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Narrator: worldwide, 300 Million surveillance cameras

Are watching us.

On our streets... At work...

And in our homes.

They capture things that seem impossible.

It defies the laws of physics.

Narrator: experts carry Out forensic analysis

Of these unusual events.

There's got to be some Explanation for what's going on.

[ screaming ]

Narrator: coming up, a swamp Threatens to swallow an entire town...

It's a sight I'll never Forget as long as I live.

Caught a glimpse of hell on earth.

Narrator: ...A police dash cam Captures a phantom getaway...

I see this chain link fence, And I says, "Oh, my god.

Where did he go?"

Narrator: ...Scientists investigate

A gravity-defying traffic stop...

They're not obeying the laws of physics.

There must be something That we're not seeing.

Narrator: ...And a trail camera Records a close encounter.

It makes you think, "Is there Something watching all of us?"

Narrator: bizarre phenomena.

Mysteries caught on surveillance.

What's the truth behind This strange evidence?

A police dash cam captures A bizarre high-speed pursuit

Through the back roads of georgia.

This is probably, hands-down,

One of the craziest car Chases I've ever been in.

Narrator: just as the cops Corner the runaway sedan,

It pulls off a phantom escape.

It suddenly appears to disappear Through a chain-link fence.

Where did it disappear to?

That's what keeps me up at night.

I was like, "Now, how'd he do that?

♪♪

Narrator: garden city, Georgia, april 16th, 2006.

Lieutenant wayne daniels Patrols the streets.

It's a regular night.

There was very little Traffic on the highway.

Narrator: out of the darkness, car Headlights scream towards him.

He was going way too fast.

I flipped a u-turn, accelerated Rapidly to catch up to him.

Narrator: daniels needs all his training

To stay with the daredevil driver.

I'm like, "This guy has lost his mind.

What is he on that's got Him driving like a madman?"

Narrator: he chases him for over 10 miles.

Daniels: I know this road is a dead end.

There was no way for him to get out.

I got fences on both sides of the road,

So I'm good here. I've got him.

Narrator: what happens next Leaves daniels dumbfounded.

This is where he decides To make his hard left turn.

♪♪

And the next thing, all you see is dust.

And as this dust is continuing to settle,

I can see these two Little red lights bouncing,

Going through this field, And I'm like, "Oh, my god."

♪♪

A car just disappeared Through a chain-link fence,

And I'm like, "How'd he do that?"

♪♪

Narrator: back at the station,

Daniels reviews the dash-cam footage.

The tape confirms his recollection.

The white sedan swerves off the highway.

In the blink of an eye, the car Is on the other side of a fence,

Disappearing into the night.

Somehow, the vehicle passes through

This 10-foot-high chain-link fence

As if it wasn't there.

It was almost as if the car dematerialized

And then rematerialized on The other side of the fence.

The miracle getaway footage goes online.

It gets more than 5 million hits.

It's weird, right? It's creepy.

People are like, "What The hell is going on here?"

Narrator: many believe a Supernatural force is at play.

Locals name it the ghost car.

♪♪

It may not be such a wild idea.

Garden city is a suburb of savannah,

Known as america's most haunted city.

♪♪

A white sedan disappearing Through a chain-link fence

In the vicinity of savannah, georgia,

A city considered by many to be

One of the most haunted Cities in all the world.

Surely, this is no coincidence.

Narrator: investigator chase anderson

Knows the history of this ill-fated place.

It's a city that has known Its share of great tragedies.

We've had three major Yellow fever epidemics

That have killed thousands of people.

We had the second bloodiest battle

In the american revolution.

We had three major fires that Burned two-thirds of the city.

Narrator: for centuries, locals Report strange apparitions

Connected to the city's forgotten dead.

Anderson: the old saying is, "If you keep something buried,

It may come back to haunt you."

Perhaps this white sedan Is just one more anomaly

Connected with all the other anomalies

That go on here in savannah.

♪♪

Narrator: but lieutenant daniels Confirms this is no ghost car.

During the chase, his Patrol car's headlights

Clearly illuminate the driver.

