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Tonight on
"The Proof is Out There:

Unexplained Edition".

Across the skies, strange
patterns and signals.

Are they random
or something more?

We've been told space is a
lifeless void, but is it?

Wow, I can't
believe I'm capturing this.

The video that
has some questioning

if something lives on the Moon.

I've spent hundreds of hours
outside watching the Moon

and I've never seen
anything like it.

The shape on Saturn

that has people
scratching their heads.

When the hexagon jumped
out at me, I was gobsmacked.

And from deep space,
what is a Dyson sphere?

Maybe we're
looking at--

is really a galaxy

hiding behind your star.

Around the world,

unexplained encounters
are being recorded.

Tonight's focus,
signs from space.

Our experts will
analyze the evidence

and then pass a verdict.

There are a lot of
questions about this footage

and plenty of unknowns.

The proof starts now.

Good evening and welcome to
"The Proof is Out There".

Is there life on the Moon?

Scientists of yesteryear
gave this question

considerable thought.

In fact, an 1846
textbook says, quote,

"It is the general
opinion of astronomers

that the Moon is inhabited."

Nearly two centuries later,

could this next
video be the proof?

July 21st, 2024. Austin, Texas.

It's about 11:30 PM

and Eric Eman is in
his backyard moongazing

when he spots something
peculiar in the viewfinder

of his Seestar S50 telescope.

It was a mix of
excitement and disbelief.

I've spent hundreds of hours
outside watching the Moon

and I've never seen
anything like it.

A round object appears

to travel in a downward diagonal

from right to left across
the face of the Moon.

Its movement appears purposeful

and unwavering from
its straight path.

Then a wider shot
captures the object

as it completes its 45-second
journey across the Moon

and glides into the
darkness of space.

I was just looking at it,
mesmerized the whole time.

Like, wow, I can't believe
I'm capturing this.

The video
is so astounding

the local news shares it
for all of Austin to see

and no one can explain it.

I definitely think it was
some type of saucer vehicle.

And Eric isn't
the first moongazer

to consider an alien presence
on or around the Moon.

In fact, it was a NASA
scientist who reported in 1970

that the Moon rang like a
bell during an Apollo mission.

This sparked speculation

that the Moon may be
harboring an alien base.

The Hollow Moon
theory suggests

that the Moon is not in fact
a solid body but is hollow

and that inside that cavern
is a whole alien civilization

that has launched probes or
missions out of the inner Moon

and to explore the
area around us,

potentially even the Earth.

The theory may
sound out there,

but recent radar data collected

by NASA's Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter

has revealed a large cave

roughly 500 feet below
the Moon's surface,

which could serve as a
shelter or even a base.

So where did the Moon come
from in the first place?

The most widely accepted theory

is the giant impact hypothesis,

the idea that the Moon
was formed by debris

created in a collision between
Earth and a small planet.

Will our experts be able to
draw their own conclusions

about Eric's object?

First, we don't really know
how far away this object is.

Is it possible it's not
close to the Moon at all

and is instead something small
in our own sky, like a drone?

Well, there's different
kinds of drones,

but typically we'd be
able to see the shape

of the drone pretty
obviously in this view.

But we just see this
black blob here.

That black blob tells us
it's something further away

that's been magnified
by the telephoto lens.

So the
object is likely large

because of its visibility

and far away because
of its lack of detail.

In fact, this object
could be so far away

that its straight
line trajectory

could be an orbital path.

Now, if you see
something move across the Moon,

it's typically a satellite
in orbit around the Earth

that passes in
front of the Moon.

And the thing that's
interesting about this

is that when you watch
them cross the Moon,

they're gonna look like a
silhouette against the Moon

because the Moon
is so much brighter

and so it'll appear as this
dark object crossing the Moon.

The best indication that
this is not a satellite

is that we can see the object

after it's passed
the edge of the Moon.

Take a look.

We punched up the brightness
and magnified the image,

and notice how the
object is still visible.

It doesn't disappear into
the blackness of space.

That's because
it's not in space.

You wouldn't see
any brightness around it.

What we're seeing here
in terms of brightness

is actually the brightness
of the atmosphere

illuminated by the Moon.

This is because
the gas particles

in Earth's atmosphere trap
and scatter the moonlight,

but in the vacuum of space
there are virtually no particles

to scatter the light.

So what we're seeing
here is an object

that's inside
Earth's atmosphere.

