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

An unidentified flying dude over Los Angeles.

- This was the first time he had been captured on video.

- [Tony] An unidentified floating egg

off the coast of Norway.

- [Tony] And a bunch of unidentified

blue lights in the sky.

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- There have been reports of strange halos around ufos

with different color lights.

- [Tony] If you're asking yourself,

"what is that?" You are not alone.

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Around the globe are videos-

- [woman] What the heck is this?

- [Tony] Photos, and sounds that defy explanation.

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- [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.

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- 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.

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- It's a credible case.

It's a credible video.

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

- This video is clearly faked.

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- The proof starts now.

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Good evening, everyone,

and welcome to "the proof is out there."

Ever since billionaire inventor Tony stark declared,

"I am iron man," in the movies,

kids and adults have longed

to take to the skies just like him.

But recently, actual sightings of a strange figure

flying over Los Angeles have people wondering,

"is there a real-life mad scientist out there,

"and up there?"

December, 2020, it's another beautiful day

on the southern California coast.

In the sky above the palos verdes peninsula in Los Angeles,

a local flight instructor is giving a lesson

when suddenly she and her student encounter something,

or someone, in the airspace off their port side.

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As we zoom in and slow-mo, we see what looks like a man

wearing a jet pack, flying at an altitude

of about 3,000 feet, roughly 20 miles off the coast.

Now, look close.

You can see what appears to be legs

dangling below a torso, and look right over here,

a reflection of something metallic, like a backpack.

But the strangest thing of all, there's no sign of exhaust.

- The jet packs that are out there use kerosene,

and they have literally multiple turbo engines

attached to them.

But even still, the sustained flight on those

is 10 minutes Max.

It doesn't seem like he's close to coming down anytime soon,

which says to me

he's maybe working with something special here.

There are other people who have invented jet packs

that involved engines on their arms.

This doesn't seem to be the case here.

He doesn't seem to have any kind of complicated equipment,

or anything really bulky.

- [Tony] Rumors of a similar flying figure

had been swirling around Los Angeles

for months before this sighting.

- So this guy in a jet pack had been spotted before

a couple of times actually by pilots

who were coming in for landings at lax.

But this was the first time he had been captured on video.

- [Tony] The latest sighting was in August, 2021.

What's going on?

- There are a couple of theories around this

that really interest me.

One is that it could be

some kind of secret military technology that's being tested.

The other is the idea that this is the work

of an amateur backyard inventor,

who's just not ready to reveal himself yet.

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- This is far from the first time

a flying human has shocked spectators.

In 2007, a gas station owner named Kent couch

famously floated across Oregon using a chair

and 105 balloons.

But are these new sightings really someone on a jet pack?

Our experts are cleared for takeoff.

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First, could these sightings just be weather balloons,

which have become deflated and misshapen

into a humanoid-looking profile

and caught in strong cross-winds?

- The only way that they travel at that velocity sideways is

if the winds are really, really, really high.

- [Tony] But when Dr. Hence checks the winds

over palos verdes that day-

- if you look at the winds

in this lower part of the atmosphere,

all of these winds all the way up to about 3,000 meters

are about 10 knots, or weaker.

So this was a very, very calm condition.

- [Tony] Could this instead be a power drone

tricked out to look like a person?

Our aviation expert, Tim mcmillan, thinks not.

- We can rule out a conventional drone pretty easily,

because we don't see the quadcopters,

the commercial drones of that nature,

or even most of your military, or industrial drones,

you're gonna see wings, or you're gonna see rotors.

We don't see any of that.

- [Tony] Despite the appearance of a human form,

astrophysicist hakeem oluseyi isn't ready

to confirm this is a genuine jet pack man, or woman.

- The physics of getting to this location

just does not favor a jet pack,

because they're at a high altitude,

and they're also very far away from shore.

The jet pack has to carry the fuel onboard,

and it has to fight

against earth's gravity

pulling on the human being

and still have enough fuel to travel horizontally.

- [Tony] A New Zealand company called Martin aircraft

did unveil a prototype in 2016

that is reportedly capable of flying

close to the same 3,000 feet altitude as this person.

Their model weighs over 440 pounds without fuel, or a pilot,

but appears to use significantly more equipment

than what has been spotted over L.A.

Despite that, oluseyi can't rule out a jet pack.

- Pilots have reported seeing this,

so maybe there is something there.

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- So this is a tough one.

We were going to say drone,

but mcmillan has us doubting that.

So for now, we're gonna say this is a human

using a yet unknown technology.

But we still don't know for sure,

and neither does the FBI.

They're still investigating these sightings

around Los Angeles.

Coming up, from the depths of the sea, a mysterious egg.

Is a legendary monster about to be born?

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The kraken is perhaps the largest

legendary monster known to man.

In nordic folklore, it was said to stalk the seas

from Norway all the way to Greenland.

