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- [Tony] Are UFOs spying on us?

- [Daughter] Mom, the UFOs
are back, I swear to God.

- We've heard many
stories of UFOs showing up

repeatedly to individuals.

- [Tony] Do aliens have
access to advanced technology?

- [Erica] People have said

they've experienced
alien abductions

and they might see a
blue beam of light.

- [Chad] What the
[bleep] was that?

- It sort of conjures up ideas
of this galactic zoo model

that we're being watched by
these otherworldly beings.

- [Observer] One went
up and one's coming down.

Oh, now something's coming outta
the other one. Holy [bleep].

Third one's coming out.
- [Woman] Oh my gosh.

- This has eluded everybody.

The fact that they moved so
intentionally across the sky,

you have to ask yourself,
is there intelligent life

behind what we're seeing?

- [Observer] That is close to
us, that is real close to us.

Holy.

- We've never seen
anything like this before.

- [Tony] On this special episode

of "The Proof Is Out
There: Alien Edition,"

our team of top experts will
investigate UFO technology

unlike anything we've ever seen.

- It traveled almost
like it was a train

coming across the room.

- We could be
looking at an example

of superior alien technology.

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

- There are definitely
things in this world

that we do not understand.

- The proof starts now.

[dramatic music]

Good evening and welcome to
"The Proof Is Out There."

Since Voyager one
launched in 1977,

humans have been probing space

looking for signs
of intelligent life.

There's been no confirmation
yet that an alien species

is doing the same,
looking for us,

but what if they've been sending

probes our way this whole time?

We've just been
misreading the messages.

It's a clear evening
in Gainesville, Florida

and motorist Chad Zetrower is
driving along Newberry road

when his dash cam
captures something

that makes him pump the brakes.

It's not on the road,
it's in the sky.

A blue orb shoots overhead.

- [Chad] What the
[bleep] was that?

[electronic glitch]

- [Tony] Let's slow that down.

Whatever fell from the sky
appears to flash or explode,

but no pieces or impact
crater are discovered.

When the video goes viral,

it has many thinking UFO.

One scientific explanation
is that what Chad filmed

was simply a meteor, but
there's a whole new theory

gaining traction that some
rocks from space are UFOs.

- I can't really say
it's not of alien origin

because I really never get
a good enough look at it.

- [Tony] In October of 2017,
observers spotted an object

racing around the sun, that
didn't have a tail like a comet

and was on such a
strange trajectory,

they realized it had to be
from another solar system.

They named it Oumuamua
or scout in Hawaiian.

A Harvard astronomer
recently suggested

that it could be some
form of alien technology

and physicist Dr.
Hakeem Oluseyi wonders

could there be others like it?

- Oumuamua brings up
the idea of alien probes

coming into our solar system.

If we look at rocky surfaces
in our solar system,

they're covered in
craters and up till now

we've assumed that those craters

were due to solar system bodies,

but now perhaps maybe some
of the craters you see

when you look up at
the moon were created

from an object outside
our solar system.

We don't know.

[eerie music]

- Oumuamua was odd,

not only because of its
interstellar origin,

but because of its unusually
long, slender shape and size,

was what Chad
captured on dash cam

something equally anomalous?

For that, we turn to Mars
Mission Planner, Jonathon Hill.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

Hill begins by considering
whether the light

could be caused by a
spacecraft or satellite,

but he says this thing is
moving far too quickly for that.

- When satellites pass
by in the night sky,

they usually take
very arcing paths

and they usually
move very slowly.

That's not consistent with
a satellite by any means.

- [Tony] Could it be the
reentry of space junk

into our atmosphere?

Hill says the best clue is
the color of the object.

Each metal or compound
produces a unique color

when it burns.

- When anything
on earth explodes,

you almost always
get a yellow flame,

but this object
has a very distinct

bright white-blue color
to it, which tells us that

whatever is burning is a
very different compound

than what we usually see
in our everyday lives.

- [Tony] Instead says hill,

that blue is a strong indicator

that the object is
likely made of magnesium

and definitely not manmade.

So could it be an
alien probe after all?

- I think we have to keep our
minds open to the possibility

that one day we may
encounter artifacts

from an extraterrestrial
civilization.

That cannot be ruled out.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

- So where do we
land with this one?

