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- Tonight on "the mproof is out there.".

- [Instrument operator] It splashed.

- [Instrument operator] Splashed, splashed.

- [Tony] Is this proof of a ufo that can swim?

Is this proof of a ufo that can evade radar?

- And the plume? Like what is that?

- [Tony] And is this proof of a ufo over area 51?

- [Radar operator 1] What is that?

- [Radar operator 2] I don't know.

- [Tony] "The proof is out there" is back

with a supersized ufo edition.

We're digging deep on some of the most

credible ufo videos ever recorded.

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- This video made news around the world.

- [Expert] These videos show some pretty incredible things.

- And must-see analysis

of the biggest leaked videos of the year.

- They want the truth, they wanna know what's going on.

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- [Tony] Around the globe are videos.

- [Woman] What the heck is this?

- [Tony] Photos and sounds that defy explanation.

- [Man] Is it some kind of unidentified object?

- [Expert] A plane that was literally frozen in the air.

- [Tony] What are they?

- [Expert] 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.

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We'll analyze each one with top experts.

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

- [Tony] And pass a verdict on what it is.

- This video was clearly faked.

- The proof starts now.

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Hi everybody, and welcome back

to "the proof is out there."

Unless you just arrived on planet earth,

you're probably aware that the us government,

specifically the office of the director

of national intelligence,

recently released a highly anticipated report

on ufo sightings, confirmed incidents

involving us military and what the government

calls unidentified aerial phenomena or uap.

This is no hoax and no joke.

We're clearly at an inflection point

with this whole ufo issue.

So tonight, we're gonna do what we do,

dig deep and analyze images

of these caught on camera encounters.

Some go back to 1950, some are as recent as 2019,

but first, let's see what's really in this report.

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- For the first time, the us government

is actually acknowledging that there are things

happening in the skies that we can't fully yet explain.

- [Mj] They've admitted publicly

that there are objects making incursions into us airspace,

and they predominantly around us military installations

or us training grounds.

- [Tony] As far as we're concerned,

the biggest news in the odni report

is that the Pentagon has investigated

a whopping 144 encounters

between the us military and uaps.

What's more, 99% of the incidents

they investigated remain unexplained.

- Out of those 144,

only 1 were they're able to identify.

They confirmed that they found a weather balloon.

- Another thing that the report covered

is that since we don't know what these things are,

they actually pose a safety risk.

- [Tony] The report says that when these incidents

are finally explained,

they'll likely fall into 1 of 5 potential categories.

The first four are pretty standard stuff

like airborne clutter or foreign technology,

but the kicker is that last catch-all category called other.

- They tell us that this other category

doesn't necessarily mean it's an extraterrestrial craft,

but they don't say it's not.

They're leaving open the possibility

that there might be something

in the skies flying around that they don't understand.

That's huge.

- [Tony] Notably, most of the encounters are quite recent,

(jet engine roaring)

But only three have been specifically identified.

First, the sighting of the so-called tic tac object

by us naval aviators,

the USS nimitz aircraft carrier in 2004.

Second, the ufo seen by naval aviators

from the USS Roosevelt in 2015.

- [Pilot] Look at that thing!

It's rotating.

- [Tony] And third, 2 video shot during a series

of naval exercises in 2019, 1 from the USS Russell,

the other from the USS Omaha,

these were released by filmmaker, Jeremy corbell.

- [Tony] We'll analyze the corbell videos

and the results may surprise you, but bear in mind,

the modern ufo era stretches back decades.

So we're gonna get into that recent footage in a bit,

but it's important to note that there's a lot

of other truly fascinating footage

from decades prior and from outside the United States.

How far back does this thing go?

Or how far back do you wanna go?

Fun fact, some of the first modern sightings

were a spade of mystery airships

reported around the us in the 1890s.

- Mystery air ships in the late 1800s

are an interesting case

because we didn't have technology like that here

when these large airships were seen.

- We have accounts where people on the ground

describe these air ships floating over their homes

or their fields, ladders descending.

