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- Tonight on "The Proof Is Out There."

Was this the first footage ever shot of a genuine UFO?

- In 1950, the newly independent Air Force

was already taking these kinds of sightings very seriously.

- [Tony] Could this strange mummy really be

the remains of an alien?

- She does, in fact, have tridactyl hands and feet,

which only display three fingers and three toes.

- [Tony] How did one man survive

the deadliest plane crash of 2025?

- That someone could walk away

from this disaster is impossible.

- [Tony] And did this photo capture a real-life ghost?

- This stands out as one of the most famous ghost photos

of all time.

- [Tony] Around the globe are videos.

- Oh, there it goes. - [Tony] Photos.

And sounds that defy explanation.

[static hissing]

[dramatic music]

- We don't know where they come from,

who made them,

or how they operate. - [Tony] What are they?

- Some sort of bizarre mutation.

- 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.

- [Tony] Now I'm bringing that spirit of investigation

to the world's strangest sounds and images.

- It's coming toward us. - 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."

Back in 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine flying

objects over Washington state.

He didn't get a photo.

But his account alone kicked off

the first flying saucer craze.

Just a few years later,

the very first motion picture film

of an alleged flying saucer was shot.

The footage made a huge splash.

And now it's time for us to take a look.

- [Tony] It's June 1950 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Louisville Times staff photographer,

Al Hixenbaugh

intends to film some birds.

But a roaring engine overhead draws his attention

to something far stranger.

He points his 16-millimeter movie camera skyward

and films this.

A DC-3 plane crosses

the frame, unmistakable, steady, conventional.

But then a strange circular object appears.

- It's a dark orb, but it looks like there's kind of

this glowing halo around it.

It looks like it's floating and shifting

and almost dancing a little bit through the sky.

And in 1950, just the fact that anybody saw

this was enough to capture headlines.

- [Tony] This UFO story spread from The Louisville Times

to papers across the nation,

the footage going down in history

as the very first motion picture of a flying saucer.

- [Amy] This was taken in a time when UFOs

were on everybody's mind.

In 1950, the newly independent Air Force

was already starting to investigate UFOs.

One early project was Project Grudge,

and reports show that there were actual investigations

and intelligence reviews suggesting that the Air Force

was taking these kinds of sightings very seriously.

- [Tony] In fact, the Air Force

took this Louisville sighting

so seriously, it tried to get a copy of the film,

according to unclassified documents.

We don't know how that investigation ended,

but we do know some people maintain this is a UFO,

partly because of that glow.

- Some suggest the corona is proof of an energy signature

from a particle accelerator that is allowing this object to

travel through interdimensional gateways like wormholes.

So some wonder whether the glowing aura is enough

to legitimize this as a true flying saucer.

- [Tony] And if it is a flying saucer,

it's one of the few that's been documented flying

on its side.

- It looks like it's almost on the side,

or we're looking at the undercarriage

of a traditional UFO.

- [Tony] It's reminiscent of another photo taken in 1967

in New Mexico, which shows an alleged flying saucer

in the same position.

- Traditional UFOs move horizontally,

but some wonder whether this could be another type

of UFO that went out of fashion

because it hasn't been reported as frequently.

- By the early 1950s,

many businesses had figured out how to cash

in on America's flying saucer obsession.

From early frisbees to ice cream sandwiches,

if the product was round,

it was probably marketed as a flying saucer.

Let's see if our experts think this historic footage

is also worth the hype.

[tense music]

- [Tony] First, a reality check.

That other flying saucer photo we showed you turned out

to be a hoax.

Could that be the case here?

- This historic footage has a lot of things going for it.

Number one, we have a witness who visually saw it.

Number two, I think that the footage itself supports

the idea this was actually in the sky.

What's difficult when you're doing film to hoax something

is you're not just looking at one frame.

At 24 frames per second, shooting 50 feet of film,

that's about 2,000 frames of film.

So to hoax that, to paint it, let's say,

into the image in post-production

at the time period would have been quite difficult

to do over so many frames.

So my conclusion is this is something that's actually

in the sky.

