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00:00God, is this a secret space weapon?
00:02These lasers are very sinister.
00:04They're part of a targeting system that was targeting the state of Hawaii.
00:08A mysterious claw.
00:10Did a sea monster attack a Navy ship?
00:12Really one of the most remarkable things that has ever happened
00:16involving an unknown sea creature of gigantic proportions.
00:20Does a remarkable photo prove Bigfoot or his cousin is after your dogs?
00:25You've heard of Bigfoot, but have you heard of Gugwee?
00:30It's weird.
00:31And what's that ring of lights near a historic government lab?
00:35This area has been a hotspot for UFO sightings for 70 years.
00:44Around the globe are videos.
00:46What are those things?
00:47It's moving.
00:49Photos and sounds that defy explanation.
00:52We don't know where they come from, who made them, or how they operate.
01:01What are they?
01:02Some sort of bizarre mutation.
01:04What's exciting is nobody really knows.
01:07Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof.
01:09I'm Tony Harris.
01:12And as a journalist for more than 30 years, I've followed the facts where they take me.
01:17Now I'm bringing that spirit of investigation to the world's strangest sounds and images.
01:23We'll analyze each one with top experts.
01:26It's a credible case.
01:28It's a credible video.
01:30And pass a verdict on what it is.
01:32This video is clearly fake.
01:34Good evening, everyone, and welcome to The Proof Is Out There.
01:48Since laser beams were first introduced in the 1960s, they've been put to many good uses,
01:54from life-saving surgeries to laser-triggered home alarms.
01:58But this next video will leave you wondering if lasers are also being used for more sinister purposes.
02:04Specifically, in the sky.
02:07It's January 2023 on the Big Island of Hawaii.
02:11Atop the summit of the Mauna Kea volcano, a camera on the Subaru telescope captures the early morning sky over the Pacific.
02:19The camera is live-streaming when, from out of nowhere, a series of green lasers appears to sweep across the sky from left to right.
02:28Take another look.
02:30It only lasts for about a second.
02:32And when we freeze it, we can clearly see the parallel green lines beam down from above, then flicker, and disappear as quickly as they came.
02:44Astrophotography expert Andrew McCarthy says some wonder if these beams of light could be a directed energy weapon.
02:50Directed energy weapons use concentrated energy, like from a laser, instead of projectiles to destroy a target.
02:57This technology was first deployed in 2014 on the USS Ponce.
03:02The Ponce's 30-kilowatt infrared laser beam is a defensive weapon that can fry sensors, burn out motors, and detonate explosive materials.
03:11It has demonstrated that it can down a small drone in less than two seconds.
03:17Since then, the U.S. has floated the idea of using space-based DEWs specifically to prevent missile attacks.
03:25McCarthy adds that technically the use of such weapons for offensive purposes can be deemed illegal.
03:31The Outer Space Treaty in 1967 forbade the use of any weapons of mass destruction, military bases, or other weapons in space.
03:39However, many speculate the militarization of space is already underway.
03:44Still, others question if these strange lights could have a more alien origin.
03:49What this video reminds me of is a story from 1969 in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
03:54There were 40 eyewitnesses that claimed to see UFOs in the sky, and that coincided with abduction stories, where people claimed tractor beams, much like these green laser beams, were used to abduct them.
04:12The camera that captured this footage is in a remote location, giving us a great view of the skies.
04:17So, did it live stream something truly out of this world, or something that could alter the course of life on the planet?
04:25Our experts take a closer look.
04:31First, could this be something natural, like the northern lights?
04:35This is a level of uniformity that suggests this is a technology, this is not a naturally occurring phenomenon.
04:40Nature doesn't work with that much uniformity.
04:44If this isn't natural, could these green lights actually be some sort of alien technology, like tractor beams?
04:51There's nothing that's characteristic of UFO sightings.
04:54There's nothing I see here that can't be accounted for by Earth technology.
04:58So, could this be a directed energy weapon capable of shooting at Earth from space?
