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- Tonight on "The Proof Is Out There."

Is this the first photo of Bigfoot ever taken?

- We have a photo of a dead Bigfoot.

So what happened to the body?

- [Tony] What made the Pentagon investigate this UFO sighting?

- This video was shown to NASA for a really good reason.

- [Tony] Did a miracle preserve this nun's body?

- When you see photos like these,

it's hard not to believe in divine intervention.

- [Tony] And could this strange object

solve the mystery of flight MH-370?

- What if this was just one part of a much larger machine?

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- [Tony] Around the globe are videos...

- [Witness] What are those things?

- [Witness] It's moving.

- [Tony] Photos and sounds that defy explanation.

(electric whirring)

- [Expert] We don't know where they come from,

who made them, or how they operate.

- [Tony] What are they?

- [MJ] Some sort of bizarre mutation.

- [Marc] What's exciting is nobody really knows.

- Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof.

- I'm Tony Harris,

and as a journalist for more than 30 years,

I've followed the facts where they take me.

Now, I'm bringing that spirit of investigation

to the world's strangest sounds and images.

We'll analyze each one with top experts.

- It's a credible case, it's a credible video.

- [Tony] And pass a verdict on what it is.

- This video was clearly faked.

- The proof starts now.

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Good evening, everyone,

and welcome to "The Proof Is Out There."

If Bigfoot has been around for centuries,

like Native American folklore suggests,

then you'd think there would be

some historic photos of the creature,

even from as far back as the 1800s.

Well, guess what we found?

It's the 1890s in Western Canada.

The Canadian Pacific Railway

has recently become operational,

forestry and mining operations are blooming,

and the wild frontier is finally being tamed.

Portable cameras have exploded onto the market

and it is believed one of them was used

to snap this uncanny photo.

This dated, grainy, black and white image appears to show

what some interpret to be a dead Sasquatch,

lying face down in the snow.

- The picture is very old.

It was taken in 1894 in British Columbia

in a very unexplored part of Canada at the time.

If this is a Sasquatch in the photograph,

it would by far be the oldest picture

of a Sasquatch in existence.

- [Tony] Reports of Sasquatch-like creatures,

or wildmen, stretch back centuries, possibly millennia.

Barackman recalls an early 18th century sighting

also reported from Western Canada.

- In 1811, an early explorer named David Thompson

ran across very large footprints in the ground

that he could distinguish from that of a bear.

This guy literally lived in the woods.

He would know a bear print.

He turned to his indigenous guides who were with him

and they say, "Let's follow this thing," and they said,

"Nah, no man, we're we're not following that."

- [Tony] The indigenous tribes of Western Canada

were no strangers to these strange beasts

and named them Sasq'ets.

That's believed to be the origin of the word Sasquatch.

Early sightings of these northern Bigfoots

were surprisingly plentiful.

- This photograph was taken along the Yalakom River,

which flows into the Bridge River,

which flows into the Fraser River,

and the Fraser River is the source

of one of the older Sasquatch reports on record in the area.

Employees of the Hudson's Bay Company

encountered a group of Sasquatches up on a cliff

that were throwing rocks down upon them in 1864.

- [Tony] In fact, it was this company

that many believe was responsible for this photo.

A strange text scrawled on its back indicates the date,

location, and company name, along with a message.

- Some of that information on the back

says that this picture was stolen

from the Hudson's Bay Company and it was one of a series.

The Hudson's Bay Company

is Canada's oldest fur trading company,

founded all the way back in 1670.

They literally owned 40% of what is now present day Canada,

and they were essentially the defacto government

in this particular area.

- [Tony] Many wonder why this photo was stolen

and if the Hudson's Bay Company

may have been keeping more photos of this creature

under lock and key.

- There might be more photographs out there

of whatever this thing is.

Is this the first known photograph of a Sasquatch,

and maybe even the first known Bigfoot coverup?

- Recently released files revealed

there's been at least one FBI investigation

into the possible existence of Bigfoot.

