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Tonight, on The Proof Is Out There.

A fishing boat spots something strange in the sky,

but was something stranger in the water?

We have to keep an eye out

for secret underwater military experiments

because I know they exist.

Did a canoer spot

a legendary creature stalking the bayou?

Could the swamps of Louisiana be home to Sasquatch?

Why do these photos from Mars

appear to show bones of animals from Canada?

If these supposed fossils are real,

it makes a good argument that NASA has never been to Mars.

And what's making

these strange sounds in Southern California?

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.

Former intelligence official David Grusch

made headlines in 2023

when he claimed that the US government

has a secret UFO crash retrieval program.

But what to do if you as a civilian

see a UFO fall out of the sky?

As you're about to see,

one family had to answer that question for themselves.

July 5th, 2022, James Dean and his family

are fishing in the Gulf of Mexico

about 72 miles off the coast of Florida.

James is recording yet another successful catch

on his phone, when something spectacular

calls everyone's attention to the sky.

A few miles away, a round object spirals toward the ocean.

After five more objects fall in succession,

James and his family decide to check it out for themselves.

But as they near the site of the drop,

they discover streaks of fluorescent green.

When the video gets posted,

commenters claim it captured a crashing UFO

and the green tint as an otherworldly result

of that wreckage.

If it is a crashed ET, it's allegedly not the first.

On January 8th, 2014,

a large object fell into the Pacific Ocean

and the US Space Command was able to confirm

it did not come from this star system.

Some believe that it isn't something naturally occurring,

that it was actually alien in origin.

And videos like this

showing objects falling from the sky

are actually alien craft returning home.

That's because, as journalist MJ Banias points out,

some believe that the Earth's oceans

are actually home to underwater alien bases.

Within the UFO narrative,

there are UFOs, which are unidentified flying objects,

but there's also something called a USO,

which is unidentified submersible object.

Some people claim that they belong

to potentially some sort of extraterrestrial species

and it resides in the depths of the ocean

that we have yet to explore.

This video, taken in 2015 on Russia's Lake Baikal,

shows a blue green light in the water;

a light that we could not identify.

And it gets weirder.

In 1982, Russian divers

were operating under the water

when all of a sudden,

they bumped into these strange creatures

wearing silvery suits.

So is this video from the Gulf of Mexico

further proof of water dwelling aliens?

While the idea of underwater alien bases

is still speculative,

underwater human bases are very real.

In fact, the coast of Florida

is home to an underwater research facility

known as the Aquarius Reef Base.

Is James' video proof of an underwater facility

of the alien variety?

Our experts dive in to learn more.

Before we get to the object itself,

we ask marine biologist Shea Steingass

to address that green glow.

Could it be natural?

Bioluminescence is a really common ocean adaptation

and there's at least 1,500 different species of fish

that bioluminesce.

This adaptation can be used

to warn predators, lure prey, or even communicate.

But Steingass doesn't think that's what's happening here.

If there were animals bio luminescing or glowing here,

it wouldn't be this bright vivid green;

that's not a typical color.

And second off, we wouldn't be seeing this during the day.

This is something entirely different

than bioluminescent organisms.

So we ask aviation expert Tim McMillan,

is an unidentified submerged object

producing this light?

There have been reports of USOs.

However, in those cases,

these are trans-medium objects,

so objects which are able to

enter the water or exit the water

without any substantial change to that environment.

That's not what we see here.

Notice how this bright green

spreads across the water.

It doesn't look as much like

the roving green light of an underwater vehicle,

as it does a broad spill.

We obviously see this object

has interacted with the environment.

If it's not nature and it's not aliens,

that leaves one culprit: humans.

So could this be a secret government experiment?

Typically, if you're going to test anything in secret,

you wouldn't expect them to release a fluorescent dye.

There's a huge indication this is by design.

It's something that has been released on purpose

to draw attention.

But draw attention to what?

Astronomer Marc D'Antonio says there are a few possibilities.

In almost every case where there's an accident,

the captain might release a fluorescein dye marker

to mark their location for rescue.

This is used by commercial shipping,

defense department, in submarines,

surface vessels, rocket launches, and so forth.

But McMillan thinks

he can narrow it down a little further

by taking a closer look at the falling object

that started it all.