Hill's analysis points to
a meteor made of magnesium,

but no one ever found
an impact crater

or any part of Chad's meteor.

So sure, it could have
been an alien probe.

That part of the story
remains unresolved.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

To the naked eye, the
night sky is decorated

with an array of shiny stars.

In fact, you can see
an average of 10,000

just by looking up
on a clear night,

but if you use a pair of
night vision binoculars

that can shoot video, you
might see something else.

May 26th, 2021, it's
a crisp spring evening

in Aurora, Colorado.

Jason Serosi and Fernando
Medina are stargazing

in Jason's backyard when
suddenly they both see this.

A long, cylindrical object
appears in the night sky,

but take a closer look, it
also seems to grow in length.

Fernando is stunned
by what he's seeing

and begins filming with his
night vision binoculars.

There's no question

both he and Jason are capturing
the exact same phenomenon.

They keep aiming skyward
for almost two minutes,

but then the object fades away.

- 99% of the time
we see satellites,

but this one was different
because it was a cigar

and usually when
you see a satellite

it will just keep going
until it fades away.

This one just vanished.

- [Tony] What we do know is that
tubular and cigar-shaped UFOs

are not a new phenomenon.

In 1995, only 400 miles away,

airline pilots reported
a cigar-shaped UFO

over Tucumcari, New Mexico.

- [Pilot] Out to
our three o'clock

there's a
[indistinct] out there.

Is that what it is?

- [Tony] But is there
any significance

to the tubular shape?

- There's no real
consensus among UFOlogists

as to why this
tube or cigar shape

would be ideal for a
vehicle, but some believe

it's because UFOs
are meant to travel

in different environments.

Some posit that these
shapes are ideal

to go from the
air into the water

and back into the air again.

[electronic shimmer]

- It's not just cigars hovering
over the Centennial State.

In December, 2019
and January, 2020,

rural Colorado was hit
with a barrage of accounts

of unidentified flying
objects flying together.

Even though nothing
conclusive was identified,

the media dubbed the event the
Colorado Drone Swarm Mystery.

So what's going on?

Has Colorado become the
new ground zero for UFOs?

We asked our experts
to investigate.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

We begin our analysis

with astrophotographer
Andrew McCarthy.

Could the streak
itself be a clue?

A meteor can hit
Earth's atmosphere

at speeds between 25,000
and 160,000 miles per hour.

Is that what we're seeing?

- Meteors are breaking apart
as they enter the atmosphere.

They put off flashes of light,

so I think we can safely
rule out a meteor.

- [Tony] However, McCarthy
does have a different theory.

- What this looks like
to me is a constellation

of satellites that has
not yet fully deployed.

- [Tony] Starlink is a company
founded by Elon Musk using

satellites to bring internet
access around the world.

Up to 60 are sent
into orbit at a time.

When they deploy, the
satellites appear to be

close together in
a straight line.

Then it takes approximately
four months for each satellite

to reach its final position.

- They're all pretty
compacted together,

'cause they have to
fit in that rocket.

So what we could
be looking at here

is simply that
satellite constellation

that hasn't yet fully deployed.

- [Tony] But aviation expert
Tim McMillan disagrees.

- [Tim] We can see the object is
going in front of clouds

and satellites are in the upper
atmosphere above the clouds.

So that wouldn't make sense
if it was a satellite.

- [Tony] However,
McMillan does have

a theory of his own.

- We have a lot of
different private companies

that are launching
satellites now all the time.

We have the military,
there are lots of things

that aren't always disclosed

and we could have a
secret satellite launch,

that type of thing.

- [Tony] McMillan
says the visual clue

is what eventually happens
to the cigar-shaped object

after a couple of minutes.

- In the latter
sections of the video,

we're definitely seeing
the lower flickering.

It really looks like the burn
off from a rocket booster

and as it disappears,
it's tapering out.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

- Our verdict, we're going
to call this a genuine UFO,

simply because we can't
identify it conclusively.

While we think McMillan makes
some really good points,

our research shows the
most likely location

for a rocket launch is
Vandenberg Air Force Base

over 1,000 miles
away in California

and while with clear conditions,

portions of a launch
can sometimes be seen

from a distance of
two or 300 miles.

Colorado seems a
little out of reach.

