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- [Tony] Tonight on, "The Proof Is Out There: Alien Edition."

A glowing orb splits in two over the night sky.

Is it connected to one of the

most famous UFO incidents of all time?

- [MJ] Several people believe that this was a coverup

and something else was operating over Phoenix that night.

- [Tony] A strange light

streaks across the Amazon jungle.

Are these skies hiding something

far more mysterious than wildlife?

- [Luis] I was absolutely floored by the sheer number

of local, indigenous people tormented by these UAPs.

- [Tony] And bizarre orbs move with precision

above the Arctic.

Could the Aurora itself be fueling UFOs?

- [Bobby] I couldn't help but think like maybe there's a link

between what's going on with the Aurora Borealis

and those little orbs use that energy to fly.

- [Tony] Light formations and orbs

are two of the most commonly reported UFO types.

Are they connected?

Our experts analyze the evidence.

- [Witness] Oh my God, Ryan, they're [bleep] UFOs.

- It's amazing.

These things just magically appear in the sky.

- [Tony] And then we'll pass a verdict.

- I would definitely say you're looking at an unknown.

- "The Proof," starts now.

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- Good evening everyone, and welcome to,

"The Proof Is Out There."

Arizona is famous, in UFO circles,

for the Phoenix Lights incident of 1997,

but most people don't know that's only one

of several similar incidents

reported in the area over the years.

Are they connected and are they legit?

Check this out.

- [Tony] It's October 12th, 2004

in Phoenix, Arizona.

At around 7:45 p.m local resident Jeff Woolwine

has set up a camera to film the night sky,

when he captures something out of this world.

His video shows a bright white oblong shaped light

hovering in the sky.

Eventually the light begins to blink

and then remarkably it appears to slowly split apart,

transforming from one single object

into two separate entities.

Shortly after they break apart,

the two lights gradually disappear, one after the other.

- It's amazing, you know,

because you're out there and you're watching

and these things just magically appear in the sky.

There's no airplanes dropping these things out.

There's no explanation on why these things are here.

- [Tony] Jeff says this is exactly

what he's spent years looking for.

- [Jeff] I've been seeing these Phoenix lights

ever since I was a kid.

And you know, it really made me go on a quest

to find out what is really going on here

in our Phoenix skies.

- [Tony] So since this is Phoenix,

the big question is, is Jeff's footage related

to the most well-known UFO sightings here ever?

Journalist MJ Banias takes us back to March 13th, 1997,

the night that would make the term Phoenix Lights,

famous worldwide.

- [MJ] Multiple people reported seeing very strange lights

hovering over Phoenix, Arizona.

They formed a large V-shaped object

that hovered for several hours.

Other reports circulated of individual lights

moving around Phoenix as well.

There's some photographs of lines of lights

that kind of show up in the sky.

- [Tony] At the time,

some felt the V-shape formed one massive craft,

estimated to be the size of more than 10 Boeing 747s.

With so many witnesses,

the government was forced to investigate.

- [MJ] It took several months,

but eventually the US Military confessed

that they were actually running operations over Phoenix.

The operation was known as Snowbird.

A whole bunch of A10 aircraft were in the sky

and they were testing out different models of flares.

- [Tony] But was that the real story

or a cover story?

- [MJ] Several people believed that this was a coverup

and that the Military was essentially

trying to hide the fact that something else

was operating over Phoenix that night.

And Jeff believes that his video seems to show

that perhaps there is some sort of resurgence

of the Phoenix Lights.

- It turns out Phoenix Lights

is actually a bit of a misnomer.

The first sightings in 1997 occurred earlier that night

near Henderson, Nevada, nearly 300 miles from Phoenix.

So, two separate events could have been conflated

into a single moment.

Either way, the question still remains,

is Jeff's footage proof that the Phoenix lights are back?

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- [Rich] The Phoenix lights were a triangular shape,

not two lights in the sky like this.

The residents were describing one structure

that was having multiple lights, and this is like one.

