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Narrator:
They're watching you.

More than 4,000 satellites
Circle the earth.

Every day, they uncover
New, mysterious phenomena

That defy explanation.

Forest horror -- hitler's
Secret miracle weapons...

My god.

Wow! What a sight!

Narrator: ...Weird science
On the west coast...

This has been one
Of the biggest-kept secrets

Of the united states.

Narrator: ...And food delivery,
Mad-dictator style.

Nelson: they drop everything
You would need --

Water, vegetables,
Oh, and live sheep.

Narrator: baffling phenomena,
Mysteries from space.

What on earth are they?

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**

April 24th, 2018.

Travelling at 17,000
Miles per hour over poland,

An earth-observation
Satellite captures this image.

What's weird about this image
Is that these big circles

Or wells,
Whatever they are,

Are in this very symmetrical
Kind of zigzag-y pattern.

The structures are kind
Of shaped like amphitheaters.

They look like they're hollow.

If you zoom in,
It gets even stranger

Because the walls
To these things

Are enormously thick.

Narrator: analysis suggests
These walls are

Around 15 feet in diameter.

It's strange because it doesn't
Conform to anything you see

In modern agricultural life
Or industrial life.

Walters:
They look concrete, which
Suggests to me 20th century.

It looks to me as if they have
Some military purpose,

But it's not yet apparent to me
What that might be.

Narrator:
If these are military structures

From the last century, their
Location could be significant.

Poland has always been
A military highway for conquest.

Janulis: poland was at the heart
Of world war 1, world war 2,

And the cold war.

It suggests to me that these
Structures are related

To one of those time periods.

The question is which one.

**

Narrator: military historian
Martin morgan

Has flown to warsaw
And is driving into the forests

Of western poland
To investigate.

Morgan: I'm very interested
In what I'm going to find

At this compound.

It looks like it was built
In this forest

With an intent
To disguise the site.

So, maybe this thing was built
For clandestine purposes.

Narrator: the image coordinates
Guide morgan to an isolated area

20 miles east of poland's border
With germany.

**

This is as far as I go
In the car.

It's on foot from here.

**

Narrator: a quarter of a mile
Into the forest,

Morgan reaches a clearing.

Well, here's something
I didn't expect to see.

**

Narrator: the tracks are too
Modern to be from world war 1,

Yet haven't been used
For decades.

The fact that I'm seeing
Railroad, I think, indicates

That this is not
A cold war site

Because during the cold war,
The soviet union

Extended very little in the way
Of railroad line in poland.

So, I think this site
Was developed by the germans.

**

Narrator: to enforce
Their occupation of europe,

The nazis built railway lines
Between key strategic points.

Morgan:
When I see lines like this,

Especially in a forest
In poland,

My thoughts automatically go
To the way that railroads

Were used by the germans
During the second world war.

Yes, they're moving weapons
And equipment,

But they're also moving people.

Narrator:
It was tracks like these

That carried millions of jews
And other victims

To six extermination camps
In poland

Including auschwitz-birkenau.

**

Packed inside windowless
Cattle wagons,

Many are forced to pay
For their journey.

It's chilling to stumble through
The forest in western poland

And see tracks like this.

**

Narrator:
Morgan continues towards

The site indicated
On the satellite image.

Ah, look at this.

Well, I wasn't expecting
To see buildings so soon.

**

Oh, man.

Wow! What a sight!

Narrator:
For military expert morgan,

The structures are more evidence
That this is a nazi site.

It's looking...Very german

Because of rebar-
Reinforced concrete,

Brick-masonry construction.

I don't know if they were
Holding sewage or water

Or oil or gasoline.

Whatever they were holding,
They were holding a lot of it.

**

Narrator: morgan soon finds
More evidence that suggests

Hundreds or thousands of people
Once lived and worked here.

**

Look at this beast.

**

Not only is this
Building massive,

But there are two smokestacks
Out back.

They appear to be
Over 100 feet tall.

So, this structure was powering
A massive complex.

**

Oh, man, this place
Is incredible.