Daniels: so, at the point, I Know it was a white male

With blonde or brownish hair.

It was obvious there was A human driving this car.

The car was real.

♪♪

There has to be a logical explanation.

No one can just go Through a fence like that.

♪♪

Narrator: detailed analysis of The video reveals the sedan

Is out of sight for just 1.2 seconds,

Not enough time for the Suspect to drive around the fence.

Daniels: whatever happened When he left the road way

Happened within a split second.

Narrator: lieutenant daniels Considers the possibility

That the vehicle could Jump clean over the fence.

♪♪

He experienced something Similar as a rookie patrolman.

New area, high speed.

Unknown to me, there is a 10-foot gully

That ended up jumping across Completely with my patrol car,

And it came out looking like a "V."

♪♪

Narrator: daniels believes the felon Sedan would suffer a similar fate.

♪♪

Daniels: there's no mound, no incline

That would give it the angle

To make it go over the top of the fence.

So, I know the "Dukes of Hazard" thing doesn't work.

Narrator: speed data reveals that The getaway car accelerates

From 20 to 60 miles per Hour in just 5 seconds,

Much faster than a regular car.

Whoever's car it was had Done some modifications to it

Because he was able to pull Away from me rapidly here.

♪♪

Narrator: hot-rod mechanic alex Tuason analyzes the high-speed pursuit.

He confirms the vehicle Is no ordinary sedan.

Yeah, there's so much stuff You can do to outrun cops...

Super charger, turbo, nitrous.

It's definitely going to make things

A little tougher for police officers.

Narrator: but that doesn't explain How the sedan gets over the fence.

Tuason considers if the Vehicle has undergone

An even more radical modification.

In order to make a car come off The ground or hop over a fence,

We're going to need a Massive hydraulic system

With a lot of power.

♪♪

Narrator: tuason specializes in Making exactly that kind of vehicle.

He makes low-riders that can jump

And adapts a car to test

If it's capable of clearing A 10-foot high fence.

We'll be using this 1982 malibu classic.

This car weighed about 2,500 Pounds bone-stock from factory.

Narrator: he modifies the Suspension with hydraulic rams

That thrust out 14 inches,

Punching the vehicle into the air.

It's a few main components ...Batteries, pumps,

High-pressure lines, and cylinders.

Pretty much, the oil just Transfers from a reservoir

All the way to the front Making the car instantaneous

Just come off the ground.

Narrator: the size of the battery pack

Determines how high This low-rider will jump.

It's about 12 batteries in here.

It's about 65 pounds a piece.

I'm not good at math, But that's a lot of weight.

He packs the trunk with enough Power to run a house for a day.

Chris, go ahead. Hit it.

♪♪

Narrator: the front of the car Rises over 12 feet into the air,

High enough to clear The fence in georgia...

♪♪

...But there is a problem.

To get all four wheels off the ground

And over a fence requires more batteries

Than the vehicle can carry.

You see what it takes to get Just two wheels off the ground,

Let alone all four,

Especially while doing It while outrunning cops.

No way that car is hopping over that fence.

♪♪

Narrator: coming up, a Tree-swallowing swamp

Terrorizes a rural community...

That was a phenomenon that Scared people out of their wits.

Narrator: ...Levitating Cars baffles scientists...

Vehicles are being lifted up into the air.

That is an obvious mystery.

...And investigators Discover a secret route

That may explain the miracle getaway.

Anderson: it's possible That the sedan is just

Making use of an alternate route,

Of which there are many here in savannah.

♪♪

Narrator: investigators Are piecing together

How a white sedan can disappear Through a 10-foot-high fence

In garden city, georgia.

♪♪

Historian jeffrey wells thinks The state's long association

With smuggling could be significant.

Wells: the boot-legging industry in georgia

Has spawned a whole Network of secret passageways

And secret tunnels that these bootleggers

Actually would use to avoid capture.

♪♪

Narrator: if one of these tunnels Runs along the roadside,

There could be a gap under The fence large enough

For the sedan to drive through.

Lieutenant daniels examines The area around the fence.

You can see the ditch That he bounced through.

As you can see, this is solid ground.