So, there's no comparison there

- [Tony] Yet, even if this isn't related

to the Phoenix lights,

how does one explain the mind-boggling moment

when Jeff's alleged UFO appears to divide

into two separate objects, which then disappear.

- [Marc] Earlier in the video, it looks like it's just one

object because they're probably behind each other.

But later on, as the objects move apart from each other,

it gets more and more elongated,

and then you start to see two distinct and separate objects.

So, is this a splitting UFO

or is it two objects behind each other?

- [Tony] If it is two objects,

are they decidedly less exotic than alien craft?

- [Marc] Are they balloons?

Are they drones?

Are they aircraft?

Well, this was 2004.

It's not very likely that they were drones,

unless it was some kind of Military drone.

- [Tony] The main type

of unmanned Military aircraft in use in 2004

was the remotely operated Predator drone.

It's the size and shape of a small airplane,

which also doesn't explain how the lights on it could split,

like we see in this video.

So, does that mean we need to call this a UFO after all?

D'Antonio has his doubts.

- This was probably a launch of two sky lanterns.

- [Tony] A sky lantern

is a miniature hot air balloon made out of oiled paper

and a wire frame with an opening at the bottom

for a candle or other small source of fire.

- [Marc] The giveaway is that they vanish.

That's because the flame packets are fuel

and that fuel gets exhausted after a little while.

And when it gets exhausted, the flame goes out.

And that's just what we see here.

- Our verdict, this splitting object or objects

remain unidentified.

De Antonio's sky lantern idea is intriguing,

but how could they fly so close together

that they appear as one?

The original Phoenix Lights and similar incidents

in the Phoenix area in the 2000s

have been attributed to flares

set off by the Military and others.

Yet there are still those who are skeptical of these

down-to-Earth explanations.

We have seen alleged UFOs that fly around

at hypersonic speeds and even dive in and out of the water.

But what about a UFO that doesn't move at all?

Our next video features a strange object

that seems to be making the rounds without going anywhere.

Take a look.

[dramatic music]

- [Tony] April 27th, 2023.

A couple is driving home through the desert

just outside Las Vegas, Nevada.

Around 9:00 p.m they notice something strange

hovering in the night sky.

Fascinated, they pull over to a fence line

and watch in amazement.

Beyond a chain link fence, a row of sparkling,

multicolored lights hovers in midair.

- [Tony] The formation is completely static,

attracting attention all over town

before allegedly disappearing, a minute or two later,

- Another Las Vegas resident saw the same thing

northwest of his neighborhood.

That eyewitness said that these lights

didn't match up with any helicopter he'd ever seen.

- [Tony] The incident even makes local news.

Reporters check with a nearby airport,

but no flights can explain

these stationary lights in the sky.

Instead, some theorize they're connected

to secret Military craft.

After all, the American West is dotted

with special-use airspace and Nevada is no exception.

In fact, one local Military base seems a likely culprit.

- [Amy] Nellis Air Force Base is one of the biggest

and also one of the most secretive.

In fact, it's one of the places that trains pilots

in some of the most cutting edge airplanes

that the Military has at its disposal.

Vertical takeoff and landing is a technology

that the Military is actively working on.

These aircraft can take off vertically

without any kind of runway,

making them great for small areas or even aircraft carriers.

They can hover just like these lights in this video

and would remain completely stationary.

So, could these lights be some

new kind of vertical takeoff and landing technology?

- [Tony] Problem is Nellis also

denies having anything to do with these lights,

but there is another nearby base to consider, Area 51,

which some UFO investigators believe

may be the site of a UFO reverse engineering program.

- [Amy] In 2023, Pentagon

whistleblower David Grusch

did testify that the government was trying to

reverse engineer UFO technology.

So, that would be consistent with this potential sighting.

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- In March, 2021, roughly two years prior to this sighting,

Vegas residents noticed another,

nearly identical, set of stationary lights

hovering over the city.

