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Tonight, on "The Proof is Out There,"

Did ocean scientists discover an unknown life form?

It's like the beginning of a horror movie.

What was that UFO spotted near Area 51?

There were 22 reports of this particular event,

all across California, Nevada, and even Utah.

A stunning feat of strength.

Is this guy a superhuman?

This rock has to weigh hundreds and hundreds of pounds.

It's kind of incredible.

And what's that

disrupting commercial air traffic?

Is there an extra terrestrial force

behind all these airport shutdowns?

Around the globe are videos...

What are those things?

It's moving.

Photos and sounds that defy explanation.

We don't know where they come from,

who made them, or how they operate.

What are they?

Some sort of bizarre mutation.

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.

And pass a verdict on what it is.

This video was clearly faked.

The proof starts now.

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

We've had alleged alien corpses

and even alien fetuses on the show before,

but tonight, for the first time,

we're going to investigate an alleged alien egg

at the bottom of the sea.

Check this out.

It's August 30th, 2023,

and researchers at the National Oceanic

and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA,

are live streaming a mission to find new life

in these unexplored waters off Alaska.

The ship, the Okeanos Explorer,

has sent a tricked out ROV, or Remotely Operated Vehicle,

two miles down below the surface.

And before long, the device's camera

comes across this confounding sight.

It's a strange golden orb

resting on the Alaskan sea floor.

Its smooth, rounded texture looks almost egg-like.

The scientists are dumbfounded,

having never seen anything remotely like this before.

As we were coming across it, I was like,

"Huh, that looks pretty interesting."

And I was like, "Ooh, I don't really know what that is."

Scientists from around the world

watching the live stream are just as perplexed.

Some scientists suggested

that this could possibly be coral,

but many believe that's highly improbable

due to its smooth surface

and lack of coral-like holes.

Other researchers have shot down the idea

that this could simply be a sponge,

due to its apparent fragility.

The closer we got, rather than getting more answers,

I think we got more questions.

So we ended up deciding to take a sample

and bringing it back on board.

The mysterious specimen

is brought to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History,

where its identity remains a mystery to this day.

Many are convinced that it is some type of USO,

or unidentified submersible object.

Is this something extraterrestrial in nature?

Underwater ETs seem farfetched?

Well, there are those who believe

that all life on Earth may have originated

from an extraterrestrial source.

Gerhardt points to a recently popularized theory

in the scientific community, called Panspermia.

Panspermia, which is the concept

that the seeds of life

are planted throughout the universe.

Imagine a micro organic substance

traveling through the cosmos on an asteroid.

If such life forms can survive

the pressures of outer space,

then these essentially become

the seeds of life on other planets.

Many believers in Panspermia

suggest that at some point in history,

these space seeds crashed into Earth's surface,

leading to the development of life; even us.

Other theories picture the phenomenon

as something more sinister,

that these space seeds are dangerous

and could contaminate our planet,

spelling doom for all indigenous life.

However, Gerhardt presents one more theory,

that this still could be a creature of earthly origin

that haunted these waters millennia ago.

On May 18th, 2011,

paleontologists working in

the Tongass National Forest of southeast Alaska

discovered the fossilized remains

of a new species of Thalattosaur,

very strange aquatic reptiles

that lived during the lower Triassic

about 200 million years ago.

Could this golden object be

the egg of some unknown species of surviving dinosaur?

Can organisms really survive in space?

Well, tobacco seed samples

were mounted outside a spacecraft for more than a year.

After they were returned to Earth on the space shuttle,

a quarter of them survived well enough

to be grown as plants.

Could this golden orb have spawned

from a seed that was equally space worthy?

Let's check in with the experts.

Biologist Floyd Hayes is extremely skeptical

that this could be the egg

of a recently discovered dinosaur.

It's been suggested

that this could be the egg of a thalattosaur,

a group of marine reptiles that became extinct

during the mid-to-late Jurassic.

Even though they have found

fossilized thalattosaurs up in Alaska,

they couldn't possibly survive there today

because reptiles are exothermic or cold-blooded,

which means they're not gonna be able to maintain

any body heat in the cold water off of Alaska.

Marine biologists Shea Steingass

explores the idea that this could possibly be

something from off world.

