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- Tonight on The Proof Is Out There.

It's been called Canada's Roswell.

Did this flying saucer leave a clue about alien tech?

- Maybe they're disc-shaped for a reason,

possibly because they're particle accelerators.

- [Tony] Is this haunting sound the heartbeat

of the Loch Ness Monster?

[unknown source thumping]

- It was so loud, it was so clear.

That's what gets me.

I'm really excited.

- [Tony] Could a volcano in Mexico be a secret base

for unidentified anomalous phenomena?

- There is a belief that these objects are indication

of an interdimensional portal.

- [Tony] Did snowmobilers stumble upon a corpse

from another world?

- This is one of the best alien specimens

that people have found in recent decades.

- [Tony] Is this a triangular UFO over Texas?

- It was floating around the sky.

It kinda felt like the thing was watching me.

- [Tony] And is there a glitch in the matrix?

What in the world is this bizarre weather phenomenon?

- It's very strange.

There's only rain on this car,

and everything else is totally dry.

[dramatic music]

- [Tony] Around the globe are videos,

[witness screaming]

photos,

and sounds that defy explanation.

[electric buzzing]

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

who made them, or how they operate.

- [Tony] What are they?

- [MJ] Some sort of bizarre mutation.

- [Marc] What's exciting is nobody really knows.

- Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof.

- I'm Tony Harris,

and as a journalist for more than 30 years,

I've followed the facts where they take me.

Now I'm bringing that spirit of investigation

to the world's strangest sounds and images.

- [Witness] It's coming towards us.

- [Tony] We'll analyze each one with top experts.

- It's a 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.

[dramatic music]

Good evening and welcome to The Proof Is Out There.

Some places have become synonymous with UFOs.

Roswell, New Mexico,

Rendlesham Forest in England,

and even Vancouver Island?

Yep, it's had several notable UFO sightings

over the decades.

Our first story is one of the most astounding.

Take a look.

October 8, 1981.

Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

It is a cool autumn morning,

and an amateur photographer is taking photos

of the beautiful mountain landscape

with her 35-millimeter camera.

But when she gets home and develops the film,

she says she's shocked by what she sees.

A shiny metallic saucer hovers above a picturesque mountain.

It appears to be silver in color

with what looks like a bubbled glass dome in the center.

This isn't your average light in the sky.

This looks like a real flying saucer.

- It's a fairly clear shot done on a film camera

back in the '80s of,

you know, a classic flying saucer,

- [Tony] But that saucer shape may not be pure science fiction.

Some theorize that it plays an integral part

in the flying saucer's capabilities.

- There's some theories out there,

one of which that I subscribe to,

that maybe they're disc-shaped for a reason,

possibly because they're particle accelerators,

and they're generating particles

that allow them to pop out of our four dimensions,

X, Y, and Z moving through time,

and go into a fifth dimension,

and then pop back in.

- [Tony] Could this be an interdimensional craft

popping by Vancouver Island?

It wouldn't be the first alleged appearance

of a flying saucer in the area.

- A nurse at the Cowichan District Hospital on the island

was doing her rounds, and on New Year's Day in 1970,

she opened the curtains in a patient's room

and all of a sudden saw

this strange disc-like object floating in the distance,

much like the object in the photograph.

And within UFO circles,

it became known as the Duncan incident.

- [Tony] That incident is now known to be a hoax,

perpetrated with a homemade balloon.

But is this photo the real deal?

Canadian officials certainly seem

to be taking the subject seriously.

- We know that in February of 2022,

the Pentagon's UFO Task Force

actually briefed the Canadian military

and the Canadian government

on this surge of UFO sightings all across North America.

- Now, when I first saw this photo,

I thought it was too good to be true,

but in 1987,

NASA scientist Dr. Richard F. Haines published

this report detailing his in-depth analysis of the photo.

His conclusion,

"The identity of the disc object remains unidentified."

So if he couldn't crack it,

can our experts?

