All language subtitles for TOP 10 UFO SIGHTINGS OF 2022

in a previous episode we debunked this

viral UFO video out of Miami as a fake

in part because there was only one

witness

is that Holy

now we look to the Florida Skies again

this time we have lots of witnesses and

thankfully one was a loyal viewer who

sent us his own video

February 9 2021 Southern Florida Stuart

Eck is on the road when a flash of light

makes him pull over it's not the police

it's this

awesome it's so nice

a large white plume unfurls across the

sky growing larger and larger he's not

frightened but he is amazed

wow awesome I looked over and uh it was

a giant flame in the sky

take another look as the light passes

over Stuart it leaves behind a massive

Trail it ballooned out like it was

exploding or something very different

was going on and it was one of the most

incredible things I've ever seen in my

life not everyone Stewart talked to was

as smitten with the object unbelievable

he scared a lot of people

to death thinking it was some type of of

weapon coming in from outer space

Florida is a UFO hot spot

California there have been 7 000

sightings of UFOs in Florida since 1998.

but UFOs are consistently reported to

fly without leaving visible exhaust or

contrails and there's another theory a

very human high-tech weapon reported to

leave a distinctive exhaust Trail the

Chinese military already claims to have

developed something called a Hypersonic

missile as the name suggests it travels

at five times the speed of sound at low

altitude that's a game changer because

such a weapon could make it from the

human missile silos in central China to

Washington DC evading radar and existing

air defense systems until it is already

well over U.S airspace and American

nuclear submarines reportedly now have

their own Hypersonic missile dubbed the

sea dragon

so that might be what Stewart witnessed

another theory this is some new rocket

being developed by a space entrepreneur

like Elon Musk notice how both this 2017

SpaceX launch and the one in Stewart's

video have glowing contrails due to an

effect you may have seen in an earlier

episode about a suspected Chinese rocket

while it's dark on the ground the rocket

and its contrails are high up enough to

be illuminated by the sun even though

it's over the horizon but exactly what

sort of Rocket missile or other craft

could be creating the huge exhaust Trail

in Stewart's video is a mystery

spacex's Falcon 9 has become the most

flown operational U.S rocket reaching

orbit 24 times in 2020. so could this be

another Elon Musk venture or is there

something else more troubling going on

first astronomer and video effects

designer Mark d'antonio considers if

this could be a jet-going supersonic

when the jet approaches the sound

barrier you'll see a condensation front

along the front of the jet in moist air

a speeding plane creates low pressure

areas where water condenses in a vapor

cone as the plane speeds up the cloud

moves down the body and when the plane

breaks through the sound barrier it

outraces the water droplets and The Cone

disappears

what we're seeing here though is a

continuous plume that's persistent so

this is definitely not a supersonic jet

our Aviation expert Tim McMillan thinks

he can narrow it down further that

teardrop shape and that contrail there

that is characteristic of uh you know

some type of Rocket or potentially a

missile test but when MacMillan checks

the SpaceX launch schedule he rules out

any Elon Musk related UFOs so could this

be a new weapon system like the Sea

Dragon the U.S is just now kind of

getting into the hypersonics game and

and trying to develop more operational

Hypersonic platforms when d'antonio digs

deeper he finds the U.S military had

tested submarine-launched missiles in

the area that day

but the military won't say what exactly

was launched

if it was a missile test of some kind

it's probably a missile that they don't

want you to know about

despite the strange appearance we're

calling this one a rocket or missile

launch but what rocket or missile we may

never know what's clear is that the U.S

is in a race to develop Unstoppable

Hypersonic missiles so we may be

witnessing one of the very first tests

Quebec 2018.