Now admittedly there are amateur
rocket clubs in Colorado,

but until we get more
definitive evidence,

we see too many other
possibilities out there.

- n invasion,

thanks to the Hollywood
blockbuster by the same name.

Recently, one of our
very own viewers says

he saw more than just
fireworks on July 4th

and he sent us a video
that has us asking,

are UFOs somehow attracted

to colorful aerial
explosions like we are?

Or are aliens using
advanced technology

to hide and spy on us?

Chatsworth, California,
July 4th, 2018.

John Lopez is celebrating
with his family.

- Every year we go
out in our backyard,

'cause we're able to
see the fireworks.

- But instead of pyrotechnics,

they see something
far more startling.

These lights.

- [John] Kind of
look like fireballs

just floating around in the sky

and then like different ones

kind of appeared out of nowhere.

- [Tony] Look closer,
the lights swoop,

flicker on and off
and seem to hover

for more than 30 minutes.

And what makes it even stranger?

This is the second
4th of July in a row

that John has seen them.

- [Daughter] Mom,
the UFOs are back.

I swear to God, I swear.
- [John] They're back.

That's a trip. Damn.

So everyone was kind
of shocked to see that.

- [Tony] It left the
Lopez family wondering

what had they seen and why
does it recur on the fourth?

Journalist and
author Alexis Brooks

is one of the leading
authorities on UFO encounters.

- We've heard many
stories of UFOs showing up

repeatedly to individuals,
but the fact that

it was at the same time
and in the same place,

I haven't heard too often.

You wonder if the fireworks
display may have actually

attracted these anomalous
objects to the scene.

- [Tony] Brooks
wonders why the UFOs

appear specifically
on the Fourth.

- Are they attracted
to the light in the sky

that the fireworks portray?

Do they want to hide themselves
in the midst of fireworks?

- [Tony] Professor
of anthropology

Michael Masters notes there's
a spike in UFO sightings

on the Fourth and
brings up a theory

that they could be
trying to figure out

exactly what we are doing

and maybe using some
kind of technology

that allows the orbs
to split and burst

similar to our fireworks.

- It sort of conjures up ideas
of this galactic zoo model

that were being watched by
these otherworldly beings

fascinated by this strange
ritual of independence,

where we explode these
bombs in the air.

- But Independence Day has
been around for 200 years.

Why are the UFOs only
showing up to watch now?

One theory is that
we've only recently

become interesting as a species,

now that we're building space
stations and supercomputers.

Let's see what our experts
think of John's video.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

- And we did detect several
consistent signatures

across the video recordings,
both made using similar

make and model devices,
so there is no evidence

that we detected that these
files were manipulated.

- [Tony] So the
videos are legit,

but could they be
picking up your typical

4th of July light show?

- I don't detect
similarities with

what I would expect
to see from fireworks,

because fireworks are a
momentary elapse of light

in the sky.

They explode and
then they vanish.

There's just simply no evidence
of that in these recordings.

- [Tony] Astronomer and
video effects designer

Marc D'Antonio looks
for other explanations

like planes or sky lanterns.

- Aircraft have to have
Federal Aviation Administration

mandated lighting.

We don't see that here, so
I'm ruling out an aircraft.

The sky lantern is slow and
moves on the prevailing winds

in the sky.

These objects are
not doing that.

They're moving any
which way they want

and so that rules
out sky lanterns.

- [Tony] Our aviation
expert Tim McMillan

considers if the
objects could be flares.

- If there are flares
fired from a aircraft,

you would see them spread out.

I would say flares would
be pretty unlikely.

- [Tony] And finally, there's
always the possibility

of drones.

- Could someone be
operating a drone swarm?

Maybe, drones operate
off of battery power

and so if you're operating
a very high-powered,

high-illumination light, that's
less time that your drone

is gonna be able
to stay in the air.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

- Our experts can only say
these lights might be drones,

but they can't be certain.

So for now, our verdict,
these are genuine UFOs.

So maybe we are truly living
in the land of the free

or we could just be
part of a galactic zoo

entertaining the ETs.

As we just saw, there is
something about fireworks

that attract UFOs,
check this out.

[crowd cheering]

It's Independence Day in
Alamance, North Carolina

and a local man is enjoying
a barbecue with his family.