There's no tunnels that allows the car

To go underneath the fence.

It's obvious it's solid ground.

It did not go under the fence at all.

Narrator: daniels' recon of the Area points to one conclusion...

It looks like the car must have Somehow gone through the fence,

But chase anderson has a Problem with this theory.

Normally, when car hits a Fence, the fence is is crumpled

Or there is a gaping hole in the fence.

There was neither.

♪♪

Narrator: daniels looks for Signs of anything unusual

In the fence construction.

What you got here is the side pole,

But you got a top rail to Keep it from falling down.

Narrator: the steel-chain Mesh attaches to the poles

And top rail with aluminum ties.

Daniels finds vital clues Along the side poles.

Daniels: he had popped these Aluminum ties on the side poles.

♪♪

Narrator: the sedan drives Between the two poles,

Hits the fence, breaking the aluminum ties.

The car hood swings the fence up.

Once the car is on the other side,

The fence swings back down.

Wells: it almost seems as If the driver is a magician.

Like a trap door, he Just lifts up the fence,

Drives through it, and lowers it again.

Narrator: lieutenant daniels Can only watch in frustration

As the fugitive disappears into the night.

He abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot.

It made me feel mad because I Knew I had him to now he's gone.

Narrator: daniels continues his Search for garden city's most wanted.

Daniels: at this particular point in time,

We still haven't been able to capture him.

♪♪

♪♪

Now cameras capture a Swamp coming to life in louisiana.

It was like, "Wow."

Whole cypress trees, 100-foot tall,

Just being sucked down to god knows where.

If something can make trees disappear,

It can also kind of make you disappear.

Very dangerous. Very scary.

Narrator: investigators Race to find the source

Of this terrifying menace.

What's going on underneath this swamp?

♪♪

Narrator: bayou corn, louisiana, A picturesque fishing town

Nestled in the heart of the swamplands.

♪♪

Boudreaux: bayou corn is a pristine area.

We have lots of gators, birds, wildlife.

Local residents love this area

And would not live anywhere else.

Narrator: august 2013...

Local homeland security Agent john boudreaux

Investigates a mysterious Phenomenon deep in the swamp.

Boudreaux: some of the Residents contact us to say

There was something Happening in the the swamp areas.

Narrator: what he sees Stops him in his tracks.

All of a sudden, I heard some Branches breaking on some trees,

Started videoing the Site, focused in on that.

♪♪

This massive group of cypress Trees went straight down.

It all got sucked in within seconds.

The wave action that occurred Afterwards was quite amazing.

♪♪

Well, I just find this a Completely terrifying video.

The trees kind of collapse, And it almost makes you feel

That there is some nasty Swamp creature underneath,

Which has swallowed those trees.

Narrator: the sinking trees destroy An orange oil containment barrier.

It must have seemed, If you were right there,

Like the world was about to end.

♪♪

Narrator: the nightmarish Swamp devours everything.

It inches closer and closer To the town of bayou corn.

Resident dennis landry fears That his house will be next.

Landry: people were scared to death.

It was going to start marching Towards our neighborhood,

And it would start swallowing homes.

And I did start getting A sense that, you know,

This could be the death Blow to our community.

♪♪

Narrator: agent john boudreaux Declares a state emergency.

Boudreaux: we setup a mandatory Evacuation a mile in each direction.

That was 159 families,

About 350 people, that Lived near this site,

And they were evacuated from their home.

♪♪

Narrator: local environmental Agents study the swamp.

They rule out quicksand, Flooding, or a landslide

As the cause of the disaster,

But they uncover a potential new threat.

♪♪

They wind the clock back Looking for any unusual activity

In the swamp before the terrifying event.

Local resident dennis landry recalls

Seeing strange movements On the water's surface.

Landry: it was a very unusual bubbling.

I looked at it and said, "Hmm. This doesn't look right."

Then, more and more people

Started seeing bubbling Sites all over the bayou.

There were some pretty scary days

Because nobody knew for Sure what was going on.

Geologist john johnston Analyzes the weird bubbling.

He finds the swamps is releasing methane,

A highly flammable gas.

