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- Tonight on "the proof is out there,"

a ufo that defies gravity.

- I've never seen any device

that can stop on a dime and take off at maximum velocity.

- [Tony] A ping-pong ball that defies reality.

- When I saw the tape after, it just looked unreal.

- [Tony] And something in the waters of Alaska

that defies zoology.

[Soft suspenseful music]

Around the globe are videos-

- [woman] What the heck is this?

- [Tony] Photos, and sounds that defy explanation.

[Low humming]

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

- [Man 2] 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 shrieking]

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.

[Soft suspenseful music]

Good evening and welcome to "the proof is out there."

Let's do this.

We've seen videos of ufos zigzagging,

tracking commercial aircraft, and even splitting in two,

but this next video is something different.

And if nothing else, it proves that what goes up

does not always come down.

November 2020 on the coast of cornwall in southwest england.

A live webcam viewer is recording a gorgeous sunset.

But the footage captures something more

than a postcard-worthy seascape.

A glowing orb races onto screen, hovers,

then rockets straight up and out of frame.

Watch again.

Rapid deceleration and then vertical flight.

It appears to rocket almost 3,000 feet straight up

in less than a second.

- That indicates some sort of space-time distortion.

- [Tony] Anthropologist Michael masters has a theory

about who might be in such a craft.

- It's important to consider our own evolution

and our technological and biological evolution

in the sense that maybe they're us.

Maybe they're coming from the future

to examine their own hominid evolutionary past.

- [Tony] Masters believes that if future humans

can manipulate time to travel into the past,

they might also be able to build spacecraft

capable of these remarkable maneuvers.

- [Michael] This would also make sense

in the context of what we see in this video,

as this craft flies in at tremendous speed

and stops instantaneously

and then accelerates at tremendous speed.

- [Tony] G-force is a measure of acceleration,

with one g the force earth exerts on us.

And at first glance, it looks like g-force

generated by this object's acceleration

would be off the charts.

- I've never seen any device that can stop on a dime

and take off at maximum velocity.

So, I would suspect that if this is for real,

it's either an experimental craft by the military or,

let's face it, possibly an extraterrestrial civilization.

- The forces suggested by this video

pose a technical problem for the time travel theory.

Today's astronauts endure about three gs on liftoff.

At around six gs, the average person can black out.

Past 100 gs, the forces can shatter bones

and squash our organs.

So, if this is a craft

transporting humans from the future,

how would they survive?

Is another explanation more plausible?

Let's turn the video over to our experts.

[Pensive music]

Forensic video analyst Michael primeau

checks to make sure this video isn't a fake.

- I don't detect any evidence

to support that this has been fabricated

or that this object has been inserted

into the video recording.

I've examined dozens of ufos and uaps over the years

and I have seen some objects

that travel at a high rate of speed.

This is exhibiting similar characteristics.

- [Tony] So the video is legit

and the object's rapid movement

is consistent with other ufo sightings,

but that doesn't rule out every existing human technology.

- The leading theory would be a drone.

- [Tony] But Tim mcmillan says a secret military drone

wouldn't be out in public

and regulations for commercial drones make that unlikely.

- First of all, for commercial drones,

they are capped off at 300 feet for regulation purposes.

So, it's hard to get an accurate Gauge

on altitude and everything,

but we can see it move through the cloud cover out of frame,

so it definitely appears to be exceeding

that 300-foot maximum that you would expect

with a commercial drone.

This one's unique.

I don't know that I have

a very good explanation for it, frankly.

- [Tony] Astronomer and video effects designer

Marc d'Antonio wonders if the object

might be something else entirely: A reflection.

- If this is a webcam, are we seeing this through a window?

Does that mean there is something

being put on the window,

like a laser pointer that is moving across the window,

causing this to look this way?

- [Tony] But look at the rest of the frame.

There are no other reflections

suggesting there's a glass window

between the camera and the image it's recording.

- [Marc] I can't tell from this,

so I can't come to any reasonable conclusions.

- [Tony] This one seems to have stumped just about everyone,

so that leaves masters' time theory.

What does d'Antonio make of it?

- We've already figured out

that we might be able to go faster than the speed of light

by using a warpage of space-time.

And NASA's got a funded lab looking at this

because they think it's a possibility down the line.

- [Tony] And recent research indicates that a wormhole,

another warpage in space-time,

could be used to travel through time.

- Sometimes science-fiction does become science-fact,

and it's a possibility.

- So, our verdict?

Well, it's not a hoax and it's not a plane or a drone

and it's not a laser pointer.

Until we can identify it conclusively,

we'll consider this a genuine ufo.

But look, we really wanna get to the bottom of this.

If you have any more information about this clip,

please reach out and let us know.

Up next, what superhuman skills did it take

and, well, it is.

Anyone who plays ping-pong

knows how to control its movement, at least a little bit.

But that control pales in comparison

to what you are about to see.

January 2021.

With the covid pandemic raging,

many people around the world,

including Canadian acrobat Adam grondin,

have been hoarding toilet paper

and looking for novel ways to occupy themselves at home.

- It was during a snowstorm.