- [Tony] Given the circular shape,

could that something be a weather balloon?

- Weather balloons rise very rapidly,

and it's just like when you let go of a party balloon,

it flies up in the air and it moves with the wind.

So even though weather balloons are very, very large,

they become visually small very quickly.

So there's no indication that this is a weather balloon.

- [Tony] But that doesn't mean it's a UFO.

While West agrees this is something in the sky,

he thinks it looks a little different on the film

than it would have in real life.

- [Mick] I think what we're looking at here is an artifact

of film development and film exposure called solarization.

And this happens when the film is exposed to the sun.

If you get too much sun,

it can basically break that development process,

and it can strip away the silver crystals from the film.

And that has

the same effect of them not being exposed at all.

So instead of seeing a white disk of the sun,

you see a black disk of the sun

because of it being overexposed.

I think when he got back to the darkroom,

when he developed this film,

the sun came out black because it

has overexposed these silver crystals.

And perhaps at that point, he then decided

that he was going to call it a UFO.

But I think he pretty much knew

that what we're looking at was the sun.

- Our verdict? This is a film artifact.

Specifically, a solarized image of the sun.

It turns out other local reporters

doubted Hixenbaugh's credibility.

They even told officials he'd faked a UFO photo before.

So we can assume his sensationalist story was spun

to sell papers, not to prove flying saucers were real.

Let's turn now from UFOs to aliens themselves

and the mysteries surrounding Peru's Nazca Lines.

They are one

of the world's most enduring archeological mysteries.

There's a theory they were created

by nonhuman intelligent beings.

It's been dismissed by skeptics.

But could a new discovery change the conversation?

- [Tony] It's 2015 in the Nazca region of Peru.

According to news reports,

a tomb raider exploring

an unnamed cave uncovers strange remains.

They're studied

at the Inkari-Cusco Institute for archeological research.

The human-like figure appears to be covered in a dry,

chalky powder that's described as fossilized algae.

Nicknamed Maria, she has an elongated skull

and very unusual appendages,

reminiscent of descriptions of the classic gray alien.

- She does, in fact,

have tridactyl hands and feet,

which only display three fingers and three toes.

- [Tony] Yet what's most unusual is that she has finger

and toe prints like these that look very different

from most humans.

- [Ken] What we're seeing here is kind of very straight,

horizontal skin ridges, or dermatoglyphics.

Human fingerprints tend to be curved.

- [Tony] Peruvian journalist Jois Mantilla

says radiocarbon dating

indicates she's over 1,700 years old,

and tests of her DNA say she's not human.

[Jois speaking in foreign language]

- [Tony] Since there are all of these strange discrepancies,

could we actually be dealing with an alien life form?

Let's get some expert analysis.

[tense music]

We'll start with those odd fingerprints.

They don't seem to fit from an evolutionary standpoint.

- Fingerprints help us not to lose grip

on slick items like, say, a glass,

because it helps us adhere our fingers to that surface.

For Maria to have fingerprints like this,

she would not be able to grip things

the way that we grip things,

and so, I don't see how that benefits her in any way.

- [Tony] And what about that strange elongated head?

- [Kathy] This body was found in Nazca, Peru,

where the culture there is very well known

for head binding, where they would bind the head

of an infant and then cause it to be more elongated.

Almost all of those burials

have this type of elongated skull.

- [Tony] But there's a detail that raises red flags overall,

that chalky powder on the body.

And we still haven't explained these odd appendages.

Well, upon closer inspection of those scans,

it appears all is not quite as it seems

with this skeleton, starting with that powdery substance.

- It's really suspicious

that there's this white coating all over this specimen.

It seems like it would be a great way to hide

anything that was created artificially.

- [Tony] Artificially created? The CT scans say yes.

- The bones of the hands and feet match human bones,

but it simply looks like the thumb and pinky

have been removed.

And it appears that other fingers have been attached

to the three main fingers to make them look longer

than they are.

We know this is a hoax because the CT scans reveal

that they are human appendages,

but they've been modified to create this alien appearance.

