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Tonight on "The Proof Is Out There."

This guy says he not only recorded a UFO,

he tried to melt it down.

This guy says

his parents' house was haunted,

and he caught the ghost on camera.

I was scared to death cause I thought,

"What the hell is that?"

This guy may have been using aliens

as a Cold War weapon.

Was the KGB trying to send an intimidating message

to the US?

And this guy may have superhuman reflexes,

and a super strange idea of fun.

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 start with a question,

what would you do if you saw a UFO,

and then found what looked like a piece of it on the ground?

Well, we found someone determined

to get to the bottom of a similar mystery,

and he took matters into his own hands.

July 27th, 2018, Jesus Morales,

a student from Ventura, California,

is out walking his dog,

when his beloved pooch begins acting erratically.

Jesus looks to the sky above,

where he spots something that would change his life forever.

It was about eight o'clock in the morning,

and I saw the UFO.

It just was floating in the air, hovering,

and so when I got a little bit closer,

I decided to start filming it.

Jesus watches the orb

for about five minutes,

then says it begins to approach him,

and that's when things get really weird.

My phone just wasn't working so I couldn't record.

It looks like it's spinning, but it's mutating.

The closest it came was about five or 10 feet,

but then it took off into space and I never seen it again.

The UFO may have disappeared

after making Jesus's phone go haywire,

but he believes it leaves something behind.

And I came up on this piece

that was in the ground.

It looked like melted aluminum.

Jesus decides

to put the alleged space debris to the test.

I took it to a welder.

He tried to melt it down.

And it didn't melt.

And the welder had never seen any material like that.

I'm a hundred percent sure it was real,

what I saw and I believe.

Did Jesus come face-to-face with a UFO?

According to journalist MJ Banias,

his is one of an increasing number of sphere sightings,

including one remarkable case caught on camera

and leaked to documentarian, Jeremy Corbell.

One of the most famous spherical UFO encounters

occurred in 2019.

It was recorded by the USS Omaha,

and it was over the Pacific Ocean.

The Omaha witnessed a a large spherical object

descend down and go into the ocean.

We still today don't know what they saw

and what that object was, it remains unidentified.

The Omaha sphere seemed to track

and follow the navy ship,

much like Jesus claims his object tracked him.

So Jesus's story fits within the broader lore

and legend of UFO encounters.

There have been numerous allegations

that the US government

has acquired so-called meta metals from UFOs,

going back as far as the infamous Roswell crash in 1947.

If that's true,

would the feds also be interested in Jesus's find?

Let's dispatch our experts to see what they can determine.

First, how can this object stand up to this kind of heat?

We asked video effects designer and astronomer,

Marc D'Antonio.

You can take a torch like that and aim it at some steel,

and it won't melt, no matter how long you do it.

It might get it to look red hot,

but it won't actually melt it.

So metal like that doesn't have to be extraterrestrial.

To be fair,

we don't know exactly how hot Jesus's torch was,

but we do know this,

there are bigger issues with his metal fragment,

because Jesus has no evidence

it actually came from the object.

We didn't see anything falling.

So you can't say for sure where it came from,

especially here, where you have farmer's fields.

It could have been a piece of metal from a tractor.

So if the fragment evidence isn't proof,

could that sphere shut down Jesus's phone

during his critical close encounter?

These phones are pretty resilient,

but if you bombard them with electromagnetic force,

it's possible that you can cause the phone

to get scrambled a little bit.

But to do that, you need a lot of power.

Okay, so that power source is a question.

NASA geologist, Bob Anderson,

sees another problem with Jesus's story.

He said that when the object came close,

the camera and cell phone stopped working,

but there's no pictures of this object 20 feet from him.

So there's a lot of doubt in my mind

whether this is a true story.

If Jesus's account is inaccurate,

what's the accurate explanation?

Anderson immediately rules out planes or drones.

There's no control, there's no propellers,

there's no rudders or anything on that.

This object here is floating with the wind.

D'Antonio agrees.

The way the object moves is the key clue to its identity.

It hasn't demonstrated any behaviors

that would be considered classic UFO type behaviors.

However, Mylar balloons tend to move slower,

and tend to move more horizontal than vertical

for a period of time.

But then as it gets higher, it'll accelerate upwards.

So it acts like a balloon, it looks like a balloon,

maybe it is a balloon.

