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For decades, mysterious unexplained objects

have been spotted in the skies.

Oh my God!

What is going on?

Could these be alien in origin?

Is it some kind of unidentified object?

What's exciting is, nobody really knows.

You have to ask yourself,

is there intelligent life behind what we're seeing?

If so, are they trying to tell us something?

Telepathically gave him instructions

that was supposed to reverse the aging process.

And are some people able to contact them?

Whoa, did you see it stop?

I've made contact with this thing.

On this special episode

of "The Proof Is Out There: Unexplained Edition,"

we will analyze alleged cases of alien encounters

caught on camera.

Whoa, did you see that?

It was like, shimmering.

Just shimmering, super bright.

Then we'll pass a verdict.

What we're looking at here, potentially,

could be the very first UFO video ever captured.

I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens.

The proof starts now.

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

We love nothing more than featuring stories

submitted by our dedicated viewers,

so here's a doozy.

Now the majority of UFO videos we investigate

are usually due to the fact

someone just happened to be

at the right place at the right time and press record.

But you are about to meet a man

who desperately wanted to get a UFO on video,

and it turns out, maybe he did.

We are in Ardmore, Oklahoma, for this one,

with dedicated "Proof" viewer, Joey Franco.

After witnessing what he thinks is a UFO

one night above his home,

Joey makes it his mission

to scan the evening sky each night with his thermal camera

for any other signs of extraterrestrial life.

And on May 26th, 2017, he records this.

Definitely a disc.

Take a closer look.

Watch how the object appears to hover near the clouds,

then deliberately, it moves sideways.

Then Joey points a laser directly at it.

Whoa, did you see it stop?

If I wouldn't have shined the laser at it,

it would've never came back.

It's almost right over the top of me now,

I hope it don't hurt me.

Please don't hurt me.

I've made contact with this thing.

I hope I don't get taken tonight, man.

I'm like, scared and excited all at the same time.

It's like, I never expected this to happen this night,

to make contact with aliens.

Whoa, did you see that?

It's gone, man.

At a thousand miles an hour, this thing booked.

Even journalist Erin McCarthy

wonders if it's possible

Joey actually made contact with an alien ship.

It almost seems like

there's a bit of an empathetic connection

between Joey and whatever this craft is.

He's talking to the craft.

It's coming right back at me, man.

Isn't that amazing?

And it seems to be responding to him.

The idea of humans

communicating with extraterrestrials

goes back hundreds, if not thousands of years.

Some theorize the Nazca people of Peru

communicated with alien civilizations,

and that some of the mysterious

1,200-foot designs they built

were actually spaceship runways.

And 3,000 year old artifacts

unearthed at Sanxingdui, China,

first in the 1920s and then in the eighties,

have convinced many of alien contact in our past.

But in the 20th century,

others attempted to use the power of the mind.

There was actually a man after World War II

named George Van Tassel,

who believed that he could summon

and telepathically communicate with aliens by meditating,

and they actually telepathically gave him instructions

to build a structure out in the desert

that was supposed to reverse the aging process.

In the 1950s, author and UFO contactee George Van Tassel

brought together 11,000 people

for his interplanetary spacecraft convention

in the California desert,

hoping to make contact.

But was Joey able to communicate with aliens

all by himself?

We sent his footage to our experts to decide.

Does Joey's use of a thermal camera offer any clues?

Could it be a plane?

No, it doesn't have wings to help hold it up.

We don't see any heat coming out of the back end of it,

which might be expelled from,

the heat from whatever the propulsion system was,

so I don't put it in any kind of a category

like an aircraft.

Marc D'Antonio agrees this isn't an airplane

and he says a drone wouldn't move as erratically as this.

But D'Antonio believes that sudden movement

may be a key piece of the puzzle.

Whoa, did you see that?

You're watching it move through the sky

and then all of a sudden,

it's gonna go right down to the ground.

So the way it's flying right now,

it kind of looks like a hawk.

If you have to try to assign it to something,

it most resembles a bird of prey.

Is D'Antonio right?

Is this a bird on the hunt for its next meal?

Science writer Mick West agrees,

the thermal camera does offer a clue.

All that we can tell

about the temperature of this object

is that it's warmer than everything else in the scene.

It could very well be an animal.

So if it's an animal, what kind?

West compares the object

to a known creature that Joey also recorded.

Joey has this video here,

which is a creature that he recognizes being a bat,

and you can see the object flapping its wings.