Now, none of the legends ever mentioned

how the kraken gives birth,

but maybe this next video can provide the proof.

In October, 2019, a team of divers sets off to explore

a sunken world war ii ship off the Norwegian coast.

Instead, they see this.

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The footage shows the team in a close encounter

with a huge drifting gelatinous blob.

The video was played all over the world,

and it's not lost on people that these are the exact waters

the dreaded legendary sea monster called the kraken

was known to inhabit.

Look at it up close.

The giant floating orb is as big as a person,

and when the divers turn their flashlights on it,

it appears as if the sphere is filled

with hundreds of thousands of tiny creatures.

Also inside is an orange mass.

Some speculate that this is a tentacle.

Captain nils baadnes says he's never seen anything like it

in 25 years at sea.

- [Tony] Field researcher Ken gerhard speculates

whether this orb could actually be the spawn of the kraken.

- So the legend of the kraken is

probably one of the most celebrated sea monsters

of all time,

based on its physical descriptions,

the multiple arms, the massive size,

and just the reputation for being very malevolent,

and snatching sailors off of ships.

- [Tony] Legends say that the kraken could devour

a ship's entire crew at once.

But despite its fearsome reputation,

the monster also seemingly had its benefits.

It allegedly swam accompanied by huge schools of fish.

Brave fishermen could risk going near the beast

to secure a bountiful catch.

Unfortunately, captain baadnes said

his team didn't have much air left in their scuba tanks,

so they could only document this encounter

for a few minutes.

But our experts had plenty of time.

Let's see what they have to say.

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Our video forensics expert Michael primeau examines

the footage to determine if it's too good to be real.

- The way that the light bounces off

and through this object helped us

to authenticate this frame by frame.

So at this spot we can see, again, translucent behavior

of the subject behind the object,

and then some sort of shadowing from his reflection.

So I'm leaning more toward that this object was real.

- [Tony] So if it's not a hoax, what is it?

Marine biologist Dr. Shea conger weighs in.

- It could be a jelly, or cnidarian,

which is a stinging animal.

However, sea jellies have really distinct organelles,

and stinging cells, and anatomies.

This doesn't have any really defined and clear organs.

- [Tony] But apparently, there are other deep sea organisms

that look like gelatinous blobs.

- Maybe it's some really large form

of a hooded nudibranch.

- [Tony] Conger says nudibranchs are sea slugs

that secrete a sweet smell, often compared to watermelon,

for defense purposes.

But they are typically only about four inches long.

So if it's too blobby to be a jellyfish,

and too large to be a nudibranch, what's left?

Could it be an embryo from the legendary kraken?

Maybe, in a way.

The kraken was an exaggerated version

of an animal we now know to be real.

- We really can attribute historical sightings

of the kraken to known squid species today,

like the giant and colossal squid.

I wouldn't say it's out of the frame of possibility.

- [Tony] In fact, we've seen live

and dead versions of both species dating back to 1853,

and it's believed they can grow to nearly 60 feet.

So maybe it is a kraken egg.

But not so fast.

After a DNA analysis of the mass,

scientists are issuing a new opinion.

- It was determined that this was actually

the egg casing of a shortfin squid.

That's really cool, because this object

appears to be extremely large,

but in reality, it was the egg case of an animal

that's only about a foot long.

So it's possible that such a small organism can lay

such a huge egg casing, because it's just full of water.

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- The lesson here is that in the ocean,

small things can come in large packages.

So our verdict, this is the egg sac of a shortfin squid.

But what about that orangy mass in the center?

Scientists believe it's probably ink from the female squid,

who injected it while making the sphere.

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Up next, talk about northern lights.

- [Man] Oh, (beep).

- [Tony] Strange sights in the arctic sky

when "the proof is out there" continues.

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- If you live in the far north,

you will often see a spectacular natural show

known as the northern lights, or Aurora borealis.

(Light music) Gorgeous, right?

But some believe they are a bad omen,

warning of famine, or invasion.

And one dark, freezing night,

it looked like the omens were about to come true.

Another wild story from Norway.

It's April 5th, 2019.

A resident of andoy goes outside

to film the northern lights

when the peaceful scene literally explodes.

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Four balls of bright light erupt,

and seem to drop four glowing objects to earth.

Then watch, just as it starts to fade,

four more blow up.

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Now, on one hand, this area is a hotbed for strange legends.

- The arctic is a very remote place.

It's a very hard place to live.

So what's you're going to have is stories

that tell of odd lights in the sky,

of monsters out on the horizon,

of beings from the sky that come down,

and sort of interfere in the daily affairs of humans.

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- [Tony] In viking lore, the giant wolf fenrir

and his sons will one day eat the sun and moon,

and make the stars disappear.

But as this recent incident plays out in Norway,

locals are more inclined to think ufo,

especially give them a strange color,

shape, and pattern of these lights.