Satellites don't go
inside the atmosphere,

so it can't be a satellite.

We know that the
object is moving

about seven or eight times
its own size per second.

If this was something
like a balloon

that was only two
feet in diameter,

it's only moving about
10 miles per hour,

just about wind speed basically.

So I'm gonna go with balloon.

The trouble is
it's moving downward,

but regular balloons don't
move in that kind of fashion.

They're gonna move in
the wind horizontally,

so it would be moving
this way, not that way.

Our verdict,
unidentified object.

We doubt this is a UFO
from a lunar civilization,

but with convincing arguments
from both our experts,

we're not sure what
it actually is either.

But if there is life on the
Moon, we may learn soon enough.

NASA plans to send to
astronauts there again

as early as 2027.

Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth
successful Moon landing mission,

one of its primary objectives
to inspect, survey,

and collect rock and soil
samples from the lunar surface.

But did this Moon mission
encounter extraterrestrial life

as well and did
NASA bury the truth?

April 25th, 1972 the Apollo
16 command module, Casper,

has spent a total of
five days in lunar orbit

circling the Moon a
total of 64 times.

But due to issues with
the service module engine,

the crew redocks with
the command module

and departs for Earth one
day earlier than planned.

As the men pull
away from the Moon,

they film a truly unexpected
sight through the window.

A disc-shaped structure
appears to be moving

in an unusual trajectory
above the lunar surface.

It appears to have
a dome in its center

and a horizontal line
or bar sticking out.

The camera looks away
but shifts back once more

in time to catch a final
glimpse of the object.

This video has long drawn the
attention of UFO enthusiasts.

It's understandable
that people would see this

and think it is a UFO.

This kind of has that classic
circular or disc-like shape

that UFOs typically have,
but also it's at the Moon.

We don't know a
lot about the Moon.

It's a very alien environment,
and people who are convinced

that NASA has been
withholding evidence of aliens

would point to this as evidence
that NASA missed hiding.

Hang on.

Could NASA really be hiding
signs of extraterrestrial life?

Well, one of history's most
esteemed astronauts said yes.

Ed Mitchell was
an Apollo astronaut

and he was the lunar
module pilot on Apollo 14,

which meant he walked on
the surface of the Moon

and he maintained throughout
his life that NASA had evidence

of alien life.

He was sure that there were
some extraterrestrials out there

that they had engaged with.

In 2003, Japanese engineer

Hiroshi Nakamura
wrote an article

hypothesizing that
this disc could only be

an extraterrestrial object.

He said that it is, "The
only explanation consistent

with mission data."

According to
Nakamura's analysis,

the object's wobbly
movement is indicative

of something three-dimensional,
and its width estimated

by comparing it to the
craters on the Moon

could be as big as 70 miles.

There are a lot of
questions about this footage

and plenty of unknowns, which
kind of explains why this clip

of the footage is so
popular among UFO circles.

According to NASA,

people have now taken more
than 4 million photos in space.

Does this footage stand
out among the rest

as proof that something
or someone is out there?

Before making one giant
leap to conclusions,

we check with our experts.

First, a theory promoted by
debunkers over the years.

This was just a
glimpse of Earth.

The reason why this
could not be the Earth

is because the Earth
should be larger

than what we've seen here,

and it specifically
has two circular bands.

Some believe the
object wasn't even really there,

that it was a reflection
from the window.

But there's an easy way to tell.

Camera reflections would be
either an internal reflection

or a lens flare and they have
a characteristic look to them.

We would actually
see a brighter spot

and it would look like
a fuzzy thing over here

on the opposite
side of the field.

It wouldn't be right
next to it here,

it'd be across the
center of the frame.

It looks to me like we're
seeing a physical object.

Could it truly
be some sort of spacecraft

like a UFO, as
Nakamura suggested?

Well, we see one big problem
with Nakamura's analysis.

He presumed that the object
was as far away as the Moon

and therefore huge.

But our analysis puts this
object closer to the camera

and therefore smaller.

When the camera moves
around,

the object doesn't
change position at all

relative to the command module.

So what that's telling
me is that this object

is probably literally right
outside the command module.

It's not very far away at all.

The fact that the
camera moved towards the object

and then moved back,

I do not believe the
astronaut thought

that that object
was that important.

And none of the astronauts
have came out and said that

they saw extraterrestrials
on their mission.

