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[dramatic music]

- [Tony] With over 70% of the Earth's surface

covered by water,

perhaps instead of looking up for UFOs,

we should be looking down.

- [Kayaker 1] Go, go, go.

- [Kayaker 2] What the [bleep] is happening?

- We actually see something

that would be right out of an alien movie.

Triangular-shaped UFO.

- It's called a USO, an unidentified submersible object.

- I've just never seen anything like this before

and the plume will like, what is that?

[dramatic music continues]

- [Tony] On this special episode of

"The Proof is Out There: Alien Edition,"

our team of top experts will investigate

reports of UFOs that lurk deep down below our waters

and those that hover just above it.

- They did try to communicate with this aircraft,

but it never responded back.

- And there is no sign of any kind

of like propulsion system on it.

It's a credible case.

It's a credible video.

- [Tony] And then, we'll pass a verdict.

- This is something that has the characteristics of a UAP.

This case is absolutely the real deal.

- The proof starts now.

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

We begin tonight with a UFO over Puerto Rico.

Now, there have been countless UFO sightings over the years,

but many experts consider this next piece

of footage the gold standard.

Take a look for yourself.

It's just after dark on August 25th, 2013

in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

The crew of a United States Customs and Border Patrol plane

is taking off for a routine mission

when they notice a strange pinkish light

approaching from the northwest.

They turn on their thermal imaging camera

to track the object and this is what they see.

[intense music]

Let's take a closer look.

It appears to be a metallic sphere,

moving fairly quickly around the airport.

Then it heads out over the ocean

where it does something truly unexpected.

Did you catch what happened?

Let's zoom in.

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The object seems to splash down in the water

before reemerging seconds later.

Even more bizarre,

the object then splits into two separate craft.

And people, there is no known Earth technology

that can do that.

After nearly four minutes, the object disappears from view.

Now, Puerto Rico is the location for several sightings

of so-called USOs,

unidentified submerged objects.

Back in the 1990s,

a navy helicopter pilot allegedly saw an unidentified

dark underwater mass during a training exercise.

Another published report describes a similar incident

in 1963, during an anti-submarine exercise

led by the USS Wasp.

- They keep talking about these incidents occurring

around their aircraft carriers, naval ships, Puerto Rico.

Long history of interesting sighting, very long history.

- What makes this video so special

is that it comes straight from a million dollar

infrared camera mounted on a government plane.

There's a ton of data to analyze here.

So what do our experts think?

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- [Richard] It's a credible case, it's a credible video.

- [Tony] Richard Hoffman heads the Scientific Coalition

for Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.

First question, is the video real?

- The telemetry you see on the screen

showing GPS location identically matched

what you had with radar.

So, there really was an aircraft.

- [Tony] Next, Hoffman's team determines

the object's temperature to help identify it.

They compare the heat signature of the craft

to some cows on the ground

in this frame at the top of your screen.

- We broke the video into 256 shades

from white to black, all different shades of gray.

And we were able to match that up

with the temperature of the cows

to match the temperature

of the object.

The object was roughly

at about 104 degrees.

- [Tony] Right away, that

eliminates a jet engine,

which emits exhaust 15 times hotter.

- The thermal signature doesn't match anything

that we know and there's no sign of any kind

of like propulsion system on this.

- [Tony] Then they figure out the object's size,

using this frame when the object goes behind

a light post two pixels wide.

- [Richard] Okay, well the object went behind it

and was blanked out, so about maybe it's two pixels.

And that's why we come up with,

it's about three to five feet in diameter

- [Tony] Based on that analysis,

Hoffman says the most likely earthly explanations

are eliminated.

- We ruled out that it wasn't a balloon,

it was about 18-mile-an-hour winds from the northeast

and this object was going in opposite directions from that.

So, it's clearly not a balloon.

- [Tony] What about a drone?

Our aviation expert, Tim McMillan, is skeptical.

- How are you achieving flight without an airfoil,

without an angle attack, without wings?