The idea of panspermia is actually

very biologically and evolutionarily unlikely.

We typically think of organisms

as fungi or animals or bacteria,

but before that there was actually something called

the last universal common ancestor,

and this was a creature of some sort

that was the common ancestor for all life on Earth

as we know it today.

The last universal common ancestor

was a single celled bacteria-like organism

that many scientists believe

was the ancestor of all living things on Earth.

This was essentially a cellular structure.

We know that life on Earth evolved this way.

It's actually very unlikely

that the last universal common ancestor

traveled from a different planet.

In fact, new research suggests

that this original organism

may have generated on cracks in the ocean floor.

So could this deep water orb

represent the discovery of a new earthly species?

I would guess this may be the egg casing

of some kind of ocean animal,

because it's a very thin membrane

that is attached to a rocky surface

and that gives an embryonic animal

time to develop in a safe and static environment.

But until there's molecular testing

or genetic analysis of whatever this is,

we don't know for sure,

and that's part of the excitement of the ocean.

There's always something new to find.

Our verdict? We are leaning toward this being

the egg of an undiscovered species.

Our experts seem to agree that this is an egg shell

or casing of some kind,

but exactly what it is

and where it came from remains unknown.

This is exciting stuff, people!

We may have witnessed

a discovery of something profound in real time.

Now, we're going to move from the bottom of the ocean

to the top of the world's highest peaks.

From the Himalayas come stories

of a hair covered creature known as the Yeti,

or Abominable Snowman.

Some believe it's an ancient relative of humankind

that survived to the modern era

and that this video is the best evidence yet

that it really exists.

1992, the Himalayan Mountains.

Rumor spreads about a Belgian couple

who were supposedly enjoying

these majestic peaks on skis,

when they pull out a camera

and capture this stunning footage.

We see what appears to be

a giant, hairy, bipedal monster

traversing the mountainside.

Field researcher Cliff Barackman says

this footage was quickly touted as proof

of the mountain-dwelling Yeti.

This footage was initially aired on a show

on the United Paramount Network.

A lot of people came out and said,

"Oh, this looks very real."

This older footage,

which has recently found new life on the internet,

remains mysterious in part due to its nebulous sourcing.

No one was quite sure

where the Belgian skiing couple story came from,

or if these were even the Himalayan Mountains,

an area that has been the epicenter of Yeti lore

since early civilization.

The Yeti or abominable snowman

came on the radar of Western culture

when people started trying to conquer Everest.

Large expeditions, they would run across

very unusual footprints in the snow.

The Sherpas that were the guides for the Europeans

were saying, "Oh yeah, we know what those are.

The local people call these things The Meto Kangmi."

Meto Kangmi roughly translates

to "man-bear-snowman."

Now, we've been showing you

recreations and artistic renderings of those sightings,

but now look at this.

The Indian army recently tweeted out real photos

claiming to show mysterious footprints

made by the Yeti found near a base camp in the Himalayas.

These prints supposedly measured

a whopping 32 by fifteen inches,

giving Bigfoot run for his money.

According to Barackman,

there are indeed some similarities

between the Yeti and his American counterpart, Bigfoot,

famously captured on what's known as

"The Patterson-Gimlin film."

It's so funny that the Yeti today

is almost universally depicted as white,

because that's not the case.

I've been to Nepal, I've spoken to witnesses.

They're almost always brown or black,

just like the North American Sasquatch.

Can this piece of footage withstand

the same level of scrutiny

that has been subjected to the Patterson-Gimlin film?

According to legend,

during his Himalayan invasion of 326 BC,

Alexander the Great and his soldiers

ended up battling a tribe of potential Yetis

described as "Large, hairy-bodied men

with nails like beast's claws."

Sounds like a good movie,

but let's see what our experts think.

Biologist Floyd Hayes takes a look at the possibility

that this could be a bear local to mountainous areas.

The Himalayan brown bear occurs

throughout northern North America and Eurasia,

but normally they would be hibernating during the winter.

So bears need a lot of food to maintain their body weight

and during the winter,

there just isn't much food available

and so they normally just curl up in a sheltered space

and they reduce their metabolism while hibernating

so it seems out of place that a large ape

would be in such a cold environment devoid of food.

What is this animal eating every day

to maintain its body metabolism?