05:04DEWs are meant to pinpoint a target, so it's unlikely beams from a weapon would have moved indiscriminately across the sky like this.
05:12And these lasers didn't seem to destroy anything in the process, so astronomer and video effects designer Mark D'Antonio has his doubts.
05:20At first glance, you would think that this could potentially have some type of military application, and that's not untrue.
05:28However, in-depth analysis shows that this is probably a scientific endeavor.
05:34There was some speculation that this was related to NASA's ISAT-2 satellite.
05:40However, upon further investigation, it turns out that the NASA ISAT-2 satellite actually wasn't in the area at that time.
05:48NASA did try to determine what satellite may have been in that particular region.
05:53And the satellite that NASA was able to pinpoint based on trajectory measurements was the Chinese Daki-1.
05:59The official purpose of the Daki-1 is to use the laser scanning technology known as LIDAR to measure pollutants.
06:08But security expert Richard Fisher worries that's not the only data this device is gathering.
06:13China's space program is entirely dual use.
06:18Everything the Chinese put into space is designed to produce a military benefit.
06:25The environmental monitoring satellite, Daki-1, also measures very precisely the density of the atmosphere over the target.
06:35And this is crucial information for China's latest hypersonic glide vehicle armed missile.
06:42Having accurate maps is crucial in a warfare scenario.
06:46So certainly it's not beyond the realm of possibility that data that's being collected here could be used in a military setting in the event of a war.
06:59Our verdict?
07:01These green beams are pollution-detecting LIDAR from a Chinese satellite.
07:06Though there is a chance these lasers may also have had a more covert mission.
07:10This unusual pattern was likely visible that day because it was filmed with a special low-light camera and dense atmospheric conditions caused the beams to expand and scatter.
07:22We've covered many incidents involving strange encounters between U.S. Navy warships and unidentified objects in the air.
07:37This story is about a famous encounter with an unidentified object in the ocean.
07:42And this one allegedly had teeth.
07:451978, on the Pacific Ocean, the USS Stein, a U.S. Navy destroyer escort, is conducting routine tests when suddenly the radar system responsible for identifying submarine threats becomes inoperable.
08:00The Stein heads for land and reaches dry dock, where, upon inspection of the sonar dome, the engineers find this.
08:07This vintage film shows the rubber no-foul coating of the sonar dome is shredded, with large tears as big as four feet long.
08:17And what's more, embedded at the bottom of the scratches are curved claws.
08:21The USS Stein incident has become one of the most famous incidents in the annals of cryptozoology that have to deal with a possible unknown sea creature.
08:32And, of course, what's really remarkable is that we have this physical evidence of whatever it was that damaged this rubber no-foul coating.
08:40The no-foul coating is specifically designed to create a smooth, non-stick surface so barnacles and other sea creatures can't stick to it.
08:48The Navy called in their top scientist, a marine biologist by the name of F.G. Wood, in order to investigate and to examine these strange tooth-like or claw-like structures that were embedded in the rubber dome,
09:02in order to see if they could identify and equate them to any type of known species.
09:08He concluded that they most resembled the so-called teeth that line the suckers of squids.
09:15The giant squid, a terrifying tale amongst seafaring folk that was widely considered a myth.
09:22But after corpses started to wash up on ocean shores and a Japanese science team caught one on camera back in 2012,
09:28it proved to be a real-life monster of the deep.
09:32Scientists believe these colossal creatures could grow up to 66 feet long.
09:36Giant squid, in addition to their eight tentacles, they have these two incredibly long predatory arms with hooks or teeth in his suckers to grasp and tear prey apart.
09:47Upon examination of these teeth, F.G. Wood determined that the squid that left them behind would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 feet in length,
09:57which essentially is about half the height of the Statue of Liberty.
10:01We know that invertebrates are pretty much unlimited in terms of growth potential, particularly in the deep ocean.
10:08But there is another possibility, very real and very ugly, the frightful fish once thought to be extinct, the frilled shark.
10:16Until recent years, it was safe to conclude that the frilled shark had gone the way of the megalodon.
