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- Tonight on "The Proof is Out There," the classic UFO over

Belgium that put the country's air force on alert.

- Even now, more than 30 years later,

Belgium officials cannot explain

what they saw on the radar screens.

- [Tony] What strange force caused this landmass to do this?

- Initially, this looks like a a landslide, but it's not

sliding anywhere, it's rising.

- [Tony] The famous footage that has bigfoot hunters asking,

- Does this footage capture a mother and baby bigfoot?

- [Tony] And a massive mummified finger.

Does it prove that giants once roamed the earth?

- Based on the size of this finger, its owner would be

somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 feet tall.

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- [Tony] Around the globe are videos.

- [Observer] What are those things?

- [Observer] It's moving.

- [Tony] Photos and sounds that defy explanation.

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- [Observer] We don't know where they come from,

who made them, or how they operate.

- [Tony] What are they?

- [Observer] Some sort of bizarre mutation.

- [Observer] What's exciting is nobody really knows

- 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 credible case, it's a credible video.

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

- This video was clearly faked.

- "The Proof" starts now.

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Good evening, and welcome to "The Proof is Out There."

The US military has had some now famous encounters with

UFO's in recent years, but it may not be alone.

Back in the final years of the Cold War,

an encounter in the skies over the low countries of

Northwestern Europe, prompted a robust military response.

That sparked a controversy over what really happened,

which continues to this day.

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It's March 1990, over the Belgian countryside.

Two F-16s are deployed by the Belgian Air Force,

after radar spots an ominous object hovering in the air.

They see this.

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You're looking at an actual recording of what was

on their flight radar, lock-on.

In the center of the screen,

at an altitude of 7,000 feet is a diamond shaped blip.

This blip indicates there's something

solid in the sky, though it doesn't necessarily

represent what this solid object actually looks like.

The radar's altimeter measuring in thousands,

indicates the odd object races thousands of feet higher.

Then plummets back down again at breakneck speed, and it seems to

accelerate to 990 knots, or more than a thousand miles per hour,

before bolting out of range.

The pilots never make visual contact,

but back on the ground one resident of Brussels claims to

capture this footage of three lights in a triangular pattern,

passing overhead.

- This video was shot in March of 1990 over Belgium

on the same night of the radar sighting.

- A few months later, Belgian Air Force Colonel,

Wilfried de Brouwer, holds a

press conference about the incident.

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- [Tony] And there's another layer to this story.

This wasn't the first Belgian sighting.

There'd been a string of strange encounters just months before.

- It starts in November of 1989, multiple reports start coming in

of seeing, three lights in the sky.

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- [Tony] During that first wave of sightings, no less than

30 different groups of witnesses describe seeing

3 bright lights up in the sky.

- What they see is that these aren't three distinct lights,

but rather three points of light

on one very large triangular shaped object.

- [Tony] The witnesses claim to have seen the object

slowly glide at low altitude northeast, across the Belgian

landscape from the town of Liege, to the border

with the Netherlands and Germany.

More than half a dozen police officers working that evening

also spotted the mystery aircraft.

But it wasn't until months later

when the Air Force picked up that strange UFO on radar,

and this footage was captured that they seemingly had proof

that this was a technologically amazing craft.

- There was nothing that existed that could outperform

this F-16 aircraft.

But the pilot says, that as he's pursuing this object,

the object makes, essentially a quick turn and deviates off his

radar system and he loses it.

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- In total this Belgian triangle was seen by more than 1000

witnesses over these several months, with so many viewers

and the military involved, could this be the real deal?

Our experts try to identify both the

object on radar and the one that was filmed.

Are they one and the same? If so, what could it be?

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First, astronomer Marc D'Antonio examines the 1990 video.

- The important thing here is to notice that

there are three objects in the view, and the objects don't

get any closer to each other, or move apart from each other.

They stay near each other, almost as if they're connected

in some way through a structure.

So we're probably looking at a cohesive singular object

that has lights on it.

- [Tony] So, could this be a real triangular UFO?

D'Antonio says he's not so sure.

- I can never pronounce that this is real.

There's no data indicating that it is.

I can only say that it's compelling.

From my point of view, the jury is still out.

So does that make it a hoax? No.

Does it make it real? No.

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But, it doesn't take away from the fact that

this footage exists of an F-16 Fighting Falcon

tracking an object on its radar.