To simplify that, you know, how are you doing that?

- [Tony] And finally, a bird?

- We took a look at thermal signatures of birds

and various other objects

and it doesn't match anything like this.

And there you go, it's unidentified.

It's not from any place here.

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- So is it proof or not?

Well, you might think it's a bird, a balloon,

or a manmade aircraft,

but it is hard to explain how this goes in

and out of the water and splits.

So folks, we're gonna call this a UFO.

You almost never see an object like this

going into and out of the water.

That's amazing.

With videos like this,

it's no wonder USOs, also called submerged UAPs,

have come to the attention of the US Congress.

In fact, in May, 2022, members of Congress

pressed Pentagon officials for more information on them.

- Do we have any sensors underwater

to detect on submerged UAPs?

Anything that is in the ocean or in the seas?

- So I think that would be more appropriate addressed

in closed session, sir.

- It's not known what was discussed at

that closed session,

but what is known is that the Aguadilla incident

was just one UFO at sea that was sited from the air.

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We all keep our phones safely stowed away

when driving, right?

Well, that rule doesn't apply if you're flying on autopilot.

And lucky for us, one pilot had his hands free

and his phone ready to capture a one-of-a-kind video.

Prepare for takeoff.

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February, 2020, an Airbus A320 is on a routine flight

soaring over Medellin, Colombia.

On the pilot's final descent over the Caribbean sea,

he sees something unusual out of his cockpit window.

Little does the captain know, he's about to find out

he's sharing the friendly skies.

- The pilot does us the favor of showing his altimeter

and we can see that he's flying

around 30,000 feet in altitude.

- [Tony] The pilot then points his camera phone

out of the cockpit window

and watch this as he zooms in.

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A metallic looking object, a polyhedron of some sort

whizzes by in a straight line.

We slow it down and zoom in further,

you can see it kind of looks like a cube.

Could this be a UFO at sea?

- It has these kind of little points that stick out.

It does seem to be darker in color

and not like a bright, shining balloon.

Whatever this is, it definitely shouldn't be there.

- [Tony] Now, it's hard to judge this object's size

without knowing how far away it is,

but scientist Amy Eskridge estimates

it's 10 to 15 feet in diameter.

- One theory is that if we were visited

by another civilization,

they might send probes ahead of when they actually come.

- [Tony] And consider this.

A similar object was spotted by an FA 18 fighter pilot

in 2018 at an altitude of 35,000 feet.

It still hasn't been identified and its structure,

unlike any known airframe,

lends credence to the alien probe theory.

- They might wanna collect data,

maybe do a little surveillance, a little monitoring

before they actually show up.

- In the US, we associate Medellin, Colombia

with drug cartels.

But in South America, the city is known for UFO sightings.

In fact, after UFOs were spotted over a soccer stadium

at above a forest,

the city earned the title The New Roswell.

So we're turning to our experts

to see if they can tell us what's going on.

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- I've analyzed several videos in-depth of UFOs

and UAPs over the course of my career

and the way that it's traveling on screen

in the area of the clouds does appear to be consistent

with recordings that I have deemed authentic.

- [Tony] So while Primeau can't find anything

technically wrong with the video,

something just doesn't look right to him.

- What caught my eye is when the camera's panning up

to the skyline, the operator instinctively zooms in,

almost like he's expecting this object

as it's coming towards the airplane.

This was peculiar to me.

So the feel of the video, upon visual analysis, feels staged,

- [Tony] But Primeau thinks it's possible

the pilot was just plain lucky to zoom in

right as the object flies past the plane.

MJ Banias agrees.

- Pilots are the people who work in the sky

and operate in it, so they're gonna have the best view

of any potential UFOs around them.

- [Tony] We turn this video over

to our aviation expert, Tim McMillan.

He thinks whatever was shot over Medellin is too slow

to be any kind of plane or missile

and it looks nothing like a drone.

- Initially when it starts coming,

I thought it's probably a balloon.