10:20This was mainly due to the rarity of sightings of the deep-sea creature.
10:25But new research is showing that this population is alive and thriving.
10:29And Gerhardt says the teeth of these sharks match the evidence.
10:33The frilled shark has 25 rows of teeth.
10:36And the fact that we found so many of these tooth-like structures embedded in the no-fowl dome of the USS Stein
10:42would indicate that a frilled shark is one possibility.
10:46In 2014, two Greenpeace submariners had their own 20,000 leagues under-the-sea experience
10:56when a squad of red devil squid attacked their vessel.
11:00So we know they can get aggressive with man-made sea craft.
11:04Could a belligerent sea creature be responsible for what happened to the USS Stein?
11:08We let our experts dig their teeth in.
11:11Could the damage be from the frilled shark, as Gerhardt suggests?
11:20I don't see the types of tooth marks that I would expect to see from a frilled shark.
11:25We would see evidence of serrated teeth.
11:27The way that a shark bites is by grabbing onto something with its mouth
11:32and then using the serrations in its teeth to tear through the flesh of that animal or object.
11:38And as for those claw-like fragments found stuck in the sonar dome?
11:43This could be the claw of some kind of cephalopod.
11:47It's absolutely possible that this could have been a giant squid.
11:53Giant squid and sperm whales are known enemies.
11:57I wonder if this wasn't some sort of a giant squid that thought this sonar device was actually a sperm whale
12:05trying to echolocate and it attacked the boat.
12:09So the giant squid theory is seaworthy.
12:12But remember that by Wood's calculations, this squid would have to be 150 feet long.
12:17Impossible?
12:18Think again.
12:19The idea that there's a giant squid in our ocean that is much larger than any other documented specimen is totally possible.
12:27We've only found a few of these animals because they live in the deep ocean environment.
12:32But when a large animal dies in the deep sea, because there's so much water pressure,
12:38they almost immediately sink and we probably would never see them.
12:42So imagine how many unique animals are living and dying in our oceans today that we've just never encountered.
12:50And this could be one of them.
12:56Our verdict?
12:57We're going with a potential giant squid.
13:01Our experts back up the Navy scientists' original theory.
13:05The damage left on this ship seems to indicate a giant squid,
13:08but one that would have to be on a monstrous scale, unlike any squid ever seen before.
13:18We are always talking about Bigfoot potentially being the missing link between ape and man,
13:24but we never consider if over the millennia, Bigfoot itself has evolved into a new subspecies.
13:31Could this next story be proof of such an offshoot?
13:34The figure is in the shadows, but as we crop the image and lighten the area,
13:55it sure looks like this thing has a snout and is carrying something white.
13:59Amazingly, the creature appears to be staring at the photographer who doesn't notice it.
14:04Field researcher Cliff Barrickman points out some key features of the creature in this image.
14:09I like the color of the figure in this photograph.
14:12It turns out if you have a Sasquatch hair and you backlight it, they all shine red.
14:18Under the forest canopy, the sunlight is filtered by the leaves and the foliage above,
14:23and the first wavelengths of light to disappear are the red wavelengths.
14:28Anything red under the canopy, like a Sasquatch, would appear black.
14:33And while some suggested this could be a Bigfoot, others believe this could be something new altogether.
14:39Some people in the Bigfoot community look at this picture and say it's a more baboon-like species
14:44with a more prominent prognathism, a jutting forward of the jaw.
14:49Maybe it's a new species of Sasquatch.
14:51They even put the name guggwe on it, which is a local term used in this part of the country.
14:57Some say this guggwe is a much more ferocious Bigfoot,
15:01and that this white object is actually a dog about to become its next meal.
15:06Supposedly, the day before the image was taken, a woman's small dog had gone missing and was never found.
15:11Sasquatch would shift their diet over to meat-eating for probably most of the winter.
15:17Frankly, if you're making your living out there eating whatever moves, crawls, or slithers,
15:21you can't be too picky.
