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00:00The proof is out there.
00:02Lasers in the Hawaiian sky.
00:04Is this a secret space weapon?
00:06These lasers are very sinister.
00:08They're part of a targeting system
00:09that was targeting the state of Hawaii.
00:12A mysterious claw.
00:14Did a sea monster attack a Navy ship?
00:16Really one of the most remarkable things
00:18that has ever happened involving an unknown sea
00:21creature of gigantic proportions.
00:23Does a remarkable photo prove Bigfoot or his cousin
00:27is after your dogs?
00:29You've heard of Bigfoot, but have you heard of Gugwee?
00:33It's weird.
00:34And what's that ring of lights
00:36near a historic government lab?
00:38This area has been a hotspot for UFO sightings for 70 years.
00:47Around the globe are videos.
00:49What are those things?
00:51It's moving.
00:52Photos and sounds that defy explanation.
00:59We don't know where they come from, who made them, or how they operate.
01:04What are they?
01:05Some sort of bizarre mutation.
01:08What's exciting is nobody really knows.
01:10Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof.
01:12I'm Tony Harris, and as a journalist for more than 30 years, I've followed the facts where
01:20they take me.
01:21Now I'm bringing that spirit of investigation to the world's strangest sounds and images.
01:26We'll analyze each one with top experts.
01:30It's a credible case, it's a credible video.
01:33And pass a verdict on what it is.
01:36This video was clearly faked.
01:38The Proof starts now.
01:48Good evening, everyone, and welcome to The Proof Is Out There.
01:52Since laser beams were first introduced in the 1960s, they've been put to many good uses,
01:58from life-saving surgeries to laser-triggered home alarms.
02:02But this next video will leave you wondering if lasers are also being used for more sinister purposes,
02:08specifically in the sky.
02:10It's January 2023 on the Big Island of Hawaii.
02:14Atop the summit of the Mauna Kea volcano, a camera on the Subaru telescope captures the
02:20early morning sky over the Pacific.
02:22The camera is live streaming when, from out of nowhere, a series of green lasers appears to sweep
02:29across the sky from left to right.
02:32Take another look.
02:33It only lasts for about a second.
02:35And when we freeze it, we can clearly see the parallel green lines beam down from above,
02:42then flicker and disappear as quickly as they came.
02:47Astrophotography expert Andrew McCarthy says some wonder if these beams of light could be a
02:52directed energy weapon.
02:53Directed energy weapons use concentrated energy, like from a laser, instead of projectiles to
02:59destroy a target.
03:00This technology was first deployed in 2014 on the USS Ponce.
03:05The Ponce's 30-kilowatt infrared laser beam is a defensive weapon that can fry sensors,
03:11burn out motors, and detonate explosive materials.
03:16It has demonstrated that it can down a small drone in less than two seconds.
03:21Since then, the U.S. has floated the idea of using space-based DEWs specifically to prevent missile
03:27attacks.
03:28McCarthy adds that technically the use of such weapons for offensive purposes can be deemed illegal.
03:34The Outer Space Treaty in 1967 forbade the use of any weapons of mass destruction,
03:40military bases, or other weapons in space.
03:43However, many speculate the militarization of space is already underway.
03:46Still, others question if these strange lights could have a more alien origin.
03:52What this video reminds me of is a story from 1969 in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
03:58There are 40 eyewitnesses that claimed to see UFOs in the sky,
04:02and that coincided with abduction stories, where people claimed tractor beams,
04:07much like these green laser beams were used to abduct them.
04:16The camera that captured this footage is in a remote location, giving us a great view of the skies.
04:21So did it live stream something truly out of this world,
04:24or something that could alter the course of life on the planet?
04:28Our experts take a closer look.
04:30First, could this be something natural, like the northern lights?
04:38This is a level of uniformity that suggests this is a technology.
04:42This is not a naturally occurring phenomenon.
04:44Nature doesn't work with that much uniformity.
04:47If this isn't natural, could these green lights actually be some sort of alien technology,
04:53like tractor beams?
04:54There's nothing that's characteristic of UFO sightings.
04:58There's nothing I see here that can't be accounted for by Earth technology.
05:02So could this be a directed energy weapon capable of shooting at Earth from space?
05:07DEWs are meant to pinpoint a target, so it's unlikely beams from a weapon would have moved
05:13indiscriminately across the sky like this.
