- [Tony] Tonight on, "The Proof Is Out There: Alien Edition."
A glowing orb splits in two over the night sky.
Is it connected to one of the
most famous UFO incidents of all time?
- [MJ] Several people believe that this was a coverup
and something else was operating over Phoenix that night.
- [Tony] A strange light
streaks across the Amazon jungle.
Are these skies hiding something
far more mysterious than wildlife?
- [Luis] I was absolutely floored by the sheer number
of local, indigenous people tormented by these UAPs.
- [Tony] And bizarre orbs move with precision
above the Arctic.
Could the Aurora itself be fueling UFOs?
- [Bobby] I couldn't help but think like maybe there's a link
between what's going on with the Aurora Borealis
and those little orbs use that energy to fly.
- [Tony] Light formations and orbs
are two of the most commonly reported UFO types.
Are they connected?
Our experts analyze the evidence.
- [Witness] Oh my God, Ryan, they're [bleep] UFOs.
- It's amazing.
These things just magically appear in the sky.
- [Tony] And then we'll pass a verdict.
- I would definitely say you're looking at an unknown.
- "The Proof," starts now.
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- Good evening everyone, and welcome to,
"The Proof Is Out There."
Arizona is famous, in UFO circles,
for the Phoenix Lights incident of 1997,
but most people don't know that's only one
of several similar incidents
reported in the area over the years.
Are they connected and are they legit?
Check this out.
- [Tony] It's October 12th, 2004
in Phoenix, Arizona.
At around 7:45 p.m local resident Jeff Woolwine
has set up a camera to film the night sky,
when he captures something out of this world.
His video shows a bright white oblong shaped light
hovering in the sky.
Eventually the light begins to blink
and then remarkably it appears to slowly split apart,
transforming from one single object
into two separate entities.
Shortly after they break apart,
the two lights gradually disappear, one after the other.
- It's amazing, you know,
because you're out there and you're watching
and these things just magically appear in the sky.
There's no airplanes dropping these things out.
There's no explanation on why these things are here.
- [Tony] Jeff says this is exactly
what he's spent years looking for.
- [Jeff] I've been seeing these Phoenix lights
ever since I was a kid.
And you know, it really made me go on a quest
to find out what is really going on here
in our Phoenix skies.
- [Tony] So since this is Phoenix,
the big question is, is Jeff's footage related
to the most well-known UFO sightings here ever?
Journalist MJ Banias takes us back to March 13th, 1997,
the night that would make the term Phoenix Lights,
famous worldwide.
- [MJ] Multiple people reported seeing very strange lights
hovering over Phoenix, Arizona.
They formed a large V-shaped object
that hovered for several hours.
Other reports circulated of individual lights
moving around Phoenix as well.
There's some photographs of lines of lights
that kind of show up in the sky.
- [Tony] At the time,
some felt the V-shape formed one massive craft,
estimated to be the size of more than 10 Boeing 747s.
With so many witnesses,
the government was forced to investigate.
- [MJ] It took several months,
but eventually the US Military confessed
that they were actually running operations over Phoenix.
The operation was known as Snowbird.
A whole bunch of A10 aircraft were in the sky
and they were testing out different models of flares.
- [Tony] But was that the real story
or a cover story?
- [MJ] Several people believed that this was a coverup
and that the Military was essentially
trying to hide the fact that something else
was operating over Phoenix that night.
And Jeff believes that his video seems to show
that perhaps there is some sort of resurgence
of the Phoenix Lights.
- It turns out Phoenix Lights
is actually a bit of a misnomer.
The first sightings in 1997 occurred earlier that night
near Henderson, Nevada, nearly 300 miles from Phoenix.
So, two separate events could have been conflated
into a single moment.
Either way, the question still remains,
is Jeff's footage proof that the Phoenix lights are back?
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- [Rich] The Phoenix lights were a triangular shape,
not two lights in the sky like this.