Our verdict, Mylar balloon.

This object simply doesn't move with the speed

or focus of other unexplained sphere sightings,

like the Navy's Omaha incident.

But Jesus,

if you do any more analysis on your metal fragment,

hit us up.

Now, let's get creepy.

The United Kingdom with its abandoned castles

and ancient cemeteries

has been called the most haunted country in the world.

But of all the spooky stories,

it's a 30 year old VHS tape

that recently captured the world's attention.

It's summer 1991 in Barmby Place, Bradford, UK.

15 year old Adam Mawson has been using a camcorder

to record his house when no one's home,

in an effort to document some strange recent happenings,

and on one of the tapes, Adam finds something frightening.

Nothing seems amiss until a shadowy figure

slowly begins to emerge from the chair.

Look closely.

It eventually rises and moves about the room,

passing behind the doorframe,

before returning

and seemingly disappearing through the wall.

Moments later,

a second figure appears from the right,

and follows closely behind the other into the wall.

I'm scared to death 'cause I thought,

what the hell is that?

And that's when I showed my parents it and my mom said,

"Oh yeah, I've seen that before.

I've seen it with her own eyes."

And to journalist Alexis Brooks,

it sounds like a classic haunted house tale.

Barmby Place ranks among one of the most haunted places

that I have ever seen.

I mean you're talking about disembodied voices,

doors opening and closing on their own,

and even what I would call a shadow person phenomenon.

Shadow people

are described as dark silhouettes with human shapes

and profiles.

These shadowy creatures are sometimes interpreted

as the presence of a spirit or other entity.

Others believe these figures to be negative beings

that can be repelled by various means,

including invoking the name of Jesus.

I have seen and heard so many accounts

of what we call the shadow person phenomenon.

Many reports of shadow people

include harassing an individual in their bedroom.

So I would dare say,

that in addition to the more conventional haunting,

we have what I would call a shadow person phenomenon

going on in that home.

A figure often associated with shadow people

is the hat man,

a famous urban legend who wears a dark coat, a hat,

and is unusually tall.

Sometimes the figure is thought to be the devil himself.

Adam's father still lives in the house on Barmby Place,

and says the activity has died down since he found religion.

But that only seems to confirm

that perhaps something spiritual was going on.

Our experts take a closer look.

First, we head to forensic video analyst, Michael Primeau,

for an authenticity check of this digitized copy.

We're not able to identify it as an actual ghost

through forensic testing,

but it could be the product of when the video was processed,

between the time that it was produced on tape,

to this digital version,

as some sort of artifact that is concealed

as the object travels by, but is it CGI?

Less likely.

So this footage

probably wasn't manipulated intentionally,

but how about accidentally?

These shadowy figures don't appear to be something

that was introduced into the recording

based on the artifacts that are present

throughout its movement.

And because we see these shadowy figures

over several seconds in multiple instances,

it's more likely something that actually happened

in the video images.

So this recording itself

may not have been manipulated,

but we are not ready to declare this a ghost.

We turn to physicist, Dr. Matthew Szydagis,

who suspects something shady.

What we're seeing here is this dark figure of shadow

seeming to pass into the left wall and disappear,

which would favor the ghost explanation.

However, if you look very carefully over these few frames,

there is some pixel darkening on the left

that would seem to indicate

that the shadow goes over the wall,

as we'd expect for a normal shadow

being cast by someone off camera.

It does not fully explain all the subtle motions we see,

such as when the shape rises out of the chair,

but it's the most plausible non-ghost explanation

that I can come up with.

Primeau disagrees,

and doesn't see any evidence

that the shadow was created by someone off camera.

If the shadow was produced by the operator

that's standing behind the camera,

we would expect to see more of that cast off

on the regions surrounding the doorway,

but it's not produced over here

on the right side of the image.

These darker regions being some sort of shadow

is not really possible

with the way that we don't see that information

on the doorway.

So if we're ruling out shadows

of someone off camera, could this truly be a ghost?

Some say physics itself

is all the proof you need of life after death,

because the law of conservation of energy states

that energy cannot be created or destroyed.

We bring that theory to Dr. Szydagis

This is a misinterpretation

of what conservation of energy means.

The very notion of conservation of energy

comes from energy changing form,

and a great example of this energy exchange

occurs after we have passed away,

and our body decomposes.

Gases and other elements will feed the worms

after we've died.