- [Tony] 50 years later, in world war 2,

allied fighter pilots reported glowing orbs

they dubbed "Foo Fighters".

- We had allied pilots seeing bizarre objects,

luminous objects that didn't match any

of the axis powers aircraft or any of their own aircraft.

The prevailing belief about the allies

is this was some type of secret luftwaffe technology,

possibly being used by the Nazis.

But interestingly enough, after the war,

we can find in some of the luftwaffe records

that both German pilots were experiencing as well.

- [Tony] Since then, ufos have been seen everywhere,

including very close to home.

In Latin America,

governments have historically been much more open

about reports of so-called unidentified aerial phenomenon.

And as you're about to see,

there's a heck of a lot to report.

In march of 2004,

a Mexican air force surveillance plane

patrols along the Gulf of Mexico.

On the lookout for drug smugglers, its infrared camera

instead captures this startling footage,

a stream of glowing orbs.

(Pilot speaking Spanish)

- [Tony] The video lasts for almost a minute.

And here, you can see 11 of those orbs

seeming to fly in formation.

(Pilot speaking Spanish)

When the plane turns to follow,

the objects seem to disappear.

The camera operator declares

that whatever it was he's filmed, it's 100% real.

The Mexican secretary of defense releases the video

so that the scientific community can study it.

Mj vinayas, a journalist who covers the unexplained

has looked into the incident.

- When this sighting was first made public,

a lot of people within the ufo community

got very excited about ufos operating in fleets.

- [Tony] These orbs are reminiscent of those

"Foo Fighters" seen by world war 2 pilots.

They also look similar to another Mexican ufo

we've reported on before, this glowing object,

which captain Erik delgado recorded in 2020

as it tracked his cargo plane for 20 minutes

in the airspace above monterey.

- [Erik] That is phenomenal, man, look at that.

- [Tony] Strangely, that orb never showed up

on delgado's collision avoidance system

or air traffic controls radar.

I guess now I can definitively say we are not alone.

- Something similar was reported

with this Mexican air force incident.

The crew of the surveillance plane counted 11 objects,

but only 3 showed up on the plane's radar.

For years, this video was sparked hot debate.

So we turn it over to our team of experts.

Mick west is a forensic video analyst

who looks for any tampering with the footage,

his conclusion.

- This is a real video of ufos.

It was taken by the Mexican military

and verified as being a real thing.

- [Tony] Which brings us to the challenge

of identifying those glowing objects.

Astronomer and video effects designer,

Marc d'Antonio considers the most obvious answer.

- There's a theory that this is maybe a fleet of aircraft

being flown by drug smugglers,

but these objects never distanced themselves

from each other.

I think drug smugglers

are probably not championship formation flying pilots

like the thunderbirds of the blue angels.

You know, one plane would go up higher, one come lower,

so I don't think that these are other aircraft.

- [Tony] West considers a string of other theories,

including a mysterious natural phenomenon,

orbs of light known as ball lightning.

- Ball lightning is very, very rare.

And it's normally just occurs one at a time

and doesn't last very long.

So I think the likelihood of this being a whole bunch

of ball lightning all at once is extraordinarily low.

- [Tony] What about space junk?

- A rocket disintegrating you would see up in the air.

This is something they're looking basically horizontal

out of the horizon.

So space junk is not really a good explanation.

- [Tony] So the objects don't move like space junk.

In fact, west thinks they might not be moving at all.

Plotting the plain's location,

west calculates that its camera

was pointed out over the Gulf of Mexico.

- If we look at a map of the region,

we can see there's a whole bunch of oil Wells,

which usually have some kind of flare on the top.

So perhaps what they were seeing

were the flares from these platforms.

- [Tony] But it seems clear the objects are moving, right?

- [Mick] Just above the horizon,

you're poking up these little oil Wells

and here's some kind of dummy clouds which I've put in,

and if we move the camera to the left,

it looks like the oil rigs are moving past the clouds,

so it's an illusion of motion.