[tense music]

We start by authenticating the photo for ourselves.

- The lighting conditions within the scene

and onto the object aid to legitimize the photo.

The shadows, highlights,

and midtones are all geometrically consistent

with lighting conditions coming from above.

From my perspective,

I don't see any concerns for the integrity of the photo.

- [Tony] Okay, so the lighting matches,

but an informed hoaxer could achieve that

simply by capturing two images on one negative,

a double exposure.

This works because film captures an image

by being briefly exposed to light.

So all it takes to capture two images in one

is to simply expose the same piece of film twice.

But that trick is easier said than done.

- This was taken with a Mamiya instamatic camera

that you have to depress the camera's button

to take the photo,

and then when you release the button,

you have to advance to the next negative

in order to have the button to work to take the next photo.

So it's impossible for me to create a double image

on the same negative. [camera clicks]

- [Tony] So the photo itself is real,

but we still don't know what it actually shows.

That saucer-like shape,

might it just be a Frisbee?

- You would have to mount a dome on the top of it,

which renders it not flyable.

- [Tony] Not only that, but a Frisbee, or a hub cap,

commonly used in early UFO hoaxes,

wouldn't look this crisp.

- 30 feet is what they call the hyperfocal distance,

which means that when you have your camera set on infinity,

the object has to be 30 feet away,

otherwise it'll be out of focus.

So now you're talking about an object

that's somewhere between 30 feet

and maybe that mountain peak

that is up in the air.

- [Tony] That means this thing is big.

How big?

Well, we ran the numbers.

- I did various calculations in terms of angular size

that basically says that, hypothetically,

if you get out to the distance right here that that peak is,

that I measured at 1 1/4 miles away,

and because it's not a crystal clear photograph of it,

it has some sort of distortion or distance to it,

then you get to the object being about 78 foot in diameter.

- [Tony] So it's a real photo

depicting a 78-foot saucer-shaped craft.

But then, how did the photographer miss it

when she actually took the photo?

[camera clicks]

That's perhaps the most compelling piece

of this mystery.

- UFOs are most commonly known as being fast,

so it may be that the UFO is moving so quickly

that she didn't have the ability to see it

but the camera still had the ability to capture it

and freeze it in time.

- It is a legitimate, real photograph of a daylight object

that doesn't conform to anything naturally we can explain

or conventional that we can explain.

It's an incredible case.

[tense music]

- Our verdict, we've got a genuine UFO.

There's a reason this photo is so famous

on Vancouver Island.

Like Haines, we verified the photo,

ruled out the explanations,

and ran the numbers,

all to reach the same conclusion.

This disc cannot be identified.

Now let's spend some time

with everyone's favorite legendary aquatic beast.

Over the years,

there have been numerous oalleged visual sightings

of Scotland's Loch Ness Monster.

However, one researcher recently revealed an audio recording

where we may actually be able to hear the creature.

Take a listen.

It's August 10, 2024,

in the Urquhart Bay section of Scotland's Loch Ness.

Investigator Alan McKenna is monitoring underwater sounds

using a hydrophone.

The device,

once used by the U.S. Navy to detect enemy submarines,

is nearly 100 feet below the water's surface

when it records something peculiar.

[unknown source thumping]

Take another listen.

You can hear a bizarre thumping sound

cut through the static.

It's rhythmic, hollow,

and unlike anything Alan has ever heard before.

[unknown source thumping]

- We all kind of freaked out a wee bit,

and were like, "Where's this coming from?

What noise is this?"

I always compare Loch Ness to space.

It's vast, it's dark,

it's difficult to comprehend now and again.

So anything could be down there.

- [Tony] McKenna and his researchers weren't saying

this was definitely Nessie,

but a lot of people felt it could be.

- This is literally the first time

that we've ever captured some really unusual sounds

in the depths of Loch Ness.

