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- Tonight on "The Proof is Out There."

Are these radiation burns the result of an alien encounter?

- There are American servicemen

and women who have sustained similar injuries

when they've reported coming face to face with a UFO.

- [Tony] Is this creature the remains

of a real-life werewolf?

- During the 16th and 17th centuries,

hundreds throughout Europe were accused of being werewolves

and executed.

- [Tony] Did the police record the sound of a UFO engine?

[engine rumbling]

- The audio experts at the time couldn't find any object

or machinery that has that same fingerprint.

- [Tony] And did a ghost photo bomb a World War I squadron?

- This is one of the most famous photos

in modern paranormal history.

- [Tony] Around the globe are videos.

- Oh, there he goes.

- [Tony] Photos

and sounds that defy explanation.

- We don't know where they come from,

who made them or how they operate.

- [Tony] What are they?

- Some sort of bizarre mutation.

- What's exciting is nobody really knows.

- Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof.

- I'm Tony Harris,

and as a journalist for more than 30 years,

I follow the facts where they take me.

Now I'm bringing that spirit of investigation

to the world's strangest sounds and images.

- It's coming towards us.

- [Tony] 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.

[dramatic music]

Good evening everyone,

and welcome to The Proof Is Out There.

Our first story is a classic case in which alleged proof

of extraterrestrial life wasn't just caught on video.

It may have been burned into the skin.

- [Tony] It's January 10th, 1997 in Forssa, Finland.

Asko Nummela is heading home after going to the sauna.

He says he had a feeling he should go a different route,

like something bad was about to happen.

[speaks foreign language]

- [Tony] Asko says only a very faint outline

of the spaceship is visible,

but suddenly he feels something powerful hit him.

[speaks foreign language]

- [Tony] Weeks later, the burn is still there, so Asko

and a friend filmed this video as evidence.

[speaks foreign language]

- [Tony] As the camera zooms in,

we can see extensive skin peeling and redness.

It extends around Asko's face

and neck, even behind his ears.

He suspects his encounter with a possibly cloaked

and radioactive UFO might be to blame.

- This is eerily similar to an incident that occurred

in Falcon Lake up in Canada

involving a gentleman named Stefan Mahalek.

He's prospecting for precious metals

and all of a sudden comes face to face

with these two glowing red balls of light in the sky.

And as he reaches out towards one of them,

he is immediately faced with this blast

of extremely hot air,

hot enough to burn the clothes that he is wearing.

- [Tony] Mahalek claimed he began vomiting

after the encounter, a classic sign of radiation poisoning,

and he's not the only person said to fall ill

after such an encounter.

- [Luis] Asko is a civilian, but there are American servicemen

and women in uniform today who have sustained very

similar type injuries

when they've reported coming face-to-face with a UFO.

- Allegations of radiation burns, nervous system damage,

and even paralysis

after UFO encounters are so common they've been reported

by the Pentagon.

And actual changes in brain chemistry have been investigated

by Stanford immunologist, Dr. Gary Nolan.

Could Asko be another victim

of this unexplained phenomenon?

- [Tony] Asko claims his burn took six months to clear up,

but were his symptoms really caused by radiation exposure?

- Radiation penetrates deep into the soft tissue

and the organs.

So we will see systemic signs of illness such as vomiting

and diarrhea.

We will see loss of hair.

And it really seemed

that the injuries were just specifically focused

on the skin.

- What we see in Asko's burns is that they appear

to only be in exposed areas.

So if he had been burned by radiation this severely,

why didn't he have any other symptoms

of acute radiation poisoning?

- [Tony] And Asko's burns look different

from other similar cases.

- [Matthew] Stefan in the Falcon Lake incident

actually had a pattern on his stomach to the burns.

That's what made the story a little bit more compelling

than Asko's case of seemingly random ordinary skin burns.

- [Tony] Then what could have caused

this serious skin damage?

- [Lisa] Upon inspection of the skin,

we see the pink texture here and the epidermis sloughing off,

which to me is most consistent with some kind of first

to second degree thermal burn.