Johnston: if a significant Amount reaches the surface

And if there was a spark,

You could have a Considerable amount of flame.

It could kill them if They were standing there.

Narrator: but johnston's Measurements reveal

Something even more troubling.

The amount of natural Gas we believed escaped

Initially was about a billion cubic feet.

That's an awful lot of gas.

Narrator: it's enough methane To cause an explosive

Twice as powerful as the Bomb dropped on hiroshima.

♪♪

Johnston expects a gas leak

Is triggering the Swamp's destructive trail.

He checks local records

And discovers four gas Pipelines running under the swamp.

Johnston analyzes the gases to figure out

If there is a major pipe leak.

We did gas fingerprints on all of the gases

From the various pipelines, And none of them matched.

It was not their pipelines leaking the gas.

That's quite shocking, because I would have bet anything

That we had a pipeline leak.

We wish it would have been Just the pipeline leaking

Because it turned out to be Something far more sinister.

♪♪

Narrator: coming up, Gravity-defying vehicles...

There's got to be some kind of mechanism.

But what could it be?

Narrator: ...And experts Face a terrifying possibility

As they race to solve the Mystery of the deadly swamp.

One of the residents contact Us to say that they felt tremors.

What do you do with that information?

♪♪

Narrator: experts make a breakthrough In the louisiana swamp mystery.

Local residents report Unusual subterranean movement

At the same time as the tree collapse.

Landry: plenty of my Neighbors felt seismic activity.

The ground was shaking, and That really scared the daylights

Out of a lot of people.

♪♪

Narrator: scientists from The u.S. Geological survey

Confirm tremors originating

5,000 feet below the disaster area,

The exact site of an Usual geological feature.

It became obvious the Epicenter of the earthquakes

Was a salt dome cavern.

Narrator: the salt dome lies Directly under bayou corn.

It's a natural deposit of salt

Over 2 miles high and 2 miles wide.

A huge operation mines This valuable resource.

♪♪

Chemist andrea sella from University college london

Is an expert on mining techniques.

One of the most effective ways to mine it

If you don't want to send Miners down underground

Is simply to exploit the fact That the salt is water-soluble.

Narrator: he suspects this Method could have triggered

The bayou corn disaster.

What you can do is you could Squirt hot water underground,

And as you do so, the Salt dissolves to form

A very, very concentrated Brine, which you can then withdraw,

But the result is that you Leave hole underground.

Narrator: over 50 caverns Run through this salt dome,

Some twice the height of The empire state building.

Sella: what you cause is A gradual undermining

Of the structural integrity Of the deposit itself,

And potentially, that can lead To a structural weakness above.

Narrator: sella creates a small-scale model

Of a salt dome to demonstrate what happens

When a cavern collapses.

On the top, you've got The layer of sand, of mud,

But then down below it is the salt dome.

Let's see if we could do our Own bit of saltwater mining,

And I'm going to pour Hot water in at the top.

♪♪

Narrator: salt crystals rapidly Dissolve into a solution.

Sella: there. It's starting to move.

You can start to see it moving.

You can really see a drop In the level, and as a result,

What we see is that disastrous Change in the integrity,

The structural integrity.

Narrator: scale it up 30,000 Times, a cavern collapse

Would devour hundreds Of feet of solid ground.

You don't want your house To be right on top of that.

♪♪

Homeland security agent john boudreaux

Discovers there is a cavern

Directly below the disaster site,

But it's been sealed shut for years.

Engineers move in to reopen the cavern.

Took them approximately three months

To drill back into the cavern,

And they found that that Cavern had, indeed, failed.

♪♪

Narrator: experts conclude That the collapsing cavern

Creates a massive sinkhole,

Swallowing 37 acres of swampland,

The equivalent of 15 city blocks.

Boudreaux: this is an unprecedented event.

This sinkhole and this cavern collapse

Has never happened in world history.

♪♪

When I flew over the Sinkhole, and I saw it myself,

That was the shock of a lifetime.

You looked at those cypress Trees and tippalow gumtree

Floating, flipped over, upside down.

I caught a glimpse of Hell... Hell on earth.

