1 00:00:02,208 --> 00:00:03,958 - [Tony] Tonight on "The Proof Is Out There: Alien Edition," 2 00:00:03,958 --> 00:00:05,542 a possible UFO, 3 00:00:05,542 --> 00:00:07,042 a passenger jet 4 00:00:07,042 --> 00:00:09,167 and a near miss over New York City. 5 00:00:09,167 --> 00:00:10,917 What really happened in the sky? 6 00:00:10,917 --> 00:00:11,875 - When I looked back, 7 00:00:11,875 --> 00:00:12,958 there was something in there. 8 00:00:12,958 --> 00:00:14,750 I definitely did see something. 9 00:00:14,750 --> 00:00:16,042 - [Tony] At 30,000 feet, 10 00:00:16,042 --> 00:00:18,583 a pilot reports a strange encounter. 11 00:00:18,583 --> 00:00:19,917 What did he see 12 00:00:19,917 --> 00:00:22,125 when the instruments showed nothing at all? 13 00:00:22,125 --> 00:00:23,917 - Nothing was seen on radar. 14 00:00:23,917 --> 00:00:26,333 It would move, and then it would go out. 15 00:00:26,333 --> 00:00:27,333 - [Tony] And over China, 16 00:00:27,333 --> 00:00:29,750 another pilot records a UAP 17 00:00:29,750 --> 00:00:31,250 no one can explain. 18 00:00:34,917 --> 00:00:37,083 - These orbs seem to be blinking 19 00:00:37,083 --> 00:00:41,167 in some kind of pattern or signal. 20 00:00:41,167 --> 00:00:44,042 - [Tony] With UFO reports at an all-time high, 21 00:00:44,042 --> 00:00:46,167 we're examining the most compelling evidence 22 00:00:46,167 --> 00:00:47,583 caught on camera. 23 00:00:47,583 --> 00:00:48,708 Tonight's focus, 24 00:00:48,708 --> 00:00:50,542 pilot and passenger encounters. 25 00:00:50,542 --> 00:00:53,250 Our experts will analyze the evidence 26 00:00:53,250 --> 00:00:55,292 and then pass a verdict. 27 00:00:55,292 --> 00:00:57,167 - I can't tell you what this is. 28 00:00:57,167 --> 00:00:59,750 So categorically, it's a UFO. 29 00:00:59,750 --> 00:01:01,125 - That these things can 30 00:01:01,125 --> 00:01:04,083 and absolutely will be an air safety issue. 31 00:01:04,083 --> 00:01:06,042 - [Tony] The proof starts now. 32 00:01:06,042 --> 00:01:08,708 [dynamic music] 33 00:01:13,458 --> 00:01:16,750 - Good evening, and welcome to "The Proof Is Out There". 34 00:01:16,750 --> 00:01:20,208 Due to ongoing tensions with its neighbor, India, 35 00:01:20,208 --> 00:01:22,083 Pakistan is highly sensitive 36 00:01:22,083 --> 00:01:23,542 about anomalous incidents 37 00:01:23,542 --> 00:01:25,167 in its airspace. 38 00:01:25,167 --> 00:01:27,750 So when a team of Pakistani commercial pilots 39 00:01:27,750 --> 00:01:29,875 spotted a mysterious object 40 00:01:29,875 --> 00:01:31,208 outside their window, 41 00:01:31,208 --> 00:01:32,708 they took notice 42 00:01:32,708 --> 00:01:34,792 and took out a camera. 43 00:01:34,792 --> 00:01:37,333 January 23rd, 2021. 44 00:01:37,333 --> 00:01:41,417 A Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A320 45 00:01:41,417 --> 00:01:44,042 is on a routine flight from Lahore to Karachi 46 00:01:44,042 --> 00:01:47,958 when suddenly the pilots notice a bright ball in the sky 47 00:01:47,958 --> 00:01:50,083 over the city of Rahim Yar Khan. 48 00:01:56,417 --> 00:02:00,292 - [Tony] At first, the object appears to glow and pulsate, 49 00:02:00,292 --> 00:02:03,167 but that's because the camera is trying to focus on it. 50 00:02:03,167 --> 00:02:05,958 Slowing down, the video shows the object 51 00:02:05,958 --> 00:02:08,583 appears to be a solid white orb. 52 00:02:08,583 --> 00:02:11,542 Excitement grows as they struggle with a smartphone 53 00:02:11,542 --> 00:02:14,500 to zoom in and hold the object in frame. 54 00:02:17,042 --> 00:02:18,375 - [Tony] This isn't the first time 55 00:02:18,375 --> 00:02:21,292 pilots have reported strange orb-like objects 56 00:02:21,292 --> 00:02:22,958 over Pakistan skies. 57 00:02:22,958 --> 00:02:24,583 - In January of 2019, 58 00:02:24,583 --> 00:02:27,000 a report was filed that the crew on a flight 59 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,792 from Karachi to Sakkur 60 00:02:28,792 --> 00:02:33,458 saw an object floating about 105 feet above their aircraft. 61 00:02:33,458 --> 00:02:35,750 The object they saw wasn't bright, 62 00:02:35,750 --> 00:02:37,708 it was kind of oval shaped. 63 00:02:37,708 --> 00:02:39,958 The incident was immediately reported 64 00:02:39,958 --> 00:02:41,833 to air traffic control in Karachi, 65 00:02:41,833 --> 00:02:43,500 but the details of the sighting 66 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:45,250 were never released to the public. 67 00:02:50,375 --> 00:02:53,333 - For decades, commercial and military pilots 68 00:02:53,333 --> 00:02:55,875 faced scorn and ridicule 69 00:02:55,875 --> 00:02:57,875 for reporting UFO sightings, 70 00:02:57,875 --> 00:03:01,167 which could have resulted in a loss of critical information. 71 00:03:01,167 --> 00:03:02,667 Our team of experts 72 00:03:02,667 --> 00:03:06,167 is about to give this Pakistani airline crews footage 73 00:03:06,167 --> 00:03:07,917 the attention it deserves. 74 00:03:07,917 --> 00:03:11,000 [suspenseful music] 75 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:12,542 [inquisitive music] 76 00:03:13,917 --> 00:03:17,875 - We don't see rotors, we don't see a jet engine. 77 00:03:17,875 --> 00:03:20,458 We don't see anything that would propel it. 78 00:03:20,458 --> 00:03:21,917 We don't see control surfaces, 79 00:03:21,917 --> 00:03:23,208 that type of thing. 80 00:03:23,208 --> 00:03:26,708 And so it's not a plane or a helicopter. 81 00:03:26,708 --> 00:03:28,583 - [Tony] These experienced commercial pilots 82 00:03:28,583 --> 00:03:30,667 had no idea what they were seeing. 83 00:03:32,542 --> 00:03:34,333 - [Tony] Could that be because it's something 84 00:03:34,333 --> 00:03:35,792 not of this world? 85 00:03:35,792 --> 00:03:37,875 - [Lt. Tim] We know that from the Pentagon 86 00:03:37,875 --> 00:03:41,542 and their official UAP investigative office 87 00:03:41,542 --> 00:03:45,708 that the sphere or, you know, round shape 88 00:03:45,708 --> 00:03:48,708 are the most commonly reported UFOs that they have. 89 00:03:48,708 --> 00:03:50,917 So, you know, this shape of UFO 90 00:03:50,917 --> 00:03:52,208 is very consistent. 91 00:03:52,208 --> 00:03:53,708 - [Tony] But McMillan also notes, 92 00:03:53,708 --> 00:03:54,833 if it's a UFO, 93 00:03:54,833 --> 00:03:57,208 it's certainly not acting like one. 94 00:03:57,208 --> 00:03:59,542 - Typically when you're thinking of UFO, 95 00:03:59,542 --> 00:04:02,167 you're talking about sightings of objects 96 00:04:02,167 --> 00:04:05,208 that perform in ways that we can't comport 97 00:04:05,208 --> 00:04:06,625 with any known technology. 98 00:04:06,625 --> 00:04:10,083 So is there anything in this video that I see 99 00:04:10,083 --> 00:04:12,500 that would tell me that it requires 100 00:04:12,500 --> 00:04:14,667 an explanation for it being alien? 101 00:04:14,667 --> 00:04:15,708 No. 102 00:04:15,708 --> 00:04:17,292 - [Tony] Instead, McMillan believes 103 00:04:17,292 --> 00:04:19,250 the orb-like shape of this object 104 00:04:19,250 --> 00:04:21,458 isn't that unusual to find in the sky, 105 00:04:21,458 --> 00:04:23,958 and he disagrees with one of the pilots on board. 106 00:04:25,417 --> 00:04:27,542 - The round sphere shape 107 00:04:27,542 --> 00:04:29,375 is not an aerodynamic shape, 108 00:04:29,375 --> 00:04:33,083 so it's something that is having to maintain altitude 109 00:04:33,083 --> 00:04:35,500 by lighter-than-air gases. 110 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:37,500 And for me, the only type of airborne object 111 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:40,625 that it would be consistent with would be a balloon. 112 00:04:40,625 --> 00:04:43,708 - [Tony] So is there a clue to the kind of balloon it is? 113 00:04:43,708 --> 00:04:46,542 - This might be a Pakistani version 114 00:04:46,542 --> 00:04:48,583 of a Chinese spy balloon. 115 00:04:48,583 --> 00:04:50,583 If so, that payload would be hanging 116 00:04:50,583 --> 00:04:52,500 directly beneath the balloon, 117 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:54,333 lost in the glare, you'd never see it, 118 00:04:54,333 --> 00:04:56,625 because those payloads are closer to the balloon. 119 00:04:56,625 --> 00:04:58,500 They're not hanging way down below, 120 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:01,875 like many aerial weather balloons have hanging from them. 121 00:05:01,875 --> 00:05:03,375 - [Tony] But proving it, 122 00:05:03,375 --> 00:05:05,167 McMillan admits, for now, 123 00:05:05,167 --> 00:05:07,167 the full evidence isn't there. 124 00:05:07,167 --> 00:05:09,208 - It certainly has all the appearance 125 00:05:09,208 --> 00:05:10,625 and shape of a balloon. 