**

Narrator: morgan recognizes
Structures in the ceiling.

You can still see up here
One, two, three, four --

Four separate coal bins.

This is a coal-fired steam plant

Capable of astonishing levels
Of output.

Narrator: yet the structure's
Connection to the giant circles

In the image remains elusive.

Exploring the woods
Behind the power plant,

Morgan discovers
The first tangible evidence

To their purpose.

Oh, yeah, look at that.

**

This is a range.
It's a firing range.

**

Spent a lot of time
On ranges in my time,

But this is not for rifles,
Pistols, machine guns.

**

The thickness of the concrete
Wall of the backstop

Appears to be four feet,
Maybe five feet.

And look at all
The scarring on it.

All the scarring is intense.

Narrator: whatever the nazis
Were testing here, it was big.

Morgan: that's why this thing
Is so monstrously overbuilt.

This is fascinating because

That means that this
Could potentially

Just be one big outdoor
Energetic-materials laboratory.

Where terrifying technology
Was born.

And look at it now.

Nature's reclaiming it.

Narrator: morgan hopes
The circular structures

Seen from space
Will reveal the nature

Of the massive nazi weapon
Being built here.

Wow!

Oh, my god!

**

Narrator: coming up,

Hitler's hidden compound
Reveals its secrets...

What we've uncovered here is
A death factory.

Standing here's
A little bit creepy.

Narrator: ...And mad mussolini's
Sky-diving mutton.

It seems utterly nuts

Taking a sheep,
Putting a parachute on it,

And then throwing it
Out of a plane.

**

Narrator: in the forests
Of western poland,

Martin morgan has found
What looks like a test site

For a giant nazi weapon.

Finally, he reaches
The circular structure

Seen from space
That led him here.

**

Oh, man.

This is so much beefier than
I thought it was going to be.

There's so much concrete in it.

**

This is just one of five
In the forest here.

Narrator:
As morgan climbs the structure,

He learns that it doesn't
Just rise from the forest floor,

It's dug deep into it.

Wow. Look at this thing.

**

Oh, my god.

Narrator: whatever was kept here
Was considered so dangerous

That it had to be surrounded
By concrete and buried deep.

Morgan: I'm beginning
To think explosives.

All along the outer lip here,
There are these metal fasteners.

There used to be a wooden roof
On top of this.

That was in the event that there
Was an explosion inside,

The roof would pop like a cork.

The silo would not be damaged,
Only the roof would.

Narrator: the satellite image,
It appears,

Has captured
A giant nazi bomb factory.

Morgan: that would make sense.

Explosives are made at the
Facility, tested at that range,

And then stored in these silos.

And when I think of germans
And world war 2 and explosives,

I think of one compound.
They called it hexogen.

We would call it rdx.

Narrator:
Far more powerful than tnt,

The explosives kept here
Would go on to be used

In two of the biggest
Conventional bombs ever built,

Tall boy and grand slam.

Suddenly, standing here's
A little bit creepy

Because the silos
That stored this explosive

Fueled the german war machine.

Narrator: what's more, morgan
Thinks this terror factory

Was built
Before world war 2 started,

When this area of poland
Is part of germany.

Morgan: the presence
Of brick masonry, I think,

Indicates that this is pre-war

Because the deeper
You get into the war,

You see brick masonry
Disappear in favor

Of rebar reinforced concrete.

[ shouting in german ]

Narrator: during the 1930s,

Germany is forbidden
From building

A large war machine
Under the versailles treaty

The country signs at the end
Of the first world war.

Hitler's solution is to send
Scientists into the forests

To secretly develop
His sinister arsenal.

Janulis: hitler creates
A lot of covert installations

That claim to be
For one purpose,

But really have
Military applications.

Narrator: studies suggest
That between 1933 and 1939,

The fuhrer secretly increases
Germany's military spending

By more than 600%.

Morgan: germany had to build

Large industrial manufacturing
Facilities like this

In order to wage war in the way
That it ultimately would.

Narrator:
In the woods of western poland,

The nazis covertly construct
A 13.5-square-mile complex.

