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- Tonight on "the
proof is out there."

is the dead creature in this
video an experiment gone wrong?

- [erika] what the heck is this?

- [tony] is this video of ufos

flying in formation
real or fake?

- [man] holy (beep).

- [tony] and what
did this pilot see

in the sky above mexico?

- [erik] that is a unidentified
flying object, bro.

It's pulsating too, man;
that is nuts! (laughing)

(pensive orchestral music)

- [tony] around the
globe are videos--

- [erika] what the heck is this?

- [tony] photos, and sounds
that defy explanation.

(low humming)

- [man] is it some kind
of unidentified object?

- [man] a plane that was
literally frozen in the air.

- [tony] what are they?

- [man] some sort
of bizarre mutation.

- Extraordinary claims
need extraordinary proof.

- I'm tony harris.

And as a journalist
for more than 30 years,

I've followed the facts
where they take me.

Now, I'm bringing that
spirit of investigation

to the world's strangest
sounds and images.

(creature squealing)

we'll analyze each
one with top experts.

- It's a credible case,
it's a credible video.

- [tony] and pass a
verdict on what it is.

- This video was clearly faked.

- The proof starts now.

(pensive music)

hi, everyone.

Boy, have we been busy.

We've been collecting
and analyzing

some very strange videos

and we're ready to issue some
verdicts on what they are.

First up, a macabre discovery

that led to theories
of secret experiments,

coverups, and mutant monkeys.

(eerie music)

it's a breezy February afternoon

in charleston, south carolina.

Erika constantine is
walking her dog, river,

on a local beach when she sees
something lying on the sand.

- Take a good look.

It appears to be the grisly
remains of a strange creature,

mostly rotting bones,

what could've been
legs or flippers,

razor-sharp teeth, and no eyes.

Beyond that, erika
can only wonder.

I mean, what would you think?

- I was like, "holy (beep),
I just found something weird."

- [tony] a theory emerges
that the creature had escaped

from a facility on
a nearby island.

It's called morgan island,
but it has a nickname:

"monkey island."

- in the 1970s, the
united states government

imported thousands of rhesus
monkeys from puerto rico

and placed them onto the island.

- [tony] the monkeys were
released into the wild to breed

and occasionally rounded
up to be test subjects

at a us government lab,

a lab that was trying to develop
cures for various diseases.

But nearby residents said
there was more to it.

- Locals in the town
have this belief

that the lab is the site
of some pretty intense

biological weapons testing,

that the government might be
engaging in genetic experiments

to mutate these monkeys.

- [tony] decades later, there
are 4,000 monkeys there.

And reportedly, they
display strange behavior,

like burial rituals for their
dead, as if they've evolved.

A few years back, one even
turned up in someone's yard

seven miles away.
(monkey screeching)

- of course, when anything
does wash up onshore,

you're going to have
people automatically say,

"it must be from this island
that the government owns

"and it's a big secret; no
one's allowed to visit."

it's kind of a mysterious place.

- So, what is going
on in south carolina?

Our rule here is to
keep an open mind

while taking a hard, honest
look at these videos.

So, we pulled in
two top biologists

to analyze the footage, and
this is what they turned up.

Dr. Shea conger is
a marine biologist.

The first thing she did

was try to figure out if
it really was a monkey.

- This animal has the skeletal
structure of a primate.

There is a population of several
thousand of these animals

in a nearby location
on morgan island.

It's not totally implausible

that one can wash up
on a beach nearby.

- [tony] conger uses something
called dentition analysis,

the study of the teeth.

Look closely at the
premolars and molars in back.

- [shea] you can
see that there's

a triangular shape to these.

If this were a primate,

we would expect that these
would be more square-shaped.

That's what leads me to deduce

that this is maybe
not a primate.

- [tony] so, even thought the
skeleton looks like a monkey,

the teeth say it's
something else.

A seal or sea lion
seems logical,

but congers says those
bones mean only one thing:

Legs, not flippers.

Conger has another theory.

- [shea] this, as a whole,
looks very much to me

like a small carnivorous mammal.