a french-speaking family is on an outing

enjoying a cloudless day when they

notice something in the sky and start

recording

a bizarre object rotates slowly seeming

to shine bright red and green lights as

it turns

we push in and stabilize the image to

get a better look as the image comes

into Focus you don't have to speak

French to grasp the family's

astonishment

I say but I'm not nice

the family grows increasingly certain

they've spotted something extraordinary

and check this out at moments it looks

like this thing is Flaming something

we've never seen before is it a craft

burning off fuel as it ascends into

space

journalist MJ banayas a Canadian himself

says his homeland does a thorough job of

recording such incidents Canada has a

significant UFO history where one of the

few countries that actually logs and

collects UFO data on a yearly basis and

then publishes the results of those

findings there are more sightings of

UFOs over Quebec than in any other

Canadian province

whatever this thing is it's not making

any noise and it's not clear how it

stays Aloft the object is quite curious

to me because it seems to have no

visible means of propulsion maybe even

exhibiting anti-gravity properties it's

sort of just suspended in air and for a

period of time so this very well could

be something not of this world

so we've done stories of UFOs spotted at

forest fires hovering around flaming

volcanoes and even flying into the sun's

Corona but this is a rare instance where

a UFO almost looks like it's on fire to

shed some light on what we're seeing we

turn the video over to our experts

first video analyst Mark d'antonio

examines the video and it's metadata to

see if we can trust it as far as the

video being something that was fake or

hoaxed I don't believe that that's the

case I think that this is an actual

object this object doesn't have

propellers or produce exhaust so our

experts eliminate a drone or plane

and the sky is completely clear so

d'antonio rules out a cloud this is not

anything weather related where there's

no sun it's dark under there and where

there is sun it's bright it kind of

shows us that it's a 3D object being

illuminated by the Sun

and what looks like fire might not be

flame but really A glint of sunlight off

a shiny surface says Aviation expert Tim

McMillan it's something that appears to

have a very highly reflective surface

it's reflecting sunlight very much like

a mirror and so all of that is very

characteristic of a bright shiny silver

mylar party balloon and at one point you

can almost make out of shape maybe an H

or you know at some point almost maybe

looks like a horse d'antonio and

MacMillan think it's a balloon of some

sort that's reflecting light so

intensely it looks like it's on fire

but neither can explain exactly why the

reflected light is so red why the colors

sometimes shift or even why it's that

strange shape

I can't say it's not a UFO unequivocally

but I do believe it's a mylar balloon

so our verdict the deciding moment for

us is when the object turns sideways we

have to agree with our experts with its

wrinkles and strange shape it sure looks

like a partially deflated balloon but we

don't know what the letter is supposed

to be so it's a UFL unidentified flying

letter

I think I said in

February 2020 an Airbus A320 is on a

routine flight Soaring Over Medellin

Colombia

little does the captain know he's about

to find out he's sharing the friendly

Skies

the pilot does us the favor of showing

his altimeter and we can see that he's

flying around 30 000 feet in altitude

the pilot then points his camera phone

out of the cockpit window and watch this

as he Zooms in

a metallic looking object a polyhedron

of some sort whizzes by in a straight

line

we slow it down and zoom in further

you can see it kind of looks like a cube

it has these kind of little points that

stick out it does seem to be darker in

color and not

um like a bright shining balloon

whatever this is it definitely shouldn't

be there now it's hard to judge this

object's size without knowing how far

away it is but scientist Amy Eskridge

estimates it's 10 to 15 feet in diameter

one theory is that if we were visited by

another civilization they might send

probes ahead of when they actually come

and consider this

a similar object was spotted by an fa-18

fighter pilot in 2018 at an altitude of

35 000 feet

it still hasn't been identified and its

structure unlike any known airframe

lends Credence to the Alien Probe Theory

they might want to collect data maybe do

a little surveillance a little

monitoring before they actually show up

the U.S we associate Medellin Colombia

with drug cartels but in South America

the city is known for UFO signings in

fact after UFOs were spotted over a

soccer stadium at above a forest the

city earned the title the new Roswell so

we're turning to our experts to see if

they can tell us what's going on

foreign

I've analyzed several videos in depth of

UFOs and uaps over the course of my

career and the way that it's traveling

on screen in the area of the clouds does

appear to be consistent with recordings

that I have deemed authentic so while

Primo can't find anything technically

wrong with the video something just

doesn't look right to him what caught my

eye is when the camera is panning up to

the skyline the operator instinctively

Zooms in

almost like he's expecting this object

as it's coming towards the airplane

this is peculiar to me so the feel of

the video upon visual analysis feels

staged

but Primo thinks it's possible the pilot