You can actually get sunburn even in the winter.

When the sun reflects off the snow, it bounces back

and you get a double exposure of UV radiation to your skin.

And the fact that he was leaving the sauna,

which dries out your skin,

would've exacerbated any sunburn.

- [Matthew] Certain frequencies

or wavelengths of ultraviolet radiation can actually pass

through clouds,

and this is why it's possible to still get a sunburn

or maybe even a wind burn on a very windy,

cold, and cloudy day.

- Our verdict, this is likely a bad sunburn caused

by ultraviolet radiation.

As for what Asko said he saw,

if it happened later in the day

and there were clouds,

the light could have played tricks with his eyes.

We can't say for sure,

but Dr. Nolan's research continues

so new alleged victims of UFOs may still come forward.

Speaking of physical transformations,

our next story involves legendary tales

of humans transforming into werewolves,

which date back to ancient Greek and Norse mythology.

For centuries, people took them literally

and a new museum exhibit might explain why.

= [Tony] It's summer 2017

in Nykobing Falster in Southern Denmark.

Staff at the museum, Obscurum,

say they've come across something hidden

while getting ready for renovations.

- I actually found a secret door behind some boxes

and stuff like that, and behind the door it was a small room

and it was filled with boxes

and cupboards with lots of oddities inside them.

- [Tony] Among the discoveries is this disturbing creature.

It stands about as tall as a human,

but it's covered head to toe in coarse brown fur.

It has pointy ears,

a long canine-like snout,

a mouth filled with razor sharp teeth,

and long bony fingers.

The story goes that a collector allegedly acquired

this oddity in the mid 1800s while traveling

with Dr. Thomas Marilyn,

an Englishman who studied strange creatures.

This one is said to be a 15-year-old girl

who starved to death in werewolf form.

- The museum classifies this specimen as homo lupus

or essentially a werewolf.

Now, werewolf traditions date back

to Greek mythology in King Lycan.

Sadly, during the 16th and 17th centuries,

hundreds throughout Europe were accused

of being werewolves and were summarily tried,

tortured, and executed.

- [Tony] Yet, could there be another

less fantastical explanation for these remains?

- [Ken] There's an exceptionally rare genetic condition known

as hypertrichosis, also referred to as werewolf syndrome,

where an individual displays extreme hairiness.

Hypertrichosis can actually be evident at birth

or it can be triggered later on by some type

of extreme physiological stress.

In fact, one type of trigger is severe malnutrition

or starvation.

- In 1573, 50 witnesses testified

that a man named Gil Garnier from the French town

of Dole had bitten and killed at least four children.

He became known as the werewolf of Dole

and was burned at the stake.

There were hundreds of similar cases.

So is this specimen a similar wolf girl?

- [Tony] To start, the experts consider

whether this could be a severe case of hypertrichosis.

The obvious disqualifier,

people don't have snouts, but there's more.

- Hypertrichosis usually doesn't affect the palms

or the soles of the feet.

And what we see in this case is hair growing excessively

from the fingertips to the toes.

So that there makes me exclude that theory.

- [Tony] Then could this really be

an ancient werewolf specimen?

- This looks like some sort of magical fantasy creature.

It's almost like a hodgepodge

of parts that don't quite match up.

The fingers are abnormally long

and they almost kind of look like an ostrich foot.

The legs look similar to something like a horse,

but minus the hooves.

- [Dr. Mayor] To me, the head is the dead giveaway

because it's not wolf-like at all.

It actually looks more like a bear head or a lion

or even a composite of the two.

So could this be a real werewolf? Mm, I don't think so.

I'm seeing a lot of signs that this was actually manmade.

- [Tony] Well, in case you haven't caught on,

this is a bit of a tall tale.

- [Rosie[ Thomas Marilyn might be a little too accomplished.

So many online displays

and museums have shown off his discoveries,

everything from Merman to fairies to vampires.

They all go back to one source, the London-based artist

who actually specializes in creating kind of sculptures

and statues of dark folklore.