[unknown source thumping]

When we hear the rhythmic pulsing of this audio recording,

it's easy to compare it

to the sound of a heartbeat of an animal

that has a four-chambered heart very similar to ours.

- [Tony] In fact, all mammals have four-chambered hearts.

But aside from the occasional otter,

no confirmed warm-blooded species inhabit Loch Ness.

So what gives?

- For many years, there's been speculation

that the Loch Ness Monster might be a surviving plesiosaur,

which is an ancient type

of marine reptile from the Cretaceous.

Now, new evidence suggests

that plesiosaurs may have been warm-blooded or endothermic.

If so, they would most certainly possess

a four-chambered heart like ours,

and therefore the sound of a beating Nessie heart

might sound very similar to ours.

[unknown source thumping]

- In 2019,

scientists first recorded the heartbeat

of a blue whale swimming in the wild

with electrodes secured with suction cups

to the whale's left flipper.

They discovered that when the whale dove,

its heart rate decreased to a low of two beats per minute.

Have we also found a heartbeat in Loch Ness?

Let's ask the experts.

[tense music]

We first wanted to see

if the sounds picked up on the hydrophone

could have been made by other fish in the Loch.

- There are a number of fish species

that vocalize or make sounds using air sacs in their bodies.

That being said,

there are none of those species that inhabit this lake.

Mostly, what we would find here are trout

or landlocked salmon,

and none of those fish are known to vocalize.

- [Tony] So is it possible

that this is the heartbeat of a plesiosaur,

perhaps Nessie herself?

- A heartbeat is a very specific series

of electrical impulses

that's fairly universal throughout the animal kingdom,

and it has such a rhythm to it

because it is optimized

to efficiently move blood around the body.

It does sound like there's kind of a rhythm to it.

[unknown source thumping]

But if this were some kind of a heartbeat,

it wouldn't be healthy.

In fact, I would say this might be atrial fibrillation,

where the heartbeat electrical signal is struggling

to move along.

- [Tony] According to our forensic sound analysis,

if this is indeed a heartbeat,

it's an unusual one.

- One of the possible comparisons would be a sound

of a marine mammal, such as a manatee.

[heart thumping]

[unknown source thumping]

- The manatee heart rate is a slower and consistent rate.

The Nessie example is a much faster rate

and very kind of arrhythmic.

It's quite irregular

and quite fast compared to what we'd expect.

- [Tony] However,

there could be another explanation for the sounds

that has to do with the hydrophone itself.

- Signals from a hydrophone are very, very small

in amplitude,

and so we use a device called an amplifier

to boost that signal up to a level

that we can record it or process it.

And so if there's any noise

or any interference that's present,

the amplifier also boosts that.

So those sounds can be due to biological sources,

but it could also be due to waves,

due to wind blowing over the water.

Any cables

or mechanisms for the boat

that are causing vibration in the water,

the hydrophone will pick those up as well.

- [Tony] Whatever it is,

McKenna's ready to continue the search.

- This is what kinda keeps the mystery going.

We don't know.

We may never know,

but it's the only time we've heard that sound.

Just because I might not get that evidence,

it doesn't mean it doesn't exist,

it just means that I've had no luck

in pursuing the truth.

But I'll never give up,

we're still there every single month.

[tense music]

- Our verdict, we're calling this one unexplained.

While this may be artifact sounds from a hydrophone,

our experts couldn't rule out the possibility

that it's something biological,

even a heartbeat,

albeit a sickly one.

So until we have further evidence,

we'll keep up with these ongoing expeditions.

- Pentagon UFO whistleblowers have come forward

claiming the United States government has retrieved

crashed alien craft

and even what they call biologics.

But if aliens are crashing to Earth,

why haven't any civilians ever come across

their dead bodies?

Well, maybe they have.

Quebec, Canada, 1992.

Three snowmobilers are riding in the woods

an hour northwest of Montreal,

but everyone stops in their tracks

when they see something strange on the ground.