You'll notice that the object is leaving a corkscrew contrail.

What that says is that there's been

a profound change in the center of mass

and center of pressure of that object.

If you're looking at a multi-stage rocket,

the first stage detaches itself,

second stage takes over.

So that first stage where it was stable,

when it was all configured as one rocket

is now no longer stable,

and that's where we get that spinning.

Okay, so if it's debris from a rocket launch,

which one?

Okay, now I looked up some schedules

and found that there was no SpaceX launch on July 5th,

which is when this was purported to have been done.

So, where does that leave us?

Well, there are launches that are unknown.

You won't find them listed anywhere online

because they're classified launches.

Our verdict?

We are pretty sure these are fallen rocket boosters

intended to be recovered for reuse

if that bright green dye is any indication.

But we agree with Marc D'Antonio,

that this could be a top secret launch.

The true purpose of this mission remains a mystery.

Let's stay in Florida for another Sunshine State story.

As we've noted before,

Florida has its own variation of the Bigfoot legend.

It's called the Skunk Ape.

And just like the name suggests,

it's a lot like Bigfoot, only stinkier.

And while there is no conclusive evidence yet,

a recent piece of video just might pass the smell test.

It's January 3rd, 2015,

at approximately 1:00 PM outside Tampa, Florida.

Matthew McCamey and a friend

are on a canoe trip in Lettuce Lake Park.

They hear a noise and notice the rustling movement

of tree branches nearby.

Matthew grabs his phone to film the incident.

The footage shows an unidentified creature,

apparently covered in dark fur,

slowly making its way through the water.

The figure is hard to make out,

but it does appear to be walking on two legs

as it seemingly moves through the thick swamp

with relative ease.

Field researcher Cliff Barackman

believes this could be actual footage

of the infamous Florida Skunk Ape.

Skunk ape sightings have been going on

for as long as people have occupied the area.

The indigenous Muskogee and Seminole tribes of the area

spoke of the Este Capko, which roughly translates

to "furry, tall man" or "hairy giant,"

who they believed protected the forest

from those who mean to do it harm.

One of the best publicized reports

comes from about 1957.

Hunters apparently reported one of these animals coming in

and raiding their food supply in their hunting camp,

but that's not an isolated event.

Historic newspapers very quietly told

about Skunk Apes being in Florida

and running across people.

The Skunk Ape is believed

to have gotten its name from its foul smell,

often described as similar to rotten eggs or methane gas.

It's entirely possible

that this bad smell of the Skunk Ape

has something to do with their propensity for eating meat.

Whether it's road kill carrion,

dead things found rotting in the swamp,

or kills that they make themselves.

The Skunk Ape isn't the only mysterious creature

known for its foul odor.

Legends of the Amazon tell of the Mapinguari,

a fearsome sloth-ape hybrid

equipped with a toothy maw on its belly.

It is rumored to emit a stench

so bad it can knock you unconscious.

Let's see if our experts can sniff out the truth

of this foul smelling monster.

Anthropologist Kathy Strain notes

a strong statistical link

between Bigfoot sightings and black bear populations.

In fact, on average, one Bigfoot sighting

is expected for every 900 bears present in a given area,

but she doesn't think that explanation fits.

What you see is clearly

an upright bipedal animal of some sort.

You can hear it walking around in the water.

That's not normal behavior of a bear.

We do know that there are black bear in the general area,

but according to the park rangers,

they tend to avoid the specific location

due to tourists being in the area.

So I think I can safely rule out that this is a bear.

Professor of anatomy and anthropology,

Dr. Jeff Meldrum says there is a possibility

that this could be an elaborate hoax,

but not a strong possibility.

Who in their right mind, donning a costume,

would wade into waist deep water

in a bayou that's infested by cotton mouths and alligators?

That's a pretty precarious situation to put oneself in,

especially encumbered with a costume.

Meldrum also notes

that the animal seen in the video

does appear ape-like in appearance.

There's no real obvious lack of contour.

There's nothing anatomically to cause hesitation

or to indicate a red flag.

Obviously it's obscured,

so we can't say anything about limb proportions.

But Strain says not so fast.

She smells something rotten about the Lettuce Lake footage.

According to her research,

the eyewitness here conspired with his buddies

to create a handful of Skunk Ape hoaxes

back in early 2015.

