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[mechanical whirring]
[static]

[Harry] Worldwide,

36 billion cameras
are watching us.

[Harry] On our screens,

at work,

and in our homes.
[static]

[Harry] They capture things
that seem impossible.
[whooshing]

Science says
this shouldn't happen.

[boy] Do you see that?

[Harry] Experts carry out
forensic analysis

of these unusual events.
[explosions]

Wow, what a blast.

[explosion]

-[explosion]
-[woman screaming]

This doesn't make sense.

[distorted screech]

There has to be some
sort of explanation.

What else is going on here?

[mechanical whirring]

-[Harry] Coming up...
-[snow crunching]

[Harry] Are trucks
delivering danger
to Kansas City neighborhoods?

[explosion]

It's like a rolling fireball
moving down the street.

[Harry]
In a remote village...

Oh, my God.

[Harry] A bizarre baby
worshipped as a God.

Could this be a strange
mutant crossbreed

between a human and a goat?

-[Harry] And two friends...
-[yelling]

...have a demonic encounter
on a deserted road.

Suddenly,
she's running at them.

[yelling in foreign language]

You think it can't get worse?

It does.

[throaty screeching]

[yelling in foreign language]

-[static]
-[mechanical whirring]

[Harry] Bizarre phenomena.

Oh, my gosh.
[gasps]

-[Harry] Mysteries
caught on camera.
-[explosion]

[child crying]

-[tires screeching]
-[Harry] What's the truth
behind this strange evidence?

[static]

[Harry] The Irbid Mountains,

northern Jordan.

-[mechanical whirring]
-[electronic beeping]

[Harry] December 2014.

[electronic beeping]

[Harry] Two young men

are driving along a dark,
deserted country road

when their car's engine
mysteriously cuts off.

[speaking in foreign language]

-[distorted rattling]
-[hiss]

[Harry] A strange figure
steps out of the darkness.

[Jeff] She's dressed
entirely in white.

She's hunched over,
her hair is wild

and all over the place.

It's absolutely frightening.

[speaking in foreign language]

It appears to be walking

with a walking stick
like a big cane.

[Martin] It's one
of the creepiest things
I've ever seen.

Suddenly,
she's running at them.

[yelling]

[yelling in foreign language]

This poor driver,

I don't know if
he's ever been this frightened
in his entire life.

He's clearly panicked.

[yelling in foreign language]

[indistinct yelling]

They keep backing up
and she keeps coming,

they keep backing up,
she keeps advancing.

And she's pursuing them,
it seems like.

You think it can't get worse?
It does.

[throaty screeching]

[yelling in foreign language]

It's the most terrifying sound
I think I've ever heard.

[throaty screeching]

[yelling]

It sounds like pure evil.

This poor guy,
he's terrified.

He sounds
genuinely frightened.

[yelling]

[yelling]

-[engine revving]
-[yelling]

What is she
and what does she want?

[static]

[Harry] In Jordan,
locals believe

the video has captured
something supernatural.

[Jeff] In this region,
and really, across
the whole world,

there's a belief
in this supernatural
or even preternatural power.

For many,

this eerie white figure
is a djinn.

Djinn is actually
the root of the word genie,

which we know from like tales,
Aladdin, Arabian Nights.

[Harry] Djinn are not
the lamp-dwelling,

wish-granting servants
from Hollywood films.

They're widely known
to be shapeshifters

and have other sorts
of superhuman powers.

[distorted wailing]

Basically, in short,

demons.

[Harry] The Quran
tells believers
that djinn are real.

[Craig] Some don't even
want to talk about it.

They won't even
mention the word djinn

because they feel
that the djinn derives
its energy

from human attention.

If you live in the area

and you see something
like this on the road,

you're going to think, djinn.

[throaty screeching]

[yelling]

[static]

[Islamic music]

[Harry] Like many places
in the world,

there are people here

who claim to be able
to perform black magic.

Could this be
some modern day witch

that was disturbed
during some secret ritual?

-[speaking
in foreign language]
-[engine revving]

[Harry] In the Middle East,

fear of black magic
practitioners conjuring djinns

to cause supernatural chaos
is so strong,

that in 2009,

the Saudi state launched
its own anti witchcraft unit

to tackle the problem.

The puritanical police force
claimed to catch witches,

often after a tip off
from a member of the public.

[Rhonda] In 2011,

a Saudi woman was beheaded
for practicing sorcery.

