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

Is this proof of a baby shark with a human face?

- This is quite unnerving.

- [Tony] Is this proof of a ufo

buzzing a freighter ship?

- [Man] Yeah, it's moving towards us,

like real fast moving towards us.

- [Tony] And is this proof of an angel in the clouds?

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- [Tony] Around the globe are videos.

- [Woman] What the heck is this?

- [Tony] Photos and sounds that defy explanation.

(Buzzing)

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

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

- [Tony] What are they?

- [Man] 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 screeching)

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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Hi, everyone.

Welcome to "the proof is out there."

Who can forget the baby shark

dance craze from a few years ago?

Boy, I wish I could.

Well, now there is a new viral baby shark

video making the rounds

that's far more disturbing and just as unforgettable.

In February, 2021, a fishermen named abdulla norin

in Indonesia's east nusa tenggara province

pulls in a shocking haul.

He takes it home and records this video.

The footage shows a deceased baby shark

with eerily human-like facial features propped up on a sofa.

The strange creature is about the size of a human hand

and appears to have a wide gaping mouth,

big round eyes, and a human-like look of surprise.

- We've heard of deformities and all species, really,

but this is quite unnerving.

- [Tony] Perhaps radioactivity is a factor here.

In February 2020,

high contamination levels were detected

near an Indonesian nuclear research facility in serpong.

- Chernobyl had marked increases and their gene mutation

deformities of animal and plant life.

So the mutant shark, I could see that being the result

of excess radiation and nuclear waste.

- A quick warning that some viewers

might find the following images disturbing.

In 1990, around 400 deformed animals were born in chernobyl.

Most deformities were so severe

the animals only lived a few hours.

Examples of defects included facial malformations,

extra appendages, abnormal coloring, and reduced size.

So what exactly is going on in the waters of Indonesia

that created that strange shark?

Is it nuclear radiation

or is there a more natural explanation?

We'll turn it over to our experts to decide.

Biologist Dr. Floyd Hayes begins his analysis

by trying to determine if the human-faced shark

is even real.

- It has an unusually large and wide head.

The eyes do not look like normal eyes,

and you could also see a very unnatural-looking line

at the bottom, and it looks like a mask

that has been placed over the head of a normal shark.

- [Tony] However, our zoologist roxy ferman

respectfully disagrees.

- The texture of its skin looks very real to me.

It would be very hard to recreate something this well,

I think without noticing any flaws in texture.

- [Tony] But ferman and Dr. Hayes can agree

on what wasn't the cause of this oddity.

- There's been nuclear waste dumping in the region,

which can cause mutations in animals.

But if it was something that had been a mutation

as a result of radiation or something,

you'd expect to see lumps across the skin

or other indications of deformities,

rather than just what we're seeing in this video.

- [Tony] See the twisted and gnarled limbs

of the stillborn piglet from chernobyl.

This is what furman is talking about.

It's caused by damaged or broken DNA molecules,

which produced the mutation.

Mutated DNA can also result in tumors.

If a mutation occurs in an egg,

it can result in a non-viable embryo

or one with serious birth defects.

So if it's not nuclear radiation causing these deformities,

then what is?

Could the shark simply be too young?

- This is a result of over-fishing,

it's a result of bycatch.

It looks like a real animal to me, it's just premature.

So we're seeing an animal here that's not yet fully formed,

something that's not had the full phase of development.

- [Tony] Marine biologist Dr. Shea conger disagrees.

She points out that a premature shark

would look scrawny and malnourished.

Instead, she thinks it suffers from a rare malady.

- This looks to me very typical

of something called cyclopia.

That's where the brainstem doesn't develop normally.

We'll often see deformities around the head area,

because organs like our eyes

are really directly connected to our brain itself.

- [Tony] Cyclopia gets its name from the cyclops,

the one eyed monster from Greek mythology.

It occurs in roughly one in every 250 embryos,

often resulting in stillbirth.