- [tony] that means it could
be a raccoon or a coyote.

But when our other expert,

wildlife biologist lucy
eckersley, focuses on the skull,

she suggests it could be
something way more exotic.

- This could be something
really interesting.

It could be a big cat species,

maybe something like a leopard.

- [tony] that may
sound like a stretch,

but eckersley says the
cheekbone might be feline

because of its flatness.

- [lucy] looking at the
teeth and the zygomatics,

the cheekbones, that
looks like it could be

mummified remains of a leopard

that have been swept
in a weather event

and moved somewhere
else down the coast.

- [tony] but what is a leopard,

a animal native to
africa and asia,

doing on a beach
in south carolina?

One theory: It fell off a boat.

It's happened before.

Decades ago, a giraffe
reportedly drowned

in the waters near
brooklyn, new york,

while trying to escape from
a ship heading to a zoo.

Another possibility:

Looking at the
atlantic currents,

a dead leopard may
have floated up

from one of those
wildlife ranches

in florida.
(leopard roaring)

but after further review,
eckersley agrees with conger.

Because of a pronounced snout,

it's more likely to be
something like a coyote.

To know for sure,
we'd need a dna test,

but erika says the
remains of the creature

were destroyed by
animal control.

- That's only gonna add to the
conspiratorial fire, right?

People are automatically
gonna go to,

"this must be a coverup."

- okay, folks, so
is it proof or not?

Well, it's not a mutant
monkey or a seal.

That initial take
on the cheekbone

had us thinking leopard.

But our verdict: Coyote.

As they say, you never know
what the tide will bring in.

- Next, we wanna show you a
video that blew up social media:

A series of ufos over miami.

But we wanna know, is it real?

(pulsing industrial music)

miami, florida.

In June of 2020, a
man on the balcony

of a downtown high rise

appears to capture
something in the sky,

and it's jaw-dropping.

- [man] wow.

No bull(beep).

Here's the sky.

Got the sky over here,
downtown, my house, my hand.

What the (beep) is that?

Ho-ly (beep).

- [tony] let's push in on that.

At first glance, I'm
gonna say it looks like

a triangular craft
rimmed by five lights.

But a closer look reveals
there's a sixth light,

and one light is much brighter.

And then--

- [man] what is that?

What the (beep)?

- [tony] the lights fan out

like they are six
different craft.

As the witness continues

his play-by-play--
- [man] ho--

- [tony] they zoom off
into space at warp speed.

- [man] oh, wait, wait.

Bye.

- [tony] author and
journalist alexis brooks

has written and spoken
extensively about ufos.

- So, the question becomes,
"could this be a ufo?"

there are a lotta people
having a lot of sightings,

particularly in
more recent years.

In fact, it's been known
that a sighting is reported

every eight seconds globally.

- [tony] the lights remind some
of another weird phenomenon.

For decades, orbs called
the hessdalen lights

have been seen over
norway, sometimes hovering,

sometimes shooting off at speeds

estimated at 20,000
miles per hour.

Always silent, the hessdalen
lights have been known

to sterilize soil near
where they are sighted.

Explanations include ufos

or an anomaly caused by gases
released from the earth.

Yet the miami footage
is more orderly;

really, like ufos
flying in formation.

It quickly goes viral.

- [man] what is that?

Ho...

Oh, wait, wait.

Bye.

(laughing) holy (beep),
it's incredible.

Wow.

- So, what accounts
for the strange lights?

We have two video experts
ready to weigh in.

(soft electronic music)

forensic video analyst
michael primeau

examines video evidence
for court cases.

And he doesn't just focus
on what we're seeing

but also on what we're hearing.

- When we investigate
these types of recordings,

we detect that there is
a human reaction time,

where the brain needs
to essentially catch up.

And in this particular case,

we don't see any
kind of reaction time

to a unnatural
phenomenon such as this.

- [man] downtown,
my house, my hand.

- It's almost as if the operator

knows exactly
what's gonna happen.

When it happens, he's
reacting almost perfectly.

There is no reaction time.

- [man] oh, wait, wait.

Bye.