The residents were describing one structure
that was having multiple lights, and this is like one.
So, there's no comparison there
- [Tony] Yet, even if this isn't related
to the Phoenix lights,
how does one explain the mind-boggling moment
when Jeff's alleged UFO appears to divide
into two separate objects, which then disappear.
- [Marc] Earlier in the video, it looks like it's just one
object because they're probably behind each other.
But later on, as the objects move apart from each other,
it gets more and more elongated,
and then you start to see two distinct and separate objects.
So, is this a splitting UFO
or is it two objects behind each other?
- [Tony] If it is two objects,
are they decidedly less exotic than alien craft?
- [Marc] Are they balloons?
Are they drones?
Are they aircraft?
Well, this was 2004.
It's not very likely that they were drones,
unless it was some kind of Military drone.
- [Tony] The main type
of unmanned Military aircraft in use in 2004
was the remotely operated Predator drone.
It's the size and shape of a small airplane,
which also doesn't explain how the lights on it could split,
like we see in this video.
So, does that mean we need to call this a UFO after all?
D'Antonio has his doubts.
- This was probably a launch of two sky lanterns.
- [Tony] A sky lantern
is a miniature hot air balloon made out of oiled paper
and a wire frame with an opening at the bottom
for a candle or other small source of fire.
- [Marc] The giveaway is that they vanish.
That's because the flame packets are fuel
and that fuel gets exhausted after a little while.
And when it gets exhausted, the flame goes out.
And that's just what we see here.
- Our verdict, this splitting object or objects
remain unidentified.
De Antonio's sky lantern idea is intriguing,
but how could they fly so close together
that they appear as one?
The original Phoenix Lights and similar incidents
in the Phoenix area in the 2000s
have been attributed to flares
set off by the Military and others.
Yet there are still those who are skeptical of these
down-to-Earth explanations.
We have seen alleged UFOs that fly around
at hypersonic speeds and even dive in and out of the water.
But what about a UFO that doesn't move at all?
Our next video features a strange object
that seems to be making the rounds without going anywhere.
Take a look.
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- [Tony] April 27th, 2023.
A couple is driving home through the desert
just outside Las Vegas, Nevada.
Around 9:00 p.m they notice something strange
hovering in the night sky.
Fascinated, they pull over to a fence line
and watch in amazement.
Beyond a chain link fence, a row of sparkling,
multicolored lights hovers in midair.
- [Tony] The formation is completely static,
attracting attention all over town
before allegedly disappearing, a minute or two later,
- Another Las Vegas resident saw the same thing
northwest of his neighborhood.
That eyewitness said that these lights
didn't match up with any helicopter he'd ever seen.
- [Tony] The incident even makes local news.
Reporters check with a nearby airport,
but no flights can explain
these stationary lights in the sky.
Instead, some theorize they're connected
to secret Military craft.
After all, the American West is dotted
with special-use airspace and Nevada is no exception.
In fact, one local Military base seems a likely culprit.
- [Amy] Nellis Air Force Base is one of the biggest
and also one of the most secretive.
In fact, it's one of the places that trains pilots
in some of the most cutting edge airplanes
that the Military has at its disposal.
Vertical takeoff and landing is a technology
that the Military is actively working on.
These aircraft can take off vertically
without any kind of runway,
making them great for small areas or even aircraft carriers.
They can hover just like these lights in this video
and would remain completely stationary.
So, could these lights be some
new kind of vertical takeoff and landing technology?
- [Tony] Problem is Nellis also
denies having anything to do with these lights,
but there is another nearby base to consider, Area 51,
which some UFO investigators believe
may be the site of a UFO reverse engineering program.
- [Amy] In 2023, Pentagon
whistleblower David Grusch
did testify that the government was trying to
reverse engineer UFO technology.
So, that would be consistent with this potential sighting.
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- In March, 2021, roughly two years prior to this sighting,
Vegas residents noticed another,
nearly identical, set of stationary lights
hovering over the city.