- [Tony] Regular helium balloons

rarely make it to this altitude.

When they get this high, the helium expands

and the balloon pops.

But solar balloons are different.

Used as toys or for research,

they're usually made from dark material

to absorb the sun's heat.

They rise as the air inside warms and expands.

They've gone as high as 46,000 feet,

but in general, when they hit the cooler air up high,

they start to lose shape and altitude.

It's just too cold for them to stay aloft.

- It almost seems to have an odd cube-like shape.

That is exactly what the Navy pilots have reported seeing

off the East Coast of the United States.

You know, currently part of the unidentified

aerial phenomena that's being investigated

by the Department of Defense.

I don't have a good explanation.

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- So, assuming it's not a hoax,

it's certainly not a drone or a known aircraft,

it's possibly a balloon.

I mean when you look at that speed, your mind goes there,

but it's extremely rare for a solar balloon

to reach this altitude.

By process of elimination, we'll go with genuine UFO.

So humans might not be the only pilots up in the sky.

- 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 a Chilean Navy helicopter is on routine patrol

near the capital, Santiago.

The crew is testing out a forward-looking infrared

or 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 hotter, 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 objects seem to release a plume of some sort,

not once, but twice.

So what's going on off the coast of Chile?

Is this a UFO at sea?

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, you 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.

- 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.

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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 today, 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 contrails 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 two-year investigation

have tracked that plane down?

And the object appears to be headed toward 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 unpopulated areas.

And if you look at the settings on the west cam 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.

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- 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.

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So far, we've been investigating UFOs at sea,

but what about UFOs in lakes?

Most people take up kayaking as a way to escape,

bask in nature and relax.

But just going with the flow was not an option for the guys

who had this intense and unusual aquatic encounter.

[mysterious music]

June 29th, 2017,

on Yale Lake in southwest Washington,

two men take their kayaks out

for a relaxing afternoon when the calm waters

are suddenly disturbed.

- [Kayaker 1] Weird [bleep].

- [Tony] The video seems to show bubbles rising

to the surface of the water in the center of the lake

as the kayakers paddle towards them.

- [Kayaker 1] Just bubbles coming from

the bottom of the lake.

No current.

[Kayaker 2] I'm afraid to put my hand in the water.

- [Tony] One kayaker dips his camera below the waterline

and we see debris in thousands of bubbles swirling.

- [Kayaker 1] Weird though dude.

- [Tony] The bubbling is so intense,

the other kayaker panics and paddles off.

- [Kayaker 1] Go, go, go!

- [Tony] Then an ominous burst

of murky brown water erupts,

as hundreds of leaves are belched up to the surface.

- [Kayaker 1] What the [bleep]?

What the [bleep] just happened?

- [Tony] Some speculated that the disturbance in the lake

could have been a sign of an underwater craft,

maybe even a USO.

- [Kayaker 1] Something just happened

that we caught on camera.

Dude, it stinks!

- [Tony] As it turns out,

there are many USO sightings in lakes,

but Ken Gerhard says this might be a different kind of USO,

one that's alive.

- My first thoughts are, is there something alive

beneath the water that's creating these bubbles

and this disturbance in the water?

Yale Lake is connected to the Columbia River,

which has been said to be home

to this massive creature called Colossal Claude.

Sightings date back to the early 1930s.

The general physical description is a huge animal,

about 40 feet long with a serpentine,

although a very thick, powerful body

and what was described as a very evil snakey head.

Many of the lakes around the world

where these monsters have been reported

all boast healthy populations of salmon and trout.

So perhaps these lake monsters might also live in the ocean

and follow the salmon populations into

fresh water to feed.

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- There are dozens, maybe thousands

of undiscovered creatures inhabiting the world's lakes.

Recently, researchers uncovered

around 40 new species in Lake Mweru,

located between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

But was whatever these kayakers saw

a creature from the deep?

Let's see what's swimming in our experts' thought bubbles.