These files were kept under wraps since the 1970s.

So if our own government

has been keeping evidence like this locked away,

is it really so unbelievable that the Hudson's Bay Company

has been doing the same for Canada?

Let's see what our experts think.

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First, photography expert Andrew McCarthy

tries to determine if this is really an authentic photograph

or some kind of hoax.

- It's a little bit on the high contrast side,

so a lot of details are actually lost,

which isn't unusual for a photo of this time.

There's no artifacts suggesting anything was air brushed in.

This photo seems to be completely authentic.

- [Tony] Many people online have suggested

that this could just be a shaggy dog of some kind,

but biologist, Floyd Hayes, says the limb proportions

rule it out as any potential canid.

But we should note, Hayes thinks this creature looks small

compared to Bigfoot's size in other reported sightings.

- I'm not impressed with the size of this animal,

compared to the snowshoes, and to me,

the arms don't look like they're particularly long.

They don't seem to extend very far below the waist.

I'm not seeing anything about the body size and shape

that would distinguish it from being a human,

although it could be a young specimen of a Bigfoot.

- [Tony] The supposed involvement

of the Hudson's Bay Company,

which may have secreted away other photos,

has many believing this could be part

of some kind of Bigfoot coverup, but Hayes is skeptical.

- The business of the Hudson's Bay Company

was to go out and collect furs and make a profit.

So it seems strange that a company

wasn't motivated to collect the fur and preserve it,

especially if it was an unknown creature to science.

- [Tony] However, that still doesn't explain

why the company would keep photos

of this curiosity under lock and key

unless there was something truly unique about this specimen,

something they weren't ready to share

with the rest of the world.

- Apparently some other photos were taken,

and perhaps those other photos

may reveal the answers to the mystery.

(tense music)

- Our verdict, we're calling this one a potential Bigfoot.

There is certainly a lot that's suspicious about this photo,

and while there may be some issues with the creature's size,

we know the photo is real

and our experts haven't ruled out the possibility

that it could be a younger, smaller Sasquatch.

But until the rest of those mystery photos surface,

we may never know for sure.

Now, let's talk about something much more recent.

In May 2023, NASA held its first public meeting on UFOs.

One of the videos presented certainly grabbed our attention,

not only for what the government would reveal about it,

but what they wouldn't.

2021, an undisclosed military range

in the Western United States, a P-3 surveillance aircraft

is in the midst of a training mission

when its infrared sensors begin jittering.

Soon, the flight crew sees why.

Before them, three unidentified objects

appear on their cameras,

flying equidistant and on the same flight line.

At times, they resembled moving stars, traveling westward,

and other times, the UAPs morph into dotted lines.

The trio's movement appears unaffected by a fourth object

that whizzes by below them,

flying in the opposite direction.

Journalist MJ Banias says this video was released

and discussed publicly by the leaders of AARO,

the government body set up to investigate

what it calls, "Unidentified aerial phenomena."

- AARO stands for the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office

and according to its former head, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick,

only about two to 5% of those reported cases

end up being categorized as anomalous.

- The majority of unidentified objects reported to AARO,

and in our holdings, demonstrate mundane characteristics

of readily explainable sources.

- Dr. Kirkpatrick stated that the aircraft in question

that was recording these objects

was not able to intercept them.

- [Tony] But given that this video was shot

by a P-3 Orion surveillance plane,

we know there is much more data yet to be disclosed.

- It's equipped with incredibly high resolution,

infrared cameras and is designed for intelligence gathering.

This aircraft is able to collect

significant telemetry and data and visual data

on any given target within its search radius.

- But whether or not the P-3 was dispatched

to specifically track these objects, that's unknown.

Now can we glean anything from where this video took place?

Well, all we were told during the hearing

is that this video was taken on a training mission

in the Western United States,

but with more than 30 bases in California alone,

that's not a lot to go on.

So we're calling on our experts

to get to the bottom of this.

(tense music)

We start our analysis with astrophotographer

Andrew McCarthy, who spots a clue in the video immediately.