While researching this video,

I discovered that the persons involved in this

are well-known hoaxers.

They did two other hoaxes in the general area,

including a two headed alligator

and a photoshopped photograph of a Bigfoot in the swamp.

What I believe we are seeing is a person in a suit.

I just can't believe that after doing two hoaxes,

that they would get lucky

and actually get a real Skunk Ape on tape.

Our verdict?

This is most likely a hoax,

but Dr. Meldrum brings up an interesting point.

If it is a hoax, wading through those dangerous waters

makes it a risky one.

And remember, the Skunk Ape has allegedly been

spotted and smelled all across the southeast.

If you have the proof, please send it our way.

It is well known that there are people

who believe we never landed on the moon,

and that all those iconic NASA images

were faked on a Hollywood sound stage.

But did you know, some believe something similar

is going on with missions to Mars?

Is NASA pulling off the biggest con job in space history?

It's February 2021 on Mars.

NASA's Perseverance Rover successfully lands

to begin its mission on the surface

of our neighboring planet.

But a few of the photos

from this mission and earlier ones

have left some people scratching their heads.

On the surface, they appear to show

stones scattered on the lifeless red planet.

But if you look a little bit closer,

some say these objects may not be stones at all.

One of the images contains

what looks like a walrus femur bone.

Another seems to have the remains of a whale vertebrae.

And if you zoom in very close on the third one,

there's what appears to be a live rodent.

So, some people are calling this a lemming.

Okay, let's get a better look.

Here's what they say are its eyes, its nose,

and it's short, stubby legs.

Hmm.

Writer and producer Billy Carson says,

these aren't the first odd things

he's seen while studying Mars.

About eight years ago,

I started getting real deep

into searching for space anomalies,

predominantly on Mars because Mars has the most.

And a lot of those images

have things that appear to be out of place.

They don't belong with the surrounding terrain.

Billy says some believe that's because

these images are not even really from Mars.

They're from a remote spot in Northern Canada

called Devon Island.

Devon Island became a research facility

to test out rovers in 1996, roughly.

The reason why they chose Devon Island

is because of its Mars-like conditions;

the cold temperature, the rocks,

the terrain and everything else.

Author Jason Martell says,

according to the theory proposed by so-called Mars truthers,

after the rovers were tested on Devon Island,

they never made it to Mars

because NASA didn't have the technological prowess.

Mars truthers have said

that if you go onto NASA's website,

a lot of the photos might be fakes

and that the actual stored location of these rovers

are now deep within a hangar at NASA,

and not on the surface of Mars.

So are these actually photos

of real animals and animal remains here on Earth?

We can see that the first one

does have a strong resemblance to a lemming.

A walrus femur bone.

Even the third photo that shows, questionably,

some type of a whale vertebrae.

Those are all native to Devon Island.

Since the mid 1970s,

NASA has launched 10 missions with landers or rovers

to the surface of Mars,

with most categorized as successful or operational.

Could they really all have been

just a series of elaborate hoaxes?

Let's let our experts bring this one back down to Earth.

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy says

there's solid evidence we first started

sending probes to Mars decades ago.

Viking will begin a new search.

Now, if we wanted to prove

that NASA's actually been to Mars,

we could look at one of our rivals.

China actually has an orbiter named Tianwen-1

that's actually photographed the rovers

on the Martian surface.

And McCarthy adds

that you don't even need to be a scientist

in order to track the Mars rovers.

Any amateur with a radio telescope

can actually detect the signals from these probes

that are in Martian orbit.

While the amateur astronomers may not be able

to decipher exactly what they're picking up,

the deep space network

collects the signal from the probes,

which is then interpreted by NASA

and publicly available to all.

But if these images are actually from the rovers,

how is it that they appear

to show evidence of life on Mars?

NASA geologist Dr. Bob Anderson

checks out the photo that's said to be of a whale vertebrae.

The wind, although very weak on Mars,

has a tendency to carve up these very soft rocks

making these beautiful sculptures that we find,

like at national parks where you have arches.

What you're seeing is the predominant wind

coming from the left to the right,

that's carving in these grooves

which making it look like it's a vertebrae.

Video analyst Mick West believes

there's a similar misidentification going on

with the so-called walrus bone.

