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- Tonight on "the mproof is out there:".

What could make dogs freeze like this for four minutes?

Did a planet-sized ufo pass in front of the sun?

- So, it'd be a smart place

for an alien spacecraft to refuel.

- [Tony] And how did this dude make himself invisible?

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Around the globe are videos.

- [Woman] What the heck is this?

- [Tony] Photos and sounds that defy explanation.

(Low humming)

- [Man] Is it some kind of unidentified object?

- [Man 2] A plane that was literally frozen in the air.

- [Tony] What are they?

- [Man 3] Some sort of bizarre mutation.

- 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.

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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 and welcome to "the proof is out there."

They say dogs experience the world differently from humans.

Their senses of smell and hearing

are far better than ours.

But a recent video has people wondering

if these superpowers go far beyond their noses and ears.

On a sweltering July day in 2020,

UK residents Meg oxtoby and Jeff parlett

are on a hike with their trio of Hungarian vizslas,

unaware of what they're about to witness.

- We were walking along,

just having a chat like we normally do,

and then we noticed that the dogs were not moving.

- [Tony] At first, this looks like a photograph,

but keep watching.

The camera starts moving,

and yet the dogs all appear to be frozen in their tracks.

- [Meg] We couldn't believe it.

You could see the leaves moving and all the bushes,

but the dogs were completely still.

- I'm telling you, we are not freezing

or slowing down this video.

You can tell by the shrubbery, right here,

that it's moving in the wind.

Now, check out how this dog has his leg raised

and tail curled.

And this other dog is frozen in mid-step.

Look, it seems impossible to maintain balance like that.

The three vizslas stay in that position

for four whole minutes

before resuming their normal dog activity.

- We were completely gobsmacked.

- [Tony] Ancient cultures from the Greeks

to the romans to Koreans all have myths

about dogs having supernatural ability.

The Mayans believed that dogs,

known for being great swimmers,

swam the souls of the dead across a shadowy lake

to the afterlife.

Forensic investigator chase kloetzke

wonders if something like that is at work here.

- Are there forces somehow making them stop like that?

It seems like a theory is that dogs

have a spiritual side almost.

They sense things like earthquakes,

illness, even death sometimes.

- [Tony] Recent studies have explored

whether dogs have some sort of sixth sense

to communicate telepathically.

Meg and Jeff concur.

Their dogs seem to have some kind of canine esp.

- They knew what they were all doing

and they knew how long to stay still for.

So, it's just amazing how they can communicate

without actually speaking.

That side of it is kind of magical, really.

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That was me trying to freeze for just five seconds.

It's impossible, I'm too twitchy!

So, forget about four whole minutes.

It's clear these dogs can do some amazing things, right?

But can they really freeze themselves in mid-step?

Let's take the video to our experts.

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Zoologist roxy furman considers

whether a supernatural force may have terrified the dogs

into a form of paralysis.

- Dogs definitely do freeze when they're afraid,

so there could be something that's made them scared,

but there's nothing else in their body language

that indicates fear.

Their ears are up, their tails up.

Vizslas are hunting dogs,

but I don't think that they can be that still

for the entire duration of a four-minute video

without kind of any movement.

It looks like it's been edited in some way to me.

- [Tony] Compare this other video of hunting vizslas

with Meg and Jeff's.

You can see these other dogs don't maintain their posture

as well or as long.

So, maybe roxy's right:

Meg and Jeff's dog video can't be real.

- So, there are apps that can be downloaded

on these mobile devices

that can animate certain areas of a picture

while preserving other areas frozen in time.

Although these apps can deceive a viewer,

we found no evidence to support

that this file was manipulated

or slowed down or frozen in any way.

- [Tony] So, this is in fact real.

Still, biology professor Floyd Hayes believes

this is just the product of centuries of breeding.

- This is a behavior that is selectively bred for

in several breeds of dogs,

although it is reinforced in dogs by training.

In fact, they actually can be trained

to lift a paw above the ground when they are pointing.

- [Tony] Hayes may be onto something here.

At the end of the video, we do see the dogs unfreeze

as soon as a bird flies away.

But here's the catch: Meg and Jeff say they have never

trained their dogs to behave like this.

- We teach them sit and stay, but this...

This was something on a completely different scale

and something that I can't see

being taught to them whatsoever.

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- Our verdict?

This is still an animal anomaly.

These three vizslas really did freeze in place

for four minutes.

And if Meg and Jeff truly didn't train them to do this,

how they stopped time is still a doggone mystery.

Up next, now you see him, now you don't.

Has invisibility technology made a breakthrough?

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Face it, there have been times

when you have just wanted to disappear.

The desire to vanish is embedded deep in our culture,

with references dating back

at least as far as ancient Greece.

But is this stealthy superpower actually possible right now

with a little boost from modern technology?

It's February 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.

Local vlogger Donald Washington

heads outside on a windy winter's day

to demonstrate something amazing for his followers.

He sets his camera on a tripod and hits record.

Donald pulls something out of an oddly-colored bag.

He unfolds what looks to be flexible material of some kind,

but it looks almost completely clear.

