- [Tony] Tonight on The Proof s Out There, Alien Edition,
what if the greatest secret
in human history is that we were never alone?
Have extraterrestrials made earth their home?
- [Josh] What the [bleep] are those?
- [Tony] A shadowy figure caught on camera.
Is this evidence that aliens are living among us?
- This footage seems to show a really tall alien like figure
around 10 feet or so tall.
- [Tony] And will these photos reveal that beings
from beyond have been hiding here for decades?
- Several of my colleagues at the Pentagon believe
whatever these are can operate in multiple dimensions.
- [Tony] With UFO reports at an all time high,
we are examining the most compelling evidence
caught on camera.
Tonight's focus, aliens living among us.
Our experts will analyze the evidence
and then pass a verdict.
- It definitely looks very humanoid in respect
to other aliens that we've seen.
Like a short gray with a bulbous head.
- There was discussion whether an alien was using
some technology to camouflage itself
within its surroundings.
- The proof starts now.
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- [Tony] Good evening everyone,
and welcome to "The Proof is Out There."
Is it possible that beings from another planet
could already be walking the earth?
Some people think the invasion started long ago
and a recent video sparked a media frenzy when an alien
allegedly appeared of all places outside a shopping mall.
[soft music]
It's January 1st, 2024.
At 8:30 PM police squad cars swarm an unfolding emergency
at Miami's Bayside Marketplace Mall.
It's a chaotic scene
as an onlooker pulls out his smartphone
and records the action from above.
Local resident Ryan Landy was watching
from a nearby balcony.
- We went out under our balcony
because we heard the screaming.
Police cars started showing up in droves.
People were just screaming
and running through the streets almost getting hit by cars.
We couldn't figure out what they were running from,
they were running for their lives.
- [Tony] This video posted on the internet shows a frenzy
of flashing cop cars
and figures scrambling in all directions.
[fast-paced music]
Then as it was posted online,
the video uses emoji hands to show something
that looks truly out of this world.
Did you catch it?
The quality of the video is very poor,
but look, again, as we slow it down.
It appears to be a giant figure, larger than the cars
and people surrounding it, and blurry as if cloaked
or camouflaged and it casts a large shadow,
which you can see here.
- [Ryan] Watching all of this, we were just really confused
and really fascinated.
We were just spending entire time trying to figure out
what was going on and we really couldn't.
- According to people online, this footage seems
to show a really tall alien like figure around 10 feet
or so tall, and they thought that that could explain
why so many police were called to the mall.
The clips took off and were viewed on social media
more than 7 million times.
- [Tony] Media outlets from around the globe report
on the public's paranoia over monstrous aliens
on the loose in Miami.
- [Erin] Some think that the reason we're seeing more
of these aliens is not
because they're coming from outer space,
but because they've been here all along.
- [Tony] It's a new concept
involving homegrown entities known as cryptoterrestrials.
- [Erin] A cryptoterrestrial is a civilization that
in theory has existed alongside humanity for millennia.
The idea is that there was some kind of cataclysmic event
that wiped most of them off the face of the earth
and the ones that survived are using advanced technology
that helps them stay undetected in areas
like the very deep sea or very far underground.
- [Tony] In 2024,
two Harvard Scholars published a scientific paper
that claims the sightings
of so-called aliens might actually be these survivors
of a long lost earth bound race gradually reemerging.
- [Erin] So some people are wondering if cryptoterrestrials
are actually making their way into society more and more.
[futuristic sounds]
- [Tony] There are those who believe that these
so-called cryptoterrestrials may have influenced
the human race over the millennia
as seen through our mythology and folklore.
Could ancient accounts of sunken civilizations
such as Atlantis or Lemuria
actually be describing cryptoterrestrials?
And if so, why would those
that remain be interested in a Miami shopping mall?
[futuristic music]
Could we be looking at some overgrown human
or animal in this footage?
- Just based on the human beings
that we've seen in this video,
it seems like this is maybe eight to 10 feet tall.
I don't see really any arm movements.
It almost seems like it's kind of like wobbly
and going slow.
- [Tony] So could this be some cryptoterrestrial?