Fireworks are going
off intermittently,

so he's been looking
at the sky all evening,

when he suddenly sees something
even more spectacular.

[eerie music]

- [Observer] It's
moving. It's moving slow.

- [Tony] It's a
classic orb-shaped UFO,

the kind we've seen in several
videos, some real, some fake

and what makes this
footage extra special

is that it goes on for
more than eight minutes.

- [Observer] God, I wish
I had some binoculars.

- [Tony] Now look at
what happens here,

at the six-and-a-
half-minute mark.

- [Observer] Oh wow.
- [Observer 2] Look at that.

- [Observer] Something's
coming off of it.

Two things are coming off of it.

- [Observer 3] Dear
God, where is it at?

- [Observer] One went
up and one's coming down.

- [Observer 3] What is it?

- [Observer] Holy
crap. Look at this.

- [Tony] The orb
seems to bifurcate

and seconds later
it splits again.

- [Observer] Oh, now
something's coming

outta the other one,
holy [bleep].

Third one's coming out.
- [Observer 3] Oh my gosh.

There's three different,
oh my God, that's crazy.

- [Tony] Like other orbs
seen around the world,

this one had no wings or
obvious means of propulsion.

It's hard to judge its speed,
but others have been clogged

by commercial pilots at
over 500 miles per hour.

- [Observer] And it's pulsating
too man, that is nuts.

- [Tony] Journalist
Alexis Brooks,

who writes and speaks about
UFOs says the duration

of this sighting is important.

- Some individuals that have
long-contact encounters,

that is exceeding
five minutes or more

may actually be having a
literal contact encounter

without them being
consciously aware of it.

Could it be that
non-human intelligence

or the occupants of the craft
were actually making contact

with the witness and vice versa?

- [Observer] Here, we got some
action going on here boys.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

- The witness said he
later tried to find

some earthly explanation
for the incident,

even checking with a
nearby military base,

but to this day he says
he's gotten no answers.

Our experts may be
able to change that.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

Our video analyst,
Marc D'Antonio

begins by looking at
the surrounding factors

involved in this event.

- I stepped through
it frame by frame

to try to isolate the
components and equate them

with something that
we might already know.

It's actually pretty
high altitude.

- [Tony] For starters,
D'Antonio's positive

it couldn't be a bird.

- Birds don't have that kind
of reflectivity to them.

Even geese at high altitude,

you can still detect
that they're birds.

- [Tony] He's just as sure
it's not a plane or a drone.

- Planes and drones,
they have to follow

Federal Aviation Administration
rules for lighting

and this object
had none of that.

- [Tony] Nor could it
be a natural phenomenon

like a meteor, it just
hangs in the sky too long.

- [Marc] Meteors are
momentary objects.

They go through the sky
[imitates swooshing]

and then they're gone.

- [Tony] So what was it?

The secret could be in
that strange splitting.

- Here you can
see in this image,

you can see how it's
a teardrop shape

and these objects
are falling away

and the object
that's way up there

has changed brightness
tremendously.

Now my thinking, takes me down
the path of weather balloon.

- [Tony] It certainly
wouldn't be the first time

a weather balloon was
mistaken for a UFO.

In fact, the government
initially claimed

it was a weather balloon that
caused the Roswell incident,

but that still doesn't explain

how this thing could split apart

and move off in
different directions.

- I would guess that
this is a weather balloon

where whatever was
attached to it broke off

and when something
like this happens

and the resistance of the
air will tend to streamline it

and make it more
into a teardrop shape

and that shape is what I
think we're seeing here.

- [Tony] That theory
sounds plausible,

but then to our surprise,
atmospheric scientist,

Deanna Hence shoots
it out of the sky.

- So I do think
it's really unlikely

that this is any kind of,
you know, weather instrument.

They come down on
a little parachute

and they wouldn't emit light
this brightly like this,

but it doesn't seem to be
meteorologically related.

- [Observer] You see it,
Jean? You see a UFO?

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

- So America, is
it proof or not?

It doesn't appear to
be a bird or a plane.

Could it be a weather
balloon? Maybe.

But a local weather service
later told the witness

there were none in the area.

Until we get more
solid information,

we're gonna call
this a genuine UFO.