♪♪

Narrator: now surveillance cameras capture

A traffic accident that Defies the laws of physics.

Vehicles weighing thousands of pounds

Being tossed in the air like small toys.

It almost looks like there is no gravity.

It's truly bizarre.

Narrator: could a powerful Energy force be on the verge

Of unleashing chaos on the streets?

Man: there's got to be Some kind of mechanism.

But what could it be?

♪♪

Narrator: xingtai, china...

An industrial powerhouse And home to 7 million residents.

♪♪

November 27th, 2015, 9 a.M...

20,000 surveillance cameras Monitor the morning commute.

But then, one camera captures Something extraordinary.

♪♪

All of a sudden, these Cars levitate in the air

And move about like something Supernatural is going on.

In my career, I've seen a Lot of traffic accidents,

But I've never seen Anything like this before.

It's almost graceful, in a way.

Narrator: the gravity-defying stop Is no ordinary traffic collision.

The cars didn't seem to Strike each other at all.

Just seems like there is something

Almost magical happening here.

♪♪

Narrator: whatever it is, it has the power

To take control of the vehicles

And lift them clean off the ground.

An invisible force Appears to be at work here.

But what could it be?

Narrator: coming up...

A ufo descends on a remote ranch...

Stephens: very strange.

Was there something Flying around that night?

Narrator: ...And scientists Fear levitating vehicles

Are a sign of impending disaster.

Oh, okay. We're going in

For one of these big earthquakes again.

♪♪

Narrator: experts are stunned

By the world's weirdest traffic accident

In one of china's busiest cities.

The questions that maybe Spring to mind is is this a fake

Or is there some sort of elaborate trick?

Narrator: chinese authorities Confirm the video is real.

♪♪

Expert consider the possibility That the invisible force

May originate underground.

♪♪

Seismologist qian zhou from The palace museum in beijing

Keeps a close watch on The ground under xingtai.

[ speaking foreign language ]

Narrator: xingtai sits on a 250-mile long active fault line.

In march 1966, the city is rocked

By a series of five massive earthquakes.

[ zhou speaking foreign language ]

Narrator: the ground shakes for 20 days.

Five million homes are destroyed.

Over 8,000 residents lose their lives.

The fact there has been some very big

And very deadly Earthquakes here in the past,

When you start to see vehicles Moving very violently like that,

You might immediately think, "Oh, okay.

We're going in for one of These big earthquakes again."

Narrator: earthquakes don't Usually make things levitate,

But further investigation reveals there is

One rare type of quake That could be the culprit.

It's called a surface wave,

Similar in behavior to rippling water.

Bell: these surface waves Can cause the ground

To roll vertically and horizontally,

And it's that type of motion That could cause cars

To be flipped up into the air.

Narrator: xingtai residents Live in fear of the next big one.

The surveillance footage may be a sign

That another deadly Natural disaster is imminent.

But material scientist Kishore hari notices something

About the way everything Else in the video reacts

That casts doubt on the quake theory.

Hari: all of the other Items around the cars,

The pedestrians walking across the street,

The other cars suffer no motion whatsoever.

It would be nearly Impossible for an earthquake

To be localized just to these three cars.

So, at this point, I can't Imagine it was an earthquake.

Narrator: yet experts are convinced

That whatever the invisible force is,

It must originate beneath the ground.

Engineer brian wolshon Suspects some kind of pressure

May be rising up.

It almost looks like There is air rushing up

From under these vehicles to Pick them up off the roadway.

People don't think of Air as being dangerous,

But when you compress air,

It can actually lift Anything that's above it,

Even a car.

I mean, tornadoes lift things all the time.

Narrator: the most powerful Tornadoes have wind speeds

In excess of 200 miles per hour.

They can lift vehicles and buildings

Hundreds of feet into the air.

♪♪

Geologist sian proctor Believes a blast of air

Rushing up from the Underground sewer system

Could be powerful Enough to lift the vehicles.

♪♪

Flood water entering the system

Provides the force to thrust the air up.

What's going to happen Is all the air that was

Already in the sewer system Is going to become compressed.