- There is one object I can definitely explain.

On the bottom, you do see an object streak by

that has a definitive contrail.

That fits the profile of a plane.

So that's most likely one of our own aircraft in the sky.

- [Tony] But what about the other three objects,

seemingly moving in unison and without contrails?

- My gut initially tells me that these might be satellites.

Starlink trains are becoming

more and more common in the night sky

as these satellites are deployed to low Earth orbit.

- [Tony] Starlink is Elon Musk's network of satellites

that can provide internet access anywhere on the Earth.

They are launched in groups and travel as a train

until they reach their operating altitude and separate.

- And when they're in lower altitude, just after sunset,

they shine brightly against the horizon.

So you'd actually see something very similar to this.

- [Tony] But aviation expert Tim McMillan disagrees.

- When you think of Starlink satellite,

you would see a series, a string of dots across the sky

because Starlink is a satellite chain.

It looks like just a string of dots coming across here.

We don't see that here.

- [Tony] Instead, McMillan believes the same object

McCarthy saw closer to the camera is the key.

- If you look towards the bottom,

you can see another point of light

that resembles the other three lights.

We actually can see evidence of an exhaust trail,

or contrail, very consistent with an airplane.

That leads me to believe that what we're looking at here

are likewise, also airplanes.

However, the one that passed in front of the camera,

where we were able to see the contrail,

was just closer to the Orion filming it.

- [Tony] In fact, McMillan believes AARO

wanted this footage released to the public,

specifically to pour some cold water

on the heated topic of UAPs.

- These are definitely distant commercial airplanes.

Frankly, I think this video was intentionally released

to give people an idea of how aircraft

could be misinterpreted as UFOs

or UAP by the Department of Defense.

I absolutely do not believe the Department of Defense

ever thought these were unidentified aerial phenomena.

ever thought these were unidentified aerial phenomena.

(tense music)

- Our verdict, we're going with planes in the distance.

It turns out the team at AARO

also came to that same conclusion.

Although we have to admit,

it is strange they appear to be flying in unison.

But hey, AARO, next time you've got a video

that can't be explained, be sure to come to us.

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- Miracles, by their very nature, are rare

and we generally conceive of them as happening

in times gone by.

So when we heard reports of a potential miracle,

right here and right now in the USA,

we couldn't help but investigate.

April 2023, Gower, Missouri,

it's been four years since the death

of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster who founded

the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles.

To honor her as a founder, the sisters of the order

decide to transfer her remains

inside to the monastery chapel.

When they open the wooden casket to reinter her body,

they expect skeletal remains.

What they find, however, inspires millions.

What you're seeing, believe it or not,

is the shockingly well-preserved body of Sister Wilhelmina,

four years after she died.

Catholic miracle researcher Michael O'Neill

says her story has gone global.

- This is a big time story.

This was featured in the "New York Times"

and other places all around the world

because we have the case of possibly

the very first American in history

whose body was said to be incorrupt.

Some saints throughout Christian history

have exhibited this phenomenon

where their body does not decompose.

- [Tony] So what can possibly be behind

this remarkable state of preservation?

- It's been somewhat of a tradition,

considered in the Catholic church,

that those people whose bodies

do not show the signs of decay are actually blessed by God

in such a way that their holiness

is being indicated from Heaven.

- [Tony] Journalist Erin McCarthy says

one of the most legendary examples of incorruptibility

is St. Bernadette.

A scientific investigation of her body

was performed in the 1920s,

more than four decades after her death.

- She was actually dissected

and the person who dissected her

said that her muscles were still firm and supple

and that her liver was also soft and pliant,

which is not what you would expect for a corpse

that had been in the ground for 46 years.

- Yet there are those who point to the deterioration

of Sister Wilhelmina's hands as evidence

that this is not a true case of divine intervention.

Still, can a miracle be ruled out?

- When people talk about incorruptibility,

there's this idea that the entire body

is in a state of perfect preservation.

But traditionally, that's not how it works.