If we take the two videos

and put them side by side,

you can see when it's more

clearly something with wings,

is actually a bit larger.

Even though you can't really see

anything like wings flapping like that in the object,

it's hard to say.

I wouldn't rule out the possibility

that this isn't a bat and this is a bat,

but in both videos, it's kind of very difficult

to see what's going on

because of the low resolution.

So what do we have here?

If we can't see any wings flapping,

it's hard to say bat or bird of prey.

Has it turned out Joey may have found

exactly what he was looking for?

I think a lot of the time,

when people think they are summoning aliens,

they're just getting lucky.

Eventually, something's gonna fly along.

But this is a UFO,

because it's unidentified and it's flying.

I don't know what it is.

What the hell is it?

Could be a bat, could be a bird,

could be something else.

I've made contact.

Our verdict? Genuine UFO.

While this could be some sort of animal,

we agree with the experts

that the video doesn't give us a clear enough image

to make that call with confidence,

so it remains unidentified.

But when Joey does find that definitive proof,

we'll be here to show it.

In a previous episode,

we brought you a fascinating story

about an alleged UFO

caught on camera by the Chilean Navy.

This image here not only stumped

the Chilean military for years,

but after examining it,

we couldn't find a definitive answer either.

However one of our experts, Mick West,

wasn't satisfied with that explanation

and he decided to dig deeper.

November 11th, 2014,

a Chilean Navy helicopter is on a routine patrol

off the coast near the capital of Santiago.

They're testing out a FLIR camera,

which stands for Forward Looking Infrared,

when the pilot suddenly observes this.

Two large orbs appear to overlap each other,

then seem to release a plume of gas.

The helicopter hailed the craft by radio with no response

and it doesn't show up on their radar.

The Chilean military spent two years

bringing in an array of different experts

to try to figure out what this was.

They went through all the possibilities

that they thought it might be,

and one by one,

they eliminated them.

Ultimately, they weren't able

to identify what was in the video.

Chile has been

a well-known UFO hotspot for decades.

In one report from May, 2018,

the crew of six commercial aircraft

independently and simultaneously spotted

three triangular light sources flying in the skies.

So when this video stumped the Chilean military,

our team took on the challenge

but didn't have enough information

to come to a definitive conclusion.

The Chilean video has an object

that has all the appearances of being something

that we would think of as being an aircraft,

but we just don't know for sure.

While our original analysis

indicated this mysterious object

was possibly an aircraft,

in the end without hard evidence,

we classified it as a genuine UFO,

at least until we could get more information.

But video analyst and science writer Mick West

told us later he'd done his own investigation

with his team at the website, Metabunk.

They may have solved in four days

what the Chilean government couldn't in two years.

First, West says that the original analysis

was right to suspect an airplane

and that the plume behind the object

is a distinctive hallmark.

I recognized what was coming out of the back of the plane

was probably what's called an aerodynamic contrail,

which is a trail left behind a plane

that usually appears at lower altitudes.

Aerodynamic contrails are formed

because when a wing decreases the air pressure around it,

it also lowers the air temperature.

If there is high humidity,

the drop in temperature and pressure

can form a contrail cloud.

Then as the plane continues on,

we see the contrail disappear,

likely because of a lack of available

water vapor in the atmosphere.

But why aren't we seeing the shape of a plane?

West explains.

You'd expect to see a clear outline of a plane,

but what we're actually seeing here

is the infrared glare of the engines.

Jet engines are very, very hot,

especially when you're looking at them

from almost directly behind.

So what we're looking at here

is glare from the engines obscuring the plane.

But how can he prove it?

We have so much information on the screen.

Right here, we have the date. 11th of November, 2014.

We have the time, we have a compass heading,

the aircraft's latitude and longitude.

Mick creates the path of the helicopter,

which as it turns out,

runs alongside Santiago's main airport.

So we looked up,

in the flight tracking software that was available,

what planes were in that area,

and we found Iberia 6830.

Mick plots the coordinates

of Iberia 6830 on the map,

along with the location

of the helicopter.

Now if we take the camera

where the helicopter actually is,

we can actually take some of the images from the video

and we can actually fit them to what we're seeing here.

We can see right here

the shape of the bay matches perfectly

and we can see that right in the middle,

where the crosshairs are,

is exactly where Iberia 6830 was.

If you take a 3D model of a plane

in the orientation for that path,

it matches up in size and in shape.