Narrator: if the theory is Right, high-pressure air

Should blast out wherever There is an opening to the surface.

Maybe it has the power To life those automobiles.

♪♪

Proctor builds a rig to test the concept.

This is my sewer system.

It's just turned vertical, And at the bottom here,

I have a hose that is Going to put water in.

Narrator: a disc seals the Other end of the pipe.

So, water is now going to Start coming in from the base

Into our cylinder, and it's filling up,

And it's compressing All of this air ahead of it.

Narrator: the water squeezes the Air to half its original volume.

Proctor: well, here it goes.

♪♪

Whoa!

Narrator: the pressurized Air blasts the disc off

At over 100 miles per hour.

So, wow, you can see the Force that compressed air has.

And if you take that, And you apply it to a city,

You can imagine that it's enough Air that is being compressed

To actually lift a car up off the ground.

♪♪

Narrator: but kishore hari Spots an inconsistency.

He focuses on the action of the vehicles.

If air was rushing out of The ground at a rapid rate,

First of all, we'd see Some sort of visual sign

Of that air coming out,

But second of all, it would Push in the same direction.

Both the cars would have a similar effect

Of being either pushed apart

Or sort of pushed together

As that air came in contact with them.

♪♪

Narrator: coming up,

A mysterious flying object Terrorizes a small town...

Something very strange Is definitely going on

In jackson county, mississippi.

Narrator: ...And experts Make a breakthrough

In the mystery of the levitating cars.

You were naturally drawn to This cool, crazy thing happening,

And you completely ignore There is a street sweeper

Moving in the opposite Direction of these cars.

♪♪

Narrator: scientists discover A vital clue in their search

To explain the mysterious Levitating cars in china.

Physicist dianna cowern Notices there is an order

To the vehicles strange acrobatics.

Cowern: the van on the Left gets caught first,

And then the van just to the right of that,

And the car on the far right.

So, it's like, "Boom, boom, boom."

Right in order they're Getting hung up on something.

Hari: the cars definitely Seem to hand in place

For the briefest moment Before changing direction.

It's almost as if it hits a trip wire,

And I think that's what he have here.

Narrator: enhancing the surveillance tape

Reveals a cable lying across the road

Just before the cars lift off the ground.

One end of the cable is attaches To a post by the roadside.

The other end snags in the spinning brushes

Of a road sweeper on the Opposite side of the road.

The sweeper is actually Pulling that cable taut,

Lifting it up in the air.

Narrator: the mini van Approaches the junction

And drives right into the invisible wire.

Wolshon: then after that, We see a chain reaction

That literally lifts all of Those vehicles into the air.

Narrator: the thin cable Creates a perfect illusion.

One of the things that makes this mystery

Really hard to solve

Is that in the low-resolution that we have,

Doesn't allow us to see the wire

Attached to the street sweeper itself.

Narrator: xingtai's gravity Appears to be intact,

But the laws of physics can Still create incredible events.

Steel wire being able to lift Three cars, that's impressive.

♪♪

Narrator: now a trail camera Captures strange lights

Hovering in the forests of mississippi.

This was the most unusual Thing that I had ever seen.

Narrator: some suspect it's Evidence of a close encounter.

Could this be a deer caught In the headlights of a ufo?

♪♪

Narrator: jackson county, mississippi.

♪♪

February 16th, 2014.

Rainer shattles positions trail Cams across his remote farm.

♪♪

Rainer: I put trail cameras up

To be able to see what game comes in

Or what shows up at night.

Typically, the game animals Are deer, nocturnal feeders.

♪♪

Narrator: the next morning, rainer's Wife, edith, reviews the material.

She discovers a sequence Of unearthly images.

I looked at them back and forth

Because I just didn't Know what to make of it.

Narrator: 7:56 p.M.,

Two bright dots appear At the edge of a clearing.

My eyes caught strange lights in the trees.

I thought, "What in the world?

How could there be lights in the trees?"

Narrator: 8:09 p.M.,

The mysterious object Moves towards the camera,

A spine-tingling image takes shape.

Edith: it appeared to Be of a flying saucer.

It had this exhaust appearance on it.