They use the railway
To bring in raw materials,

The steam plant to generate
The power needs

For the chemical reactions,
The range for testing,

And in the giant silos
Visible from space,

They store untold tons
Of one of the most powerful

Non-nuclear explosives
Known to man.

Janulis: essentially,
What we've uncovered here

Is that this is a death factory.

It created the explosives
That undoubtedly killed

Hundreds of thousands of people.

Narrator:
When world war 2 breaks out

On september 3rd, 1939,
This factory helped to fuel

A campaign of destruction

Unequalled in the history
Of warfare.

Morgan: rdx goes into the bombs
That are dropped on london.

It goes into the v2 rocket.

It goes into artillery shells

That fall on american troops
On d-day.

Within two years, a country
That was economically destroyed,

Supposedly had no military,
Had no infrastructure,

Had basically taken over
The entirety of europe.

**

Narrator: when the war ends,

Soviet soldiers
Ransacked the facility,

But hitler's death factory
Still stands

As a ghostly reminder of a time
When millions were unaware

Of the evil
About to be unleashed on them.

This is ground zero
That opened the door

For the way that germany
Would ultimately bring misery

And suffering
To the european continent.

**

Narrator: coming up,
California's nuclear specter...

Kourounis:
Hundreds of thousands of people

Are just going about their lives

Completely unaware
To the danger.

Narrator: ...And mad mussolini's
Edible paratroopers.

Morgan: we all know
The italians love fresh food,

But this is taking it
To an extreme.

**

Narrator: november 18th, 2018 --

Passing above the west coast
Of america,

Nasa's terra satellite captures
This infrared image.

Kourounis: not far from
Los angeles, california,

We're seeing a tremendous scar
Across the landscape.

Brensberger: it looks like some
Of the patches are still green,

But some of it looks
Almost like desert.

It's a lot of bare earth,

And given the terrain
As well as the pattern,

This really indicates
A wildfire burn area.

Narrator: the extent
And severity of the scarring

Suggests this was
No ordinary forest fire.

Local news reports confirm
The satellite has captured

One of the most destructive
Blazes in californian history,

The woolsey fire.

This fire is raging
Through neighborhoods.

People are trying to escape
Any way they can,

Sometimes driving on these roads
Through the fire

With flames on either side
Of their car.

It must have been
Absolutely terrifying.

Narrator: the catastrophic
Two-week-long blaze

Forces 295,000 people
From their homes.

You would never imagine
This happening

In an urban environment.

Narrator:
The 100,000-acre inferno

Destroys 1,500 properties
And claims 3 lives.

**

It takes two weeks
For firefighters

To conquer the blaze.

The people who live here,
They want answers.

They want to know
How did this fire start,

Where did it start.

Bronwyn agrios
Turns to satellite images

Of the catastrophe for clues.

By looking at some imagery

Taken a week before,

We can reveal
The current location

Of the fire in bright-red here.

Narrator: by comparing the burn
Pattern with prevailing winds,

Agrios pinpoints the first phase
Of the fire to a canyon

40 miles north of l.A.

Agrios: we can see the fire
Likely started up here

And made its way down south
Towards the coast.

Narrator: yet when analysts
Study the history

Of human activity
In this canyon,

The mystery of the woolsey fire
Takes an unexpected turn.

Kourounis:
We've got a solid clue as to
Where the fire started,

But that's not
The end of the story.

Shortly after world war 2,

The u.S. Government tested
All kinds of things there

Including experimental
Rocket engines.

Narrator:
Declassified records reveal
That between 1940 and 2000,

The u.S. Government carries out
Over 30,000 rocket tests

Near the now
Densely populated area.

Albertson: among the projects
That were tested out are engines

That were used
In the icbm program,

The apollo engine rockets
Through the saturn 5 rocket

Were tested here.

Narrator: vast quantities
Of various noxious chemicals

Are used in this research.

Albertson: one of the ways
They get rid of the materials

Is to burn it, explode it,
Or even bury it.

They were doing things
Like shooting a rifle

At the barrels of fuel
In order to get it to explode.