Authorities later identified those lights as flares.
Will our experts say the same for this sighting
or will these lights lead us elsewhere?
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- [Tony] Since that 2021 case
turned out to be flares?
Are these new lights just flares too?
- Typically, flares are going to be only one color,
and the color that a flare is
depends on the chemical element that's involved.
So for instance, if we're using sodium,
like it's used in some streetlights,
it's gonna be a yellowish orange hue.
Or perhaps if we're using magnesium,
then we would have flares that are more whitish.
But you're not going to have color changing flares
that is very unusual.
- [Tony] So then could we be looking at lights
from emergency vehicles,
maybe on a distant hill we can't see, since it's nighttime.
- The colors are not the right type
of first responder lights that you would be expecting.
These are the colors of the rainbow
and typically first responders are blue, red and white
and maybe amber.
- [Tony] So even though there are some hills
in the surrounding area,
we know this isn't police cars on them.
But could they be attached to a vehicle in the sky,
like those vertical takeoff and landing planes?
- I would say definitely not.
They wouldn't be using rainbow colored lights to fly around.
They're set up to hover,
but you would hear those type of distinct engines.
None of this fits any of that.
- [Tony] If a craft is small enough, however,
noise could be negligible.
Could these simply be consumer grade drones?
- [Matthew] Drones have the ability to hover
and drones will be producing lights,
but drones are not gonna be able to hover perfectly.
There's always gonna be a little bit of movement in the air
and it's very hard to keep drones in place
in that kind of a situation.
- [Tony] Perfectly still, rainbow lights
may not match any aircraft,
but they are reminiscent of something we've seen before.
In previous episode,
we investigated these stationary Vegas lights
and found they were simply reflections in the clouds
of lights from the Hilton, the Encore, and the Wynn hotels.
However we checked, and these lights
are not in the immediate vicinity of any big casinos.
- [Lenval] Due to the configuration and color of the
lights, I would definitely say you're looking at an unknown.
- [Mattthew] I have no idea what these rainbow colored
lights are. And my final verdict is genuine UFO.
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- [Tony] Our verdict for this one, genuine UFO.
This is one video of lights in the sky
that certainly hit the jackpot.
- [Tony] Many people believe that indigenous tribes
from around the globe experienced and interacted
with alien phenomena in centuries past,
and some tribes in the Amazon may still
be having similar encounters to this very day.
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- [Tony] It's July, 2024
in the Brazilian state of Acre.
UFO researcher Rony Vernet has headed deep into the Amazon
after hearing reports of strange phenomena
among one of the jungle's indigenous tribes.
- [Tony] Rony sets up his cameras
and captures something strange.
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This video recorded off of Vernet's computer monitor
shows several fireball like orbs,
which move across the night sky slowly,
but then start to zigzag at lightning speed
in different directions.
Take a closer look as these strange fireballs
strobe around the sky.
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- [Tony] Vernet has kept the specific location
of this video secret,
and by far it's not the only UFO sighting in the area.
- This is just one in a long history of UAP events
that had been reported around the Brazilian rainforest.
In fact, Brazil had its own Roswell event
which occurred back in 1977, known as the Colares Incident.
The locals for a period of time were tormented
by what they allege as UAP coming down
and even sucking the blood
from some of the civilian population.
In fact, Brazilian Military and law enforcement
were called in at the national level to investigate
- [Tony] The Brazilian Air Force
named their investigation Operation Saucer,
which included over 500 photographs
and 15 hours of film.
- [Luis] The doctors who responded to this incident
all substantiated that there were people,
both civilian and Military,
sustained what appeared to be burns or lesions,
possibly the type of damage a high energy laser
would do to human tissue.
- [Tony] And these South American encounters
weren't just limited to Brazil.
- [Luis] When I spoke to authorities in Peru,
in Argentina, in Chile, in Uruguay,
I was absolutely floored by the sheer number of reports
that seemed so eerily similar to that of Brazil
and the Colares Incident.