- [Tony] Sources say the ground footage

was filmed at around 2:20 AM, about two hours

after the F-16 spotted something on their radar.

So could these two incidents be connected?

And what would that mean?

Aviation expert Tim McMillan,

takes a closer look at that radar data.

- What this radar screen is telling us is that essentially,

this object descended from 10,000 feet to roughly

500 feet or below, in just a matter of seconds.

To do that, we're talking about something that would have to be

moving exceptionally fast, upwards of mach 40,

those types of G-forces, would crush a person.

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- [Tony] So, McMillan agrees with the Belgian Air Force,

a human couldn't withstand these forces,

but maybe an alien could.

Well, hang on, McMillan has a different theory

as to what the F-16's radar screens may have detected.

- I think possibly what we're looking at here

is something called Bragg's scattering.

It's a scattering effect with the radar.

Pockets of high humidity, ice crystals, cloud cover,

different things like that can actually

cause the radar to produce false echo returns.

The pilots themselves

never visually saw anything, only the radar.

In this particular case, I would say that the idea that

radar scattering caused these false returns could be a very

plausible explanation for it.

- But remember, this object was detected on

muliple rader systems, so it's unlikely it would be

Bragg's scattering in every case.

That's why many who've studied this incident remain perplexed.

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Okay, it's true.

The incredibly fast speeds caught on the F-16's radar

could be a glitch, but our verdict is genuine UFO.

We have no way of confirming if the object seen on radar is the

same one filmed in Brussels, but it does seem remarkable that

these two pieces of footage came within hours of each other.

And decades later, the former Air Force Colonel,

and now retired Major General de Brouwer,

still can't account for the thousands of UFO sightings

reported in Belgium over those months.

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Now from the sky to the earth,

we are all familiar with sink holes.

Those happen when water moves through cracks underground,

creating a void into which the surface eventually collapses.

But is the opposite possible?

Can the earth suddenly rise up?

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It's July, 2021, in Haryana, India, powerful rains have just

swept through the area, inundating the surrounding field

but when a group of locals go to inspect the state of the land,

they witness something astonishing.

Their video shows that muddied water

has pooled on top of the soil.

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Then suddenly, land starts surging up

from below the surface.

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At first it seems that the water might just be receding,

but take a closer look.

You can see that the land is actually rising as the water

level remains the same on the ground.

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The person filming and the other bystanders

have to step behind the cover of trees,

to get out of the way of this newly risen mass.

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- Initially this looks like a landslide,

but it's not sliding anywhere, it's rising.

We've all seen the tide rise,

but seeing the land rise, that's a rare thing.

- [Tony] Yet there is historical precedent for

this kind of thing.

- The most famous incident occurred in Mexico.

In 1943, the Paricutin volcano rose out of nowhere, giving

scientists sort of this opportunity to watch a volcano

literally be born in real time.

It's even considered 1 of the 7 natural wonders of the world.

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- [Tony] The Paricutin volcano's cone rose about

1500 feet in its first year.

But notice that here,

we don't see any typical signs of an eruption.

So what else might be the cause?

Could it be a methane bubble?

A huge bubble of gas that can rise up from

undersea methane deposits?

Some have theorized that if a ship gets caught up

near a certain part of the bubble,

it can get pulled underwater and sink.

They believe this could be be the cause of many of the

mysterious shipwrecks that have plagued the Bermuda Triangle.

- A lot of people speculate that perhaps

something could be causing this new landmass

to essentially be pushed up from the water.

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- Methane bubbles have also been popping up in places like

Siberia, where the region's permafrost is beginning to thaw.

In some cases, this has resulted in huge gas explosions that

leave massive mysterious craters

as we showed you in a previous story.

So, could a buildup of gas

or magma be causing this Indian land surge?

We turn to our experts to get properly grounded.

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First, our experts don't see signs of volcanic activity,

but is this seismic activity

that happens when there is sudden rapid movement

along faults in the earth resulting in earthquakes?

- Believe, this is some kind of a earth movement let's

say an earthquake well then you're basically standing on a

fault line, it would be shaking,

and opening up the land underneath it.

The water itself would go down into that hole, and you see

no motion of water other than the water coming up.

And so this is a very unique phenomenon

that I have not seen before.

- [Tony] So if it's neither a volcano, nor an earthquake,

could gas be behind this?

- If this was a huge methane leak,

they would be trying to breathe because,

this is a massive amount of gas that had to rise this thing up.