As the material unfurls,

Donald's torso seems to disappear as well.

Then he throws the blanket over his head and vanishes.

Okay, I know, seems like a Harry Potter fan

with a talent for hoaxing, right?

Well, this video has over two million views,

so we felt compelled to investigate.

- The ability to disappear is hardwired into our genetics.

From our earliest days as hunter-gatherers,

the ability to remain unseen was essential to our survival.

Ancient humans would paint their skin in mud

or other materials to camouflage themselves.

- [Tony] As technology has advanced,

so have humans' attempts to render themselves invisible.

- We've already seen a testing and development

of some material that can be attached to the skin

and renders it invisible

using various light-bending technology or cameras.

- In 1998, a lab at the university of Tokyo

developed a system called optical camouflage,

using a camera placed behind the subject

that projects what's behind them onto material.

Very real, very cool, but not very convenient.

In 2015, the us army put out a call to companies

to develop an invisibility cloak for its soldiers,

but little has leaked about any success.

The Pentagon first acknowledged the existence

of stealth technology to cloak from radar in 1980,

but the ability to trick the human eye

has proved more elusive.

The number of views on Donald's video

suggest some folks think he's actually cracked the code.

But before you get any wild ideas

about stealing the crown jewels,

let's turn to physics professor michio kaku

for some clarity.

Professor michio kaku has a set of criteria

to determine if a particular technology

has achieved what he considers

real-life invisibility cloaking.

- First, it has to be all the colors of the spectrum.

Second of all, it has to be at any direction,

not a sweet spot in one direction.

And third, it has to be seamless

so you can't see where the thing ends

and the background begins.

- [Tony] One company is already marketing

a material called quantum stealth

which it says can provide invisibility to armed forces.

Professor kaku explains how they have achieved this.

- That's called lenticular technology.

That piece of plastic has hundreds of vertical lines.

Each vertical line bends the path of light.

Some of these vertical lines take your image and scatter it.

So, looking at it from a screen, you have disappeared.

But it's not totally foolproof.

You can see that the image is kind of fuzzy

and you have to be right behind this screen

at a certain place to get the full effect of invisibility.

- [Tony] As for Donald's invisibility cloak-

- [michio] You see this every night on the evening news.

When the newscasters give you the weather,

they're actually in front of a green screen.

The video camera can digitally subtract the color green

from the image and then superimpose any image you want

as part of the background.

- [Tony] We reached out to Donald

and he confirmed professor kaku's analysis.

- This is the actual green screen

that I'm using in the video.

So, as you see, it's just nothing

but an actual green blanket.

I recorded the background first.

And in my editing software,

I just edited out the green screen

to the background that was previously recorded.

- [Tony] If you were fooled by Donald's video,

you're not alone.

- I got a lot of friends to this day saying,

"hey, I wanna come over and see that invisibility cloak."

- Our verdict?

Obviously, Donald's invisibility cloak is a hoax.

But that Japanese optical camouflage

and the shield from hyper stealth

are first steps in the real-world deployment

of actual cloaking technology.

There's hope that nanotechnology,

which would manipulate individual atoms,

will provide the solution in the future.

Up next, we're going to Antarctica,

looking for proof of alien visitors?

- Could it be that this a shuttle

to go back and forth to Mars?

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- Antarctica is the coldest place on earth,

containing 90% of the planet's ice.

It looks almost like an alien planet, and there are some

who think it's hiding proof of aliens themselves.

In October of 2020, a sharp-eyed investigator

scans satellite images of Antarctica

and comes across a sight

that stops author Brad Olsen in his digital tracks.

It's a metallic-looking object half covered in ice,

and Olsen's sure he knows what it is.

There's a perfectly round saucer on Antarctica.

- [Tony] Look closer.

It sure seems to be a raised disc

casting a shadow onto the ice.

Olsen thinks that as the ice melts,

an alien spacecraft has emerged

from where it was left thousands of years ago.

But what alien would park their ride

in such a hostile place?

- Antarctica and Mars are both

extremely sterile environments.

If I were a martian

and I wanted to choose a place on earth to live,

Antarctica would be the closest thing to home I could find.

- [Tony] George haas, chairman of the cydonia institute,

thinks Antarctica was much more than a martian rest stop.

He believes earth and Mars were twin cradles

of an interplanetary civilization.

Contrary to mainstream science,

he claims that this pyramid-like structure

and this human face are not natural martian formations.

- I believe the structures that we're finding on Mars

were either built by an indigenous martian culture

or they possible coulda been done by us

a long, long time ago.

- [Tony] Which brings us back to the saucer.

Olsen thinks it could be how the ancients commuted

between the two planets.

- Could it be that this is a shuttle

to go back and forth to Mars with some of the presumed bases

that exist on the red planet?

- Antarctica was once on the equator

and plants and dinosaurs thrived there.

It seems fantastical,

but the fossil record proves it's true.

And now some believe we're on the verge

of a similar revelation

about the continent's connection to Mars.

The only way to separate fact from theory

is to turn to our experts.