Femurs do not have shapes

that kind of stick out in that way.

I think all that we're looking at here

is just some rocks that are partially buried.

If you look through thousands of photographs of rocks,

you're gonna find some that resemble other things.

But what about this apparent live lemming?

West now takes a closer look.

If you take this image

and you kind of adjust the contrast,

it looks exactly the same as a lot of the other rocks.

The only thing that really makes this look kind of rodent-y

is that there's a couple of pixels

that are kind of dark.

So if we remove these pixels

by replacing it with something else in the scene,

then it immediately becomes a lot less like a rodent.

This is a a natural human thing.

If we see anything that looks vaguely face-like,

we start interpreting that as being an actual face.

As any regular viewer of this program will know,

this phenomenon is known as Preidolia.

And that's our verdict.

This is a case of Pareidolia.

Though the images sure do resemble

remains from Devon Island's fauna,

we can confirm that NASA's Mars images

are indeed coming from Mars,

at least until the Mars truthers

send us some more convincing evidence.

With its warm waters and stunning coral reefs,

Mexico continues to be a destination

for all serious scuba divers.

And while encountering new and unique forms of life

is supposed to be part of the scuba experience,

could it be a new way to spot alien life forms as well?

It's July 17th, 2022.

Scuba enthusiast and Instagrammer Pedro Valencia

is diving in Cozumel, Mexico

when he comes across something highly unusual.

His camera captures a transparent creature

drifting through the waters

with an eerie luminescent glow

and a lifeless fish seems to be stuck

in its neon appendages.

Field Researcher Ken Gerhard agrees

that this is no run of the mill jellyfish

equipped with a laser light show.

It's not a jellyfish that I'm familiar with,

but it almost has a weird alien-like appearance.

Did he say alien?

As we mentioned earlier,

some ufologists believe sophisticated extraterrestrials

are operating out of underwater bases.

But there's another theory

that alien life actually arrived here

in a microscopic form.

So in recent years, there's been a hypothesis

known as the Panspermia theory.

What this suggests is that life on Earth

was seeded by matter from other planets,

other solar systems that traveled to Earth,

perhaps hundreds of millions of years ago.

In 2018, a research paper

created by a team of 33 scientists

was published in a peer reviewed scientific journal,

claiming that one ocean dweller we all know

is a creation of these space seeds.

The investigating team believed

that many of the extraordinary traits of the octopus

were borrowed not from some earthly ancestor,

but from somewhere else in the cosmos.

It has incredible intelligence.

It has the ability to morph

or change its body structure,

its color and texture.

And perhaps most impressively,

the octopus has the ability to

spontaneously alter its genetic code.

So these seem like supernatural abilities.

Likewise, could specimens

like this one in our video

be proof of further aquatic extraterrestrials?

Several researchers say the reason

octopi and other cephalopods

look so different from other earthly creatures

is that this other worldly genetic mutation

may have caused them to look like

whatever alien species they allegedly spawned from.

some aliens could look like that.

Let's see what our experts have to say

about this underwater enigma.

Biology professor Floyd Hayes says

the Panspermia theory doesn't present enough evidence

to contradict the octopus's origin

on Earth's evolutionary chain.

Octopuses go way back in the fossil record.

They are closely related to squids

and other groups of cephalopods.

They have evolved very little in the last millions of years.

So is it possible

that this specimen is of alien origin?

Marine biologist Shea Steingass is doubtful.

I don't think we have to look to foreign planets

to figure out what this creature is.

Theories like Panspermia

aren't generally scientifically accepted,

because we don't have a lot of direct evidence

for this actually happening.

Imagine a microorganism traveling

for millions of light years through space

in extremely cold temperatures

with no nutrients, no oxygen,

no atmosphere to protect them

from direct UV radiation in a vacuum,

landing on a planet

that they're not even evolved to thrive in.

And that's not to say it couldn't happen,

but it doesn't make a lot of biological sense.

And as for that strange, unique glow?

Bioluminescence is a chemical reaction

that happens when the bacteria

within the tissues of the organism

undergo an excitatory response

and that movement of electrons is triggered

and a flash of light is produced,

which can attract food items to it.

So this fish may have been attracted

by these little flashes of light.