Narrator: it is believed
At least 800,000 gallons

Of toxic rocket-fuel oxidizer
And engine solvent

Seep into the ground.

Fanara:
These are carcinogenic.

They can cause liver failure.

They are real problems that can
Contaminate not only the soil,

But also groundwater

And, eventually,
Drinking-water sources.

Narrator: the nightmare scenario
Is that the fire has disturbed

And released large reserves of
These dormant toxic chemicals.

Brensberger: if this fire is
Happening on top of land

That was already toxic,

It's going to cause
Catastrophic health for people

That are living there.

[ siren wailing ]

Narrator: yet analysts discover
The fire may have unleashed

An even greater threat.

Carter: the most horrifying
Aspect of this area

Is where they experimented
On nuclear reactors.

Narrator:
During the cold-war era,

Scientists at the site
Conduct experiments

Using 10 nuclear reactors.

In july 1957,
They begin testing a new device

Which uses liquid sodium
Rather than water

To cool the uranium core.

Albertson: here we are,
We've got a nuclear reactor

Within driving distance
Of los angeles

And not a lot of understanding
Of how to operate these things.

These are still
Relatively new devices.

And this is where
It went horribly wrong.

Narrator: during test runs,
A leak blocks the cooling system

Causing fuel temperatures
To rise to critical levels.

Damaging 13
Of the 43 uranium rods.

This reactor suffered
A partial meltdown.

And it's only a few miles away

From where hundreds
Of thousands of people

Are just going about their lives

Completely unaware
To the danger.

Narrator: the damaged reactor
Spits out

Over 450 times more radiation
Than that released

During the 1979 meltdown
At three mile island.

Yet the extent of the accident

Is kept from the public
For decades.

Brensberger:
The u.S. Government covered up

What happened with this entire
Nuclear meltdown.

This has been one
Of the biggest-kept secrets

Of the united states.

Carter:
So, you have to wonder --

What is this fire releasing?
What chemicals? Radiation?

No one really knows.

Narrator:
Government authorities

Are attempting
To reassure residents.

The department
Of toxic substances control

Says there is no evidence
Of toxic spill.

A lot of people are having a
Hard time digesting that report.

Carter: we've seen in the past
In many instances

Where government officials
Have said,

"Oh, the area's fine.
The area's clear,"

And upon further investigation,
What do we discover?

We have to go back
And see what actually happened.

**

Narrator:
Coming up, something weird
In the deserts of africa...

This looks like
The surface of mars.

...And something
Even weirder in maryland.

It literally looks like
A giant egg.

**

March 16th, 2011.

Eyes in the sky over africa
Spot something

In the desert sands
Of ethiopia.

This is a very strange image.

You've got the circles of
Something colored lightly blue,

And then you've got
These bright-red streaks.

Morgan: this looks like
The surface of mars.

Who made this,
Why did they make it,

And what possible function could
These structures be serving?

Narrator: historical images
Reveal the mystery structures

Have been here for decades.

This provides military
Historians with a clue.

These structures look old.

There's always the possibility

That these might
Somehow be associated

With the italian colonial era.

Narrator: italian dictator
Benito mussolini

Attempted to build
An empire here.

Mussolini has a vision
Of establishing

And maintaining an italian
Mega colony in africa.

Narrator: analysts learned that
This desert contains similar

Circular structures that date
From the italian period.

In 1930, mussolini orders
Construction of this fort

At the ethiopian desert town
Of well well

Near the site in the image.

It's entirely reasonable
To assume

That there might
Be a connection.

Walters: this is considered
A very aggressive act of war,

Effectively, and it drives
Ethiopians absolutely crazy.

Narrator: following
The construction of the fort,

Ethiopia's emperor,
Haile selassie,

Sends a militia to capture it.

Mussolini, in return,
Doubles down.

He uses this as a pretext

To try to take over
The entire country.

This is classic
Dictator behavior.

**

In 1935, 100,000 additional
Italian troops

March into ethiopia.

To reach the country's interior,
They must cross 120 miles

Of scorching desert sands.