- e

keeps a close eye on
asteroids due to the threat

of one crashing into Earth
and ending life as we know it,

but while scientists around
the globe were checking out

one of these huge flying rocks,

they may have made another
startling discovery.

It's May, 2000 in outer space,

NASA's near-Earth asteroid
rendezvous spacecraft

known as NEAR Shoemaker is on
patrol when it trains its gaze

on the massive
asteroid known as Eros,

approximately 221
million miles from Earth.

In the process of
its surveillance,

it captures some
startling images.

If you look closely at
the satellite photo,

there appears to
be a strange object

that's lit up at the
center of a crater.

Compared to its surroundings,

the object has a distinct
square and angular appearance,

which seems to indicate
it's not a natural feature

of Eros' surface.

NASA catalogs it as a
large rectangular boulder,

but George Haas of
the Cydonia Institute,

which advocates theories

of ancient Martian civilizations

doubts it's a shape
that would ever occur

like this naturally.

- Now if anybody's ever seen
pictures of these asteroids,

they're very highly
textured organic shapes,

but then there's
this cubic, metallic,

flat, smooth feature on here,
which is totally outta place.

This was a structure that's
sitting on this asteroid

and it shouldn't be there.

- [Tony] Haas says
this photo has gotten

an incredible
amount of attention

and raises questions about
whether this could be evidence

of an extraterrestrial colony.

- Some believe that this
structure on this asteroid

is the remnants of an
ancient mining operation

and a lot of these asteroids
are full of copper.

Copper is very scarce now.

So if we were to find
an asteroid full of that

it would be well worth the trip

to set up a mining operation.

- [Tony] Before you
write that off as absurd,

bear in mind that today
right here on Earth,

there are companies
that's developing robotic

and satellite platforms
to enable the exploration

and extraction of
off-world resources,

including from asteroids,
yet Haas suggests

that aliens could also be up
to something far more sinister.

- The Eros asteroid is
located in and around

the asteroid belt, which
is a perfect location

if someone was to
place a spy station.

It's just far enough from
Earth not to be detected,

and it's close enough to come in

and leave their
satellites in this area

for monitoring what's
going on on Earth.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

- Eros was the first near-
Earth asteroid discovered.

It's about 10 miles across,

five times bigger
than the asteroid

that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Based on the size of Eros,
NASA estimates the mysterious

rectangular structure to
be about 148 feet across.

That's a pretty big mystery.

Let's see if our experts
can help solve it.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

First, astrophotographer
Andrew McCarthy

takes a look to see if
this could be an issue

with the way the camera captured
this part of the asteroid.

- I used a suite of tools
in my photography workshop

to analyze the photo for any
kind of optical anomalies

that may have shown up due
to pixels inside that sensor

that were not behaving properly.

My conclusion is that, what
we're seeing in these photos

is entirely authentic.

- [Tony] So since McCarthy
says the image is accurate,

could this really be
an alien structure?

Astronomer and visual
effects analyst,

Marc D'Antonio is not convinced.

- There's bright
spots on this asteroid

for a number of reasons, that
they could be water ice spots

or just brighter soil and
when you take a photograph

that looks normal for
your eyes, for the camera,

you overexpose really, really
bright things like this.

- [Tony] NASA geologist,
Dr. Bob Anderson explains.

- When you first
look at it, you go,

wow, that does look kind of
strange, it's out of place,

but if you blow this image up,

you would see that there's
multiple craters around here.

Asteroids are very violent.

These asteroid bodies
are floating in that area

and they've hit
[asteroids explodes]

and so you get these
boulders thrown out of 'em.

Now because of the
lighting angle here,

it looks like as if
it's a structure,

when it's fact, it's just
sitting on the surface there.

- [Tony] So Anderson
says the boulder

is actually more
rounded than it appears.

The way the sun is hitting
it is playing tricks

with the shadows and creating
this optical illusion

that the rock is a rectangle.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

Our verdict, this is most likely

a naturally occurring boulder

that just appears to be more
rectangular than it actually is,

due to the angle and
the source of light.

It only looks lit up,

because it's brighter
than the rest of the rock.

Still, NASA hasn't responded
to inquiries about this image.

So there's a chance
there's still more to it

than meets the eye.

as

for the story of an
unexplained phenomenon,

which occurred, in of all
places, a suburban kitchen.