With all our space alien theories deep-sixed,

could we just be looking at

an ordinary jellyfish, after all?

Steingass says not exactly.

What we're looking at isn't a single animal,

it's actually a colony of animals

that have formed together to create one organism.

It's called a hydrozoan.

Hydrozoans, like the Portuguese man o' war,

are a multifunctional unit

where all the parts benefit from the whole.

And discovering one with bioluminescent qualities

outside of the deep ocean,

is quite a rarity.

Thousands of these little animals

band together to form, essentially,

one cohesive organism.

So it is really kind of something

out of science fiction.

Our verdict: hydrozoan.

This is in fact not one animal,

but a group of creatures made up of Cnidarian jelly

and bioluminescent bacteria.

The debate about whether the octopus

evolved from an interstellar ancestor is still ongoing.

So we'll keep an eye on the oceans

for any potential signs of extra terrestrial life.

You know what they say,

what happens in Vegas, yeah, stays in Vegas.

But what about what happens above Vegas?

'Twas two nights before Christmas 2022,

and all through the Las Vegas strip,

every creature was stirring,

but the party atmosphere was broken

when club manager Brett Feinstein

spots a commotion outside his gentleman's club.

I was walking through the club

and one of our security guards told me

that there was a UFO above the club.

As the club empties into the street

to see the spectacle,

Brett hits record on his smartphone.

I pointed the camera up into the sky.

There was a big red light, two long white lights,

and then on each end of this thing were white lights.

And the consensus was this is a UFO.

Author Jason Martell points out

that with the Vegas city limits

only a hop from the legendary Area 51

and other remote military bases,

many wonder what kind of strange aircraft

populate the Vegas airspace.

We know that more than a dozen miles from Area 51,

inside the Yucca Flats, lays Area Six.

It's a lone landing strip,

it has a handful of hangers.

It's still classified by the Department of Defense

and Homeland Security.

It's very possible that what we're seeing in this footage

is some type of a night test of drones

or some type of an advanced aircraft.

But in an age

where billionaires have their own rocket ships,

it's not just the military launching experimental aircraft.

We know that Kimball Musk, the brother of Elon,

had started his own drone company

called Nova Sky Stories, based out of Nevada.

In August of 2022,

they had launched a series of blue light drones over Vegas.

When the local community saw these lights in the sky,

they quickly thought that this was

some type of UFO activity.

It takes 12 million lights

to illuminate the Las Vegas strip,

making it the brightest city on Earth

when viewed from space.

Could these lights serve as a beacon to ET visitors?

Or are they playing tricks

on the eyes of the city's hard partying humans?

I'd put pretty good odds

on the experts getting to the bottom of this one.

Given the already crowded skies above Las Vegas,

meteorologist Juan Hernandez thinks

it's unlikely to be an alien spaceship

or experimental aircraft.

Given that the Las Vegas airport is quite active,

we would've heard from air traffic control

if there was something that was hovering

atop of Las Vegas strip.

Science writer Mick West considers whether

this could be a different kind of flying machine,

like a drone.

If it was a military drone, it would be moving.

Military drones generally don't hover.

If it was a a smaller drone,

you would see the individual points of light.

Here we see things that look like big objects.

You could theoretically get

a cluster of drones very, very close together,

like 20,000 feet up.

But that's something that's, you know,

technically extraordinarily difficult to pull off

and it doesn't seem very likely in this case.

Hernandez thinks the real clue

may lie in those clouds and the Christmas weather.

It was a chilly night in Las Vegas.

It was 39 degrees.

The clouds were at about 15,000 feet,

which is important because at 15,000 feet,

it was just cold enough

for these clouds to have some ice particles,

which would then promote the development of light pillars.

Light pillars, you say?

Well, yes.

We have ice crystals that are suspended in the air

that are acting as tiny mirrors.

Each tiny mirror reflecting

a beam of light towards the viewer.

Oftentimes, people think they're UFOs,

in reality, it's an optical illusion.

According to West,

to figure out the source of those reflections,

you first need a map of the strip.

Someone noticed that this light here

and this light here look kind of similar to two hotels,

the Wynn Hotel and the Encore Hotel,

and the red one here is the Hilton Hotel.

And we can kind of demonstrate this

by taking this particular image

and overlaying it on top of a map of Las Vegas.