- Our verdict, this is just an eerily realistic

art installation with a good backstory.

But we can't forget that blind superstition

of werewolves caused hundreds of innocent people

to be unjustly executed in Renaissance Europe.

- Back in the '80s, a group of police officers

in the Pacific Northwest saw something

in the sky that they couldn't explain.

Back then,

you needed an actual camera on you to snap a photo.

They didn't get a picture,

but one of them did have a tape recorder.

- [Tony] It's March 17th, 1981 in St. Helens, Oregon.

Early in the morning, a local police sergeant is patrolling

on Highway 30 west of the Columbia River.

- [Luis] At 4:03 AM, he notices a very bright light in the sky

and meets up with colleagues to get a better view.

- [Tony] He then radios a local contact across the river

in Washington to confirm what they're seeing.

- [Luis] Suddenly, at around 4:29 AM,

they all hear the light emit a strange screeching sound.

[screeching]

- The officers reported that the light faded into the fog

and the sound seemed to move up and away.

They were all collectively baffled by what they saw.

[screeching]

- [Tony] The military sometimes conducts training exercises

in the area,

and some wonder if this was a test of a top secret craft.

- [Amy] During the Cold War, the US military tested a radical

high speed helicopter called the Sikorsky S-69.

Unlike the familiar womp-womp sound

of a traditional helicopter.

[helicopter operates]

This design would have produced a much higher,

more sustained buzzing or droning sound.

[blades buzzing]

This would come from the two blades stacked over top

of each other, slicing the air at high speeds.

- [Tony] When the story makes headlines,

some wonder if it's an extraterrestrial craft.

The Center for UFO Studies investigates,

photographing the location

and trying to solve the mystery of that sound.

[screeching]

- [Amy] Because the officers reported the sound

as being engine-like

and the light's much brighter

than any conventional aircraft, many people started

to wonder whether this encounter was evidence

of a field resonance propulsion engine.

Instead of pushing out exhaust like from the back

of a rocket,

these engines work by generating electromagnetic energy

or tuning it in a way that interacts with gravity itself.

People wondered whether the

officers saw this technology in action.

- So was this an alien craft

or even one of ours using a cutting edge engine?

NASA did publish a paper in 1979 exploring the idea

of field resonance propulsion,

but no such engine exists today, as far as we know.

So what did the officer see?

- [Tony] This happened about 20 miles

from Portland International Airport.

So was it just a passenger plane?

- The airport's control tower confirmed indeed

there was an object, but later they denied it.

The officer said it was probably no more than a hundred feet

above the river, and it remained relatively static

the whole time, and it is not sounding

like a commercial aircraft.

- [Tony] We know this bright object seemed

to hover in one place,

so maybe it was a helicopter,

perhaps even the Sikorsky S-69.

- This particular aircraft has multiple rotating blades,

and so it has a very characteristic,

rhythmic, choppy sound.

[blades hissing]

[screeching]

I'm not finding that same kind of rhythmic behavior.

- [Tony] So could this actually be an alien craft

using something like field resonance propulsion?

The best comparison

to what this theoretical system might sound like

is a Tesla coil, which makes a high-pitched ringing noise

when its electrical currents interact with the air.

[coil ringing]

[screeching]

- [Rob] This would be a, perhaps a more similar type

of sound that continues as a drone

and does not have that repetitive

mechanical aspect to it.

- [Tony] Does this mean some unknown kind

of high-tech engine could be a match

or any engine for that matter?

- [Ben] The audio experts at the time couldn't find any object

or machinery that has that same fingerprint.

This case is still open in my books.

[screeching]

- Our verdict, this is a genuine UFO sound,

which by definition means it's unidentified.

But in our scoring system, it's very provocative.

The eyewitness cred, radar contact,

the fact that no one has matched the sound.

If you can do better, let us know.

- Doorbell cameras have revolutionized home security,

offering twenty four seven monitoring and peace of mind.

That is until something strange comes knocking.

- [Tony] It's December 9th, 2020 in Castle Rock, Colorado,

just south of Denver.