126 00:05:10,625 --> 00:05:13,208 And so what type of balloon it could be 127 00:05:13,208 --> 00:05:14,792 could be anybody's guess. 128 00:05:14,792 --> 00:05:17,750 [suspenseful music] 129 00:05:19,208 --> 00:05:22,500 - Our verdict, McMillan is leaning balloon, 130 00:05:22,500 --> 00:05:23,583 but the pilot himself 131 00:05:23,583 --> 00:05:26,333 insists that's not what this was. 132 00:05:26,333 --> 00:05:27,583 For now, to be safe, 133 00:05:27,583 --> 00:05:29,958 we're going with unidentified object. 134 00:05:29,958 --> 00:05:31,583 The frantic camera work 135 00:05:31,583 --> 00:05:34,583 just doesn't give us a clear enough image to be definitive. 136 00:05:34,583 --> 00:05:36,333 A rep from the airline 137 00:05:36,333 --> 00:05:39,042 claims they don't know what the object was either, 138 00:05:39,042 --> 00:05:42,083 but they won't be launching their own investigation. 139 00:05:42,083 --> 00:05:44,750 [suspenseful music] 140 00:05:44,750 --> 00:05:49,292 What do Pakistan, New Mexico and Columbia have in common? 141 00:05:49,292 --> 00:05:50,542 If you're a regular viewer, 142 00:05:50,542 --> 00:05:52,583 you know that they're all locations 143 00:05:52,583 --> 00:05:54,208 where strange flying objects 144 00:05:54,208 --> 00:05:55,458 have been caught on camera 145 00:05:55,458 --> 00:05:57,000 by professional pilots. 146 00:05:58,208 --> 00:06:01,042 August 9th, 2022, the Pacific Ocean. 147 00:06:01,042 --> 00:06:03,542 Commercial airline pilot Chris van Voorhis 148 00:06:03,542 --> 00:06:05,250 is about 90 minutes into a flight 149 00:06:05,250 --> 00:06:07,042 from Honolulu to Los Angeles 150 00:06:07,042 --> 00:06:08,542 when nearby pilot chatter 151 00:06:08,542 --> 00:06:11,542 calls his attention to an anomaly in the sky. 152 00:06:11,542 --> 00:06:14,417 - At this point in time, when we started looking outside, 153 00:06:14,417 --> 00:06:16,125 we were able to pick up the anomaly 154 00:06:16,125 --> 00:06:17,542 that they were talking about. 155 00:06:17,542 --> 00:06:18,958 - [Tony] Through the cockpit window, 156 00:06:18,958 --> 00:06:20,542 Chris records a bright orb 157 00:06:20,542 --> 00:06:21,958 appearing to the northwest, 158 00:06:21,958 --> 00:06:24,250 just below the Big Dipper. 159 00:06:24,250 --> 00:06:25,583 - [Chris] Okay, there it is. 160 00:06:25,750 --> 00:06:27,792 - [Tony] Let's slow it down and take a closer look. 161 00:06:28,542 --> 00:06:30,417 The light moves around a bit 162 00:06:30,417 --> 00:06:31,875 before quickly disappearing. 163 00:06:31,875 --> 00:06:33,375 - [Pilot] Yeah. - [Chris] Oh dang, it went away. 164 00:06:33,375 --> 00:06:34,458 - [Pilot] Did you get it? 165 00:06:34,458 --> 00:06:35,458 - [Tony] Chris continues recording 166 00:06:35,458 --> 00:06:36,958 for more than two minutes 167 00:06:36,958 --> 00:06:40,500 as the light intermittently disappears and reappears. 168 00:06:44,375 --> 00:06:46,167 - [Chris] We were rather awed by it 169 00:06:46,167 --> 00:06:48,125 and dismayed at the same time. 170 00:06:48,125 --> 00:06:50,333 Nothing was seen on radar. 171 00:06:50,333 --> 00:06:52,792 It would move, and then it would go out. 172 00:06:52,792 --> 00:06:56,542 Now, sometimes this is indicative of a satellite, 173 00:06:56,542 --> 00:06:58,208 and usually we'd see satellites 174 00:06:58,208 --> 00:07:00,208 during either sunset or sunrise 175 00:07:00,208 --> 00:07:02,000 and it would be reflecting the sun 176 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,458 from their solar arrays. 177 00:07:03,458 --> 00:07:06,875 But this wasn't directly after sunset or sunrise. 178 00:07:06,875 --> 00:07:09,000 - [Tony] But this sighting is far from a first 179 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,750 for either Chris or his fellow pilots. 180 00:07:11,750 --> 00:07:13,542 - I've seen quite a bit up there, 181 00:07:13,542 --> 00:07:14,708 and I know quite a few pilots 182 00:07:14,708 --> 00:07:17,000 that have seen these orbs or anomalies, 183 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,042 maybe up to 50%. 184 00:07:19,042 --> 00:07:21,750 - [Tony] Chris's video appeared in national news coverage 185 00:07:21,750 --> 00:07:24,542 on the growing topic of pilot encounters. 186 00:07:24,542 --> 00:07:25,875 - This is not unique. 187 00:07:25,875 --> 00:07:28,833 There's videos captured like this all the time. 188 00:07:28,833 --> 00:07:32,417 Needless to say, it's always a bad combination 189 00:07:32,417 --> 00:07:34,750 to have a commercial airline 190 00:07:34,750 --> 00:07:37,792 flying in the vicinity of an unknown object. 191 00:07:37,792 --> 00:07:39,333 That is an air safety issue. 192 00:07:39,333 --> 00:07:40,542 [inquisitive music] 193 00:07:40,542 --> 00:07:41,958 - [Tony] In fact, pilots overseas 194 00:07:41,958 --> 00:07:44,375 are facing similar safety concerns. 195 00:07:44,375 --> 00:07:48,083 - [Luis] There's also reports by pilots in European countries 196 00:07:48,083 --> 00:07:49,708 of these strange lights. 197 00:07:49,708 --> 00:07:52,708 One sighting wasn't on the pilots' radar, 198 00:07:52,708 --> 00:07:55,792 and air traffic control, or ATC, 199 00:07:55,792 --> 00:07:58,083 also did not report the incident. 200 00:07:58,083 --> 00:08:01,542 - [Tony] And these sightings can leave a lasting impression. 201 00:08:01,542 --> 00:08:04,750 - This has changed my beliefs tremendously. 202 00:08:04,750 --> 00:08:07,250 It's opened my mind to the possibilities of 203 00:08:07,250 --> 00:08:10,750 everything from interdimensional travel and portals 204 00:08:10,750 --> 00:08:13,667 and time travel and extraterrestrials. 205 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:20,000 - One of the more prominent pilot whistleblowers 206 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,250 is Ryan Graves, 207 00:08:21,250 --> 00:08:24,375 the first active duty US Navy aviator 208 00:08:24,375 --> 00:08:27,042 to go public about regular UAP sightings. 209 00:08:27,042 --> 00:08:31,583 He testified about his own encounter to Congress in 2023. 210 00:08:31,583 --> 00:08:33,750 So did Chris see one, too? 211 00:08:33,750 --> 00:08:35,458 Our experts review the data. 212 00:08:35,458 --> 00:08:38,625 [inquisitive music] 213 00:08:39,958 --> 00:08:42,708 Is this just a case of mistaken identity? 214 00:08:42,708 --> 00:08:45,000 We first ask if this ball of light 215 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:45,875 could be natural, 216 00:08:45,875 --> 00:08:47,542 like a meteor or fireball. 217 00:08:47,542 --> 00:08:51,417 - A fireball is a very fast-moving object, 218 00:08:51,417 --> 00:08:52,750 and it looks like an object 219 00:08:52,875 --> 00:08:55,708 that is leaving some sort of like a small trail. 220 00:08:55,708 --> 00:08:57,417 In the video that we see here, 221 00:08:57,417 --> 00:08:59,250 we don't see trails. 222 00:08:59,250 --> 00:09:00,667 - [Tony] So perhaps this light 223 00:09:00,667 --> 00:09:02,583 is emitting from a manmade craft, 224 00:09:02,583 --> 00:09:05,583 like the afterburners found at the rear of a jet. 225 00:09:05,583 --> 00:09:08,208 Like Chris, we don't see it. 226 00:09:08,208 --> 00:09:10,333 - [Lt. Tim] When a fighter jet is using afterburners, 227 00:09:10,333 --> 00:09:11,667 it's the equivalent 228 00:09:11,667 --> 00:09:14,875 of just slamming your foot on the gas in a car. 229 00:09:14,875 --> 00:09:16,917 And so you wouldn't see afterburners 230 00:09:16,917 --> 00:09:20,167 just burning consistently over any length of time 231 00:09:20,167 --> 00:09:23,083 because the act of putting your foot on the gas 232 00:09:23,083 --> 00:09:25,083 burns a lot of fuel. 233 00:09:25,083 --> 00:09:27,208 - [Tony] Okay, well this is the middle of the Pacific, 234 00:09:27,208 --> 00:09:29,708 could it be some secret military technology 235 00:09:29,708 --> 00:09:31,750 we were never meant to see? 236 00:09:31,750 --> 00:09:35,208 - It is in this weird corridor in the Pacific 237 00:09:35,208 --> 00:09:37,208 between California and Hawaii 238 00:09:37,208 --> 00:09:39,333 that is frequently used by the government 239 00:09:39,333 --> 00:09:40,792 for various testing. 240 00:09:40,917 --> 00:09:44,375 - [Tony] In fact, the nearby Pacific Missile Range Facility 241 00:09:44,375 --> 00:09:46,750 is the largest range of its kind, 242 00:09:46,750 --> 00:09:49,958 and is known to test advanced technology systems. 243 00:09:49,958 --> 00:09:52,708 - [Lt. Tim] So it's not totally out of the question, 244 00:09:52,708 --> 00:09:55,500 but normally that's done in a very controlled setting, 245 00:09:55,500 --> 00:09:58,208 where it wouldn't be visible to the public. 246 00:09:58,208 --> 00:09:59,333 - [Tony] So while possible, 247 00:09:59,458 --> 00:10:01,333 the fact that Chris and other commercial pilots 248 00:10:01,333 --> 00:10:02,625 were allowed to fly here 249 00:10:02,625 --> 00:10:04,208 makes secret tech unlikely. 