- Then he instantly
says, "okay, bye,"

and then he pans away from it.

It's very strange.

I would expect that an operator

doesn't simply move away after
they see something like that.

They stay focused on it.

- [tony] marc d'antonio,
another video analyst

with a degree in astronomy,
pointed out something else.

Look at how the ufos move
compared to the background

when the camera shakes.

- As we step through
this frame by frame,

the clouds move and the object
doesn't move with the clouds.

The object, frame by frame,
is changing position,

while the clouds are more
gently moving in one direction.

This is evidence of bad
tracking, it's called,

and it's a process by
which you put fake things

into real footage to
make it look real.

- [tony] and the
biggest red flag of all:

How could a cluster of ufos
appear over downtown miami

and only one guy notice?

- Where are the other witnesses?

We had one.

- Oh (beep)!

- The man who says
he made the video

declined our request
for an interview.

Turns out, you can
overlay orbs on video

with a simple smartphone app.

Our verdict is hoax, one
that muddies the water

for people really
trying to study ufos.

We'll call them out
when we see them.

Es a serious look.

It comes to us from a
pilot with nearly 30 years

of commercial and
military experience.

He knows what should

and shouldn't be
flying around up there.

And what he caught on
camera can't be dismissed.

March 19th, 2020.

We're in the skies
over monterrey, mexico,

on a cargo plane headed
to memphis, tennessee.

About an hour into the flight,

while captain erik delgado
is enjoying his dinner,

something catches his eye.

He pulls out his device
and records this.

(dramatic music)

- [man] oh man,
that is phenomenal!

- [eric] dude, I'm so glad you
saw that!

And you saw it drop
outta the sky and just--

- and just stop?

- [erik] (laughing)
this is awesome, man!

And it's pulsating
too, man, that is nuts!

- [tony] captain
delgado says this thing

dropped straight down from above

and hit his plane with
some kind of spotlight.

- It looked like a lighthouse

in some thin fog
as it's turning,

so that really got
my heart going.

- [tony] no doubt, a ufo
shining a light on your plane

would be a terrifying moment.

- I thought it coulda
been a safety issue

because initially this
thing is turning into us,

and then it decided to park
itself off our left wingtip.

- [tony] the glowing orb
maintains its position,

pacing the plane.

Delgado says it stayed
there for 25 minutes

before darting off
at a sharp angle.

- At that point,
the fear was gone

and then it was just,
I was flabbergasted.

It was just wonderment, I guess.

- [tony] and there's more.

This is the part of mexico
where delgado saw the ufo.

It's a short flight from central
mexico's zone of silence,

a weird place that locals say
blocks radio transmissions

and where ufos have
been seen for centuries.

And check out this video:

Similar objects recorded by
the mexican air force in 2004.

(speaking spanish)

(speaking spanish)

- I guess, now I
can definitively say

we are not alone.

- So, what's the
story down in mexico?

We passed captain
delgado's video on

to some top aviation
and video analysts,

and you need to hear
what they have to say.

We turn back to marc d'antonio,

who has spent 15 years doing
image and video analysis.

He first wanted to check

if this orb could actually
be the planet venus,

which is sometimes
mistaken for a ufo.

- Number one, venus doesn't
move around in the sky

like they saw it.

And this object shown a light

inside the cockpit
of the aircraft.

Planets don't have
spotlights on 'em.

- [tony] so, could
it have been a meteor

or a piece of space junk?

Fun fact: There are
about 130 million

pieces of junk in our orbit.

But look at how this
meteor leaves a long tail

and only for a few seconds.

That's not what this thing does.

Aviation expert tim mcmillan.

- Meteors fly into
the atmosphere

at a speed of 25,000 or more.

You don't have something

that's following
you for 30 minutes,

so we can scratch
that off the list.

That's not gonna be
a good explanation.

- [tony] mcmillan
is equally convinced

this was not another plane.

- If you'd had another plane

that was flying in the vicinity,

it would be operating the
lights that are on either wing,

so your green and red lights.

Anybody who's looked up in the
sky has seen those blinking.

And so, you don't see
anything else but that.