05:16And these lasers didn't seem to destroy anything in the process,
05:20so astronomer and video effects designer Mark D'Antonio has his doubts.
05:24At first glance, you would think that this could potentially have some type of
05:28military application, and that's not untrue.
05:32However, in-depth analysis shows that this is probably a scientific endeavor.
05:38There was some speculation that this was related to NASA's ISAT-2 satellite.
05:43However, upon further investigation, it turns out that the NASA ISAT-2 satellite
05:47actually wasn't in the area at that time.
05:50NASA did try to determine what satellite may have been in that particular region,
05:56and the satellite that NASA was able to pinpoint based on trajectory measurements was the Chinese
06:02DACI-1.
06:03The official purpose of the DACI-1 is to use the laser scanning technology known as LIDAR to measure
06:10pollutants. But security expert Richard Fisher worries that's not the only data this device is gathering.
06:16China's space program is entirely dual use.
06:21Everything the Chinese put into space is designed to produce a military benefit.
06:28The environmental monitoring satellite DACI-1 also measures very precisely the density of the
06:35atmosphere over the target. And this is crucial information for China's latest hypersonic glide vehicle
06:44armed missile.
06:46Having accurate maps is crucial in a warfare scenario. So certainly it's not beyond the realm of possibility
06:53that data that's being collected here could be used in a military setting in the event of a war.
07:03Our verdict? These green beams are pollution-detecting LIDAR from a Chinese satellite.
07:09Though there is a chance these lasers may also have had a more covert mission.
07:14This unusual pattern was likely visible that day because it was filmed with a special low light camera
07:21and dense atmospheric conditions caused the beams to expand and scatter.
07:28Now, let's get deep. Like deep underwater. We've covered many incidents involving strange
07:35encounters between U.S. Navy warships and unidentified objects in the air. This story is about a famous
07:42encounter with an unidentified object in the ocean. And this one allegedly had teeth.
07:501978, on the Pacific Ocean, the USS Stein, a U.S. Navy destroyer escort, is conducting routine tests when
07:58suddenly the radar system responsible for identifying submarine threats becomes inoperable. The Stein heads
08:04for land and reaches dry dock where, upon inspection of the sonar dome, the engineers find this.
08:12This vintage film shows the rubber, no foul coating of the sonar dome is shredded with large tears as big
08:19as four feet long. And what's more, embedded at the bottom of the scratches are curved claws.
08:25The USS Stein incident has become one of the most famous incidents in the annals of cryptozoology that
08:32have to deal with a possible unknown sea creature. And of course, what's really remarkable is that we have
08:37this physical evidence of whatever it was that damaged this rubber, no foul coating.
08:43The no foul coating is specifically designed to create a smooth, non-stick surface so barnacles and
08:49other sea creatures can't stick to it.
08:52The Navy called in their top scientist, a marine biologist by the name of F.G. Wood,
08:57in order to investigate and to examine these strange tooth-like or claw-like structures that
09:04were embedded in the rubber dome in order to see if they could identify and equate them
09:08to any type of known species. He concluded that they most resembled
09:14the so-called teeth that line the suckers of squids.
09:19The giant squid, a terrifying tale amongst seafaring folk that was widely considered a myth.
09:25But after corpses started to wash up on ocean shores and a Japanese science team caught one on camera back
09:31in 2012, it proved to be a real-life monster of the deep. Scientists believe these colossal creatures could
09:38grow up to 66 feet long.
09:40Giant squid, in addition to their eight tentacles, they have these two incredibly long predatory arms
09:45with hooks or teeth in his suckers to grasp and tear prey apart.
09:51Upon examination of these teeth, F.G. Wood determined that the squid that left them behind would be
09:58somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 feet in length, which essentially is about half the height of the
10:03Statue of Liberty. We know that invertebrates are pretty much unlimited in terms of growth potential,
10:09particularly in the deep ocean. But there is another possibility, very real and very ugly,
10:16the frightful fish once thought to be extinct, the frilled shark. Until recent years, it was safe to
10:21conclude that the frilled shark had gone the way of the megalodon. This was mainly due to the rarity
10:27of sightings of the deep sea creature, but new research is showing that this population is alive
10:31and thriving. And Gerhardt says the teeth of these sharks match the evidence.