My feeling is that this
is a spotlight fixture

on the command module.

This here is the
stalk with the wire.

This thing right here

looks to me like a
funnel-shaped light shield

to help increase the brightness.

And then that thing
we see in the middle

could be a light bulb.

But why would a
spaceship need a spotlight?

On Apollo 16,

they had to actually go
outside the command module

and do what's called an EVA,
an extravehicular activity.

And when they did the
EVA, or the spacewalk,

they had to use
additional lighting.

So it was the EVA
floodlight housing and mount

on the command module
of the Apollo 16.

We agree with D'Antonio.
This is an EVA floodlight.

NASA's Artemis
program is scheduled

to land astronauts on
the Moon's south pole

as early as 2027.

If they spot anything strange,

we'll be sure to let you know.

SETI, an
organization dedicated

to the search for
extraterrestrial intelligence

spends time and money pointing
giant radio telescopes

at distant galaxies.

But maybe there is no need
to search light years away.

One man thinks he may
have uncovered evidence

of advanced intelligence a
mere 94 million miles from here

at the center of our
own solar system.

From 2006 to 2022, David Toon,

a retired army aviation officer,

has been conducting
imagery analysis

on NASA archived solar
satellite photos.

He's reviewed over 5 million

and has singled out
more than 50,000

that he thinks show
suspicious events or objects.

Look closer.

Set against the soft
plumes of energy

are hard-edged objects

in various colors,
shapes and sizes,

all hovering in close
proximity to the Sun.

David believes these are
examples of technosignatures,

which are defined as
signs of intelligent life

beyond our Earth.

The images indicate there
is a more organized pattern

to these objects.

The lines, the shapes
are all basic evidence

that there's
intelligence behind it.

It's not just a
natural phenomenon.

Clement Vidal speculates
that life could evolve

to use solar energy
to fuel itself.

He refers to these
creatures as stellivores.

Much like we consume organic
material to fuel our bodies,

there could possibly
be alien life out there

that uses solar
energy to fuel itself.

Today, as the SETI
Institute continues the search

for extraterrestrial
intelligence,

it is giving credence
to the stellivore theory

as it decides which
stars to look at next.

But could these
hypothetical beings

really be actively
feeding on our Sun?

Let's see if our experts can
shed any light on the subject.

The reason why I don't
think this is applicable

to our current situation is
that in the stellivore model,

that is an explanation for
certain binary star systems.

A binary
star system occurs

when two stars orbit a
shared center of mass,

making them gravitationally
bound to one another.

Since our solar system
is not a binary system,

this is not really an
applicable hypothesis

to the current situation.

We could be looking
at natural gases,

plasma or other things
coming out of the Sun

together with a camera artifact

that makes that chunk of
gas look more geometric

than it actually is.

I think the most
likely culprit

is simply a camera artifact.

It's not a sign of
it any kind of object

floating out there near the Sun.

It's just a sign of how the
technology actually works.

Recently, we had an
example in the news

of a coronal mass ejection.

Headlines around the
world read things like,

"Piece of the Sun breaks
off and forms a vortex

and scientists are baffled."

And this just underscores how
there are natural phenomena

that the Sun produces
that can still baffle us.

That doesn't mean they're
paranormal or extraterrestrial.

Our verdict, these are
unexplained solar images.

While we agree with McCarthy

that some of these images
may be easily explained

by camera artifacts,

we can't prove it
for all of them.

We also can't say for certain

if this is or is not a
natural solar phenomenon.

The search for extraterrestrial
intelligence has now gone on

for more than 60
years with no luck,

but nobody's giving up.

After all, there are
still hundreds of billions

of stars to investigate.

In 1960, physicist
Freeman Dyson theorized

that advanced aliens might
create megastructures

to surround stars and
capture their energy.

Are a set of deep space photos
proof it's already happened?

May, 2024.
London, England.

An international
team of scientists

releases a groundbreaking study

in the Royal
Astronomical Journal,

naming their endeavor
Project Hephaistos.

They sifted through decades of
research on millions of stars

in search of evidence
to prove Dyson's theory

and they found this.

You're looking at
infrared readings

from deep space telescopes.

The dense black dots stand out

because they are giving off
massive amounts of infrared heat

from an unknown source.

The researchers say that heat

could be one of
these Dyson spheres

harvesting the power of a star.

Freeman Dyson
initially proposed

that it was a large structure

that a very advanced
civilization could build

around their host star.