Some saints are incorrupt in just one part,

their heart, or their tongue, for example.

- [Tony] Following her exhumation,

Sister Wilhelmina has been put on display,

but will she join other incorruptible saints?

- The local bishop has suggested

that people do not get too close to the body

and do not venerate it as they would a saint

because further investigation needs to take place.

- Even though Sister Wilhelmina's status as a saint

is still up in the air, an estimated 25,000 people

came to visit her body a month after she was exhumed.

What can explain this phenomenon

that has people making pilgrimages to rural Missouri?

(tense music)

First, O'Neill looks into how Sister Wilhelmina's body

was handled after her death.

- There are people who say that some embalming

or preservatives might have had to have been applied,

but the sisters have denied this, and more importantly,

all the scientists who have examined it

have said there is no artificial preservation at all.

- [Tony] So could this have happened naturally?

Dr. Ed Hope claims that there are

certain environmental conditions

that can lead to a body being preserved

for hundreds or even thousands of years.

For example, when the 2,000 year old Tollund man

was discovered in Denmark in 1950, they could still make out

the individual wrinkles on his face.

- The reason he was so well preserved

was that he was discovered in a bog,

an environment which would have very little oxygen,

have a very low temperature, and a very acidic environment.

Therefore, this would restrict the growth of bacteria,

and bacteria a key in one of the main processes

of decomposition.

- [Tony] So could these sorts of conditions

explain what's happening in the case of Sister Wilhelmina?

- What is strange in this case is her coffin

actually had a hole in it, which you'd think

the outside environment coming in would encourage bacteria,

encourage insects to break down,

to increase the decomposition process.

But actually, it seems like the opposite has happened.

One thing that was fairly unique when the body was exhumed

was that mold was found inside the coffin.

Now ordinarily, you'd think that would lead

to an increase in the rate of decomposition,

but actually, given the fact that clearly hasn't happened,

perhaps that of mold has actually slowed the rate

of bacterial growth by being competitive

for the oxygen and nutrients in the coffin.

- [Tony] So this may just be

one of nature's miracles, or to many, one that's divine.

Either way, for millions,

the symbolism is more important than some official decree.

- Whether or not this is formally established

by the Catholic church

as an authentic case of incorruptibility,

or whether or not she's actually ever declared a saint,

we know that so many people came together

to experience this incredible event,

which some call a miracle.

which some call a miracle.

(tense music)

- Our verdict, potential miracle.

Why? There is no natural, easy explanation here.

Dr. Hope's mold theory is interesting, but not conclusive,

and the Catholic church hasn't made a determination.

What we do know though is that Sister Wilhelmina's story

has brought hope and wonder to people all over the country.

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that last forever, but this particular hike

led to a terrifying moment that nobody can forget.

1978, Morris Township, Pennsylvania.

It's a crisp fall day, and 10-year-old Daniel Adams

is hiking through the woods with his father,

is hiking through the woods with his father,

trying to find the source of strange sounds

they've been hearing on their property.

- We could hear this thing growling

and my dad told me to stay there,

that he was gonna walk down and see what this was.

- [Tony] The duo has brought along a tape recorder

and managed to capture this chilling audio.

(warbled growling)

We hear a horrible howling made by a dog,

followed by a guttural growling made by something else,

something unknown.

Take another listen as we've isolated these sounds

through our audio filter.

(warbled growling)

Although he says the recordings don't do the sounds justice,

over 40 years later,

Daniel still remembers this frightening encounter vividly.

- This roar shook the ground.

It was 200 yards away

and I felt it like a bass speaker in your chest,

and I know that was no bear.

There ain't no bear who can do that.

(warbled growling)

- [Tony] Shortly after this recording was captured,

Daniel says they heard whatever it was

fighting with the neighbor's dog,

presumably the dog they thought they heard in the recording.

(warbled growling)

And that was the last time the dog was heard from again,

a detail some researchers think supports the idea

that the mystery creature is a Sasquatch,

which they say is no vegan.