In general,
these people who are accused
of being witches are not.

They've just been set up
by irate neighbors

or implicated in some
sting operation.

[Harry] But the authorities
report genuine cases

of people who claim
to practice black magic.

In one raid, the investigators
were confronted

by a naked sorceress.

[woman screaming]

[Harry] The sorceress
is said to have escaped
out of the window.

Incredibly,
investigators report

that she flew out like a bird.

The woman may have
been in a trance-like state,

making her feel
like she could fly.

[distorted music]

[Harry] Anthropologists
have found that sorcerers,

priests and warriors
in pre-modern societies

all over the world,
can enter a trance-like state

through chanting, dancing
or rhythmic drumming.

Some in this state
believe themselves

to be possessed
by spirits or animals.

And as a result,
are capable of extraordinary,

inhuman feats.

Maybe they really
do have some power,

some ability
that we don't have.

[Harry] A University
of Pennsylvania study

found the frontal lobe
of the brain,

the part that directs
conscious, rational behavior,

diminishes as people
enter a trance-like state.

The figure in the footage

could be in a similar
psychological state,

advancing aggressively
on a vehicle

because she believes herself
to be invincible.

The car keeps reversing

and the figure in the footage
keeps coming at them.

It won't stop.

[tank fires]

[Harry] Coming up...

Are war survivors
attacking travelers

on Jordan's isolated roads?

This highly
aggressive behavior

could be a result
of some sort of psychosis.

[Harry] And,
heading for a beautiful beach,

a titanic tentacle
dripping with poison.

[Jayde] Forget about Jaws.

This giant
is the new definition

of horror from the deep.

[underwater currents]

[static]

[Harry] Two travelers
in Jordan

are attacked
by a demonic-looking woman.

-[throaty screeching]
-[yelling in foreign language]

-[keyboard clicking]
-[Harry] Military historian
Craig Gottlieb

believes these robes
are the clothes
of a Bedouin tribeswoman,

rather than a witch.

And suspects the aggressive
physical actions and screaming

could be a reaction
to events this woman
has witnessed nearby.

This person is definitely
exhibiting abnormal
psychological behavior,

and one of the root causes
of behavior like this

are shocking events in life,

like being subjected to
horrors of war, for example.

-[throaty screeching]
-[yelling]

This could have
something to do

with the decades-long conflict

that this area
has experienced.

[tank fires]

[Harry] The Syrian Civil War
begins in 2011

in the city of Daraa,

just ten miles away

from the location
where this was filmed.

-[tank firing]
-[Harry] The entire area

-quickly becomes
a brutal conflict zone.
-[explosion]

[Harry] Witnesses describe
systematic killings,

beatings and torture
by the Syrian security forces.

Much of the city
is destroyed,

and around 650,000
Syrian refugees

flee across
the border into Jordan.

But sounds of artillery fire
thudding across the frontier

are a constant,
terrifying reminder
to those in the refugee camps.

The effects of war can cause

intense psychological damage
on normal, ordinary people.

-[throaty screeching]
-[yelling in foreign language]

This highly aggressive
behavior is very bizarre

and could potentially be

a result of
some sort of psychosis.

[Harry] Symptoms of
psychosis are varied,

but sufferers could be easily
startled or frightened

and can exhibit explosive
anger or violence.

[woman screaming]

[Martin] Was this
Bedouin woman having
a psychotic break down?

And if that's true,
there's no telling
what she's going to do next.

[Harry] After the men fled,

the figure
was never seen again.

Whatever they encountered
on that road

has left them with deep scars
of their own.

This video is a stark reminder

of horrific things that are
lurking in the shadows

when you drive down
desolate roads.

[throaty screeching]

[yelling]

[Harry] Now,

the Indian Ocean,

65 miles off the coast
of Western Australia.

March 16th, 2020.

A scientific research team

explores the 75-mile-long
Cape Range Canyon.

2,000 feet below their vessel,

a submersible scans an area of
the ocean never seen before.

Suddenly,
the high-definition cameras
capture something shocking.

This glowing blue spiral

just sitting there
in the dark ocean.

This seems to be
a translucent tentacle.

It looks like it's something
from another planet.

[Jayde] It's so sinister
looking, like it might be

just sitting there,
waiting for its prey.

[underwater currents]

[Harry] The sub's camera
struggles to fit

the enormous spiral
into the frame.