So I'm a hundred percent sure

that this is the right plane.

So after two years,

why didn't the Chilean military

come up with the same conclusion?

Mick explains it began with the helicopter pilots.

They thought that this was

about 20 miles in front of them,

and so they looked in the radar on that area

and, of course, they didn't see the plane.

The reason they didn't see the plane

was that the plane was actually 40 miles away,

not twenty miles away.

and in fact, at the end of the video,

the plane is a hundred miles away

because it has traveled such a long distance in that time.

But all this time,

they were looking in the wrong place.

Our revised verdict?

This is a commercial airplane.

Thanks to Mick West and his team for solving that one,

but what about all

the other mysterious sightings over Chile?

Well, maybe their official agency,

the Committee for Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena

should go to Mick the next time something unusual

pops up in their skies.

The Roswell Incident in 1947

launched our obsession with UFOs

and eyewitness accounts of strange objects in the sky

were reported around the globe.

But on a warm summer day in the 1950s,

a Montana baseball field

became the site of what just might be

the greatest grand slam in UFO history.

August 15th, 1950, Great Falls, Montana.

Baseball coach Nick Mariana

is out scouting a new ball field

accompanied by his secretary.

He's brought along a 16- millimeter film camera,

but what catches his eye isn't the field,

it's in the sky above it.

We zoom in and focus on what Mariana sees.

The 11-second clip captures two silver objects

appearing to fly in tandem across the Montana sky.

This video is particularly interesting to me,

mainly because this was before satellites crowded our sky.

So seeing some light traveling across the sky

was a very unusual event.

What we're looking at here, potentially,

could be the very first UFO video ever captured.

Mariana's incident occurred

during the UFO craze of the late forties and early fifties.

It began when Kenneth Arnold first reported

seeing strange objects fly into Mount Rainier in 1947,

coining the term flying saucer,

and it hit a fever pitch after the Roswell Incident

in New Mexico that same year,

which has since become a touchstone to pop culture.

But what's striking here

is that Mariana later described the objects

as silver spinning disks,

much like what may have crashed

in the New Mexico desert,

depending on who you ask about Roswell.

The initial report was that

the military had found a flying disk,

so it was picked up by newspapers across the country.

Then pretty much immediately,

they retracted their story and said it was a weather balloon.

And the change in the story led some people

to think that there's a little something fishy going on.

Many believe the Roswell Incident is a coverup.

Nick Mariana was so convinced he'd filmed a UFO,

he reached out to the US Air Force to report the incident.

They examined his footage,

now it's time for our experts to do so as well.

With today's technology,

it's quite easy to insert UFOs into digital video.

But back in 1950,

Nick Mariana didn't have the computer technology

needed to doctor a video.

That makes a big difference.

This eleven-second film

was captured on 16- millimeter film,

which makes it almost impossible to doctor.

Whatever we're seeing here

was captured in camera, in the moment.

So we can rule out that this was a hoax,

but the Air Force told Mariana

that what he'd recorded was two F-94 fighter jets

flying near Great Falls at the time.

Maybe that's the case and maybe not.

There's controversy,

because the jets were known

to be in a very different area than here.

The explanation that this was, you know,

what appears to be the reflection off of the F-94 jets,

one problem with that is anybody who's looked up in the sky

and seen the sun reflecting off of a plane

recognizes that as the plane's in motion,

where the sun is relative to that,

that's gonna change that reflection a little bit.

It can cause flickering,

it can cause it to dim.

For physics buffs,

this phenomenon is called the law of reflection.

When ray of light strikes a silvery or mirrored surface,

it's reflected away from the surface at the same angle.

So if you move that mirrored surface,

the reflection shifts with it.

And suddenly you can clearly see an aircraft,

but in this instance,

we see a consistent light source.

That would be more consistent

with something that is actually, you know,

displaying light itself

rather than reflecting light from an exterior source.

It certainly doesn't appear to be F-94 jets.

So McMillan is confident

the craft are emitting light, not reflecting it,

but maybe there is some other explanation.

In the past, we've seen that some kinds of birds

can be mistaken for UFOs.

Is that the case here?

I don't believe that is in the cards here,

because the tower is a couple hundred feet

or more from Nick Mariana

and then beyond that are these objects.

They're moving so fast that they'd have to be

very, very, very fast birds.

