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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?

(Suspenseful music)

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.

(Creature shrieking)

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.

(Dramatic music)

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.

(Tony groaning)

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.

(Pensive music)

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.

(Pensive music)

- 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?

(Suspenseful music)

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?

(Suspenseful music)

- 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.

(Pensive music)

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.

(Suspenseful music)

- 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.

(Suspenseful music)