Authorities later identified those lights as flares.

Will our experts say the same for this sighting

or will these lights lead us elsewhere?

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- [Tony] Since that 2021 case

turned out to be flares?

Are these new lights just flares too?

- Typically, flares are going to be only one color,

and the color that a flare is

depends on the chemical element that's involved.

So for instance, if we're using sodium,

like it's used in some streetlights,

it's gonna be a yellowish orange hue.

Or perhaps if we're using magnesium,

then we would have flares that are more whitish.

But you're not going to have color changing flares

that is very unusual.

- [Tony] So then could we be looking at lights

from emergency vehicles,

maybe on a distant hill we can't see, since it's nighttime.

- The colors are not the right type

of first responder lights that you would be expecting.

These are the colors of the rainbow

and typically first responders are blue, red and white

and maybe amber.

- [Tony] So even though there are some hills

in the surrounding area,

we know this isn't police cars on them.

But could they be attached to a vehicle in the sky,

like those vertical takeoff and landing planes?

- I would say definitely not.

They wouldn't be using rainbow colored lights to fly around.

They're set up to hover,

but you would hear those type of distinct engines.

None of this fits any of that.

- [Tony] If a craft is small enough, however,

noise could be negligible.

Could these simply be consumer grade drones?

- [Matthew] Drones have the ability to hover

and drones will be producing lights,

but drones are not gonna be able to hover perfectly.

There's always gonna be a little bit of movement in the air

and it's very hard to keep drones in place

in that kind of a situation.

- [Tony] Perfectly still, rainbow lights

may not match any aircraft,

but they are reminiscent of something we've seen before.

In previous episode,

we investigated these stationary Vegas lights

and found they were simply reflections in the clouds

of lights from the Hilton, the Encore, and the Wynn hotels.

However we checked, and these lights

are not in the immediate vicinity of any big casinos.

- [Lenval] Due to the configuration and color of the

lights, I would definitely say you're looking at an unknown.

- [Mattthew] I have no idea what these rainbow colored

lights are. And my final verdict is genuine UFO.

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- [Tony] Our verdict for this one, genuine UFO.

This is one video of lights in the sky

that certainly hit the jackpot.

- [Tony] Many people believe that indigenous tribes

from around the globe experienced and interacted

with alien phenomena in centuries past,

and some tribes in the Amazon may still

be having similar encounters to this very day.

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- [Tony] It's July, 2024

in the Brazilian state of Acre.

UFO researcher Rony Vernet has headed deep into the Amazon

after hearing reports of strange phenomena

among one of the jungle's indigenous tribes.

- [Tony] Rony sets up his cameras

and captures something strange.

[dramatic music]

This video recorded off of Vernet's computer monitor

shows several fireball like orbs,

which move across the night sky slowly,

but then start to zigzag at lightning speed

in different directions.

Take a closer look as these strange fireballs

strobe around the sky.

[dramatic music]

- [Tony] Vernet has kept the specific location

of this video secret,

and by far it's not the only UFO sighting in the area.

- This is just one in a long history of UAP events

that had been reported around the Brazilian rainforest.

In fact, Brazil had its own Roswell event

which occurred back in 1977, known as the Colares Incident.

The locals for a period of time were tormented

by what they allege as UAP coming down

and even sucking the blood

from some of the civilian population.

In fact, Brazilian Military and law enforcement

were called in at the national level to investigate

- [Tony] The Brazilian Air Force

named their investigation Operation Saucer,

which included over 500 photographs

and 15 hours of film.

- [Luis] The doctors who responded to this incident

all substantiated that there were people,

both civilian and Military,

sustained what appeared to be burns or lesions,

possibly the type of damage a high energy laser

would do to human tissue.

- [Tony] And these South American encounters

weren't just limited to Brazil.

- [Luis] When I spoke to authorities in Peru,

in Argentina, in Chile, in Uruguay,

I was absolutely floored by the sheer number of reports

that seemed so eerily similar to that of Brazil

and the Colares Incident.