In a dive falcons can reach speeds

of over 200 miles per hour,

but these objects are moving horizontally;

and the fastest birds, like ducks,

are closer to the 70- mile-an-hour range.

Whatever Mariana filmed appears to be flying

several times that speed.

So it just doesn't fit.

If they were jets,

it would be relatively simple

to show that they were jets,

and no one would hide the fact.

So how come we don't know the answer?

So our verdict on the Mariana film,

there's room for debate here,

but the Air Force's explanation isn't doing it for us,

so we're gonna call this a genuine UFO.

One thing's for sure,

we've come a long way since 1950

both in the technology we use to document UFOs

and also our government's attitude about reporting them,

even if it can't say what they are.

Our next video takes us to Texas

and a strange sighting in the sky

that alarmed a group of friends.

Was it proof of a UFO

or just a mystery the size of the Lone Star State?

September, 2018.

It's a warm night in Tomball, Texas,

just north of Houston.

Nick Daily and a group of his friends

have come home from dinner to their apartment complex

when they are astounded by mysterious lights in the sky.

Oh my God.

Take a closer look.

Three teardrop-shaped glowing objects

appear to hover in a deliberate, coordinated motion.

Nick's friend also begins recording.

One thing is for sure,

Nick has never seen anything like it.

They were circling around in formation

and then come back to a triangle formation.

It was incredible.

But as the crowd stands

transfixed by the mysterious lights,

the UFOs suddenly disappear and then reappear.

Look at 'em, look at 'em, look at 'em.

Nick is convinced, whatever he witnessed,

it's not from this world.

I am ex-military.

I was in the United States Air Force.

I've never seen flares act like that,

I've never seen planes like that.

It looks like UFOs to me.

These very strange UFO-type lights

have been seen as recently as April of 2022

in a town called Kyle, Texas.

These lights emanated a sort of orange glow

and local officials came up with no explanation.

These eerie, shimmering lights

are similar to the ones seen in Tomball,

but with one even more mysterious difference.

In the case of the Tomball UFO sequence,

we have something that has been referred to as phasing,

that some of these craft change their atomic structure

so that they appear

to be dematerializing and re-materializing.

So is Texas rife with UFOs?

One of the first reported UFO incidents in Texas

was on April 17th, 1897,

when a UFO crashed on a farm near Aurora, Texas

with claims of an alien pilot found dead inside.

So have those aliens returned,

or is there another way to explain

what Nick and his friends saw?

Let's ask the experts.

We examined the file

to determine if there were

any original file signatures.

No known file signatures were identified

and at this low spatial resolution,

it's very difficult to make determinations

in reference to CGI.

However, when the videos

are placed side by side and synchronized,

whatever occurred in the sky

appears to be consistent across both videos.

Are we simply looking at conventional aircraft

like an airplane or helicopter?

We're not saying movements

that are consistent with fixed-wing aircraft.

What we're looking at here,

they're really close.

So they're violating how close

you want to be to another aircraft.

Close proximity, it becomes

even more dangerous for a collision.

McMillan is also skeptical

these could be another common flying machine.

Drone would match up best

for what we've seen so far,

but if they're drones,

we have to start taking into account

the amount of energy it takes.

And so for these to be bright lights,

they're not gonna be able to stay up for very long

'cause they're just gonna drain that battery power.

Could they be sky lanterns?

Sky lanterns are possible

but they don't move the way these did.

Sky lanterns are very subject to the wind.

What they wouldn't do is sort of circle around each other

and at certain points in the video,

they're leaving, like, a tail almost.

That is very telling information.

In fact, D'Antonio believes

those streaks are the final piece of the puzzle.

I think that this actually

was very likely skydivers with flares.

But if these are nighttime skydivers,

why then would they be jumping over Tomball, Texas at night?

D'Antonio points to a similar event in Tomball

five years earlier in 2013,

which also featured slowly drifting lights.

There was a high school game,

and they did in fact have skydivers with flares

skydive into the game.

When you actually saw the three in the sky

and they separated from each other,

and they actually left trails behind them,

and that trail could be illuminated smoke

from the flare brightness.

While D'Antonio makes a strong case

for parachuters with flares,

Our research hasn't been able to confirm

there was a parachute demonstration

that night in Tomball.

And without definitive visual proof,

we think many alternate possibilities

are still on the table.

Our verdict? For now, we're gonna go

with unexplained phenomenon,

but if you're in Texas,

be sure to keep looking up

and send us what you see.