- [Dr. Stephanie] If there were another species living amongst
us, you would think we would see some sort of physical remains.
We don't see any fossils or markings
or anything left behind at all, and if it was truly cryptic,
it doesn't make sense for one to be walking around
in such a densely populated area as Miami.
- [Tony] But what then was the reason
for this massive police response?
- [Dr. Stephanie] What happened at the mall is
that there were about 50 kids playing with fireworks.
This triggered people calling the cops
and they signaled a citywide three,
which means that all cops in the area had to deploy
to the scene to get it under control.
- [Tony] Okay, so the police were there
to bust some juveniles.
Then what the heck are we looking at in this video?
For that answer, we require some forensic video analysis.
- They put two different versions of the recording
with these different perspectives
in the same sequence.
So I applied video analysis methodology
to compare them side by side, and when we flip the one
and play them simultaneously, you can see
that it's the same events at two different quality levels
and we were able to essentially debunk
what was represented here.
- [Tony] Seeing the two images next to each other,
a clearer picture unfolds.
The alien was the police.
- [Michael] It's my opinion that this recording has been
compressed to a high degree misrepresenting
what was originally occurring on the ground.
Whether or not that was done intentionally, I don't know.
But with a higher quality version,
you can see the distinct characteristics
of these three individual subjects and not one.
And the Miami Police Department confirmed
that these were three individual officers.
[futuristic music]
- Our verdict, thanks to our expert's handiwork,
we can clearly see
that it's actually just three officers walking side by side.
Whether it was an intended prank or not remains unknown,
but the only thing haunting the mall
that evening was a round a group of teens
and given a choice, I'd rather deal with the giant alien.
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Bolivia is known for its multitude of mountains,
its abundance of alpacas and its cornucopia of cocoa fields.
Well, now we can add aliens to that list.
August, 2023, a group of hikers
are traversing Bolivia's scenic Rio Pilcomayo
near the city of Tarija.
One member of the party stops to take some pictures
and ends up capturing way more
than the breathtaking scenery.
It appears these unsuspecting hikers were not alone.
Pushing in on the image,
we see a thin, nearly translucent figure
walking along the riverbank.
It seems to be around four feet in size,
walking in a strange inhuman gate.
Eerily the creature's dead hollow stairs seems
to be directed straight at the photographer.
Many internet sleuths believe this photo
helps prove the existence of the infamous grays,
the most common type of alleged alien reported by abductees.
- What first caught my attention is it definitely looks
very humanoid in respect to other aliens that we've seen,
like a short gray with a bulbous head
or some type of bipedal humanoid entity,
and it falls in line with other beings
that have been reported under either alien abduction
or some type of a scenario
where an alien has been seen usually near some type
of a flying craft.
- [Tony] Martell singles out a sighting from 1978
that occurred in this very same region
where many eyewitnesses claim
to have seen a cylindrical spacecraft crash
into the side of a mountain.
- [Jason] Now for South America, this was equivalent
to a Roswell type event.
Hundreds of witnesses saw this
and even more heard a sonic like explosion.
- [Tony] Witness reports of this incident
claim the impact was so violent
it threw people to the ground
and shattered nearby glass windows.
- [Jason] And you have to wonder if events like this speak to
why we might be seeing entities like this walking around
in this location.
[soft music]
- [Tony] Bolivia is also home to the mysterious ancient ruins
of Puma Punku thought by some to be as many
as 17,000 years old.
Others believe the intricacy
of the stone cutting could be the work
of an advanced technology possibly from another world.
Could our photo be connected?
Let's see what our experts think.
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First, could someone in a costume be trying
to pull off a fast one?
- [Dr. Stephanie] It doesn't seem like it's a actual person
in a costume doing a hoax because the body is too thin,
the limbs are too thin to be a person.
- [Tony] However, she isn't convinced
that this photo is concrete proof
of an extraterrestrial species like the grays.
- [Dr. Stephanie] Grays are described as grays for a reason
because they're the color gray
and this one appears to be translucent, so it doesn't fit
with the definition of what people see.
According to the accounts that people have said about grays,
there's been no mention of light bending
or other sort of advanced camouflage used by the grays.