10:36The frilled shark has 25 rows of teeth, and the fact that we found so many of these tooth-like
10:42structures embedded in the no-fowl dome of the USS Stein would indicate that a frilled shark is one
10:49possibility. In 2014, two Greenpeace submariners had their own 20,000 leagues under the sea experience
10:59when a squad of red devil squid attacked their vessel. So we know they can get aggressive with
11:06man-made sea craft. Could a belligerent sea creature be responsible for what happened to the USS Stein?
11:11We let our experts dig their teeth in. Could the damage be from the frilled shark, as Gerhardt suggests?
11:23I don't see the types of tooth marks that I would expect to see from a frilled shark. We would see
11:29evidence of serrated teeth. The way that a shark bites is by grabbing onto something with its mouth
11:35and then using the serrations in its teeth to tear through the flesh of that animal or object.
11:42And as for those claw-like fragments found stuck in the sonar dome?
11:46This could be the claw of some kind of cephalopod. It's absolutely possible that this could have been
11:55a giant squid. Giant squid and sperm whales are known enemies. I wonder if this wasn't some sort of a
12:04giant squid that thought this sonar device was actually a sperm whale trying to echolocate and it
12:11attacked the boat. So the giant squid theory is seaworthy. But remember that by Wood's calculations,
12:18this squid would have to be 150 feet long. Impossible? Think again. The idea that there's a giant squid
12:25in our ocean that is much larger than any other documented specimen is totally possible. We've only
12:31found a few of these animals because they live in the deep ocean environment. But when a large animal
12:37dies in the deep sea, because there's so much water pressure, they almost immediately sink. And we
12:44probably would never see them. So imagine how many unique animals are living and dying in our oceans
12:51today that we've just never encountered. And this could be one of them.
13:00Our verdict? We're going with a potential giant squid. Our experts back up the Navy scientists' original
13:07theory. The damage left on this ship seems to indicate a giant squid, but one that would have to be on a
13:14monstrous scale unlike any squid ever seen before. We are always talking about Bigfoot potentially being
13:24the missing link between ape and man. But we never consider if over the millennia, Bigfoot itself has
13:30evolved into a new subspecies. Could this next story be proof of such an offshoot?
13:36June 1st, 2005. The Parc des Setsuit in Quebec, Canada. Louis, a construction truck driver, is taking photos while on a hike in the park.
13:47When he gets home, he looks at the images he's captured when he sees this.
13:53The figure is in the shadows, but as we crop the image and lighten the area,
13:57it sure looks like this thing has a snout and is carrying something white. Amazingly,
14:02the creature appears to be staring at the photographer who doesn't notice it. Field
14:07researcher Cliff Barrickman points out some key features of the creature in this image.
14:11I like the color of the figure in this photograph. It turns out if you have a Sasquatch hair and you
14:17backlight it, they all shine red. Under the forest canopy, the sunlight is filtered by the leaves and
14:24the foliage above, and the first wavelengths of light to disappear are the red wavelengths. Anything red
14:32under the canopy, like a Sasquatch, would appear black. And while some suggested this could be a
14:38Bigfoot, others believe this could be something new altogether. Some people in the Bigfoot community
14:43look at this picture and say it's a more baboon-like species with a more prominent prognathism,
14:49jutting forward of the jaw. Maybe it's a new species of Sasquatch. They even put the name
14:55Gugwe on it, which is a local term used in this part of the country.
14:59Some say this Gugwe is a much more ferocious Bigfoot, and that this white object is actually
15:06a dog about to become its next meal. Supposedly, the day before the image was taken, a woman's small
15:12dog had gone missing and was never found. Sasquatch would shift their diet over to meat eating for
15:18probably most of the winter. Frankly, if you're making your living out there eating whatever moves,
15:23crawls, or slithers, you can't be too picky. Bigfoot made Canadian headlines when, in 2018,
15:32a Believers lawsuit claiming that British Columbia failed in its duty to recognize the legendary
15:38creature, was dismissed by the courts. But now, could this picture prove there is a large,
15:44aggressive apex creature hunting in the woods of Quebec? We turn to our experts to find out.
15:55Biologist Floyd Hayes looks into whether this could be the misidentification of a Canadian bear.