- Now, at 576 miles an hour,
we can also rule out drones

'cause there is no
drone that I know of

that goes 576 miles an
hour at 37,000 feet.

- [tony] and of course,

other aircraft are supposed
to show up on radar.

But look at what happens

when delgado pans to
the cockpit monitors.

- It may be the most
inexplicable part

of this whole incident.

The orb never appears

on delgado's collision
avoidance system

or air traffic control's radar.

- You would see, if there
was another aircraft

in the vicinity where
they're looking,

which is in this region,
you'd see a plane on this.

So, we don't see that,

and so there's definitely
not another aircraft.

- You now have a case that's
really truly mysterious.

This looks like
there's mystery here.

- That was a ufo.

You can look at the footage,
form your own opinions.

I'm not the story.

The footage is the story.

- So, america, time
for the answer.

Is it proof or not?

Well, it's not a planet,
there are no wings,

and delgado said
it followed him.

Now, we didn't see any evidence

of the spotlight he
described, but our verdict?

A ufo,

which is technically any
unidentified flying object.

- Our final video is
from a major news event.

But while the story is recent,

the image suggests
something truly ancient.

It's a sunny summer
day in beirut, lebanon.

A stash of fireworks
accidentally ignites,

and then this.

(explosion booming)

what you've just
seen is an explosion

at a warehouse
containing 2,700 tons

of highly-combustible
ammonium nitrate

caused by those fireworks.

The massive explosion can
be heard for a hundred miles

and makes headlines
around the world.

(car alarms honking)

but it's what happened next
that caught our attention.

A photographer snaps
a photo of the smoke.

- [woman] oh my god.

Oh my god.

(beep)

(photo shutter snapping)

- [tony] as we get closer, we
see what many people describe

as two eyes, a gaping
mouth, and a tail.

It looks like a
leering demonic face.

We returned to alexis brooks,
who covers the unexplained,

and asked her to research

eyewitness accounts
of the event.

- A number of individuals

representing a
variety of age groups

but all living in the
area all saw the image

and all felt inherently
that this image

represented an evil that
they feel is around them.

- Natural phenomenon or not,

this isn't the first
time people have reported

evil faces near
catastrophic events.

In 2020, a devil-like
face was reported

in the wildfires raging
across australia.

There was this demonic
face in the smoke

above the notre
dame cathedral fire.

But perhaps the most
haunting was this face.

I don't have to tell you
the date or the place.

(eerie music)

so, the question becomes,

"how unusual are these
demon cloud formations?"

is there a scientific
explanation

or are other forces at work?

Our experts,

renowned theoretical physicist
dr. Michio kaku

and atmospheric scientists
dr. Deanna hence,

have been digging
into this mystery.

- Anytime you have a
plume of extremely hot air

moving up in the atmosphere,

you can end up
with these pockets

where there is no smoke
or where there is smoke,

and that can lead to all
sorts of funny shapes.

- [tony] according to hence,

the holes that look
like eyes and a mouth

can be explained by the
motion of heated gases

from the explosion.

Dr. Kaku says that
after seeing shapes

similar to eyes and a mouth,
our brains do the rest.

- When I see these
fantastic images that

look like something
spectacular in clouds,

I realize that this is probably
something called pareidolia.

- [tony] pareidolia
is the tendency

for your mind to see a face
or other familiar shapes

in a random or unrelated object.

- We see it because
our brain is hardwired

for seeking patterns.

It seeks out patterns, even
where there's not patterns.

It was good for our evolution

because nine times outta
10 there was nothing there.

But one time outta 10,

there really was a tiger
hiding in the bushes,

and it saved your life.

- Okay.

So, we've heard
from our experts,

and they say the face in beirut

was made by the gases
in the explosion.

The verdict: This is
a natural phenomenon.

But there are certainly plenty
of true believers out there

who feel these images are
proof of evil forces at work.

And that's our show for tonight.

We wanna hear from you
about these videos,

what you think of them,

and which ones you think
we should feature next,

so drop us a line.

I'm tony harris,

reminding you to keep
those cameras rolling.

(pensive music)