- [Tony] Manka also questions the authenticity of the image.
- What I personally think happened is
that somebody realized these kind of look like legs
and then doctored the photos and added the top part of it.
- [Michael] So the absence of the shadow of this object in the
area that it was captured on on the shoreline
as well as the absence in that reflection
of the the body of water beneath it is peculiar.
- [Tony] And while believers of his image claim the lack
of shadows and reflections could be aspects
of some alien cloaking technology,
Primo believes this picture has definitely been altered
in some way.
- So we take a look at the information within the picture,
take a deeper dive to try to see if we can detect
any evidence of alteration or manipulation.
And there's a test that we run called jpeg ghosts
that will show us evidence of recompression.
You can see a dip in the compression data.
This valley shows that the image has been processed
and the quality has been reduced at least one time.
- [Tony] So does that mean it's a fake?
- [Michael] The challenge becomes with this picture,
because it's been recompressed,
we simply don't know if the area in question on the creature
was added or removed.
We can't verify one way or the other,
but I have my concerns with this picture.
[futuristic music]
- [Tony] Our verdict, we're going with suspected hoax,
although there isn't enough technical data to confirm,
we agree with our experts that there's
definitely something dubious about this photo,
but rest assured if there are aliens wandering the mountains
of Bolivia, we'll find them soon enough.
but rest assured if there are aliens wandering the mounty] U.
The idea that UFOs can hide
or disappear to avoid detection has been a hot topic
among believers for years.
Is alien tech lurking in plain sight
and do two classic UFO photos provide the proof?
March 22nd, 1966.
It's a clear morning on Chalk Mountain in Climax Colorado
and technicians Robert Rinker
and Wilbur Johnson are taking the snowcat
for a spin snapping photographs
around their weather station.
As far as they remember, it's an uneventful morning,
but when Rinker develops the film, he discovers this.
An enormous saucer shaped object appears
to hover above the mountains.
It has two distinct parts, a wide domed top
and a ridge wrapping around the bottom.
What's most peculiar about the object is that it appears
to be translucent.
- Coincidentally, this wasn't the only picture
that was taken that year that showed some sort
of translucent or transparent UFO.
In fact, in Hillsdale County, Michigan,
there's another photograph of something similar.
- [Tony] Just one day before the Colorado photo is snapped,
the Hillsdale County Civil Defense Director,
William VanHorn, arrives at Hillsdale College
to investigate strange lights spotted
by a group of students.
Their sighting is just the latest in a wave
of sightings across Michigan.
And when William arrives,
he too sees the strange object in the sky.
After that, it doesn't take long
for the Air Force to get involved.
- [Luis] The Air Force conducted its own investigation
and surprise, surprise, they concluded it was swamp gas.
So Mr. William VanHorn decided
to release this photograph in order
to challenge the Air Force's official position.
VanHorn's UFO picture was also translucent
and saucer shaped.
[futuristic sounds]
- [Tony] Could these translucent saucers be proof
of a theory popular among UFO believers?
- There was discussion whether
or not this was evidence of cloaking,
whether an alien was using some technology
to camouflage itself within its surroundings.
- [Tony] The idea is that UFOs have the technology
to turn invisible or cloak to evade detection,
which would explain
why there are so few clear photos of them.
- [Amy] Could this be evidence
that aliens have been hiding in plain sight this whole time?
- [Tony] If aliens invisible to the human eye
really are living among us,
does that mean there could be one here or here?
And do these photos offer proof that they've arrived?
Our experts look into it.
[futuristic music]
Before we stampede towards some exotic theory,
we ask if this UFO could just be a cloud.
- My first thought when I first saw this image is
that we're looking at a lenticular cloud.
Lenticular clouds often look like a contact lens,
a concave shape,
- [Tony] Lenticular clouds form
when wind pushes moist air up onto a mountaintop.
Then as the air cools, it forms a cloud.
- [Juan] Interestingly enough, the weather on March 22nd, 1966
showed that the lowest wind speeds across the country
were right over Chalk Mountain.
So I don't think the conditions were right
for a lenticular cloud to form.
- [Tony] Plus a cloud would've been plain to see
for the two eyewitnesses.