15:26Bigfoot made Canadian headlines when, in 2018,
15:30a believer's lawsuit claiming that British Columbia failed in its duty to recognize the legendary creature
15:36was dismissed by the courts.
15:38But now, could this picture prove there is a large, aggressive, apex creature
15:43hunting in the woods of Quebec?
15:46We turn to our experts to find out.
15:53Biologist Floyd Hayes looks into whether this could be the misidentification of a Canadian bear.
15:58The only bear that lives in Quebec is the black bear.
16:01But in this image, we're seeing something that looks like there's too much white
16:05in the middle of the body and up in the head.
16:09And bears also don't carry an object in a single arm like that.
16:13The head looks more like a baboon.
16:15A baboon in the great white north?
16:17It doesn't make sense for it to be a monkey because this is in Canada.
16:20There are no primates in this area.
16:23Monkeys can't survive in the cold.
16:25There's only one species of monkey that can live in the cold, and they are the ones that
16:30use the hot springs to help them through the winter.
16:34If it isn't a baboon, could it be a large primate like a Bigfoot?
16:39You cannot clearly make out a primate.
16:42It's really pixelated.
16:44And then we also don't have other supporting evidence like tracks, scats, nests, things like that.
16:51And according to Manka, even if this were a primate of some kind, it's highly unlikely
16:57that a dog would be its prey.
16:59Most primates feed on meat sporadically or opportunistically, and it makes up less than
17:051% of the diet of almost all 89 primate species.
17:10Dr. Manka believes this could be an example of pareidolia, people seeing patterns that resemble
17:16something familiar to them and who want to believe that's what it is.
17:19I can see how people can make out an animal shape, but it really doesn't have the level
17:25of detail to be seen as a baboon-like animal.
17:30That's really lending a lot to the imagination.
17:32It looks a lot like a dead tree, a tree stump.
17:41So, our experts think this is just a piece of the forest, like a tree stump.
17:46And although we're not 100% certain, we're inclined to agree.
17:51Many in the Bigfoot community remain highly interested in the possibility of more evidence
17:55from this area.
17:57If you or someone you know has more images or videos of the Gugwee, please contact us.
18:03A ring of strange lights in the sky is an odd sight in itself, but when it's seemingly buzzing
18:13and not far from an infamous U.S. government laboratory, well, you just know we have to investigate.
18:20August 3rd, 2015, just after 10 p.m., Misty Strievel, along with her daughter and another passenger,
18:29are driving on a highway in Knoxville, Tennessee, when Misty's daughter sees a strange sight in the night sky.
18:36She's like, Mom, what are those red and green lights in the sky?
18:39And first thought, I'm like, it's an airplane.
18:41That is weird.
18:44Dude, it's buzzing.
18:46It sure is.
18:47Misty captures a light floating in a sea of darkness.
18:51But as we zoom in, something even more interesting can be seen.
18:55It's not just one light, but in fact, a ring of lights.
18:59Now, but the crazy thing in the lights on this is showing white, but that's all red and green.
19:04Yeah.
19:05It was maybe 50 feet above the used car lot sign.
19:08It was just, I've never seen anything like it.
19:11A UFO, y'all.
19:13Holy shit.
19:14Space people coming to us.
19:17If this is a UFO, writer Amy Teitel says it wouldn't be the first to be seen over this part of eastern Tennessee.
19:24Knoxville has a really interesting history with UFOs dating back to the Second World War,
19:29when the Oak Ridge National Laboratory was founded about half an hour outside the city.
19:34During World War II, Oak Ridge was cloaked in secrecy.
19:38Its purpose was to enrich uranium for the Manhattan Project and Robert Oppenheimer's atomic bomb.
19:46There were some strange phenomena that happened in the area a few years after it was established.
19:50In October of 1950, William Fry, who was the assistant chief of security at the lab, saw a bright glowing light over the movie theater in town.
20:00It flashed red and green before finally disappearing.
20:04Ten minutes later, U.S. Air Force Major Lawrence Balwig saw the same thing from his house.