Local indigenous people tormented by these UAP,

it was a routine occurrence.

[dramatic music]

- Could there be alien life forms

running rampant in South America?

According to Elizondo,

indigenous communities from Peru,

Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

have all experienced UAP phenomenon,

not unlike those reported from the Brazilian rainforest.

Let's see what our experts think is actually going on here.

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- [Tony] Many have commented these fireballs

appear to be meteors.

- The bright light we see with a meteor

is actually it burning up as it comes

into the Earth's atmosphere.

Depending on what the meteor is comprised of,

you can get a variety of colors,

but usually not these kind of flaming oranges and reds.

- [Tony] Only very slow moving meteors

occasionally appear red or orange.

While faster ones like this object

are generating such intense heat

that they typically glow white, blue or green.

So, if it wasn't a meteor, could it have been an airplane?

- [LT. Tim] The consistency of the flashing pattern to me

really speaks to it being a commercial aircraft.

The warning lights that are on commercial aircraft,

they're evenly space like we see there.

- [Tony] But an aircraft isn't capable

of something we see here that's truly anomalous,

the object's erratic motion,

- [Rich] It's a very quick maneuver

that these things are doing on the screen.

That's instantaneous acceleration, that's it's doing.

And I can honestly say

that I've not seen anything like that before,

that's been recorded.

- [Tony] So could this in fact

be some type of alien craft?

- [Rich] It's on a monitor and the person zooms in and

zooms out. Something that's very clearly an object

that somehow moves very instantaneously

in different directions.

That could be a video artifact.

If it's legitimately an object,

this is very, very, very compelling.

- [Tony] An object

that may gain further legitimacy due to its behavior

which mirrors previous activity reported in the area.

- [Rich] This video here is just another one of those,

like, mysteries we see in Brazil

throughout its entire history.

You are having reports of these lights

that were moving around in the sky

and you had medical evidence

that's supporting anecdotal evidence.

And many of these indigenous cultures in Brazil,

they're seeing craft or something that's in the sky

that they can't account for.

Ultimately these objects were doing all those things

that UAPs typically do.

[dramatic music]

- Our verdict, our experts can't come

to any definitive conclusion,

so we're going to have to go with Genuine UFO,

if only because these objects are still unidentified.

One thing is for sure we'll keep in close contact with Rony

and share more of his fascinating work in the Amazon.

- [Tony] In every episode we do a call out,

asking you for videos you think we should investigate?

We asked and you answered.

This next video arrived via tweet

from one of our dedicated Proof viewers.

And as soon as I saw it, I gotta say.

I definitely had some questions too.

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- [Tony] September 24th, 2022,

Chad Turner and his girlfriend

are enjoying a leisurely evening stroll

outside their apartment complex

in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

But then at about 7:30 p.m something strange in the sky

grabs their attention.

- [Chad] Out here, looking at something

we don't know what it is.

- [Tony] Chad quickly breaks out his cell phone

and captures this.

- [Tony] A bright, white dot

moves slowly above the trees.

[dramatic music]

A closer look reveals its emitting beams of light

that appear to form a peculiar arrow like shape.

As a fan of the show, Chad knows what to do next.

He starts to break down the possibilities.

We were kind of awe stricken by it,

but at the same time we were a little nervous too.

You know, because you don't where this thing is gonna go.

- [Tony] Chad follows the object

until suddenly it disappears.

- [Girlfriend] It's gone.

Not here.

- [Chad] Yo, that's crazy.

- [Tony] Is it possible

Chad captured a genuine UFO?

- On December 9th, 1965, an acorn shaped fireball

fell through the sky and landed in a wooded area

near the small town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.

This was so bright that people saw it in six states

and even in Canada.

It was such a powerful landing

that observers heard the crash and felt the ground shutter

when it impacted.

- [Tony] Teitel says the crash area

was later sealed by the US Army who told everybody

there was nothing in the woods.