Local indigenous people tormented by these UAP,
it was a routine occurrence.
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- Could there be alien life forms
running rampant in South America?
According to Elizondo,
indigenous communities from Peru,
Argentina, Chile and Uruguay
have all experienced UAP phenomenon,
not unlike those reported from the Brazilian rainforest.
Let's see what our experts think is actually going on here.
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- [Tony] Many have commented these fireballs
appear to be meteors.
- The bright light we see with a meteor
is actually it burning up as it comes
into the Earth's atmosphere.
Depending on what the meteor is comprised of,
you can get a variety of colors,
but usually not these kind of flaming oranges and reds.
- [Tony] Only very slow moving meteors
occasionally appear red or orange.
While faster ones like this object
are generating such intense heat
that they typically glow white, blue or green.
So, if it wasn't a meteor, could it have been an airplane?
- [LT. Tim] The consistency of the flashing pattern to me
really speaks to it being a commercial aircraft.
The warning lights that are on commercial aircraft,
they're evenly space like we see there.
- [Tony] But an aircraft isn't capable
of something we see here that's truly anomalous,
the object's erratic motion,
- [Rich] It's a very quick maneuver
that these things are doing on the screen.
That's instantaneous acceleration, that's it's doing.
And I can honestly say
that I've not seen anything like that before,
that's been recorded.
- [Tony] So could this in fact
be some type of alien craft?
- [Rich] It's on a monitor and the person zooms in and
zooms out. Something that's very clearly an object
that somehow moves very instantaneously
in different directions.
That could be a video artifact.
If it's legitimately an object,
this is very, very, very compelling.
- [Tony] An object
that may gain further legitimacy due to its behavior
which mirrors previous activity reported in the area.
- [Rich] This video here is just another one of those,
like, mysteries we see in Brazil
throughout its entire history.
You are having reports of these lights
that were moving around in the sky
and you had medical evidence
that's supporting anecdotal evidence.
And many of these indigenous cultures in Brazil,
they're seeing craft or something that's in the sky
that they can't account for.
Ultimately these objects were doing all those things
that UAPs typically do.
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- Our verdict, our experts can't come
to any definitive conclusion,
so we're going to have to go with Genuine UFO,
if only because these objects are still unidentified.
One thing is for sure we'll keep in close contact with Rony
and share more of his fascinating work in the Amazon.
- [Tony] In every episode we do a call out,
asking you for videos you think we should investigate?
We asked and you answered.
This next video arrived via tweet
from one of our dedicated Proof viewers.
And as soon as I saw it, I gotta say.
I definitely had some questions too.
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- [Tony] September 24th, 2022,
Chad Turner and his girlfriend
are enjoying a leisurely evening stroll
outside their apartment complex
in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
But then at about 7:30 p.m something strange in the sky
grabs their attention.
- [Chad] Out here, looking at something
we don't know what it is.
- [Tony] Chad quickly breaks out his cell phone
and captures this.
- [Tony] A bright, white dot
moves slowly above the trees.
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A closer look reveals its emitting beams of light
that appear to form a peculiar arrow like shape.
As a fan of the show, Chad knows what to do next.
He starts to break down the possibilities.
We were kind of awe stricken by it,
but at the same time we were a little nervous too.
You know, because you don't where this thing is gonna go.
- [Tony] Chad follows the object
until suddenly it disappears.
- [Girlfriend] It's gone.
Not here.
- [Chad] Yo, that's crazy.
- [Tony] Is it possible
Chad captured a genuine UFO?
- On December 9th, 1965, an acorn shaped fireball
fell through the sky and landed in a wooded area
near the small town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.
This was so bright that people saw it in six states
and even in Canada.
It was such a powerful landing
that observers heard the crash and felt the ground shutter
when it impacted.
- [Tony] Teitel says the crash area
was later sealed by the US Army who told everybody
there was nothing in the woods.