Anthropologist and Bigfoot expert

Dr. Jeff Meldrum has not only seen this footage before,

he's discussed it on TV before.

Well, some of the intriguing aspects

that suggested this might be an authentic piece of video

included things like the apparent massiveness.

At one point, the creature is crouched down

beside a snowshoe trail.

So using that as a rough estimate,

we were coming up with a figure

that was quite in excess of human dimensions.

However, Meldrum has had plenty of time

to think about this footage,

and over time he concluded

that the circumstances surrounding its provenance

are highly suspicious.

It quickly became evident

that the identities of the trekkers,

the opportunity to examine the raw footage,

these were important, critical pieces of information

that the producers of this documentary

were unwilling to share,

which was a big red flag.

Turns out, Meldrum's instincts were correct.

As he and the other researchers dug further,

the surprising origin of the footage was uncovered.

Later investigation revealed

that this was a contrived piece of footage

that was simply a teaser for the premier episode

of a fledgling documentary series.

Unfortunately, some videos just are too good to be true.

Our verdict? We agree with our experts.

This is a hoax.

It appears that this was just a man in a suit.

However, those footprints discovered by the Indian army

remain a mystery.

So there's still a chance the Yeti could be lurking

in the Himalayan mountaintops as we speak.

Some UFO sightings make the rounds on the internet,

some hit the local news,

and others make headlines around the world;

especially if the witnesses don't just report

seeing something in the sky,

but something on the ground too.

This next one falls in that third category

and you are about to see why.

It's April 30th, 2023 at 11:49 PM in Las Vegas.

A police officer whose name has not been disclosed

is speaking with several individuals on a sidewalk

when his body camera captures something unexpected.

I don't know.

Let's see that again,

zoomed in and slowed down.

You see this green flash in the sky.

The people have been blurred out,

but the point of interest is this green object.

The video in itself isn't anything too remarkable,

but what happens next is really interesting.

At around 12:30 AM, a frantic call comes in

to the Las Vegas Metro Police 911 Dispatch.

A Las Vegas resident made a 911 call

saying that there was some 100% not human being

staring at him from his backyard.

Dispatch takes the call seriously enough

that two officers respond,

body cams rolling as they roll up.

What'd you see?

A big creature?

The officers are aware of what happened

in the sky an hour earlier.

I'm not gonna BS you guys.

One of my partners said they saw

something fall out of the sky too,

so that's why I'm kind of curious.

Did you see anything land in your backyard?

The incident garnered national media attention,

especially because it coincided

with the biggest UFO news of 2023.

These two incidents tie into

a recent report from an Air Force official

saying that the US government has been

going on retrieval missions

to collect crashed UFOs,

to recover their bodies and study them.

It's also worth noting

that they're only about 80 miles

from the famed Area 51,

where most people believe

these alien autopsies are taking place.

Area 51 isn't the only secret base in Nevada.

Area 52 is said to be a vast underground complex

that can house up to 25,000 people.

Area 6, a mysterious mile long landing strip,

is believed to be related to a top secret fleet of drones.

So, could this nearby close encounter

have anything to do with

yet another secret government program?

First, we take the police body cam footage

to our ace video forensic analyst, Michael Primeau.

So the Axon system is the most common

type of surveillance camera that officers wear

to capture their perspective.

We noted no evidence of manipulation.

These recordings were unlikely CGI.

So what was it?

First, science writer Mick West

considers if we could be seeing

a satellite falling back to Earth.

Reentering satellites generally

seem to move a lot slower,

because they burn up in the upper atmosphere

'cause that's what they're designed do.

But this is something that's made it

through the Earth's atmosphere to a lower level,

and so its apparent speed

is actually quite a bit faster than orbital debris.

So could this footage be

a genuine UFO crash landing?

UFOs generally maneuver in different ways.

They would hover in the sky,

they would make strange motions,

they would have flashing lights.

They generally don't leave trails like this

and they don't generally appear to be green.

Based on the color, speed, and timing of this event,

West plays a hunch and thinks he's got the winning hand.

What we do know is that this is

very consistent with a meteor.

It's green, which it comes from

the composition of the nickel in the meteor.

It's leaving a slight trail

and it's moving at about the same speed

that we've seen other meteors fly across the sky.