It's really hard
to get a sense of scale.

This thing just goes on
and on and on.

-[mechanical whirring]
-[Harry] Digital analysis

reveals the spiraling entity
is over 150 feet long,

more than half
a football field in length.

But it isn't a loose
undersea cable.

This thing appears
to be organic.

[Greg] If this is
one big creature,

you know, what does it have
to eat to grow this large?

[static]

[Harry] Marine biologist
Eric Hovland

wonders if the spiral
is the limb of a huge
deep sea creature.

It could be a tentacle..

A long, long,
swirling tentacle.

Are we looking
at the hunting tentacles

of a giant squid?

[Harry] If so,

this is the remains
of a true monster of the deep.

The largest giant squid
ever recorded by scientists

was almost 43-feet-long

and estimated
to weigh nearly a ton.

[Eric] This is
a deep sea creature

to be reckoned with.

-[distorted growling]
-[Eric] With eight arms,

but also two even
longer feeding tentacles

that reach out and grasp
their prey with hooked,
horny chitinous suckers

-that dig into the flesh
of the prey.
-[distorted growling]

-[squelch]
-[Eric] Once they've got you
in those tentacles

and they draw you into
those arms, it's curtains.

Sailors have always
talked about,

you know,
giant squid and it's this

beastly kraken
out there in the ocean.

The fishermen
would tell tales

of whole ships being
dragged down into the deep

by these huge squid.

[distorted wood creaking]

[Harry] Only a few
of these deep water monsters
have been seen,

washed up on beaches or
holed up accidentally in nets.

And there's evidence
that there could be

far bigger creatures
down there.

Scars on the bodies
of sperm whales

suggest ferocious
deep ocean battles

with giant squid measuring
monstrous proportions.

[Greg] Sperm whales
are huge animals,

and by looking
at the size of those marks,

we can get an idea of
the animal that it's battling.

[Harry] Hovland wonders
if the scientists' submersible

has stumbled across
the gruesome remains

of one of Planet Earth's
most epic battles,

a face-off between an enormous
giant squid and a sperm whale.

[Eric] Could that explain
what I'm seeing here?

A severed squid tentacle
of giant proportions.

[waves crashing]

[Harry] Coming up...

Is this tentacle
still alive

and poised to attack?

Imagine getting injected
with a chemical

that dissolves you
from the inside out.

It'd be a terrible way to go.

[Harry] And, a hairy,
square-eyed baby
shocks doctors.

Are we looking
at a science experiment
gone wrong?

[static]

[static]

[Harry] 65 miles
off the coast of Australia,

a submersible encounters
what looks like
a 150-foot-long tentacle.

When marine biologist
Greg Szulgit zooms in,

he notices this creepy cable
has other, smaller objects
hanging off it.

[Greg] I think that

tells us that this
is probably a siphonophore.

[Jayde] Forget about Jaws.

This giant
is the new definition

of horror from the deep.

[Harry] Most animals
grow as a single body.

Siphonophores clone themselves
thousands of times

to create a mega monster,

and each clone
is given a singular purpose.

Some are digesting,
some are moving

and it gives this large
sort of super organism

that's absolutely huge.

[Harry] The clones are
all strung together

into a chain of death,

working as a team
to hunt and feed.

And beneath its frilly fronds,
there is a deadly weapon.

Millions of individual
dangling fishing lines,

with millions more hooks

all set out as bait.

These fishing lines are
bristling with stinging barbs

that are powerful enough to
punch through human skin

and deliver a neurotoxin

that can cause
paralysis and death.

[Harry] The siphonophore
has evolved tricks

to lure creatures
to their deaths.

This one has bioluminescence,

drawing light loving animals
towards their doom.

[Eric] It's enormous,

swirling, flat, sticky,

like a giant
seagoing spider web,

except
the spider's built right in.

Because the web is itself
the venomous predator.

[Harry] For any creature
caught in this deep sea web,

it's not only death they face,

it's an extremely
gruesome end.

The way that creatures
like this feed

is particularly disgusting.

Once they've paralyzed
and killed their prey,

they inject
a dissolving chemical

that turns the body
of the creature
into a kind of soup,

and then they'll
suck that soup out

and absorb all the nutrients.

Imagine getting
tangled up in one of these

and then injected
with a chemical

that dissolves you
from the inside out.

It'd be a terrible way to go.