So could it be that an invisible UFO was hiding right
before their very eyes only to be captured on film?
- If a UFO is visible only in the UV,
the ultraviolet spectrum,
then we wouldn't see it with our eyes.
We would only see it with a camera
that can look at ultraviolet spectrum.
But this photo was taken with a Zeiss Ikon camera,
which wasn't any such type.
- [Tony] Then what the heck is that thing hovering
just outside the snowcat?
Well, maybe it was inside.
- [Marc] This is very likely a reflection in the window
through which the photo was taken.
And if he's in a close quarters cockpit
of a snowcat or something,
that dome light fixture is gonna be right over his head.
And so he's gonna probably take that picture
through the window, lean toward the window,
and then you're gonna see the virtual image of the cockpit
of light in the background.
- [Tony] And we think something similar happened
in the Michigan photo.
- [Marc] One thing that tells you
that it's not something in the sky is the fact
that the sun is exactly as far away from the center
as this is away from the center.
That is one of the hallmarks
of the photo artifact we call a lens flare,
and that's what we're seeing here.
[futuristic music]
- [Tony] Our verdict, a reflection and a lens flare.
These weren't UFOs in hidden light spectrums.
They were tricks of light in the spectrum we do see.
- [Tony] Although famous for its natural beauty,
Colorado Springs is also known
for its numerous military bases
like the United States Air Force Academy
and its large number of UFO sightings.
As our next video will show you,
if you wanna see something truly unique
while visiting the area, I suggest you look up.
August 29th, 2021, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Josh Stoner is driving when he spots this in the sky.
- [Josh] That's in the sky right now, everybody.
- [Tony] Two mysterious, somewhat menacing objects
hover in the distance.
They begin undulating about independent from one another.
In the footage you can hear Josh's utter confusion
and we understand why.
- [Josh] What the [bleep] are those?
- Whoa, that's crazy.
Both of them look like they're alive.
It's displaying some tentacles or limbs or something.
It actually looks like some type of octopus or squid.
- [Tony] Tentacle creatures from outer space
are a common theme in the horror fiction of writers
like H.P. Lovecraft.
Could it be possible that we are looking at real evidence
of interstellar visitors from beyond?
- [Ken] There are actually many reports of what researchers view
to be UFOs that are alive,
unidentified flying objects
that either look like giant disc shaped objects
made out of flesh, or in some cases octopus, squid
or jellyfish type of animals
that are floating through the air.
- [Tony] Celebrated U.S. astronaut, Leland Melvin,
who has clocked over 560 hours in space,
believes he saw a translucent, curved, organic looking thing
hovering around the payload bay doors
during his time on the space shuttle Atlantis in 2009.
It's a fascinating theory,
but we'd be remiss not to point out the unique area below,
which is dotted with military installations
and air force bases.
Could these sites be related
to the strange events in the clouds above?
- [Ken] In 2019, the military demonstrated a new type
of drone technology.
Consisting of microdrones,
the drones are a collective organism utilizing one brain
for decision making, and these microdrones actually adapt
to each other and interact like a swarm
or a hive of individual units.
- [Tony] It was recently reported
that the U.S. is developing swarm technology
that could be used
to thwart a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
- [Ken] If the objective behind this microdrone technology is
to confuse the enemy, then what a better alignment
than the shape of a giant octopus
or squid flying through the air with flowing tentacles.
- Scarily enough, it's not just the military
that's using advanced drone technology.
Several years ago, a drone carrying six pounds
of methamphetamines crashed on the U.S. Mexican border.
Local authorities said
this was hardly the first time this had happened.
To find out more about what's in the skies overhead,
we turned to our experts.
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- Using some scientific methodology,
we can confirm that these objects are in the air
and are traveling throughout the air
and we're being photographed that way
based on the natural movements
of the camera at that distance.
- [Tony] So it's real, but what is it?
- The problem that I have with that theory is
that you can see that in some cases those tentacles separate
from the object and come back.
- [Tony] If we zoom into the video, we can see
that this may not actually be a solid singular structure.
- [Marc] You would expect the alien entity to be cohesive.