- [Tony] But even west admits his theory isn't 100% certain.

Digging deeper,

we found out the oil Wells are almost 100 miles

from the plane, making it unlikely

they'd show up on thermal camera.

And another crucial detail.

You see the flickering flames from the oil Wells?

In the alleged ufos, no flickering.

So oil Wells or something stranger,

we're calling the sighting of genuine ufos.

And the similarities with the orb

recently reported by captain delgado are striking.

17 years after this video was shot,

the Mexican government, just like us,

is still looking for answers.

Up next, a ufo leaves a mysterious plume,

but can't be seen on radar.

- They did try to communicate this aircraft,

but it never responded back,

which is a bit of a mystery-

- [Tony] When "the p proof is out there" continues.

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One of the big questions

that hangs over the ufo community

is the so-called fermi paradox.

If there's so much potential

for intelligent life in the universe,

why haven't we heard from anybody?

Well, one explanation is that the alien visitors

are like zoologists,

trying to study rare species in the wild.

They go to great lengths to go unnoticed

so they can observe without disturbing their subject.

But now that we've developed

high tech reconnaissance cameras,

it may be harder for them to stay hidden,

which brings us to our next video.

It's November 2014 and the Chilean Navy helicopter

is on routine patrol near the capital, Santiago.

The crew was testing out a forward-looking infrared,

or a flir camera.

Something catches the technician's eye.

And when he points his camera, this is what he captures.

Two large overlapping orbs.

Check it out, they're moving in unison,

maybe they're even connected.

- So we see here, this is done in infrared,

everything that's white is cooler

and everything that is in black is much warmer

or hot or giving off a lot of heat.

- [Tony] Based on the thermal camera's readout,

the object is hotter than everything else in the frame.

And the Navy crew says the object speed

matches their own 130 knots.

Then look, the object seem to release a plume of some sort,

not once, but twice.

For forensic investigator, chase kloetzke,

the plumes are an intriguing site.

- I've just never seen anything like this before.

And the plume, like what is that?

It's so unusual.

Is it gas?

Is it vapor?

- [Tony] One thing kloetzke is certain about

the video is not a hoax.

- This case is absolutely the real deal.

Chile actually openly investigates their ufos.

So when the Chilean government comes out and says,

"this is something that has the characteristics of a uap,"

we can take it to the bank.

- [Tony] The Chilean government

studied this video for two years

before releasing it to the public

and this uap or unidentified aerial phenomenon

didn't just look strange.

- We have reports from the Chilean Navy

that this aircraft did not appear on its radar system.

We also have a report that they did try to communicate

with this aircraft, but it never responded back,

which is a bit of a mystery.

- [Tony] The Chilean camera could switch

between optical and infrared settings.

For an unexplained reason,

the plume that shows up as hot in the infrared

doesn't appear at all in the optical viewer.

To cut through all of these mysteries,

we turned the footage over to our experts.

Tim mcmillan considers

whether it might have been a hostile craft,

trying to sneak into Chilean airspace.

- Obviously, the drone theory

is one that everyone has to examine.

This was filmed in 2014.

Drone technologies were not nearly as advanced as they are,

and they weren't as frequent

even with the militaries of the world.

And so, there's not really any shape

that would be consistent

with what you would expect to see from a drone.

- [Tony] Balloons are also mistaken for ufos quite often.

So astronomer and video effects designer,

Marc d'Antonio, looks at that possibility.

- Certainly, balloons do go that high

and certainly, balloons do travel slowly,

but they generally don't show hotspots like this.

I do not believe this is a balloon.

- [Tony] The key could be those strange plumes.

D'Antonio thinks the object

is moving through pockets of moist air.

- I have watched contrail start and stop

and make dashes in the sky.

I think this is a contrail from a commercial jet,

two hotspots, two trails.

- [Tony] Others think the plumes

could be a plane dumping fuel,

but wouldn't the 2-year investigation

have tracked that plane down?

And the object appears to be headed towards Santiago,

a city of over 4 million people.