[dramatic music]

Marine biologist, Dr. Shea Conger begins her analysis

by addressing the lake monster theory.

- The number of salmon in the Columbia River

has dramatically decreased

and this is an important resource, not only for humans,

but for wildlife.

So if there were some sort of abnormally large animal

in Yale Lake, it probably wouldn't have a lot of food

to live off of.

And so, it's pretty unlikely

that there are undiscovered large animals in Yale Lake.

There are actually a couple

of freshwater seal populations in the world,

but if this were something like a seal or a whale,

we would definitely see the animal itself

and seals really only hold their breath

for maybe 20 minutes at a time.

- [Tony] What about those bubbles?

Geologist Bob Anderson helps us figure out

what could be happening here.

- Natural gas and oil are formed between sedimentary layers

and you get a lot of carboniferous materials

that are from the time before the dinosaurs

and these areas get buried deep down

and that pressure and heat causes those organic materials

to break down into hydrocarbons.

And all it takes is a crack in the rock

and they just release and they pop real fast.

- [Tony] The Carboniferous Period

occurred 300 million years ago,

so these organic materials have been building pressure

for quite some time just waiting to blow.

- When you look at the video

and you add in the combination of those bubbles

[water gurgles]

and the smell at the end-

- [Kayaker 1] Dude, it stinks!

- [Bob] To me, it's a dead clue that it's some type

of a natural gas that's coming up.

- [Tony] This happens all over the world.

Massive underwater craters have been discovered

off the coast of Norway, up to 147 feet deep

and 2,624 feet wide.

Researchers have deemed that the cause

of expulsions of gas rising to the surface in the area.

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Our verdict, natural gas.

The smell was the clincher.

The kayaker complained about the horrible aroma,

which is a common attribute of methane gas

when it mixes with hydrogen sulfide,

causing a rotten egg odor.

While the men didn't come across Colossal Claude,

they did still stumble upon a remarkable

piece of natural history.

- [Tony] October, 2021, Cozumel, Mexico.

While it's typically sunshine and sandy beaches

that draw tourists to island paradise,

a TikTok user who goes by the handle,

DontStayAtHomeDad, says he came here

after hearing rumors that something strange

is lurking in the waters and that's when he captured this.

- [DontStayAtHomeDad] Here you can see at nighttime,

two lights that are moving in sync with one another,

slowly drifting away from shore

and kind of spinning in a slow circle.

- [Tony] Take another look.

As we zoom in and slow down,

we see a pair of glowing circles in the water.

- [DontStayAtHomeDad] I don't know how much more proof

I need to give people to convince you

that there's something suspicious going on

out there in the water.

- [Tony] The video goes viral on TikTok,

amassing 350,000 views

and multiple theories on what this is.

Journalist MJ Banias says,

the UFO community is fascinated

with phenomenon known as USOs.

- Where a UFO is an unidentified flying object,

a USO is an unidentified submersible object,

unknown vehicles that operate

under the surface of the water.

an underwater UFO.

- [Tony] Some are convinced Mexico's

ancient Mayan civilization

may be connected to unknown craft in the water.

- Various researchers online do believe that the gods

of the Maya are connected to the UFO phenomenon

or to aliens visiting Earth.

The Mayans believed that to access the underworld,

for some divine reason,

one would have to travel through le cenotes,

which was an underground water-filled pit.

- Earlier, we brought you the story

of the Aguadilla UFO, an unidentified craft

which was seen to submerge in the waters

off the coast of Puerto Rico,

but that was shot by a high-grade military camera.

Did this dad's consumer video gear

capture something similar?

Let's turn to our experts for the deep dive.

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We begin our examination

with forensic video analyst Michael Primeau.

- Upon initial review of the evidence,

minimal digital information accompanies the file,

but the lights do appear to be real.

There's no evidence of overlaying

or anything within the macro blocks that would suggest

that it's placed within the recording.

- [Tony] So if what we're seeing is real,

could it be secret military technology?