20:10Though both witnesses were extremely credible, neither of these sightings was ever solved.
20:16What's even more eerie, seven years after Misty's encounter, a similar ring of lights appeared again in 2022.
20:26So is what Misty saw a real-deal UFO?
20:30Let's see what our experts think.
20:31We begin with physicist Matthew Shadagas.
20:39Is it possible that taking into account Oak Ridge's classified past, this light is a secret craft connected to the base?
20:46Oak Ridge National Laboratory is focused on nuclear physics, not aerospace.
20:52Oak Ridge is not Area 51 or Groom Lake.
20:56Moreover, you can't just fly a secret craft anywhere.
21:03These craft are going to be tested at specific ranges, usually in the middle of nowhere.
21:10If it's not secret U.S. government technology, is it possible these eyewitnesses were right on target?
21:16A UFO, y'all.
21:18Holy space people coming to us.
21:21Obviously, something is flying, but we don't see the extreme behaviors that oftentimes get attributed to UFOs.
21:29Misty reports to have seen lights that are red and green, in addition to the white light that we see.
21:35And the lights on this, it's showing white, but that's all red and green.
21:38Yeah.
21:39That matters because the FAA requires navigation lights to be red on the left wing, green on the right, and white on the tail.
21:47Seems unlikely aliens would take pains to comply with FAA regulations.
21:52Still, Hernandez believes this isn't an airplane.
21:56It was a hot summer day across Knoxville.
21:57The winds overall were calm, which were excellent for flying drones this specific day.
22:02We hear the noise of the propellers.
22:05Very confident that what we're looking at here is a drone.
22:10But Chidagas says, don't let your eyes and ears fool you.
22:14I can explain the noise as simply background noise of a noisy environment.
22:20And it's impossible to judge the distance to an object and its speed, especially at night, with no reference points.
22:30An object that is small and close to a camera will look the same size in the camera lens as an object that is both larger and far away.
22:40That's why Chidagas actually thinks this could be a balloon.
22:43I think this is a very special kind of balloon.
22:46I believe that what we are seeing here is part of something called the Google Loon Project.
22:55Loon was Google's experiment to provide internet access to rural and remote areas across the globe.
23:00The company used high-altitude balloons about 12 miles up in the stratosphere to create an aerial wireless network.
23:08It's a plausible theory, but Hernandez disagrees.
23:11Obviously, we can see this, but Project Loon Balloons are fairly hard to notice given that they're about 65,000 feet above the surface.
23:19Much higher than a commercial jetliner and would be moving fairly fast with the jet stream.
23:25We don't see that kind of motion here.
23:27Wow, both of our experts make compelling arguments for two completely different things.
23:39So our verdict?
23:40For now, we're going with genuine UFO, though we certainly can't say it's an alien craft.
23:46Over the years, we've investigated several recordings of alleged Bigfoot sounds.
23:54Some have turned out to be amateurish fakes.
23:57We debunked those easily.
23:59But not this one.
24:01Give it a listen.
24:02It's the night of July 2nd, 2022.
24:06In Loudonville, Ohio, Bigfoot Field Research Organization member Suzanne Ferenczek is with friends watching some early fireworks.
24:14Around 10 p.m., they hear something strange.
24:17When there was a quiet time, all five of us heard some howls.
24:22Immediately, we're quiet and looked at each other like, what was that?
24:26You know, it was just kind of like, okay, ears up, maybe there's something to pay attention to.
24:31Later that night, Suzanne hears the same howls again.
24:35But this time, she's recording.
24:36A quiet howl increasing in pitch is followed by another one.
24:49This was at 3.42 a.m.
24:52I heard these howls.
24:53And they sounded similar to the ones that we had heard about 10 o'clock that night.
24:58I was excited that I finally got something decent.
25:01At least, you know, I think I did.
25:04Suzanne's hometown of Loudonville is in a rural stretch of Ohio, located right next to Mohican State Park, home to thousands of wooden acres.