was just play lucky to zoom in right as

the object flies past the plane MJ

benais agrees Pilots are the people who

work in the sky and operate in it so

they're going to have the best view of

any potential UFOs around them we turn

this video over to our Aviation expert

Tim McMillan he thinks whatever was shot

over Medellin is too slow to be any kind

of plane or missile and it looks nothing

like a drone initially when it starts

coming I thought it's probably a balloon

regular helium balloons really make it

to this altitude when they get this High

the helium expands and the balloon pops

but solar balloons are different used as

toys or for research they're usually

made from dark material to absorb the

sun's heat they rise as the air inside

warms and expands they've gone as high

as 46 000 feet but in general when they

hit the cooler air up high they start to

lose shape and altitude it's just too

cold for them to stay aloft it almost

seems to have an odd cube-like shape

that is exactly what the Navy Pilots

have reported seeing off the east coast

of the United States they're currently a

part of the unidentified aerial

phenomena that's being investigated by

the Department of Defense I don't have a

good explanation

so assuming it's not a hoax it's

certainly not a drone or a known

aircraft it's possibly a balloon I mean

when you look at that speed your mind

goes there but it's extremely rare for a

solar balloon to reach this altitude by

process of elimination we'll go with

genuine UFO

so humans might not be the only Pilots

up in the sky

November 2020 the Red Rock Desert of

Southern Utah

a helicopter crew and state biologists

are counting bighorn sheep when

something catches their eye

they land and make this astounding

discovery

a large shiny silver object tucked into

an almost inaccessible Canyon this is

wild

look closer

from every angle it's clear this thing

does not belong here

Utah keeps its location secret

but news leaks out on social media and

it's quickly labeled the Utah monolith

U.S army vet David surber takes all the

secrecy as a challenge

I'm like okay I'm gonna find this place

right it was probably 11 p.m and I drove

for six hours straight through the night

to try to get there David works his way

deep into a canyon I don't see anyone

just after Daybreak he rounds a corner

there she is

and it's just there I was like oh God

and uh it was just a really cool

experience to have a few minutes along

with it

there are a few things more iconic than

a monolith whether we're talking about

the monolith that started 2001 A Space

Odyssey or the obelisks of ancient Egypt

so when this mysterious metal Monument

popped up it really sparked people's

imagination the idea being that possibly

one of the ways that aliens would

contact us would be to leave an

information latent monolith for us to

investigate and discover

one focus on the internet was whether

the monolith was constructed with alien

building materials the belief was that

they are comprised of something called a

meta material or a meta metal

meta-materials are engineered to have

properties not found naturally on Earth

special composites of metal strands and

Ceramics are created to absorb radar for

stealth technology

and there are reports from reputed UFO

crash sites that the craft contain

Alloys that give them anti-gravity and

cloaking characteristics

accounts of alien meta materials went

mainstream in 2017 with a New York Times

article according to the New York Times

report Bigelow Aerospace was contracted

by the government to store possible

materials from Alien craft it's believed

that the US government is studying these

alien materials to create the next

generation of weapons

could the Utah monolith be made of the

same sort of alien materials David tests

it I had a magnet with me mainly because

we were trying to figure out you know

what type of metal is it

not sticking and also was it a solid

object or was it Hollow

not solid so what's it made of and by

whom

other mysterious monoliths have been

discovered recently often in remote

locations in Romania the Isle of Wight

and Sweden are these objects some sort

of alien calling card or could they be

the product of a very creative and very

human mind

and when you first see this you can't

help but think of some type of

extraterrestrial technology however

there's nothing about what we're seeing

in this video that leads me to believe

it's manufactured from any kind of

exotic materials unlike reports of UFO

meta materials the monolith doesn't defy

gravity and it's definitely not cloaked

in person David noticed fingerprint

smudges in ragged Corners as well as

other signs of terrestrial Construction

the telltale signs of those rivets would

make me believe this is man-made no

matter how kind of anomalous its

appearance is

for McMillan that's the giveaway the

signs of ordinary Earthbound metal work

if it is human-made Kathy strain has an

idea why someone went through all the

effort to put it in the middle of

nowhere I think it's it's a message of

beauty of artwork maybe makes you and

reflect more that I wanted to come here

for the Wilderness some artists like

Donald Judd believe that Wilderness is

the ultimate art gallery and use

isolated locations for installation

sites

but who made this and what it's made

from is almost impossible to determine

from a video

ultimately you're not going to be able

to determine exactly what this object is

until you get it into a lab and under

in-depth analysis

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but just as it appeared out of nowhere