While traveling out of state, a family receives an alert.

There's activity on their front door camera.

When they review the footage,

they discover something very odd.

Looking for answers, they post it online.

- [Homeowner] Now I'm going to. You don't see anybody walking.

I'm going to rewind it.

When we back it up, we see this person

or whatever it is come in frame.

It looks like a person.

Fast-forward a little bit more, I'm going to zoom in.

Look at that. What is that?

- [Tony] Take a look at that again.

This figure only appears

when the footage is played in reverse or sped up.

When it's played normally, nothing is seen.

- [Homeowner] What is this?

Somebody tell us?

- The fact that the figure seems to appear only

when the footage is played in reverse fed speculation

about it being evidence

in support of simulation theory.

Simulation theory holds that we live

in a simulation that is being run

by our descendants far in the future.

Supporters of simulation theory claim that we are capable

of programming video games

and online imagery that is very close

to simulating reality.

- [Tony] If that sounds like something out of the matrix,

keep in mind that some physicists have theorized

that our universe is made up of discreet pixels

and that this pixelated reality might be evidence

of a vast simulation.

- [Mitch] Simulation theory has been given great credence

by everyone from Elon Musk to Bank of America,

which in 2016 reported to its investors

that there exists a significant possibility somewhere

between 30 and 50%

that we exist inside of a computer simulation.

- [Tony] So does this mysterious figure really represent

a rift in our reality

or is it just a neighbor out for a nightly stroll?

First, simulation theory has a few hurdles to clear.

- [Ben] The Landauer principle says

that if you did have a computer that large,

the computations to create every little aspect

of your surroundings from a simple breeze

to the eight billion people in the world would require a lot

of power, a lot of heat,

and basically the computer system would have to be bigger

than the universe itself.

- [Tony] Not everyone buys the Landauer theory

because it assumes the computers

of the future work like today's.

But is there another explanation for this glitch?

- Doorbell style cameras don't store any of the data

that they record locally, the video data.

It's basically a live stream

and they fail from time to time, especially

when retrieving that information,

buffering, if you will,

they can fail

when previewing video data back upon that first playback.

- [Tony] Because this is a live streaming video,

it drops details like our shadowy figure

to optimize playback.

But the image was recorded.

That's why we get this glimpse when the clip is rewound.

- [Michael] The technical concept is

it's an image compression artifact,

meaning it's something that wasn't necessarily

in the video originally

or it's something that was removed

through the process of image compression.

I've seen many instances

of doorbell cameras especially recorded

at night where they don't record objects correctly.

They compress that data visually,

reducing the information

that ultimately was what the camera saw.

So it's common and the failure to preview that information

via first playback

in a forward direction is not shocking.

- Well, our experts are calling this a playback glitch,

not proof that we're living in a video game.

Still, simulation theory made headlines in 2025

when a physicist argued that gravity itself is evidence

of a vast computer program keeping order in our reality.

Now we're switching gears from futuristic computer programs

to the tech of the middle ages

and the mystery of a Viking sword

that some believe was forged by something superhuman

or even divine.

- [Tony] It's June 2025 in Essex, England.

A UK auction house holds a sale, highlighting precious

ancient art, relics and coins, but one item stands out.

It's a Viking blade, part of a group

of swords dating from between 800 and 1000 AD,

and they are so superior in both strength

and craftsmanship, some say they're supernatural.

- These swords were incredibly sharp, incredibly strong,

and they had a bit of flexibility,

which in battle is pretty useful.

They were some of the best swords the Vikings ever made,

and there's a reason.

- The vast majority were made out

of something called crucible steel.

It is quite the challenge to create a sword

of that size out of that material.

- [MJ] You need a furnace

that can generate 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit in heat in order

to make crucible steel.

The mystery is that the Vikings did not necessarily

have this technology.

Some historians have speculated

that this is essentially a level of technology that is sort

of lost to time and only recently rediscovered.

- [Tony] Who could have made

such impossibly advanced blades?

The sword's inscription is a promising clue,

the word Ulfberht.