- [Tony] Oh, and about that DNA.

Subsequent testing by a Canadian team indicates

the bone samples tested may have been damaged

and contaminated, making any results unreliable.

Our verdict? This is a hoax.

The skeleton is human

and most likely tampered with in a disrespectful way.

- At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. Navy

was on constant alert for foreign threats.

But in 1952, something appeared

over a U.S. aircraft carrier

that crew members couldn't explain, much less defeat.

- [Tony] September 1952, the USS Franklin Delano Roosevelt

is conducting maneuvers somewhere in the North Sea,

off the coast of Norway, as part of Operation Mainbrace.

- Operation Mainbrace was NATO's first major Cold War naval

exercise involving hundreds of ships

and aircraft operating in coordinated, monitored airspace.

- [Tony] It's about 4 p.m.,

and news photographer Wallace Litwin

is on the forward flight deck when he notices

a white sphere floating hundreds of feet above the ship.

He snaps three exposures.

Two are developed into film slides,

where we can see a tiny orb hovering alongside the clouds.

And one is enlarged into this photograph.

- Here's the conning tower of the aircraft carrier.

And then up here at the top left side of the photograph

is this luminous object, this ball.

Now, we have no idea what this is, other

than allegedly, according to some people that were

on the USS Roosevelt, that this was a UFO.

- [Tony] There's more.

Later that day, officers at Air Base Karup

in Denmark see something similar.

- Three Royal Danish Air Force officers sighted a UFO

at about 7:30 p.m.

The object was a shiny disc with a metallic appearance,

and it passed overhead from the direction of the fleet

and disappeared in the clouds to the east.

- [Tony] As if that weren't enough, Royal Air Force officers

are seeing silvery round objects, too.

First, over RAF Topcliffe the day

before Litwin took his photos,

and then above the North Sea a day or two after.

- [Luis] So, you had a lot of different perspectives,

a lot of different people from different backgrounds

and different countries reporting

something very, very similar.

So, clearly, there was something there.

- In that setting, anything unidentified

above a U.S. aircraft carrier would not be a curiosity.

It would be operationally relevant.

- This is a problem.

Whether it's technologically a problem

because we're trying to keep our trade secrets,

or this is an air safety issue,

no matter how you slice and dice this, it's a problem.

- [Tony] First, isn't this just a simple film artifact?

- Because of the fact

that the gentleman got multiple photographs

of this object, and it apparently had moved

to a different position,

those are indications that it is not a defect.

- The other thing we have to consider is that Litwin took

this photograph because this object was in the air,

and he wanted to take a picture of it.

So, I think it's unlikely

that this is a photographic artifact

in this particular case.

- [Tony] The U.S. Air Force looked at this sighting as part

of their multidecade UFO investigation,

Project Blue Book,

and they dismissed it as a balloon.

Were they right all along?

- [Rich] It could be a weather balloon.

In the context of the actual initial statement

by Mr. Litwin, the photographer,

apparently there was a weather balloon

that was not launched at that time,

but a half an hour earlier,

and that was his initial statement.

Later, as time goes on, and he's retelling the story,

it says that there was no weather balloons up in the area.

- [Tony] So, whether or not there was a weather balloon

is debatable, but this much we know.

Weather balloons rise at about 1,000 feet per minute,

so we can say

that a weather balloon launched 30 minutes earlier would

have already been much too far away to photograph.

So, the big question is still lingering in the air.

- Could it be a UFO? Well, maybe.

I mean, there have been reports of spherical-looking UFOs.

- [Rich] This was an extremely large multi-nation operation

that would have been very interesting to a lot

of the objects that keep showing up around a lot

of our military exercises.

- [Tony] That pattern continues to this day.

In 2026, the Pentagon released dozens of UFO videos,

many of which were shot near naval military assets.

- [Rich] And so, it's very logical that you might

have had a case where that was an unknown

that was visiting this military exercise.

- We are going to have to disagree with Project Blue Book

and call this one unexplained.

Balloon or UFO?

Both remain possible, but neither can be confirmed

from the photo and conflicting accounts alone.