Therefore, we cannot use an argument

like conservation of energy from physics

in order to prove or disprove life after death.

So it seems current science still can't attest

to the existence of ghosts,

but as of now,

we can't explain this video any other way.

Our verdict,

this video is a bonafide case

of unexplained phenomena, over 30 years running.

Throughout the Cold War,

US government agencies stockpiled information on UFOs.

Not surprisingly,

so did our counterparts behind the Iron Curtain,

but since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991,

many allegations have come out

about the once secret KGB UFO files,

including this next story,

which might be the strangest one yet.

In 2011, a mysterious YouTube user named Ivan 0135

uploads what he claims is leaked classified footage

from the KGB, shot between 1942 and 1969.

The first video posted on April 13th,

starts with a KGB logo and censored text above and below.

You can hear the audio clicking

of an old film projector.

Remember that.

Next, we see a house

and a mysterious flying saucer shaped object

hovering behind it.

Switching to an aerial view,

a saucer shaped UFO is seen, first from a distance,

and then zoomed in,

but the most shocking footage is yet to come.

Next, we're shown what looks like an alien autopsy

being performed.

Just weeks after the first video,

a second, even more stunning video is released.

It purports to put us face-to-face

with an actual live alien.

Notice how it blinks its huge expressive eyes,

and it moves its enormous round head and slim arms.

As the camera pans from the bottom

to the top of an alien's body,

it's obvious it fits the descriptions

of the infamous grays.

The alien culprit

blamed in almost three quarters of abduction reports.

Science writer and space flight historian Amy Teitel

says the footage was first uploaded to a YouTube channel,

created the same day the first video was shared.

This video led to a lot of discussion online,

with people wondering if this footage was indeed real,

and if so, what did that mean?

One theory is that this is real video footage

of the aliens who landed in the Soviet Union in the 1940s.

Teitel notes that some believe

the footage may have been faked

as part of an elaborate Cold War, Soviet psy-op,

designed to instill fear and paranoia

in the United States.

Would putting captured aliens on display strike panic

in the West?

The idea was, this footage was designed

to scare the United States

into believing that the Soviets had this alien technology.

There's even a theory that the Roswell incident of 1947

was actually staged by Stalin

just to create this fear and doubt within the United States.

Or could it possibly be real?

Teitel says given more recent events,

maybe aliens visiting Russia isn't so far fetched after all.

There is a long history of alien encounters

within the Soviet Union.

The most notable event was in 1977 in Petrozavodsk.

A number of eyewitnesses

reported seeing an amethyst colored jellyfish

floating in the sky.

The Petrozavodsk incident

led to a meeting of the Soviet Ministry of Defense

in Moscow,

which in turn led to the creation of two new departments

designed especially to look into UFO phenomena.

They operated without interruption until 1990.

The official Soviet UFO investigators

never released any definitive proof of alien contact.

Could this be it?

Our experts are here to get to the pravda,

that means the truth.

We begin our analysis with our aviation and military expert,

Tim McMillan.

In the first portion of the video,

the flying saucer shaped object

certainly has some characteristics

that are consistent with a blimp.

It appears kind of football shaped.

We have the darker bottom with a lighter top,

which is sunlight reflecting on it.

But in terms of exotic maneuvers, you don't see any.

And so could this be a balloon? Could this be a blimp?

Absolutely.

Next we ask professor of anatomy

and anthropology, Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum,

to examine the figures seen in the footage.

I don't think that we're looking at real aliens.

I think it's much more likely costumed children.

This impression stems from the body proportions,

as well as the movements.

A child has a fairly distinctive way of moving.

The biomechanics of their body movements

are dictated by their smaller mass

and lack of maturity of body control.

Same can be said for the movements I think, seen in here.

Finally,

we take the footage to our forensic video analyst,

Michael Primeau.

He immediately notes that the time code

on the videos was embedded digitally after the fact.

Devices like these projectors didn't have time code.

What's peculiar is the way that the time code is pulsing

at one point in the video,

and how at other points of the video,

there is no time code displayed.

Just doesn't make any sense.

And here's the key discovery,

Primeau says that the film damage we see here

is identical to a film damage effect available

in some popular video editing software.

And finally, remember the sound of that projector click?

Primeau says that's an important clue too.