the Utah monolith vanished literally

overnight

so until it's found and we can get it

into a lab our verdict this is not an

alien artifact it's either a human

artwork or a hoax either way it's a

compelling Conversation Piece

ah

February 25th 2021 residents of

Queensland are going about their

business when this tears open the sky

twin bright streaks tracing the same

flight path making this A peculiar video

even by today's UFO standards

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sign look it's just disappeared

take a closer look

at first glance they look like meteors

but do meteors fall in a road like this

and do they have such long tails

hundreds reports seeing these streaking

objects and some suspect they are

somehow connected to a secret base

almost 1 000 miles away

another area in Australia that's been

known for Curious activity would be Pine

Gap Australia there have been very

frequent recordings of all kinds of

unexplained things in the night sky in

that area

Pine Gap is a top secret American base

in the Australian Outback that we know

tracks and spies on satellites

many also believe it conceals an

underground city where scientists

develop a wide variety of clandestine

projects involving UFOs

there are numerous stories of flying

discs appearing in the sky over the base

and it's rumored to contain a plasma gun

capable of shooting down anything in low

orbit

it's alleged that there is a lot of

experimentation in dark technology that

has gone on there

construction at Pine Gap started in 1966

the height of the Cold War so it's often

referred to as Australia's Area 51 but

is there really a connection between

Pine Gap and these streaking lights we

turn the video over to the experts

first we ask astronomer Mark d'antonio

if these flaming objects could just be

strange meteors meteors move anywhere

from 10 to 20 000 kilometers per hour

when they hit our atmosphere this is

moving way too slow it's only moving at

a few times the speed of sound so could

these objects have originated from Pine

Gap our experts look at the key evidence

that the objects themselves are on fire

and say no a plasma Ray would look like

a laser beam or a bolt of lightning and

an exploding missile would send Parts

flying in all directions not in this

orderly Road

so could they be UFOs if so NASA's Bob

Anderson says an advanced civilization

would be unlikely to construct

spacecraft that crossed the Galaxy only

to burn up on a rival you were not

expected to heat up like that and burn

off part of its Shield to get into the

Earth's atmosphere

of course not everything in the sky is a

meteor UFO or secret weapon this is sort

of the characteristic of a re-entering

piece of space debris of some kind the

lightweight materials burn up and Fall

Away first and the heavy materials like

the engines those continue for quite

some time d'antonio thinks another big

clue is the specific location of the

signing to the right of Australia and

the Pacific is a location that's called

the satellite graveyard and when

satellites are purposefully deorbited to

crash back to Earth they orbited into

this one spot in the ocean

in fact Australia is sandwiched between

two areas where most satellites are

deliberately crashed

more than 300 spacecraft have broken up

and dropped there they are the most

remote regions of the ocean and farthest

from populated areas

when d'antonio digs deeper he finds this

object might be an especially big piece

of space junk that's separated into

these pieces upon re-entry what this

turned out to be was a Chinese Long

March that was sent to the satellite

graveyard in the ocean

China's Long March rocket has a massive

booster measuring 35 feet long and nine

feet wide

with roughly one satellite crashing into

the ocean every few weeks d'antonio has

some advice be very careful when you're

out there you might get hit by a

satellite

okay joking aside we're going to agree

with the Antonio and call this one the

space junk an expired Chinese rocket

NASA has recently scolded the Chinese

for what it considers irresponsible

behavior in the disposal of expired

space equipment

2011 a resident of Jerusalem is out for

a stroll when a bright light over the

old city catches his eye he begins to

film and this is what his camera

captures a bright ball of light hangs

over the old city

strange on its own but then it drops

down to just above the buildings

hovers and amazingly zooms straight up

literally in the blink of an eye

watch this last part again the ball of

light seems to be just above roof level

there's a bright flash that stuns the

onlookers whoa

and it Rockets up and out of frame in

less than a second

this isn't Just Happening anywhere the

orb or whatever it is is cited over one

of Earth's holiest places the Dome of

the Rock also known as the Temple mount

the Dome of the Rock is one of the most

important sites in Christianity Judaism

in Islam where Muhammad ascended into

heaven it's also the site where Abraham

was about to sacrifice his son Isaac to

God it is also where Solomon was said to

have built the first temple and

centuries after it was destroyed where

Jesus cast out the money lenders of the

second temple

could we be witnessing a modern day

miracle

we have lots of stories where people

when they are having a religious moment