- [Amy] It wasn't until 40 years later that the US government

and NASA said that the object had in fact

been a downed Soviet satellite.

A lot of people who saw the fireball

didn't accept this as the explanation

and were convinced that it was something extraterrestrial.

- [Tony] Let's take a closer look at Chad's video.

What I find most fascinating about this object

is the triangle like shape of the vapor trail left behind.

This angle right here is almost a perfect 90 degrees.

It's definitely unlike any exhaust pattern I've ever seen.

But let's find out what our experts think.

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- [Tony] While we encourage viewers

to send us videos,

we also need to make sure we're not getting Punked.

So, first we send Chad's footage

to video forensic analyst, Michael Primeau.

- [Michael] There was an abundance of specific metadata

throughout the file

and because it retained the GPS information

that's significant in terms of processing.

Because if this was something that was fabricated,

for example or CGIed, we wouldn't have that data.

I detect no evidence to suggest that this is,

been fabricated or manipulated.

- [Tony] Okay, we have a legit video,

but of what, could it be a UFO?

- I certainly can understand why people

would consider it to be a UFO or something unusual,

but there's no instantaneous acceleration.

All you see is a very consistent movement across the sky.

There's nothing extra terrestrial in

my looking at that.

- [Tony] If it's not a UFO,

could it be another kind of extra terrestrial visitor?

It's a possibility that Chad considered.

- [Tony] But Rich Hoffman has doubts.

- Meteors basically last a few seconds.

And it would have been a long trail of a flame

or something like that coming back from the bottom.

But the effect in the atmosphere that you see

is very, very symmetrical.

- Tim McMillan believes it's that symmetrical contrail

that provides an important clue.

- [LT. Tim] We see a more consistent dense contrail

that's coming behind it.

So, this tells me we're seeing,

a lot of the telltale signs

of this is a manmade object that's burning fuel.

- [Tony] Rather than something

falling down to Earth,

McMillan sees evidence for something going up.

- To me, it definitely had characteristics

that led me to believe this was probably a SpaceX launch

because of the interesting cone and shape that we see here.

- [Tony] Hoffman adds that a rocket

also explains why Chad and his girlfriend

quickly lost sight of the object behind a row of trees.

- [Rich] What happens is the first stage, separation,

and then there's a second stage and then it separates,

it cuts off the engines.

So, as they're moving to the other side of the tree,

you don't see any effects

'cause it's not burning the engines any longer.

- [Tony] Ultimately, McMillan says,

the records confirm the theory.

- [LT. Tim] In checking when this was filmed,

we could say with a high degree of certainty,

is the launch of a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket

out of Cape Canaveral, Florida,

carrying Starlink satellites into the Earth's atmosphere.

carrying Starlink satellites into the Earth's atmosphere.

[dramatic music]

- Our verdict, rocket launch.

Chad, sorry to dash your hopes of capturing a genuine UFO,

but we agree with our experts that the pieces of the puzzle

all fit for a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch, that day.

- [Tony] Seeing the Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights

is certainly on my bucket list,

and Canada is a great place for it.

In certain parts of the country,

they appear up to 300 nights a year.

But one Canadian family says

they recently saw something just as amazing

and a lot more unexpected.

- [Tony] May 10th, 2024,

it's between 10 and 11:00 p.m in Kelowna, British Columbia.

Bobby Vandenhoorn and his family

are gathered on his rooftop patio

hoping to catch a glimpse of the Aurora Borealis.

- The Aurora Borealis is a beautiful natural phenomenon.

Essentially, as the sun is giving off solar energy,

Essentially, as the sun is giving off solar energy,

it's flying through space

and it slams into the Earth's atmosphere.

All of those charged particles

interact with the various molecules

that make up Earth's atmosphere and burn up into light.

And we get this spectacular, beautiful light show

as a result.

- [Tony] But as the Vandenhoorn family

waits for the lights to appear overhead,

something else catches their attention.