25:18Many, many sighting reports come out of the immediate vicinity, near Suzanne's property and for several miles in all directions.
25:25There is corn here for much of the year.
25:29And that corn not only gives Sasquatches and other animals places to hide in a possible food source, but it brings in the deer, the key to why Sasquatches might be in this particular area.
25:40That's because Barrickman and other Sasquatch researchers believe the creatures are omnivores, eating meat as well as vegetables.
25:48And Barrickman vouches for Suzanne herself.
25:50Suzanne is a friend.
25:52I know her.
25:53So we have a recording here that I don't have to question the motivation of the witness.
26:00So the only question left here is, what makes that noise?
26:03This recording is the latest in the trove of Ohio Bigfoot materials we've investigated, including these famous 1994 Ohio howls recorded by Matt Moneymaker.
26:19They didn't match any local animals.
26:24So Ohio's a hot spot for sure.
26:27Let's see if our experts think this sound could be the real deal.
26:33First, forensic audio analyst Rob Maher authenticates the recording.
26:44The background sounds are consistent throughout, and the unknown sounds are very prominent in the section of the recording where they're present.
26:52So it seems to be an authentic recording.
26:55So we know it's not a fake.
26:57Could these be the howls of coyotes?
26:59Coyotes aren't native to Ohio, but their population exploded in the early 20th century when settlers exterminated their main predator, the gray wolf.
27:11If we look at a recording of an actual coyote, they have a very distinctive rising frequency to begin with and then continue on more of a sustained pitch.
27:21The frequency is a little higher than what we observed in the Ohio recording.
27:38So although this is similar, there are some significant differences here.
27:43So if it's not a coyote, could it be Bigfoot?
27:46To my ear, it's very reminiscent of the whoop produced by gibbons and siamongs.
27:54They have this inflatable throat sack that serves as a resonating chamber for projecting these extremely loud whoops that carry through the forest.
28:06I have suggested that if Sasquatch nests within this family of primates, they may as well possess these extra-laryngeal sacks.
28:17Maher goes with the Bigfoot theory and decides to test this audio against the 1971 Sierra sounds from California, believed by some to be a genuine Sasquatch.
28:27The Sierra sound that's attributed to Bigfoot has a rising sound and then sort of a whoop.
28:39The initial rise we see here from the 300 or 400 hertz frequency range is very similar to the Ohio sound recording.
28:47The last part of the utterance from this recording that has the whoop at the end is not present in the Ohio recording.
28:55So although the first part of this is very similar to what's observed, the second part is different.
29:08But how about that other famous Ohio howl we told you about?
29:12If we compare the Ohio recording to the recordings from Matt Moneymaker, we can see the fundamental frequencies here are approximately in the same vicinity.
29:26So the characteristics here seem to occupy the right frequency range between this example recording and the Ohio recording.
29:42Our verdict, we're going with possible Bigfoot sounds, but that's as far as we feel comfortable going.
29:54While Suzanne's recordings aren't a close match with the famous Sierra sounds,
29:58they do possess many similarities to Matt Moneymaker's 1994 howls, also recorded in Ohio.
30:05So maybe she finally did capture the call of the big guy.
30:09Can spirits of the dead contact us from beyond?
30:16One man in Texas says yes.
30:19And he says this next video from his home security camera is what made him a believer.
30:25November 2020, Cypress, Texas.
30:28It's a quiet night in this community about 30 miles outside Houston.
30:32But then an infrared security camera alerts a slumbering Chip Bias Ortega that something unusual is going on outside his house.
30:41We have several motion-activated cameras set up around our home.
30:46This night, they started ringing at about 3.30 in the morning.
30:51And something told me, get up and look at this.
30:54Chip checks out the footage and finds this.
30:57At first glance, nothing seems out of the ordinary.
31:02But look again.
31:03On the right side of the video is a small ball of light.
31:07It hovers, swirling back and forth.
31:09A smaller, secondary orb appears above the main orb for a split second and then disappears.