One of the things that I detected

in the tonality of the projector clicking sound,

the tone or the pitch of that sound changes,

which is an indication that the speed of the video

was changed when it was being played back.

So that prompted me to measure a sample group of pictures

and the sample produced a result of 47 frames per second,

much higher than any kind of film photography

should have been digitized at,

because the standard for film was only 24 frames per second

back then.

Our verdict, this is likely a hoax,

but we can't prove who made it or why.

Perhaps it's an individual prankster,

or perhaps it's someone working for Mr. Putin

to spread Russian disinformation.

Either way, comrade, you didn't fool us this time.

Okay, watch this.

That's about as fast as I can throw a punch.

How quickly could you move if your life depended on it?

This next video is proof

some people have nearly super human reflexes,

fast enough to escape a treacherous trap.

Check it out, but please, don't try this at home.

It's January, 2015 in Gilbert, Arizona.

People have gathered for a church talent show,

where 65 year old Gordon Ray

is getting ready to demonstrate

how to set off a bear trap with a stick.

I was one of the youth leaders,

and you know I can't sing or dance,

but I said, "I can do this."

And so I just started out that routine with the mouse trap

and then I just worked up to the big grizzly bear trap.

But at the last minute,

Gordon switches things up and tosses aside the wooden stake,

What are you doing?

ignoring terrified shrieks from the crowd,

he suddenly thrusts his hand downwards

and into the jaws of the trap.

He removes his hand in a split second,

right before the trap snaps shut.

It happened so fast,

I think we need to take another look in slow motion.

You can hear the people screaming in the background,

but I had done the practice so many times

in the barn ahead of time,

that I was really confident that I could beat it.

The left-handed Gordon claims

he's always been naturally quick.

I'm real agile.

I'd say like instead of a big bear,

I'm more like a a squirrel.

But journalist Erin McCarthy says

Gordon isn't alone in his feats of speed.

Bob Munden Jr. was an exhibition shooter

who could un-holster his Colt 45,

shoot a target, and re-holster his gun in 0.0175 seconds.

Munden is so fast.

Here he is in slow motion.

McCarthy says there's a strange science

behind fast reflexes like his.

Your brain, your spinal cord,

your nervous system and your muscles,

all have to work together to make movement happen,

and it's almost instantaneous.

When we're talking about reflexes,

they're even faster,

because they cut the brain out of it entirely

and go directly to the spinal cord within milliseconds.

There are people who have super fast reflexes.

For example, Pekka Luodeslampi, from Finland

has the central nervous system condition Tourette syndrome,

and he has the fastest punch on record

at 0.186 seconds.

Yet some suspect Gordon's speed

has to do with him being left-handed.

I think it could be the lefty

or southpaw advantage that you see in sports.

Some studies have actually shown

that lefties are better at processing information

more quickly,

which allows them to master tasks like that.

Even if there is a slight lefty advantage,

studies have shown human reaction time

peaks at 24 years old

and declines between four

and 10 milliseconds every year after that.

Amazingly, Gordon was 65 years old when he did this trick,

even though he should be 160 to 400 milliseconds slower

than his 25 year old self.

Let's see if our experts can figure out

how he pulled it off.

We don't think Gordon was on performance enhancing drugs,

but we checked in with theoretical physicist,

Dr. Michio Kaku, just to be sure.

Now if he was on steroids, perhaps he would be bulked up.

And I think we can also rule out amphetamines,

because psychologically you think you're superman,

but the reality is,

you're limited by the speed at which muscles contract.

That's a law of physics.

So, could being left-handed

give Gordon an advantage?

Dr. Ed Hope considers this theory.

Left-handed people

make up 10% of the general population,

but in certain elite sports,

make up disproportionately more.

And they tend to be sports that involve one-on-one plays.

People who are left-handed,

their moves are more unfamiliar to most people,

so they have limited time to react.

For sports such as swimming,

or dare I say, escaping a bear trap,

there'd be no advantage in being left-handed.

So could we have

a neurological condition like Pekka Luodeslampi's

Tourette syndrome?

We think it's the basal ganglia

that causes Tourette syndrome.

And some neurologists agree with Pekka,

that his record breaking reaction times

and speed is likely due to excitation

in these area of the brain

as a result of his neurological condition.

But actually there's not enough evidence

to say that in general,

people with Tourette syndrome have improved motor abilities.

So then is Gordon actually superhuman?