- [Tony] Bobby records a cluster

of five bright white orbs twinkling in the distance.

- [Tony] And that's just the start.

As the night goes on,

Bobby takes several more videos of strange light formations

and he says the footage doesn't capture the half of it.

- I probably saw about 20 plus groups of those orbs

and each group had anywhere from you know, two to three,

all the way up to 25 to 30 of them.

- [Tony] Bobby posts the video online

and even submits it to the local news,

where it draws thousands of eyes.

- I couldn't help but think like maybe there's a link

between what's going on with the Aurora Borealis.

Whenever energy comes into the atmosphere from that,

perhaps those little orbs use that energy to fly.

- Look at that. - What is that?

- [Tony] It turns out the Northern Lights

have been especially active lately.

In 2024, they were even visible as far south as Florida.

Scientists say, that's because the sun

is in its solar maximum, the peak of its 11-year cycle.

Can solar activity explain Bobby's unusual encounter

or will our experts find another source for his sighting?

[dramatic music]

- [Tony] At times the lights form a V-shape,

so we have to consider if they could just be

a V-shaped aircraft.

- There's a number of aircraft that could match

the V-shape that we see.

The B2 Bomber has a V-shape to it.

But what they don't have is independent lighting

that moves relative to the other lights on board.

These lights are actually moving independently.

So, this is why I think there are five independent objects.

- The way these lights are moving,

it almost seems like a choreographed movement.

I think there is a high probability

that what we're looking at are drones.

This particular day

was one of the largest geomagnetic storms

to ever hit the Earth.

We know that there are a lot of people

with their eyes on the sky.

And given that the Aurora Borealis hasn't started yet,

these drones could be the pre-show.

- [Tony] But if this is a drone show,

it's not a particularly visible one.

- [Marc] He had to zoom in to be able to show them better.

That's 'cause they were at a relatively high altitude.

They might have been at 3,000 feet or 4,000 feet.

Drone shows don't occur high up in the sky.

They generally occur down low to the ground

and we're not seeing that here.

- [Tony] Instead, like the Aurora itself,

these flying objects may have a natural explanation.

- [Marc] If you watch Canada geese,

you'll see something really impressive.

You'll see that the leader is in front

during the brunt of the forces hitting him.

When the leader gets tired and drops back into the V,

another leader will emerge.

And we could be seeing these two coming up to the lead.

[dramatic music]

- [Tony] Now we've seen reflective birds

mistaken for UFOs before.

However, those had an obvious light source beneath them,

a greenhouse.

But these don't.

But these don't.

- Birds don't produce their own light.

If we were looking at birds, they would have to be

some sort of light hitting those birds

and reflecting back to the Earth.

We don't see that here.

[dramatic music]

- Our verdict unexplained objects.

Between our two experts,

we can't make a call one way or the other.

We'll have to wait and see if any more UFOs emerge

from this intense solar activity.

- [Tony] When it comes to most UFO encounters,

it's usually just one person

who happens to be at the right place at the right time.

However, this next incident got a lot of buzz recently

because it was seen over two days by multiple people.

So, we've got different perspectives

of the same strange phenomenon.

But do they lead to the same answer?

- [Tony] December 1st, 2022,

Fredonia, Wisconsin, it's just before 11:00 p.m

and after working a long day, Ken B. is out for a stroll.

and after working a long day, Ken B. is out for a stroll.

- So I was walking outside and it's very dark.

We do not have street lights or anything like that

in the area.

- [Tony] Suddenly something dashes above Ken

in the night sky.

So he pulls out his cell phone and captures this.

A group of four lights quickly streak across the sky.

- [Ken] And they appeared from behind me, went across the sky

and you could see a little flash of light

right before they disappeared.

- [Tony] Then five more lights,

moving a little more slowly, make the same startling motion.

- [Ken] It was kind of a creepy experience.

I'd be kidding you if I said it wasn't.