- Aircraft, when they're in trouble,

will tend to go out to the ocean

to be able to dump their fuel.

And they do that in non-populated areas.

And if you look at the settings on the west camera,

it was looking at an object that was fairly straight ahead,

which means that the object was equivalent to its altitude,

which puts it relatively low,

4,000 feet is nothing in terms of its altitude.

- [Tony] Airplanes only form contrails of ice

above 30,000 feet.

Hoffman sees why the Chilean authorities

still view this video as unexplained.

- The Chilean video has an object

that has all the appearances

of being something that we would think of

as being an aircraft, but we just don't know for sure.

- There are still no clear explanations

for why radar failed to detect this object

or why the plume doesn't show up in the optical viewer,

but it's worth pointing out that the us Navy

only started seeing uaps like the famous tic tac

when it installed its aegis radar systems,

which the Chileans didn't have.

So no one can identify

what the Chilean Navy caught on video.

So we're going to call this a real ufo.

Coming up.

You've seen two videos the us government says are real ufos.

And now, two new videos from us warships

have been leaked to filmmaker, Jeremy corbell.

We're going to analyze these videos

and give them the full proof treatment.

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- Okay.

Our story brings us to the summer of 2019

and the most recent of the three incidents identified

in the odni report.

This is actually a series of events

that were officially reported and investigated

by both naval intelligence and the FBI.

Two newsworthy videos documenting these events

have emerged, this is the first.

It's July 2019,

about 100 miles off the California coast,

us warships are engaged in military exercises.

And according to the ship's logs,

they're also being harassed by quote,

unmanned aerial vehicles of unknown origin.

Reporters uncover the story in April of 2021,

and things get really wild

when filmmaker, Jeremy corbell, releases this.

Night vision footage recorded on a destroyer,

the USS Russell, picks up a trio of objects

that seem to fly overhead.

The largest one is blinking.

Whoever shot this video thinks the objects

are important enough to leak the footage to the public.

Let's slow it down and zoom in

because there's something else worth pointing out here.

The objects are triangle, a pyramid-shaped,

and that's significant.

- Starting in the mid-1970s,

we began seeing a rise of sightings

concerning ufos that appear to be triangular in shape.

This was pushed a lot more forward

into the late 80s or late 90s.

- [Tony] There have been a string

of triangled ufo sightings,

including one over Belgium in 1990

and a famous incident in the skies over Phoenix, Arizona

on march 13th, 1997.

One thing that's different about the USS Russell triangles,

they were filmed during military maneuvers,

which always attract a lot of unwanted attention.

- [Mj] It's very possible that the Chinese

would be using drones to surveil American naval ships

in the pacific ocean.

It's very much part, but their intelligence mandate.

The fact that the Navy did confirm

that this video was used in their intelligence reports

is compelling.

However, we need to be very clear.

We don't know if this is a foreign power.

We don't know.

As some people have speculated,

if they're otherworldly.

- Unlike other famous Navy videos,

this footage was not shot on a military-grade camera,

which would provide crucial metadata.

But our experts think there's enough here

for a thorough analysis anyway,

let's see what they come up with.

Tim mcmillan has reported extensively

on unexplained naval encounters

with devices of unknown origin.

He's doubtful, this could be a secret triangle-shaped

American military craft.

- I think that people are probably very familiar

with the b-2 stealth bomber

or the retired f-117 stealth plane,

but they're actually dealt away.

They are not perfectly triangular

like what we're seeing here.

It's not an aerodynamic shape.

And there isn't any perfectly triangular aircraft

that we're aware of anywhere in the world.

- [Tony] It's definitely not one of our stealth fighters.

Mick west wonders if they might be natural objects.

- So what I did was I took the video,

I overlaid it on a star map here.

So we have Jupiter down here

and the other stars down here,

they're all lined up to the the video.

And then I moved the video

and one little star appears over here

and it matches up quite nicely.

And if we keep going, the video ends up right here.

And there's two stars in that exact spot.

