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- [Tony] 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 2] A plane that was literally frozen in the air?

- [Tony] What are they?

- [Man] Some sort of bizarre mutation.

- Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof.

- I'm Tony Harris

and as a journalist for more than 30 years

I follow 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 its incredible video.

- And pass a verdict on what it is.

- This video was clearly faked.

- The proof starts now.

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Welcome to "the proof is out there."

And our first video tonight prepare yourself for a ride

through the wilds of Indonesia.

As a group of motorcycle riders have an unexpected run in.

This is aceh Indonesia, located on the northwest tip

of the island of sumatra.

It's known for its rugged terrain, steaming volcanoes

and now this.

It's an unidentified figure.

The site so startling it causes one

of these dirt bike riders to wipe out.

The others, pursue it.

It darts into the tall grass and disappears.

Now, if we slow this down and freeze it.

We see a small figure carrying something.

Because of its small stature, their speculation

the bikers caught sight of a legendary being

called the orang pendek.

Field researcher cliff barackman heads

the orang pendek project.

- Orang pendek are two Indonesian words that translate

to short man.

- He's conducted an expedition to search

for the creature in sumatra.

It's described as small

with a compact muscular build like a boxers.

- The arms are longer in proportion to their legs

than what would be found in humans.

So this is just another species of ape basically

that's out there and they don't seem to have

any language ability or anything like that.

And all of their behaviors point to something

like an orangutan, except for one strange thing.

They walk on two legs, maybe not a hundred percent

of the time, but let's say habitually.

Credible sightings date back to at least the 1920s

though the creature's existence has not been confirmed.

This is the cast of an alleged orang pendek footprint.

Which one primate biologists said was a blend of chimp,

gibbon, orangutang, and human.

So what do you think we have here?

Is this evidence of the mythical orang pendek

or is it something or someone else?

Our experts are anxious to dive into the mystery.

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First up forensic video analyst, Michael primeau.

He wants to know if this video is legit.

- Had this been computer generated or inserted it

in the video, I would expect to see some indication of that.

- One of the tests primeau uses is called

a motion vector analysis.

- The activity is almost too smooth to be faked.

The way that the motorcyclists crashed, responded,

reacted to the crash and then continued on pursuit.

The timing of the way that this figure was traveling

on foot, it all seemed to be real to me.

- So the video is not altered,

but is it really an orang pendek?

Next, anthropologist Kathy strain says

she initially thought the video could be a game changer.

- There are these stories about orang pendek

and so at first, when I saw it,

I went did they finally get this on film?

- But here's the issue.

The orang pendek is covered in fur.

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This figure has some hair

but has a noticeable bald spot on his buttocks.

- It appears to be hairless.

And so there are no eyewitness accounts where

an orang pendek, isn't noted to have very long hair on them.

- So what or who is it?

Biologist Lucy eckersley has another theory.

Could it be a prehistoric relative of early man

somehow still alive today?

- Maybe this is a relic of homo floresiensis.

In 2003 and the island of flores and a small cave,

a remarkable discovery was found of a hominid species

that looked very similar to humans,

but stood around three feet tall.

- While the so-called flores man lived

on this Indonesian island around 50,000 years ago.

In recent years, natives have reported seeing a

hobbit-like person that comes down

from the caves and steals from them.

But eckersley says the body type

of the figure in the video doesn't quite match.

- What we see in this video seems

to be a thin and small homo sapien.

It doesn't look like the stocky build

that I would expect to see in homo floresiensis

or any of our other extinct relatives.

- Another more likely theory.

- It's possible that this could be

a member of mante tribe.

They are a lost tribe of sumatra

who were known to have lived

in these areas and they are essentially uncontacted

by the rest of the human world.

They all quite small compared to the average

of what you would see in this area of the world.

- [Tony] In fact, the ministry of social affairs

in Indonesia is now trying to find more information

about this loss tribe.

- If that is a member of the mante tribe,

that would be one of the most important scientific finds

in the last 50 years easily.

- Okay. After all that, here's where we're landing.

The video is real.

Despite worldwide speculation, the person

in the video is not an orang pendek or flores man.

Our verdict. Mante tribesmen.

One of only 100 tribes in the world

that are still uncontacted.

He might have much to teach us

but perhaps is best left alone.

Pretty incredible.

- So there's one basic principle we all learned

at an early age.

What goes up must come down.

But is it possible that this basic law

of physics can be bent or broken?

This video will make you wonder.

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January, 2017 Hong Kong has long been known as a hub

for cutting edge technology, but this defies all logic.

Did you notice the blades aren't moving?

The helicopter appears to be levitated

and now check out this bird caught on a garage door

security camera or this wild video from Russia.