West is also ready to double down

by saying not only is this not a UFO,

it didn't even land in a backyard in Vegas.

This event here was actually observed

by many, many people.

It was also seen by people as far away

as in California, Arizona, and even in Utah,

and in northern California.

The most likely location of where this thing landed

is actually up here in central Nevada,

approximately 200 miles away from Las Vegas.

So if this isn't a UFO and it didn't land in Vegas,

what about the family's claims

of a close encounter with 10 foot aliens?

We have the eyewitness accounts,

but I think the most likely thing

is that they simply saw something in the backyard,

perhaps a raccoon standing on the fence or something

and they startled them.

And then they ran back inside, called the cops,

said there was some giant being in the backyard,

and then we roll in the other story

of the fireball being seen

and it becomes a thing.

Our verdict?

We believe that the green light in the video is a meteor,

which was later confirmed

by NASA's planetary defense office.

As for the family's alleged backyard encounter with aliens,

the Las Vegas police ultimately closed their investigation

into those claims as unfounded.

Despite the abundance of UFO sightings,

only a select few merit

official investigation by the government.

Even after those inquiries,

sometimes questions remain

like this classic Kiwi case,

which happened more than 45 years ago.

December 1978, Kaikoura, New Zealand.

A kind of plane called an Argosy is carrying a TV crew

in search of some weird flying objects

encountered 10 days earlier by another cargo plane

flying the same route from Wellington to Christchurch.

Journalist Quentin Fogerty is covering the mission.

On board, he reports that something strange is going on.

We've just heard from Wellington radar

that we've got an object about a mile behind us

and it's following us.

It's really getting a bit frightening up here.

There's a whole formation

of unidentified flying objects behind us.

This unusual aerial activity

is being filmed from the cockpit

by videographer David Crockett,

who was in his mid-forties at the time and is now retired.

I put on a 200 millimeter lens

and I was leaning over the copilot

with a very heavy 16 millimeter camera.

You know, you're supposed to be on a tripod

for that kind of lens.

Crockett captures some shaky footage

of a mysterious flying light in the near distance.

And then on the return trip,

more mid-air madness.

We're climbing out of Christchurch

and there it was, right in front of us.

And as soon as the Argosy turned towards the object,

the bleeps came up on the aircraft radar.

We climbed up to 14,000 feet

and it started moving to the right.

This is by far the best

of the other unidentified flying objects we've seen so far.

So it appears to be, well,

like a a flying saucer.

In a single frame of film,

Crockett captures what looks like

an ampersand shaped trail from the object.

The footage is taken seriously enough

that once the plane lands,

the New Zealand Defense Force starts investigating.

Journalist MJ Banias says they proposed some theories

for what these Kaikoura lights could be.

The government speculated that this could be

reflections of squid boats on the water.

Fishing boats turned out to be

the explanation in a story we previously brought you,

about strange lights filmed from

the International Space Station.

They also suggested

that this could have been essentially Venus,

the planet rising in the night sky.

Others think that these strange lights

may have had a more covert origin.

There was a lot of speculation that perhaps

this was some sort of test vehicle

for outer space missions

that the New Zealand military was using,

and that's why all the secrecy

surrounding these lights was maintained.

Now six years earlier,

there was another mysterious incident in the area.

In 1972, a Kaikoura coast resident

reported seeing three similar

hovering rays of bright lights

going from right to left across the sky.

Could they be the same ones seen in Crockett's video?

Let's let our experts shine a light on this Kiwi conundrum.

First, astronomer Marc D'Antonio

explores why this object looks the way it does.

You couldn't really get a very steady shot,

because the plane's always bouncing around.

That will probably cause

some of these objects to be blurred.

Sometimes that orange-y trace looks like a spot,

sometimes it looks like an elongated object.

Since the quality of the film

makes it hard to get a good look,

Rich Hoffman of the Scientific Coalition for UAP studies

considers the theory that this could just be

scrambling squid boats.

Think about a squid boat being at the water

and the plane probably up, you know,

several thousand feet,

and the object was moving at 207 miles an hour.

I don't know of any squid boats

that move at 207 miles an hour.