Somebody takes out a camera and photographs this.

Its mouth is ajar as it stares lifelessly

into the night sky.

The snowmobilers prop it up.

Now look closely,

and you'll see its bulbous eyes filled out

by pitch-black irises

along with a thin nose and that small rectangular mouth.

A story circulates about the person who took the video,

and the details are pretty murky.

- A man was living with his roommate,

and one of the roommate's friends came over

one night and said,

"My cousin and a couple of his friends were out snowmobiling

and they found an alien corpse by the side of the road."

The men who found the body didn't bring it back with them,

so they left it where it was

and decided that they'd come back the next day.

But by the time they got back, it was gone.

- [Tony] All we know for sure

is that the video circulated for years

in a mysterious corner of the internet

known as the dark web.

- The dark web is shrouded in mystery.

It makes up less than 1% of all of the unindexed websites

that make up the entire internet,

but it's somehow become that place

where people put things

that they don't think are ready to be released to the public

or they're trying to share but hide from the public.

The video circulated on the dark web pretty quickly,

but it didn't really reach the mainstream until 2008,

when it was uploaded to YouTube.

- [Tony] And since this alien sighting happened

not far from Montreal,

some wonder if there was a connection

to what may be that city's most famous UFO sighting

of all time.

- In 1990,

many people saw a series of 8 to 10 circular lights hovering

over a large metallic object

at the top of the Bonaventure Hotel.

That case has been investigated for years,

and no one's come up with a solid explanation.

Many people think there could be a link

to this alien corpse.

- While the dark web is often associated

with illegal activities

such as drug trafficking and hacking,

proponents say it can also be used for legitimate purposes,

such as investigative journalism,

human rights activism,

and, yes, legitimate UFO research.

Did someone upload alien corpse footage too explosive

for the regular internet?

Our experts are online and on the case.

[tense music]

- From what I can see,

as the video plays naturally,

it appears to be some sort of slideshow that's playing,

and the operator is capturing a playback

from another source.

The problem that we face here is,

because this was handled improperly,

we don't have the necessary information

to understand that chain of custody.

So the authenticity is inconclusive.

- [Tony] What can we learn from a closer look

at the creature's anatomy?

- It's hairless,

it's got kind of a grayish tinge to its skin color,

so it does take the traditional view

of what an alien's supposed to look like.

You can notice that it doesn't have any genitalia,

but it has an Adam's apple indicative of somebody male.

This alien has clear buttocks,

and that seems very odd for me,

because if it doesn't have any obvious genitalia,

why does it have a rectum?

That doesn't go together whatsoever.

- [Tony] But whether human, alien, or something else,

physically, things just don't add up.

- Its neck is super skinny, and the head size

with a neck that size doesn't work in reality.

And on its back you can see its shoulder muscles,

and those are not correct anatomically.

The muscle structure wouldn't support anything

that it's supposed to support.

So, whatever this is,

it's not possible for that to work together.

It's completely wrong.

- [Tony] And it's not just the creature itself

that raises a red flag.

- The setting is very well lit,

so you can see everything very well,

implying that there's another light source there.

I can't imagine that anybody would carry a bunch of lights

out in the snow.

- [Tony] The evidence, or lack thereof,

is more than we can take.

- All you have is this badly done video

that's probably been taped over

and taped over several times to make it even more grainy.

So, I don't put any stock in this.

What we are seeing here is a hoax.

[tense music]

- Our verdict, we think we're looking at a hoax.

But remember that in 2023,

one of those Pentagon whistleblowers claimed

the U.S. had retrieved several alien corpses,

although no evidence has been shared

with the public just yet.

- Since this show premiered in 2021,

we have seen some strange shapes in the skies over Texas.

Saucers, triangles, orbs,

and now an arrow?

Take a look and take your best shot at identifying it.

January 4, 2023, in Forney, Texas.

It's a clear night in the Lone Star State

when musician Mike Koehler decides to take five.