250 00:10:05,042 --> 00:10:07,125 Then could it be a genuine UFO? 251 00:10:07,125 --> 00:10:09,500 - [Lt. Tim] I don't see any characteristics 252 00:10:09,500 --> 00:10:11,208 that are unusual or anomalous, 253 00:10:11,208 --> 00:10:13,250 but at the same time, 254 00:10:13,250 --> 00:10:15,375 I can't tell you what this is. 255 00:10:15,375 --> 00:10:17,958 So categorically, it's a UFO. 256 00:10:17,958 --> 00:10:19,875 And if you add into the mix 257 00:10:19,875 --> 00:10:21,958 the eyewitness testimony, 258 00:10:21,958 --> 00:10:25,333 maybe this is more unusual than the video gives it credit. 259 00:10:25,333 --> 00:10:28,250 [suspenseful music] 260 00:10:29,583 --> 00:10:32,750 - Our verdict, genuine UFO. 261 00:10:32,750 --> 00:10:34,083 If you're a commercial pilot 262 00:10:34,083 --> 00:10:36,750 or a veteran who wants to report a sighting, 263 00:10:36,750 --> 00:10:40,250 Ryan Graves' nonprofit, Americans for Safe Aerospace, 264 00:10:40,250 --> 00:10:41,708 can help. 265 00:10:41,708 --> 00:10:43,208 The organization provides us a secure system 266 00:10:43,208 --> 00:10:46,292 to collect information through its witness program. 267 00:10:46,292 --> 00:10:48,542 And while you're at it, 268 00:10:48,542 --> 00:10:49,125 you may as well let us know, too. 269 00:10:53,458 --> 00:10:53,833 - Let's talk about air travel. 270 00:10:54,708 --> 00:10:56,625 The procedure typically involves baggage check, 271 00:10:56,625 --> 00:10:59,458 security, boarding, takeoff, 272 00:10:59,458 --> 00:11:01,333 and UFO sighting? 273 00:11:01,333 --> 00:11:03,708 March 25th, 2024. 274 00:11:03,708 --> 00:11:05,708 It's a beautiful day above New York City. 275 00:11:05,708 --> 00:11:08,042 Michelle Reyes is on a commercial airline 276 00:11:08,042 --> 00:11:10,958 preparing for landing at LaGuardia Airport. 277 00:11:10,958 --> 00:11:12,125 Michelle pulls out her phone 278 00:11:12,333 --> 00:11:14,750 to record the skyline out her window, 279 00:11:14,750 --> 00:11:16,875 but Michelle's shot is interrupted 280 00:11:16,875 --> 00:11:18,167 by something speeding by. 281 00:11:19,708 --> 00:11:21,625 Let's play that back in slow motion. 282 00:11:21,625 --> 00:11:23,042 [rewind whirring] 283 00:11:23,042 --> 00:11:26,667 A black oblong object enters frame right, 284 00:11:26,667 --> 00:11:28,042 just above the horizon. 285 00:11:28,042 --> 00:11:31,250 The object appears to be tilted slightly forward. 286 00:11:31,250 --> 00:11:32,375 In less than a second, 287 00:11:32,375 --> 00:11:34,208 it exits frame left, 288 00:11:34,208 --> 00:11:37,625 leaving Michelle unsure if she saw anything at all, 289 00:11:37,625 --> 00:11:39,875 until she watches that video back. 290 00:11:39,875 --> 00:11:40,833 - When I looked back, 291 00:11:40,833 --> 00:11:42,250 there was something in there, 292 00:11:42,250 --> 00:11:43,875 so I was like, "All right, I'm not going crazy. 293 00:11:43,875 --> 00:11:45,417 I definitely did see something." 294 00:11:45,417 --> 00:11:46,875 I posted it online 295 00:11:46,875 --> 00:11:48,583 just to see if someone could say like, 296 00:11:48,583 --> 00:11:50,583 "Hey, this is not out of the ordinary 297 00:11:50,583 --> 00:11:52,042 and we'd see this all the time." 298 00:11:52,042 --> 00:11:54,042 I was just really curious. 299 00:11:54,042 --> 00:11:56,625 - [Tony] Many online share Michelle's curiosity. 300 00:11:56,625 --> 00:11:58,958 So much so that her video was picked up 301 00:11:58,958 --> 00:12:01,625 by multiple national news outlets. 302 00:12:01,625 --> 00:12:02,958 Across the country, 303 00:12:02,958 --> 00:12:05,333 people are perplexed by Michelle's sighting, 304 00:12:05,333 --> 00:12:07,333 and it's not hard to see why. 305 00:12:07,333 --> 00:12:08,875 - There's been a lot of reports 306 00:12:08,875 --> 00:12:12,708 of these larger cylinder-shaped or cigar-shaped craft. 307 00:12:12,708 --> 00:12:14,583 So people looking at this 308 00:12:14,583 --> 00:12:16,875 and saying they see a cylindrical UFO, 309 00:12:16,875 --> 00:12:19,000 I can certainly understand why they would see that. 310 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,375 - [Tony] In fact, these cylindrical UFOs 311 00:12:21,375 --> 00:12:23,708 have crossed paths with commercial aircraft 312 00:12:23,708 --> 00:12:24,750 in recent years. 313 00:12:24,750 --> 00:12:26,667 - There was an incident in 2021 314 00:12:26,667 --> 00:12:28,625 with an American Airlines pilot 315 00:12:28,625 --> 00:12:30,542 flying to Phoenix, Arizona, 316 00:12:30,542 --> 00:12:32,500 reported over New Mexico 317 00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:34,625 seeing a large cylindrical object 318 00:12:34,625 --> 00:12:37,000 fly directly over his own aircraft. 319 00:12:43,792 --> 00:12:45,083 - [Tony] But these near misses 320 00:12:45,083 --> 00:12:47,125 didn't just start in the last few years, 321 00:12:47,125 --> 00:12:49,375 they actually go back almost as far 322 00:12:49,375 --> 00:12:52,875 as the modern UFO age as we know it. 323 00:12:52,875 --> 00:12:55,042 In 1948, two commercial pilots 324 00:12:55,042 --> 00:12:56,708 were flying over Alabama 325 00:12:56,708 --> 00:12:58,333 in the early morning hours 326 00:12:58,333 --> 00:13:01,042 when they saw a wingless cylindrical craft 327 00:13:01,042 --> 00:13:02,958 speeding toward their plane. 328 00:13:02,958 --> 00:13:04,625 The pilots veered to the side, 329 00:13:04,625 --> 00:13:06,708 dodging a near collision. 330 00:13:06,708 --> 00:13:08,708 What's worrisome is that these near misses 331 00:13:08,708 --> 00:13:10,417 seem to be getting more frequent 332 00:13:10,417 --> 00:13:11,875 as the years go on. 333 00:13:11,875 --> 00:13:14,583 Long Island-based researchers Jerry and John Tedesco 334 00:13:14,583 --> 00:13:16,333 have seen it themselves, 335 00:13:16,333 --> 00:13:19,250 not far from where Michelle Reyes recorded her sighting. 336 00:13:19,250 --> 00:13:21,958 - It was October of '23, early morning, 337 00:13:21,958 --> 00:13:23,667 and I was just videotaping flight traffic 338 00:13:23,667 --> 00:13:24,833 in and out of the airport. 339 00:13:24,833 --> 00:13:27,083 And on the extreme zoom, 340 00:13:27,083 --> 00:13:30,625 I saw an airliner making its rotation to come into JFK, 341 00:13:30,625 --> 00:13:34,167 and I saw this object passing the path of the airliner. 342 00:13:34,167 --> 00:13:36,625 - The cylinder-shaped object's seemingly showing up 343 00:13:36,625 --> 00:13:38,208 quite often in these reports. 344 00:13:38,208 --> 00:13:40,542 So it's consistent, it's a persistent pattern. 345 00:13:40,542 --> 00:13:42,958 [laughing] It's definitely gotta be taken seriously. 346 00:13:42,958 --> 00:13:45,042 - [Tony] That's because if objects like these 347 00:13:45,042 --> 00:13:47,625 are sharing the skies with civilian aircraft, 348 00:13:47,625 --> 00:13:48,625 it's a problem. 349 00:13:48,625 --> 00:13:50,583 - The greatest concern here 350 00:13:50,583 --> 00:13:51,917 is that air traffic control 351 00:13:51,917 --> 00:13:53,750 didn't see this and didn't report it. 352 00:13:53,750 --> 00:13:56,292 That is proof positive that these things can 353 00:13:56,292 --> 00:13:59,250 and absolutely will be an air safety issue 354 00:13:59,250 --> 00:14:01,083 if we don't do something about it. 355 00:14:04,167 --> 00:14:07,208 - In 2023, a "New York Times" investigation 356 00:14:07,208 --> 00:14:10,000 found that near misses involving commercial aircraft 357 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,708 were happening multiple times a week nationwide. 358 00:14:13,708 --> 00:14:17,000 Will our investigation reveal another kind of safety threat 359 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,000 in our skies? 360 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,917 [inquisitive music] 361 00:14:21,917 --> 00:14:24,417 Could this indeed be a cylindrical UFO 362 00:14:24,417 --> 00:14:27,458 crossing paths with this commercial plane? 363 00:14:27,458 --> 00:14:29,042 Well, while from the side 364 00:14:29,042 --> 00:14:30,750 it might look like a cylinder, 365 00:14:30,750 --> 00:14:33,000 it might be something else entirely. 366 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,583 - When you do closer analysis, 367 00:14:34,583 --> 00:14:35,917 you can actually see 368 00:14:35,917 --> 00:14:37,292 that there's something kind of spinning. 369 00:14:37,292 --> 00:14:39,750 So it could be just a large disk. 370 00:14:39,750 --> 00:14:41,375 - [Tony] Still sound like aliens? 