[waves lapping]

[Harry] In January 2019,

over 1000 people were stung

by an enormous swarm
of siphonophores
off the Australian coast.

[Jayde] I grew up,
as an Australian,

fearing getting tangled up
in one of those in the ocean.

[Harry] And siphonophores
much smaller than this one

have killed humans.

In 1987,

a woman on the Florida coast
died in just minutes

after being stung
by a siphonophore
just 30-feet-long.

The colossal creature
in the video

may be 2000-feet-deep,
but there is chilling evidence

siphonophores have evolved
clones into gasbags,

enabling them
to rise to the surface

where prey is more plentiful.

A giant siphonophore

covered in stinging cells
and digestive juices

redefines terror of the deep.

[Harry] And a sighting
of a massive siphonophore

just 65 miles
off the coast of Australia

should make any divers
think twice

before taking the plunge.

If it arrived on a beach,

Australia's tourists
could be in peril.

If you happen
to get ensnared in this thing,

you would die a death
of a thousand cuts.

A little part of me,
sometimes thinks,

"Maybe the mysteries
of the deep
are best left alone

when nightmare organisms
like this are
right around the corner."

[Harry] Now,

Nimodiya,

a tiny village in Rajasthan,
northwest India.

January 2020.

[percussion music]

[Harry] An infant is born.

Villagers
flock to the house,

not to coo and congratulate,

but to gasp in horror.

Oh. [gasps]

Oh. Oh, my God.

What is this creature?

It looks human.

It's just incredibly hairy.

[Harry] This is no monkey.

I'd say we're looking at
a very hairy baby.

[static]

[Harry] Once,
all human babies
were born this hairy.

The five million
hair follicles

that cover our bodies
sprouted thick fur
like a chimpanzee.

But as we evolved
to hunt and run,

cooler bodies became
more advantageous

and our body hair thinned.

But not everyone's DNA
got the memo.

Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy

earned fame in
the 19th century

at P.T. Barnum's
The Greatest Show on Earth.

He suffered
from excessive hair growth,

a condition
now called hypertrichosis,

but it was once known
as werewolf syndrome.

And on stage,
Jojo was forced to growl,

bear his teeth
and even chew raw meat

to the cheers of the audience.

Here in India,

different looking children
are not treated as horrors,

but as gods.

An awful lot of the
traditional religious figures

are half-animal, half-human.

Think about the god Ganesh,
for example,

who is half-elephant.

[Harry] In 2015,

people flocked
to worship a child

born with a trunk-like
protrusion between her eyes.

They called her
Ganesha's wife.

Is it possible
that the villagers here,

or the people that live here,

might see this creature
as some sort of God

or some sort of higher being?

[Harry] But when biologist
Carin Bondar

searches
through local records,

she discovers
this infant was not born
to a human mother.

This baby was born to a goat,

but it does look like a human.

[Ashanti]
Its face is quite flat,

it doesn't have a snout.

It has a chin
and quite a large forehead.

It should be a goat,
but it appears very human.

Why are animals being born
with human faces?

[static]

[Harry] Coming up...

Is this new kid
on the block

a human-goat hybrid?

I've seen enough
movies to know

that scientists
should not be splicing DNA.

[Harry] And,

a suburb is shattered
by a trucking nightmare.

[explosion]

They say,
"Don't shoot the messenger,"

but in this case,
it looks like somebody
tried to blow them up.

[distant sirens]

[static]

[static]

[Harry] In an Indian village,

a goat is born
with a human-looking face.

Could this be
a strange mutant crossbreed

between a human and a goat?

[Harry] Visionary author
H.G. Wells

wrote The Island of Dr. Moreau

in 1896.

A story about
a crazed scientist

creating animal-human hybrids.

[maniacal laughter]

[Harry] Shaena Montanari
investigates if someone

is attempting
to do the same thing

in this isolated
Indian village.

For two species
to successfully mate,

they ideally have to have
the same number
of chromosomes.

For example,

dogs and wolves
both have 78 chromosomes,

which means
they can cross breed.

[Harry] Crossbreeding
humans with other animals

would be incredibly difficult,

as even chimpanzees,

with whom we share
99 percent of our DNA,

have two more chromosomes
than we do,

making offspring
almost impossible.

Goats would be
even less of a match.

Goats have 60 chromosomes
and humans have 46.

The difference
is just way too big

for goats and humans
to naturally hybridize.

[static]

[Harry] Biologist Carin Bondar
tries to discover

how the goat ended up
looking so human.

