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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.

[dramatic music]