Physicist, Dr. Matthew Szydagis says, not so fast.

The total closure of the bear trap is about five frames,

so at 30 frames per second,

that means we can estimate

the time it takes for the bear trap to close

as being about 100 milliseconds.

Then if we look at

what is the maximum possible human reaction speed,

we see that this actually fits.

Szydagis says Gordon's reflexes

are above average,

but that's likely helped by muscle memory,

which despite the misnomer,

actually takes place in your brain,

and there's only one way to get that.

How do you go to Carnegie Hall?

Practice, practice, practice.

I think he's been able to shave a few milliseconds here,

shave a few milliseconds there.

He's right at the edge of what is physically possible.

Our verdict,

naturally fast reaction time plus muscle memory.

After the video went viral,

Gordon received offers to do the stunt on talk shows,

but he declined,

promising his wife that what we saw was his final attempt.

And remember, don't you go trying this at home,

or there could be severe or even severed consequences.

Russian mythology is filled with stories of mermaids

and other sea monsters lurking beneath the water surface.

Looking at this next video,

we can understand why any Russian

might respond with a polite, "Nyet,"

when invited for a seaside swim.

August, 2018, Bering Sea, Russia,

two local residents take a leisurely stroll on the beach

when they discover something hideous and enormous.

They pull out their phones and record this.

A mysterious sea creature washed up

on the eastern coast of Russia.

Now let's look at this thing.

The enormous beast looks like it has a tail.

It's white,

and it looks like it's covered

with some kind of fur hanging from the carcass.

It doesn't appear to have a prominent face or eyes.

It's about 20 feet long,

and according to the witnesses, it smelled horrid.

Field researcher Ken Gerhard says,

Russian legend speaks of water spirits like the Vodyanoy,

a slimy bearded creature covered in scales

that can pull people and animals underwater,

break dams, drown crops, and wash away mills.

This creature vaguely fits the description,

but the Vodyanoy was traditionally found

in rivers and lakes, not the sea.

So Gerhard points to another theory.

A story that surfaced on the internet

talks about organism 46-B,

and according to the accounts,

there was a Russian scientific expedition

that was exploring under thousands of feet of ice

in Siberia,

when they encountered this giant, intelligent,

octopus-like creature that attacked their team,

killing three of their members.

Now, whatever you may think of this story,

it's certainly not beyond the realm of possibility

that there are giant, unknown creatures

that live at very great depths under the ice.

For example, the colossal squid,

the largest invertebrate on earth.

The colossal squid,

which can weigh over 1000 pounds,

was first discovered in 1925,

living beneath the icy waters of Antarctica.

And Gerhard suggests one final theory.

Perhaps this is not an aquatic creature at all,

but possibly a long lost remnant of the ice age.

This thing could be the remains

of some ancient prehistoric Pleistocene mega faunal animal,

something like a wooly mammoth frozen in the permafrost

for thousands of years.

A trend of rising temperatures

has led to long extinct creatures being unearthed,

and it's casting new light on prehistoric eras.

In 2018, a team in Siberia unearthed mummified lion cubs

that date back to the end of the Pleistocene epoch.

That's right, in case you didn't know,

Russia used to have lions.

Let's see what our experts can unearth about this creature.

Biologists Shea Steingass throws doubt on the idea

that this could be the Vodyanoy,

since it is known to have limbs,

which are out of place in the ocean.

It's said to have kind of a humanoid shape to it,

with possibly even legs, and that to me doesn't make sense.

'Cause the ocean, especially the Antarctic ocean,

is very cold,

and water tends to actually suck body heat from you

faster than air,

which is why humans can become hypothermic even

in really warm water.

So instead,

could it be some large predatory creature

from beneath the frozen caps, like organism 46-B.

Organism 46-B.

That was purportedly brought up

from a scientific ice core expedition.

This is very unlikely,

because when you core ice for composition,

the holes that are drilled are only an inch

or two in diameter,

and we really just don't have the technology

to drag up a giant sea creature

from thousands of feet under the sea ice.

So I would say that 46-B is probably just a myth.

Biologist Floyd Hayes takes an icy plunge

into the prehistoric animal theory.

This looks a lot like a hairy creature,

and it could potentially be a mammoth.

Mammoths have melted out from permafrost

in different parts of the world.

But after further observation,

Hayes realizes the fuzzy exterior of this creature

might not actually be here at all.