see lights in the sky because we're at a

holy site maybe something holy is

happening

this idea of a UFO holy land connection

was revived in 2020 when an Israeli

space experts and eyes looking towards

the heavens with a startling claim

ashad who was Israel's space security

Chief went on record claiming that Earth

was being visited by extraterrestrials

you literally had the highest ranking

official of Israel's Space Program

coming out publicly stating that there

was a Galactic Federation of alien races

ishad who was promoting a book at the

time has never revealed his sources but

he's not the only believer in this

Federation

it is said that the Federation consists

of hundreds of thousands of members and

was founded millions of years ago well I

believe this statement by the Israeli

space secretary

is the truth

this whole idea of the Galactic

Federation

can be traced back to the Eisenhower

Administration in 1950.

there were numerous reports that he had

contact with an extraterrestrial

Heim esched says that is part of The

Pact we're allowing aliens to conduct

experiments on Earth and we built a

joint underground base on Mars so is

this object a UFO a known craft or a bit

of video Hocus Pocus

first could this be Israel's Iron Dome

missile system it has been used to

detect and shoot down over 2 000 Rockets

the problem with that is it shoots up it

doesn't come down like this does number

two the object ends up covering the

defense system doesn't do that as far as

whether that could be a drone there's a

lag time when you add full power we

didn't see that it just went straight up

in the air so that takes drone out of

the equation

that seems to narrow it down to one

option a UFO if the video is real we run

it by Michael Primo's expert eye so I

began the analysis with media

interrogation noted that there was

insufficient digital information to

verify it as a camera original the

metadata was scarce that likely means

the video was run through at least one

software program stripping away much of

the metadata

upon further analysis we applied

macroblock visualization this

essentially means that the software took

that information out and those gradient

values aren't actually recorded in the

original recording so in conclusion this

recording should not be considered

authentic

whoa

it looks like someone had some fun

making this video so we're going to call

it a host but this in no way disproves

the Galactic Federation claim according

to Heim eshed the aliens will make

themselves known to The Wider World once

humankind is ready for the truth

May 2015 a local horticulturalist is

recording himself during a routine

mushroom hunt in the woods of Northern

Illinois these look pretty big the

footage shot from his perspective shows

him calmly narrating as he walks through

the forest pointing his camera at

various mushrooms scattered on trees and

logs

and this one looks like it has a bite

out of it after pointing out what looks

like a half-eaten mushroom the man is

startled by a strange and scary sound

seemingly coming from nearby

okay

it's a long drawn-out howl it lasts

about nine seconds and certainly sounds

like an animal of some kind the mushroom

hunter pans his camera back and forth to

see if he can spot anything but sees

nothing I think it's time to go field

researcher Ken Gerhart believes Bigfoot

is a real primate and like other

primates capable of producing a huge

array of vocalizations and noises so

this I would characterize as a Yelp or a

scream which does fit into the Paradigm

of the Bigfoot World gerhardt claims

sasquatches are social animals and may

vocalize if there's another one nearby

most animals vocalize for a couple of

primary reasons one is for mating but

Gerhart believes this actually isn't a

mating call it's a war crime

this particular vocalization has a

definitive sound of aggressiveness I

would say whatever is making the sound

is trying to scare this person out of

its area one theory is that this

particular alleged Sasquatch is just

defending its feeding grounds Bigfoot is

what we call an opportunistic omnivore

which basically means it eats anything

and it would make perfect sense that as

an omnivore Bigfoot would find an

abundant and plentiful food source in

this mushroom patch

most Bigfoot sightings in Illinois occur

in the South and places like Shawnee

National Forest but this encounter

allegedly took place in the north there

was a theory that Bigfoot is a transient

species and one of the reasons they're

so hard to find is that they're always

on the move so if they exist it's

plausible they could be in the area but

let's turn it over to our experts

apologist Kathy strain wonders if we

could be hearing a black bear now there

haven't been native populations of those

bears in the state fourth Century but

it's believed that stragglers from

neighboring Missouri and Wisconsin can

travel to the state so how about it

bears do regularly growl however they

don't tend to scream or yell for long

periods of time their growls are very

concentrated

but this was very loud and very extended

biologist Dr Floyd Hayes examines the

other possibilities the coyote or wolf

can have a long how but it sounds quite

different than that it sounds more like

a dog howl

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and I don't think there's any smaller