- I was in my studio working on some music,

and I stepped outside to have a smoke break,

and I noticed something was floating around the sky.

It kinda felt like the thing was, like, watching me.

- [Tony] Mike decides to watch it back

and takes out his phone to capture this.

- [Mike] That is not an airplane.

- [Tony] A V-shaped object covered in dim blue lights

hovers above his home.

As Mike records,

it stays within the center of the frame,

swaying back and forth.

Intrigued, Mike steps away for a minute

to photograph the craft with a better camera.

- [Mike] Go inside and grab my actual camera,

I go out my backyard, and the thing was gone.

Dammit.

- [Tony] But what is it?

This V shape is reminiscent

of one of Texas's most famous UFO cases.

- The Lubbock Lights was an incident in September of 1951,

where this sort of V shape of lights began moving

over the town of Lubbock.

A lot of people had witnessed it,

and it caught attention of media all over the world.

It really solidified this idea

that UFOs were the product of alien visitation.

- [Tony] In the decades

since people started seeing these UFOs,

aerospace engineers also began tinkering

with arrow-shaped craft.

- The use of a V shape

forms a fairly efficient type of aircraft.

Delft University of Technology

actually designed a large hydrogen aircraft

in the shape of a V,

and it's essentially being tested

to be a new type of passenger and cargo aircraft.

- [Tony] Pretty cool,

and perhaps something like that was flying over Texas,

but Mike is convinced what he saw came from another world.

- I used to be extremely skeptical about UFOs,

but after I got video of the incident,

it's kind of caused me to believe in them

a little bit more than I used to.

Now when I go outside and I look up and I say,

"Yeah, I wonder if there's anything weird up there."

- With aircraft like the new Flying-V looking

more and more like UFOs,

there has been rampant speculation

that new aviation tech is just the reverse engineering

of old UFOs,

supposedly recovered over the course

of a decades-long UFO retrieval program.

Could our mystery object be from outer space,

or is it space-inspired?

We asked the experts.

[tense music]

- The vehicle doesn't seem to match

any known vehicle aircraft that we have.

We have V-shaped vehicles such as the B-2,

the F-117,

the B-21, the new one that's coming out.

They're all triangular shape,

but they don't move like this.

They usually leave some type of contrails,

and they definitely do not have

this type of light configuration.

- [Tony] So if this Texas UFO isn't a terrestrial craft,

that means it must be extraterrestrial, right?

Not so fast.

- It's conjured up images of alien spaceships

that people have described,

but it's not doing anything amazing.

It's not otherworldly and it's maneuvering,

it's not zipping along.

It's something that appears to be almost hovering in the sky.

- [Tony] And we don't think it's CGI either.

- The way everything moves in the video looks very real.

So, I say this is a real video,

and this is a real thing of some type in the sky.

- [Tony] Looking closer,

we make one very important discovery.

- When we zoom in,

it looks like lights that can actually change color,

which to me definitely indicates something very artificial.

- [Tony] Something from Earth that floats in the air

and has lights?

Sounds like a drone.

We have seen drones hovering over residential areas before,

like the New Jersey swarms back in fall 2024.

Could this be similar?

- There are drones out there

that have a triangular configuration,

but they're not exactly this triangular configuration,

and they don't have these types of lights on them.

- [Tony] The FAA actually mandates

that night-flying drones have lights

that strobe between 40 to 100 cycles per minute

to avoid collision.

This object's lights may change color,

but they don't strobe.

So what could this be?

- I think what we're looking at is a kite

with LED lights on it.

LED lights are very low-power lights,

doesn't add very much weight to the kite.

The thing that really reveals it to be a kite

is that if we boost the levels,

we can actually see the tail of the kite.

You see lots of examples nowadays

of kites with LED lights,

and I've quite often seen them reported as UFOs

just because people don't recognize what they are.

[tense music]

- Our verdict, LED kite.