371 00:14:41,375 --> 00:14:42,625 Not so fast. 372 00:14:42,625 --> 00:14:45,042 In 2019, Romanian engineers 373 00:14:45,042 --> 00:14:47,375 successfully built their own flying saucer 374 00:14:47,375 --> 00:14:51,208 called the All Directional Flying Object, or ADIFO. 375 00:14:51,208 --> 00:14:54,292 In other words, a disk-shaped drone. 376 00:14:54,292 --> 00:14:56,458 But wouldn't something like that have been noticed? 377 00:14:56,458 --> 00:14:58,875 - [Lenval] The pilots would've been able to see it coming by 378 00:14:58,875 --> 00:15:00,208 and explain it. 379 00:15:00,208 --> 00:15:01,917 Air traffic control would've picked it up. 380 00:15:01,917 --> 00:15:04,292 This was not picked up by any radar system. 381 00:15:04,292 --> 00:15:06,417 - [Tony] So is this just something ordinary 382 00:15:06,417 --> 00:15:07,333 captured in a way 383 00:15:07,333 --> 00:15:09,458 that makes it look extraordinary? 384 00:15:09,458 --> 00:15:12,042 - [Rich] You've got the aircraft going north, 385 00:15:12,042 --> 00:15:13,792 the wind coming from the opposite direction, 386 00:15:13,792 --> 00:15:16,750 which is really meaning that this is going maybe wind speed. 387 00:15:16,750 --> 00:15:18,042 So you have the aircraft, 388 00:15:18,042 --> 00:15:20,625 and then the wind speed carrying it aloft 389 00:15:20,625 --> 00:15:21,833 creates this effect 390 00:15:21,833 --> 00:15:23,375 where it's zooming by. 391 00:15:23,375 --> 00:15:26,042 I think that it's more like a party balloon. 392 00:15:26,042 --> 00:15:27,375 - [Tony] Specifically, we're thinking 393 00:15:27,375 --> 00:15:29,250 of those number-shaped balloons 394 00:15:29,250 --> 00:15:32,042 that people usually get to denote their age. 395 00:15:32,042 --> 00:15:34,708 The theory is one of those numeric balloons 396 00:15:34,708 --> 00:15:35,958 may have gone astray. 397 00:15:35,958 --> 00:15:37,333 - [Rich] I think it's a zero. 398 00:15:37,333 --> 00:15:38,833 In the beginning of the clip, 399 00:15:38,833 --> 00:15:40,708 top-right-hand corner, 400 00:15:40,708 --> 00:15:42,917 there is the aircraft's wing. 401 00:15:42,917 --> 00:15:44,125 So what you're able to see 402 00:15:44,125 --> 00:15:46,875 is that this object is just beyond. 403 00:15:46,875 --> 00:15:49,083 And so the size matches, 404 00:15:49,083 --> 00:15:52,167 the winds were moving along in such a way 405 00:15:52,167 --> 00:15:55,208 that it's potentially coming from Staten Island. 406 00:15:55,208 --> 00:16:00,167 Everything matches up in terms of it being a zero balloon. 407 00:16:01,417 --> 00:16:03,333 And she happened to see it as they were going by. 408 00:16:07,875 --> 00:16:09,458 - Our verdict, 409 00:16:09,458 --> 00:16:10,875 party balloon. 410 00:16:10,875 --> 00:16:13,083 See how this zero-shaped balloon looks 411 00:16:13,083 --> 00:16:15,208 turned on its side? 412 00:16:15,208 --> 00:16:17,083 That's what we think Michelle saw 413 00:16:17,083 --> 00:16:18,833 when she looked out her plane window. 414 00:16:19,708 --> 00:16:21,583 It's amazing what a change of perspective can do. 415 00:16:25,917 --> 00:16:28,417 - For millennia, Turkey has been a bridge between cultures, 416 00:16:28,417 --> 00:16:31,125 a crossroads between Europe and Asia. 417 00:16:31,125 --> 00:16:32,375 But as you're about to see, 418 00:16:32,375 --> 00:16:34,708 it might also have been the meeting point 419 00:16:34,708 --> 00:16:36,750 between human civilization 420 00:16:36,750 --> 00:16:38,500 and extraterrestrial life. 421 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:40,625 [pensive music] 422 00:16:40,625 --> 00:16:43,167 It's May 13th, 2009, 423 00:16:43,167 --> 00:16:44,417 and night owl Yalcin Yalman 424 00:16:44,875 --> 00:16:48,333 is stargazing in the suburbs of Istanbul, Turkey. 425 00:16:48,333 --> 00:16:49,500 Shortly after 3:00 a.m., 426 00:16:49,500 --> 00:16:51,208 something strange appears in the sky 427 00:16:51,208 --> 00:16:53,167 over the Sea of Marmara. 428 00:16:53,167 --> 00:16:56,042 Yalcin immediately grabs his Canon MiniDV camera, 429 00:16:56,042 --> 00:16:58,292 a videotape, and records this. 430 00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:02,125 It appears to be some sort of saucer-shaped craft. 431 00:17:02,125 --> 00:17:04,083 It's hovering silently for half an hour 432 00:17:04,083 --> 00:17:05,167 about a mile away 433 00:17:05,167 --> 00:17:07,333 and 500 feet above the sea. 434 00:17:07,333 --> 00:17:10,458 But watch what happens when Yalcin zooms in. 435 00:17:10,458 --> 00:17:11,250 Do you see that? 436 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,375 Now, take a look at the footage 437 00:17:13,375 --> 00:17:15,542 when we zoomed in and cleaned it up for you 438 00:17:15,542 --> 00:17:16,625 to get a better look. 439 00:17:16,625 --> 00:17:19,542 Yalcin says that what you are seeing here 440 00:17:19,542 --> 00:17:21,042 is a cockpit window, 441 00:17:21,042 --> 00:17:23,042 and they're inside the alleged craft. 442 00:17:23,042 --> 00:17:25,042 He's saying you can see two aliens 443 00:17:25,042 --> 00:17:26,667 piloting this thing, 444 00:17:26,667 --> 00:17:28,125 right here 445 00:17:28,125 --> 00:17:29,917 and right here. 446 00:17:29,917 --> 00:17:32,125 Yalcin is sure he's made contact. 447 00:17:32,125 --> 00:17:35,250 In fact, he claims it's been happening for years. 448 00:17:35,250 --> 00:17:39,750 [Yalcin speaking in foreign language] 449 00:17:52,417 --> 00:17:54,792 - [Tony] For millennia, strange things have been reported 450 00:17:54,792 --> 00:17:56,375 in the skies over Turkey. 451 00:17:56,375 --> 00:17:59,792 In 74 BC during a battle between Greek and Roman armies, 452 00:17:59,792 --> 00:18:01,000 thousands of soldiers 453 00:18:01,125 --> 00:18:04,000 witnessed a flaming object of molten silver 454 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,958 shaped like a wine jar flying above them. 455 00:18:06,958 --> 00:18:09,708 - In 2016, Turkish air pilots 456 00:18:09,708 --> 00:18:11,833 reported that they saw a UFO 457 00:18:11,833 --> 00:18:13,167 go over their plane 458 00:18:13,167 --> 00:18:14,542 with green lights. 459 00:18:14,708 --> 00:18:18,208 The pilots say they saw this UFO about 17,000 feet, 460 00:18:18,208 --> 00:18:19,708 but the airport authorities 461 00:18:19,708 --> 00:18:22,458 reported that they had no evidence on their radar 462 00:18:22,458 --> 00:18:24,542 of any of the sightings that the pilot saw. 463 00:18:24,542 --> 00:18:27,375 - [Tony] Now, we've never seen a window on a UFO before. 464 00:18:27,375 --> 00:18:29,042 Yalcin's cockpit aliens 465 00:18:29,042 --> 00:18:31,083 appear to be a unique phenomenon, 466 00:18:31,083 --> 00:18:32,375 and one the Turkish government 467 00:18:32,375 --> 00:18:34,042 has taken very seriously. 468 00:18:34,042 --> 00:18:35,292 - [George] The Turkish government came back 469 00:18:35,292 --> 00:18:37,125 and said that this is authentic, 470 00:18:37,125 --> 00:18:38,792 and this spacecraft is nothing 471 00:18:38,792 --> 00:18:41,167 to do with any military programs or anything. 472 00:18:41,167 --> 00:18:43,167 So this could be an extraterrestrial. 473 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,042 - UFOs are such a hot topic in Turkey 474 00:18:47,042 --> 00:18:50,375 that in 2001 a museum opened in Istanbul 475 00:18:50,375 --> 00:18:52,292 containing various photos, 476 00:18:52,292 --> 00:18:55,042 videos, reports, models, 477 00:18:55,042 --> 00:18:57,708 and even a library about UFOs 478 00:18:57,708 --> 00:18:59,958 and extraterrestrial life. 479 00:18:59,958 --> 00:19:03,292 But are we ready to add this video to the collection? 480 00:19:03,292 --> 00:19:06,208 Our experts take a deeper dive into the footage. 481 00:19:06,208 --> 00:19:09,000 [suspenseful music] 482 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,958 [inquisitive music] 483 00:19:10,958 --> 00:19:12,500 - We always look to the metadata first. 484 00:19:12,500 --> 00:19:14,792 And this block-like pixelation, 485 00:19:14,792 --> 00:19:15,958 this is an indication 486 00:19:15,958 --> 00:19:17,958 that excessive amounts of compression 487 00:19:17,958 --> 00:19:19,750 were applied to these pixel areas. 488 00:19:19,750 --> 00:19:22,667 But I don't detect any evidence of this program 489 00:19:22,667 --> 00:19:25,292 interacting with something that would introduce CGI. 490 00:19:25,292 --> 00:19:27,500 There is no indication that they were trying to deceive 491 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:28,833 or mislead. 492 00:19:28,958 --> 00:19:31,208 - [Tony] So if it doesn't appear we have a doctored video, 493 00:19:31,208 --> 00:19:33,333 has Yalcin really been dealing with aliens? 494 00:19:33,333 --> 00:19:34,667 - Back in 2009, 495 00:19:34,667 --> 00:19:36,708 we didn't have the cameras we have today. 