According to Rich Hoffman at the Center for UAP studies,

the video offers a clue.

- The fact that it was in close proximity to the shoreline

to me would indicate that that's probably relatively shallow

and they're relatively slow.

So I don't think that it's gonna be anything like the secret

military type of situation.

- [Tony] Could these lights be a natural phenomenon?

Bioluminescent sea life?

We take that question to marine biologist, Dr. Shea Conger.

- Bioluminescence happens when the chemical bonds are broken

and we call this an exothermic reaction,

because energy is released

when chemical compounds are broken down.

- [Tony] Approximately 75% of creatures in the ocean

are capable of bioluminescence.

However, Conger notes there's a catch.

- [Shea] Most of these species

that would be bioluminescent are actually deep sea animals

that live at extraordinarily high pressures.

- [Tony] And while bioluminescent algae can be seen

near beaches around the world,

it's often widespread and doesn't typically form

such a distinct circular pattern.

So where does that leave us?

Hoffman believes the underwater attractions

of Cozumel itself are key to the answer.

- I think that ultimately, it's two people that are moving

through the water with a flashlight.

People go scuba diving at night all the time.

- [Tony] So we pressed the anonymous dad

then he copped to it.

The post was a hoax, classic clickbait

- I watched with my own eyes,

two human beings get loaded up with all of their scuba gear

go underwater, turn on their flashlights,

and then I started filming.

I'm trying to gather information about the way humans

receive information and how quick they are to believe it.

So when I saw this combination of a foreign environment

with an odd visual, I knew that in this moment

I had to put it right on my TikTok channel.

I knew that it was gonna blow up.

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- So there you have it.

It's a hoax.

The dad says he's compiling data about

how quickly people will believe what they see online.

Okay, if you had any doubts there's a lot of fake stuff

on the internet, there's your proof.

- We've told you before about Lake Superior

and its long history of wicked storms,

shipwrecks and anomalous sightings.

Well, add this to the list.

A close encounter between

a Great Lakes freighter and a UFO.

June, 2019, Erik Rintamaki is in search

of a unique rock called Yooperlites that he discovered.

- [Erik] Whoa it's a big'un.

- [Tony] It can only be found using a specific black light.

- I'm probably one of the most famous

rock hounds in the world.

- [Tony] Suddenly, very different glowing lights

in the air over the lake catch his eye.

Let's push in.

It looks like two objects are flying

perfectly in line with each other,

or they could be two lights on a large object we can't see.

- [Erik] This is the craziest thing

I've ever seen in my life.

- [Tony] The lights make no noise and watch this,

one passes directly over a ship.

- [Erik] It's a thousand- foot iron ore freighter,

to give you some reference on size of that video.

- [Tony] When Erik checks in with the freighter,

they report that they didn't see or hear anything

out of the ordinary.

Erik watches the orbs for almost two hours

and then, they seem to start watching him.

- [Erik] Yeah, it's moving towards us,

like real fast moving towards us.

- [Tony] Author Alexis Brooks has heard of UFOs

trying to make a connection with humans.

- This we see quite often in UFO footage

where the light will become more illuminated,

almost as if there's a communication going on

between this object and the individual that's watching it.

So this to me is extraordinary, absolutely extraordinary.

- In a prior episode, we discussed the sighting

of an alleged ghost ship on Lake Superior.

That turned out to be a mirage of a nearby island.

Is there some other optical illusion at play here?

Let's check in with our ace video analyst.

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Regular viewers will know Michael Primeau

as our video forensic analyst.

- I did not detect any evidence to support

that this was added into the video recording,

that this information was created by computer imagery.

- [Tony] So the video is real,

but Primeau says the camera's image quality is poor.

- We have a camera that's essentially not recording

as accurately as we would expect

when you point it into the sky

and try to capture this information.

- [Tony] Next, astronomer and video effects designer,

Marc D'Antonio, examines whether the orbs

could be something manmade.

- One keeps fading in and out.