Now, presumably,

whoever was flying it reeled it back in

when Mike was inside the house getting another camera.

Our experts didn't find a UFO this time.

But if you like kites,

Texas is the place to be.

Austin's annual ABC Kite Festival,

founded in 1929, is the nation's oldest.

- Volcanoes are known to spew hot lava,

gasses, and volcanic ash.

But alien ships?

This next video might be proof of that

and maybe even a little more.

It all takes place around one perplexing peak in Mexico.

It all takes place around one perplexing peak in Mexico.

August 24, 2023.

It's nighttime in Central Mexico,

where a webcam monitors smoke rising

from an active volcano called Popocatepetl.

But around 8:30 PM,

the volcano, nicknamed El Popo,

appears to release more than just smoke.

As the mouth of the volcano begins to flash,

a trail of luminous, cigar-shaped objects seem

to exit the crater in an upward path into the night sky.

From head to tail,

there are roughly 20 individual objects.

The video sparks headlines

and draws the attention of documentarian Darcy Weir,

who has closely investigated this particular phenomenon.

- Believe it or not,

there's many videos recorded around volcanoes,

and I think the most commonly recorded place

is actually Popocatepetl.

There are a ton of videos

of what looks like UFOs

entering the crater of the volcano Popo

and sometimes exiting.

- [Tony] That's why some even speculate

that El Popo is more than just a volcano.

- Jaime Maussan is probably

the most popular UFO investigator in Latin America,

and he has a very strong belief

that the objects that are seen coming out of El Popo

are indication of something much, much bigger:

an interdimensional portal that UFOs can come through

and then they exit through the top of the volcano.

Maussan's claim is that the intense magnetic forces

that are inside of a volcano would lend itself

to opening up a wormhole

that would extend to other sides of the universe

or even other dimensions.

- [Tony] Wormholes happen, in theory,

when gravity folds spacetime so severely

that two distant points,

like, say, a location on a faraway planet

and the mouth of El Popo,

actually meet.

This would mean that even though they could be separated

by billions of light years,

a wormhole shortcut

would make it possible to travel between them.

The concept of wormholes is based

on Einstein's theory of general relativity,

but so far, scientists have no evidence they actually exist.

Could this video be proof of an interstellar shortcut?

Our experts give us the long and short of it.

[tense music]

Could there be a natural explanation

for what we're seeing?

- So if you think of it from a natural cause,

that would be most likely volcanic bombs.

Volcanic bombs are pieces of hot magma that get thrown out

because of the pressure inside the volcano.

What's uncommon is seeing objects

that are flying out in a straight line.

- [Tony] Since the formation is too perfect

for volcanic bombs,

could this be extraterrestrial travelers

using the volcano as a wormhole portal?

- I have no idea why,

if I were an advanced civilization,

I would put my wormhole next to something

as extremely dangerous as a volcano.

Some have speculated

that advanced civilizations need volcanoes to refuel,

but I don't understand why you would need to refuel

from something that is producing energy

in a very unusable form,

mostly as heat and friction.

So I'm extremely skeptical

about these portal or wormhole ideas,

I don't see any evidence of this.

- [Tony] But if these aren't UFOs harnessing the power

of a volcano,

could they be a string of manmade objects?

There is some familiar Earth-based tech

that might fit the bill.

As we speak,

Elon Musk's Starlink project is building

a global satellite-based internet network.

Starlink is launching thousands of satellites,

sometimes multiple times a week, to do it.

- This video does bear some similarity

to launches of Starlink,

which have been mistaken for UFOs many, many times.

However, a Starlink launch looks more

like a series of points or dots

than a series of streaks.

I think we're probably looking at

something very similar to earthquake lights.

- [Tony] Earthquake lights are mysterious balls of light

that have been reported for centuries.

One theory is that they're caused by tension in the ground

that creates charged gas and emits light.

But scientists still don't know for sure.

