technical traces of intelligent life. 743 00:34:46,251 --> 00:34:48,378 And one new discovery may be proof 744 00:34:48,378 --> 00:34:51,297 that's eight billion years old. 745 00:34:51,297 --> 00:34:52,465 Take a look. 746 00:34:53,675 --> 00:34:56,261 It's June 10th, 2022, 747 00:34:56,261 --> 00:34:59,222 at the Murchison Radio Astronomy Observatory 748 00:34:59,222 --> 00:35:01,349 in Western Australia. 749 00:35:01,349 --> 00:35:04,269 A radio telescope is surveying the sky 750 00:35:04,269 --> 00:35:06,855 when it picks up something unprecedented. 751 00:35:08,148 --> 00:35:10,567 In less than a millisecond, radio waves, 752 00:35:10,567 --> 00:35:13,612 a form of light invisible to the human eye, 753 00:35:13,612 --> 00:35:15,780 strike the telescope in what's known 754 00:35:15,780 --> 00:35:18,867 as a fast radio burst, or FRB. 755 00:35:19,826 --> 00:35:21,536 They've been detected before, 756 00:35:21,536 --> 00:35:23,163 but astronomer Alexa Gordon 757 00:35:23,163 --> 00:35:25,582 has never seen any like this. 758 00:35:26,708 --> 00:35:30,211 - It was four times as energetic as any other one. 759 00:35:30,211 --> 00:35:32,172 It broke models for 760 00:35:32,172 --> 00:35:35,091 how energetic we think FRBs could be. 761 00:35:35,091 --> 00:35:37,385 - [Tony] The astronomers get to work tracing 762 00:35:37,385 --> 00:35:38,720 where it came from, 763 00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:40,680 and that's when they find this. 764 00:35:41,723 --> 00:35:45,018 It's an image from the Hubble Space Telescope. 765 00:35:45,018 --> 00:35:47,604 Specifically, the area of deep space 766 00:35:47,604 --> 00:35:51,816 where scientists believe the FRB originated. 767 00:35:51,816 --> 00:35:55,445 Those blue and orange streaks, those are galaxies. 768 00:35:55,445 --> 00:35:56,988 - We traced it back to 769 00:35:56,988 --> 00:36:00,700 this compact group of galaxies that are really rare. 770 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:04,496 It's this incredibly dense system of many galaxies, 771 00:36:04,496 --> 00:36:07,207 and we've never seen that before for FRBs. 772 00:36:08,208 --> 00:36:12,087 - [Tony] News of the fantastic FRB takes the world by storm. 773 00:36:12,087 --> 00:36:16,341 After all, it's as powerful as the sun's emissions 774 00:36:16,341 --> 00:36:18,802 over the course of 30 years. 775 00:36:18,802 --> 00:36:22,472 But it's not the first FRB to catch humankind's attention. 776 00:36:22,472 --> 00:36:25,642 - The first FRB was discovered in 2007 777 00:36:25,642 --> 00:36:29,396 by a team of astrophysicists led by Duncan Lorimer. 778 00:36:29,396 --> 00:36:31,940 To this day, the cause of the Lorimer Burst 779 00:36:31,940 --> 00:36:33,608 is still unknown. 780 00:36:34,734 --> 00:36:36,277 - And then in 2015, 781 00:36:36,277 --> 00:36:39,531 scientists actually discovered the first repeated FRBs, 782 00:36:39,531 --> 00:36:42,534 which all seemed to come from the same direction. 783 00:36:42,534 --> 00:36:44,786 That totally upended the previous assumption 784 00:36:44,786 --> 00:36:46,037 that FRBs were coming 785 00:36:46,037 --> 00:36:47,831 from some kind of cataclysmic explosion. 786 00:36:47,831 --> 00:36:49,708 Because if they were repeated, 787 00:36:49,708 --> 00:36:51,376 then clearly whatever was creating them 788 00:36:51,376 --> 00:36:52,585 hadn't been destroyed. 789 00:36:52,585 --> 00:36:55,380 - So some believe that the only explanation 790 00:36:55,380 --> 00:36:58,341 for these FRBs could be alien intelligent life. 791 00:36:59,342 --> 00:37:02,095 So the burst of energy we see would be something 792 00:37:02,095 --> 00:37:04,389 that's propelling a planet-sized spacecraft, 793 00:37:04,389 --> 00:37:06,516 and we're capturing a brief moment 794 00:37:06,516 --> 00:37:08,685 of that expelling energy. 795 00:37:08,685 --> 00:37:12,021 - [Tony] And here's where this one gets really out there. 796 00:37:12,021 --> 00:37:14,816 The galaxies where this FRB originates are about 797 00:37:14,816 --> 00:37:17,902 8 billion light years away. 798 00:37:17,902 --> 00:37:20,405 That means a radio burst that reaches us 799 00:37:20,405 --> 00:37:24,284 from those galaxies must be 8 billion years old, 800 00:37:24,284 --> 00:37:27,954 and this may be just the tip of the cosmic iceberg. 801 00:37:27,954 --> 00:37:31,499 - In April 2024, scientists recorded another FRB, 802 00:37:31,499 --> 00:37:32,709 and it was later determined 803 00:37:32,709 --> 00:37:35,587 to be the farthest FRB ever recorded. 