March, 2017, Erica Garner
is home alone in her house

just outside Houston.

Her husband has left
for a business trip.

- I was outside, I was
playing with my two dogs

and I noticed something
very strange on my rooftop.

There was black birds
going in a circle.

I had never seen that before.

- [Tony] This feels
like some sort of omen

as Erica goes back inside.

She's giving water to
her dogs, when suddenly.

[electricity sparks]
- [Erica] Oh!

- [Tony] Let's freeze on that,

'cause if you blink,
you'll miss it.

A strange blue light
streaking through the room,

leaving Erica stunned and
momentarily at a loss for words.

It was almost like plasma.

Everything in the room
turned completely white,

almost like an explosion
and my eyes started burning.

- [Tony] Even stranger, the
flash only lasts a second,

though Erica says,
it felt much longer.

- What was that?

It traveled almost
like it was a train

coming across the room,
slowly coming in for a stop

and this happened for
all about seven seconds.

- [Tony] And that night
things get downright funky.

- I'd had trouble sleeping.

I was having some strange dreams

and it definitely impacted me.

- [Tony] Erica's dreams of
pink and purple galaxies

make her feel like she's
been transported through time

and she wonders
if the blue flash

could have been an
extraterrestrial force.

- Into my research,
trying to figure out

what possibly a blue beam
of light could come from,

people have said they've
experienced alien abductions

and they might see a
blue beam of light.

- [Tony] One similar
case happened in 1975,

an Arizona logger
named Travis Walton

disappeared after walking toward

an unidentified beam
of light in the forest.

He recalled being transported
to a strange place

surrounded by alien beings
and when he made it home,

he was shocked to learn he'd
been gone for five days.

- There are definitely
things in this world

that we do not understand.

[eerie music]

- So what is Erica's blue flash?

Well, we know it's not her
security camera malfunctioning,

because we can hear her
reacting in real time.

[electricity sparks]

- So the first thing we
did was a proper analysis

of the footage.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

Photography expert
Andrew McCarthy

starts by examining the
footage frame by frame.

- So right after this, the
camera lost several frames.

You see a distinct jump, her
hair moves, the dogs move.

It's just a significant jump.
She said it was seven seconds.

I'm not sure if it
was seven seconds,

but it was a long
time, long enough

that they significantly
shifted positions.

- [Tony] But McCarthy says
there's something else

that's even stranger.

- What didn't make sense to me

is nothing here is
casting a shadow.

It seems like the lights
were supposed to be coming

behind the camera to cause this,

but it would see some
kind of shadow cast

on the legs of these chairs,
you know, on the dogs,

but you don't see any of that.

It's just bright and
it's uniformly bright.

- Forensic investigator
Chase Kloetzke is curious

if the flash could be
something as simple

as a burnt out light bulb.

So she asks the
Garners to run a test.

- Erica and her husband
put this light bulb in

and they tapped it,

and if you tap it long
enough, it burned out.

Once you compare, when
the light bulb blows out

and that reaction and you put
it next to the blue flash,

they're not even close.

- [Tony] Okay, so if
it wasn't a blown bulb,

was it possibly a strike
of lightning from outside?

[thunder crackling]

Atmospheric scientist
Deanna Hence

reviews the local weather
radar from that day.

- What you're seeing
is that a round

of fairly intense thunderstorms

went through the Houston area,

but it was about one
o'clock in the morning,

whereas this video was taken
at 11:30 in the morning.

That really leaves me to think

that lightning is not
responsible for that flash.

- [Tony] Some experts believe
wormholes in the universe

create paths to move
backwards in time

and through parallel universes.

Perhaps the blue flash
was one such path.

- I stand more on the side
of this being a time glitch.

It's an error in our
time space fabric.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

- So what is it?

The strange jump in
the footage does point

to some kind of time glitch,

but whether it's caused by
an alien force, some wormhole

or something else is unclear.

So for now, I'm
prepared to call this

a genuine unexplained
phenomenon.

So for now, I'm
prepared to call this

from one of our contributors,

astrophotographer
Andrew McCarthy.

He couldn't figure
out what he saw,

so he sent the
curious clip to us

and we have never
seen anything like it.

Central California, spring 2021,
Andrew was in his backyard

taking pictures of the
sun to film a rare event,

a solar flare.