- [Amy] It wasn't until 40 years later that the US government
and NASA said that the object had in fact
been a downed Soviet satellite.
A lot of people who saw the fireball
didn't accept this as the explanation
and were convinced that it was something extraterrestrial.
- [Tony] Let's take a closer look at Chad's video.
What I find most fascinating about this object
is the triangle like shape of the vapor trail left behind.
This angle right here is almost a perfect 90 degrees.
It's definitely unlike any exhaust pattern I've ever seen.
But let's find out what our experts think.
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- [Tony] While we encourage viewers
to send us videos,
we also need to make sure we're not getting Punked.
So, first we send Chad's footage
to video forensic analyst, Michael Primeau.
- [Michael] There was an abundance of specific metadata
throughout the file
and because it retained the GPS information
that's significant in terms of processing.
Because if this was something that was fabricated,
for example or CGIed, we wouldn't have that data.
I detect no evidence to suggest that this is,
been fabricated or manipulated.
- [Tony] Okay, we have a legit video,
but of what, could it be a UFO?
- I certainly can understand why people
would consider it to be a UFO or something unusual,
but there's no instantaneous acceleration.
All you see is a very consistent movement across the sky.
There's nothing extra terrestrial in
my looking at that.
- [Tony] If it's not a UFO,
could it be another kind of extra terrestrial visitor?
It's a possibility that Chad considered.
- [Tony] But Rich Hoffman has doubts.
- Meteors basically last a few seconds.
And it would have been a long trail of a flame
or something like that coming back from the bottom.
But the effect in the atmosphere that you see
is very, very symmetrical.
- Tim McMillan believes it's that symmetrical contrail
that provides an important clue.
- [LT. Tim] We see a more consistent dense contrail
that's coming behind it.
So, this tells me we're seeing,
a lot of the telltale signs
of this is a manmade object that's burning fuel.
- [Tony] Rather than something
falling down to Earth,
McMillan sees evidence for something going up.
- To me, it definitely had characteristics
that led me to believe this was probably a SpaceX launch
because of the interesting cone and shape that we see here.
- [Tony] Hoffman adds that a rocket
also explains why Chad and his girlfriend
quickly lost sight of the object behind a row of trees.
- [Rich] What happens is the first stage, separation,
and then there's a second stage and then it separates,
it cuts off the engines.
So, as they're moving to the other side of the tree,
you don't see any effects
'cause it's not burning the engines any longer.
- [Tony] Ultimately, McMillan says,
the records confirm the theory.
- [LT. Tim] In checking when this was filmed,
we could say with a high degree of certainty,
is the launch of a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket
out of Cape Canaveral, Florida,
carrying Starlink satellites into the Earth's atmosphere.
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- Our verdict, rocket launch.
Chad, sorry to dash your hopes of capturing a genuine UFO,
but we agree with our experts that the pieces of the puzzle
all fit for a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch, that day.
- [Tony] Seeing the Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights
is certainly on my bucket list,
and Canada is a great place for it.
In certain parts of the country,
they appear up to 300 nights a year.
But one Canadian family says
they recently saw something just as amazing
and a lot more unexpected.
- [Tony] May 10th, 2024,
it's between 10 and 11:00 p.m in Kelowna, British Columbia.
Bobby Vandenhoorn and his family
are gathered on his rooftop patio
hoping to catch a glimpse of the Aurora Borealis.
- The Aurora Borealis is a beautiful natural phenomenon.
Essentially, as the sun is giving off solar energy,
it's flying through space
and it slams into the Earth's atmosphere.
All of those charged particles
interact with the various molecules
that make up Earth's atmosphere and burn up into light.
And we get this spectacular, beautiful light show
as a result.
- [Tony] But as the Vandenhoorn family
waits for the lights to appear overhead,
something else catches their attention.
- [Tony] Bobby records a cluster
of five bright white orbs twinkling in the distance.