- Being a Sasquatch, you're an omnivore.

Everything's on the menu, man.

In fact, I know of one homestead in Wisconsin,

they had about 9 or 12 cats,

but they noticed the numbers

slowly dwindling over a month or two,

and that was a Sasquatch predating on the cats.

From Fido to Fluffy,

everything is a meal if you're a Sasquatch.

- [Tony] And if that's true,

then why aren't Sasquatches also going after people?

- There are a small number of Sasquatch reports

of them going after humans as a food item,

but generally, they don't want anything to do with us.

Any Sasquatch of adult age

has probably observed human hunters.

They can't like the rifles or the noises that they make.

(gun blasts)

(warbled growling)

- That kind of makes sense.

Studies show other large creatures, like bears,

are normally shy, retiring animals

that have very little desire to interact with humans.

On the other hand, they compete directly for food

with canines, like wolves.

Could the same be true of Bigfoot, and could that explain

what we're hearing on Daniel's recording?

We turn to our experts to investigate.

(tense music)

Forensic audio analyst Dr. Rob Maher

confirmed the recording is authentic,

then compared it to a recording of a black bear,

native to this area.

- The bear sounds have much more

of a low frequency quality to them.

(bear grunting)

It's more of a grunt sound that the bear makes,

but the low frequency grunt qualities here

is not something that we see in the Pennsylvania recording.

(warbled growling)

(bear grunting)

- [Tony] Humans have a vast vocal range.

Could this be a person?

(person howling)

- Although humans can make sounds

that are very similar to perhaps a wolf or a coyote,

the characteristics in the Pennsylvania recording

don't match up with this type of a sound.

(warbled growling)

(human howling)

- [Tony] We also asked Maher to compare this

to the Sierra sounds, a famous set of alleged

California Sasquatch recordings from the 1970s.

How do these match up?

(creature whooping)

- There's an upward sound and then a little bit of a kicker

to that sound that goes in there.

That is not what we hear in the Pennsylvania sounds.

They have more of a shriek or a growl sort of quality

than what we would attribute to the Sierra sounds.

(warbled growling)

(creature whooping)

- [Tony] Still, professor of anatomy and anthropology

Dr. Jeff Meldrum thinks this recording could be legitimate,

since the vocal repertoire attributed to Sasquatch

is extensive and varied.

- There were a couple of little high pitch inflections

that were more indicative of some kind of a call

that is not out of character

with some recordings that have been attributed to Sasquatch.

(warbled growling)

(warbled growling)

(tense music)

- Our verdict, our experts are calling this

an unknown animal sound, but they can't identify

what exactly made these grunts in the 1970s.

However, we do know Sasquatch sightings

in the area continue today.

- We've explored theories that UFOs are drawn

to certain features of human civilization,

nuclear facilities, combat zones,

even cultural celebrations like the 4th of July,

but some people also think UFOs might be interested

in our infrastructure, like the electrical grid,

and that this might be the video that proves it.

7:43 on August 16th, 2023.

It's a clear summer evening

and Gary McHattan is walking his dog

and Gary McHattan is walking his dog

outside his home in Nashville, Tennessee.

He suddenly spots something out of the ordinary,

shimmering in the air,

so he quickly pulls out his phone to capture this.

A mysterious bright object appears to hover

between two sets of power lines.

Zooming in for a closer look,

we see what appears to be an oblong craft

with a small point protruding both above and below it,

like a division sign.

Whatever it is,

it's grabbed the attention of writer Amy Teitel.

- What's interesting about this video

is whatever this object is,

it's hard to tell whether it's white and reflecting light,

whether it's metallic, or whether it's illuminated

or emitting some kind of glow on its own.

- [Tony] Could it be the power lines drawing in this UFO?

The McMinnville photographs,

some of the most famous of all time,

also showed a saucer-like object,

flying near a set of power lines

near an Oregon farm in 1950, and Teitel notes,

other sightings connected to our use of electricity.