496 00:19:36,708 --> 00:19:38,708 He's zooming in on it all the way. 497 00:19:38,708 --> 00:19:40,125 And in my view, 498 00:19:40,125 --> 00:19:43,208 I don't think that you're gonna be able to see anybody 499 00:19:43,208 --> 00:19:45,125 in a craft like that. 500 00:19:45,125 --> 00:19:46,583 - [Tony] Turkey is a NATO member 501 00:19:46,583 --> 00:19:49,042 and has the second largest army in the organization. 502 00:19:49,042 --> 00:19:52,167 So is it possible this could be an experimental aircraft? 503 00:19:52,167 --> 00:19:53,375 - [Lt. Tim] This is a particular area 504 00:19:53,375 --> 00:19:55,917 where you do have military drills. 505 00:19:55,917 --> 00:19:59,542 And in fact, NATO holds different annual drills 506 00:19:59,542 --> 00:20:01,542 simulating wartime environments. 507 00:20:01,542 --> 00:20:05,042 However, all of the telltale signs of aircraft 508 00:20:05,042 --> 00:20:06,375 as we know them 509 00:20:06,375 --> 00:20:07,750 are really kind of thrown out of the window. 510 00:20:07,750 --> 00:20:11,083 We definitely don't have any aircraft 511 00:20:11,083 --> 00:20:13,750 that are lenticular or saucer shaped. 512 00:20:13,750 --> 00:20:15,500 Beyond that, if it's gonna be an aircraft, 513 00:20:15,500 --> 00:20:16,750 you're gonna hear something, 514 00:20:16,750 --> 00:20:18,500 whether it's the jet engines of a plane 515 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:21,750 or that rotor thunder of a helicopter. 516 00:20:21,750 --> 00:20:23,333 And in this case, 517 00:20:23,333 --> 00:20:25,667 the individual said he didn't hear anything 518 00:20:25,667 --> 00:20:26,708 while filming it. 519 00:20:26,708 --> 00:20:28,792 - [Tony] So what else could this be? 520 00:20:28,792 --> 00:20:30,958 - [Marc] It's a case that's been around for a long time. 521 00:20:30,958 --> 00:20:32,250 That doesn't mean it's true, 522 00:20:32,375 --> 00:20:33,917 it just means it's not solved yet. 523 00:20:38,750 --> 00:20:41,292 Our verdict, we're going to classify it 524 00:20:41,292 --> 00:20:43,250 as a genuine UFO. 525 00:20:43,250 --> 00:20:45,583 Our experts make good points. 526 00:20:45,583 --> 00:20:48,042 And we'll agree that those images in the windows 527 00:20:48,042 --> 00:20:50,625 probably aren't alien space pilots. 528 00:20:50,625 --> 00:20:52,375 But that doesn't mean we can identify 529 00:20:52,375 --> 00:20:54,542 what this thing actually is 530 00:20:54,542 --> 00:20:55,833 until we get more definitive evidence. 531 00:21:00,542 --> 00:21:02,208 - The US military has had some now famous encounters 532 00:21:02,208 --> 00:21:04,250 with UFOs in recent years, 533 00:21:04,250 --> 00:21:05,875 but it may not be alone. 534 00:21:05,875 --> 00:21:09,000 Back in the final years of the Cold War, 535 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,458 an encounter in the skies 536 00:21:10,458 --> 00:21:12,542 over the low countries of Northwestern Europe 537 00:21:12,542 --> 00:21:16,042 prompted a robust military response. 538 00:21:16,042 --> 00:21:19,542 That sparked a controversy over what really happened 539 00:21:19,542 --> 00:21:21,958 which continues to this day. 540 00:21:21,958 --> 00:21:22,792 [inquisitive music] 541 00:21:22,792 --> 00:21:24,292 It's March, 1990, 542 00:21:24,292 --> 00:21:26,875 over the Belgian countryside. 543 00:21:26,875 --> 00:21:30,625 Two F-16s are deployed by the Belgian Air Force 544 00:21:30,625 --> 00:21:33,000 after radar spots an ominous object 545 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,375 hovering in the air. 546 00:21:34,375 --> 00:21:34,667 They see this. 547 00:21:35,042 --> 00:21:36,333 They see this. 548 00:21:36,333 --> 00:21:38,333 You're looking at an actual recording 549 00:21:38,333 --> 00:21:41,458 of what was on their flight radar lock-on. 550 00:21:41,458 --> 00:21:42,917 In the center of the screen, 551 00:21:42,917 --> 00:21:44,875 at an altitude of 7,000 feet, 552 00:21:44,875 --> 00:21:46,792 is a diamond-shaped blip. 553 00:21:46,792 --> 00:21:49,875 This blip indicates there's something solid in the sky, 554 00:21:49,875 --> 00:21:51,750 though it doesn't necessarily represent 555 00:21:51,750 --> 00:21:54,625 what this solid object actually looks like. 556 00:21:54,625 --> 00:21:57,208 The radar's altimeter, measuring in thousands, 557 00:21:57,208 --> 00:22:00,708 indicates the odd object races thousands of feet higher, 558 00:22:00,708 --> 00:22:03,583 then plummets back down again at breakneck speed. 559 00:22:03,583 --> 00:22:06,875 And it seems to accelerate to 990 knots, 560 00:22:06,875 --> 00:22:09,208 or more than 1,000 miles per hour, 561 00:22:09,208 --> 00:22:11,667 before bolting out of range. 562 00:22:11,667 --> 00:22:14,417 The pilots never make visual contact. 563 00:22:14,417 --> 00:22:15,542 But back on the ground, 564 00:22:15,542 --> 00:22:16,958 one resident of Brussels 565 00:22:16,958 --> 00:22:18,750 claims to capture this footage 566 00:22:18,750 --> 00:22:22,458 of three lights in a triangular pattern passing overhead, 567 00:22:22,458 --> 00:22:26,250 - This video was shot in March of 1990 over Belgium 568 00:22:26,250 --> 00:22:28,750 on the same night of the radar sighting. 569 00:22:28,750 --> 00:22:30,500 - [Tony] A few months later, 570 00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:33,000 Belgian Air Force Colonel Wilfried de Brouwer 571 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,292 holds a press conference about the incident. 572 00:22:58,750 --> 00:23:01,542 - [Tony] And there's another layer to this story. 573 00:23:01,542 --> 00:23:03,875 This wasn't the first Belgian sighting. 574 00:23:03,875 --> 00:23:06,167 There'd been a string of strange encounters 575 00:23:06,167 --> 00:23:07,792 just months before. 576 00:23:07,792 --> 00:23:11,083 - [MJ] It starts in November of 1989. 577 00:23:11,083 --> 00:23:13,125 Multiple reports start coming in 578 00:23:13,125 --> 00:23:16,000 of seeing three lights in the sky. 579 00:23:17,125 --> 00:23:19,125 - [Tony] During that first wave of sightings, 580 00:23:19,125 --> 00:23:22,042 no less than 30 different groups of witnesses 581 00:23:22,042 --> 00:23:26,000 describe seeing three bright lights up in the sky. 582 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,167 - [MJ] What they see is 583 00:23:27,167 --> 00:23:28,875 that these aren't three distinct 584 00:23:28,875 --> 00:23:31,667 lights, but rather three points of light 585 00:23:31,667 --> 00:23:35,625 on one very large triangular-shaped object. 586 00:23:35,625 --> 00:23:37,583 - [Tony] The witnesses claim to have seen the object 587 00:23:37,583 --> 00:23:39,333 slowly glide at low altitude 588 00:23:39,333 --> 00:23:42,000 northeast across the Belgian landscape 589 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,542 from the town of Liege 590 00:23:43,542 --> 00:23:45,708 to the border with the Netherlands and Germany, 591 00:23:45,708 --> 00:23:47,458 more than half a dozen police officers 592 00:23:47,458 --> 00:23:48,625 working that evening 593 00:23:48,625 --> 00:23:50,708 also spotted the mystery aircraft. 594 00:23:50,708 --> 00:23:52,792 But it wasn't until months later 595 00:23:52,792 --> 00:23:55,542 when the Air Force picked up that strange UFO on radar 596 00:23:55,542 --> 00:23:57,292 and this footage was captured 597 00:23:57,292 --> 00:23:58,667 that they seemingly had proof 598 00:23:58,667 --> 00:24:01,917 that this was a technologically amazing craft. 599 00:24:02,875 --> 00:24:04,708 - There was nothing that existed 600 00:24:04,708 --> 00:24:07,625 that could outperform this F-16 aircraft. 601 00:24:07,625 --> 00:24:11,542 But the pilot says that, as he's pursuing this object, 602 00:24:11,542 --> 00:24:14,500 the object makes essentially a quick turn 603 00:24:14,500 --> 00:24:16,417 and deviates off his radar system 604 00:24:16,417 --> 00:24:17,542 and he loses it. 605 00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:20,250 [suspenseful music] 606 00:24:20,250 --> 00:24:22,458 - In total, this Belgian triangle 607 00:24:22,458 --> 00:24:24,708 was seen by more than 1,000 witnesses 608 00:24:24,708 --> 00:24:26,792 over these several months. 609 00:24:26,792 --> 00:24:29,708 With so many viewers and the military involved, 610 00:24:29,708 --> 00:24:31,917 could this be the real deal? 611 00:24:31,917 --> 00:24:34,875 Our experts try to identify both the object on radar 612 00:24:34,875 --> 00:24:37,042 and the one that was filmed. 