We got stuck inside and I had nothing to do

and I had some crazy ideas.

- [Tony] The idea involves Adam's skills as an acrobat,

a roll of toilet paper, and a ping-pong ball.

Watch.

From a perfect handstand, Adam launches the ping-pong ball

directly from his mouth through the rotating roll.

[Ping-pong ball bouncing]

Look again.

It's even more nuts in slow-mo.

His timing here has to be absolutely perfect,

even if he wasn't already blindfolded and upside down.

Of course, Adam posted the video

and, of course, it instantly went viral.

- When I saw the tape after, it just looked unreal.

And I got so many comments on the videos

that, "oh, it's fake," you know?

But no, it's real,

and this is why it's so impressive and cool.

- [Tony] Adam isn't the only Internet-famous

ping-pong stuntman.

It's kinda become a thing. [Man cheering]

So, how are these people able to pull off the impossible?

Journalist Erin McCarthy says it may be similar

to the performance of elite athletes.

- For some people, time does seem to slow down

when they're trying to pull off some stunt

or make some shot.

So, for example, a baseball player who's at bat,

time might seem to slow down as he's swinging.

- [Tony] Studies have shown that gifted athletes

often have more gray matter in at least five brain regions

that handle perception and motor skills.

But it's not just athletes.

- There are some people who have claimed

that time slows enough for them

that they can actually catch bullets out of the air

with their hands or with their mouths.

This was a claim that magicians made for hundreds of years.

It actually escalated to the point

where at least 12 people died attempting this trick.

- Harry Houdini himself removed the bullet catch trick

from his act out of safety concerns,

so don't get any ideas.

As for ping-pong balls,

before we can determine just how impressive

this feat of physics really is,

we first need our experts to make sure it's not a fake.

- Yeah, my first thought with this is, "is it fake?"

It's pretty easy to create a little 3-d model

of a ping-pong ball and add it to the scene,

but I don't see any clues that indicate that it is fake.

It looks very, very realistic,

the way it comes out of his mouth,

the way it comes out of this roll,

the way it changes in trajectory.

It's very realistic.

- [Tony] We're confident the video isn't doctored,

so astrophysicist hakeem oluseyi

examines whether Adam has some heightened ability

to bend space and time.

- The physics of this is really interesting.

So, the first thing is is that the toilet paper roll

is swinging back and forth, so that's a pendulum motion.

If you get the timing

of when it's gonna be at that lowest point,

then it is always gonna be there.

You can predict it.

These people aren't bending the rules of physics.

They're mastering physics.

- [Tony] But remember, the roll isn't just swinging,

it's also rotating.

That suggests some of that extra gray matter

in athletes could be at work here.

But physics professor michio kaku isn't so sure.

- When you first see these videotapes,

you say to yourself, "no way!

"These guys must be geniuses at this kind of activity."

But then you realize the law of averages

is still against you.

You cannot do this every single time.

And so, when these feats are performed on videotape,

you know that there was a lot of mistrials

that were conveniently deleted.

- [Tony] We asked Adam how many takes

it took to get this shot

and he admitted he didn't get it the first time,

not by a long shot.

- I probably tried a thousand times

'cause the toilet paper was turning pretty fast.

I couldn't really see it.

There's a specific sound when the ball goes in,

and I heard it and I was shocked.

- Our verdict?

While these trick shots are real,

they aren't proof of some superhuman ability

beyond extreme persistence, which is a characteristic

that I, for one, do consider heroic.

Up next, did these two brothers

of Malaysia airlines flight 370 in 2014

captivated people the world over.

There are many theories as to what happened

to the boeing 777 carrying 239 souls.

Now, a pair of brothers believe they have found the truth

and the plane.

In September 2019, the fate of mh370

continues to confound investigators.

The majority of the search has taken place over the ocean.

But British video producer Ian Wilson

suddenly has a thought when revisiting details of this case.

What if the lost boeing 777 had actually crashed on land

in an area where it would be hard to find,

such as a remote jungle?

In his free time, Ian begins pouring through satellite maps

of the possible flight paths,

concentrating on the rainforests of Southeast Asia.

- I traced the arc that runs from north Asia

down to the southern Indian ocean.

I was hoping I would see a load of crushed trees.

- [Tony] After days of scrolling without any luck,

Ian suddenly stumbles upon something unmistakable:

An object shaped exactly like an airplane

deep in the Cambodian jungle 60 miles west of Phnom Penh.

- [Ian] If you really go into the 3-d view,

it looks as though the plane

is laying up against the mountain

almost at a 45-degree angle.

- [Tony] Now, in the years since the disappearance,

airplane pieces suspected to be from mh370

have washed ashore all over the Indian ocean,

but only a small number have actually been confirmed

to be from this exact plane.

Some reject those findings

and the whole idea that the plane crashed in the ocean.

- Based upon how much fuel was onboard

and the possible directions this aircraft could go,

the search area could be anywhere

within a very large radius of the ocean

or in some remote area in Southeast Asia.

- [Tony] Ian and his brother Jackie

decided to pool their money and trek out to that spot

in the Cambodian jungle themselves.