Hay says this rotting corpse

is the perfect example of something called a globster.

Say what?

A globster is a large organic mass

that washes up on the beach of an ocean or river or lake.

Globsters have often been identified as giant octopuses,

and squids,

but usually they wind up being the blubber of a whale.

It doesn't resemble anything that is living,

and that's because it is the carcass of an animal

that is decomposing.

The decomposing blubber of a whale

has a fine shredded appearance similar to this.

I'm sure that's what it is.

Our verdict, we're sold on Dr. Hayes's assessment

that this is in fact the globster of a whale carcass,

whose rotting blubber actually creates

the appearance of hair.

You know what they say?

The rising tide lifts all boats,

and well apparently, other creatures too.

We'll keep you posted on what else washes ashore.

India is a land of ancient wonders,

but sadly, many of its architectural marvels

were either damaged or destroyed by invading barbarians.

The structure in our next video survived the acts,

perhaps not because of what it looks like,

but what it sounds like.

It's November, 2016,

and Sunil Krishnan has made a pilgrimage

to the ancient village of Hampi.

He is there to explore the beauty

and antiquity of the Vittala temple.

The temple's biggest attractions

are these mysterious 56 pillars made of solid granite,

that somehow produce musical notes when struck.

So I went there,

then I realized this is beyond my understanding.

You've heard about this pillar all your life.

Finally you get to play with it.

That is an amazing experience.

Journalist Eric Grundhauser says

that visitors to the ancient site

have been fascinated by the musical pillars

for more than 500 years.

The musical pillars of Hampi

consist of 56 granite pillars,

sometimes referred to as the Sa Re Ga Ma pillars,

Sa Re Ga Ma being the Indian version

of the tonal scale equivalent to Do Re Mi Fa.

So the sounds emitted will change

depending on which pillar you are tapping.

According to legend,

the musical pillars may have been created

for the God Vishnu,

to celebrate his return,

and the reincarnation of Vishnu will destroy the wicked

and the unjust in this dawning of a new age.

Grundhauser says foreign invaders

have long obsessed over the mystery

of how these stone columns

could produce such soothing music.

The Mughals are said to have charred the pillars

for three months,

trying to unlock the secrets of their musical notes.

The English ended up carving off two of the pillars

just to see inside,

discovering that they are just granite pillars.

Many visitors to the site

still have trouble explaining

how the pillars could have been created

to emit such unique musical tones.

Although we have examples of resonance stones

in other parts of the world,

there's nothing quite like Hampi's pillars

in terms of historical significance.

For decades,

they have been the subject of numerous scientific studies,

and yet they still remain an enigma.

So let's see if our experts can solve this ancient riddle.

We start with forensic audio analyst,

Dr. Rob Maher,

who has a theory as to how these pillars made of solid rock

could make music.

The mechanics of this particular rock

and the diameter of the pillars

are that it's a flexural vibration,

meaning the whole pillar itself is wiggling side to side

almost like a string.

And so that's the thing that is allowing it to vibrate

at a particular frequency.

Sound crazy?

Well, you see examples of flexural vibration all the time,

like on a guitar string or a coiled door stopper.

To test his theory,

Maher creates a synthetic version

of a flexural vibration sound

and compares it to the columns.

So I'll play the synthesized first.

So it has the same characteristic pitch

and the general quality to it,

and so what we're hearing when the structure is struck

is just these flexural vibrations,

but the understanding of how they work is still emerging.

So how could a giant piece of stone

be made to produce a sound the same way as a guitar string?

Some theories have said

that it may be that the pillars are reconstituted granite,

and each one of the pillars

were purpose made for the tones.

Perhaps there's inclusions in the granite stones

that subtly produce these differences in tone,

but exactly what that inclusion would be,

and how Hindus of the 1500s figured that out,

these are all still unanswered questions.

Barnhart also points out

that even if it was possible

for artisans from over 500 years ago

to wield the technology needed,

the surrounding evidence does not support that conclusion.

The creation of a cement

that would be made of granite,

would involve heating up that granite

to thousands of degrees,

and there is no evidence of any kilns of that nature

being able to get that hot anywhere near the temple.

And even then, the musical mystery remains.

The kind of trial and error it would take

to make each one of them

consistently make a different tone,

it boggles the modern mind

how we would go about this process.