So if this isn't a boat in the sea

and Wellington radar control tower operators

confirmed that there were no other clearances

for air traffic at all in the skies that night,

could we be looking at

a secret Cold War era military aircraft

flying through the night sky?

If you have a radar signal being transmitted up

and it bounces off of something solid,

that's a pretty good indication

that there is something solid there.

And you're talking about a relatively slow type of craft

when you're talking about 207 miles an hour.

By comparison, most commercial planes

have a cruising speed of around 500 miles per hour,

so that seemingly rules out military aircraft.

But what about the theory

that this could be a planet like Venus?

Well, D'Antonio has done some research

and has made a discovery.

What I've done is I've set up a planetarium program

to look at the New Zealand terrain

exactly at that time of night

when they were flying around.

Now, Venus is either an early morning riser

or it's a early setter at sunset.

It's never gonna be visible

in the middle of the night like this.

But lo and behold,

here's Jupiter right there

just rising at this exact time they were flying.

Looks to me like it could be Jupiter that they saw.

Our verdict? This remains a genuine UFO.

D'Antonio's theory that it's Jupiter is intriguing,

but think about it.

We know something was spotted on radar

and New Zealand officials say

this object remains unexplained.

If there were such a simple explanation,

they probably would've said so, right?

Super strength is something

you usually see only in superhero movies,

but does it exist among regular people

who don't wear capes?

This next video raises that question and some suspicions.

It's August 2023 in Kanchanaburi, Thailand.

A woman is walking along a dirt path

when she witnesses something

she just has to catch on camera.

On one side of the tree lined path

stands a man bent under the weight

of what looks like a gigantic boulder.

The woman filming cautions him.

He remains still, perhaps considering her warning.

Then in a spectacular display of strength,

he secures the boulder with his arms

and walks toward the camera.

Journalist Erin McCarthy is wowed

by just how big an undertaking this appears to be.

This rock has to weigh hundreds and hundreds of pounds

and this guy doesn't seem to be, like,

some kind of super athlete

and yet he's carrying it without all that much effort.

The video cuts off before he unloads the boulder,

but given the proper circumstances,

some say it would be possible for him to lift it.

There's a phenomenon known as hysterical strength

where in an emergency situation,

people are capable of lifting

incredible amounts of weight.

And though the phenomenon

is hard for scientists to study,

there are plenty of stories of it happening.

In 2019, a 16-year-old football player from Ohio

heard his neighbor calling for help.

Her husband had been trapped under a car

that had fallen off of its jack.

The football player was able

to lift the 3,000 pound vehicle

using just his forearms.

There's another example from 2013

in which a man was trapped

under his 3,000 pound tractor

and his two teenage daughters were able to lift it off of him.

But there is one key difference

between those examples and this video.

This doesn't appear to be a life or death situation,

which has led many to ask,

does this man have superhuman strength?

We've reported on incidents

of superhuman strength before,

but usually they involve men

who look like this rather than men of average build.

So could we really have people with super strength

living among us?

We ask our experts to do the heavy lifting.

We begin by asking emergency medical physician,

Dr. Ed Hope, if this could be

an example of hysterical strength.

In stressful situations,

you do have access to more strength and speed

and that is because adrenaline

gets released into your blood supply.

This sends more blood to the muscles,

increases your heart rate and your respiratory rate,

and puts more glucose into the blood

to get those muscles ready for action;

but there is still an absolute limit.

A rock of this size could weigh 2,000 pounds,

so to carry this way for such a sustained period

would definitely exceed that limit.

Yet, why can't humans shoulder this kind of weight

when other animals can?

For instance, ants can lift

up to 20 times their own body weight.

That would be like a human lifting 4,000 pounds,

which we know is impossible.

A lot of this comes down to scale,

as relative strength decreases as size increases.

Smaller creatures are able to lift

proportionally more than larger ones.

In fact, this very video is an example

of what should be a body crushing lift.

If this was an actual rock that he was underneath,

he was be completely crushed

so his spine would not be able

to take that kind of weight

and collapsing down, it would break all his bones

and rupture his organs too.

It would probably be certain death for this chap.

So could this rock simply be lighter

and less dense than it appears?

There are rocks in nature that are very light.

For example, there are rocks called pumice.

These rocks are formed from volcanic gases

and magma when it interacts with water,

and they have a lot of air bubbles inside.