Methane would be in this entire area,

and so the people standing nearby would be running

to get out of the way, because that gas could kill 'em.

- [Tony] So then what could be going on here?

Anderson thinks it has to do with something in the soil.

- So when you look at this,

you find out that there's a lot of clay in here

that can absorb water,

but that still doesn't explain why it rose so quickly.

And then you found out that a farmer

added a filler in there,

and that filler was extra parts of rice.

- The ashes of the hard covering of rice,

known as rice hulls are used as compost

to improve soil quality and crop yield,

since the carbon in them helps retain water and nutrients.

In this case, as the flood water saturated the clay,

the rice filler became buoyant and began to rapidly rise,

creating an effect like a sponge filling with water.

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Our verdict,

this was probably caused by the expansion of clay

accelerated by rice filler.

But there's no way to know for certain

without testing the soil.

With a video so strange,

it had even our NASA geologist scratching his head.

There's a chance what's going on is something

we've never even heard of.

There's a chance what's going on is somethingrs"

is heralded as the best video evidence we have of bigfoot.

Well, many consider this next video

to be just as intriguing, and even more mysterious.

See for yourself.

Several years ago,

this video started to circle around the internet.

Its location and creator are still unknown to this day,

although rumors suggest this was filmed on the 4th of July.

And as you can see for yourself,

the terrain is consistent with summertime in North America.

Then this.

The camera settles on something moving,

emerging from behind a large boulder.

It's hulking covered in fur,

and hustling along amongst the foliage.

For a moment, we lose sight of the creature,

but then it reappears, and it's not alone.

The Sasquatch is carrying what looks like

one of its offspring.

The potential mama bigfoot

then sprints off into the distance.

Field researcher Cliff Barackman says

most of the fanfare surrounding the so-called

Independence Day video is due to its incredibly rare glimpse

at a supposed Sasquatch child.

- One of the biggest misconceptions about bigfoot

is that bigfoot is an individual animal,

and he has been seen from Northern California,

to Florida, to Alaska.

But it turns out Sasquatches

are a perfectly normal species of animal.

They have offspring.

- [Tony] Back in 1924, a 64-year-old lumberman

named Albert Ostman

claimed he had been kidnapped by a Sasquatch

and brought back to its cave,

where he encountered an entire family of the creatures.

He described them as a basic nuclear family,

a father, mother, son, and daughter Sasquatch,

who held him prisoner for more than a week

until he was able to escape.

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- Sasquatches do have babies.

There are a number of Sasquatch footprint casts of

juveniles, so one would expect occasionally,

every blue moon that some footage would show

one of those offspring.

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- Ostman's story reflects an idea

that many bigfoot researchers share,

the caves make a perfect home for bigfoot.

You can even visit a privately owned cave system

in British Columbia that's near many Sasquatch sightings,

but you have to sign a waiver before entering,

just in case you have a run in with the beast.

But let's see what our experts think about this

Sasquatch sighting.

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- Bigfoot investigator Steve Kulls tries to pinpoint

the origin of this Sasquatch family film.

- I did run the bird noises going on in the background.

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- [Tony] Kulls identified that call

as that of the olive-sided flycatcher,

native to the western US.

- Besides the bird song you hear in there,

you hear a car in the background.

So to me it's not a very remote location.

- It's not a disqualifier,

since bigfoot's have allegedly been seen on roads,

but Kulls sees other red flags.

- I immediately saw that there was something wrong with the way

the body mechanics of the creature's movement.

The bigfoot itself just kind of just run stops, run stops,

run stops, I find that very peculiar behavior.

- [Tony] We checked with biologist Floyd Hayes to see

if he saw any signs of familial great ape behavior.

- Usually when monkeys carry an infant,

the infant is either hanging onto its belly underneath,

or it's climbed up on top of its back.

They don't walk two-legged carrying it like that.

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- But even if you accept bigfoots are a different kind of

ape, closer to a person in how they walk or carry their young,

anatomist and bigfoot expert Jeffrey Meldrum says,

there's another obvious flaw.

- I was troubled by what appeared to be the stiffness

of the infant, as if someone in a costume was carrying

a doll that didn't have mass and animation.

There's some remarkably lifelike dolls out there,

There's some remarkably lifelike dolls out there,

including some very lifelike Sasquatch infant dolls.