Now, let's change the subject from ships to planes.

From time to time, we feature unlikely survival stories.

This one happened during the deadliest plane crash

of 2025, when a sole survivor walked away from the wreckage.

The question is, how?

- [Tony] It's June 12, 2025,

in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.

At 1:38 p.m., all 12 crew members and 230 passengers

have boarded Air India Flight 171 en route to London.

Seconds after taking off and steadily gaining altitude,

the plane descends sharply.

It disappears from view. Then an explosion signals its fate.

- The Air India flight went up in a fireball.

Temperatures went to 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit.

- I was horrified when I saw this on the news,

and I was like, [speaking in foreign language]

That's what Hindus usually say when someone passes away

is [speaking in foreign language].

"Let their soul rest in peace," essentially.

- [Tony] Tragically, 241 people on the plane and 19 people

on the ground are killed in the crash.

And yet, cameras capture one passenger,

40-year-old Vishwash Kumar Ramesh,

who appears to walk away from the wreckage almost unharmed.

- If you were to present this scenario,

it would be considered forensically impossible

for anyone to have survived it.

But Mr. Ramesh did survive it, thus defying the impossible.

- For me, seeing that crash and seeing him survive,

it was a miracle.

It could be God saved him.

- [Tony] There have been some other

unbelievable plane crash survival stories.

In 1971, a passenger plane broke apart over Peru,

and 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke fell more than two miles

into the Amazon.

Against all odds, she lived. The explanation?

Updraft from a storm,

along with a jungle canopy cushioning her fall.

But what saved Mr. Ramesh?

- [Mitch] Mr. Ramesh was seated in 11A.

Devotees of numerology point out

that some years earlier,

there was another plane crash survivor,

the Thai singer-actor Ruangsak Loychusak

survived a plane crash in 1998.

And he too occupied seat 11A.

- Numerologists believe the number 11 is linked

to heightened awareness and perception.

Does that have anything to do with how Mr. Ramesh survived?

Or was there something else special

about where he was sitting?

[tense music]

- In this case, I can't say

whether there's something magical about seat 11A.

But I do have a theory on why Ramesh survived.

When the plane crashed, Ramesh was in seat 11A.

He was able to escape

through the broken-open emergency exit,

which happened to be right adjacent to his seat.

The plane broke apart, and his part ended up

in a hostel. It came to rest there.

And he was able to get out of his seat

and just walk right out of the airplane

before it filled with fire that essentially would

have spelled his doom.

- In both this India flight and the Thai flight,

both survivors were positioned by the exit,

which I think was key to both of their survival.

- Our verdict?

We're going with very fortunate seat placement.

Still, considering that Ramesh didn't just survive

but was able to walk away from this catastrophe,

if you want to call this a miracle, we won't argue.

- Some ghosts are so well known,

they've become semi-celebrities.

The one allegedly captured in this next photo

is so legendary, it's been investigated since the 1930s.

And now it's our turn.

- [Tony] September 1936, Norfolk, England.

Two photographers for Country Life magazine

are taking pictures at the fabled Raynham Hall,

long reputed to be haunted.

While setting up a shot on the grand staircase,

they say they see a vaporous form on the stairs.

And they're able to capture this.

- As opposed to a photo that has the presence of orbs

or is more of a mist,

this photo has what you can clearly determine to be

this full-bodied apparition descending the steps,

which is effectively why this stands out as one

of the most famous,

if not the most famous, ghost photos of all time.

If I saw this apparition coming down the steps,

I would be torn between wanting to take the photo and try

to interact with it versus the natural impulse to scoot

the heck out of there.

- [Tony] Legends of this ghost go back hundreds of years.

And it's nicknamed the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall.

- The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall is believed to be

the spirit of Lady Dorothy Townshend.

And according to legend,

she carried on an affair with the rival

of her husband, Charles Townshend.

And as punishment, she was entrapped

within the manor, locked away until the time of her death.

Now imagine Dorothy being locked away for so long up

until the time of her death.

Of course, there'd be strong emotions,

including frustration and anger.