**

Morgan: one of the most
Difficult things you can expect

A human being to do

Is to move on foot carrying
A heavy load across vast

Distances and godforsaken
Waterless terrain.

Narrator:
Faced with this death march,

Records reveal the italians
Come up with a plan

That could explain
The mystery patterns.

**

The italians have this idea
That the fighting forces

Would be
Resupplied from the air

So that their troops
Weren't burdened down

By carrying hundreds of pounds
Of individual load out.

The first and possibly
Weirdest air-supplied mission

In history begins.

These aren't your typical
Meal kits.

They drop everything
You would need

To survive out in the desert --
Water, vegetables, utensils --

Oh, and life sheep.

Narrator: to make
Fresh lamb and beef dishes,

Mussolini's air crews
Attach parachutes

To live sheep and bulls and push
Them out of the back of planes.

Morgan: we all know
The italians love fresh food,

But this is taking it
To an extreme.

It seems utterly nuts,

Taking a sheep,
Putting a parachute on it,

And then throwing it
Out of a plane.

But what you've got is a
Plentiful living supply of food

That doesn't need to be salted
Or refrigerated.

[ sheep bleats ]

Morgan: it would make perfect
Sense that these were pens

That were hastily built by the
Italians to hold the livestock.

Narrator: closer image analysis
Appears to confirm the theory.

Nelson:
If you zoom in a little closer,
It's apparent it's a fence.

These edges are thorny acacias.

Narrator:
Yet when ken joyce uses
Maxar securewatch technology

To study the lines
Next to the pens,

He identifies a problem.

The trails have a very deep-red,
Deep-orange color

So, it looks like maybe
The top level of soil

Has been cleared.

This is something that is active

And not something that has
Just been preserved for decades.

Narrator: joyce dials up
The magnification.

So, as I just look close,

I'm starting to see small groups
Of white objects,

And each one of these
Could well be cattle.

**

One species that's really
Adapted to arid environments

Is the longhorn.

Narrator: biologists confirm
Herders use these pens or corral

To hold cattle such
As the african longhorn.

**

These animals cool
Their blood heat

By circulating it
Around their horns.

Ones on some breeds
Span eight feet.

Schuttler:
Cows are really important
To the local ethiopians.

They not only depend on them
For meat,

But they use their blood
To make gravy and bread.

They use the horn and the hides.

Narrator:
But it's not just their horns

That make these
Animals so weird.

What's really unusual is that
Once they get

To their grazing areas,
They face in the same direction.

These cattle will often
Align themselves north-south.

Narrator:
Scientists speculate

These animals have magnetite
In their heads.

In effect, this turns them
Into living compasses.

Humans don't do this.
I mean, some people feel like

They might have
A natural sense of direction,

But we can't sense
The earth's geomagnetic field.

Narrator:
The strange lines in the image

Revealed that the cattle
In these pens

Are also creatures of habit.

As the cattle leave
And returned to the pens,

They go on the exact same path
Every single time.

And that is what is creating
These trenches

Down into the red earth.

**

Narrator: coming up,
The american military's

Giant egg...

There's something
Shrouded in secrecy

Going on beneath that dome.

Narrator: ...And attack
Of the robo sharks.

They knew they were biting
A human, and they did it anyway.

**

Narrator: november 10th, 2016 --

A satellite
Flying above maryland

Spots something strange.

First thing that pops out
Is this giant white bubble here

In the middle of the landscape.

Narrator:
It looks like a radar,

A golf-ball-type structure

That protects super powerful
Radar systems.

But at 200 feet across, it is
Far too big and the wrong shape.

It literally looks like
A giant egg.

That almost looks like
A spaceship has landed.

It even looks like there's
A stairway leading up into it.

Narrator:
What makes the dome especially
Intriguing is its location...

Aberdeen proving ground,
Part of edgewood arsenal,

The scene of secret
Experiments carried out

On humans, living and dead.

You really have to wonder
What kind of tests

Would require a facility
Like we see in the image.

Narrator: possible evidence
Comes from an fbi raid

On an arizona warehouse
In january 2014.