16:01The only bear that lives in Quebec is the black bear. But in this image,
16:05we're seeing something that looks like there's too much white in the middle of the body and up in the
16:10head. And bears also don't carry an object in a single arm like that. The head looks more like a
16:16baboon. A baboon in the great white north? It doesn't make sense for it to be a monkey because this
16:22is in Canada. There are no primates in this area. Monkeys can't survive in the cold. There's only one
16:28species of monkey that can live in the cold. And they are the ones that use the hot springs to help
16:35them through the winter. If it isn't a baboon, could it be a large primate like a Bigfoot? You cannot
16:42clearly make out a primate. It's really pixelated. And then we also don't have other supporting evidence
16:50like tracks, scats, nests, things like that. And according to Manka, even if this were a primate of
16:58some kind, it's highly unlikely that a dog would be its prey. Most primates feed on meat sporadically
17:04or opportunistically. And it makes up less than one percent of the diet of almost all 89 primate
17:12species. Dr. Manka believes this could be an example of pareidolia, people seeing patterns
17:18that resemble something familiar to them and who want to believe that's what it is. I can see how
17:23people can make an animal shape, but it really doesn't have the level of detail to be seen
17:31as a baboon-like animal. That's really lending a lot to the imagination. It looks a lot like a dead
17:37tree, a tree stump. So our experts think this is just a piece of the forest, like a tree stump.
17:49And although we're not 100 percent certain, we're inclined to agree. Many in the Bigfoot community
17:55remain highly interested in the possibility of more evidence from this area. If you or someone you know
18:01has more images or videos of the Gugwee, please contact us.
18:08A ring of strange lights in the sky is an odd sight in itself, but when it's seemingly buzzing and not
18:15far from an infamous U.S. government laboratory, well, you just know we have to investigate.
18:22August 3rd, 2015, just after 10 p.m., Misty Strievel, along with her daughter and another passenger,
18:30are driving on a highway in Knoxville, Tennessee, when Misty's daughter sees a strange sight in the
18:36night sky. She's like, Mom, what are those red and green lights in the sky? And first thought,
18:41I'm like, it's an airplane. That is weird. Dude, it's buzzing. It sure is. Misty captures a light
18:50floating in a sea of darkness. But as we zoom in, something even more interesting can be seen.
18:56It's not just one light, but in fact, a ring of lights. Now, but the crazy thing in the lights on
19:02this is showing white, but that's all red and green. Yeah. It was maybe 50 feet above the used
19:09car lock sign. It was just, I've never seen anything like it. A UFO, y'all.
19:15Space people coming to us. If this is a UFO, writer Amy Teitel says it wouldn't be the first to be
19:22seen over this part of eastern Tennessee. Knoxville has a really interesting history with UFOs dating
19:29back to the Second World War, when the Oak Ridge National Laboratory was founded about half an hour
19:34outside the city. During World War II, Oak Ridge was cloaked in secrecy. Its purpose was to enrich uranium
19:41for the Manhattan Project and Robert Oppenheimer's atomic bomb. There were some strange phenomena that
19:49happened in the area a few years after it was established. In October of 1950, William Fry,
19:55who was the assistant chief of security at the lab, saw a bright glowing light over the movie theater in
20:01town. It flashed red and green before finally disappearing. Ten minutes later, U.S. Air Force
20:07Major Lawrence Balwig saw the same thing from his house. Though both witnesses were extremely credible,
20:15neither of these sightings was ever solved. What's even more eerie, seven years after Misty's encounter,
20:23a similar ring of lights appeared again in 2022. So is what Misty saw a real deal UFO? Let's see what our
20:32experts think. We begin with physicist Matthew Shadakis. Is it possible that taking into account
20:42Oak Ridge's classified past, this light is a secret craft connected to the base? Oak Ridge National Laboratory
20:49is focused on nuclear physics, not aerospace. Oak Ridge is not Area 51 or Groom Lake. Moreover,
21:00you can't just fly a secret craft anywhere. These craft are going to be tested at specific ranges,
21:10usually in the middle of nowhere. If it's not secret U.S. government technology,
21:15is it possible these eyewitnesses were right on target? A UFO, y'all. Holy space people coming to us.
21:23Obviously something is flying, but we don't see the extreme behaviors that oftentimes get attributed
21:28to UFOs. Misty reports to have seen lights that are red and green as an addition to the white light
21:35that we see. And the lights on this is showing white, but that's all red and green. Yeah.