In this case, conger says that's why this shark's eyes

are on the underside of the head

instead of on top where they should be.

She agrees with furman that people are to blame,

but in this case, the problem isn't overfishing,

it's over dumping.

- Your everyday pollution from things like plastics

or industrial runoff are much more common in the ocean

and very readily cause these types of defects.

So I would say this shark is just subject

to a type of normal pollution that resulted in

it not dividing normally

and ending up in this type of condition.

- So we have a broad divergence of opinion here.

Our experts aren't even unanimous

about whether this thing was real.

We're going to rely on our marine biologist here.

She specializes in this stuff.

Our verdict, we're looking at a birth defect

caused by pollution.

Sadly given how badly we're trashing our oceans,

that just makes the most sense.

Coming up, strange blue lights over France

and over Brooklyn.

- [Man] Yo, yo, my heart is beating like mad.

Feel my heart.

- What kind of signals arare they sending?

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- Ufos, whatever they are,

aren't the only strange things reported in the sky.

Around the world, people are seeing bizarre blue lights

that some are connecting to a debunked theory

about the end of the world.

It's an overcast evening in 2018,

just after Christmas in New York City,

a place that's seen it all.

But as one resident is walking to work in Brooklyn

that night, he spots something

even the most jaded new yorker can't ignore.

- [Cameraman] Yo, do y'all see this?

- [Tony] The man pulls out his phone and records

what appears to be a pulsing blue light

in the airspace just above the city.

The giant glow turns the entire sky around it

an eerie shade of blue.

- [Cameraman] Yo, my heart is beating like mad.

Feel my heart.

- [Tony] The onlooker can barely keep it together

as he talks to his girlfriend,

who also can't believe what she's seeing.

- [Girlfriend] I need my glass because I see this,

but I'm not seeing it.

- [Cameraman] Yo, I gotta call Leroy

and tell him to see this.

- [Tony] This sighting has a disconcerting similarity

to other incidents of immense bluish glows

in the night sky around the world.

Like this one in Latvia in 2015

or this one in France in 2021.

The proliferation of videos like these

have helped fuel a widely debunked apocalyptic theory.

Journalist mj banias explains.

- There's a theory that exists out there

called the electromagnetic plasma changeover event.

The empcoe, as it's come to be known,

is where there will be some sort of cataclysmic occurrence

where the Poles of the planet will switch places.

So the south pole will become the north pole.

Our entire magnetic field that surrounds our planet

will be thrown into chaos.

Life on this planet would end as we know it.

- Some who believe in empcoe think that

when earth's magnetic field is down during the switch,

portals of cataclysmic plasma will open up in the sky,

and these videos are sign of those portals trying to open.

- [Cameraman] Look at this (beep)!

Look at that (beep)!

- We have this belief that one of the stages

of the apocalypse are these mysterious portals

that open up and they unleash plasma onto the world.

And as the theory goes, this plasma is blue in color.

- Now earth's magnetic Poles do regularly switch,

about every 200,000 years,

but there's no evidence these blue lights

have any connection to that,

not to mention plasma portals.

So what is causing these sightings around the world?

Time for our experts to illuminate us.

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Mick west believes the videos are connected,

but for a different reason.

- There's obviously something in common going on here.

And I think what's in common between these blue lights

is they're all caused by electrical faults,

because when a transformer blows up,

an arc of electricity makes this

very, very bright arc of blue light.

- [Tony] In fact, there is documentation of such an event

on the night of the video from New York City.

- It was a fire at a transformer station over in queens.

So that explains exactly what we're seeing here.

And if you line up this view,

you will see that that's where the transformer station

actually is just a bit over the horizon,

and it's lighting up the clouds just above it.

- [Tony] So how does an electrical reaction

on the ground cause such a display in the sky?

According to atmospheric sciences professor Deanna hence,

the cloud conditions on these particular nights

plays a significant role.