Narrator: seconds later, the lights appear

Directly in front of the Camera, hovering in midair.

A deer seems transfixed, Caught in the glare

Of the powerful light beams.

Edith: I've never seen anything like that.

I was shocked.

Narrator: and then the lights are gone.

That's added to the oddness of it.

It was a mystery.

We didn't know what it was That was on our property.

♪♪

Narrator: edith and rainer Shattles have captured

What looks like an alien Visitation on their trail cams.

When we told our friends about this,

Most everyone was just like,

"Man, have you got a U.F.O. On your property?"

Farrow: this isn't the first Time that strange lights

Have been reported in this area.

It almost kind of has a History of close encounters.

Narrator: the lights in the shattles images

Match the description of An infamous local sighting.

There's a story of an incident

That occurred down in pascagoula,

Which is about 20 miles from where we live.

Narrator: october 1973,

Fishermen witnessed two Powerful bright lights

Illuminating the night sky.

One of them sees an alien craft.

He sees these figures that are kind of

Wrinkled-looking humanoid types,

And he heard a sort of buzzing noise.

Narrator: the two men Claim that aliens abduct

And hold them for three hours.

The pascagoula abduction Has been considered

As a very good case of alien abduction.

Narrator: rainer shattles Believes his visitors

Come from much closer to home.

People in the military have told me

They've seen things similar to this,

Drones that you use for surveillance.

Narrator: the number of eyes In the sky is growing rapidly.

There are already 700,000 drones in the u.S.

Everyone is being spied On all the time by drones

That fly around and watch

Everything that everyone's doing.

Narrator: shattles suspects his footage

May be evidence of something more sinister.

Being late at night, I'm More prone to believe

That it was a little more secretive

Than just flying around with No one wanting to own up it.

Narrator: yet, investigator Ben radford is not convinced

That this a secret government program.

Could it be a surveillance drone?

It could be, but why is the Government sending a drone

To look at deer in a Remote field in mississippi?

It just doesn't make sense.

Narrator: trail camera designer Bart stephens analyzes the pictures.

He's clocked-up thousands of hours

Reviewing mysterious images.

All sorts of weird things are captured

By these camera systems.

It's going to pick up things

That humans otherwise would never see.

Stephens focuses on the Position of the two lights.

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The two lights are spaced the same space

As the deer's eyeballs.

That became kind of a clue

For us of what might have been going on.

Stephens believes the Image is not what it appears

And that's because it's A nighttime exposure.

If it's nighttime, then the Image will be illuminated

By these infrared l.E.D.S.

Narrator: he suspects that The infrared exposure

Burns out any close-up detail.

He proposes what we can't see is

That the deer is looking Straight at the camera

And not at the ghostly lights.

My opinion, what we're seeing here

Is reflection of the infrared illumination

Off of the deer's eyes Back into the camera's lens.

Narrator: but this doesn't Explain why the lights appear

To hover in the sky.

Stephens identifies something In the outline of the image.

You'll notice this kind Of otherworldly glow

Around the two lights, And then shape is the same

As the deer's face with the ears,

But it's upside down.

Narrator: a quirk of the camera Turns the image upside down.

A curved weather-proofing Lens creates a mirror image

Flipped up above the deer.

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A special feature of deer eyeballs

Explains why the lights are so bright.

Like most nocturnal animals, Deer have a mirror-like layer

Behind the retina that Helps them see in the dark.

One of the by-products of this is that

The back of their eyes reflect Infrared light very strongly,

Which is why we see these Bright eyes on the deer

In this footage here.

Narrator: bart stephens thinks He has compelling evidence

Linking the deer's eyes to The bizarre camera-effect.

When there is a deer that Is very close to the camera,

You get the lights.

Where there is not a Deer close to the camera,

The lights go away.

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Narrator: but edith and Rainer shattles believe

That only half the mystery is solved.

It didn't explain the one Picture that looked like it

Was in the shape of a saucer With exhaust coming down.

We do know that there was Something there that night,

And it was on our camera.

Edith: it makes you think.

The deer watch you, we watch the deer,

But is there something Else watching all of us?