613 00:24:37,042 --> 00:24:38,583 Are they one and the same? 614 00:24:38,583 --> 00:24:41,292 If so, what could it be? 615 00:24:41,292 --> 00:24:44,208 [inquisitive music] 616 00:24:46,708 --> 00:24:48,375 - The important thing here is to notice 617 00:24:48,375 --> 00:24:50,875 that there are three objects in the view. 618 00:24:50,875 --> 00:24:53,333 And the objects don't get any closer to each other 619 00:24:53,333 --> 00:24:55,083 or move apart from each other, 620 00:24:55,083 --> 00:24:56,667 they stay near each other, 621 00:24:56,667 --> 00:24:59,083 almost as if they're connected in some way 622 00:24:59,083 --> 00:25:00,625 through a structure. 623 00:25:00,625 --> 00:25:04,417 So we're probably looking at a cohesive, singular object 624 00:25:04,417 --> 00:25:06,167 that has lights on it. 625 00:25:07,042 --> 00:25:10,208 - [Tony] So could this be a real triangular UFO? 626 00:25:10,208 --> 00:25:12,333 - [Marc] I can never pronounce that this is real. 627 00:25:12,333 --> 00:25:14,667 There's no data indicating that it is. 628 00:25:14,667 --> 00:25:17,500 I can only say that it's compelling. 629 00:25:17,500 --> 00:25:19,333 From my point of view, 630 00:25:19,333 --> 00:25:21,208 the jury is still out. 631 00:25:21,208 --> 00:25:23,125 So does that make it a hoax? No. 632 00:25:23,125 --> 00:25:24,750 Does it make it real? No. 633 00:25:26,083 --> 00:25:28,708 But it doesn't take away from the fact 634 00:25:28,708 --> 00:25:30,542 that this footage exists 635 00:25:30,542 --> 00:25:32,875 of an F-16 Fighting Falcon 636 00:25:32,875 --> 00:25:36,417 tracking an object on its radar. 637 00:25:36,417 --> 00:25:37,708 - [Tony] Sources say the ground footage 638 00:25:37,708 --> 00:25:39,792 was filmed at around 2:20 a.m. 639 00:25:39,792 --> 00:25:41,833 about two hours after the F-16s 640 00:25:41,833 --> 00:25:43,750 spotted something on their radar. 641 00:25:43,750 --> 00:25:46,125 So could these two incidents be connected? 642 00:25:46,125 --> 00:25:47,458 And what would that mean? 643 00:25:47,458 --> 00:25:49,667 - What this radar screen is telling us 644 00:25:49,667 --> 00:25:52,542 is that essentially this object 645 00:25:52,542 --> 00:25:55,292 descended from 10,000 feet 646 00:25:55,292 --> 00:25:58,250 to roughly 500 feet or below 647 00:25:58,250 --> 00:26:00,042 in just a matter of seconds. 648 00:26:00,042 --> 00:26:02,625 To do that, we're talking about something 649 00:26:02,625 --> 00:26:06,708 that would have to be moving exceptionally fast, 650 00:26:06,708 --> 00:26:08,875 upwards of Mach 40. 651 00:26:08,875 --> 00:26:12,208 Those types of g-forces would crush a person. 652 00:26:13,833 --> 00:26:16,042 - [Tony] So McMillan agrees with the Belgian Air Force, 653 00:26:16,042 --> 00:26:18,292 a human couldn't withstand these forces, 654 00:26:18,292 --> 00:26:20,333 but maybe an alien could. 655 00:26:20,333 --> 00:26:21,500 Well, hang on, 656 00:26:21,500 --> 00:26:22,875 McMillan has a different theory 657 00:26:22,875 --> 00:26:25,458 as to what the F-16s' radar screens 658 00:26:25,458 --> 00:26:27,000 may have detected. 659 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,542 - [Lt. Tim] I think possibly what we're looking at here 660 00:26:29,542 --> 00:26:31,958 is something called Bragg's scattering. 661 00:26:31,958 --> 00:26:34,583 It's a scattering effect with the radar. 662 00:26:34,583 --> 00:26:36,458 Pockets of high humidity, 663 00:26:36,458 --> 00:26:38,583 ice crystals, cloud cover, 664 00:26:38,583 --> 00:26:39,625 different things like that 665 00:26:39,625 --> 00:26:41,833 can actually cause the radar 666 00:26:41,833 --> 00:26:44,375 to produce false echo returns. 667 00:26:44,375 --> 00:26:49,042 The pilots themselves never visually saw anything, 668 00:26:49,042 --> 00:26:49,875 only the radar. 669 00:26:49,875 --> 00:26:51,708 In this particular case, 670 00:26:51,708 --> 00:26:55,208 I would say that the idea that radar scattering 671 00:26:55,208 --> 00:26:58,042 caused these false returns 672 00:26:58,042 --> 00:27:01,708 could be a very plausible explanation for it. 673 00:27:01,708 --> 00:27:04,208 - [Tony] But remember, this object was detected 674 00:27:04,208 --> 00:27:06,375 on multiple radar systems, 675 00:27:06,375 --> 00:27:09,333 so it's unlikely it would be Bragg's scattering 676 00:27:09,333 --> 00:27:10,833 in every case. 677 00:27:10,833 --> 00:27:13,208 That's why many who've studied this incident 678 00:27:13,208 --> 00:27:14,708 remain perplexed. 679 00:27:14,708 --> 00:27:17,875 [suspenseful music] 680 00:27:19,208 --> 00:27:20,875 - Okay, it's true, 681 00:27:20,875 --> 00:27:24,458 the incredibly fast speeds caught on the F-16s' radar 682 00:27:24,458 --> 00:27:26,375 could be a glitch, 683 00:27:26,375 --> 00:27:29,042 but our verdict is genuine UFO. 684 00:27:29,042 --> 00:27:30,542 We have no way of confirming 685 00:27:30,542 --> 00:27:32,208 if the object seen on radar 686 00:27:32,208 --> 00:27:35,042 is the same one filmed in Brussels, 687 00:27:35,042 --> 00:27:37,542 but it does seem remarkable that these two pieces of footage 688 00:27:37,542 --> 00:27:39,708 came within hours of each other. 689 00:27:39,708 --> 00:27:42,208 And decades later, the former Air Force colonel 690 00:27:42,208 --> 00:27:45,250 and now retired major, General de Brouwer, 691 00:27:45,250 --> 00:27:46,542 still can't account 692 00:27:46,542 --> 00:27:48,208 for the thousands of UFO sightings 693 00:27:48,208 --> 00:27:49,542 reported in Belgium 694 00:27:49,542 --> 00:27:50,167 over those months. 695 00:27:54,708 --> 00:27:55,875 - In November of 2021, 696 00:27:55,875 --> 00:27:57,917 the Pentagon announced the establishment 697 00:27:57,917 --> 00:28:00,167 of a new UFO task force, 698 00:28:00,167 --> 00:28:02,875 and just in time for our next sighting, 699 00:28:02,875 --> 00:28:06,208 which took place on that very same day. 700 00:28:06,208 --> 00:28:07,542 Coincidence? 701 00:28:07,542 --> 00:28:09,583 We'll let you decide. 702 00:28:09,583 --> 00:28:11,833 November 24th, 2021, 703 00:28:11,833 --> 00:28:13,792 a commercial plane is on an early morning flight 704 00:28:13,792 --> 00:28:15,333 near Hong Kong. 705 00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:17,792 As the plane flies over the South China Sea at 39,000 feet, 706 00:28:18,333 --> 00:28:21,125 an unusual site out of the right window 707 00:28:21,125 --> 00:28:24,333 prompts the pilot to whip out his cellphone and record this. 708 00:28:26,250 --> 00:28:28,375 Nine orbs are moving across the sky 709 00:28:28,375 --> 00:28:30,542 in three organized rows. 710 00:28:30,542 --> 00:28:31,333 Let's zoom in. 711 00:28:32,417 --> 00:28:33,708 The wildest part, 712 00:28:33,708 --> 00:28:35,875 watch how the orbs on the left disappear 713 00:28:35,875 --> 00:28:37,917 before three more orbs reappear 714 00:28:37,917 --> 00:28:39,500 on the far side of the formation, 715 00:28:39,500 --> 00:28:41,167 and the cycle repeats. 716 00:28:46,750 --> 00:28:48,625 - These orbs seem to be blinking 717 00:28:48,625 --> 00:28:51,875 in some kind of pattern or signal, 718 00:28:51,875 --> 00:28:54,375 until finally, one by one, 719 00:28:54,375 --> 00:28:57,083 they slowly, slowly disappear, 720 00:28:57,083 --> 00:29:00,667 and then they're all just gone. 721 00:29:00,667 --> 00:29:02,458 - [Tony] The video quickly goes viral, 722 00:29:02,458 --> 00:29:04,708 racking up nearly 300,000 views. 723 00:29:04,708 --> 00:29:06,667 But the question is, what could they be? 724 00:29:06,667 --> 00:29:07,958 - There were a number of theories 725 00:29:07,958 --> 00:29:10,083 as to what the lights could actually be. 726 00:29:10,083 --> 00:29:11,958 One of the most popular is, of course, 727 00:29:11,958 --> 00:29:14,000 that they were UFOs. 728 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,792 - [Tony] Patterns of strange lights in the sky 729 00:29:15,792 --> 00:29:17,667 have been observed for decades. 730 00:29:17,667 --> 00:29:19,583 In 1951, a group of scientists 731 00:29:19,583 --> 00:29:20,875 from Texas Technical College 732 00:29:20,875 --> 00:29:22,042 claimed to see a group 733 00:29:22,042 --> 00:29:24,458 of 15 to 30 bluish-green objects 734 00:29:24,458 --> 00:29:25,875 flying in formation. 735 00:29:25,875 --> 00:29:27,042 A student at the college 736 00:29:27,042 --> 00:29:28,542 snapped these photographs, 737 00:29:28,542 --> 00:29:32,167 and the phenomenon became known as the Lubbock Lights. 738 00:29:32,167 --> 00:29:34,833 The incident grab headlines across the nation. 739 00:29:34,833 --> 00:29:36,667 But why would this formation of lights 740 00:29:36,667 --> 00:29:38,833 be so near another airplane? 741 00:29:38,833 --> 00:29:41,750 Grundhauser says some ufologists have theories. 742 00:29:41,750 --> 00:29:43,208 - Some theories include 743 00:29:43,208 --> 00:29:45,125 that they are trying to show us 744 00:29:45,125 --> 00:29:46,542 the technology that they have, 745 00:29:46,542 --> 00:29:49,542 almost in comparison to the technology we're using. 