- [Tony] West thinks stars

might explain two of the three objects,

but what about the third and why is it pyramid-shaped?

Marc d'Antonio looks for clues in the camera work.

- In the video, you see this flagpole type thing

that's sticking up.

Well, that's in focus, but everything past it is not.

- [Tony] West wonders if what's happening

is a phenomenon known as bokeh.

When the camera is out of focus,

light from a distant object will hit the camera sensor

in the shape of the aperture.

- It's filmed by somebody holding up the phone camera

to a night vision monocular.

This is a night vision monocular,

and this is actually one that has a triangular aperture,

then you would get these triangular shapes.

- [Tony] An out of focus camera

with a triangle-shaped Iris

that could explain how this image was made.

But importantly,

it still doesn't explain what it was filming.

For d'Antonio, the flashing light stands out.

- 7, 8, I'm counting the blinks, 9,

and they were flashing at one flash per second.

Now that's 60 flashes per minute.

60 flashes per minute is the stroke frequency

that you can see on aircraft.

- [Tony] Yes, the green pyramid is flashing

of the faa's required frequency

and the odds of an alien spacecraft

coincidentally flashing at the exact same rates

seem pretty low.

So, our verdict on this video,

two of the objects are almost definitely

out of focus stars.

And the third is most likely a commercial plane.

It's a video that got a lot of attention this year,

but in this case, it's no ufo.

We call them as we see them.

Next, this may be the first ufo caught on camera.

Is it a bird, a plane, or a visitor from another world?

And later, there's a second leaked video from 2019,

when Navy ships were getting swarmed by ufos,

it's an object that flies, hovers and swims.

- [Tony] You won't believe this video

or what our experts reveal of it.

(Bright music)

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- [Reporter] The flying fortress

is the most powerful air weapon in the world today.

- The Foo Fighters might have been first encounter

between uaps and us military planes,

but no film footage of them exists.

In fact, the first moving images of ufos

we could find were shot a few years later,

the military had an explanation,

but is that the whole story?

Check this out.

August 15th, 1950, great falls, Montana,

baseball coach, Nick Mariana,

is out scouting a new ball field accompanied

by his secretary.

He's brought along a 16-millimeter film camera,

but what catches his eye isn't the field.

It's in the sky above it.

We zoom in and focus on what Mariana sees.

The 11-second clip captures two silver objects

appearing to fly in tandem across the Montana sky.

- [Andrew] This video is particularly interesting to me,

mainly because this was before satellites crowded our sky.

So seeing some light traveling across the sky

was a very unusual event.

- [Tony] Take a closer look.

Are these illuminated orbs tic tacs?

Compare them to the nimitz footage on the right.

We know they're not an artifact in the film

or a flaw in the camera lens

because they moved behind this water tower here.

- What we're looking at here potentially

could be the very first ufo video ever captured.

- [Tony] Mariana's incident occurred

during the ufo craze of the late 40s and early 50s.

It began when Kenneth Arnold first reported

seeing strange objects flying into mount rainier in 1947,

coining the term flying saucer.

And it hit a fever pitch after the roswell incident

in new Mexico at the same year,

which has since become a touchstone of pop culture.

But what's striking here is that Mariana later described

the objects as silver spinning disks,

much like what may have crashed in the new Mexico desert,

depending on who you ask about roswell.

- The initial report was that the military

had found a flying disc,

so it was picked up by newspapers across the country.

Then pretty much immediately,

they retracted their story

and said it was a weather balloon.

And the change in the story led some people to think

that there's a little something fishy going on.

- [Tony] Many believe the roswell incident is a coverup.

Nick Mariana was so convinced he'd filmed a ufo.

He reached out to the us air force to report the incident.

They examined his footage,

now it's time for our experts to do so as well.

- [Tony] With today's technology,

it's quite easy to insert ufos into digital video

like this one over Miami we judged to be a fake last year.

- [Man] What the (beep) Is that?

Wait, wait, bye.

- [Michael] 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.

This video was clearly faked.