Here are the hotels, the Wynn and the Encore,

and over here we have the Hilton.

And if we take the photo that we were just looking at

and we overlay it,

we kinda see that they're in the same position.

This is a light pillar map.

It's a reflection of the lights on the Las Vegas strip

on the ice crystals in the clouds.

Our verdict: light pillars.

The odds of witnessing them

are longer than hitting blackjack,

so that Vegas Christmas crowd

should still feel pretty lucky.

The surface of a mirror

is supposed to reflect the light that hits it.

Yet, could it be possible for a mirror

to not only reflect images from this world,

but to project them from another one?

Take a look.

It's July 2020 in Portland, Oregon.

Local resident Danny Tumia and his 2-year-old son

are walking down the hallway of their old apartment building,

which was converted from a hotel in the 1980s.

Danny records with his phone as his son approaches a mirror

and begins to wave and point into it.

It's as if he's catching a glimpse of an old friend.

Then while he's turning away,

a ghostly face suddenly appears at the edge of the mirror.

At first, it seems like it could be

the condensation from the boy's breath,

but here, take a closer look.

There's no mistaking what appear to be

two hollow, gaping eyes.

It almost makes you stop dead in your tracks

and you're like, you freeze up 'cause you're like, what?

What is this? What am I looking at?

And Danny says this wasn't the first time

his son exhibited a strange affinity for the mirror.

My son would just always go right to it.

It was like he was talking to something or somebody.

Gives me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it.

According to author Alexis Brooks,

many cultures associate mirrors with the supernatural.

For centuries, both the Ancient Maya

as well as Aztecs believed

that mirrors served as portals to another world

and could actually be used as tools for divination.

These stories of the other worldly power of mirrors

have persisted throughout the centuries,

inspiring wonder and morbid fear.

Now, the Victorians,

what they would do with mirrors in the home of the deceased,

is they would cover all of them with cloth

because they believe that the newly dead

might get confused and get caught up in the mirror

and not go where they were intended to go.

Anthropologists have long speculated

that when early humans saw their reflections,

they thought they were looking at a likeness

that could take on a life of its own.

In some ways, this suggests that we have always had

this sense of a mirror universe.

So could we finally be seeing proof of this other world?

Our experts see through a glass darkly.

First, theoretical physicist, Dr. Michio Kaku

considers if we could be witnessing

a mirror universe in this video.

Physicists actually look

at the mathematics of parallel universes

on the other side of the looking glass.

And even the great cosmologist, Stephen Hawking,

wrote papers about whether or not

these mirror universes could exist.

But the energy necessary to open these gateways

is comparable to that of a black hole.

Since there's no black hole

in Danny's apartment building,

we consider if there might be a ghost in the mirror.

Well, we did some digging

and couldn't find anything about any young children

dying tragically here when this was a hotel.

But video analyst Mick West has another theory

about the image of this alleged ghost child.

You can see here, the eyes match,

the nose matches, the hairline matches,

so it's the same child.

It kind of leads us

with really only two possible explanations:

either it's a real ghost or it's a fake video,

and I'm gonna go with fake video.

Why so sure?

Mostly because this type of video manipulation

is pretty easy to pull off.

All you would have to do

is take a copy of the baby's face,

post it in that position,

and then just move it around as the mirror moved.

I took a copy of the baby's head

and I pasted it down in that that location

and I reduced the opacity down to about 20 odd percent,

so it gives you that ghostly quality.

Then I used what's called key framing.

I set up a position track here

and moved the baby's head

so that it matched the frame of the mirror,

and so we end up with this very similar effect.

There's a little ghostly after image.

Our verdict: hoax.

After a little snooping,

we discovered that Danny has posted

other allegedly unexplained run-ins with the unknown.

Although he has never admitted to doctoring his videos,

we're pretty sure our reflections on this one

are accurate.

Hollywood can produce some impressive sound effects,

but what happens when a real life

massive sound straight out of an explosive blockbuster

echoes throughout Los Angeles?

Just look, and listen.

January 23rd, 2021, Los Angeles, California.

It's a chilly, rainy day when warehouse worker Eric Reyes,

is startled by a strange sound coming from the sky.

He grabs his cell phone and records this.