animals like a fox that would make a

call that loud so the only possibilities

in my mind would be either a human

or this mythical Bigfoot creature so we

turned the video over to our expert

sound ecologist Dr Ben goddessman we see

that the sound lasts for about 10

seconds at the beginning it's a very

throaty Broadband scream but then it

ends in this long drawn out tonal whale

under further examination goddessman

says something Rings Hollow about this

sound this is an open forest and yet

there's a certain muffled quality to the

sound so I went digging and I found the

following sound effect from a show about

dinosaurs

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foreign

familiar

it's a match

listen again

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this recording is a hoax

so our verdict this is a hoax these

aren't real Bigfoot vocalizations

they're just sound effects cleverly

edited into a video in order to create

an internet sensation

still that doesn't discount the idea

that Sasquatch could be a mushroom lover

just make sure to avoid the poison ones

big guy it's November 23 2019 not far

from the southern border between Arizona

and Mexico Department of Homeland

Security agents are flying an rc26

surveillance aircraft on the hunt for

drug smugglers when suddenly they're

infrared cameras capture this

let's zoom in for a closer look the

strange object has a solid body that

tapers at one end with what looks like a

smaller Circle above the other end its

odd shape has an uncanny resemblance to

everyone's favorite bath toy and

instantly becomes known as the rubber

duck UFO

in September 2021 UFO investigator Andy

Marshall receives the footage from a

secret Source at the Department of

Homeland Security when I opened it I

realized wow this is like a league of

all leaks I've seen many drones I've

seen balloon footage if this is what I

do for a living I do my due diligence

and I believe it's a legitimate UAP or

UFO journalist MJ banaya says the video

took Everyone by surprise when it first

landed online it is shaped like a rubber

duck this is definitely bizarre but

using information on screen we can

deduce it seems to be around six feet in

length so it's quite a small object

the video shows the rubber duck flying

for nearly an hour and because the

footage comes from an official Federal

agency banaya says the UFO Community is

taking this rubber duck very seriously

what's different about this video is the

other videos that the United States

government has released concerning

unidentified aerial phenomena is its

length it's much easier to pull data out

of an hour-long video to figure out what

we're looking at versus a very short

video for example in in the Tic Tac UFO

video but while no one knows yet what

the rubber duck is what we do know is

that this footage was not meant for the

public to see

there's another thing that distinguishes

this government UFO video from all the

other headline-making incidents of the

recent past those military encounters

all took place over water and were

observed by Navy planes or warships this

takes place over land on the border no

less so does this signal a new wave of

UFOs interacting with the government

we're going to turn this over to our

experts to see if this rubber duck UFO

is all that's quacked up to be

first we asked Rich Hoffman of the

scientific Coalition for UAP studies to

examine the footage but one of the

things we're finding out about UFO study

is that basically shape doesn't really

seem to matter much we've had objects

that are discs on our triangles some are

cigar shaped cylindrical

but while UFO shapes can be different

Hoffman notes that what typically

defines a UFO are common behavioral

characteristics including Hypersonic

speed cloaking and transmedium travel

this one didn't seem to make any

pronounced types of bead changes that we

would say instantaneous acceleration it

didn't stop in the air and hover it

didn't do the things that you might

typically see in a lot of UFO cases so

if the rubber duck is a conventional

object could it be an airplane Hoffman

says the shape of the object and the

thermal nature of the camera offer Clues

the temperature of the aircraft would

not be the solid white that you see on

that image you'd see the variations in

terms of color but in fact in the very

beginning of the video you can see where

the heat is maybe coming out of an

exhaust part of that engine and that's

what it would have looked like if a

conventional aircraft is off the table

could it be another kind of machine we

take that question to Aviation expert

Tim McMillan we know there's a lot of

drone traffic that comes across the

southern Border in the United States

particularly with drug trafficking some

type of illegal substance that's being

attached to a larger drone above it the

cheap cost and low skill level needed to

operate makes drones a common tool used

by Cartel members to move drugs across

the border we should be able to see the

characteristics of a drone if this is a

quadcopter drone we should see those

rotors spinning we never see that based

on just the totality of the factors I