- Some wonder whether UFOs might be attracted

to the electric fields generated by these power lines,

and others point to a link

between UFOs and electrical power plants.

- [Tony] Case in point, an eerie incident

that occurred on the East Coast, back in November of 1965.

- In New York State, portions of six neighboring states

and to parts of Canada were all plunged into a blackout.

Numerous eyewitnesses reported seeing lights in the sky.

- [Tony] One newspaper reported

that moments before the blackout,

people saw a strange red ball,

hanging over the Sir Adam Beck Power Plant in Ontario.

- Some wonder whether aliens

were responsible for the blackout.

There are also reports,

eyewitnesses saw them going into or leaving the scene.

- At the time, it was reported

even a University of Arizona physicist

believed the '65 blackout could have been caused by UFOs.

But is this footage proof of some sort of connection

between aliens and electricity?

We bring in our experts to illuminate this case.

(tense music)

First, we hand the footage to astronomer

and visual effects artist, Marc D'Antonio.

- This does not have to be faked.

This looks like, to me, like real footage.

I didn't see any evidence of manipulation.

Now the witness is moving around a little bit,

but besides that, this is just a straight short clip.

- [Tony] So what about the notion that this craft

might be seeking energy from the power lines?

D'Antonio explains, while it may look that way,

in fact, the proximity is just an optical illusion.

- It's moving along like a not too fast speed,

but the movement is related to the fact

that this thing is moving in the sky

and the wires are just in the way,

between us and that object.

Based on where we see the power lines,

this object here could be somewhere around

34 to 36,000 feet.

- [Tony] So if we're looking at something

thousands of feet in the air, could it be a drone?

- We know that we have drones that can fly this high,

with capabilities that are really quite astonishing.

- [Tony] But D'Antonio says, "Not so fast."

- It might have characteristics of a military drone,

but those drones also have a certain body type,

and body shape, and profile.

Military drones tend to be slender in the center

and have very, very long wings.

This image right here, it just seems to be too big

to be a military drone, in terms of its bulk.

- [Tony] Instead, military aviation expert

Tim McMillan believes there are other clues

that successfully solve the mystery.

- At first glance, it doesn't appear to be a plane,

but there's a couple of things that lead me in that direction.

The video was filmed within close proximity

to the Nashville International Airport.

It even helps explain exactly why

we see this elongated object

and some slight, subtle protrusions.

- [Tony] Those protruding red dots on top and bottom

of what looks like a division sign, it's not alien tech.

McMillan says they're wings.

In fact, he goes one step further.

- I think the bright white fuselages

and the wings and tail section of the aircraft

looks like it's painted red.

- [Tony] For McMillan, the vibrant paint job

is the final giveaway that ultimately identifies

which flight this is.

- Looking at the flight data,

we find that there was a commercial aircraft

in that area exactly when this video was filmed.

It was a Sunwing commercial airliner,

flying from Cancun to Toronto,

which has a color scheme where

the wings of the aircraft are red

and the tail section is red with a big white fuselage.

and the tail section is red with a big white fuselage.

(tense music)

- Talk about some good sleuthing.

Our verdict, this is a regular airplane

that gives the illusion of being a strange object

near those power lines.

I hope you're not shocked.

(dramatic music)

- Metal detecting in Australia can really pay off.

In late 2022, one man even found a hunk of gold,

worth six figures with one of these things.

However, more recently, beach comers came across

another metal object that washed up on shore.

It was less shiny than gold but more intriguing.

Take a look.

July 16th, 2023, Greenhead, Australia.

Police are called to the beach

Police are called to the beach

to investigate an unusual object that has washed ashore.

When they arrive, what they find is much weirder

and larger than anything they ever expected.

A huge, gold colored, metallic cylinder sits on the sand.

It's about eight feet wide and nearly 10 feet long.

The top looks worn and scratched in a crossed pattern.

The bottom portion is smooth

with seaweed and barnacles clinging to it farther down.

Journalist MJ Banias says some folks online believe

the object came from out of this world.