31:16I am, first of all, blown away that I have right in front of me on this video a dancing, huge orb.
31:25However, it's unexplainable to me.
31:28Chip believes this may have been an encounter with the ghost of a loved one who's died.
31:33My Aunt Clara and I would always talk about, after we pass, I want a sign, do something for me.
31:40Aunt Clara would say, oh, you'll know when I'm here.
31:44So, Aunt Clara, hey.
31:47Texas has its own mysterious history with glowing orbs.
31:50And as journalist Alexis Brooks tells us, these ethereal balls of light have a name, spirit orbs.
31:57Spirit orbs are these balls of energy that are intelligent.
32:02In the 1900s, there was another case that plagued East Texas known as the Light of Saratoga.
32:10Legend has it that this rail man was in a very, very horrible accident, was actually decapitated.
32:17And it's believed that the ghost of this brake man is actually searching for his decapitated head.
32:22And it's his lantern that looks to be an orb sort of traveling down the tracks.
32:30You may remember when we covered the Marfa lights from West Texas, bright orbs that have mystified eyewitnesses.
32:37We weren't able to determine the cause for that light show.
32:41Could this more intimate spirit orb help explain what's lighting up the Lone Star State?
32:47It's time to conjure our experts.
32:53We begin with forensic video analyst Michael Primo to answer our first question.
32:58Is this security camera footage even authentic?
33:01Through a structural analysis, we were able to identify the signature from the Blink camera app.
33:06Through a manual comparison of that structural data with other known Blink exhibits, no editing signatures, no third-party signatures, no CGI.
33:14So, yes, this video is real.
33:18If what we're seeing is real, could the glow of these orbs be from a nearby light source, like the passing cars?
33:25When headlights appear, the orbs are still there.
33:27When the headlights disappear, the orbs are still there.
33:30They're also not in alignment with those headlights.
33:32So, it doesn't appear to be headlights.
33:35Perhaps our lights aren't emitting from an artificial source, but what about a natural one, like fireflies?
33:42Fireflies that you see in some areas of the country flash, but they flash by flashing on and off.
33:48They don't really flash in the way that this appears to be flashing.
33:52How about a moth?
33:54Typically, you would see the wings moving if it was a moth.
33:57I don't see any wings flapping here.
33:59I think this is something we actually see fairly often on security camera footage, which is a spiderweb.
34:06A thread of spiderweb can be just three thousandths of a millimeter across.
34:10That's thinner than a strand of human hair.
34:13That's why we don't see the web, just a byproduct left behind.
34:17If there's a spot on the strand, which sometimes is a spot of the spider's glue,
34:22that will reflect the light from the infrared camera.
34:26Spider glue is a substance in the spider's glands that makes the lines of the web sticky by absorbing water from the atmosphere.
34:33West says this orb isn't yards away from the camera, merely inches.
34:38Here's the camera.
34:39Here's the spider silk, just like one or two inches in front of it.
34:43So, it's just kind of drifting around, and it just gradually moves across the scene and then back again.
34:49And take a look at another security cam video.
34:52Here we see a spider actually weaving a web and leaving the same type of orbs behind.
35:01Our verdict?
35:03Spiderweb.
35:04Much as nature intended, this near-invisible silk has us caught in its phantom thread.
35:11But we certainly hope the spirit of Anclarus stays with Chip forever.
35:15When we think of the beginning of flight, we think of the Wright brothers' success with their twin propeller plane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.
35:27But five years earlier, there was a discovery in North Africa that has experts asking if the first flying machine was invented thousands of years earlier.
35:36Saqqara, Egypt, 1898, in a vast burial site near the country's oldest step pyramid, archaeologists make a unique and confounding find.
35:47This 2,200-year-old carving that looks like a model airplane is known as the Saqqara bird.
35:53The Saqqara bird is a small figurine that was excavated from the tomb of Ada Aiman.
36:00It's about 5 1⁄2 inches long with a wingspan almost over 7 inches, weighs in at about 1 1⁄2 ounces, and it's made of sycamore maple wood.