- The conventional thinking was that the word Ulfberht

or bright wolf was most likely the person who made it,

like a signature, but we really have no clue.

- [Tony] Some say a higher power was involved.

- [MJ] For the Vikings and their mythologies

and their stories,

there exists this sort of subterranean world filled

with dwarven smiths who make weapons

for the gods called Nidavellir.

It stands to reason for some folks

that perhaps these swords are mythological in nature.

- In a previous episode,

we investigated this forgotten sword

that many speculated could have been the real life Gram,

a dragon slaying blade of Norse legend.

It turns out that weapon belonged to the Knights Templar,

but what about these Ulfberht swords?

Let's put our experts on guard.

- Ulfberht is not found in any Viking mythologies,

and so we can tell that it's probably

not something that's mythical.

The term bright wolf, I think is more related

to the method in which the swords were made.

The furnaces

to make this have to be significantly higher in heat,

and so I think that's probably where that term comes from,

that it's a bright furnace, very hot.

- [Tony] But that raises more questions than it answers.

- Archeology definitely finds evidence of foundries

and sword-making shops across the Viking area,

but not foundries that would make this quality

of crucible steel.

- [Tony] Could the crucible steel

for these swords have come from distant lands?

We know crucible steel was being made in Asia at the time,

and the Vikings had a vast trading network.

- [Ed] This crucible steel had been around long

before the Vikings.

It starts in Southern India somewhere between the sixth

and third centuries BCE.

From there, it spreads out.

It's being used in places that the Vikings contacted.

Also, coins that come

from the Arab world were found in Scandinavia.

If they were trading in money,

they were trading in other things.

So it makes perfect sense

that this crucible steel was adopted

or traded into the Viking world.

- [Tony] That sounds pretty convincing,

but not everyone agrees.

- The 2012 Ulfberht sword that was found

and was analyzed conclusively showed that sword was made

from European and not Eastern steel.

Scandinavians traded through the Byzantine Empire

with the Middle East.

Yes, that happened, but Scandinavian swords

of the time were embedded

into a folklore religious tradition

where every part of the blade means something.

Taking the material from another land

would have been an unlikely thought process

for a Scandinavian craftsman.

- Our verdict, we're calling this one unexplained.

We agree that these swords

aren't mythological Norse weapons,

and it seems clear they were forged in a crucible,

but where and what were the details?

And who knows, perhaps Ulfberht was a technology

that's been lost to history.

- 17 million soldiers

and civilians died in World War I, leaving

behind many grief-stricken family members and friends.

The spiritualist movement in which people supposedly

communicated with the dead picked up steam as a result,

and so did ghost sightings,

and one haunting image from that time refuses to fade.

- [Tony] It's November 1918 in Cranwell, England.

Fighting on the western front has come to a close,

and a squadron poses for a photograph.

Little do they know, they're about to be immortalized,

not just in the history of war,

but in the history of the unexplained.

In the back row behind this man in the hat,

you can make out another man.

At first glance, it looks like a double exposure

of the same person, but look closer.

The man on the right isn't wearing a hat.

In an eerie twist, the hatless man is identified

as Freddie Jackson, an airman said to have died days

before this photo was taken when he walked into a propeller.

- [Mitch] This is one of the most famous photos

in modern paranormal history due to its vividness,

the number of witnesses

and the circumstances surrounding it.

Some of the units said that there was no doubt, whatever,

that this was the face of Freddie Jackson.

Imagine looking at your squadron photo

and seeing one of your colleagues who died

before the photo was taken.

- [Tony] This isn't the only famous ghost sighting

from the Great War.

Another one took place on a battlefield in France.

- [Mitch] Canadian corporal Will Bird had been digging trenches

all day and he fell asleep,

and then he felt two hands on his shoulders.

He turned around to see the face of his brother who had died

in action about two years earlier.

- [Tony] There's no photograph

of Corporal Bird's ghost encounter,

but could Freddie Jackson's squadron have captured

his spectral image?