But as his theory
developed and progressed,

Dyson postulated that
perhaps a Dyson sphere

doesn't necessarily need
to be one structure,

but rather a series of smaller
objects that surround the Sun

that are connected via
some sort of network

and are able to collect
energy from that sun.

Now, the Sun emits as
much energy in 15 minutes

as the entire Earth
consumes in a year,

and any technology that
could harness such energy

would leave telltale clues
in the infrared spectrum.

Fresh off the groundbreaking
discovery from England,

a second study from Italy
found a whopping 53 stars

showing similar potential
technosignatures.

Did this new research
reveal definitive proof

of Dyson spheres and
advanced alien life?

We turn to our
experts to find out.

It's possible that
we are observing

excess infrared radiation

because of discs
of dust and debris.

These discs form around stars

when stars are forming
planetary systems

and they're disc-shaped because
they tend to get flattened

because of the angular momentum
of stars as they rotate.

This can cause a heating that
generates infrared radiation

that we can observe with
our infrared telescopes.

Maybe we're
looking at a galaxy

that is hiding behind this star

and the infrared radiation

that we're picking
up is from a galaxy.

It gets confusing because
a picture is flat.

A picture is two-dimensional.

Reality is three-dimensional

Researchers at the
American Astronomical Society

agree, arguing that the heat

in these images are
a false positive

resulting from the star's
alignment with distant galaxies.

In other words, it's all
a matter of perspective.

The telescope that's picking
up a so-called Dyson sphere

might actually be
looking at a star

with a galaxy way out in
the distance behind it.

When they're aligned,
the telescope reads it

as just one very
bright signature.

And maybe this could
explain why we're seeing

some excess amount of infrared
radiation in the data.

Does that mean that
these aren't Dyson spheres?

I think even from a
theoretical perspective,

the concept of a Dyson
sphere is very shaky,

and even if there are
civilizations out there

millions and billions
of years older than us,

I can think of a lot better
ways of harnessing energy

than the construction
of a Dyson sphere.

But despite
some skepticism,

Dyson spheres remain
on NASA's list

of potential technosignatures

to help identify
extraterrestrial civilizations.

Our verdict, galaxies.

Professors Szydagis
and Kaku both say

these infrared readings
are probably not

catching a Dyson
sphere in action.

So for now, the search
for intelligent life

and unlimited energy continues.

The James Webb space
telescope has been crucial

in teaching us more
about our universe.

It discovered carbon dioxide
on one of Jupiter's moons

and even water vapor on a
distant planetary system.

But as many answers
as we've been getting,

images like this next one
raise even more questions.

Literally.

July 26th, 2023.

The European Space Agency
releases a brilliant image

from the James Webb telescope

of two young stars forming
1,470 light years away.

Among the other cosmic swirls
and sparkles in the picture

are objects easily recognizable
as galaxies and stars.

And then there's one detail
that shakes the world.

Zooming in below the
mass of forming stars,

there's a tiny orange glow

that is shaped like
a question mark.

The internet instantly
began clamoring

about the strange
object, what it could be.

One net citizen suggested,

"The aliens know that
we've found them."

There were many people

that instantly jumped
on this saying,

"It's a fake. It's
been doctored."

And ESA, the European
Space Agency quickly said,

"No, this is a real image
and it hasn't been doctored."

The discovery
of the question mark

was completely unexpected.

Some believe it may
actually be a response

to humanity's own
space exploration.

In 1977, NASA sent the
probes Voyager 1 and 2

on missions to collect data

on the outer planets
of our solar system.

In 2012, Voyager 1 officially
left our solar system.

Could it be someone found it?

Our first Voyager probes
included time capsules

and it introduced
prospective extraterrestrials

to our civilization.

Maybe this question
mark is their response.

Was this perhaps put there
to catch our attention?

While others
see the possibility

we're witnessing one of the
most mysterious phenomenon

in the universe, black holes.

Maybe it's
literally pulling the swirl

of that galaxy into what looks
like now a question mark,

being sucked into this
supermassive black hole.

According to the
Center for Astrophysics,

there could be as many as
100 million black holes

in our Milky Way galaxy alone.

Could that be what we have here?

Or is there some sort of
advanced intelligence involved?

Our experts are ready
with some answers.

At the center of almost every
galaxy that we've ever seen,

we see a black hole.