- [Tony] And that's just the start.
As the night goes on,
Bobby takes several more videos of strange light formations
and he says the footage doesn't capture the half of it.
- I probably saw about 20 plus groups of those orbs
and each group had anywhere from you know, two to three,
all the way up to 25 to 30 of them.
- [Tony] Bobby posts the video online
and even submits it to the local news,
where it draws thousands of eyes.
- I couldn't help but think like maybe there's a link
between what's going on with the Aurora Borealis.
Whenever energy comes into the atmosphere from that,
perhaps those little orbs use that energy to fly.
- Look at that. - What is that?
- [Tony] It turns out the Northern Lights
have been especially active lately.
In 2024, they were even visible as far south as Florida.
Scientists say, that's because the sun
is in its solar maximum, the peak of its 11-year cycle.
Can solar activity explain Bobby's unusual encounter
or will our experts find another source for his sighting?
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- [Tony] At times the lights form a V-shape,
so we have to consider if they could just be
a V-shaped aircraft.
- There's a number of aircraft that could match
the V-shape that we see.
The B2 Bomber has a V-shape to it.
But what they don't have is independent lighting
that moves relative to the other lights on board.
These lights are actually moving independently.
So, this is why I think there are five independent objects.
- The way these lights are moving,
it almost seems like a choreographed movement.
I think there is a high probability
that what we're looking at are drones.
This particular day
was one of the largest geomagnetic storms
to ever hit the Earth.
We know that there are a lot of people
with their eyes on the sky.
And given that the Aurora Borealis hasn't started yet,
these drones could be the pre-show.
- [Tony] But if this is a drone show,
it's not a particularly visible one.
- [Marc] He had to zoom in to be able to show them better.
That's 'cause they were at a relatively high altitude.
They might have been at 3,000 feet or 4,000 feet.
Drone shows don't occur high up in the sky.
They generally occur down low to the ground
and we're not seeing that here.
- [Tony] Instead, like the Aurora itself,
these flying objects may have a natural explanation.
- [Marc] If you watch Canada geese,
you'll see something really impressive.
You'll see that the leader is in front
during the brunt of the forces hitting him.
When the leader gets tired and drops back into the V,
another leader will emerge.
And we could be seeing these two coming up to the lead.
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- [Tony] Now we've seen reflective birds
mistaken for UFOs before.
However, those had an obvious light source beneath them,
a greenhouse.
But these don't.
- Birds don't produce their own light.
If we were looking at birds, they would have to be
some sort of light hitting those birds
and reflecting back to the Earth.
We don't see that here.
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- Our verdict unexplained objects.
Between our two experts,
we can't make a call one way or the other.
We'll have to wait and see if any more UFOs emerge
from this intense solar activity.
- [Tony] When it comes to most UFO encounters,
it's usually just one person
who happens to be at the right place at the right time.
However, this next incident got a lot of buzz recently
because it was seen over two days by multiple people.
So, we've got different perspectives
of the same strange phenomenon.
But do they lead to the same answer?
- [Tony] December 1st, 2022,
Fredonia, Wisconsin, it's just before 11:00 p.m
and after working a long day, Ken B. is out for a stroll.
- So I was walking outside and it's very dark.
We do not have street lights or anything like that
in the area.
- [Tony] Suddenly something dashes above Ken
in the night sky.
So he pulls out his cell phone and captures this.
A group of four lights quickly streak across the sky.
- [Ken] And they appeared from behind me, went across the sky
and you could see a little flash of light
right before they disappeared.
- [Tony] Then five more lights,
moving a little more slowly, make the same startling motion.
- [Ken] It was kind of a creepy experience.
I'd be kidding you if I said it wasn't.
- [Tony] The following evening, Chris Nowak
is 40 miles south, in Greenfield, Wisconsin,
where he records these mysterious lights in the sky.