The typical sounds of rainfall

are echoed by a distant, other worldly hum.

The sound is constant and reverberates

throughout the whole community.

At first, I was in denial

and I was like, I don't wanna hear this sound.

But it kept on going, so I went outside my patio.

I started filming the sound.

I was scared, a little bit.

That really freaked me out.

I did some research,

some people would say something hiding behind the clouds.

And what's truly odd

is that similar sounds were reported

in other parts of Southern California

around that time.

Author Jason Martell explores the theory

that sounds like these,

as well as many others heard around the world,

could be entering our atmosphere from space.

One of the possible theories of what we're hearing,

is plasma wave.

Plasma is the fourth state of matter,

very similar to gas,

but all the particles are ionized.

Occasionally, the sun emits coronal mass ejections,

which are large explosions of plasma,

from the magnetic field of the sun's corona.

According to NASA,

these coronal mass ejections, or CMEs,

can create currents in Earth's magnetic fields,

altering frequencies that can be heard

as a strange cacophony of noise.

Martell points out

that just like the horns of Armageddon

from the book of Revelation,

these sounds could also spell

the end of the world as we know it.

Could our ancient prophecies

be referencing this scientific phenomenon?

The most powerful CMEs can damage

our electrical grids, satellites,

or even our internet.

A massive CME could be a near apocalyptic event.

And while this theory has become increasingly popular,

others think that these sounds could be part of a pattern

specific to Southern California.

Many have theorized that these could also be

related to the San Diego booms.

They were recorded in March, June, and December of 2021,

the same year as the Los Angeles sounds.

Those mysterious San Diego booms

were never explained.

And while San Diego is right next

to a naval base on nearby Coronado Island,

officials for the base denied any involvement.

However, some still speculate

that it could be part of an experimental program

involving sonic weapons, weapons like the LRAD,

or Low Range Acoustic Device,

which is being used around the world

for crowd control and dispersal.

Many have said that the Navy

has acquired armed merchant ships

and have outfitted them with modular weapons systems.

Is it possible that the sounds we're hearing

are coming from these new naval capabilities

right off the coast of Los Angeles?

If the Navy were secretly arming merchant ships,

LA seems like a pretty good place to do it.

The port of LA is the busiest in the Western hemisphere

and moves nearly $300 billion worth of cargo every year.

But are some of these ships being secretly retrofitted

for the future of naval warfare?

We turn it to our experts to investigate.

Meteorologist Juan Hernandez examines

whether the conditions in this footage

were a perfect storm for coronal mass ejections.

The federal government constantly monitors

coronal mass ejections and their impact across the world.

Taking a look at the planetary K index,

which measures overall electromagnetic waves

out in space, we see that this was not related

to a solar storm or electromagnetic waves.

With the outer space theory neutralized,

we turn to forensic audio analyst Rob Maher,

to see if these sounds are even real in the first place.

In this recording,

there was no indication that it had been

assembled or layered or put together from other sources.

It appears to be authentic.

So if the recording is real,

could it be some form of sonic weapon being tested?

Maher is doubtful.

He says sonic weapons such as the LRAD

are highly directional.

They would most likely not reverberate inconsistently,

like we hear here.

So it does not seem like

that the sounds in this recording

would be attributable to military operations.

If these sounds aren't being produced by the military,

then what are we hearing?

The area in which the recording was made

does have some industrial operations,

so I compared the recording

to some sounds of manufacturing equipment.

So this manufacturing system has tonal qualities,

so frequencies, that we can observe in the spectrogram.

It also has a repetitive sound,

but the overall effect is similar

to what we heard in the example recording.

So it is conceivable that the sound might be

from some sort of industrial source.

Of course, these two sounds are not identical,

but again, it's the tonal qualities in the spectral grid

that Maher's focusing on.

Some of the other characteristics

are a little bit different, and so it's hard to attribute it

exactly to a particular manufacturing process,

but it's certainly plausible

that that could be from an industrial source.

Our verdict, we're calling this

an unidentified industrial noise.

Between this and the still unexplained San Diego booms,

you may wanna pack some earplugs

the next time you're headed to Southern California.

And that's our show for tonight.

Please let us know of any

anomalous sounds or sights you've recorded

and keep those cameras rolling.