21:40That matters because the FAA requires navigation lights to be red on the left wing, green on the
21:47right, and white on the tail. Seems unlikely aliens would take pains to comply with FAA regulations.
21:54Still, Hernandez believes this isn't an airplane. It was a hot summer day across Knoxville. The winds
21:59overall were calm, which were excellent for flying drones this specific day. We hear the noise of the
22:05propellers. Very confident that what we're looking at here is a drone. But Shadaga says,
22:13don't let your eyes and ears fool you. I can explain the noise as simply background noise of a noisy
22:21environment. And it's impossible to judge the distance to an object and its speed, especially at
22:29night with no reference points. An object that is small and close to a camera will look the same
22:36size in the camera lens as an object that is both larger and far away. That's why Shadaga actually
22:43thinks this could be a balloon. I think this is a very special kind of balloon. I believe that what we
22:49are 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.
23:02The company used high altitude balloons about 12 miles up in the stratosphere to create an aerial
23:07wireless network. It's a plausible theory, but Hernandez disagrees. Obviously, we can see this,
23:14but Project Loon balloons are fairly hard to notice given that they're about 65,000 feet above the surface,
23:21much higher than a commercial jetliner and would be moving fairly fast with the jet stream. We don't see
23:27that kind of motion here.
23:34Wow. Both of our experts make compelling arguments for two completely different things.
23:40So our verdict? For now, we're going with genuine UFO, though we certainly can't say it's an alien craft.
23:47Over the years, we've investigated several recordings of alleged Bigfoot sounds.
23:54Some have turned out to be amateurish fakes. We debunk those easily. But not this one. Give it a listen.
24:03It's the night of July 2, 2022. In Loudonville, Ohio, Bigfoot Field Research Organization member
24:10Suzanne Ferenczek is with friends watching some early fireworks. Around 10 p.m., they hear something
24:17strange. When there was a quiet time, all five of us heard some howls. Immediately were quiet and looked
24:25at each other like, what was that? You know, it was just kind of like, okay, ears up. Maybe there's
24:30something to pay attention to. Later that night, Suzanne hears the same howls again. But this time,
24:36she's recording. A quiet howl increasing in pitch is followed by another one.
24:50This was at 3 42 a.m. I heard these howls. And they sounded similar to the ones that we had heard
24:56about 10 o'clock that night. I was excited that I finally got something decent. At least, you know, I think I did.
25:10Suzanne's hometown of Loudonville is in a rural stretch of Ohio, located right next to Mohican
25:15State Park, home to thousands of wooden acres. Many, many sighting reports come out of the immediate
25:21vicinity near Suzanne's property and for several miles in all directions. There is corn here for
25:28much of the year. And that corn not only gives Sasquatches and other animals places to hide in
25:33a possible food source, but it brings in the deer, the key to why Sasquatches might be in this particular
25:40area. That's because Barrickman and other Sasquatch researchers believe the creatures are omnivores,
25:46eating meat as well as vegetables. And Barrickman vouches for Suzanne herself.
25:51Suzanne is a friend. I know her. So we have a recording here that I don't have to question
25:58the motivation of the witness. So the only question left here is what makes that noise?
26:08This recording is the latest in the trove of Ohio Bigfoot materials we've investigated,
26:14including these famous 1994 Ohio howls recorded by Matt Moneymaker.
26:20They didn't match any local animals.
26:25So Ohio's a hot spot for sure. Let's see if our experts think this sound could be the real deal.
26:36First, forensic audio analyst Rob Maher authenticates the recording.
26:40The background sounds are consistent throughout, and the unknown sounds are very prominent in the
26:50section of the recording where they're present. So it seems to be an authentic recording.
26:55So we know it's not a fake. Could these be the howls of coyotes?
27:00Coyotes aren't native to Ohio, but their population exploded in the early 20th century when settlers
27:09exterminated their main predator, the gray wolf.
27:12If we look at a recording of an actual coyote, they have a very distinctive rising frequency to begin with,
27:19and then continue on more of a sustained pitch.
27:22The frequency is a little higher than what we observed in the Ohio recording.
27:31So although this is similar, there are some significant differences here.
27:43So if it's not a coyote, could it be Bigfoot?
27:45To my ear, it's very reminiscent of the hoop produced by gibbons and siamongs.