- I can't explain, though,

why that would create a series of lights in a line,

why that would create a series of lights in a line,

but I suspect it has something to do

with the flammable gases produced by the volcano

or ionization of the air caused by the seismic activity.

[tense music]

- Our verdict, unexplained natural phenomenon.

We like Professor Szydagis's theory

that these are earthquake lights,

even though they look a little different

than any we've seen before.

But until scientists agree on what causes earthquake lights,

this video still remains something of a mystery.

But until scientists agree on what causes earthquake light- ,

nearly 1,800 thunderstorms are soaking the Earth.

According to the National Weather Service,

the typical thunderstorm is about 15 miles wide

and lasts about 30 minutes.

But what you're about to see is not typical.

November 1, 2021.

West Java, Indonesia.

It's a humid and overcast afternoon.

As rain begins to fall,

a local man notices something very strange.

A single vertical column of rain falls

over a parked black SUV and nothing else.

The area around the SUV,

along with other parked cars,

is perfectly clear and dry.

Now, bizarrely, concentrated rains do happen.

Just check out this video in Italy,

where a narrow shower falls over a small spot on the road,

or this one from China,

featuring a downpour that abruptly stops

inches from a dry motorist.

However, in our Indonesian case,

some wondered if this wasn't more

than a freak of meteorology,

but an answer to prayers.

- In Indonesia,

the Banyuwangian people of East Java perform

what's called a Kebo-keboan ceremony,

in which they ask for protection from disasters,

a good harvest, and for rain.

In other areas of Indonesia,

people rely on rain shamans to control the weather

and delay rain until outdoor events are over.

- [Tony] If this rainfall is a prayer answered,

it wouldn't be the only time that's happened.

- In Sicily in 1956,

there was a year-long drought in the village of Caltabellotta.

When the villagers walked behind a statue

of the Virgin Mary, crying, "We went water and bread,"

there was a small storm that ranged just on them

that eventually grew into a bigger storm

and ended the drought.

- [Tony] Our Indonesian rain, however,

didn't grow into a torrent.

- It's very strange, obviously,

that there's only rain on this car

and everything else is totally dry.

- On a previous episode,

we featured what looked like a hyper-local torrent in Ghana.

That turned out to be an illusion,

just a burst of water shooting up from a broken pipe.

But can our experts make heads or tails

of what's causing these mini rainstorms?

[tense music]

Could our micro-shower be related

to a strange phenomenon called punch hole clouds?

- Punch hole clouds, or fallstreaks,

oftentimes develop when high clouds are in place

and an airplane flies through the clouds

and creates a punch hole.

- [Tony] When a passing aircraft disrupts

super-cooled water droplets in a cloud,

it causes them to freeze

and eventually fall to the ground

over a very concentrated area.

- The initial punch hole will be small.

However, that will spread radially,

and the size of that rain tends to fall

over much larger areas,

not just the width of a car.

In this case, we're looking at one car

that is being rained on.

- [Tony] So it's probably not a punch hole cloud.

In fact, this might not be a natural event at all.

- If water comes from the sky,

it comes from miles up, where we have winds

that can then change the direction of the rain.

Rain does not come in a column.

That defies the laws of meteorology,

defies the laws of physics.

And so I think that basically this is a fake,

and there's basically a hose someplace

that is shooting water on top of this car.

- [Tony] But hang on.

When the camera pans up,

we don't see a hose or an arc of water coming from one.

This might fly in the face of meteorology,

but in the end,

we're not sure what's causing this.

we're not sure what's causing this.

- I've seen upward lightning,

I've seen rain the color of blood,

but I've never seen anything like this.

[tense music]

- Our verdict, unidentified water source.

While we agree with Professor Kaku

that the video from Indonesia could well be a prank,

we just can't quite figure out how it was pulled off.

In the meantime,

if there is a secret micro-rain conspiracy

behind all of this,

let's hope for a leak.

- When the seasons change,

certain things feel inevitable.