Our next story goes back more than 50 years

and despite that, wouldn't you know it?

It's received newfound attention

and is now being called the best UFO photo ever.

It's September, 1971

and Sergio Loaiza is flying over Costa Rica's Lake Cote,

photographing the terrain for the creation of a map.

But once he lands and begins developing the pictures,

one snapshot captures something at 10,000 feet

that appears to be extraterrestrial.

Take a closer look.

At the edge of the frame, above the lake

is a shiny disk-like object

bearing a striking resemblance

to the quintessential flying saucer.

Sergio recalls discovering the startling object.

The photo was examined by researchers

who deemed it authentic,

but it wasn't until 2021

when attorney and UFO enthusiast Esteban Carranza

got ahold of the photo

that the story got really interesting.

My uncle, he managed to obtain a copy of the negative

and then say, "Aha, I gotta find a way

to produce a really high quality scan."

What it is? We don't know,

but we know it's real

and that's where we need

serious scientific and open analysis.

Esteban releases the photo on Twitter

and the internet explodes.

What's interesting about this photo

is that the frame

prior to this shot

and the frame after this shot

does not show this object.

Some people believe that it's evidence

that this object can cloak and become invisible,

some people believe that it's able

to move incredibly quickly,

and some people believe that it's interdimensional

in that it was able to leave our dimension

and go somewhere else.

So there's a lot of speculation around this photograph.

In previous episodes,

we've shown you UFOs sighted near volcanoes

as there's a belief among UFO-logists

that alien craft are attracted to volcanoes

and other high-energy sites

for the purpose of refueling.

Well this photo was taken

right next to the Arenal volcano,

which was Costa Rica's most active until 2010.

So could there be a connection?

Before we spend too long on the why,

let's confirm the what.

More specifically, what is this disk?

Our experts weigh in.

I've seen the photo ever since I was a young kid

and so I know if it was hoax,

it would have to have been done with older technology.

I don't see how it actually could have been done back then,

'cause all the attempts back then to do that

had some giveaways that we could detect now.

If we're not calling it a hoax,

did Sergio capture a real UFO

phasing in and out of our dimension?

I looked at the way the light is hitting this thing

and I compared it to the light hitting the trees down here.

Look at the shadow angles, they're all the same.

So this is the shadow angle for the sun.

Now if we go back to the UFO,

this doesn't make any sense.

We wouldn't expect to see any light on this side

at that angle,

so the lighting is entirely wrong

for this being some type of physical object

that is reminiscent of, say, a UFO,

entirely wrong.

So if the shadows don't match,

D'Antonio believes that rules out

something like a piece of equipment

that maybe fell from the plane.

But still, if the photo isn't faked,

what does that leave us with?

D'Antonio has a theory.

Aerial photographs were taken,

the cameras would be mounted looking down

and there might have been a glass cover

over the camera to protect it.

If your car gets hit by a piece of gravel from the road,

you see that round fracture.

Just like a chip in a car windshield,

D'Antonio believes something

may have struck the glass of the camera housing

underneath the plane,

but he admits his theory doesn't address

one of the central mysteries in this case.

A conical piece of glass that's been fractured

matches this object,

but I can't explain why they don't appear

in the next photo frame.

I would expect they would appear on many frames,

but only one frame?

That's a mystery.

The photograph in question here

was captured at a focal length

of about 150 millimeters,

focal ratio F five point six.

Since we know that the object was in focus

and the ground was also in focus,

the minimal distance to that object from the plane

had to be over 640 feet.

So it's something huge that happened to be passing

under the aircraft at that time.

By McCarthy's calculations,

this object would be at a minimum 48 feet long.

If it's further away, it could be even bigger.

So we have a large craft that only appears in one photo

out of three taken seconds apart,

meaning it must be capable of traveling at fast speeds.

Could this simply be a conventional aircraft?

This was captured in 1971,

long before any kind of drone existed.

A helicopter or an airplane

wouldn't have looked like this.

So we can really easily rule out

most existing aircraft at that time.

For McCarthy,

the lack of any conventional, identifiable marks

leaves him with only one conclusion.

It's very rare I come across a photo

that I can't easily explain away,

and I think what we have here

is a genuine unidentified flying object.

Our verdict? Genuine UFO.

Our experts have put together some compelling theories

and we agree it's not a chip in the glass.