- All of a sudden up in the air

is a little girl who's wearing a pink coat

and she's magically and mystically floating.

- According to religious scholar, Diana pasulka.

This could be evidence

of the ability for humans to levitate.

- Levitation has been around since the beginning

of human history.

And a lot of times what you'll see is levitation

is associated with some type of religious practice.

- Franciscan fiar Joseph cupertino was made a Saint

after numerous witnesses verified his feats

of levitation almost 400 years ago.

- Joseph was in a church

and starts to fly up to the ceiling.

So there were actually people who levitate

and other people have seen them.

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- Not only that, levitation has been actively pursued

by the u s government.

According to our military analyst, Tim mcmillan

anti gravity technology has been the holy grail

of aerospace research for decades.

- There's certainly multiple ways that have been attempted.

And there's plenty of theoretical things

that sound good on paper.

And in fact, NASA has actually successfully levitated mice

and different insects to test weightlessness

for astronauts is using magnets comes up a lot.

This is secret black technology

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- In fact, it's been discovered the U.S. military

has filed patents in the effort

to crack the code of anti-gravity tech.

Has the answer been found, is that what is going on

at least with that helicopter?

We contacted forensic video analyst

Michael primeau take look.

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First question, are the videos legit?

Primeau begins with the clip of the floating.

- The operator is speaking in Russian.

The standard frame rate that they would have used

is 25 frames per second,

but the frame rate I extracted was 12 frames per second

12.5 frames per second to be exact.

And this frame rate is unusual.

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- Cutting the frame rate in half

also means half of the video information is lost.

Primeau believes it helps obscure

what's going on in the background.

- And it almost appears

that something is kind of attached to her back.

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This is a clear indication

that something was edited at this point.

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- But primeau says the helicopter video is authentic.

So could this be breakthrough antigravity

or magnetic levitation technology at work?

We sent the video to physicist Dr. Hakeem oluseyi.

- In order to levitate a helicopter

like that magnetically,

the challenge would be incredible

because you would need a huge giant magnetic hellipad

but also what would keep this helicopter stable?

It would rotate. It would flop around,

just like when you see a superconductor

levitated over a magnet.

Well, this helicopter would also rotate and spin.

- And Dr. Michio kaku says there's another issue.

Super magnetic technology still has a long way to go.

- To create a super magnet.

You have to cool it down to near absolute zero.

And that's very expensive.

What we need is a super conducting material

at room temperature.

- So what is it?

Olu shay says the technology behind

this levitating helicopter is not

in the helicopter itself, but in the camera.

- For this helicopter, the effect that we see

is the helicopter rotor blade is rotating

at a particular velocity.

And the camera is actually taking pictures

at a particular rate.

And so those two things match up just right.

- Usually choppers look like this on video,

but here the camera's frame rate happens to be perfectly

in sync with the rotation of the rotor,

causing the illusion of levitation.

That's what's going on with this bird too.

- The plot of this bird's wings must be matching

the frame rate of the camera.

And that way we see the wings

in the same position every time.

And they look like they're not moving at all.

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- So this is what we know, a doctored frame rate

along with a carefully placed edit,

gives the illusion of a levitating Russian girl.

Our verdictt, hoax.

And the levitatng helicopter?

That's no hoax, just an illusion caused by the camera.

But check back in a couple of decades

maybe that super magnet will have arrived by then.

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Here's an interesting fact.

The average lightning bolt delivers about

1.5 million volts of electricity,

but as you're about to see

it might be possible that some people have a kind

of immunity to that kind of shock.

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The origin of this video is undetermined.

We believe is from China,

watch closely a man walks into this driveway.

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After he is struck by lightning, incredibly, he gets up

and then a double lightning strike, amazing

and an August, 2020.

Another stunning video.

This truck in Thailand gets stuck on some overhead wires.

When the driver gets out, he's in for a shock.

Look again, as we push in and slow down,

the man literally catches fire and collapses.

But the craziest thing is he survived with only minor burns.

- The questions that pop into my mind,

how could he survive something like that?

- Professor Diana pasulka says massive electrocutions

are known to do strange things to people.

For one thing, lightning strikes often leave bizarre

markings called lichtenberg figures on people's flesh.

There are people who seem to develop electoral immunity

like this man in India, who brags about an ability

to withstand lethal levels of electricity.

And pasulka has even heard

of one survivor who later developed a peculiar talent.

- She had this very sad and burdensome skill

of identifying when plane crashes are going to happen.

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So I think that we have to think

about these people who survive these kinds of terrible

electrocution as definitely super humans in one sense.

- Nearly a quarter million people get hit

by lightning each year.