36:10Most experts think it's a model of a bird, and for years, it was kept with other ancient bird art in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
36:18But when it was rediscovered in 1969 by Egyptologist Khalil Masiya in a box of old exhibits, a new, more radical theory emerged.
36:27All the characteristics of this model are more intrinsic to a modern-day airplane than that of a bird.
36:34Its aerodynamic precision and shape of the wing and fuselage all seem to have similarities to modern engineering.
36:42Masiya also noted that typical ancient Egyptian bird models have their wings folded back and also have legs and painted feathers, but the Saqqara bird does not.
36:52This led him to believe that this was a scale model of a glider, albeit one that was lacking a key component.
36:59There seems to be a missing 90-degree tail that has yet to be discovered, and you can see that there's a notch that may have contained that at some point.
37:08Some researchers have looked at the rear end of this craft and said without that missing tail fin, this wouldn't have the aerodynamics to have capable flight.
37:16Yet Masiya claimed the back of the glider could serve as a rudder to keep it going straight.
37:23Still, how could the people of Egypt have such advanced aeronautics more than two millennia before the first plane?
37:30Is it possible they learned it from extraterrestrials?
37:34Well, British astronomer Charles Piazzi Smythe believed the Egyptians used the Great Pyramid of Cheops as an astronomical observatory,
37:42and there's evidence they charted what they saw in the skies on their tombs.
37:47So did the ancient Egyptians gain more knowledge from their observations than we'll ever know?
37:51This is one of the many reasons why the Saqqara bird could be so controversial.
37:58The Egyptian Ministry of Culture created an entire committee to investigate Masiya's findings
38:04and agreed the Saqqara bird does display advanced principles of aircraft design.
38:11So, is the Saqqara bird proof of an ancient Egyptian technology lost to time like its advanced pyramid-building skills?
38:19Let's see if our experts can shake a tail feather on this one.
38:23So, the big question here is, can this thing really fly?
38:31Aerodynamics expert Simon Sanderson has long been fascinated by the Saqqara bird.
38:36In 2006, he built a replica five times larger than the original carving to test its flightworthiness.
38:43I just made it in a combination of bolsterwood for the wings and polystyrene for the fuselage and tail.
38:49The main thing we wanted to do was to measure the aerodynamic properties.
38:53So, we took them to the Manchester University wind tunnel.
38:57In the wind tunnel, it showed that it had perfectly okay aerodynamic characteristics.
39:02Not optimum, but usable.
39:05Sanderson continued his research at Liverpool University,
39:08where he programmed the bird's specifications into a flight simulator and added a tailplane.
39:13The simulation showed the design could have achieved flight, but likely not for long given its glide angle,
39:20the angle at which the flight path intersects with the ground.
39:23The properties are such that the glide angle might not be very good,
39:27but I would say, if anything, it was something that was being used to explore flight.
39:33So, we might see this object as a sort of paper airplane or cardboard glider,
39:37toys we all put together when we were children.
39:39And anthropologist Kathy Strain wonders if that's all this is.
39:44I would expect that if Egyptians understood how to create flight,
39:49that we would see hieroglyphs that depicted them flying.
39:53And yet, we don't have anything like that.
39:56This, to me, is just something that the person loved when they were a child,
40:03and they buried it with them for him to have it on the other side.
40:07It's just simply a toy.
40:09Archaeologist Dr. Ed Barnhart tends to agree.
40:12It is absolutely clear that the Egyptians had a love for creating art depicting animals,
40:21especially birds of prey.
40:24Sometimes a bird is just a bird.
40:28Our verdict, this is likely a carved bird, toy, or ritual object.
40:38Since it's unique, there's still a chance it was an aircraft model,
40:42but its poor aerodynamic characteristics mean a full-size version likely
40:46wouldn't have been able to glide for very long, especially without a tail.
40:51And that's our show for tonight.
40:52Thank you so much for watching.
40:54And as always, keep those cameras rolling.
40:56We'll see you next time.
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