- [Tony] But back in 1950,

Nick Mariana didn't have the computer technology

needed to doctor a video, that makes a big difference.

- This 11-second film was captured on 16-millimeter film,

which makes it almost impossible to doctor.

Whatever we're seeing here was captured in camera

in the moment.

- [Tony] So we can rule out that this was a hoax,

but the air force told Mariana

that what he recorded was two f-94 fighter jets

flying near great falls at the time.

Maybe that's the case and maybe not.

- There's controversy because the jets

were known to be in a very different area than here.

- [Tim] The explanation that this was, you know,

what appears to be the reflection off of the f-94 jets.

Now, one problem with that is,

is anybody who's looked up in the sky

and seeing, you know, the sun reflecting off of a plane,

recognizes that as the plane's in motion,

you know, where the sun is relative to that,

it's gonna change that reflection a little bit.

It can cause flickering and can cause it to dim.

- [Tony] For physics buffs,

this phenomenon is called the law of reflection.

When a ray of light strikes a silvery or mirrored surface,

it's reflected away from the surface at the same angle.

So if you move that mirrored surface,

the reflection shifts with it.

- [Tim] And suddenly, you can clearly see an aircraft,

but in this instance, we see a consistent light source.

That would be more consistent with something

that is actually, you know, displaying light itself,

rather than reflecting light from an exterior source.

It certainly doesn't appear to be the f-94 jets.

- [Tony] So mcmillan is confident the craft

are emitting light, not reflecting it,

but maybe there is some other explanation.

In the past, we've seen that some kinds of birds

can be mistaken for ufos.

Is that the case here?

- I don't believe that is in the cards here

because the tower is a couple of hundred feet or more

from Nick Mariana, and then beyond that, are these objects.

They're moving so fast

that they'd have to be very, very, very fast birds.

- [Tony] In a dive, falcons can reach speeds

of over 200 miles per hour,

but these objects are moving horizontally.

And the fastest birds like ducks

are closer to the 70-mile an hour range.

Whatever Mariana filmed appears to be flying

several times that speed.

- [Marc] So it just doesn't fit.

If they were jets, it would be relatively simple

to show that they were jets

and no one would hide the fact.

So how come we don't know the answer?

- So our verdict on the Mariana film,

there's room for debate here,

but the air force's explanation isn't doing it for us.

So we're gonna call this a genuine ufo.

One thing's for sure,

we've come a long since 1950,

both in the technology we used to document ufos

and also, our government's attitude about reporting them,

even if it can't say what they are.

When we come back, we move from film to video

with some very interesting footage.

- This footage didn't happen just anywhere.

- [Tony] And then, for the first time on TV,

analyzing the new ufo video that some folks

are calling a game changer.

When "the proof is out there: Ufo special" continues.

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- Welcome back to "the proof is out there," ufo special.

The next footage we want to look at

is our first recorded on a military-grade camera.

It documents a phenomenon that's an ongoing problem today,

unexplained incursions into the airspace

near American bases and warships at sea.

And this particular location

just happens to have a very special connection

to the subject of alien space ships.

Was it just a coincidence?

Take a look.

It's 1994 at the Nevada test and training range,

it's used for flight tests, aerial gunnery,

even nuclear tests.

Today, an air force tracking station

in the desert is monitoring the airspace

above the top secret.

When its remote-controlled cameras

capture something, that has no business being there.

- These 12 minutes of video were captured

by remote-controlled cameras from nellis air force base.

And what they show you is fascinating.

- [Tony] The video was shot with a camera

that amplifies the light from the stars and the moon

to make it appear almost as bright as day.

You can see the timecode that it was 11:21 pm,

that's the moon causing the bright lens,

while the operators zoom in on the object.

- [Andrew] It appears to be a craft

of undefined shape and origin that's moving erratically

in a pattern that wouldn't be explained

by the aircraft technology available at the time.

- [Tony] The readout in the upper right of the frame

measures the object's distance from the camera.

- [Tony] The object moves slowly above the horizon

and then soar supplely.