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- We're calling this video a hoax,

even though it's touted as one of the best,

our experts remain unconvinced that this is anything

but a person in a well-made costume

holding some sort of doll.

But don't lose hope,

an increasing number of reports suggest

there are still plenty of little bigfoots out there

waiting to be found.

- Psychoanalyst Carl Jung famously asked why,

with so many UFO sightings

we lack solid photographic evidence of their existence.

Is it because UFOs aren't photogenic?

Well, this next snapshot

might be the photo that proves 50 sightings.

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Fyffe, Alabama, 1991.

Documentary filmmaker Ted Oliphant

is in town to investigate a string of UFO sightings

when he receives an anonymous gift.

It's a Polaroid photograph.

That Polaroid, that, kids, that's what we did

for instant photos before smartphones,

appears to show a flying saucer hovering in front of a fuzzy

tree line, and a distant mountain rage.

Now the UFO itself looks like a bridged disc

with a clear dome on top

and a flat underside facing the photographer.

Many allege, it's a photo taken

during the famous 1989 UFO wave

that drew Ted to Fyffe in the first place.

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That original UFO wave kicked off two years earlier.

In February, 1989, multiple police officers

respond to reports of a large, bright and silent object

in the sky.

Then they claim to see it themselves,

first on a local hilltop, then later by the side of a road.

- This time, it's moving right towards them,

and it would be the same size as a beach ball

at arm's length,

so we're dealing with a massive, massive object.

- [Tony] The UFO silently passes overhead, and disappears,

but not for long.

The next day proves even more eventful.

- About 50 or so people report seeing this object as well

in a town that only has a population of less than 1500.

- [Tony] And with that Fyffe's reputation

as a UFO hotspot is born.

- Newspapers around the United States

start covering this incident.

Some of the reports state that

people saw triangular shaped object,

where other reports state that the object was

more of a banana shaped,

and everyone wants to know what happened.

- [Tony] But with little to corroborate the sightings,

this Polaroid comes as potential proof.

- There's been a lot of speculation that

the anonymous Polaroid is related to this sighting.

- Residents of Fyffe, Alabama,

still commemorate the 1989 UFO sightings

with an annual Fyffe UFO Days festival.

Hey, when life gives you lemons, right?

But what to make of that Polaroid?

We ask our experts to give us the full picture.

We first check in with

astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy,

to see if this is a genuine photograph.

- So this is a Polaroid photo

and that means it was developed actually in camera.

So there's not really a whole lot of room to

do any kind of photography tricks in the dark room.

So I don't believe this photo has been manipulated

after it was captured whatsoever.

- So it seems to be an actual airborne object

caught on camera, but is it theirs or ours?

Physicist Matthew Szydagis considers

whether this could be a manmade aircraft.

- Fyffe, Alabama, is not too far from Huntsville, Alabama,

also known as Rocket City.

So one possibility

is that this was some sort of experimental craft.

- But descriptions of the Fyffe UFOs give Szydagis

his reason to doubt manmade tech is involved.

- Witnesses have stated that no sound occurred,

so this would seem to make the

human made aircraft hypothesis pretty problematic,

to say the least.

You would need to hear something like jet engine,

or propellers.

- [Tony] So could what dozens of people saw

be an alien craft?

And could this Polaroid be the proof?

McCarthy, for one, isn't so sure.

- This photograph actually contradicts a lot of the reports

of triangular-shaped or banana shaped UFOs.

This one is more saucer shaped.

- [Tony] So this probably isn't one of the Fyffe UFOs.

In fact, McCarthy's not sure it's a UFO at all.

- Look at how the upper portion of it

is darker than the bottom portion.

And ask yourself, how would that be possible

when we all know the sky

is brighter than the ground during the day?

- [Tony] While the photo may not be doctored,

McCarthy says this irregularity

leads him to believe that the photo is actually staged.

- You see, if there was a window here,

and this object was actually inside a room

and being backlit by the sky that was behind it outside,

then that would explain why it was more shadowed

closer to the observer.

- In fact, McCarthy demonstrates this

by staging his own photo with an ordinary lens cap

playing the part of the UFO.

- That's why I think, the way this was captured

- That's why I think, the way this was captured

was by placing an object on a window

and taking a photo of it.

- Our verdict, the Polaroid may be staged,

but the original sighting out of Fyffe

is still unexplained in our book.