- This kind of solid sheet of cloud

would be known as stratus clouds.

They're very reflective.

It's exceedingly common that these kinds of low clouds

will reflect the either ambient or point light sources

that are underneath them.

- [Tony] The low stratus clouds also greatly amplified

the eerie glow of these explosions.

- It's not like a mirror

where you get a very crisp, clean reflection.

Instead, things are reflecting off of

millions of tiny little drops.

And the result of that is that that will actually spread

the light out in this very diffuse way

to be able to be seen from a distance.

- So our verdict, all of these videos from around the world

are the result of transformer explosions on the ground.

There is not, in fact, an impending plasma apocalypse.

So don't worry, if the world ends tomorrow,

it will be for some other reason.

Up next, a professional rock hunter

makes a startling discovery.

- [Cameraman] Yeah, it's moving towards us,

like real fast moving towards us.

- Will this encounter be too close for comfort?

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- We've told you before about lake superior

and its long history of wicked storms,

shipwrecks and anomalous sightings.

Well add this to the list.

A close encounter between a Great Lakes freighter at a ufo.

June 2019, Erik rintamaki is in search of a unique rock

called yooperlites that he discovered.

It can only be found using a specific black light.

- I'm probably one of the most famous

rock hounds in the world.

- [Tony] Suddenly very different glowing lights

in the air over the lake catch his eye.

Let's push in.

It looks like two objects are flying

perfectly in line with each other,

or they could be two lights on a large object we can't see.

- [Erik] This is the craziest thing

I've ever seen in my life.

- [Tony] The lights make no noise, and watch this,

one passes directly over a ship.

- [Erik] It's a thousand foot iron ore freighter,

to give you some reference on the size with that video.

- When Erik checks in with the freighter,

they report that they didn't see or hear

anything out of the ordinary.

Erik watches the orbs for almost two hours,

and then they seem to start watching him.

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- [Erik] Yeah, it's moving towards us.

Like real fast moving towards us.

- [Tony] Author Alexis Brooks has heard of ufos

trying to make a connection with humans.

- This we see quite often in a ufo footage

where the light will become more illuminated,

almost as if there's a communication going on

between this object and the individual that's watching it.

So this to me is extraordinary. Absolutely extraordinary.

- In a prior episode, we discussed the sighting

of an alleged ghost ship on lake superior.

That turned out to be a mirage of a nearby island.

Is there some other optical illusion at play here?

Let's check in with our ace video analyst.

Regular viewers will know Michael primeau

as our video forensic analyst.

- I did not detect any evidence to support

that this was added into the video recording,

that this information was created by computer imagery.

- [Tony] So the video is real,

but primeau says the camera's image quality is poor.

- We have a camera that's essentially not recording

as accurately as we would expect

when you point it into the sky

and try to capture this information.

- [Tony] Next, astronomer and video effects designer

Marc d'Antonio examines whether the orbs

could be something manmade.

- One keeps fading in and out.

We're not seeing any blinking lights

that are mandated by the faa,

so we know that they're not aircraft.

It's not impossible that they might be drones.

However, one thing to know about drones

is they actually have their own set of lights,

and an orange light is not typically one of them.

- [Tony] And note that Erik tracked these orbs

far longer than any consumer grade drone can fly.

Aviation analyst Tim mcmillan wonders

if it might be the most obvious culprit of all.

- The planet Venus is very commonly mistaken for ufos

because at certain times of the year,

it can be extremely bright.

However, this object is giving off kind of an orange glow,

and frankly it appears to be much larger

than even Venus at its largest points would look.

- D'Antonio thinks the object's orange glow

is the key evidence.

- To me, this object matches a sky lantern profile.

It'll get dimmer and brighter, dimmer and brighter,

and it'll start to flicker and finally go out.

- [Tony] But what could cause the objects

to seem to approach and then retreat from the beach?