- [Andrew] This object doesn't appear to have any wings

or rotor blades,

and it appears to change shape in flight.

- [Tony] Now here's what takes the weird

to that other level.

Within the Nevada test and training range

is a high security area

whose name has become synonymous with ufo theory, area 51.

- [Erin] Area 51 is a military base.

The military didn't actually acknowledge

that it existed until the 2000s, I wanna say.

And many in the ufo community believe that it's a hotspot

for testing on alien technology.

So when it actually was confirmed to exist,

it was a really big deal.

- But here's the thing, if this was some top secret tech,

domestic or alien, being flown out of area 51,

you'd think the operators

would know something about what's going on,

instead they sound completely confused,

which suggests that whatever this is,

didn't have the clearance to be there.

So what are we really looking at?

Let's hand this over to our experts.

- The object moves erratically in the sky,

which suggests it's not an aircraft

that we knew about at the time,

such as a helicopter or a jet.

The way it's moving is almost the way a drone would move,

but drones didn't exist when this was captured.

- [Tony] So the object's movement

rules out known aircraft as does its odd shape, but zoom in.

There's no sign of an engine or an exhaust trail.

- That leads me to believe that what we're looking at here

is powered potentially by cold gas thrusters,

a technology that wasn't necessarily

as well understood at the time,

but it could be an early prototype for a modern drone.

- [Tony] Could it be that the tracking station

picked up some kind of classified military project

being researched in nearby area 51?

- Anytime you're doing really classified testing,

you turn off your tracking cameras.

So the fact that this was captured and recorded

is very intriguing.

All of that is inconsistent with what we'd expect

with actual classified aerospace testing.

- [Tony] But Mick west takes a closer look.

He doesn't think the object is moving much at all.

- Whenever you see it moving and you can see something

like a hill in the background,

you'll see they both moved together.

So all the motion that we have in this particular video

is just the motion of the camera.

It's not really moving very rapidly in the scene

and it's not really turning or making any very abrupt moves,

it's just gonna gently seeming

to drift along and gently rotate.

- [Tony] Marc d'Antonio sees it the same way.

- All the fast movements you see here

are the camera itself, moving to re-engage

with the object and to see it.

But it's not the object moving quickly.

If you study the sky background,

and if you look at what is going on,

you'll notice that the camera's doing all the moving.

- [Tony] And that leads both d'Antonio and west

to a very earthly explanation.

- It looks like a bunch of balloons,

which is, you know, an odd thing

that you might not expect to see

in a military training range,

but there are small towns nearby.

Someone could have just had a party

and some balloons got loose,

or it could have been something

that they were experimenting with.

- There have been balloon targets used before.

Maybe this is what we're seeing here,

but the folks on the base,

they certainly weren't expecting this.

- [Mick] This is unfortunately is a case

where we may never know what this object actually was,

because this is the type of thing

that the military either forgets about,

or they don't tell you about.

- So based on that further observation

of the object's motion and shape,

we're gonna say that this was some kind of balloon

that meandered into the high security airspace,

but this incident was not mentioned

in the government's recent ufo report.

So what the Pentagon thinks of this remains a mystery.

Coming up.

Analyzing the video we've been telling you about.

An unidentified object that flies, hovers and maybe swims.

- [Instrument operator] It splashed, splashed.

- [Tony] You have to see it to believe it

when "the proof is out there" continues.

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- We want to return to the encounters of July 2019.

Several naval warships, including the USS Omaha

are conducting exercises off the coast of California.

For days, they report being tailed

by drone-like objects at night,

and now, at 11:00 pm on July 15th,

the Omaha is about to record

some of the most compelling video

of the modern ufo era.

- [Tony] This leaked footage

obtained by filmmaker, Jeremy corbell,

comes from inside the ship's combat information center.

It shows a sphere-like object flying near the ship

in windy and choppy conditions.

- [Tony] This is happening the same month

the green pyramid footage

was shot on board the USS Russell,

another ship participating in these exercises.