And if the anonymous photographer

behind the Polaroid is watching,

feel free to come forward and prove us wrong.

- The Nephilim are biblical giants

mentioned in the book of Enoch.

They're usually understood to be merely legendary beings.

But could the discovery of what some believe is a

massive human finger prove that these giants once existed?

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1988 Bir Hooker, Egypt, Gregor Sporri,

a Swiss entrepreneur, and ancient Egyptian aficionado

meets a local bartender with knowledge of

black market archeology.

He introduces Sporri to an elderly grave robber

named Nagib, who shows Sporri a rag,

named Nagib, who shows Sporri a rag,

with this wrapped in it.

It looks like a massive mummified human finger.

Nagib allows Sporri to hold the finger,

and he determines it must be an enormous

13.75 inches long, and about 2.5 inches thick.

Let's get a closer look.

We see what looks like broken bone, as well as a knuckle,

and even a fingernail.

The finger is allegedly several centuries old

and appears to have been cut off with something sharp.

Remnants of fungus are visible,

and there appears to be bite marks from rats or mice.

Field researcher Ken Gerhard explains

that there are numerous legends throughout time,

suggesting that the ancient pyramids

were actually constructed by giants.

- In 1821, a French mineralogist by the name of

Frederic Cailliaud was the first

to research the Nubian pyramids of Meroe,

and he actually discovered a depiction of a giant man

carrying two elephants on his shoulders.

So we're talking about full grown African elephants here.

Based on the size of this finger,

one could speculate that its owner would be

somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 feet tall,

an actual giant.

So, this would indicate the possibility

that the pyramids were actually constructed by

immense giant humans.

We can also recall the notes of the Roman historian,

Flavius Josephus,

who wrote about these ancient giants of Egypt,

and noted that the last Egyptian giants died out

during the time of Joshua, from the Bible.

He wrote that these giants were amazing to look at,

but very terrifying to listen to,

due to the nature of their loud booming voices,

which almost sounded like lions roaring.

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- Well, Egypt may have had at least one giant.

Experts recently analyzed an unusually large set of

skeletal remains that were found in a tomb,

almost 5,000 years old.

Some believe these bones

belong to the Egyptian Pharaoh, Sa-Nakht

and may show the first ever case of the hormonal disorder,

acromegaly, otherwise known as gigantism.

But does this finger make that skeleton seem small?

We asked our experts.

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Anthropologist Kathy Strain says the hormonal disorder

acromegaly is responsible for the height of people

like Robert Wadlow, who stood a record holding 8'11.

But that's still way too short to match this finger.

People have been making the case

for true giants in the United States for years,

but they may be little more than tall tales.

- During the 20th century, there were rumors going around that

archeologists at the time

were finding all these giant skeletons,

giants in the Native American community

would grow to somewhere like seven, or eight,

or nine feet tall.

But when we look at those facts,

when we go to the Smithsonian

and try to see those amazing skeletons,

they always end up being hoaxes.

And so there is no proof whatsoever

that anybody taller than

almost nine feet tall ever existed.

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- Professor of Anatomy, Jeff Meldrum says,

a creature exceeding 15 feet tall wouldn't look very human.

- The human anatomy and physiology

essentially stretched over this exaggerated

skeletal framework comes up short,

organ failures and other problems of circulation, joints.

These individuals usually die prematurely.

You can't take a mouse

and enlarge it to the size of an elephant,

it just would not work.

- [Tony] If humans can't achieve giant status,

then where did this mummified finger come?

- If in fact this digit were simply mummified,

it would have lost a lot more fatty tissue

through the mummification process.

And so the plump appearance of this

brown, aged looking digit would be gone.

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It would be essentially just a brown leathery skin

stretched over the skeleton of a finger.

- How was the finger constructed then?

According to his story,

Sporri was allowed to hold and photograph

this mysterious object,

but was forbidden to take it anywhere

for further examination.

- A careful seamstress could, you know,

create something that's quite convincing.

I can imagine some materials that could

emulate the appearance of an ancient fingernail,

and could easily be crafted onto the artificial finger

in a rather convincing way.

in a rather convincing way.

Especially if, if close examination

was denied consistently.

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- So our verdict, we are going to have to call this a hoax.

Without the X-ray, we can't say there's any solid proof

giants ever roamed the earth.

Like Meldrum said,

it just anatomically doesn't seem feasible

that humans could grow to that size.