- The fact that it linked up

with the last known position of the plane on this arc,

that's enough to go and check it out.

- [Tony] But it proves more treacherous

than they ever expected, even to their local guides.

- Halfway through, these guys turn around and say,

"look, we're going back; We can't go any further."

We got to a huge waterfall that they couldn't get past.

- The brothers eventually have to return home empty-handed.

Planes vanish more often than you would think.

Since mh370, seven other aircraft

have gone missing around the world.

But could Ian's discovery at least put to rest

the questions about this notorious disaster?

Our experts take the stick.

[Pensive music]

First, aviation expert lieutenant Tim mcmillan

determines whether a plane that crashed in a jungle

would appear like the image Ian found on the satellite map.

- It looks very much like an airplane just sat down

in the middle of the wilderness.

I would not expect to see a big commercial plane

like a boeing 777 be able to land in that condition

and not be destroyed.

- [Tony] But even if somehow the plane

managed to stay intact,

mcmillan doubts that this image is a boeing 777.

- Just based on the scale that we have

from these satellite images,

this object that looks very plane-like

is about a hundred feet too short for a boeing 777.

- [Tony] So, might this be part of the natural topography

that Ian just mistook for an airplane?

- We know it's not snow because it would've melted

and there's no snow in Cambodia at that altitude.

It's in the middle of a tropical jungle.

And there's no indication

that this is a random rock formation.

It looks exactly like a plane.

- [Tony] But there are no telltale signs

of a crash landing.

- [Mick] If this was a plane that had actually

flown into this spot, we would see some kind of indication

in the surrounding vegetation.

- [Tony] Mick's conclusion: Ian did locate a plane,

just not on the jungle floor, but in the sky above it.

- I think this is certainly not mh370, so it's another plane

and it just happened to have been caught

in this satellite image.

This is something that happens surprisingly often.

It just means there happened to be one

caught on camera at that time.

[Pensive music]

- Our verdict?

This is most likely a moving plane

passing over Cambodia just as the satellite image was taken.

But Ian and Jackie Wilson are still convinced

that mh370 lies somewhere deep in the jungles there.

Once they save up enough money,

they say they are heading out on another expedition.

Up next, there's something moving in the waters of Alaska.

Of magical and fearsome water creatures.

Were those accounts just myths

or an early form of field research?

Before you answer, watch this.

October 2016.

Craig mccaa of Alaska's bureau of land management

is overlooking the chena river in Fairbanks

when he notices something extremely peculiar in the water.

It looks to be around 20 to 25 feet long.

And when we zoom in,

it appears to be swimming against the current.

- I looked down and saw this really bizarre object.

It was much larger than anything I'd seen in the river

and undulating or swinging back and forth in the current,

and it was really spooky.

- [Tony] Given the location of this discovery,

field researcher Ken gerhard

says we should consider the local folklore.

- In Alaska, we do have a number of legends

of water creatures.

The inuit culture talks about something called the tizheruk,

which is a long serpentine animal

with a long head, a prominent tail fin.

There are many tales of the tizheruk

actually snatching people off of Bridges

or out of canoes and devouring them voraciously.

- [Tony] Gerhard says descriptions of the

tizheruk vary,

but the most terrifying form

is said to be a giant eel-like creature

with transparent skin, which not only allows observers

to see still-digesting victims,

but also makes the creature less visible

when stalking its prey.

- In addition, we have the lake iliamna monster,

which is also known as the jig-ik-nak.

This particular monster has been reported several times.

It's described as being 10 to 30 feet in length

with a torpedo-shaped body, kind of a dull aluminum color.

So, we have to ask the question,

"could this be related to those stories?"

- Early stories of the jig-ik-nak

described fish-like monsters

traveling in groups and attacking canoes.

So, is that or one of its descendants

what we're looking at here?

Let's let the experts decide.

[Pensive music]

Marine biologist Dr. Shea conger

says if this thing were a snake,

it's unlikely to have accumulated snow on its back.

And as for serpents-

- there's no water snakes in Alaska.

This is because reptiles and amphibians are exotherms.

They're reliant on the environment

to maintain their body heat,

and there really isn't enough heat

to allow these species to persist in this area.

- [Tony] So, Dr. Conger turns for clues

to the hydrology of the scene, the motion of the water.

- [Shea] It seems to kinda be moving

back and forth through the water

as you would expect an animal with a tail

to be swimming against the current.

- [Tony] But hold on, look again.

- When the video zooms out a little bit,

you can actually see that this object

doesn't seem to be moving forward at all.

Rather, it's just fixed in place

and being hit by the moving current downriver.

Therefore, I conclude this isn't a biological object.

Rather, it's some type of debris

like a piece of rope or a fishing line encased in ice.

- So, there you have it.

Our verdict?

Based on Dr. Conger's hydrology analysis,

this is a frozen rope.

But sightings of Alaskan lake and river monsters

continue to this day.

Are they all misidentifications

or is there really something down there?

We'll keep looking for more video until we have an answer.

And that's our show for tonight.

Thank you for watching.

And as always,

keep those cameras rolling.

[Soft suspenseful music]