The reason this goat
looks so strange

is because
its eyes are forward-facing,

kind of like
a predator's eyes would be.

Goats are generally
prey animals,

and so their eyes are
on both sides of their head
to allow them

to view a lot of the ground
around them

-to keep a lookout
for predators.
-[bleating]

[Harry] Bondar believes
the goat is suffering

from a rare deformity.

[Carin] Some mammals
experience a condition
called holoprosencephaly,

where the two sides
of the brain fail to
distinguish from each other,

and it results
in the eyes appearing
far too close together.

[Harry]
In extreme circumstances,

this condition can result
in a single eye
in the middle of the face,

a Cyclops.

Historians have speculated

the legendary creature
of Greek mythology

may have been inspired
by a similar deformity.

But Ashanti Davis

believes
the goat's freakish face

is not just
a random mutation.

So there are a number
of harmful substances

called teratogens,

and they actually impact
the development and growth
of a fetus.

[Harry]
Montanari studies the area
for possible teratogens,

the toxic substances
that cause birth defects

and discovers that
India's intensive farming
could be to blame.

India has
a lot of mouths to feed.

It's the second most
populous country after China,

and that puts
a lot of pressure on farming.

[distant rumble of machinery]

[Shaena] As a result,
farmers are overfertilizing
their fields

to get maximum crop yields.

[Harry] India spreads
50 million tons
of chemical fertilizer

on its crops each year.

The excess nitrogen
washes into waterways

and is consumed
by local communities.

[Harry] Nitrogen
and nitrate chemicals

cause abnormal
fetal development,

and in some areas,

they're seeping into
the water supply in quantities
far beyond safe limits.

It's likely
that excess nitrogen levels

caused the birth defect
in the goat.

But whatever
the goat is exposed to,

so are the people.

In order to try to feed
its population better,

India could actually
be poisoning them as well.

-[bell chimes]
-[Harry] The gruesome-faced
goat is cared for

and worshiped
as an avatar of the Hindu Gods
by the local villagers.

But rather than a God,

it may instead
be a prophet of doom,

signifying
the potential devastation

chemical fertilizers
can inflict on the young.

[Ashanti] Harmful teratogens
are closer to home

than we would really like.

The implications
for the next generations
are catastrophic.

[Harry] Now,

Kansas City, Missouri.

January 23, 2019.

[snow crunching]

[Harry] In a quiet suburb,

a doorbell camera films
the snowbound street outside.

So it's a peaceful,
pleasant neighborhood.

And all of a sudden, boom.

[explosion]

There's an explosion

right in the middle
of the street.

[Harry] Just yards
from family homes,

a vehicle mysteriously
bursts into flames.

[explosion]

Whoa, this is wild.

It's terrifying how quickly
this car just goes up.

It went from nothing
to a fireball.

[distant flames billowing]

[Harry] Then
the blazing vehicle
lurches backwards

and races down the hill
towards the houses.

[distant clattering]

It's like a rolling fireball
moving down the street.

-[distant clattering]
-[distant flames billowing]

The situation is quickly
getting out of control.

-[distant clattering]
-[distant xpl]

[Harry] This isn't
any ordinary vehicle.

Historian Ashanti Davis

analyses the dimensions
of the vehicle

and discovers
it's a type of truck

seen on
every street in America.

The shape and size
of this is quite familiar.

It has a very boxy shape
and a very distinct nose.

This is a U.S. Postal Service
mail truck.

[Harry] Former CIA operative
Tracy Walder

believes the raging inferno
could be caused

by a type of package
you definitely don't want
to receive.

All sorts of suspicious things
get sent in the mail,

but some of them are deadly.

The initial blast is fast.

This is indicative
of an incendiary device,
or a bomb.

[Harry] Mail bombs
have been sent
through the American mail

since 1919,

when anarchists mailed
36 explosive devices

to politicians
around the country.

But the threat of death
by mail hasn't diminished.

In 2018,
a 23-year-old college dropout,

Mark Condit, wages a war
of terror on Austin, Texas.

His five homemade
package bombs kill two

and injure five more
over three weeks.

He's finally identified
by a store CCTV camera.

Police pursue him
along Interstate 35,

but when he's pulled over,

Condit blows himself up
instead of being captured.

[Brian] Just imagine

if the item
that caused this explosion

actually was mailed
through your door.