- There are some people who think

that this object is extraterrestrial in nature,

and a lot of their beliefs really pertain to the fact

that it just does look a little outer spacey.

- [Tony] But as word spread of the mysterious object,

another theory surfaced that it could be connected

to one of the biggest aviation mysteries of all time,

Malaysia Airlines, flight 370.

- March 2014, the Beijing-bound flight

heads out over the South China Sea,

along with its 239 passengers.

It was tracked for a couple hours, but then all of a sudden,

everyone loses contact with it.

- [Tony] After four years,

official searches for the flight ended on May 29th, 2018.

- The mystery of what happened to MH-370

is sort of like a modern myth.

So one question that arose when this washed up on the beach

was, is this object from that downed flight?

And does it answer the question of what happened to MH-370?

- Only some pieces of MH-370 have been found.

The recovery effort became one of the most expensive

in the history of aviation,

costing about 150 million US dollars, and in March 2024,

it was reported the Malaysian government

might renew the search for the missing plane.

Could this be a piece of that fateful flight?

Or is it some sort of unknown technology altogether?

Our experts hop down under for some answers.

(tense music)

Military aviation expert Tim McMillan

addresses the UFO theory.

- There's a lot of little things

that would tell me this is not an alien spacecraft.

The top of the object

appears to have some type of fiberglass composite.

That's very consistent with something that's designed

to withstand extreme heat.

You also see other riveting bolts.

All of this is human, manmade manufacturing techniques.

- [Tony] So is it from a plane?

Could this object have come from

the mysterious flight MH-370?

- It's not outside the realm of possibility

that perhaps this could be a component

to that missing aircraft.

However, MH-370 has been lost over nine years.

Any components of that aircraft

that have been submerged in the ocean

for that length of time,

you would expect to see significant corrosion

and much more marine growth.

I would speculate this is an object

that's been submerged in salt water in the ocean

for likely a couple of months.

- [Tony] So perhaps it's not MH-370,

but could it be a different aircraft?

McMillan isn't so sure.

- It's larger than what I would expect most aircraft parts,

and we don't see any windows.

I think it's definitely not

any type of conventional aircraft.

- [Tony] So it's not a plane and it's not alien in nature.

According to Rich Hoffman

from the Scientific Coalition of UAP studies,

that leaves one prime suspect, space junk.

- There's striations or lines up here that do cross hatches.

That fibrous kind of like texture of that

is something you see on the spacecraft, and to me,

it looks like a fuel cell

from polar satellite launch vehicles.

- [Tony] A polar satellite launch vehicle,

or PSLV for short, is a four stage rocket,

used for carrying satellites into orbit.

Sure enough, Hoffman did some digging

and learned the official story.

- In talking with the Indian Space Research Organization,

it matches their polar satellite launch vehicles

that they send in orbit.

And this is actually a fuel cell

from one of their launched rockets.

This is a case where the actual fuel cell

has now come down to the Earth and washed up on the shore.

has now come down to the Earth and washed up on the shore.

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- Our verdict, this is part of an Indian PSLV rocket,

and according to records,

one such rocket was launched from Sriharikota, India

on April 22nd, less than three months

before the mystery object washed ashore.

As for the mystery of MH-370,

we hope to have a solution to that soon.

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- In the spring of 2023, Prince Charles was crowned king

after the 70 year rule of Queen Elizabeth II.

Inside Westminster Abbey where the coronation happened,

all eyes were on King Charles, but outside,

something else was stealing the spotlight.

May 6th, 2023, tens of thousands of well wishers

gather in London to watch the coronation

gather in London to watch the coronation

of King Charles III.

Photographer Simon Balson is positioned on the 13th floor

of his apartment building to photograph the Red Arrows.

They're the Royal Air Force's acrobatic team.

They're planning a dramatic fly-by over Buckingham Palace.

As the Jets come thundering by, Simon gets his shot,

but it's not until later that he realizes,

he's also captured this.

A small object floats above the flight team

as they race by in a V formation.