But if you have any evidence to the contrary,

let us know and we promise we will not give you the finger.

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- Occasionally, reports of unidentified flying objects

emerge from the same geographic area for no apparent reason.

It turns out Medellin Columbia has become one of those places,

and our next video may be more proof that something strange

is happening in South America.

June, 2020, near Medellin Columbia,

Juan Morales is hanging out with his cousin

when a strange light in the sky suddenly grabs his attention.

He rushes through the window and captures this.

A small string of light floats above the hills

in the night sky.

Zooming in, reveals what appears to be a rectangular object

lit by four green warp like lights.

Whatever it is, Juan and his cousin

can't contain their astonishment.

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- We really think that was real UFO because

it didn't move, and when it disappeared,

it disappeared a second.

- [Tony] This sighting isn't just a random occurrence.

In fact, a more recent sighting over Medellin

that we plan to analyze on a future show

is now being as some of the best UFO footage ever.

- A pilot saw a strange object outside of his aircraft

and was able to film it with his cell phone.

- [Tony] The craft races passed at a stunning speed,

but appears to be a metallic sphere,

with a point on either end.

- That particular video went viral,

and people all over the internet were

commenting about whether this was

some sort of alien spacecraft, because of its strange shape,

and how it moved through the air.

- [Tony] So, have the aliens reemerged over Columbia?

- After this video, I'm certain that the UFOs exist.

- [Tony] But others believe these aerial sightings

are connected to a far more earthly concern.

- We know that within recent years,

with the shift in drone technology

to becoming quite cheap,

drug cartels are utilizing drones to essentially deliver

or traffic drugs across borders,

or into other countries, or locally.

So, there has been some speculation that

this particular video actually shows

a Colombian cartel's use of a drone to traffic drugs

into the area.

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- A spike in UFO sightings in 2014 earned Medellin

the honor of UFO hotspot status.

But will our experts be able to identify this strange object

in the Colombian skies?

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First, is this craft just something we see all the time?

Could our green disc simply be a passing airplane?

- There doesn't appear to be any kind of motion whatsoever

with the object, and then the fact that

it doesn't have the navigation light that you would expect

on an aircraft.

You would see some potentially other kind of colors

like white or red maybe on the object,

but there's nothing that makes me believe

that it's an aircraft.

- [Tony] But maybe it's a cartel drone.

Cartel drones seized by the Columbia military

had the ability to carry 22 pounds of cocaine,

and could travel about 60 miles in a single trip.

But those drones were transporting drugs

over the border to Panama, not in cities.

Which is one reason why Marc D'Antonio

doesn't think the theory makes sense.

- If you were a drug smuggler,

would you have a drone with big bright lights on it

up in the sky?

Probably not.

If so, the drug smugglers are pretty imbecilic.

- [Tony] He thinks the lights

also rule out any legitimate use.

- Drones have mandated lighting,

so, you would see some red lights and some green lights.

You have to have those lights in order to fly.

It doesn't look to me a drone

with known lighting configuration that I've seen.

- [Tony] So are we looking at something

from beyond our world?

In determining UFO activity,

experts look for traits called the five observables,

as seen in the UFOs recorded by the US military,

anti-gravity capabilities, instantaneous acceleration,

hypersonic velocity, low observability, and finally,

the ability to move in space, air, and water.

- Of the observables, it's very indistinct,

you can't make out anything

in terms of other than the lights to be able to determine

if it had any control surfaces on it.

The fact that it didn't make any kind of things

like hypersonic speed, it wasn't transmedium,

there's nothing that calls out that it's like, you know,

the big mothership from another planet that's coming down.

- However, D'Antonio believes he sees a clue to

the object's identity, not in the lights, but its shape.

- This could be a delta wing where we're missing

a couple of lights because they're sort of

fore shortened in our view along the line of the side here.

- [Tony] A delta wing is a triangular

swept back airplane wing named for its similarity

to the uppercase Greek letter delta.

- And what kind of delta wing thing do we have

that we fly in the air in this relatively stationary?

- Well, a kite.

- [Tony] D'Antonio thinks the surrounding landscape

seals the deal.

- This is bright green throughout,

so it's somewhat closer to us.

When they zoom out, there's some fields down here,

it would probably be close to 300 feet off the ground.

Based on the size of the details in this area down here.

Based on the size of the details in this area down here.