[explosion]

[Harry] The threat
of death by mail
is considered so great,

the U.S. Postal Service
employs a full time team

to monitor packages
for explosives

and biochemical weapons.

Weird-shaped items,

no return addresses,
even misspelled names

are all red flags.

Could this be a letter bomb
that has exploded before
reaching its target?

[Harry] Coming up...

Reports of mystery fires
in America's mail vans.

[Nick] They've occurred
in the battery compartment,

in the fuel pump,
in the dashboard.

[Harry] And, a pilot films

a weird object
from his cockpit.

This is what I would consider
a genuine UFO.

There is a flying object here,

and I have no idea what it is.

[Harry] A mail truck
spontaneously combusts

on a Kansas City street.

[keyboard clicking]

[Harry] Data scientist
Liberty Vittert

isolates and analyzes
the audio from the footage

and notices an unusual noise.

Just before the explosion,
you can hear a whining sound.

[whining sound]

I think
that's the engine revving

or the wheels spinning
as the van struggles to get up
the snowy street.

[explosion]

Could this explosion be
attributed to the van itself?

So something wrong with
the design or manufacture.

[Harry] Engineer
Nick Householder discovers

that the aging fleet
of USPS trucks is obsolete.

[Nick] The Long-Life Vehicle
known as the LLV,

was selected in 1987

after a 24,000 mile
durability test.

[engine buzzing]

[Harry] These vans
help to deliver 48 percent
of the world's mail,

over 170 million items
of first class mail alone
each day.

There are over 140,000 LLVs
still in service,

and some
are showing their age.

Since 2017,

reports claim
over 100 mail trucks
have caught on fire

without being involved
in a crash.

These fires have occurred
in hot climates
and in cold climates.

They've occurred in
the battery compartment,

in the fuel pump,
in the dashboard.

[Harry] This fire
was likely caused
by tire shrapnel

hitting the engine as
the driver tried to accelerate
up the snowy hill.

[siren wailing]

[Harry] The mailman
escapes unharmed.

When firefighters
arrive at the scene
in Kansas City,

all they can do
is keep the fire away
from nearby buildings.

The 30-year-old truck,

and the mail it's carrying,
is destroyed.

This gives a whole new meaning
to special delivery.

-[wind blowing]
-[Harry] Now,

the sky above
Colombia, South America.

January 1st, 2020.

[jet engine whirring]

[Harry] Pilot
Cesar Murillo Perez,

flying an A320
with a capacity of 180 people,

spies a fast moving object
approaching his aircraft.

[Amy] Imagine
sitting in a plane

and seeing this weird object

flying towards you
at a rapid speed.

It looked like
a metallic golf ball

flying through the clouds.

[Harry] It has no propellers,
no exhaust, no wings, no tail.

That thing looks like it
shouldn't even be able to fly,

but there it is,
speeding along
at about 30,000 feet.

Passenger planes
are supposed to fly

in carefully
controlled corridors.

Seeing an object like this
outside your window

has got to be shocking.

[Harry] Perez checks
his cockpit radar,

but what he sees
just deepens the mystery.

[George] It doesn't show up.

It's just a thing
that they go flying past.

This is what I would consider
a genuine UFO.

There is a flying object here
and I have no idea what it is.

[computer mouse clicking]

[Harry] Image analyst
Conor McCourt runs the footage

through enhancement software.

What I'm doing here
is zooming in and having
a good look at this object.

We have one, two,
three and four corners.

It's cube like,

it has reflective properties
that could be metallic.

They're not seeing
wings or other motors

or any kind of
mechanical devices

that would propel this
through the air.

[Harry] And this
is no inflatable balloon.

[Nick] I don't think
this is a balloon

because they're usually
designed to go
to much higher altitudes.

They're more
of a teardrop shape

as they're pulling a cargo
up into the atmosphere.

There's nothing that indicates
that this object should fly.

It should plummet
like a stone to the Earth.

[Harry] Coming up...

Is this craft
linked to a scientist

who mysteriously disappeared?

[Tim] So she's claiming
she could make
a gravity force field,

something that
the American government
wanted to keep as a secret.

-[distorted radio static]
-[pilot speaking]

[Harry] A mysterious craft
is spotted by an airline pilot

30,000 feet
above the skies of Colombia.

Historian Craig Gottlieb finds
more reports of flying objects

that like this spinning cube

seem to defy
the physics of flight.