- [Tony] The following evening, Chris Nowak

is 40 miles south, in Greenfield, Wisconsin,

where he records these mysterious lights in the sky.

- [Chris] They would pulse through and race incredibly

quickly. It was like this charge of light that would go through

from as far back as we could see

literally a second or two.

It really seemed to defy logical explanation.

- [Tony] Did Ken and Chris witness

the same mysterious phenomenon?

Could it be alien?

- You can understand why someone would think

this is something otherworldly

because Wisconsin has an

incredible amount of UFO sightings

going back to the 1950s.

- [Tony] Teitel notes

that one of the most controversial sightings

took place in the mid 1960s near Green Bay.

- [Amy] For four nights in a row,

eyewitnesses observed and filmed UFO activity,

but when they reported those incidents

to the National Guard,

all of their films were confiscated.

In the years that followed,

the individuals tried to figure out

what it was they were seeing,

but none of them were ever given straight answers.

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- [Tony] Wisconsin has been a UFO hotspot for so long

that over 70 years ago, husband and wife,

Jim and Coral Lorenzen, formed a group

known as the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization

to document UFO cases from all around the state.

Do these sightings qualify to make the list?

Let's see what our experts say.

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- [Tony] Have Ken and Chris

documented another extraordinary moment

in Wisconsin UFO history.

Rich Hoffman wants to believe, but in this case he can't.

- [Rich] There's no instantaneous acceleration

that was visible. These were consistently moving,

at not even hypersonic speeds,

so the lights were moving across the sky

and going in a relatively normal pattern.

There's nothing here that looks extraterrestrial.

- [Tony] Time to call in

our super sleuth, Mick West.

And right off the bat,

he's sure this isn't any video trickery.

- [Mick] Chris and Ken's sightings are similar

in that we see clouds in both videos

and we see lights that move around.

- [Tony] But it's the way the lights change shape

as they move through the cloud cover,

that gives the biggest clue in Ken's video.

- If you point a light straight up at something,

it's a nice round spot.

If it's at an angle, the further away they get,

the more stretched out they will get.

And as they get closer in,

we see if they get shorter and shorter.

- [Tony] This indicates

that lights are being projected

from a fixed point on the ground.

But what about the Jumpier lights in the Greenfield video?

- [Mick] We've all used a laser pointer and had our cats

chase it. I think what we're looking at here looks like

lights that are being shone up from below onto the clouds.

- [Tony] So what is the source of these lights?

Ken and Chris's videos were filmed at different times

and 40 miles apart.

West investigates Ken's video first

and learns of another eyewitness to his exact same sighting.

So, he plots the coordinates.

- [Mick] Now the good thing is we have another witness.

We know which road she was on

and we know roughly what direction she was looking in.

So, we can stick her location on the map.

And she was actually in a very different location

way down here towards West Bend.

So, now we've got two lines of sight

from two different people.

- [Tony] Knowing approximately

where the lights came from, West makes a final call.

- [Mick] I contacted the local Chamber of Commerce

and they said the Flanders family

have an annual light show,

which they do for charity every year,

and the location of it is more or less

where these two lines crossed.

And they had the spotlights mounted on the roof of the house

and it's in every way, it is a match.

- [Tony] It turns out this alien invasion

is just a celebration of holiday cheer.

- I think that Ken was looking

at the Flanders family Christmas lights

and I think that Chris was looking

at a different set of Christmas lights about 40 miles away.

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- [Tony] Our verdict Christmas spotlights.

It took some detective work,

but we see that, given the known cloud cover that day,

West's interpretation makes sense.

And since 'twas the season for holiday lights,

we think that was the reason.

- In an earlier episode,

we brought you a confounding story about alleged UFOs

caught on camera in Warminster, England.

After investigating this footage,

we came to the conclusion

that it was simply too good to be true.

The video must have been altered.

However, a new lead came in after we aired,

that reminded us that things

may not always be what they seem.