But Anderson isn't so sure

that's what we're dealing with here.

If you look at the rock in detail,

there's a couple things that tell you

that this is not a low-density rock.

For example, there are not a lot of bubbles

or holes in it from where you have the gases.

The other thing is, is the color of it

has light grays, light browns.

Those don't match the colors

that you would find in low density rocks.

Instead, Anderson thinks this is

a lighter than it looks rock of a different sort.

The other idea would be

that this is a manmade type of rock.

For example, landscaping that you see in amusement parks,

those rocks are all manmade.

They have sort of the same composition

and properties of those rocks,

but they don't have the density

of the crystals growing together.

Our verdict?

We're going with the artificial rock theory.

Our geologist knows a fake rock when he sees one.

As appealing as the idea of superhuman strength may be,

we're probably better off abiding by our limits.

Recently, one of our dedicated viewers

saw something strange and glowing

in one of his home security cameras.

So, he did what you are supposed to do.

So, he did what you are supposed to do.

He sent the footage to this email address

to see if we could shed some light on the situation.

July 2023, Baltimore County, Maryland.

After waking up in the morning,

66-year-old John Parsons checks his security camera

to see if anything notable happened overnight

and he's shocked by what he sees.

There was something floating.

I seen on your show before, pictures of orbs.

And that's the first thing that crossed my mind,

and then I started seeing a few more.

And they seemed to come outta nowhere

and disappear just as fast.

Some of 'em even seemed to have

like a ghostly trail behind.

It was kind of weirding me out,

so I didn't know what it was.

Then John remembers something

his late wife Sheila told him,

before she passed away.

I lost my wife back in 2020,

she died of cancer.

She told me she would be watching over me.

It could be her watching over me.

Orbs like these are balls of light

that are said to be manifestations of energy

connected to spirits.

Journalist Alexis Brooks says

they've been captured in other photos and footage

and are sometimes called angel or spirit orbs.

Spirit orbs are loosely considered

the souls of deceased loved ones.

Some argue that the spirits of the deceased

can only show up as orbs

because they don't have the energy

to manifest themselves physically.

In 2013, Janice Whitmer of Nashville, Tennessee

allegedly captured several potential spirit orbs

on her cell phone.

She was actually in her mother's hospital room

as she was passing away,

and Janice saw images

of what she refers to as angel orbs.

I know it has to be angels.

She clearly said that she felt that those orbs,

as angels of light,

had shown up to help her mother cross over.

And about 500 miles west

of where Janice saw this phenomenon,

another strange ball of light

has regularly been making appearances in the night sky.

The orange basketball size orb first appeared in 1881

on a rural road in the northeast corner of Oklahoma.

This orb, named interestingly

after a former town named Hornet,

is called the Hornet Spook Light.

We do know it does exist

and it's still being seen by many people.

Local legend asserts the Hornet Spook Light

is the ghost of a murdered Osage chief.

To this day it remains a mystery,

but will we be able to solve the case

of the moving orbs in John Parsons front yard?

Let's have our experts round this up.

First, an authenticity check.

I began with analyzing the structural data

using MedX forensics.

This is a pretty common type of surveillance technology

and there are no concerns with the source of the file.

We can trace that structural data

back to that application.

Okay, so is it just something mundane

like an insect flying right in front of the lens?

This object that's airborne in front of the camera,

may actually be very, very small,

but when it's directly in front of the camera,

it appears very large and out of focus.

Still, physicist Dr. Matthew Szydagis

isn't sure insects are the right fit.

I don't think that these circles are insects

because they're moving far too slowly

and I don't see any evidence of anatomical features

an insect should have like wings,

for these whitish grayish spots we're looking at.

Specs of dust are also

commonly found on camera lenses,

so is that what we're seeing instead?

We're looking at objects that have more of a flat shape,

whereas a piece of dust

actually makes something look more spherical.

The shape is a clue as well as the trails,

which I wouldn't expect from dust particles.

Szydagis says the direction the orbs are moving

is leading him to something else.

Perhaps they're drops of moisture.

The path of each appears to be very subtly curved,

and I believe that that curvature

is the curvature of the lens.

Some of them go the opposite direction or side to side,

but tiny droplets of water could be light enough

to be blown by wind or affected by heat.