746 00:29:49,542 --> 00:29:51,042 It's also possible that, 747 00:29:51,042 --> 00:29:54,167 especially when it comes to military aircraft, 748 00:29:54,167 --> 00:29:57,917 maybe the aliens are just getting the measure of us, 749 00:29:57,917 --> 00:30:00,958 seeing what our technology can do. 750 00:30:02,625 --> 00:30:05,375 - Today, the formal US government name 751 00:30:05,375 --> 00:30:06,792 of the UFO task force 752 00:30:06,792 --> 00:30:09,875 is the Airborne Object Identification 753 00:30:09,875 --> 00:30:12,875 and Management Synchronization Group. 754 00:30:12,875 --> 00:30:15,083 Lord, if you can come up with a clunkier name, 755 00:30:15,083 --> 00:30:17,958 please, please, email it to us. 756 00:30:17,958 --> 00:30:19,875 This organization wasn't established 757 00:30:19,875 --> 00:30:21,833 until after more than 100 incidents 758 00:30:21,833 --> 00:30:23,750 documented by military planes 759 00:30:23,750 --> 00:30:26,750 were officially classified as unexplained. 760 00:30:26,750 --> 00:30:28,792 So did this pilot's strange encounter 761 00:30:28,792 --> 00:30:30,000 over the South China Sea 762 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,708 merit a report with the department? 763 00:30:32,708 --> 00:30:33,958 We ask our experts. 764 00:30:33,958 --> 00:30:37,042 [suspenseful music] 765 00:30:39,042 --> 00:30:40,583 - What's interesting about this recording 766 00:30:40,583 --> 00:30:41,792 is there is a moment 767 00:30:41,792 --> 00:30:45,208 where that automatic iris makes a change, 768 00:30:45,208 --> 00:30:47,875 and the white balance overall in the image changes 769 00:30:47,875 --> 00:30:50,625 and the intensity of the objects doesn't. 770 00:30:50,625 --> 00:30:51,708 They stay fairly consistent. 771 00:30:51,708 --> 00:30:53,375 So I did not detect any evidence 772 00:30:53,375 --> 00:30:56,042 that these objects were overlaid into the recording 773 00:30:56,042 --> 00:30:58,042 or any CGI was used to create them. 774 00:30:58,042 --> 00:31:00,208 So this video does appear to be genuine. 775 00:31:00,208 --> 00:31:01,375 - [Tony] Are we looking at 776 00:31:01,375 --> 00:31:02,875 some kind of atmospheric phenomenon? 777 00:31:02,875 --> 00:31:03,875 - When we see lightning, 778 00:31:03,875 --> 00:31:05,708 it's a very quick flash. 779 00:31:05,708 --> 00:31:07,875 It's a discharge of electricity. 780 00:31:07,875 --> 00:31:11,417 In this case, it's a light that appears to be fairly static 781 00:31:11,417 --> 00:31:13,125 for a couple of seconds, 782 00:31:13,125 --> 00:31:14,667 and then it goes away. 783 00:31:14,667 --> 00:31:17,292 There really is no weather phenomenon out there 784 00:31:17,292 --> 00:31:21,167 that would manifest itself as an orb or a light. 785 00:31:21,167 --> 00:31:22,333 - [Tony] If it's not atmospheric, 786 00:31:22,333 --> 00:31:24,750 could these be actual alien ships? 787 00:31:24,750 --> 00:31:26,625 - They're not doing anything amazing 788 00:31:26,625 --> 00:31:28,083 in terms of moving very fast. 789 00:31:28,083 --> 00:31:29,667 They don't appear to be shooting upwards, 790 00:31:29,667 --> 00:31:32,667 which is a typical thing that you see in UFO videos. 791 00:31:32,667 --> 00:31:34,500 So it probably has a 792 00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:37,250 relatively Earthly explanation. 793 00:31:37,250 --> 00:31:39,917 - [Tony] Maybe that steady formation that rules out UFOs 794 00:31:39,917 --> 00:31:41,833 rules in another explanation. 795 00:31:41,833 --> 00:31:43,250 Drones. 796 00:31:43,250 --> 00:31:45,875 - [Nick] Now, we see very impressive aerial setups 797 00:31:45,875 --> 00:31:47,917 sometimes where lots of drones 798 00:31:47,917 --> 00:31:49,958 fly in synchronized shapes, 799 00:31:49,958 --> 00:31:52,167 but no one's going to be making a drone display 800 00:31:52,167 --> 00:31:54,542 at 20,000 feet over the South China Sea, 801 00:31:54,542 --> 00:31:57,667 and drones are probably not gonna be bright enough 802 00:31:57,667 --> 00:31:59,375 to be seen at that distance. 803 00:31:59,375 --> 00:32:01,333 - [Tony] But West does find a clue in the video 804 00:32:01,333 --> 00:32:03,958 that he believes is key to solving the mystery. 805 00:32:03,958 --> 00:32:06,542 - I think probably what we're looking at here 806 00:32:06,542 --> 00:32:10,208 are three military planes dropping flares. 807 00:32:10,208 --> 00:32:12,875 - [Tony] Many fighter jets employ decoy flares, 808 00:32:12,875 --> 00:32:14,667 which burn on contact with the air 809 00:32:14,667 --> 00:32:17,542 and at a temperature hotter than the engine exhaust. 810 00:32:17,542 --> 00:32:20,208 They're deployed to attract heat seeking missiles. 811 00:32:20,208 --> 00:32:22,083 And it's possible this timed formation 812 00:32:22,083 --> 00:32:24,583 is due to a training exercise. 813 00:32:24,583 --> 00:32:26,167 - [Nick] These decoy flares, 814 00:32:26,167 --> 00:32:28,375 they need to burn as bright as possible initially 815 00:32:28,375 --> 00:32:30,417 so that they can guide the missiles 816 00:32:30,417 --> 00:32:31,542 away from the plane, 817 00:32:31,542 --> 00:32:33,542 and then they're just allowed to burn out. 818 00:32:33,542 --> 00:32:35,167 - [Tony] Meanwhile, US government officials 819 00:32:35,167 --> 00:32:37,125 claim China has fully militarized 820 00:32:37,125 --> 00:32:38,875 at least three artificial islands 821 00:32:38,875 --> 00:32:41,167 they've constructed in the South China Sea. 822 00:32:41,167 --> 00:32:43,042 - It's probably Chinese military aircraft 823 00:32:43,042 --> 00:32:45,375 just doing some kind of exercise. 824 00:32:45,375 --> 00:32:48,625 Fighter jets are usually highly camouflaged. 825 00:32:48,625 --> 00:32:50,542 So since it's dusk, 826 00:32:50,542 --> 00:32:52,250 there's gray clouds behind. 827 00:32:52,250 --> 00:32:54,250 It's simply too far away to see the planes. 828 00:32:54,750 --> 00:32:57,917 [suspenseful music] 829 00:32:58,750 --> 00:33:01,583 - Our verdict, military flares. 830 00:33:01,583 --> 00:33:02,917 The South China Sea 831 00:33:02,917 --> 00:33:05,458 has gained major geopolitical significance 832 00:33:05,458 --> 00:33:08,083 because a huge share of the world's maritime shipping 833 00:33:08,083 --> 00:33:09,500 passes through it. 834 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:11,708 Given that the area has seen a variety 835 00:33:11,708 --> 00:33:13,875 of territorial disputes of late, 836 00:33:13,875 --> 00:33:15,292 it's not too surprising 837 00:33:15,292 --> 00:33:17,083 to see a military presence in the airspace above it. 838 00:33:21,917 --> 00:33:22,500 - Germany has its own history of UFOs 839 00:33:23,042 --> 00:33:25,708 going back at least as far as World War II. 840 00:33:25,708 --> 00:33:27,000 This next puzzling footage 841 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,750 is a much more recent sighting 842 00:33:28,750 --> 00:33:29,875 out of Deutschland. 843 00:33:29,875 --> 00:33:31,333 And whatever it is, 844 00:33:31,333 --> 00:33:35,542 we know it's not one of the 99 Luftballons. 845 00:33:35,542 --> 00:33:36,292 [inquisitive music] 846 00:33:36,292 --> 00:33:39,333 September 29th, 2014. 847 00:33:39,333 --> 00:33:42,042 It's a beautiful day in Berau, Germany, 848 00:33:42,583 --> 00:33:43,667 a rural southern village 849 00:33:43,667 --> 00:33:45,208 near the Swiss border. 850 00:33:45,208 --> 00:33:47,125 A photographer sets up his camera 851 00:33:47,125 --> 00:33:49,583 to film the perfect sunset. 852 00:33:49,583 --> 00:33:51,333 But when he watches the footage back, 853 00:33:51,333 --> 00:33:53,542 he has captured something else entirely, 854 00:33:55,458 --> 00:33:58,542 a bright streaking orb jetting across the sky. 855 00:34:01,792 --> 00:34:05,792 Suddenly, the object seems to zigzag violently 856 00:34:05,792 --> 00:34:07,167 before continuing downward. 857 00:34:07,167 --> 00:34:08,958 Let's see that again. 858 00:34:08,958 --> 00:34:11,708 [dynamic music] 859 00:34:11,708 --> 00:34:12,875 - [Eric] The way that it moves, 860 00:34:12,875 --> 00:34:14,375 it doesn't look like the behavior 861 00:34:14,375 --> 00:34:18,375 that any Earthly vessel could possibly undertake. 862 00:34:18,375 --> 00:34:20,375 - [Tony] Much of the online speculation 863 00:34:20,375 --> 00:34:22,917 centers on the location of the sighting, 864 00:34:22,917 --> 00:34:24,375 a place considered by some 865 00:34:24,375 --> 00:34:27,542 to be the birthplace of the modern UFO phenomenon. 866 00:34:28,333 --> 00:34:31,292 It was 1944 behind German lines. 867 00:34:31,292 --> 00:34:33,833 The elite 415th Night Fighter Squadron 868 00:34:33,833 --> 00:34:35,375 reported strange phenomenon 869 00:34:35,375 --> 00:34:37,125 in the skies over Germany. 