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Science writer and forensic video analyst Mick west

takes a 3-d look at Olsen's downed ufo.

- I tried orbiting around the image

to see what it looks like from different angles.

Your perception of it kind of changes.

And now, instead of it looking like a disc,

it kinda looks like a little lake of water.

And I think what we're seeing here

is an example of what's called the crater illusion.

The human brain has evolved over millions of years

into expecting that light comes from above,

so our brains automatically interpret this image

as being a raised-up disc

and they interpret the other image from 180 degrees

as being a depression.

- [Tony] West is certain about the crater illusion.

But NASA's Bob Anderson is more open-minded

about the strange formations on Mars.

He thinks they were likely created by erosion

and other natural causes, but he's keeping an open mind

until we can inspect them in person.

- What we should do is go study 'em.

And I'll give you a perfect example on Mars

is we looked at imagery for a long time

and said, "well, Mars is a dead planet.

"It had no water, it had nothing."

And now we know that Mars had an ocean

that lasted early in the four-billion-year Mark.

And so, the ideas and the hypotheses

are constantly changing.

- Our verdict?

We think west is probably right

that the "saucer" is an optical illusion.

But just as Bob Anderson thinks the formations

on Mars are worth investigating,

George haas says there should be an antarctic expedition

to examine the saucer-like shape, and on that we can agree.

Up next, a pair of solar telescopes break the Internet

when they record this image

heading straight towards the sun.

- I really can't rule it out

that it might be some type of structure.

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- Since Galileo invented the telescope in 1609,

we've been using it to gaze at and learn from the stars.

NASA spends considerable time

looking at our own star, the sun.

And recently, it captured some video so intriguing

we just had to stare at the sun for a while ourselves.

Since 2008, NASA's twin stereo telescopes

have been orbiting the sun

from 95 million miles above its surface.

- We have two eyes looking at the sun

to observe it in the ultraviolet and x-rays,

and this allows us to draw 3-d representations

of what's happening with the sun.

- [Tony] Makes sense, but this does not.

On march 13th, 2020,

the stereo telescopes are doing their usual thing

and their heliospheric imager is monitoring

the solar winds in interplanetary space.

The sun is to the left of the frame,

Venus and earth are in the shot,

when suddenly this rounded object comes into the image,

apparently on a collision course with the sun.

Watch in slow motion.

It looks like a wheel made from two circles

connected by spokes

with a strange beam projecting toward the sun.

It doesn't look like a solar flare, magnetic field,

or plasma discharge to oluseyi's trained eye.

- This does not look like anything we've ever seen

close to the sun,

so it does not appear to be a natural phenomenon.

- [Tony] When the video appeared,

it created a huge buzz,

according to forensic investigator chase kloetzke.

- Immediately, everybody was jumping on, "is that a ufo?

"What is that object?"

Ufo reports often come in from people

that have seen things come outta the sun.

- [Tony] You can say that again.

There have been dozens of strange ufo-like objects

spotted rushing into or away from the sun.

And the wheel looks strikingly similar to a space station

once envisioned by famed rocket scientist wernher Von braun.

So, we have to wonder,

could this wheel-shaped object be some sort of craft?

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy thinks it's possible.

- I really can't rule it out.

I really can't rule it out

that it might be some type of structure.

- [Tony] But why would any craft,

alien or human, charge toward the sun?

And how could it survive?

- The sun's corona is millions of degrees.

It's actually the hottest part of the sun,

so it would be a smart place for an alien spacecraft

to refuel its ship because of the abundance of energy.

- A million-degree refueling station?

That's a lotta heat to endure to top off your tank.

To test out this theory,

we turned to the best in the business,

Mars mission planner Jonathon hill.

- When you compare the size of this pinwheel

to the size of earth and the size of Venus,

this wheel would be a huge object

that's much larger than even Jupiter.

So, if this was a physical object that had gravity,

our planet would've altered its course around the sun

and really bad things would've started to happen.

So, we can definitely rule out that the wheel

is some sort of actual physical object

traveling through space, just based on its size.

- [Tony] That would also rule out a giant spaceship.

But hill thinks the explanation is right there in the image.

- [Jonathon] If we watch how that pinwheel shape moves,

it moves at the same speed but in the opposite direction

as the Venus dot does.

- [Tony] That symmetrical motion suggests

the wheel is a reflection of Venus.

So, why does it look like a wheel?

- Light is coming into the camera

and it's bouncing around in a weird way

and creating what we call a ghost image,

and it shows up as this wheel shape.

- And as for those other objects

that were caught filling up at the sun's corona,

some defy an easy answer.

But according to NASA, a few are comets,

others are Venus passing the sun,

and others are solar flares

and strange reflections in the camera.

So, what looked like a spaceship

turned out to be a ghost image of Venus.

But there will soon be a real spacecraft

flying near the sun, ours.

NASA Parker solar probe launched in 2018.

It will travel directly through

the sun's corona three times.

That's all we've got for tonight, folks.

Thank you so much for watching,

and remember to keep your cameras

and solar telescopes rolling.

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