- [Chris] They would pulse through and race incredibly
quickly. It was like this charge of light that would go through
from as far back as we could see
literally a second or two.
It really seemed to defy logical explanation.
- [Tony] Did Ken and Chris witness
the same mysterious phenomenon?
Could it be alien?
- You can understand why someone would think
this is something otherworldly
because Wisconsin has an
incredible amount of UFO sightings
going back to the 1950s.
- [Tony] Teitel notes
that one of the most controversial sightings
took place in the mid 1960s near Green Bay.
- [Amy] For four nights in a row,
eyewitnesses observed and filmed UFO activity,
but when they reported those incidents
to the National Guard,
all of their films were confiscated.
In the years that followed,
the individuals tried to figure out
what it was they were seeing,
but none of them were ever given straight answers.
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- [Tony] Wisconsin has been a UFO hotspot for so long
that over 70 years ago, husband and wife,
Jim and Coral Lorenzen, formed a group
known as the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
to document UFO cases from all around the state.
Do these sightings qualify to make the list?
Let's see what our experts say.
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- [Tony] Have Ken and Chris
documented another extraordinary moment
in Wisconsin UFO history.
Rich Hoffman wants to believe, but in this case he can't.
- [Rich] There's no instantaneous acceleration
that was visible. These were consistently moving,
at not even hypersonic speeds,
so the lights were moving across the sky
and going in a relatively normal pattern.
There's nothing here that looks extraterrestrial.
- [Tony] Time to call in
our super sleuth, Mick West.
And right off the bat,
he's sure this isn't any video trickery.
- [Mick] Chris and Ken's sightings are similar
in that we see clouds in both videos
and we see lights that move around.
- [Tony] But it's the way the lights change shape
as they move through the cloud cover,
that gives the biggest clue in Ken's video.
- If you point a light straight up at something,
it's a nice round spot.
If it's at an angle, the further away they get,
the more stretched out they will get.
And as they get closer in,
we see if they get shorter and shorter.
- [Tony] This indicates
that lights are being projected
from a fixed point on the ground.
But what about the Jumpier lights in the Greenfield video?
- [Mick] We've all used a laser pointer and had our cats
chase it. I think what we're looking at here looks like
lights that are being shone up from below onto the clouds.
- [Tony] So what is the source of these lights?
Ken and Chris's videos were filmed at different times
and 40 miles apart.
West investigates Ken's video first
and learns of another eyewitness to his exact same sighting.
So, he plots the coordinates.
- [Mick] Now the good thing is we have another witness.
We know which road she was on
and we know roughly what direction she was looking in.
So, we can stick her location on the map.
And she was actually in a very different location
way down here towards West Bend.
So, now we've got two lines of sight
from two different people.
- [Tony] Knowing approximately
where the lights came from, West makes a final call.
- [Mick] I contacted the local Chamber of Commerce
and they said the Flanders family
have an annual light show,
which they do for charity every year,
and the location of it is more or less
where these two lines crossed.
And they had the spotlights mounted on the roof of the house
and it's in every way, it is a match.
- [Tony] It turns out this alien invasion
is just a celebration of holiday cheer.
- I think that Ken was looking
at the Flanders family Christmas lights
and I think that Chris was looking
at a different set of Christmas lights about 40 miles away.
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- [Tony] Our verdict Christmas spotlights.
It took some detective work,
but we see that, given the known cloud cover that day,
West's interpretation makes sense.
And since 'twas the season for holiday lights,
we think that was the reason.
- In an earlier episode,
we brought you a confounding story about alleged UFOs
caught on camera in Warminster, England.
After investigating this footage,
we came to the conclusion
that it was simply too good to be true.
The video must have been altered.
However, a new lead came in after we aired,
that reminded us that things
may not always be what they seem.
- [Tony] August, 2018, Warminster, England,
about a hundred miles west of London.
From the side of a highway, the passenger in a parked car
notices something in the evening sky.
Two bright orbs moving separately.