Snow falls in the winter,

rain in the spring,

and leaves in the autumn.

But our next video captures foliage

that seems to defy the laws of Mother Nature

and the laws of gravity.

Are supernatural forces at play in the forest?

December 6, 2021.

Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

Kendra Raines and her husband, Tim,

are on their normal walk along a hiking trail

when they suddenly encounter something strange.

Tim pulls out his cell phone and records this.

A bright yellow leaf is twirling in midair.

The leaf appears to levitate

without drifting toward the ground.

As it hovers above Kendra,

she snatches it to see if it's caught on something,

like a spider web.

But surprisingly...

- You can see me on the video just standing there perplexed

at the way that this leaf is flying around.

The entire experience probably lasted five or six minutes.

A lot of people insisted it was a butterfly,

and it absolutely was not a butterfly.

We did go and thoroughly check it out,

but it definitely was just a plain yellow leaf.

I have no idea why that leaf chased me across the trail.

It did seem very supernatural to us.

- [Tony] Is something paranormal at play here?

- This took place in Arkansas in the Ouachita Mountains.

Scholars know that people have lived there

for about 14,000 years,

and the indigenous people there believed in an Above World

that had perfect spirit beings,

the souls of the ancestors,

and creative forces.

There was a Middle World,

and this is the place for people, plants,

and animal communities.

And there's a Below World,

and this has more destructive forces.

So the idea is that there has to be a balance

between all of these worlds,

and not only a balance

but a reciprocal relationship between animals,

plants, trees, and people.

And they communicate with each other.

- [Tony] Could a spirit be communicating with Kendra

in this video?

- I think that when you sometimes see something

that doesn't look natural,

that's maybe when something from another world

is entering this one.

- If the idea of trees communicating with us seems,

well, odd,

consider this:

a 2015 study proposed

that trees can communicate with each other

through chemical signals delivered

by an underground network of fungi.

But there's a difference between underground signals

and floating foliage.

So just what are we looking at here?

[tense music]

First, we examine the recording

to see if this magical leaf is simply a work

of digital animation.

- Throughout the analysis of the frame-by-frame,

looking at each of the individual pictures,

it's clear to see that this video has been compressed.

But it's unclear to me as to whether or not

it has been processed using something like CGI.

- [Tony] If it's not digital trickery,

could Mother Nature offer another explanation?

- Thermal updrafts could keep leaves suspended

in the air longer than normal.

A thermal updraft is a pocket of warm air

that is warmer than its surrounding,

so it's more buoyant.

This is exactly what birds use

to climb those high altitudes.

We don't have that in this case.

Looks like it already rained,

which would normally be the opposite of an updraft.

- [Tony] It may not be an updraft,

but some air movement could be involved.

- It kind of seems that there's no wind

if you look at the leaves,

but if you actually look at the trees in the background,

we can actually see, over here,

there's branches moving around quite a bit.

- [Tony] And the wind

isn't the only thing pulling the strings here.

Kendra might have just missed spotting

the elusive support line.

- It's probably suspended from a silkworm thread,

like, a spider thread,

or, like, an inchworm thread dangling from this tree.

We can't see the thread in this particular shot.

It very much depends on the lighting

whether you can see the thread or not.

But if you take some fine thread like I have here,

it actually can expand quite a lot.

It will be very elastic,

it'll be able to move around a lot,

and it'll also be very resistant to breaking.

- The elasticity of spider silk is so strong,

it can be stretched up to four times its length

without breaking.

- So when you were to take the leaf in your hand

and move it around,

it wouldn't break because of the elasticity

of the extra length.

[tense music]

- Our verdict, this floating leaf was animated

by an imperceptible wind

with assistance from a spider web.

Sometimes the elements line up in ways that seem mystical,

but we're confident that in this case,

the illusionist is actually just Mother Nature.

And that's our show for tonight.

As always, thank you so much for watching,

and remember to keep those cameras rolling.

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