We're not seeing any blinking lights

that are mandated by the FAA,

so we know that they're not aircraft.

It's not impossible that they might be drones.

However, one thing to know about drones is they actually

have their own set of lights

and an orange light is not typically one of them.

- [Tony] And note that Erik tracked these orbs

far longer than any consumer grade drone can fly.

Aviation analyst Tim McMillan

wonders if it might be the most obvious culprit of all.

- The planet Venus is very commonly mistaken for UFOs

because at certain times of the year

it can be extremely bright.

However, this object is giving off kind of a orange-ish glow

and frankly, it appears to be much larger

than even Venus at its largest points would look.

- D'Antonio thinks the object's orange glow

is the key evidence.

- To me, this object matches a sky lantern profile.

It'll get a little dimmer and brighter, dimmer and brighter,

and it'll start to flicker and finally go out.

- [Tony] But what could cause the objects

to seem to approach and then retreat from the beach?

- Cellphone camera footage is really hard,

especially at night when you have a black sky

and a singular point-like object,

and what will happen is the camera will try to focus on it.

It's called focus hunting or focus seeking.

And it will go big and get bloated

and then shrink down again as it tries to focus.

And somebody could mistake that

for an object racing toward them and then racing away.

- [Tony] But just because the camera can't hold focus

on the orbs doesn't explain what they are.

And Erik and his clients saw them for over two hours,

far longer than sky lanterns can stay aloft.

- It is categorically a UFO, in that it's unidentified.

[dramatic music]

- This was not a hoax.

And while it might not be an alien craft,

it remains a genuine unidentified object.

What's for certain is that Erik Rintamaki

is still out there hunting Yooperlite rocks

and now UFOs.

Happy hunting, brother.

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of the planet's fresh water.

But is there proof it could also be holding a species

not of this Earth?

Take a look.

[dramatic music]

One night in 2015, a group of veteran fishermen

is out on a routine trip

when they come across something they cannot explain.

A camera on board captures a strange,

bright blue green light glowing just

below the surface of the lake.

As you can see, when the camera zooms out,

the light stays put in the choppy waters

as the ship heads back to shore.

Locals have long believed strange things are happening

below the surface here.

- Lake Baikal is a hotbed of UFO activity.

So if there's beings coming from a different planet,

we would expect that they might want

to set up a base here on Earth.

So a place like Lake Baikal could be a very good location.

- [Tony] Journalist MJ Banias recalls

one reported encounter in the lake

that lends credence to this theory.

- There's a strange story

that comes out of Lake Baikal in 1982.

Russian divers were operating under the water

when all of a sudden,

they bumped into these strange creatures.

According to the story,

these creatures were wearing silvery suits.

They were humanoid in appearance.

The divers were so shocked by what they saw

that they tried to quickly leave the area

and three died due to coming up too quickly

from the depths of Lake Baikal.

- [Tony] This blue light has never been seen again.

So who or what created it?

- There is undoubtedly animal life down there

that has yet to be found.

Whether that animal life is alien in nature,

that is still in the realm of speculation.

- Two thirds of the 2,000 plant and animal species

living around Lake Baikal can't be found

anywhere else in the world.

So it's already a unique place,

but does this video indicate

there are extraterrestrial beings camping out there, too?

Let's let our experts have their say.

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First, we have video forensic analyst Michael Primeau

check whether the light could have been

digitally inserted in the footage.

- It doesn't appear to be CGI.

It doesn't look like something

that was added after the fact.

- [Tony] It's possible then

that we're just looking at a search light

from another unseen boat or an aircraft,

based on how light should act on a lake such as this.

But physics professor Michio Kaku

throws cold water on that idea.

- The surface ripples in all directions.

Some of the light would've been reflected

in different angles,

but we see no evidence of an external light source.

- [Tony] An external light source

would fan across the water like this,

but we see nothing like that here.

That also rules out the reflection of the moon.

So if it's something under the lake,

marine biologist Shea Conger examines

if it could be coming from a manmade underwater vessel.