- Cell phone camera footage is really hard,

especially at night we have a black sky

and a singular point like-object,

and What'll happen is the camera will try to focus on it.

It's called focus hunting, or focus seeking,

and then we'll go big, get bloated,

and then shrink down again as it tries to focus,

and somebody could mistake that for an object

racing toward them and then racing away.

- [Tony] But just because the camera can't hold focus

on the orbs doesn't explain what they are.

And Erik and his clients saw them for over two hours,

far longer than sky lanterns can stay aloft.

- It is categorically a ufo in that it's unidentified.

- This was not a hoax.

And while it might not be an alien craft,

it remains a genuine unidentified object.

What's for certain is that Erik rintamaki

is still out there hunting yooperlite rocks, and now ufos.

Happy hunting, brother. (Mysterious music)

Up next, this man says he was touched by an angel

in the clouds.

- [Cameraman] This is my angel.

- Will his video make you a believer?

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- In one of our first episodes,

we showed you images of what some people thought

were devil faces in the clouds.

But now one man says he's got incredible footage

not of devils, but of angels.

Could these be the real deal?

It's a beautiful clear day in Camden, south Carolina

in October of 2016.

Welder Corey harrod is leaving his wife's office

when he spots something overhead so stunning

he starts to live streaming it to Facebook.

- Nobody will believe me if I didn't do this live,

but I want you to look at this cloud in the sky.

Check that out.

- [Tony] Hovering just above a nearby building

is a cloud that looks unmistakably familiar.

- [Corey] Is that not an angel or what?

Look, I mean, you can almost like see a face.

- [Tony] It also appears to have large,

perfectly symmetrical wings.

As Corey marvels at this cloud figure,

it doesn't seem to move from this spot,

and there's barely another cloud around.

- [Corey] I don't know that I've ever seen

with my own two eyes this type of cloud.

This is my angel.

- With normal clouds, you would expect to see dissipation,

but this image was persistent.

What's interesting is this gentleman apparently had

a tough time with an incident that had happened

and was perhaps looking for a sign or needing some support.

- [Tony] This sighting wasn't just transformative for Corey

at a vulnerable time in his life,

it was spiritually inspiring to many

of the over 9 million people who watched his video.

- All right, hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did.

- The same year as Corey's sighting, a gallup poll

found that 72% of Americans believe angels exist.

So is the video proof that they are indeed watching over us?

Let's have our analysts test their faith in this idea.

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First we determined if the cloud formation

is particularly unusual.

- The thin wispy characteristics of this particular cloud

indicates that it's likely made of ice crystals.

The light that's reflecting from it and passing through it

isn't being reflected as effectively

as if this was a cloud made of water.

This is actually a process known as sublimation,

where the ice crystals are turning back into water vapor

and thus becoming invisible.

So that kind of differential around the cloud

can lead to pieces of it going away

and forming interesting shapes.

- [Tony] And as to how this cloud was able to stay still

and maintain its angelic shape.

- There would need to be a few different things happening.

For one, that the winds at that altitude are relatively calm

and so that the cloud is not being moved away quickly.

- [Corey] I don't even think it's moved.

- Another factor would be that there is enough moisture

in that layer of the atmosphere so that

the different cloud particles don't disappear

back into water vapor very quickly.

- [Tony] Professor hence checks the weather conditions

on that day to see if they are consistent

with what we see in the video.

- There's actually a pretty broad high pressure region

over the eastern United States.

The winds within a high pressure region are often very calm.

So that would actually set up the conditions

to being calm enough that the cloud

is able to hang around for a long period of time.

- Our verdict, this sighting was a naturally forming cloud,

but it is not our place to say

whether it was caused by divine intervention.

Those who believe in angels

still see sightings like these as a sign,

and we could all use a little help from above.

That's our show for tonight.

Please drop us a line

if you have a video

you think we should investigate.

And for heaven's sake,

keep those cameras rolling.

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