But this does not look like
what a typical black hole is.

A supermassive
black hole

cannot be question mark shaped.

It can only be
spherical, elliptical,

kind of a flat elliptical shape

if it's rotating with a
great degree of speed.

Okay then.

Could it actually be a message
from an alien civilization?

We are looking at it
as it was billions of years ago,

not as it looks like now.

And so, not only did
humanity not exist,

but any signal from Earth

has not been able to reach
these vast distances yet.

But why does it
look like a question mark?

One thing about a
two-dimensional photograph

is you don't know
how distances are.

If you could somehow
leave the Earth

and look at this from
a different angle,

perhaps the question mark would
fall apart as a consequence.

You would see distinct features

unrelated to each other.

The question mark is probably
the collision of two galaxies

and when you put them
together from this angle,

it looks like a question mark.

The twisting top
part would be the first galaxy

and that dot on the bottom,
possibly the second.

I'm frankly surprised

we haven't found
more question marks

because the universe
is very big.

If we look hard enough,

we are going to find every
kind of punctuation mark.

Our verdict, merging galaxies.

Sad to say this time
it's no alien message,

but it is fascinating
how much we can learn

about the universe from
a fraction of a fraction

of a single image.

And the good news is that there
will be many more to come.

The telescope is expected to
remain operational up there

for at least 20 years.

We all wonder if there
is other life out there

in the universe.

In fact, many believe aliens
have been observing our planet

for thousands of years,

citing everything from
the pyramids in Egypt

to the Nazca lines in Peru
as evidence of contact.

Now, a strange discovery
in a recent NASA photo

has some saying these
visitors haven't just

been observing Earth.

Check out what we found on
our next-door neighbor, Mars.

In March 2006,

the Mars reconnaissance
orbiter begins its mission

of studying the atmosphere
and terrain of the Red Planet.

Since then, the orbiter has
taken almost 7 million pictures

of the Martian surface,

but it wasn't until 2021
that somebody noticed this.

It's a pair of long, parallel
lines with indentations

that lead to what appears
to be a half-buried disc.

And take a closer look.

See that perfectly
shaped crescent edge?

A South African
researcher says he found

what appeared to be the
remains of a UFO crash.

The object that he was
looking at was between 12

and 15 meters in diameter

and it could be the
remains of a flying disc

that had crashed
on the Red Planet.

If it was a flying
saucer, did it come from Mars

or somewhere else in the galaxy?

And if so, was it observing Mars

because there was a
civilization there?

For people that
believe this UFO crash on Mars

is an actual UFO,

it may be connected to the
Grays that visit our planet.

They've been visiting
our planet for millennia

and possibly visiting Mars also.

Some believe that the Gray
aliens crashed at Roswell

and they may have
also lost control

of one of their
vehicles on Mars.

Now, we know people have
been seeing alleged signs

of civilization on Mars

ever since this famous
face was discovered

in a 1976 photograph
taken by Viking 1.

Most of these images,
including the face,

were revealed to be natural
geological formations

once higher resolution
images became available.

But what about this?

I mean, that clean, circular
edge is pretty clear.

Couldn't that really the
back edge of a flying saucer?

Look at the outer edge.

This would be the
crash path, right here.

And it sure doesn't
look natural.

Let's find out what
our experts think.

Take a look at the Moon.

On the surface of the Moon,

there's a crater
called Messier A,

and what that is is a
shallow meteor impact

that came in at a
very shallow angle

and carved out an
elliptical-shaped crater.

This is how a normal
asteroid crash would look.

It comes in at a shallow angle.

However, on this specific
trail leading up to the object,

you don't see much of that.

This object itself
is still intact.

So then
how can we explain

the smooth crescent
shape of the disc?

There is speculation

that it could potentially be
the heat shield off of a probe

that got ejected into
the Martian surface.

Since 1960, there
have been around 50 attempts

to send probes directly to Mars,

but only about half
have been successful.

Is this disc the
remnant of a failure?

If you look at the
trench this object crashed down

on, it looks pretty
wide and deep.

To me, that rules out any
kind of heat shield crash

because the heat
shield from a probe

wouldn't necessarily
have enough energy

to carve out such a trench.

So if it's not manmade,

could we be looking at the
remains of an alien spaceship?

This area is
called Candor Chasm,

which is parallel to
the Valles Marineris.

Valles Marineris is the
Grand Canyon of Mars.