And according to some paranormal theories,

that emotion lingers and carries forward even

in spirit form.

- After her passing, stories of her spectral form haunting

the manor spread throughout the area,

with some members of the staff reportedly leaving in fear.

- [Aaron] So, in 1836, we have this Royal Navy officer,

Captain Marryat, who sets out to poke holes

in this ghost story and decides he's going to sleep

over at Raynham Hall.

On the third night,

he encountered this specter clad in the brown dress

and looking precisely like Lady Dorothy in her portrait.

The captain sees the specter moving toward him,

and he is

so afraid that he pulls out his gun and fires a shot.

But the bullet passed right through the spectral form.

King George IV decided to stay at the manor,

and he encountered what he described as "a woman

in this tattered dress with an ashy paleness."

- [Tony] Now we put the question to our experts.

Is this a photo of a ghost or a hoax?

- One possibility here is that we're looking at

a light leak.

This is when a camera has some damage to some part

of it, and light leaks into a component of the camera

that shouldn't have that much light there.

This manifests itself as bright smudges

of different sizes and shapes on the photograph.

Unlike many examples of light leaks,

this one has more of a contained and distinct shape.

Usually light leaks would be on the edges or sides

of the image.

So it is interesting that this apparition,

if that's what it is,

is really toward the center of the image.

- [Tony] Many believe that this was no accident.

It was an intentional hoax,

and the shape of the apparition reveals how it was done.

- Another possibility of how this could

have been created is to place something like a statue

and remove it during a long exposure.

The motion blur from you removing

the statue actually would not show up

if you move fast enough.

- I actually did an experiment to try to replicate this.

This is a long exposure on this camera here,

and I just recorded what happened.

So what I did was I went and I stood on the stairs,

and I froze there for 15 seconds.

It had a 30-second exposure,

so I'm on the stairs for half of the exposure,

and when those 15 seconds were up,

I ran out of the shot and just waited another 15 seconds.

This is what actually turned out

from that little experiment I did.

Here is me standing on the stairs,

and you can see that I am a transparent ghost.

So, I think this is definitely a possible technique

that someone could have used to fake that particular photo.

- Our verdict? Hoax.

Mick West's test shows how easy it is.

As for those accounts of the ghost appearing

to people, those remain unexplained.

- We have investigated strange ancient structures

from all over the world,

but the one you're about to see has defied explanation

for almost a century.

- [Tony] It's 1937 in Salem, New Hampshire.

Insurance executive William Goodwin purchases

a 106-acre plot of farmland.

While hiking his new property,

he comes across beguiling rock formations.

[ominous music]

- He looked at these walls all over the 106 acres.

They twist, they bend,

they have big slabs of stone stood on their end.

They have big stones that are flat,

that are stacked up horizontally.

And then they have monoliths,

what we call America's Stonehenge today.

- [Aaron] According to William Goodwin, the site's low,

roughly human-scaled stone walls were evidence

of pre-Columbian settlers from across the sea.

He believed there were Irish monks

that were fleeing Viking raids and traveled across

the Atlantic to establish a monastery here.

- [Tony] In the decades since Goodwin's claims

about the site's Irish origins,

alternate theories have emerged.

- [Aaron] One of the most provocative origin theories

about the site comes to us

from the 1976 book "America B.C." by Barry Fell,

who argued that America's Stonehenge actually preserves

evidence of Iberian settlers who had arrived as far back

as first century B.C.

- [Tony] Or perhaps the builders were here already.

- [Dennis] Some now suggest Native Americans,

because they were here for over 13,000 years

in New Hampshire.

But if there was any tradition of stone building,

it had pretty much disappeared by the time of, say,

the Plymouth Plantation in 1620,

or even a little bit earlier than that.

- This massive stone at the center of the site

has been called the Sacrificial Table,

suggesting it was used for a blood ritual.

And adding another layer to this mystery.

So who made our local Stonehenge, and why?

Let's ask our experts.

[tense music]

- [Tony] First, what about those Irish monks?

- There are a number of reasons to discount that theory.