- [Tony] August, 2018, Warminster, England,

about a hundred miles west of London.

From the side of a highway, the passenger in a parked car

notices something in the evening sky.

Two bright orbs moving separately.

At first it looks like it might be

At first it looks like it might be

a couple of helicopters or drones.

But then look at this,

they split into five or six smaller objects.

The cluster continues to fly in unison,

illuminating the sky and coordinating maneuvers

for a full three minutes.

It's reminiscent of a series of UFO sightings

that occurred in the area in the 1960s.

These sightings characterized, at times,

by explosions and hissing flames in the sky,

came to be known as the Warminster Thing.

Could this video offer proof

of the Warminster Thing's return?

We considered UFOs in secret Military tech,

but ultimately the answer seemed to come

from testing the validity of the video itself.

And a suspicious edit gave one of our experts pause.

- [Marc] The transition out of the hill was removed from

the video. I think I have to label this one a hoax.

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- At the time, our original analysis led us to believe

that this video was doctored to deceive.

But then you, our beloved viewers, got involved

and that changed everything.

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- [Tony] When the original segment hit YouTube,

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

- This video really needed a second look at

because of this new information.

- [Tony] So our ace video analyst, Mick West,

went back to check the authenticity of the video

and its suspicious edit.

- I think what actually happened in this location

was the cameraman simply moved the camera down,

lost the shot, and then moved it back up again

as they came out from behind the hill.

And so they just did a little edit

to remove that little bit of dead air.

- [Tony] Because of this,

West doesn't think trickery or CGI was involved,

which negates our old verdict.

- Everything else about the video seems very genuine to me.

The way the objects move seems very consistent.

- [Tony] West also Xed out other hypothesis,

natural and technological.

- [Mick] There was a bunch of different hypotheses,

one of which was a meteor shower,

and you can kind of rule that out

because it changes direction.

Another possibility, drones that were rigged with fireworks.

But you don't generally have drones with fireworks on

because drones are quite small.

Also, Military technology was kind of ruled out

because they're not gonna be testing

some kind of secret Military technology

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

- [Tony] Which, to West, only meant one thing.

- This is obviously something that isn't secretive,

something that's either is intended to be seen

or they don't care if people see it.

- [Tony] But what other explanations

could have possibly fit the bill?

The answer almost flew past us.

That is, until we logged onto social media.

- We were contacted by a viewer who recognized

what he was seeing on screen

and he suggested that what we might be looking at

was actually pyrotechnic planes.

- [Tony] Pyrotechnic planes are aircraft

that use their wide wingspan to slowly release fireworks

from their wingtips.

They've been used in a variety of function,

from air shows or weddings,

to the deployment of destruction in war zones.

But if that's what we're seeing,

who was the responsible party?

All it took was a simple internet search

of the business located in the area of the sighting.

- I run the company called Airborne Pyrotechnics,

and we fly a couple of Grob motor gliders

with pyrotechnics and LEDs.

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

- [Tony] Airborne Pyrotechnics

is run by Tim and Tom Dews,

who have flown all over the world.

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

has been mistaken for a UFO.

They even have a warning on their website

for that very reason.

- It's funny, you know, we can do a really nice display

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

And somebody takes a shaky, wobbly video of us

from 10 miles away, and you can't even make out what it is,

says the word UFO, and it gets thousands,

hundreds of thousands of views.

I just can't understand it.

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- Our new verdict, you guessed it, Airborne Pyrotechnics.

The plane the Dews fly, the Grob 109B

is a twin seat, self launching motor glider.

It's been used by the Royal Air Force

to train cadets in basic flying.

- [Tony] From every corner of the globe,

these unexplained lights and orbs

continue to mystify and captivate.

We may not have all the answers yet,

but we will keep looking,

analyzing and unraveling the truth.

Thank you so much for watching this special edition

of, "The Proof Is Out There."

Please send us any video, images

or sound that you think we should investigate

and remember to keep those cameras rolling.

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