And looking at the size of street lamps and windows,

with delta wing kite of about four feet across,

it would actually fit this profile

if it was over that field down below.

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- Our verdict?

Well, we think D'Antonio's reasoning

that this is a lit up kite with green bulbs is sound,

in our minds, the image is just too far away

and indistinct to come to a definitive conclusion.

So, we're going to say this is an unidentified object,

at least for now.

So, we're going to say tstoryf is an unidentified object,

that two heads are not necessarily better than one.

Take a look.

September 27th, 2008.

Commercial fisherman, Christopher Johnston

is working in the Indian Ocean off the coast of West Australia.

After catching a pregnant blue shark,

his crew cuts it open to release her pups

back into the ocean.

But of the many offspring released,

one swims ahead of the rest.

one swims ahead of the rest.

Take a look at this peculiar creature.

It's got one tail and seems to have normal pelvic fins,

but at the dorsal fin, things start to get a little strange.

It splits in half into two heads, complete with two mouths,

four eyes, and four naris, or nostrils.

- This certainly isn't the only time

a two headed shark has been found.

In fact, sightings of two-headed sharks

seem to be on the rise in recent years.

In 2011, a two-headed bull shark fetus

was found off the coast of the Florida Keys.

- [Tony] These cases seem to be popping up

all over the globe.

Back in 2020, a living two-headed shark

was even caught off the coast of India.

According to Gerhard,

this strange and possibly growing phenomenon

isn't exclusive to sharks alone.

- There have been examples of two headed porpoises

or dolphins that have been found in recent years as well.

It's worth noting that in mythology and folklore,

multi-headed animals are often revered,

or looked at as being magical.

In Greek mythology we have Cerberus.

In Romanian folklore, the Balaur is a multi-headed dragon.

And even in Chinese tradition,

we have something called the nine headed bird.

So, the theme of a multi-headed monster or animal

seems to be prevalent all around the world.

And it's a fair presumption that these different traditions

were inspired by encounters with

multi-headed animals like this one.

- Longtime viewers of this show may remember this guy,

a two-headed snake affectionately named

Double Trouble.

Against all odds, he thrived with his owner.

There was only one double trouble, though.

There have been multiple two headed shark sightings.

Should we be worried about an underwater army

of two headed sharks?

Let's see what our experts think.

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Marine biologist Shea Steingass

says a creature like this one would not live very long

in the unforgiving waters of the deep.

- You have two completely differently formed

central nervous systems in terms of the head and brain.

So this animal is taking two sets of stimuli in at once.

And in addition, the normal streamline structure of a shark

isn't present here.

So, instead of moving smoothly through the water,

this animal is gonna encounter a lot of turbulence

and a lot of water pressure

just trying to navigate its environment.

- [Tony] However, we do know that,

seemingly against all odds, there have been some survivors

such as the shark found back in India.

And while the specific root cause for such a deformity

may be hard to pin down, this condition does have a name.

- What I'm seeing here looks like a form of dicephaly,

which means two heads.

And this is actually a really well known

genetic malformity that happens when twins

do not separate correctly.

This isn't a positive adaptation,

in fact it's evolutionarily detrimental.

- [Tony] So what is it exactly

that's creating these two headed terrors?

Steingass believe pollution is a definite possibility.

- We have to remember that our rivers and streams

drain to the ocean.

So, these animals are literally swimming

in industrial chemicals,

a lot of which we don't even know about yet.

So, it's possible that pollution could have caused

this type of deformity,

but it's also possible that

things like changing ocean temperatures

could contribute to animals not developing correctly.

- [Tony] On top of global warming,

the excessive fishing of our oceans

might be contributing to a smaller gene pool.

- We've also fished out a lot of our oceans,

and that includes sharks.

They don't have the same genetic diversity

that they used to.

In some species, there were only a few dozen animals left.

So, all of that genetic complexity

and all of those beneficial adaptations

that the species had before,

they're actually kind of inbred now,

and they're may be less likely to thrive and survive.

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- Our verdict, this is an example of dicephaly,

a genetic mutation that can be caused

by a multitude of factors, from overfishing to pollution.

Well, the specific cause for this particular case

can't be nailed down, there doesn't seem to be

anything unexplainable here.

Just an unfortunate example of man's negative impact

on the earth's oceans.

And that's our show for tonight,

thank you so much for watching, and as always,

remember to keep those cameras rolling.

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