And that tells me that these are separate objects
all working in unison with each other.
- [Tony] So are they tiny drones in a drone swarm?
- [Marc] So with a military drone technology,
one of the things you would probably expect is
that you'll have one leader and the others will follow.
But in this particular case,
we're watching the leader change every split second.
It's changing all the time.
You would expect that there would be one cohesive leader
with the rest following in a formation.
This is too random.
We know in nature that this is something we've seen before.
A starling is a small bird.
In this particular case,
we have hundreds and hundreds of them.
They're safe moving in a flock.
One becomes a leader one second,
another becomes a leader another second.
- [Tony] While it still remains somewhat of a mystery,
scientists theorize that starlings
move like this in order to confuse
airborne predators like the peregrine falcon.
- [Marc] That is something that looks like this octopus in the
sky to people who may not know what this is,
and it does look very strange,
but that's what we're seeing here.
A murmuration of starlings.
[futuristic music]
- [Tony] Our verdict, a murmuration of starlings.
This creature looks so otherworldly
because it isn't just one creature, it's many.
It wasn't microdrones this time.
But given the Space Force installation
in Colorado Springs,
we're gonna keep our eyes on the skies.
- [Tony] Our next story was one of the biggest
and most controversial of 2023.
It's about alleged alien corpses
and coincidentally it went wide the same week NASA released
its first UFO report.
Mexico's government took this case seriously.
Should you?
Take a look.
Mexico City, September, 2023.
It's Mexico's first public congressional UFO hearing
and ufologist, Jaime Maussan, stands next to two boxes,
purportedly retrieved from Cusco, Peru.
- [Tony] A closer look reveals the extraordinary,
two tiny white corpses roughly humanoid in shape.
Beneath their ridged forehead appears two eyes,
a nose and a mouth with no teeth.
The arms and legs are both elongated
with three fingers stretching out on both hands.
- According to Maussan,
these two alien bodies were excavated
from a mine in 2017 near the ruins of Sacsayhuaman,
which is near Cusco, Peru, which actually lies adjacent
to many ancient and mysterious Inca ruins.
In addition to presenting the bodies,
Maussan also brought along an expert to the hearings
who testified that the mummies had been x-rayed
and that one of the individuals actually contained eggs
and that both of them had strange metal implants.
- [Tony] Maussan claims carbon dating performed
by Mexico's national autonomous university
shows these corpses are nearly 1000 years old.
And he says under oath
that upon testing the body's DNA,
over 30% was of completely unknown origin
with no match to any living organism on earth.
- After the hearing, CT scans like these were performed
on the alleged creatures.
The conclusion was the bodies belonged to a single skeleton
and that there was no evidence of assembly
or manipulation of the skulls.
But are the remains extraterrestrial or not?
Our experts investigate.
[futuristic music]
Jaime Maussan makes the extraordinary claim that 30%
of the DNA comes from a completely unknown source.
Could that mean it's something extra terrestrial?
- I don't think so.
If it had evolved from another planet,
we'd expect a hundred percent of the DNA to be unknown,
even to the fact we perhaps
have completely different genetic building blocks.
So I think all of these things point at something
that has been created on earth.
- [Tony] So can we then identify the 70%
of the remaining DNA?
If the bodies are at least partially human,
could they be mummified children from an ancient Inca tribe?
- [Dr. Ed] If we examine the x-ray, there are lots of
features that tell us that this isn't a human baby.
The skull has a very prominent supraorbital ridge,
that's the bony eyebrow ridge which you wouldn't expect
to see on a baby.
Even looks like there might be remnants
of ribs further down in the body,
whereas humans only have ribs in the thoracic spine.
- [Tony] So instead of a human,
could certain features remind us
of a different South American mammal?
- I believe that the skulls likely that of a llama
with its just its brain case.
If you remove the frontal bones of the llama
and just use what is left of the brain case,
flip it around and then you can
create something that has that brow ridge
on what you see the alien.
- [Tony] But the rest of the x-ray leaves us
with far more questions than answers.
- [Kathy] Everything about it is biologically wrong.
These eggs as an example, extraordinarily large,
and they're not even in where you would think
the uterus would be.