Inside, agents discover
Buckets of limbs

And a female head
Sewn onto another body

Destined for sale
To the u.S. Military.

The fbi files on this
Investigation have been sealed,

So there's no real way to know
Which bodies ended up

At which military bases

And what kind of tests
They were subjected to.

Narrator: human experimentation
At the base in the image

Began decades ago.

A lot of work is classified,
But some programs

Like operation delirium where
U.S. Soldiers were dosed with

Pcp, sarin gas,
Just to test the effects,

Those types of drills
Were conducted at this location.

Narrator: the authorities claim
That experiments on humans

Have now ceased.

Those sorts of programs
Are shrouded in secrecy.

So, if there are tests
That are being conducted,

It could be hidden
Under a dome like this.

Narrator:
It is known that research here

Has involved blowing up corpses.

Munoz: the goal of this is
To research the effects of ieds,

Including how the body reacts
To these types of explosions.

Narrator: this research,
According to the military,

Is aimed at saving lives.

Munoz: during the height of the
Wars in iraq and afghanistan,

The u.S. Military
Really struggled

In how to fortify their vehicles
Against roadside bombs

Or improvised explosive devices.

By using cadavers,

The u.S. Army is able
To actually see

The effects of an ied
On human tissue, human bones,

And funnel them
Into training simulations

That could further prevent
Injury to u.S. Soldiers.

Can this blast testing
Be what's happening

Inside this dome?

**

Narrator: examining the image
More closely,

Former cia agent lindsay moran
Spots something else.

Not far from this dome,

You can see
What looks like a target.

Is that target related
To the dome

And to what's going on
Under the dome?

Because they're very close
In proximity.

Narrator: declassified records
Reveal that during the cold war,

This base develops one of the
U.S. Military's most powerful

And most outlandish weapons.

Moran: in the early '50s,

The u.S. Military develops
The t131,

Which is essentially a weapon

That can fire both nuclear

And also traditional ordnance.

So it's essentially
The prototype

Of, like, an atomic cannon.

Narrator: military engineers
Based the nuclear weapon

On the anzio annie,
A 47-ton motorized gun

Developed by the nazis
In world war ii.

Soldiers nicknamed
The u.S. Version atomic annie.

Munoz: the bull's eye impression
That we see in the image

Could be the target
That army researchers used

To test the conventional
Shells on this weapon.

**

Narrator: on may 25, 1953,

The military move atomic annie
To the nevada desert

To test-fire a live round.

Less than 10 years
After hiroshima and nagasaki,

The u.S. Has miniaturized
Nuclear technology

To such an extent
That we can produce

A 280 mm cannon projectile

With a nuclear warhead.

Narrator:
Code name "Grable" shot.

The warhead travels
11,000 yards...

**

...Detonating 524 feet

Above the desert.

Maybe we're developing
A new atomic cannon,

And maybe that's why
This white dome has been set up.

**

Narrator: according
To u.S. Military authorities,

The dome is indeed used
For weapons testing,

But not a nuclear gun.

It's used to create specific
Outdoor conditions indoors

So that equipment can be tested

Before it goes out into
The natural environment.

[ machine-gun fire ]

Things that can be tested
In this facility

Range from handheld weapons

All the way up to tanks
And helicopters.

Narrator: the dome, it is said,
Can simulate conditions

In potential battle zones
Anywhere in the world.

Among the conditions that can
Be replicated in this facility

Are things like fog and rain,

Conditions that will challenge
The effectiveness of equipment

On the modern battlefield.

[ alarms blaring ]

Narrator: mounted into
A central control unit,

America's most advanced
Futuristic prototype weapons

Are put to the test.

[ gunshot ]

This type of testing
Is important

Because you have to understand

How your equipment's
Going to respond

In any condition in any place.

Narrator: that, at least, is the
Official purpose of the dome.

But this is a secret base,
And the precise nature

Of the experimental work here
Remains classified.

Moran:
This is one of those situations

Where, looking at the image,

You know there's something
Shrouded in secrecy

Going on beneath that dome.