804 00:37:35,587 --> 00:37:38,882 It originated 9.1 billion light years away. 805 00:37:38,882 --> 00:37:41,843 Do these FRBs indicate that technological civilizations 806 00:37:41,843 --> 00:37:44,971 were thriving across the universe billions of years ago? 807 00:37:47,056 --> 00:37:48,933 - Aliens and their ships are said 808 00:37:48,933 --> 00:37:51,478 to possess enormous amounts of energy. 809 00:37:51,478 --> 00:37:55,815 In fact, this CIA document includes a wild account 810 00:37:55,815 --> 00:38:00,069 of Soviet soldiers who allegedly shot down a flying saucer, 811 00:38:00,069 --> 00:38:02,822 only to be turned to stone when the aliens 812 00:38:02,822 --> 00:38:06,409 inside exploded in a ball of light. 813 00:38:06,409 --> 00:38:08,620 Now, this is an unverified story, 814 00:38:08,620 --> 00:38:11,372 but could this FRB be scientific proof 815 00:38:11,372 --> 00:38:13,708 of immense alien energy? 816 00:38:13,708 --> 00:38:15,877 [tense music] 817 00:38:18,254 --> 00:38:19,798 Before we consider the cosmic, 818 00:38:19,798 --> 00:38:22,258 we first ask if this FRB 819 00:38:22,258 --> 00:38:24,302 might have originated right here on Earth. 820 00:38:24,302 --> 00:38:27,972 In astronomy, this is known as a peryton. 821 00:38:27,972 --> 00:38:32,977 - A peryton event is a short, manmade radio signal. 822 00:38:32,977 --> 00:38:36,564 For instance, once in Australia, a radio phenomenon 823 00:38:36,564 --> 00:38:39,234 that was alleged to have been from outer space 824 00:38:39,234 --> 00:38:41,319 was actually attributed 825 00:38:41,319 --> 00:38:43,988 to a nearby microwave. 826 00:38:43,988 --> 00:38:49,869 And so this can create the illusion of an FRB. 827 00:38:49,869 --> 00:38:51,830 I don't think that's what's happening here, however, 828 00:38:51,830 --> 00:38:54,666 'cause we've had multiple confirmations 829 00:38:54,666 --> 00:38:58,419 of not just this FRB, but other fast radio bursts. 830 00:38:58,419 --> 00:39:01,631 - [Tony] If the FRB really does trace back 831 00:39:01,631 --> 00:39:03,675 to this cluster of galaxies, 832 00:39:03,675 --> 00:39:07,303 could this simply be an energetic celestial body 833 00:39:07,303 --> 00:39:09,222 like a magnetar? 834 00:39:09,222 --> 00:39:11,599 - A magnetar is a magnetic star 835 00:39:11,599 --> 00:39:13,852 that releases a tremendous amount of energy 836 00:39:13,852 --> 00:39:16,187 in the form of magnetism. 837 00:39:16,187 --> 00:39:18,314 Could it be a magnetar? 838 00:39:18,314 --> 00:39:20,483 Well, not an isolated one. 839 00:39:20,483 --> 00:39:22,944 We're talking about energies even greater 840 00:39:22,944 --> 00:39:24,487 than just one star. 841 00:39:24,487 --> 00:39:28,449 So a single magnetar would not rival the energy 842 00:39:28,449 --> 00:39:31,202 being seen with our instruments today. 843 00:39:32,203 --> 00:39:34,706 - [Tony] Could that energy be the lingering signature 844 00:39:34,706 --> 00:39:36,583 of an alien species? 845 00:39:36,583 --> 00:39:39,669 Perhaps a powerful craft or even a weapon? 846 00:39:39,669 --> 00:39:42,547 Problem is, we don't think intelligent life was even 847 00:39:42,547 --> 00:39:44,841 around 8 billion years ago. 848 00:39:44,841 --> 00:39:50,054 - We think the universe is only 13.8 billion years old. 849 00:39:50,054 --> 00:39:53,057 So this signal would've been sent 850 00:39:53,057 --> 00:39:57,395 when the universe was less than six billion years old. 851 00:39:57,395 --> 00:40:00,899 I don't think the universe would've had enough time 852 00:40:00,899 --> 00:40:04,360 in order for intelligent life to have evolved somewhere. 853 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,239 - We will eventually unravel the mystery of these objects. 854 00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:09,949 But at the present time, 855 00:40:09,949 --> 00:40:14,203 this FRB still remains a cosmic mystery. 856 00:40:16,289 --> 00:40:18,541 [tense music] 857 00:40:20,376 --> 00:40:23,713 - Our verdict, this remains unexplained. 858 00:40:23,713 --> 00:40:28,051 We're not sure what produced this 8-billion-year-old FRB, 859 00:40:28,051 --> 00:40:30,511 but let's hope it doesn't take another 8 billion years 860 00:40:30,511 --> 00:40:31,679 to find out. 861 00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:32,972 And that's our show for tonight. 862 00:40:32,972 --> 00:40:35,350 Thank you so much for watching, 863 00:40:35,350 --> 00:40:37,268 and let's keep those cameras rolling. 864 00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:41,522 [dramatic music]