It's a huge rift, a crack
that's seven miles down

and would go the distance
of Los Angeles to New York.

Valles Marineris is
covered by volcanic plains.

A combination of sedimentary
layers and volcanic lava flows.

These long streaks

that you see going
across the surface here,

those are common all over Mars.

What looks like
the trail of a crashed UFO

is actually an
ancient geologic crack

in the surface of Mars.

But if it's a natural crack,

how did the object at
the end of the trail

get the perfect
curve of a spaceship?

If you
look really closely,

you can see this
one just happens

to be perfectly arcuate here,

most likely because the
winds are coming over

and then they're
falling into the crack.

And the only thing that's
given everybody the idea

that it's a spaceship

is those dunes that
are around the front

that make it look like
there's a circular disc.

To me, this object doesn't
seem to have gotten here

through natural processes.

Its shape and the way it seemed
to settle into the landscape

is completely different

than any other object we've
seen on the Martian surface.

So it seems we have
another split decision here.

While Dr. Anderson's theory
checks all the boxes,

McCarthy's point that finding
a naturally perfect curve

does seem too good to be true.

Our verdict, for now, until
we can get a closer look

and confirm what's there,

we're gonna go with
unexplained phenomenon.

And if it is a crashed UFO,

we'll be the first
to let you know.

Throughout history,

all kinds of strange things
have fallen from the sky.

Dead birds, fish, even frogs.

But what about alien slime?

You never know what you'll find

when you start poking around.

It's October 2014 near
Romney, West Virginia.

Diane Wingett is
checking the blueberry

and raspberry patches
at her weekend property

when she sees something strange

and alerts her husband, Randy.

There's some
kind of jelly fungus here

at the base of our
raspberry bushes.

It's just really weird.

It looks like crystals,
but it's soft jelly.

Diane points
out a large pile

of what appear to be gelatinous
and translucent small blobs.

I suppose
that's rare delicacy.

Someone's gonna come here and-

It's not caviar.

Not fish eggs, but it's cold.

Randy and Diane
say they have no idea

what the strange substance
is or how it got there.

When they come back to the
property the following week,

the substance has vanished.

It seemed obvious it must
have come from the sky.

The way that it landed and
the position it was in.

We experience
a lot of flyovers

by military and
commercial flights,

so we thought, well,
maybe, maybe that was it.

Maybe it was something from a-

- Plane.
- From an airplane.

The couple posts the
video online seeking answers

and a few years later,
they receive a note

that changes everything.

We got a letter in the
mail from a lady in Yakima

and she explained
to us what it was.

She said, "It's been
around for centuries.

It's called star jelly."

Star jelly.

A mystical substance
long rumored

to come straight from the stars,

According to folklore, star
jelly are actually pieces

of celestial bodies, whether
they be meteors or nebula

that have come apart
and fallen to Earth.

It typically disappears not
long after it's been deposited.

In the 14th century, medieval
physician John of Gaddesden

actually mentioned star jelly
in his medical writings.

And even though
people have claimed

since the Middle Ages

that star jelly appears
after meteor showers,

McCarthy says some other
ideas about its origin

are more down to Earth.

Some have said that
maybe this is a fungi

that we're looking at,

or maybe it's the anal
secretion of an animal,

or maybe it's
unfertilized frogspawn

that have been eaten and then
regurgitated by a predator.

This clearly
doesn't look like the remains

of a fallen bird, fish or frog,
but could it be their spawn?

This is quite a big pile,
but some species of frogs

can lay up to 30,000
eggs at a time.

Could that be the answer?

We check with our experts.

It has a lot of qualities
similar to frog eggs.

Like, it looks
gelatinous or jello-like.

And when you look in it,

you can see, like,
little specks too

and frog eggs have a
center area that's darker.

What throws me off is
that it's kind of jagged.

Frog eggs are more
circular in shape.

And it's not in a pond
or a wetland area.

Then perhaps this is
a more primordial form of life

known as slime mold.

These unusual organisms defy
all attempts at categorization.

They're not fungus,
not plants, not animals.

It depends on the species,

but they can look like
lots of different things.

They can look similar to fungus,

they can look similar
to, like, algae.

They can aggregate
into larger groups,

but they still look
quite different

than what we're seeing
in this picture.

So maybe this
substance does actually come

from the stars.

Meteors are a chunk of rock

that are coming
towards the Earth.