**

Narrator: coming up,
Rise of the shark mega-swarms.

Unprovoked attacks
Are increasing.

So it makes you wonder why.

Narrator: january 21, 2017.

Eyes in the sky

Track the 170-mile mediterranean
Coastline of israel.

All seems normal,

Until 30 miles north
Of tel aviv,

This happens.

**

Wow. There are
A lot of sharks here.

There are so many congregated
Here in one spot.

This is really amazing.

Narrator: image analysis
Suggests the mega-swarm

Is made up of many
Different species of shark.

The aerial images
Baffle biologists.

This is extremely unusual.

Most of the time,
You'd see one or two sharks

Swimming around.

Sharks generally are solitary.

They don't tend to congregate.

When you do see
A bunch come together,

You have to wonder what's
Attracting them to this site.

Narrator: analysts consider
If the swarm is connected

To a spate of shark attacks
In the region in recent years.

At an egyptian resort,
Four people were attacked

In just minutes of one another.

And a few days later,
A german tourist was killed.

**

Nelson:
Shark attacks are very unusual.

So if you have a bunch of them

Happening at the same time
In the same location,

It makes you think,
"What is happening here?"

**

Narrator:
The sharks in these waters

Appear to have deliberately
Targeted humans.

All the attacks
Were in clear water.

So the sharks weren't really

Mistaking people
For something else.

They knew they were
Biting a human,

And they did it anyway.

**

Narrator: in the aftermath
Of the attacks,

An egyptian government official

Makes a startling statement.

Allegedly, a trained diver
Caught one of the sharks

And discovered a device on it.

Narrator: the official claims
The device was manufactured

By the israeli
Intelligence service.

The suggestion is that

Maybe these sharks
Are somehow remote-controlled.

Narrator: this isn't the first
Time people in the region

Claim to have found animals
With devices attached to them.

Various suspect animals
Keep appearing.

For example, hezbollah
Captured a kestrel.

And in saudi arabia,
They found a vulture

That had some kind
Of device on them.

**

Narrator: it is known
That intelligence agencies

Have been attempting to
Weaponize animals for some time.

In a 1972 u.S. Program
Code-named paisley print task I,

Remote-controlled monkeys
Are used for reconnaissance

And sabotage missions.

Man:
the subject was deemed ready
to penetrate hostile areas

and seek out and destroy
selected targets

within those areas.

mission complete.

**

Narrator: and israel has
One of the most advanced

And successful intelligence
Agencies in the world.

Mossad certainly has used
Atypical means in the past

To get at their enemies.

Narrator: mossad denies
Any experiments using sharks.

Moran: the israeli officials,
When confronted

With these accusations,
Outright deny them

And, in fact, said
That the egyptian official

Must have seen "Jaws"
Just one too many times.

Narrator: investigators consider
What else could be drawing

Unusually large numbers of
Predators to this area of ocean.

The wider satellite image
Offers another clue.

This image is just off
The coast of hadera in israel,

And there's a power plant
Right on the edge of the water.

**

They use water
To cool the station,

And then they dump the hot water
Back into the ocean.

That actually raises
The temperature

Of the ocean around it.

Schuttler:
Sharks are cold-blooded animals,

So maybe these sharks
Are coming to the warm waters

From the power station.

And warm water
Can stimulate their metabolism.

Narrator: but there are many
Such power plants in the world,

And they don't attract
Swarms of sharks.

Scientists are still studying
This phenomenon

About why exactly
These sharks are coming here.

Narrator:
Since the footage was taken,

More shark mega-swarms

Have mysteriously
Started to appear

In different parts of the world.

Among them are huge numbers
Of great white sharks

Just off the coast of america.

Chamberlain:
Sharks are showing up

In places
That they have never been.

And no one is really quite
Certain why this is happening.

Worldwide, the number
Of shark attacks

That are happening
Is also increasing.

We know worldwide, sharks
Are decreasing rapidly.

We're fishing a lot of sharks,

Yet unprovoked attacks
Are increasing.

So it makes you wonder why.