But as D'Antonio noted,

if there is something real there,

we still haven't accounted for the fact

that the light and shadows don't match.

Anyway, now we see why this photo

is getting all the love.

The Great Pyramids of Giza

are the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

to survive to this day.

But this next video could have you wondering

whether they're connected somehow to UFOs.

December 3rd, 2020,

a group of friends are enjoying an evening

taking in one of the world's most famous landmarks,

the Egyptian pyramids at Giza.

But believe it or not,

it's not the four-and-a-half- thousand-year-old monuments

that grab their attention.

What's in the sky above them steals the show.

Take a look, the pyramids are in the bottom right corner

and three lights appear

to be hanging in the night sky above them.

Oh my God.

What is going on?

The video zooms in,

revealing that the largest of the lights

is a diamond formation of smaller lights.

It doesn't have a typical shape

of a UAP that we're used to seeing,

things that are round,

or spherical or kind of oblong.

Instead, we can see a diamond formation

and then after a few seconds,

these lights seem to just separate

and fall down from the sky.

This isn't the first time

this strange phenomenon has been seen in Egyptian skies.

This incident looks similar

to something that happened at a US military base

near the border of Egypt

in December of 2014.

Three cavalry scouts trained in identifying aircraft

saw what they believed to be bright lights

hanging in the sky,

and they couldn't identify what these aircraft were.

As they watched, the lights began to spin

and emit other lights

that seemed to fall away from the main group.

Seems a lot like what happens at the end of this video.

Is there a connection?

Could these both be legitimate UFO sightings?

It's been believed by some for years

that alien civilizations actually interacted

and influenced ancient Egyptian civilization.

In fact, Teitel explains

the 1994 Hollywood movie "Stargate"

presents an idea of how that may have happened.

The movie opens with the discovery of a wormhole

inside the pyramids at Giza

and in 2017, a team of archaeologists

discovered that there is in fact

a large empty space inside the pyramids,

and some wonder if that couldn't be the wormhole

or the Stargate as predicted in the movie.

Okay, while "Stargate" may be fiction,

the tombs of the very human builders

of the Egyptian pyramids

have already been discovered.

They are very real.

Still, some scientists have postulated

wormholes could be possible,

so we won't shut down the idea,

at least not until our experts say so.

Could this video just be a UFO hoax?

If it were a fake, it'd be extremely boring.

I would have UFOs zipping off in different directions

and various other kinds of things

to make it more interesting, and more compelling.

It's more like somebody recording

an event that's taking place.

In fact, Hoffman suspects

he may know exactly what this is,

nighttime parachuters with flares.

There was an event that was taking place at Giza

in November 2021, called Jump Like a Pharaoh

where parachutists were jumping out of the planes

over the pyramids.

When parachutists jump out of an aircraft,

they start to hook up,

especially when they're doing demonstrations,

and then they start to separate

so that the parachute doesn't engage the other person

and then they start to gradually drop to the ground.

However, according to aviation expert Tim McMillan,

if these are parachuters,

they should all be moving downward.

Yet some hold their position and even rise.

And it turns out, the Jump Like a Pharaoh event

was held the month before

this video was allegedly recorded.

Then what about sky lanterns?

Those float up, down and use fire to do so.

You could have a bunch of lanterns in a giant display,

but each of them would now be totally dependent

on wherever the wind takes them.

However, in this, we see these independent lights

that move in differing directions from each other.

I would expect them all to move

in a consistent pattern

along with wherever the wind was carrying them.

McMillan is left with one conclusion.

We certainly see several behaviors by these objects

that defy flight characteristics as we understand them.

I have no explanation for that

and I have no clue what this is.

Categorically, it is a UFO.

Our verdict? Genuine UFO.

Whether these lights arrived through a wormhole

is still to be determined,

but if you wanna get a bird's eye view of the pyramids

like these diamonds did, it's not too late.

Grab a parachute and get moving.

The Jump Like a Pharaoh event happens every year.

For a while now,

we've been covering a worldwide movement,

a subculture really within the broader search for UFOs.

It's a group of people

who not only believe extraterrestrial visitors

have been coming to the planet,

but that we humans have the power to summon them

and spot them with infrared binoculars like these,

and they say there's video to prove it.

October 2021.

It's a clear and cool evening

in the quiet town of Meriden, Connecticut.

Bruce Waterbury is out on his back deck

with a pair of infrared binoculars

looking for signs of extraterrestrial activity,

when suddenly, he sees this.