It's possible, but Primo isn't so sure.

Something that would be dripping onto the lens

would demonstrate a gravity,

it may actually take over the entirety of the lens.

We are not seeing drops of water

that are covering up and blurring out the whole lens,

so what are these white orbs

showing up on John's security camera?

Could they actually be the spirit of his wife?

It's tough to say what it is and where it came from,

without at least an inspection of the device.

The identification is inconclusive.

Our verdict? We can't seem to find

a convincing explanation for this footage,

so we have to call it

an unidentified light phenomenon for now.

There's also no surefire scientific way

to prove it's a ghost,

so in the absence of evidence,

that's for you to decide.

One of the most unusual UFO sightings from China

happened in 1998 when according to reports,

two military jets intercepted a low flying object

that officials described as

a short legged mushroom emitting two beams of light.

More than two decades later,

another beam of light is making headlines.

This time, it's in one of the country's

largest industrial hubs.

September 2021.

It's a busy day on the streets of Shenyang,

the capital of Liaoning province in northeast China.

Bicyclists and pedestrians gather on an overpass

by the city's exposition center,

their commutes interrupted

by a strange occurrence in the skies above.

Passers by pull out their smartphones,

entranced by an electrifying beam of white and blue light

that erupts like a tower in the clouds.

This looks like something straight out of a sci-fi movie.

Some people said that this was evidence

of Chinese secret technology.

There was speculation that these were alien craft.

What makes this case even more intriguing?

Beams of light spotted shining throughout China,

including this video from 2023

captured over the town of Xienjeong.

It appears to show yet another encounter

documenting an aerial object bathed in golden light.

It turns out, China could be where we'll find

clues to extraterrestrial life,

especially since the completion

of the world's largest single dish radio telescope.

At 500 meters wide,

it's nicknamed Tianyan,

which means Eye of Heaven.

But maybe they don't need to look so far away.

Let's ask the experts.

First, we turn to visual effects designer Mark D'Antonio

to analyze the authenticity of the viral video.

The question is, could this be faked if necessary?

Well, at this day and age, you could fake anything

but there are people watching this phenomenon

and photographing it.

So, it's definitely something that's there.

So if it's real, could it be a hologram?

Holograms are three dimensional images generated by lasers

that appear to reflect real physical objects.

But when it comes to creating them, size matters.

So let's say this was a hologram.

What size is this?

This is major size here.

This has to be hundreds of feet across

and hundreds of feet tall.

But this isn't "Star Wars,"

where holograms can show as a 3D object.

It would be too complex to create it as a hologram

as we understand holograms today.

So does that mean

that alien technology can be completely ruled out

as a contributing factor?

Meteorologist Juan Hernandez says

he's confident that it can and should be.

Obviously, it is a beam of light.

Now, is it pulling people away out of this world?

I don't see any humans,

I don't see any objects that are flowing up into the sky.

I think this is a meteorological phenomenon.

It just so happens that we are

a couple hundred feet from a river,

which leads me to believe

what we're looking at is a fog bank

that has developed this morning.

We had temperatures in the low seventies, calm winds,

which usually lead to fog, especially around rivers.

D'Antonio adds that instead of an alien ship

beaming down a shaft of energy,

the natural elements are creating an optical illusion.

What we are seeing is actually

a much more common source of light

through the hazy fog.

This is sunlight in a fog bank.

The light gets dispersed a little

and then comes to the eyes of the people watching down here.

What they're seeing is a glow in the fog.

But hang on, look at those rows of rectangles.

That's not just sunlight coming through fog, right?

It would have to be reflecting off something, but what?

What we're looking at is

a light reflection from a building.

He's right.

As you can see in this footage from the same angle,

the reflection is actually

the edge of one of the buildings

from the Shenyang Expo Center.

There is a curtain that is preventing us

from seeing what's behind the fog.

But if we had a sunny and clear day,

we would see a building that is behind here,

but we don't see the backside

of the actual building in this image.

Our verdict? This is a light reflection

caused by sun and fog.

One of the reasons the city could be so foggy

is because of air pollution due to heavy industry,

coal-fired power plants and high vehicle emissions.

And that's our show for tonight.

Thank you so much for watching,

and remember to keep those cameras rolling.