- However, I captured something

that was completely different
and equally surprising.

- [Tony] It was this,
seven spherical objects

fly over the surface of the sun.

They seemed to be
moving in unison,

almost flying in formation.

Let's slow it down
and play it again.

To McCarthy's professional eye,

this can't be a
quirk of the camera.

- Sometimes when
capturing images,

specks of dust will
fly across the camera,

but it's pretty clear that's
not what we're looking at here.

Whatever these objects are,
they're clearly in a formation

and they're not behaving

the way dust usually
does on camera.

- [Tony] So on this
show we have to ask,

could Andrew have captured
a fleet of very large UFOs

flying in formation
crossing near the sun

or something smaller and
explainable to his camera?

- We could be
looking at an example

of superior alien technology

or we could be
looking at an example

of something terrestrial that
I simply don't understand.

- [Tony] In fact, McCarthy
has previously postulated

that the sun would make
a good refueling station

for an alien craft.

- The sun's corona is
millions of degrees.

It's actually the
hottest part of the sun.

So it would be a smart place
for an alien spacecraft

to refuel its ship because
of the abundance of energy.

- [Tony] Author Alexis Brooks
brings up another theory.

Could they be living beings
inhabiting the sun itself?

- Could these be
craft or beings,

sentient beings, in fact,

that are coming from
inside of the sun?

When you think of the
historical record,

particularly our religious
literature that talks of the sun

as a god, the emerald
tablets of Thoth

all talk about the sun
being sentient, being alive.

- [Tony] It wasn't
just the ancients,

in 1795 prominent
astronomer William Herschel,

who had discovered Uranus,
theorized that the sun

was inhabited by
beings who have adapted

to its extreme conditions.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

So life on the sun?
Sounds crazy, right?

But here on earth we're
constantly finding life

in the most extreme places.

Microbes around underwater
geothermal vents

thrive at temperatures of
over 200 degrees Fahrenheit

and some worms flourish
in the Arctic ice,

but before we cozy up to the
theory of solar organisms,

let's see if our experts
have any other bright ideas.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

NASA's Bob Anderson
says lens flares

or other camera distortions

can appear to be
objects near the sun,

but he doesn't think that's
the case in Andrew's video,

because of how solid
the objects appear

and how they move in straight
lines across the frame.

- I do not believe that
they're part of hot pixels

or camera's distortions or
angles or anything like that.

I believe that these
objects are real.

- [Tony] So could
we be looking at

real Earth satellites in orbit?

- When I first captured this,

I thought I may be one
of the first astronomers

to capture the
Starlink satellites

in formation crossing
the face of the sun.

- [Tony] Starlink is a
vast array of satellites

being launched to
bring internet access

to remote regions of the Earth.

They're released in a cluster,

before spreading out
around the globe.

- However, I was able
to quickly rule that out

as I was able to determine
the Starlink satellites

that had been launched
that week were actually

on the opposite side
of Earth at the time.

- [Tony] So could it be
an armada of spacecraft

flying in formation?

- And he's looking at the sun

and that's 93 million miles away

and those objects are very
large compared to the sun.

So if they were spacecrafts,

they would be the size
of the planet Venus

flying across there.

- [Tony] Because of that issue

of perspective and proportion,

Bob Anderson thinks we could
be looking at something

flying at a much lower altitude.

- What I believe you're
looking at here are birds.

This is a migratory
set of birds.

You got one bird leading

and you got a very
interesting V formation.

You'll see that they're
wiggling, they're moving

and it's almost as if the birds
are flapping their wings

as they're going across
the face of the sun.

[eerie music]
[animation chimes]

- Because of the V shape

and because Andrew shot
the video in April,

our verdict is we're
probably looking at

migratory geese or swans.

Are we any closer to
knowing how these

otherworldly marvels of
technology came to be?

From cigar-shaped UFOs to
orbs splitting in the sky,

what kind of alien civilization
engineered this phenomenon?

And that's our show for tonight.

Thank you so much for watching.

Please send us any

videos, images or sounds

you think we should

investigate and as always,

say it with me team,

- [All] Keep those
cameras rolling.

- Oh, I'm so proud.

That's beautiful.
Let's do it again.

[crew laughing]
[Tony laughs]

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