- You wouldn't have an artificial light on

during the night if you wanted to study animals

in their natural environment.

So, it seems pretty unlikely

this is some sort of a research vehicle.

- [Tony] It's well known that bioluminescent marine life

glows at night, but Conger doubts

that's what is happening here either.

- We don't actually have any bioluminescent animals

in Lake Baikal.

It's a freshwater body of water.

In addition, bioluminescent animals tend to act

in kind of a flashy manner.

We would see a flash of light and then it would dissipate.

This is a solid light source,

so I can actually rule out the fact

that it might be some type of animal.

I'd conclude that this is some sort of underwater technology

that's really difficult to understand or make sense of.

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- Our verdict?

This is still an unexplained phenomenon.

We can't say for sure whether or not

it's from something extraterrestrial.

But two years after this incident,

a mysterious mass death of seals in the lake

also baffled researchers.

So something fishy is definitely happening.

We'll keep an eye on it.

- Spy satellites, stealth fighters, the atomic bomb,

these were all once top secret weapons programs.

Makes you wonder what other secret technology

is the US military working on now?

And could they be working with allies from another planet?

According to one foreign government,

this video proves it.

September, 2018, the Mediterranean Sea.

An F18 is approaching the deck of the carrier USS Ford.

It looks like a pinpoint precise landing, but then.

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- As it goes to touchdown,

we actually see a triangular-shaped UFO,

like something that would be right out of an alien movie.

And you're like, whoa!

Let's rewind that.

- [Tony] The object definitely doesn't look like

any known military aircraft.

And the triangle shape, that means something.

- Historically, UFOs have been certain types of shapes.

You've got cigar UFOs, saucer UFOs, and triangle UFOs.

So the fact that there was a triangle UFO

on this aircraft carrier,

that really sent the UFO community into a frenzy.

- [Tony] The USS Ford video becomes more than clickbait.

It becomes international news.

The Iranian state media declares it proof

that the US is plotting with aliens to take over the world.

And even when this official version of the video surfaces,

same plane, same ship, but no UFO, people aren't convinced.

- Some are wondering, hmm,

is this original video really the original video,

or did they edit out the triangular-shaped UFO

to keep us from knowing

that they actually are harboring alien spacecraft?

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- The US military's so-called black budget

for military research and covert ops

is estimated at about $50 billion a year.

Is this video proof of your tax dollars at work?

Let's check in with our experts.

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Science writer and forensic video analyst,

Mick West, notices two things right away.

First, look at those shadows.

- [Mick] The sun's rays are all parallel.

They're all the same angle, like that helicopter angle.

But if we go to here,

it actually needs to rotate to there.

So, they've put the shadow at the wrong angle.

These all have an angle like this

and these have an angle like that.

- [Tony] Then he stabilized the footage,

keeping the deck fixed.

- [Mick] We can see the object kind of jiggles around.

Everything else is staying nice and solid,

but this is doing a little dance on the deck,

which is because they haven't properly registered

the motion tracking with the deck at a sub pixel level.

- [Tony] Oh, and just one more thing.

- It looks, not just remarkably,

but identically like a toy model kit

of what is called the TR-3E.

This particular aircraft is identical

to the model that is for sale.

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- McMillan says videos like this aren't all fun and games.

When they get exploited by hostile governments,

they sow mistrust and anger towards the US military.

That's a common tactic in information warfare.

So, our verdict?

Hoax and perhaps not such a harmless hoax.

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Well, from UFOs that can travel in and out of the water

to alien crafts evading radar detection,

we've explored some remarkable incidents.

Now when it comes to USOs, that's another story.

We've seen plenty of evidence

they are a very real phenomenon.

But with so much of our Earth's surface covered by water,

you can't help but wonder, how much are we missing?

Thank you for watching this special edition

of "The Proof is Out There."

Please send us any videos,

images,and sounds you think

we should investigate

and remember to keep

those cameras rolling.

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