- [Mitch] Whatever the circumstances

of the photo there's no questioning the effect

that it had on members of the unit

who believed the photo was one of their lost comrades.

- [Tony] The Royal Air Force had a shocking casualty rate

in World War I.

One out of every five pilots died.

Is it possible that some of those spirits

refused to move on?

Could this photo be proof?

Let's see what our experts think.

Before we jump to supernatural explanations,

we need to take a look at the legend itself.

- The story is that Freddie Jackson died

by walking into a propeller,

but people who have investigated the actual records

of people who died around that time,

and they haven't found any record

of a Freddie Jackson dying in a propeller accident.

It just makes you think that perhaps

if the story doesn't hold up,

maybe the photo itself doesn't hold up either.

- [Tony] Now, about that photo.

- Another thing that we have to take

into consideration is the exposure time.

Film is not as sensitive

as our current solid state digital detectors,

and sometimes exposures had to be very long,

especially in low light levels.

- I did a little experiment where I took a long exposure

of myself.

You see here,

there's a very ghostly image kind of appears at first.

And right about here, I actually moved over, put my hat on.

You don't see any of that in the exposure.

You just see me in this position as a ghost

and then me in this position as a less ghostly figure.

And so we end up with this kind of like double exposure

with me in the background

and then me in the foreground with a hat.

- [Tony] This explanation requires

that both faces seen here, the man in the hat

and the man to his right, belong to the same person.

Is that what we're seeing?

- [Mick] There's a couple of problems with this theory.

And the main one really is that this image

in the background is a slightly different size

from the image in the foreground.

But I think that the fact

that the heads are different sizes indicates

that this actually is a different person.

- [Tony] So what's really going on here?

- [Mick] I think if that isn't the same person,

then it's somebody else.

And the only other person I could think

of who might be in the shot would be somebody like

a photographer's assistant, someone who's just going around,

like perhaps lining people up.

Just because we have a

photograph that looks incredible,

it doesn't mean that it is incredible

and it doesn't mean that it was faked.

It could be something that just happened by accident.

- Our verdict, unexplained.

Our experts have some compelling ideas,

but there are still loose ends we just can't tie up.

Until we answer those questions, Freddy's legend lives on.

- We have all had to swerve to avoid hitting something

while driving at night,

but what if what you're avoiding isn't a deer,

but something else, something fast and frightening.

- [Tony] It's November 14th, 2007

along the West 6th Way stretch

of the A338 Road in Southwest England.

A traffic camera captures a most unusual moving violation.

A shadowy shape emerges

and darts across the four lane highway with uncanny speed.

- [Ken] We can clearly see kind of a quadrupedal

or four-legged animal,

or four-legged animal,

very low slung running across the road,

as many types of animals do.

- [Tony] Take another look.

The creature narrowly avoids being hit

by oncoming traffic and disappears into the night.

Slowing the video down and zooming in,

we can more clearly make out its shape lit up

by the overhead street lights.

- [Ken] This video was posted online

and it actually got a lot of traction right away,

leading to multiple theories.

And one of the first to arise was the idea of an ABC

or alien big cat.

There have been many accounts that would indicate

that there are in fact very large non-native cats

running around England.

- [Tony] Not alien as an ET,

alien as in not native to England.

But some think this is not a cat at all,

but a canine straight out of British folklore,

the black shuck.

- [Ken] These demon dogs are described

as being much larger than known dogs,

having blazing red eyes,

and also emitting a smell like sulfur,

which indicates a possible connection to the devil

or witchcraft.

Now, these black shucks are often said to haunt graveyards

or lonely country roads.

There's a harbinger of death

or some other cataclysmic event.

- [Tony] One account from 1577 describes

a large black dog bursting through the doors

of a church in Blythburgh, England,

killing two parishioners

and then leaving scorch marks on the door,

which remain to this day.

So could this folktale have come

to life on the Wessex Way more than 400 years later?

Let's ask our experts.

Now, deer are known to get caught in headlights,

so could that be the four-legged animal we're seeing here?

- [Dr. Mayor] You've got the skinny legs, you know,

sort of the body,

the size seems to fit the idea that it could be a deer.