Zooming in, writer Erin McCarthy says

we see what appears to be an acorn shaped object

with a bright red top and darker bottom.

- This object seems to be hovering over the planes.

It doesn't look like any aircraft I've ever seen before.

After the photographer noticed this bizarre object

in his photographs, this went viral on the internet.

- [Tony] An unidentified flying object

crashing King Charles's coronation?

It may not be so strange.

The royal family and specifically Charles' father,

Philip, have long been interested in UFOs,

and the feeling may be mutual.

- It's been rumored, Prince Philip apparently

had a huge interest in UFOs,

dating back to a report filed by his uncle,

Lord Mountbatten.

In the 1950s, workers at the Broadlands estate,

which belonged to Lord Louis Mountbatten,

reported a flying saucer

that seemed to be investigating the property,

which was a big concern for the royal family

because they spent a lot of time there.

- [Tony] Ever since, it's been noted

that Philip became devoted

to exploring the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

- Prince Philip was said to have a whole library

of books devoted to UFOs

and he was also apparently a subscriber

to the "Flying Saucer Review."

- For years, the UK's Ministry of Defense investigated UFOs

until the program was axed in 2009 due to budget cuts.

But is this really a UFO or something more down to earth?

I have my suspicions.

Let's ask the experts.

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First, is the object supposed to be there?

Could it be another aerial part

of the celebration along with the Red Arrows?

Some have speculated

it could be some kind of stealth aircraft, but hang on.

- A flying wing aircraft, think a B-2 stealth bomber,

or the F-117 Nighthawk,

but there's nothing that I see from this photo

that leads me to believe that there's anything like that.

Certainly just from this size and shape,

nothing that resembles that.

- [Tony] In fact, McMillan is convinced

it's not an airplane at all.

- If you look closely, there's no wings,

there's no propellers, there's not a fuselage,

there's not a tail section.

There's absolutely no characteristics

that resemble an airplane.

I think you can kind of interpret,

based on the photograph,

the size of it is pretty small, much smaller than the jets.

If I had to speculate two, three feet in diameter,

something of that nature.

So this is not a large object.

- [Tony] A two to three foot long object that flies?

Sounds like it could be a drone to us.

And we have seen drones

that don't look like your average quad copter.

Could we be looking at one now?

Let's take that question to astronomer

and video effects designer, Marc D'Antonio.

- I don't think so.

I don't know any drones in a shape like that.

We would actually see the structure of the drone,

and we don't see that here.

- This was photographed over the coronation of King Charles.

So this is an area that's gonna have restricted airspace

anyway because of potential terrorist attacks

or any kind of national security threat to the royal family.

So you wouldn't have any other aircraft flying in that area.

All we have here to go on is the photograph.

Perhaps if we had a video and we saw this object

darting around erratically

or suddenly speed off at a great speed,

that might cause me to pause and ask some questions.

But from just the photo,

I don't see anything that's really otherworldly.

- If this was a UFO, do you think the organizers

of this air show would allow or even be unaware

that something like this was flying into their airspace?

Absolutely not.

- [Tony] Ultimately, D'Antonio believes

we're looking at something much more down to earth.

- Now that shape looks like a heart, doesn't it?

And at the end here,

you see there's like a little thing on the end here.

Now this is a coronation.

If you go to a coronation,

you can imagine that there's probably street vendors

that sell things like Mylar balloons.

- [Tony] And note the way the light

hits the object's surface.

- Even the kind of shimmery reflectiveness that we see here,

I think it's a Mylar balloon that's probably gotten away

from one of the spectators or attendees who's there

to enjoy all the events for the coronation.

- You can capture an ordinary object

in an extraordinary way,

and that's just what happened here.

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- Our verdict,

we're going to have to go with our experts on this one.

This object has all the hallmarks of a balloon.

So we extend our salutations

and respect to the royal family.

We're not monarchists on this show, but long live the king.

And that's our show for tonight, thank you so much for watching,

and remember to keep those cameras rolling.

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