A large bright light moves in the sky

across a field of stars.

Take a closer look.

Its shape appears to be solid

and close to a near perfect circle.

There are no blinking lights

and it doesn't appear to expel any exhaust

or have visible means of propulsion.

It was like shimmering,

just shimmering, super bright.

And it was just quiet,

and the adrenaline was rushing

through my arms and everything,

so it was a little shaky.

Then after Bruce

circles a laser pointer around the orb,

it appears to shrink in size

and then suddenly disappears.

But Bruce doesn't believe this UFO sighting

was some random occurrence.

I believe there's alien life.

I'm not an expert, but I try to follow the steps

to make contact with extraterrestrials.

Writer Amy Teitel explains

the process as part of a new trend in UFO circles,

called CE5.

CE5 is a UFO summoning group.

The people who are involved with CE5

use a special app, certain frequencies and meditation

to try to summon UFOs so they can see them.

Sound strange?

Well, the idea of contacting aliens

isn't as radical as you might think.

In fact, a group called METI,

which stands for Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence,

was formed in 2015 to establish a scientific protocol

for contacting aliens,

albeit in a higher tech way than CE5 summoners.

METI is a group that transmits

interstellar messages via radio telescope,

basically putting messages out into space

in the hopes that someone will receive and hear them.

In 2017, METI sent a message of scientific

and mathematical equations to Luyten's Star,

which sits twelve light years from the Earth.

Now, Luyten's Star was chosen

because of a planet in its solar system, GJ273B,

which has been called a super earth.

It's nearly three times as large as Earth

and thought to be a good candidate

for extraterrestrial life.

But can UFOs be summoned from there or anywhere else?

Let's see what our experts think.

Aircraft have red lights,

they have green lights,

they have a bottom strobe.

So we can immediately say it's not an airplane

and it's not a drone in my view,

because you'd have to have a very, very bright light,

which wouldn't make any sense.

And when you get UFO reports,

you hear the object move through the sky

at an unbelievable speed,

and then did a 90-degree turn to the left or right.

But in this particular case,

we don't see any of that.

So if it's not a UFO,

is it something more down to earth?

An animal seen among the stars almost every evening?

I have seen some night vision imagery

of things that fly across the sky,

but usually they're objects like bats.

And creatures like bats

have a very erratic flight pattern.

Instead, D'Antonio points to the smooth motion

and path of the object as a defining clue.

If you look in the night sky any night of the year,

you can see upwards of anywhere

from five to 10 satellites an hour.

But if it's a satellite,

why does it look like a glowing ball of light?

D'Antonio thinks he has the answer.

A satellite could have been

high enough up in the atmosphere

where the sunlight was hitting it and illuminating it,

and it was reflecting the sunlight,

and it was dimming because

it was going over the Earth's terminator

into the Earth's shadow

and so it saw less and less sun until it saw none.

But based on the size of the object,

Rich Hoffman respectfully disagrees.

It looks relatively large compared to the stars,

which would tell you

that it's relatively close to the observer,

and so in that context,

you would be saying that, well,

possibly that's the Earthlight Phenomena,

which are basically balls of gas.

They're a bubble moving across the sky

and they emit a light, different colors.

They tend to be near ground

and getting up to maybe about 2,000 feet altitude

and moving in a straight line.

Hoffman says one theory

is that earthlights are generated

by tectonic strains within the Earth's crust

that create an electric charge,

which ignites gases released within the ground.

It's the closest match that I can come up with,

but can I conclusively say that that's what it is?

No.

So it would fall into the category

of being an unidentified aerial phenomena

until it's proven otherwise.

Because even when you want to call it something else,

you need to really have that convincing evidence

that supports the fact

that that's what it really would be.

Our verdict? We're going with genuine UFO.

Although both our experts have good arguments,

as Hoffman says, until we can get more definitive proof,

we feel we can't say exactly what this is.

But one thing we do want to make clear,

using a laser pointer in the night sky

is not only dangerous to pilots and aircraft,

but illegal.

So if you want to do any pointing at UFOs,

use your finger instead.

Could these videos be proof

that aliens are trying to make contact with us,

or are they waiting for us to make the first move?

If we try to summon them,

let's just hope they don't charge by the light year.

Thank you for watching this special edition

of "The Proof Is Out There."

Please send us any

videos, images or sound

that you think we

should investigate

and remember to keep

those cameras rolling.