870 00:34:37,125 --> 00:34:40,458 - The incident involved a Bristol Beaufighter crew 871 00:34:40,458 --> 00:34:44,208 led by pilot Edward Schlueter and his crewmates, 872 00:34:44,208 --> 00:34:46,917 who were flying over the Rhine Valley 873 00:34:46,917 --> 00:34:48,792 near Strasbourg. 874 00:34:48,792 --> 00:34:52,792 The crew described eight to 10 orange orbs 875 00:34:52,792 --> 00:34:54,250 flying at high speeds 876 00:34:54,250 --> 00:34:56,042 off of their left wing. 877 00:34:56,042 --> 00:34:57,708 - [Tony] The lights appeared from nowhere, 878 00:34:57,708 --> 00:34:59,208 moving at erratic angles, 879 00:34:59,208 --> 00:35:01,125 dancing around the planes. 880 00:35:01,125 --> 00:35:03,542 The puzzled squadron could not shoot them down. 881 00:35:03,542 --> 00:35:06,042 They also never appeared on radar. 882 00:35:06,042 --> 00:35:08,708 The pilots dubbed the bright light bogies 883 00:35:08,708 --> 00:35:11,667 allegedly captured in this photo Foo Fighters. 884 00:35:12,750 --> 00:35:15,333 - [Eric] Since the Foo Fighters caused no damage, 885 00:35:15,333 --> 00:35:17,167 the American crewmen 886 00:35:17,167 --> 00:35:21,333 doubted that they were actually German secret weapons. 887 00:35:21,333 --> 00:35:24,875 German pilots claimed to have seen Foo Fighters as well, 888 00:35:24,875 --> 00:35:26,625 and they were just as baffled. 889 00:35:28,042 --> 00:35:29,833 - [Tony] But there are other modern instances 890 00:35:29,833 --> 00:35:30,958 of similar bright orbs 891 00:35:30,958 --> 00:35:32,958 descending on planes, too. 892 00:35:32,958 --> 00:35:34,292 On a previous episode, 893 00:35:34,292 --> 00:35:36,250 we analyzed this 2020 sighting 894 00:35:36,250 --> 00:35:37,833 from the Mexican skies 895 00:35:37,833 --> 00:35:39,208 where veteran military 896 00:35:39,208 --> 00:35:41,833 and commercial pilot Captain Erik Delgado 897 00:35:41,833 --> 00:35:43,167 recorded this footage. 898 00:35:44,167 --> 00:35:45,125 - [Erik] Oh man, that is phenomenal. 899 00:35:45,125 --> 00:35:47,250 Dude, I'm so glad you saw that. 900 00:35:47,250 --> 00:35:48,458 And you saw it drop out of the sky and just, 901 00:35:48,458 --> 00:35:49,750 it just stopped? - I did, 902 00:35:53,042 --> 00:35:54,125 [Erik laughing] 903 00:35:54,125 --> 00:35:56,083 - [Erik] This is awesome, man. 904 00:35:56,083 --> 00:35:57,542 - [Tony] Captain Delgado says this thing 905 00:35:57,542 --> 00:35:59,875 dropped straight down from above 906 00:35:59,875 --> 00:36:02,458 and hit his plane with some kind of spotlight. 907 00:36:02,458 --> 00:36:04,333 - It looked like a lighthouse 908 00:36:04,333 --> 00:36:06,375 in some thin fog as it's turning. 909 00:36:06,375 --> 00:36:07,958 So that really got my heart going. 910 00:36:07,958 --> 00:36:10,875 - [Tony] No doubt a UFO shining a light on your plane 911 00:36:10,875 --> 00:36:12,667 would be a terrifying moment. 912 00:36:12,667 --> 00:36:13,875 - I thought there could've been a safety issue 913 00:36:13,875 --> 00:36:15,875 because initially this thing 914 00:36:15,875 --> 00:36:17,042 is turning into us, 915 00:36:17,042 --> 00:36:18,333 and then it decided to park itself off 916 00:36:18,333 --> 00:36:19,708 our left wing tip. [laughing] 917 00:36:19,708 --> 00:36:22,167 - [Tony] The glowing orb maintains its position, 918 00:36:22,167 --> 00:36:23,750 pacing the plane. 919 00:36:23,750 --> 00:36:26,333 Delgado says it stayed there for 25 minutes 920 00:36:26,333 --> 00:36:28,292 before darting off at a sharp angle. 921 00:36:33,333 --> 00:36:35,208 - [Tony] It's the kind of inexplicable maneuver 922 00:36:35,208 --> 00:36:37,333 we've come to associate with UFOs, 923 00:36:37,333 --> 00:36:38,792 from Foo Fighters 924 00:36:38,792 --> 00:36:41,375 to those encountered more recently by Navy pilots, 925 00:36:41,375 --> 00:36:42,833 to this very video. 926 00:36:44,417 --> 00:36:46,083 Both the Foo Fighters legend 927 00:36:46,083 --> 00:36:48,708 and the modern footage shot by Captain Delgado 928 00:36:48,708 --> 00:36:50,208 remain mysteries. 929 00:36:50,208 --> 00:36:52,500 How will this German orb footage 930 00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:54,708 hold up to our experts' scrutiny? 931 00:36:54,708 --> 00:36:56,667 Time for our team to dig in and find out. 932 00:36:56,667 --> 00:36:59,667 [suspenseful music] 933 00:37:01,250 --> 00:37:04,375 Is it possible all these highly maneuverable UFOs 934 00:37:04,375 --> 00:37:06,208 are a single type of craft, 935 00:37:06,208 --> 00:37:08,250 and this is one of them? 936 00:37:08,250 --> 00:37:10,958 - It does seem to be going extremely fast, 937 00:37:10,958 --> 00:37:12,542 and also, at one point, 938 00:37:12,542 --> 00:37:15,333 executes a remarkable turn. 939 00:37:16,292 --> 00:37:17,667 - [Tony] That single hairpin turn 940 00:37:17,667 --> 00:37:20,125 might match Foo Fighter reports. 941 00:37:20,125 --> 00:37:21,750 So if it's not a Foo Fighter, 942 00:37:21,750 --> 00:37:23,375 could it be a meteor? 943 00:37:23,375 --> 00:37:25,208 - This is a time-lapse video, 944 00:37:25,208 --> 00:37:28,083 which means that we're looking at the sun 945 00:37:28,083 --> 00:37:31,208 setting over a long period of time. 946 00:37:31,208 --> 00:37:33,500 If that's the case, 947 00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:37,708 this is way too slow actually to be a meteor. 948 00:37:37,708 --> 00:37:40,125 - [Tony] Most meteors are visible for seconds, 949 00:37:40,125 --> 00:37:41,667 burning up in a flash. 950 00:37:41,667 --> 00:37:44,250 So the revelation that this is a time-lapse video 951 00:37:44,250 --> 00:37:46,292 rules that out altogether. 952 00:37:46,292 --> 00:37:48,417 The skip in time from the time-lapse 953 00:37:48,417 --> 00:37:51,000 could also explain the erratic movement. 954 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,208 So it's not a meteor 955 00:37:52,208 --> 00:37:54,125 or an alien spacecraft. 956 00:37:54,125 --> 00:37:56,375 Could it be a non-alien spacecraft, 957 00:37:56,375 --> 00:37:57,875 like a satellite? 958 00:37:57,875 --> 00:37:59,375 - [Marc] This could not be a satellite 959 00:37:59,375 --> 00:38:01,292 because it's still way too bright 960 00:38:01,292 --> 00:38:03,208 to see even the brightest satellites. 961 00:38:03,208 --> 00:38:07,208 Satellites do come out at sunset, 962 00:38:07,208 --> 00:38:09,458 but only after the sun goes down. 963 00:38:09,458 --> 00:38:11,042 - [Tony] Could this object have something 964 00:38:11,042 --> 00:38:12,833 to do with the camera? 965 00:38:12,833 --> 00:38:14,708 - [Marc] Here's the thing with cameras. 966 00:38:14,708 --> 00:38:16,625 Whenever you point them into the sun, 967 00:38:16,625 --> 00:38:18,375 you're gonna get things you don't expect 968 00:38:18,375 --> 00:38:19,708 or don't want, 969 00:38:19,708 --> 00:38:22,500 because the sun is immensely brighter 970 00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:25,500 than anything else in the field of view. 971 00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:27,708 So if this is something up in the sky, 972 00:38:27,708 --> 00:38:29,875 as soon as it starts to go down toward the horizon, 973 00:38:29,875 --> 00:38:31,208 it should slow down. 974 00:38:31,208 --> 00:38:32,583 To your eye, it's not. 975 00:38:32,583 --> 00:38:35,542 It stays the exact same speed. 976 00:38:35,542 --> 00:38:38,458 That tells me that it's probably a camera artifact 977 00:38:38,458 --> 00:38:39,917 of some kind. 978 00:38:39,917 --> 00:38:42,792 [suspenseful music] 979 00:38:44,625 --> 00:38:47,208 - Our verdict, lens flare, 980 00:38:47,208 --> 00:38:49,625 or another kind of camera artifact. 981 00:38:49,625 --> 00:38:50,958 We wish we could say this video 982 00:38:50,958 --> 00:38:52,333 brought us closer to an answer 983 00:38:52,333 --> 00:38:54,042 on the Foo Fighter legend, 984 00:38:54,042 --> 00:38:55,417 but not this time. 985 00:38:55,417 --> 00:38:57,375 Those mysteries continue. 986 00:38:57,375 --> 00:38:59,292 And as we've seen tonight, 987 00:38:59,292 --> 00:39:01,083 strange encounters are happening 988 00:39:01,083 --> 00:39:03,208 on planes across the globe. 989 00:39:03,208 --> 00:39:04,625 So the next time you fly, 990 00:39:04,625 --> 00:39:07,250 you may want to book an aisle seat. 991 00:39:07,250 --> 00:39:08,458 Thank you so much for watching 992 00:39:08,458 --> 00:39:09,458 this special edition 993 00:39:09,458 --> 00:39:10,917 of "The Proof Is Out There." 994 00:39:10,917 --> 00:39:12,417 Please send us any video, 995 00:39:12,417 --> 00:39:14,375 images or sound 996 00:39:14,375 --> 00:39:16,375 that you think we should investigate. 997 00:39:16,375 --> 00:39:18,875 And remember to keep those cameras rolling. 998 00:39:18,875 --> 00:39:21,542 [dynamic music]