At first it looks like it might be
a couple of helicopters or drones.
But then look at this,
they split into five or six smaller objects.
The cluster continues to fly in unison,
illuminating the sky and coordinating maneuvers
for a full three minutes.
It's reminiscent of a series of UFO sightings
that occurred in the area in the 1960s.
These sightings characterized, at times,
by explosions and hissing flames in the sky,
came to be known as the Warminster Thing.
Could this video offer proof
of the Warminster Thing's return?
We considered UFOs in secret Military tech,
but ultimately the answer seemed to come
from testing the validity of the video itself.
And a suspicious edit gave one of our experts pause.
- [Marc] The transition out of the hill was removed from
the video. I think I have to label this one a hoax.
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- At the time, our original analysis led us to believe
that this video was doctored to deceive.
But then you, our beloved viewers, got involved
and that changed everything.
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- [Tony] When the original segment hit YouTube,
some viewers claim this wasn't faked footage after all.
- This video really needed a second look at
because of this new information.
- [Tony] So our ace video analyst, Mick West,
went back to check the authenticity of the video
and its suspicious edit.
- I think what actually happened in this location
was the cameraman simply moved the camera down,
lost the shot, and then moved it back up again
as they came out from behind the hill.
And so they just did a little edit
to remove that little bit of dead air.
- [Tony] Because of this,
West doesn't think trickery or CGI was involved,
which negates our old verdict.
- Everything else about the video seems very genuine to me.
The way the objects move seems very consistent.
- [Tony] West also Xed out other hypothesis,
natural and technological.
- [Mick] There was a bunch of different hypotheses,
one of which was a meteor shower,
and you can kind of rule that out
because it changes direction.
Another possibility, drones that were rigged with fireworks.
But you don't generally have drones with fireworks on
because drones are quite small.
Also, Military technology was kind of ruled out
because they're not gonna be testing
some kind of secret Military technology
by the side of a road where anyone can see it.
- [Tony] Which, to West, only meant one thing.
- This is obviously something that isn't secretive,
something that's either is intended to be seen
or they don't care if people see it.
- [Tony] But what other explanations
could have possibly fit the bill?
The answer almost flew past us.
That is, until we logged onto social media.
- We were contacted by a viewer who recognized
what he was seeing on screen
and he suggested that what we might be looking at
was actually pyrotechnic planes.
- [Tony] Pyrotechnic planes are aircraft
that use their wide wingspan to slowly release fireworks
from their wingtips.
They've been used in a variety of function,
from air shows or weddings,
to the deployment of destruction in war zones.
But if that's what we're seeing,
who was the responsible party?
All it took was a simple internet search
of the business located in the area of the sighting.
- I run the company called Airborne Pyrotechnics,
and we fly a couple of Grob motor gliders
with pyrotechnics and LEDs.
And this is my son Tom, he's my second pilot.
- [Tony] Airborne Pyrotechnics
is run by Tim and Tom Dews,
who have flown all over the world.
And it's not the first time one of their displays
has been mistaken for a UFO.
They even have a warning on their website
for that very reason.
- It's funny, you know, we can do a really nice display
and put half a dozen pictures up and get 50 views.
And somebody takes a shaky, wobbly video of us
from 10 miles away, and you can't even make out what it is,
says the word UFO, and it gets thousands,
hundreds of thousands of views.
I just can't understand it.
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- Our new verdict, you guessed it, Airborne Pyrotechnics.
The plane the Dews fly, the Grob 109B
is a twin seat, self launching motor glider.
It's been used by the Royal Air Force
to train cadets in basic flying.
- [Tony] From every corner of the globe,
these unexplained lights and orbs
continue to mystify and captivate.
We may not have all the answers yet,
but we will keep looking,
analyzing and unraveling the truth.
Thank you so much for watching this special edition
of, "The Proof Is Out There."
Please send us any video, images
or sound that you think we should investigate
and remember to keep those cameras rolling.
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