Emergency lines light up with calls about an invasion.

And others don't see aliens.

They see a bear, the Russian bear.

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- The arctic is hotly contested area.

It's basically rich,

very rich in precious metals.

Russia has a big presence there.

They really want the shipping lanes,

and as the ice retreats, Russia advances.

Russia's even testing exotic

and advanced weaponry.

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- Russia is building a string of bases in the arctic,

and it recently tested a hypersonic cruise missile,

the tsirkon, which reached a speeds of over mach eight.

So is Norway under invasion from a superpower,

or supernatural forces?

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First, is it a ufo?

Astronomer and video effects designer Marc d'Antonio

compares this to other sightings.

- There have been reports of strange halos

around ufos with different color lights,

but this is sort of outside that realm.

- [Tony] D'Antonio says classic or ufos

tend to move very quickly,

often with radical angular turns a plane could never make.

But these just hang there

as their glowing payload falls to earth.

That's anomalous even by ufo video standards.

So we ask aviation expert Tim mcmillan about the Russians.

- You're not seeing the same effect that you would see

in a missile test,

the different contrails that you would see in the sky,

that freezing of propulsion exhaust

that's coming off those systems.

Whatever these are, they're quickly dissipating

into the atmosphere, more consistent with a gas,

or something that's not a solid object.

- [Tony] And dissipating into the atmosphere

seems to be exactly the point, according to d'Antonio.

- We launch rockets up into space

to actually see what happens when we release

different types of vapors.

- [Tony] These vapors track the movement

of the Aurora borealis, and as d'Antonio digs deeper,

he learns that NASA was conducting this research

at that time using a special technology.

- It turns out that this particular rocket is known

as a black brant that actually launched

all these different types of vapors

up into the upper atmosphere.

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- So our verdict?

This was in fact a NASA test.

One reason it was such a spectacular show is that

the tracers consisted of some of the same chemicals

used in fireworks.

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Coming up, it's through the looking glass

and into a parallel universe?

- So it seems like everything has flipped.

It's really disorienting.

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- Mirrors have long been believed

to hold mystical powers.

Breaking one traditionally means seven years of bad luck.

While some chalk this up to mere superstition,

this next clip will make you wonder if there might be

some strange secret just behind the glass.

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It's may, 2017, and we're in the lush forest

outside Portland, Oregon,

where a hiker records a most unusual walk in the woods.

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Watch that again.

The hiker walks through the mirror,

as though it's an open door,

then turns back to see where he came from,

and eventually returns back through the mirror.

I get it, pretty out there,

but if it's an illusion, it's an impressive one,

and that's not all.

- As he goes through the mirror, you can see

that the Ivy is on the right side of the tree,

but then when he goes back through, and he turns around,

the Ivy's on the left.

So it seems like everything has flipped.

It's really disorienting.

- [Tony] Now, work with us here a minute,

because McCarthy points out that modern science is open

to the notion of mirror worlds.

- There are actually scientists out there

who are studying the idea that a mirror universe

might actually exist, and they're running experiments

using subatomic particles to see if those particles

will turn into mirror versions of themselves.

- The idea of mirror universes comes from a measurement

of neutrons that makes no sense.

Neutrons, when taken out of the nucleus of an atom,

will decay away.

- [Tony] According to the law of conservation of mass,

that can't just happen.

- If neutrons are, say, disappearing,

then maybe they're disappearing

into an alternate parallel universe.

Sounds crazy, but this is the actual physics

that people are testing.

- If a parallel universe does exist,

has this individual found a portal to it?

Before you go running head-first into your reflection,

let's ask our experts to explain.

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Our astrophysicist, hakeem oluseyi says the existence

of a mirror universe is theoretically possible,

but points out we wouldn't be able to just step into it.

- When physicists speak about a mirror parallel universe,

they're talking about something similar to what we have,

but we don't feel it, or interact with it.

In this case, the person is still in our universe.

- [Tony] So we need a more prosaic explanation

of this footage,

and forensic video analyst Mick west thinks he's got one.

- So I think what happens here, you can kind of get a clue

as he gets towards the mirror here.

He approaches the mirror at a 45-degree angle,

so you can't see his reflection.

So I think what happens, and if this was the mirror,

you'd come up to the mirror at 45 degrees,

he rotates it, come back out again, and turn around.

And then you can come back in, do the same thing,

come out this way.

All you have to do is then cut that video

and remove the bits where you turn the camera.

It's very, very well done.

It's camera trickery, but it's nicely done camera trickery.

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- Okay, our verdict,

this video was an impressively made hoax.

While a mirror universe may still exist,

we don't yet have an easy way to visit it,

not through a mirror,

and sadly not through a TV screen, either.

That's our show for tonight.

Thank you kindly for watching,

and keep those cameras rolling.

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