They're kind of scattered in the middle of the skeleton.
It's not natural to a human
or other animals that I am familiar with.
- [Dr. Ed] I think the skeleton to me just doesn't look right.
If you look at a hip joint, it looks like it'd be very prone
to dislocation.
It doesn't look like it would be compatible with life.
Things like that make me believe
that this is not actually a true organism.
- [Tony] If this is truly a hoax,
Gerhard says it wouldn't be Maussan's first offense.
- [Ken] My friends in the UFO community
were actually very skeptical when this all unfolded.
There have been multiple times in the past
when Jaime has presented what he described
as mummified alien bodies.
In a remarkable situation like this,
with remarkable claims being made,
there has to be peer review.
[futuristic music]
- [Tony] Given the present circumstances
and what our experts have to say,
we are calling this case a probable hoax.
And since we first started investigating ,
subsequent events confirm that conclusion.
In January, 2024,
authorities in Peru announced they stopped a shipment headed
to Mexico of similar looking creatures.
Forensic experts concluded those were nothing more
than dolls made of materials including paper,
glue, animal and human bones.
So no aliens for now,
but when the next discovery is made,
we will be sure to investigate.
- [Tony] With its warm waters and stunning coral reefs,
Mexico continues to be a destination
for all serious scuba divers.
And while encountering new
and unique forms of life as supposed to be part
of the scuba experience, could it be a new way
to spot alien life forms as well?
It's July 17th, 2022.
Scuba enthusiast and Instagramer Pedro Valencia is diving
in Cozumel, Mexico
when he comes across something highly unusual.
His camera captures a transparent creature drifting
through the waters with an eerie luminescent glow
and a lifeless fish seems
to be stuck in its neon appendages.
- [Ken] It's not a jellyfish that I'm familiar with,
it almost has a weird alien like appearance.
- [Tony] Did he say alien?
As we mentioned earlier,
some ufologists believe sophisticated extraterrestrials
are operating out of underwater bases.
But there's another theory
that alien life actually arrived here in a microscopic form.
- [Ken] So in recent years, there's been a hypothesis known
as the panspermia theory.
What this suggests is that life on earth was seeded
by matter from other planets, other solar systems
that traveled to earth perhaps hundreds
of millions of years ago.
[explosion sounds]
- [Tony] In 2018, a research paper created by a team
of 33 scientists was published
in a peer reviewed scientific journal,
claiming that one ocean dweller we all know
is a creation of the space seats.
The investigating team believed that many
of the extraordinary traits of the octopus were borrowed
not from some earthly ancestor,
but from somewhere else in the cosmos.
- [Ken] It has incredible intelligence.
It has the ability to morph
or change its body structure, its color and texture.
And perhaps most impressively, the octopus has the ability
to spontaneously alter its genetic code.
So these seem like supernatural abilities.
- [Tony] Likewise, could specimens like this one
in our video be proof of further aquatic extraterrestrials?
Several researchers say the reason octopi
and other cephalopods look
so different from other earthly creatures is
that this other worldly genetic mutation may have caused
them to look like whatever alien species
they allegedly spawned from.
Translation, some aliens could look like that.
Let's see what our experts have to say
about this underwater enigma.
[futuristic music]
- Octopuses go way back in the fossil record.
They are closely related to squids
and other groups of cephalopods.
They have evolved very little in the last millions of years.
[fast-paced music]
- [Tony] So is it possible that this specimen
is of alien origin?
- I don't think we have to look to foreign planets
to figure out what this creature is.
Theories like panspermia
aren't generally scientifically accepted
because we don't have a lot of direct evidence
for this actually happening.
Imagine a microorganism traveling for millions
of light years through space in extremely cold temperatures
with no nutrients, no oxygen, no atmosphere
to protect them from direct UV radiation
in a vacuum landing on a planet
that they're not even evolved to thrive in.
And that's not to say it couldn't happen,
but it doesn't make a lot of biological sense.
- [Tony] And as for that strange, unique glow?
- [Dr. Shea] Bioluminescence is a chemical reaction
that happens when the bacteria within the tissues
of the organism undergo an excitatory response
and that movement of electrons is triggered
and a flash of light is produced,
which can attract food items to it.