So the idea that scientists of the 1500s did this,

not once, but 56 times is really kind of amazing.

Okay people, we are genuinely stumped.

We don't know how these things were made.

So we have to conclude,

the musical pillars of Hampi

are the product of a lost technology forgotten over time.

Today the pillars are cordoned off to prevent further damage

to the stone instruments.

So if you go, look, but don't touch.

In an earlier episode,

we brought you a confounding story

about alleged UFOs caught on camera in Warminster, England.

After investigating this footage,

we came to the conclusion

that it was simply too good to be true.

The video must have been altered.

However, a new lead came in after we aired,

that reminded us that things may not always be

what they seem.

August, 2018,

Warminster, England, about a hundred miles west of London.

From the side of a highway,

the passenger in a parked car notices something

in the evening sky, two bright orbs moving separately.

At first it looks like it might be a couple of helicopters

or drones, but then look at this,

they split into five or six smaller objects.

The cluster continues to fly in unison,

illuminating the sky

and coordinating maneuvers for a full three minutes.

It's reminiscent of a series of UFO sightings

that occurred in the area in the 1960s.

These sightings characterized at times by explosions

and hissing flames in the sky,

came to be known as the Warminster Thing.

Could this video offer proof

of the Warminster Thing's return?

We considered UFOs and secret military tech,

but ultimately the answer seemed to come

from testing the validity of the video itself,

and a suspicious edit gave one of our experts pause.

The transition out of the hill was removed from the video.

I think I have to label this one a hoax.

At the time,

our original analysis led us to believe

that this video was doctored to deceive,

but then you, our beloved viewers got involved,

and that changed everything.

When the original segment hit YouTube,

some viewers claim this wasn't faked footage after all.

This video really needed a second look at,

because of this new information.

So our ace video analyst, Mick West,

went back to check the authenticity of the video

and its suspicious edit.

I think what actually happened in this location was,

the cameraman simply moved the camera down, lost the shot,

and then moved it back up again

as they came out from behind the hill.

And so they just did a little edit

to remove that little bit of dead air.

Because of this,

West doesn't think trickery or CGI was involved,

which negates our old verdict.

Everything else about the video seems very genuine to me.

The way the objects move seems very consistent.

West also Xed out other hypotheses,

natural and technological.

There was a bunch of different hypotheses,

one of which was a meteor shower,

and you can kind of rule that out,

because it changes direction.

Another possibility,

drones that were rigged with fireworks,

but you don't generally have drones with fireworks on,

because drones are quite small.

Also, military technology was kind of ruled out,

because they're not gonna be testing

some kind of secret military technology

by the side of a road where anyone can see it.

Which to West only meant one thing.

This is obviously something that isn't secretive,

something that's either is intended to be seen

or they don't care if people see it.

But what other explanations

could have possibly fit the bill?

The answer almost flew past us,

that is, until we logged onto social media.

We were contacted by a viewer

who recognized what he was seeing on screen,

and he suggested that what we might be looking at

was actually pyrotechnic planes.

Pyrotechnic planes are aircraft

that use their wide wingspan

to slowly release fireworks from their wingtips.

They've been used in a variety of function,

from air shows or weddings,

to the deployment of destruction in war zones.

But if that's what we're seeing,

who was the responsible party?

All it took was a simple internet search

of the business located in the area of the sighting.

I run a company called Airborne Pyrotechnics,

and we fly a couple of Grob motor gliders

with pyrotechnics and LEDs,

and this is my son Tom, he's my second pilot.

Airborne Pyrotechnics is run by Tim

and Tom Dews,

who have flown all over the world.

And it's not the first time one of their displays

has been mistaken for a UFO.

They even have a warning on their website

for that very reason.

It's funny, you know,

we can do a really nice display

and put half a dozen pictures up and get 50 views,

and somebody takes a shaky,

wobbly video of us from 10 miles away,

and you can't even make out what it is, says the word UFO,

and it gets thousands, hundreds of thousands of views.

I just can't understand it.

Our new verdict, you guessed it,

airborne pyrotechnics.

The plane the Dews fly, the Grob 109B,

is a twin seat, self-launching motor glider.

It's been used by the Royal Air Force

to train cadets in basic flying,

and that's our show for tonight.

As you can see,

we are always open to suggestions,

so please let us know

what you think we should be investigating,

and keep those cameras rolling.