Irish monks were expanding

their territory around 1,000 CE,

and the first thing they would do is create

their monastery and these very signature Irish towers,

very tall, circular at the bottom.

Every single Irish monk site we know of

has that signature tower or multiple of them.

And in the case of American Stonehenge,

there's not a single building that looks like that.

- [Tony] What about the claim

that this is an Iberian settlement

from the first century?

The answer might be found in stratigraphy,

the study of the site's rock layers.

- [Ed] We see absolutely typical Native American artifacts

in the lowest levels of the excavations.

And it's not until the European invasion

that we start seeing things like porcelain and metal,

things that came from Europe.

So there is reason to believe,

just in terms of the chronology and the stratigraphy

of the site,

that its original builders were Native Americans.

It also makes complete sense that if Native Americans

had started this kind of construction

and made these shelters,

that the immigrants that came from Europe may

have used Native American foundations

to then build out more European-style things.

- [Tony] So what was the purpose of this site?

- One of the things here that people have speculated

on what it was really used for is this huge block

in the center

that some people call the Sacrifice Table or whatever.

But it could be an area where you cut up meat

or something like a butcher shop.

Something that had to do with the farm

that's surrounding it.

When William Goodwin bought the farm in the 1930s,

he probably moved some rocks around to try to get

into the true structure,

to get in underneath to find out what was there.

So, you know, now almost 100 years later,

those movements kind of cloudy up

what the true structure is.

- The verdict? Mixed construction.

Native Americans likely started America's Stonehenge,

and Europeans built onto it,

which explains its odd features.

- Did giants once walk the Earth?

To answer that question,

we're venturing into an ancient Roman mystery in a pair

of shoes that don't quite fit.

- [Tony] It's July 2025 at Magna Roman Fort in northern

England, after years of painstaking excavation,

archeologists working at this first-century Roman military

settlement make a discovery that stops the dig cold.

Buried in a ditch outside the fort is a collection

of shoes dating back nearly 2,000 years.

- We're talking about 30 to 40 shoes right now.

Every fort has a series of defensive ditches

that are right outside of the fort.

And that's a common place

where, when a unit was, let's say, leaving the fort,

they would actually throw a lot of trash,

a lot of rubbish in there.

Like worn-out shoes was a perfect thing to just go

into this ditch.

- [Tony] But a closer look reveals

these aren't any old shoes.

- [Elizabeth] Immediately, everyone said, "Wow,

these shoes are looking very large, aren't they?"

Because they're wider, they're longer,

their, just, their whole feel is much larger.

Something like 50% are above this kind of normal size.

You know, they're quite large.

- [Tony] The largest shoe

in the Magna Fort collection measures 32.6 centimeters,

the equivalent of a size 15.

That means the man who wore it could

have been nearly seven feet tall.

For context, the average Roman male

was about five foot five.

Did the Romans enlist giants?

It's not as far out as it sounds.

- Nearly every civilization from the South Pacific

to Siberia has an ancient lore of giants.

There is speculation

that these ancient mythologies were based on real beings.

- [Tony] If they were real beings,

where did they come from?

Some wonder if they were remnants of a species

of large humans called Denisovans.

We know about Denisovans from the handful of bones

and teeth that have been found since 2008.

- [Mitch] The Denisovans were

a large-proportioned prehistoric people,

and they had bodies that were, for their time,

far larger than typical Homo sapiens.

- [Tony] Another theory is the shoes belonged

to modern humans, albeit exceedingly large ones,

made to fight for Rome.

- [Mitch] The Roman historian Cassius Dio reported legions

facing barbarian tribes of incredible stature and strength.

Rome was known to incorporate conquered nations

into its military.

So if there were hugely sized Roman soldiers,

they might have come from a conquered tribe that Rome

was able to enlist in its own military efforts.

- There are accounts

of the Roman Emperor Augustus displaying massive bones

and weapons in his gardens and villas,

believing they belonged to ancient giants.

To a Roman audience, giants weren't fantasy.

They were history.

But is it possible the Romans had actual giants

within their ranks?

- [Tony] First, were they Denisovans?