Their injuries depend in part on where the strike hits them

and how the jolt moves through their body.

But it's rare for these incidents

to be caught on camera.

So is this footage real?

And can it tell us anything about whether these people

have an extraordinary ability to resist a massive

electrical charge?

Let's take our video to the experts.

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Our atmospheric scientist, Dr. Deanna hence says

the alleged China footage raises some red flags.

- It is interesting that this person is struck by lightning

in the middle of the street when there is lots and lots

and lots of much taller objects on all sides of them.

That would have to be an incredible stroke of bad luck

to still be struck by lightning in the middle

of this relatively narrow street.

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- And the footage of sending science writer

Mick west into full debunking mode.

- Suspicious thing here is that, it doesn't light on

the tops of the trees and this shadow here remains the same.

- With a few keystrokes he shows us how

the lightening was inserted.

- What if I take this particular frame

and just give an exposure modification to it.

So I did that and we basically get the same image

and then just draw some kind of Jaggy line like this,

take that and blur it.

- But he believes the Thai footage is for real

despite the theatrical way the victim collapses.

- When he fell over, that looks very strange

because he just kind of went stiff and then fell over.

But that's actually what happens.

It looks very unnatural.

- So if this footage is real,

does this flaming man have a superhuman power?

And how does India's electro man do it?

West says that special power is like beauty.

It's skin deep.

- There are some people who have essentially

thicker dryer skin than other people,

which means their skin has more resistance because

for electricity to be transmitted in the human body.

It generally needs some kind of moisture like water.

It's almost like you're wearing a set of extra gloves.

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- So here's where we're ending up.

The China video is a straight up hoax, please.

The shadows gave it away, but the Thai video is real.

And it does suggest that some people can take massive jolts

of electricity, possibly because of their skin.

Our verdict. It may be a rare physical trait.

The us and Russia have often found themselves

on opposite sides of the political spectrum.

But the two countries share at least one thing

frequently reported alien encounters.

It was your average December day

in Siberia's amur region, temps below zero,

two feet of snow, and many more trees than people.

According to local reports,

a man was out just walking his dog.

- And ultimately they stumble across

this strange three foot creature lying in the snow.

It was missing a limb.

It had a sort of a dark grayish skin color, no hair,

or are sort of noticeable facial features to recognize.

- Let's freeze on that.

Notice how the thing's head is tilted in an odd way

as if it was speaking or screaming before it died.

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The people filming are convinced it's an alien.

And here's the really wild thing.

This might not even be the first

like this to appear in Russian.

- In 1996, a local woman discovered a strange creature

in the wilderness.

It was nicknamed Allah shanka by the media.

But according to the woman

the creature was still alive when she discovered it.

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- Siberia is also the site

of the famous 1908 tunguska meteor strike.

It leveled 80 million trees over 830 square miles.

Though some believe there wasn't a meteor at all

but a crashed alien spaceship.

So is this latest video proof of alien life?

Let's check with our experts.

We first speak to field biologists, Lucy eckersley.

The first question, could this creature be some kind

of tragically malformed person.

- I immediately can tell this isn't a human

because it's very small.

And it also doesn't have the formed chin

and cranium of a human.

His head is a very different shape.

- Okay. We're not looking at a human

but eckersley finds a clue to suggest

it may be one of our cousins.

Look closely at those arms.

- My first thought is maybe this is a primate

something that has really long arms

for reaching through and swinging from trees.

Something like a squirrel monkey

- of course, squirrel monkeys are native

to the tropics of South America.

So how could it be in Siberia?

Could it have escaped from a zoo?

That's a mystery, but one that forensic investigator

chase kloetzke thinks she can solve quickly.

- There's no Gore. There's no liquid.

- For kloetzke, that's a red flag.

The scene is missing important details

of a recently deceased flesh and blood creature.

- You would expect to see something, whether it's,

you know alien blood or fluids,

or even some sort of pus.

- [Tony] And if this alien just survived a crash,

you'd never know it from the video.

- There was no debris.

There were no scorch marks.

There were, there was nothing.

The snow was pristine after studying the video.

There was just so many things wrong with it.

I don't like it I'll be honest with you.

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- So what is it?

Not only does a squirrel monkey in the middle of Siberia

not make sense, but it's really the lack

of any gory details that just doesn't feel right.

So we're going with chase on this one.

The Russian alien corpse is a hoax.

Clearly some people can't get enough alien corpse footage

even though it drives the serious ufo researchers nuts.

We just call them as we see them.

And that's our show for tonight.

I'm Tony Harris.

Thanks for watching.

Please hit us up with your questions and comments.

And by all means, keep those cameras rolling.

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