27:55They have this inflatable throat sack that serves as a resonating chamber for projecting these
28:03extremely loud hoops that carry through the forest. I have suggested that if Sasquatch nests within
28:10this family of primates, they may as well possess these extra laryngeal sacks.
28:18Maher goes with the Bigfoot theory and decides to test this audio against the 1971
28:23Sierra sounds from California, believed by some to be a genuine Sasquatch.
28:28The Sierra sound that's attributed to Bigfoot has a rising sound and then sort of a hoop.
28:34The initial rise we see here from the 300 or 400 hertz frequency range is very similar to the Ohio
28:47sound recording. The last part of the utterance from this recording that has the hoop at the end
28:53is not present in the Ohio recording.
29:03So although the first part of this is very similar to what's observed, the second part is different.
29:09But how about that other famous Ohio howl we told you about?
29:16If we compare the Ohio recording to the recordings from Matt Moneymaker, we can see the fundamental
29:23frequencies here are approximately in the same vicinity.
29:35So the characteristics here seem to occupy the right frequency range
29:39between this example recording and the Ohio recording.
29:47Our verdict? We're going with possible Bigfoot sounds.
29:51But 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.
30:06So maybe she finally did capture the call of the big guy.
30:12Can spirits of the dead contact us from beyond?
30:15One man in Texas says yes. And he says this next video from his home security camera
30:22is what made him a believer.
30:25November 2020, Cypress, Texas. It'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
30:39outside his house. We have several motion activated cameras set up around our home.
30:46This night they started ringing at about 3 30 in the morning and something told me, get up and look at this.
30:53Chip checks out the footage and finds this.
30:56At first glance, nothing seems out of the ordinary. But look again. On the right side of the video is
31:04a small ball of light. It hovers, swirling back and forth. A smaller secondary orb appears above the
31:11main orb for a split second and then disappears.
31:15I am, first of all, blown away that I have right in front of me on this video a dancing huge horror. It's unexplainable to me.
31:28Chip believes this may have been an encounter with the ghost of a loved one who's died.
31:32My Aunt Clara and I would always talk about after we passed, I want a sign, do something for me.
31:39Aunt Clara would say, oh, you'll know when I'm here. So, Aunt Clara, hey.
31:46Texas has its own mysterious history with glowing orbs. And as journalist Alexis Brooks tells us,
31:52these ethereal balls of light have a name, spirit orbs.
31:57Spirit orbs are these balls of energy that are intelligent. In the 1900s, there was another case
32:05that plagued East Texas, known as the Light of Saratoga. Legend has it that this railman was in a
32:13very, very horrible accident, was actually decapitated. And it's believed that the ghost
32:18of this brakeman is actually searching for his decapitated head. And it's his lantern that looks
32:24to be an orb sort of traveling down the tracks.
32:27You may remember when we covered the Marfa lights from West Texas,
32:34bright orbs that have mystified eyewitnesses. We weren't able to determine the cause for that
32:40light show. Could this more intimate spirit orb help explain what's lighting up the Lone Star State?
32:46It's time to conjure our experts.
32:49We 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.
33:10No editing signatures, no third-party signatures, no CGI. So yes, this video is real.
33:16If what we're seeing is real, could the glow of these orbs be from a nearby light source,
33:22like the passing cars?
33:23When headlights appear, the orbs are still there. When the headlights disappear,
33:28the orbs are still there. They're also not in alignment with those headlights,
33:32so it doesn't appear to be headlights.
33:34Perhaps 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. I 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.
34:05A thread of spiderweb can be just three thousandths of a millimeter across.
34:09That's thinner than a strand of human hair. That's why we don't see the web, just a byproduct left behind.
34:16If 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.
34:25Spider glue is a substance in the spider's glands that makes the lines of the web sticky by absorbing
34:31water from the atmosphere. West says this orb isn't yards away from the camera, merely inches.
34:37Here's the camera, here's the spider silk, just like one or two inches in front of it.
34:42So 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.
34:51Here we see a spider actually weaving a web and leaving the same type of orbs behind.
35:01Our verdict, spiderweb. Much as nature intended, this near invisible silk has us caught in its phantom
35:09thread. But we certainly hope the spirit of Enclara stays with Chip forever.