don't have a good answer next we ask a

science writer Mick West to take a look

we can use the data from this plane to

measure how far it goes over the course

of the video it actually only moves

about eight to ten miles over the course

of the entire 20-30 minutes that it's

tracking the the object it seemed like

he was moving 120 miles per hour but

since it only moves around eight miles

in like 30 minutes that really means

it's moving less than 20 miles per hour

which is you know not much faster than

normal wind speed so we know that this

object probably isn't moving very fast

at all it doesn't change direction it

doesn't seem to change altitude it's

flying in a straight line Mick adds up

all these individual factors and arrives

at a hypothesis one possibility is this

rubber dock shape is actually a bunch of

balloons where some of them at the

bottom of the body and then the upper

one is the the head it might just be

some party somewhere they just blew in

the wind and this is what we ended up

with so I think it's probably not some

kind of alien spaceship ultimately the

video ends with a rubber duck still fly

leaving Mick to admit that his theory is

just that a theory we don't know how

this story ends all we have is this

section of the video we don't know what

happens after that so there's still a

mystery as to what happened after this

video

our verdict well mixed analysis of the

balloon hypothesis has Merit the video

doesn't give us a clear enough image to

make that call with confidence whatever

the image is we know border patrol

agents filmed it until their time in the

air came to an end they probably

wouldn't have done that for something

commonplace so we're going to call this

a genuine UFO for now until it's

properly identified

meanwhile if any other citizen

journalist out there come in contact

with more official government footage of

unidentified objects please send it to

us for analysis May 15 2021 Hamid

Vitalis is walking along the Brooklyn

Promenade on his way to work at his

freestyle rap Channel when he looks out

over the Manhattan skyline whips out his

phone and captures this

and um I'm over here on the Promenade

looking at something going on

and when I looked at the phone I saw

three dots so I looked up in the sky I

said hold up nope like wait a minute

they were basically sitting in a solid

pyramid formation three orbs of light

hover in the sky they appear to be

stationary then a plane appears from the

left passing across the sky toward the

orbs and right when that plane came

that's when they started darting off yo

where they go and only one stage and

then the one darted off right in my face

and I saw I was like well hold up wait a

minute what did I just witness y'all

let's play that back zoomed in and slow

down the three orbs form a triangle they

seem to hover right over Manhattan as a

plane those small moving lights

approaches them from Below

two vanish in an instant where the

lights go yo where they go

and then the third slowly dims away

why would UFOs be so attracted to the

flavor New York is delivering some

people believe UFOs go to where all the

action is because they they pick up on

the energy

well like moths you know they're

attracted to the light

UFO sightings doubled in New York City

in 2020. one theory is that in the

pandemic people were taking the time to

check out the night sky the other

obvious reason could be that UFOs come

here to observe more frequently when our

planet is in crisis our experts are in a

New York State of Mind see what they

think

Mark d'antonio says hummus videos

metadata is consistent with camera

phones

he thinks it's authentic and unaltered

but he doesn't see anything special in

their shape

well any three points makes a triangle

so if you're going to see three objects

in the sky you're always going to see

some form of triangle d'antonio quickly

runs through what he thinks the orbs

could and couldn't be they were

helicopters then we would expect them to

have their own recognition lights they

don't now could they be drones I don't

believe that's what we're looking at

you'll notice that they're also really

really orange but I see is what could be

a classic case

of a sky lantern

our Aviation analyst Tim McMillan has a

very different idea about what they are

I think the biggest problem with them

being sky lanterns is the fact that how

bright they appear to be MacMillan

thinks the bright lights from the big

city would drown out those from a drone

or Skylander he believes the answer is

just a matter of perspective it's

extremely difficult to judge a distance

height altitude of aircraft and when

you're just looking at a couple of

bright lights in the sky it's even more

difficult there were flights arriving at

New York's LaGuardia Airport roughly

every 10 minutes that night and

MacMillan wonders if these are landing

lights that are much farther apart than

they appear oftentimes you know you can

see these lights up to 100 miles away

and so I think we're looking at here

there's a series of aircraft that are

coming in on an approach to the airport

there with their Landing lights on it's

giving this illusion that they're in