The Omaha is concerned enough to prepare

to launch a helicopter

when the object appears to dive into the ocean.

- [Tony] Unconfirmed reports say the Omaha

and a nearby submarine proceeded to search the water

for signs of the object, but found nothing.

The crucial element in this video

is the plunging into the ocean.

Classifying this as a so-called transmedium ufo,

an object that appears to possess amphibious capabilities.

In other words, a uso,

an unidentified submerged object.

- [Marc] This is a belief based on data

based on what other navies,

including our own have seen in the ocean.

So it's possible that these unknown objects

are playing cat and mouse with our own submarines.

- [Tony] Usos have been documented

by the us Navy for decades,

including the famous aguadilla incident

off the coast of Puerto Rico in 2013.

In that case, a DEA plane recorded this footage

of an object circling the airport,

then heading out to sea and entering the water

at high speed, then re-emerging.

One theory posits that ets

are either exploring the earth's oceans

as well as its skies, or that perhaps,

they have underwater bases we're unaware of.

- Maybe alien lifeforms could have made it to us.

And if they got here, where would they go?

They know we're intelligent.

So they would go where we are not.

And where we are not is in the deep ocean.

- Some say, that's what legends of Atlantis

were about all along, an alien base for usos.

But it's important to note

that all reported transmedium objects are not identical.

For example, the aguadilla footage from 2013

showed the object apparently emerging from the water

and then splitting in two.

In contrast, the more recent object seen on the Omaha

just splashes down and disappears.

No re-emergence, no splitting, at least not on camera.

So maybe this thing can be explained after all.

Let's find out.

Could it be a parachute flare?

Unlikely, as it's moving across the water horizontally.

A weather balloon,

no material was recovered in a search of the area

and a balloon would not lose its infrared heat signature

that fast upon hitting the water.

- [Tim] We can see it maneuver from right to left.

We can see it ascend abruptly.

And all of that is pretty inconsistent

with any types of balloons,

whether it's even an atmospheric testing balloon,

that type of thing.

Now, if it's moving lighter than air,

it's gonna be carried by wind currents,

but it's not gonna have a propulsion system.

There's not gonna be a thrust

that sends it into different directions.

- [Mick] You notice it moves across the water

with some speed, a balloon wouldn't be moving

across the water at high speed just to stop.

So it's not a balloon in my view.

- [Tony] Unlikely, it's a plane.

The object has no wings.

And because it was captured on a thermal camera,

we can see that its temperature is even on all surfaces.

If it were a jet,

it would appear much hotter at the rear exhaust nozzle.

How about a drone launched by an adversary

trying to gather intel on our aerial defense capabilities?

- It takes a large drone

that's about the size of a plane

to sustain flight time for hours.

But these evidently were up in the air for hours,

bugging the ships,

and the Navy says they still can't identify them.

- If it was a drone,

were they trying to tease the us military?

They wouldn't give away technology like that.

They wouldn't let on that they had this technology,

they haven't shot at it,

they haven't done anything to it whatsoever,

yet it's falling and eventually landing in the water.

- [Tony] But what about when it hits the water?

Even if a drone split apart on impact,

you'd still expect the piece of the show up

in the thermal image.

Instead, it just seems to disappear.

- This object went into the water

where any other type of aircraft,

there should have been a crash,

there should have been some debris,

however, none was found.

- So we've ruled out

almost every possible earthly explanation,

but we have to seriously consider that this object

might have been a foreign military asset.

On the other hand,

how likely is it that the us military

would be unable to identify such objects

no matter how sophisticated they might be?

Like the government, we're calling this a genuine ufo,

but the report's vagueness leaves the topic wide open

for further debate.

That's why the ufo community

is now clamoring for further disclosure,

especially about those other 141 incidents

that haven't been made public.

We are eager to see where we go next,

but for now, it might be wise to consider

that when you look up at the night sky,

someone might be looking back.

That's our show for tonight.

We have many more episodes coming up,

so please join us next time

and remember, keep those cameras rolling.

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