Something like this
would not stand a chance

making it through
the atmosphere.

And think of stars,
think of the Sun.

Extreme sources of energy.

This is jelly on the ground.

It's not releasing energy.

It's just a
gelatinous substance.

Then what could
this gross goo possibly be?

Hernandez says there's
another hypothesis

based on a similar
substance discovered in 2012

in Dorset, England.

The explanation to that was
it was a sodium polyacrylate

that was used for
agricultural purposes.

Given that it is an
extreme absorbent of water,

it's able to retain that water
for crops to be able to grow.

Diane tells us

that a few months before
finding this substance,

she put some polymer
crystals in the yard

to help with water retention.

But she doubts
that's what this is.

When that got wet, it
was round, not cubed,

so I knew it wasn't what
I put in the ground.

Our verdict, we're calling
this an unidentified goo.

It could be related to
the water storing crystals

that Diane had used
earlier in the year,

but the details don't
seem to match up.

You've probably heard
of Earth's polar vortices.

They are large
swaths of cold winds

that circle around
both of the poles.

Here they're shaped
pretty organically

with a swirling motion,

but look just a billion
miles away, give or take,

and you'll find that Saturn
has its own polar vortex.

And the one in the
north sure looks

like it was designed purposely
by something intelligent.

It's 2007, above the northern
hemisphere of Saturn.

The Cassini spacecraft is
beaming data back to Earth,

showing a glimpse of
Saturn's northern hemisphere.

But what's that almost
perfectly equilateral polygon

there above the north pole?

When the hexagon jumped
out at me, I was gobsmacked.

The question of what caused that

is one that still
holds a lot of mystery.

Take another look.

Saturn is known for its rings,

but this hexagon
is really bizarre.

No other planet has
anything like it.

This hexagon shape
on Saturn's north pole

was first discovered by the
Voyager satellites in the 1980s,

so it's been present
on Saturn for decades.

What's strange is it
seems to have changed color

from blue to gold

and it appears much larger
than originally thought.

So why is it here?

To some, it's evidence
of a spiritual belief

known as sacred geometry.

Sacred geometry is
the idea that certain shapes

and patterns appear
like that for a reason.

We see this going back
as far as ancient Hindu

and Christian cultures.

But what or
who could have created

this seemingly deliberate
form above Saturn?

Think about that
perfect monolith

from "2001: A Space Odyssey".

It wasn't just a cool
geometric artifact,

it was a mechanism for
advancing intelligent life.

Could this sacred hexagon
be something similar?

The hexagonal formation
could actually be a key

to unlocking secrets
of the universe.

Mathematicians say the hexagon

is nature's most
efficient shape.

With mechanically balanced
angles at 120 degrees each,

it can hold the most weight

with the least
amount of material.

But is Saturn's
hexagonal vortex proof

that there is more to the shape?

Our experts explore
all the angles.

This hexagonal shape
isn't actually visible

on any of the other planets
in our solar system.

It's truly unique to Saturn.

It's almost like a snowflake

in it's precision
and it's beauty.

So it is unique.

But is that proof it's the
result of intelligent design?

This is a natural
resonance

that's based on the way
the bands on Saturn operate

and the way the
atmospheric currents flow.

This atmosphere
is a fluid of gas,

and so, as it's rotating,

it has what's called surface
tension between the particles.

When two particles rub
against each other,

they have, like,
a tension to them.

These structures are so
ingrained into the atmosphere

that they remain very constant.

A perfect example is Jupiter.

The Great Red Spot has been seen

since around the
time of Galileo,

And why has the
hexagon changed colors

since the end of 2012?

Fletcher says the
key is understanding

that it takes more
than seven Earth years

for seasons to change on Saturn.

As sunlight returned

to those springtime
northern latitudes,

you get these smoggy particles

being created by chemistry
high up within the atmosphere

that started to fill in
the center of the hexagon

and making it appear gold.

Our verdict, surface tension

is creating this
natural phenomenon.

And if it is a sign from an
alien or divine intelligence,

we're not intelligent enough

to figure out what
it means just yet.

It's been a journey.

From hexagons to star
jelly to Dyson spheres,

we continue to look for signs
of life beyond our planet.

Who knows what answers
tomorrow might bring?

Thank you so much for
watching this special edition

of "The Proof is Out There".

Please send us any
video, images or sound

that you think we
should investigate

and remember to keep
those cameras rolling.