this triangular pattern well because

they're at different altitudes as

they're coming in there are over 3

flights in and out of New York City

airports most days and if these are

three planes they are probably about

five miles apart from each other as they

approach for landing their lights would

easily be visible from Brooklyn but how

could they seem to disappear it may

actually be that the aircraft have

turned in Banks so they're no longer

facing them directly

both d'antonio and MacMillan are pretty

confident about their conclusions but

we're going to go with MacMillan planes

are far brighter and more numerous than

sky lanterns over New York Ahmad is

shooting a video for his rap Channel

most nights so if he discovers any more

freestyle in UFOs we'll drop the

knowledge right here

[Applause]

October 2018 ho hot the industrial

capital of inner Mongolia

the city of 2.8 million is going about

its business when this tears across the

sky

a large bright object corkscrews

overhead leaving a breathtaking Trail

startled citizens all over the city

begin filming

it looks like some sort of vapor

swirling in the sky

and at one point right here it looks

like a beam shining down on the city

this thing whatever it was was extremely

strange looking so you kind of can't

blame people for looking up and thinking

it's an alien spaceship of course a

rocket launch is the obvious explanation

but hang on rocket launches don't

usually happen over large densely

populated areas

their contrails aren't typically

illuminated like this one and

importantly they usually have linear

flight trajectories not this weird

corkscrewing path it doesn't seem to be

going anywhere specific it seems to kind

of be Meandering throughout the sky that

raises another theory might this be the

debut of a breakthrough military

technology one explanation that has been

posited is that they come from the

dongfang Aerospace City where they are

creating new types of Technology Space

Age Technology and that they are the

result of an effort to give China a leg

up in the space race

there's a lot of mystery surrounding

this particular area and no one has come

forward to claim responsibility so we

don't actually know what happened here

the Chinese military keeps a tight lid

on what's happening at dong Fang

foreigners are rarely allowed to visit

but we do know that Chinese admitted to

using a missile to destroy one of their

own satellites back in 2007. so is this

video proof of some new Advanced space

weapon is it a craft room out of this

world

or something else entirely

astronomer and video effects designer

Mark d'antonio first considers that this

might be a comet

oh this is cool

we talk about comets in the night sky

all the time and comets do move across

the sky

but known comets are astronomical

objects millions of miles away they take

days if not weeks to move across the sky

this is moving across the sky in a

matter of seconds so is it a comet

that's very close to the Earth if it was

that close to the Earth it would

probably envelop the entire Earth this

glow would be everywhere so we can rule

out that theory as for a UFO in general

one of their defining characteristics is

an unknown means of propulsion

like the famous Tic Tac video from 2004.

in a lot of the truly unexplained UFO

videos that we see we don't see the

characteristics that you have in this

video namely all of this exhaust trail

that you're seeing here that massive

exhaust Trail brings us back to the

rocket Theory but there's some

explaining to do first that illumination

how can it be a rocket if it doesn't

look like night launches in the U.S

McMillan has a theory based on the time

of day

these videos were filmed roughly an hour

after sunset

and so what you're seeing is the rocket

itself is above and high enough altitude

with the curvature of the earth that the

sun is actually still reflecting light

off of the exhaust Trail

okay but what about that bizarre

corkscrewed flight path

so whatever the object is so you can see

it's it's changing trajectory could this

be some type of classified or

experimental rocket testing possibly

you're looking at some kind of GPS laser

guided some type of Rocket system that

is targeting something potentially

moving you can see these patterns in

something like Israel's Iron Dome system

which is designed to seek out Rockets as

an air defense measure that's also on

the table

but hang on McMillan says the fact that

this happened over a highly populated

area opens up another less impressive

possibility

so it certainly appears that we have

something that has gone awry and it's

not traveling the path that it was

intended the idea that it could be a

failed rocket system is certainly

plausible

our verdict here this was a Chinese

rocket but what it was and whether this

video captured a failed launch or a

success we can't say if the Chinese

launched at night to keep it secret well

we could safely say that didn't work one

thing is certain the new space race is

underway and the Chinese government is

building its own space station so we are

sure to hear more about their Ambitions

in the coming years