In 2017, journalists
published leaked footage

captured by Navy pilots

of unidentified
aerial phenomena.

[Harry] In 2004,

the USS Nimitz carrier group

patrolling the waters
off San Diego,

spots an unidentified object
on its radar.

FA 18 super hornets
are scrambled to investigate

and what they find
is mind boggling.

The pilot reports seeing
like a Tic Tac shaped craft

close to the surface
of the water.

-[pilot] IHR2, it's
following behind, over.
-[beeping]

[Paco] Hold it up,
It's just hanging there

with no visible means
of lift or thrust.

[beeping]

[Paco] If it was a helicopter
or an aero type V style jet,

there would just be
a massive plume of hot gases

that would be flowing from it.

None of that
occurs on this footage.

[Harry] And it pulls
maneuvers which would tear
a normal airplane apart.

And suddenly
it takes off vertically.

[indistinct radio chatter]

-[Craig] Accelerates out.
-[indistinct radio chatter]

[Paco] Very quickly.
You know, it goes

from zero to whatever,

800 miles an hour or more,

1000 an hour almost instantly.

That G Force would be,

I think fatal to any human.

[beeping]

[Harry] In 2015,

a similar craft
is spotted again,

this time,
off the east coast of America.

[Tim] What's
really interesting is

you can hear the pilots' voice

and they're really surprised.

[pilot 1 speaking]

-[laughter]
-[indistinct radio chatter]

[pilot 2 speaking]

[man over radio] Yeah,
it's just strafing.

[pilot 1 speaking]

[Harry] The Pentagon confirms
the footage is genuine,

but has no explanation
for what the object could be.

And if governments
are releasing
genuine footage of UFOs

and they themselves
don't know what it is,

then that's something probably
we should worry about.

[Harry] The United States
now acknowledges that UFOs

like the one in the footage
shot by the Colombian pilot,

exist,

but the notion that
they could be alien spacecraft

could be a smokescreen
perpetuated by the military.

So some are claiming
that Pentagon is creating

this quote "UFO hype"

for a cover story

because they don't want
people knowing about
their special projects.

[Harry] Special projects
that could change
life on Earth as we know it.

For years now,
there have been theories about

the development
of anti-gravity technology.

[Harry] Gravity
is an invisible force

that pulls smaller objects
towards larger ones.

It's what holds
the planets in orbit
around the Sun,

and on Earth,

it keeps objects
on the ground.

Planes and birds
can overcome the force

with lift and thrust.

But ultimately,

what goes up must come down.

But what if it didn't?

Could scientists
discover a way

to shield something
from the force of gravity?

In other words,
an anti-gravity device?

It sounds far-fetched,

but the U.S. military
has been seeking to harness
anti-gravity technology

for over 70 years.

The implications
of anti-gravity technology
are enormous.

[Harry] Whole cities
could potentially be suspended

in the sky
or deep under the sea.

The design
and layout of buildings

would alter
in unimaginable ways.

I mean, we're talking
science fiction stuff here.

[Harry] But
spaceflight historian

Amy Shira Teitel
has uncovered evidence

that the theoretical world
of anti-gravity

is secretly starting
to move into practice.

[Amy] In the 1990s,

physicist Ning Li
releases work,

saying that
she's figured out how to
shield the effects of gravity.

[Harry] Dr. Ning Li's
theory declared
that if a magnetic field

was applied
to superconductive ions

trapped
in a lattice structure,

they would begin
to rapidly spin

and create
a gravitational field,

counteracting
Earth's gravitational pull.

And so she's claiming

she can make
a gravity force field.

[Harry]
Anti-Gravity technology
would allow craft to move

in previously impossible ways.

They might look
like the object filmed

by the pilot
flying over Colombia.

In 2001,

Dr. Li receives
a half a million dollars
from the Pentagon

to further her research.

And in 2003,

she announces a breakthrough.

She had sent an email
to her colleague

saying she had
demonstrated a large amount
of anti-gravity phenomena

and she was excited about it.

So had Ning Li
discovered something

that the American government
wanted to keep as a secret?

[Antonio] Is that
what we're seeing here

is some type of
experimental aircraft?

[Harry] If the U.S. government
has knowledge

of these gravity defying craft

flying above the skies
of the Americas...

[indistinct radio chatter]

[Harry]
...they're not admitting it.

[Tim] This footage is proof

that there's a whole lot more
going on in the skies

that we don't know about.