But then when you look at the shape of the back,

how rounded it is and the actual gait, this thing is racing.

It's not doing that deer leap

and hop, which makes me think it's actually not a deer.

- [Tony] How about an alien big cat?

- [Dr. Mayor] We can quickly exclude this as a possibility

by the sheer fact that you would expect a long tail,

that's where they get this balance and agility from.

So the fact that there is no tail instantly debunks the idea

that this is an alien big cat.

- [Tony] Since some canines have short tails,

could this actually be the black shuck

or another kind of dog?

- [Dr. Mayor] The sizing of this animal lines up

with the descriptions of this,

but the black shuck is also described

as being very hairy and shaggy,

and it doesn't appear to have that long,

shaggy-like appearance.

- [Tony] Then what are we looking at here?

Is this video even real?

- [Michael] When something is moving

directly in front of the view

of a driver and we don't see any kind of swerving

or braking, it's peculiar.

And through additional research,

this is definitely not the first time

that this person created content like this.

But when we examine a video file

that has been processed potentially dozens of times

after it was created, it conceals all evidence to be able

to detect with forensic testing and accuracy.

If this was manufactured,

and it appears that it was, they did a great job.

- The verdict, CGI hoax.

It appears the hoaxter just

swiped some actual traffic camera footage

and then superimposed the strange figure on it.

But reports of alien big cats in England continue,

so if you're driving over there, keep your eyes open

and please keep on the left side of the road.

It's a historic UFO case from down under, commonly known

as Australia's Roswell.

Back in 1966, teachers

and students from Westalls High School

and State School were dumbstruck

when they saw something odd hanging in the sky.

Of the hundreds of eyewitnesses,

one allegedly snapped this photo,

showing what looks to be a crystal clear flying saucer.

- There was like a middle platform

and then a rounded area on the top.

I was just mesmerized with what I was looking at.

- [Tony] Terry Peck claims

she and her classmates witnessed three

of these strange objects.

- The whole school saw them in the air.

I just stood and stared

because it was really only four,

five meters in front of me.

- A second photo emerged in the wake

of this incident showing a very similar silver disc

object flying in the sky.

- [Tony] Students claimed the school tried

to cover up what they had seen with their own eyes.

- [Terry] We had a headmaster.

They said that anyone that was caught talking

about it would have detention

and that we saw nothing and just stop all the rubbish talk.

- [Tony] From the beginning, our analysts were dubious.

- I think the fact that hundreds

of people reported seeing something means

that something was actually there.

It doesn't mean that it was an alien spaceship.

- [Tony] And as for those photos.

- In the days of film

and even with cameras today, you can take a single photo

of a terrain like this and then take a second photo

and overlay it on top.

And that appears to be what's happened here.

- I think what we're actually looking

at here is probably something like a bowl being tossed up

in the sky in front of this building.

I've done, you know, essentially the same.

And if we were to take this shot here

and just crop out the bottom half of this,

we'd get a UFO.

- We agreed with our experts

that these photos were very likely hoaxes,

but that the students experienced something real.

What was it?

Well, the incident is approaching its 60th anniversary

and now even more witnesses have come forward.

They are demanding answers

and have even launched a petition to parliament calling

for an independent inquiry.

- [Tony] Joy Clarke, who was only 12 at the time,

reveals new details about the sightings aftermath.

- [Tony] Clarke's recent revelations

aren't an isolated claim.

Those involved now hold an annual reunion

where new witnesses continue to come forward.

Many describe a rapid official response

and claim they were issued warnings about what they saw.

- [Tony] Nearly 150 witnesses are now confirmed,

many believing the 60th anniversary is the time

to finally get answers.

- Our verdict, we maintain that the photographs were a hoax,

likely produced after the event.

But Ms. Clarke's testimony in this new petition showed

that many still trust what they saw.

Here's hoping that they get the answers they deserve

and soon.

And that's our show for tonight.

Thank you so much for watching.

And as always, keep those cameras rolling.

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