The problem is the fossils we alluded to.

They suggest Denisovans were heavier than us,

but no complete Denisovan skeleton has been found,

so it's unclear if they were taller.

So did the shoes belong to barbarians,

made to fight for Rome?

Maybe. But don't believe the ancient stories.

- [Ed] Cassius Dio, like any good historian that's writing

a tale worth hearing,

he may have inflated the actual size

of how big these people are.

We do know that the people of Northern Europe were

of larger size, certainly, than the Romans,

so that was certainly bigger than Romans, and large,

but to call it giant is a bit of a stretch.

- [Tony] Then who did these shoes belong to?

- [Ed] If the Romans want a fort full of strong soldiers

that people won't oppose,

they were probably specifically looking for

the largest people they could find,

because they make the best soldiers,

or at least the most intimidating ones.

So it makes sense that the Roman soldiers who would occupy

a fort would be of local stock,

and the local stock,

especially Scandinavians and the northern part

of the U.K., were much larger folks.

- They've taken the largest men

from the furthest territories to guard against whatever

they were fearful of.

That group just happened to have bigger feet,

and they kept them together.

- We agree with our experts.

The shoes belong to local conscripts

of the larger variety.

By the way, when Caesar invaded Britain in 55 BC,

he described Britons

as fierce warriors painted blue,

charging into battle on chariots.

You can see why the Romans may have called any

of the bulkier Britons giants.

we first brought to you in a previous season.

On April 26, 2013, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico,

the crew of a United States Customs and Border Patrol plane

noticed this unidentified object.

It looked like a metallic sphere,

and it moved quickly in a loop around the airport

before heading out to the ocean.

And check this out.

It appears to splash down in the water

before reemerging seconds later.

- What's even more incredible is that it seems to morph

and change shape, and then it breaks apart

into two separate craft.

There's no known Earth technology that can do that.

This was a UFO that ended up turning into a USO,

an unidentified submerged object.

- [Tony] After this mysterious video leaked,

a specialized team led

by our own Richard Hoffman spent months conducting

a meticulous frame-by-frame analysis of the footage.

- [Rich] It's a credible video.

The telemetry you see

on the screen showing GPS location identically matched

what you had with radar.

There really was an aircraft.

- [Tony] Hoffman also says the object is too small

to be a plane.

- If you look at the individual pixels in the video,

it's about 3 to 5 feet in diameter.

- [Tony] Could it be a drone? - [Rich] A drone doesn't have

the same heat signature at all.

I mean, there's no heat from it.

- [Tony] Maybe a balloon.

- [Rich] It was about 18-mile-an-hour winds from the

northeast, and this object was going in opposite directions

from that, it's clearly not a balloon. It's unidentified.

It's not from any place here.

- We initially determined that this video captured

a genuine UFO or USO.

However, in March of 2025, AARO,

the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office,

concluded that these are just a pair of sky lanterns,

not a single craft splitting in two.

What did Richard Hoffman have to say about that? Plenty.

- [Rich] You know what a sky lantern is?

It's nothing more than a bag that's got a candle

at the bottom of it.

Do you think a little candle at the bottom

of that little bag is going to stay lit for very long?

Its temperature is largely black.

That says that it's got an even temperature.

And would that little candle make that image look

as black as it is here?

No. So we got a lot of problems with their explanation.

- [Tony] In their report,

AARO also claimed these objects never

fully entered the water.

It just appears that way. Hoffman vehemently disagrees.

- They came up with a term called thermal crossover,

which basically is saying that the camera can't resolve

a difference of temperature between the object

and the water.

So it becomes invisible, if you would.

And you can clearly see

that there's no thermal crossover effect here.

That's clearly at a different temperature, and that camera

is picking up on that.

We're doing a lot more in terms

of our own independent investigations into this thing,

and we don't necessarily accept what they're saying

as being legitimate.

- So there you have it.

Hoffman stands by his original assessment,

and we stand by Hoffman.

So we're keeping this one as a genuine USO.

And that's our show for tonight.

Thank you so much for watching.

And as always,

keep those cameras rolling.

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