35:17When we think of the beginning of flight, we think of the Wright brothers' success
35:20with their twin propeller plane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903. But five years earlier,
35:27there was a discovery in North Africa that has experts asking if the first flying machine was
35:32invented thousands of years earlier. Saqqara, Egypt, 1898. In a vast burial site near the country's
35:41oldest step pyramid, archaeologists make a unique and confounding find. This 2,200-year-old
35:47carving 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 Ayman.
35:59It's about five and a half inches long with a wingspan almost over seven inches, weighs in at
36:04about one and a half ounces, and it's made of sycamore maple wood.
36:09Most experts think it's a model of a bird. And for years, it was kept with other ancient bird art in
36:15the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. But when it was rediscovered in 1969 by Egyptologist Khalil
36:21Masiya in a box of old exhibits, a new, more radical theory emerged.
36:26All the characteristics of this model are more intrinsic to a modern-day airplane than that of
36:32a bird. Its aerodynamic precision and shape of the wing and fuselage all seem to have similarities
36:38to modern engineering. Masiya also noted that typical ancient Egyptian bird models have their wings
36:45folded back and also have legs and painted feathers. But the Saqqara bird does not. This led him to believe
36:51that this was a scale model of a glider, albeit one that was lacking a key component.
36:57There seems to be a missing 90-degree tail that has yet to be discovered. And you can see that
37:03there's a notch that may have contained that at some point. Some researchers have looked at the
37:08rear end of this craft and said, without that missing tail fin, this wouldn't have the aerodynamics
37:14to have capable flight. Yet Masiya claimed the back of the glider could serve as a rudder
37:20to keep it going straight. Still, how could the people of Egypt have such advanced aeronautics
37:25more than two millennia before the first plane? Is it possible they learned it from extraterrestrials?
37:33Well, British astronomer Charles Piazzi Smythe believed the Egyptians used the Great Pyramid of Cheops
37:39as an astronomical observatory, and there's evidence they charted what they saw in the skies on their tombs.
37:45So did the ancient Egyptians gain more knowledge from their observations than we'll ever know?
37:49This is one of the many reasons why the Saqqara bird could be so controversial.
37:57The Egyptian Ministry of Culture created an entire committee to investigate Masiya's findings
38:03and agreed the Saqqara bird does display advanced principles of aircraft design.
38:08So, is the Saqqara bird proof of an ancient Egyptian technology lost to time like its advanced
38:16pyramid building skills? Let's see if our experts can shake a tail feather on this one.
38:26So the big question here is, can this thing really fly? Aerodynamics expert Simon Sanderson has long
38:32been fascinated by the Saqqara bird. In 2006, he built a replica five times larger than the original
38:39carving to test its flight worthiness. I just made it in a combination of bolster wood for the wings
38:45and polystyrene for the fuselage and tail. The main thing we wanted to do was to measure the
38:50aerodynamic properties. So we took them to the Manchester University wind tunnel. In the wind tunnel,
38:57it showed that it had perfectly okay aerodynamic characteristics, not optimum, but usable.
39:03Sanderson continued his research at Liverpool University, where he programmed the bird's
39:08specifications into a flight simulator and added a tailplane. The simulation showed the design
39:14could have achieved flight, but likely not for long given its glide angle, the angle at which the flight
39:20path intersects with the ground. The properties are such that the glide angle might not be very good,
39:26but I would say, if anything, it was something that was being used to explore flight. So we might see
39:32this object as a sort of paper airplane or cardboard glider, toys we all put together when we were
39:37children. And anthropologist Kathy Strain wonders if that's all this is. I would expect that if
39:44Egyptians understood how to create flight, that we would see hieroglyphs that depicted them flying,
39:51and yet we don't have anything like that. This to me is just something that the person loved when they
40:00were a child and they buried it with them for him to have it on the other side. It's just simply a toy.
40:08Archaeologist Dr. Ed Barnhart tends to agree. It is absolutely clear that the Egyptians had a love for
40:15for creating art depicting animals, especially birds of prey. Sometimes a bird is just a bird.
40:31Our verdict? This is likely a carved bird toy or ritual object. Since it's unique, there's still a chance it
40:39was an aircraft model. But its poor aerodynamic characteristics mean a full-size version likely
40:45wouldn't have been able to glide for very long, especially without a tail. And that's our show for
40:50tonight. Thank you so much for watching. And as always, keep those cameras rolling.
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