So this fish may have been attracted
by these little flashes of light.
- [Tony] With all our space alien theories deep sixth,
could we just be looking at an ordinary jellyfish after all?
- [Dr. Shea] What we're looking at isn't a single animal.
It's actually a colony
of animals that have formed together
to create one organism.
It's called a hydrozoan.
- [Tony] Hydrozoans like the Portuguese man-o'-war
are a multifunctional unit
where all the parts benefit from the whole.
And discovering one with bioluminescent qualities outside
of the deep ocean is quite a rarity.
- [Dr. Shea] Thousands of these little animals band together
to form essentially one cohesive organism.
So it is really kind of something
out of science fiction.
[woosh]
- [Tony] Our verdict, hydrozoan.
This is in fact not one animal,
but a group of creatures made up of a idarian jelly
and bioluminescent bacteria.
The debate about whether the octopus evolved
from an interstellar ancestor is still ongoing.
So we'll keep an eye on the oceans for any potential signs
of extraterrestrial life.
- [Tony] We brought you stories of strange creatures suspected
of being alien corpses before.
They've turned up in Charleston, South Carolina,
Russia's Alma region and elsewhere.
So when we saw evidence
of another mysterious case this, time from down under,
we felt it was our duty to investigate.
March 2nd, 2022.
It's morning in the suburb of Marrickville,
just outside Sydney, Australia.
After days of intense rainstorms,
a jogger is enjoying a break in the weather
to take a run when something unusual
on the ground suddenly catches his eye.
It appears to be an oval shaped creature,
perhaps two inches long.
Take a closer look.
Is that an eye and a tail?
- [Ken] I don't see any scales. I certainly don't see any hair.
It almost has kind of a gelatinous look to it.
It's kind of slimy, kind of pale gray or silver.
- [Tony] In fact, as far fetched as it seems,
the gray nature and fetal form of this creature
has someone social media theorizing
this could be the remains of a developing alien life form.
- [Ken] Perhaps the last time an alleged alien baby
made news headlines was in 1996
in the Ural Mountains of Russia.
Referred to as the Kyshtym Dwarf,
there was a strange humanoid creature that was found
by a local woman who was only about 10 inches long.
To this day, many of the villagers
in this particular region still wonder
whether it was in fact some type of alien creature.
- [Tony] We analyzed the Kyshtym footage
in an earlier episode,
and now with this strange life form,
could there be a link between these mysterious creatures
appearing around the world?
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In 1961, astronomer and physicist Frank Drake proposed
what's been called the Drake Equation as a way to come up
with a mathematical formula to estimate
how many other alien civilizations are out there.
Looking at this,
I don't think there's any question that it appears
to be some sort of early stage life form, but what?
And is it alien?
Let's ask the experts.
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- [Dr. Shea] People might think this looks a bit alien
because it's kind of gray.
It doesn't look like it has skin or scales,
but I don't think that's what we're seeing here.
It looks like it almost might be something
like a squid or octopus.
- [Tony] But wait a minute, why would a fetal squid
or octopus be on the road?
It could be a phenomenon called animal rain.
- [Dr. Shea] These animal rains tend to happen in coastal
environments where there's a lot of dynamic weather.
- [Tony] How would that even be possible?
- The weather conditions across Australia were very rare
for this time of the year.
That led to above normal rainfall.
In addition to tropical cyclones across the region.
- [Tony] Hernandez explains that the severe weather
could have led to a cyclone effect known as a water spout.
- [Juan] The updraft speeds
of water spouts oftentimes exceeds 20 miles an hour.
Given the radar data that we have from that day in Sydney,
it is possible that this organism was picked up
and deposited somewhere else due to water spouts.
But another explanation is birds.
Birds have come around,
picked up the animal from the water,
and as they're flying, drop the animal somewhere else.
But since there is no obvious injury to this creature,
it more than likely did not come
from a high distance in the sky.
- [Tony] But upon closer examination, is it possible
that whatever this is, it didn't come from the ocean?
- [Dr. Shea] I can tell that this long tail like appendage
is actually likely an embryonic notochord.
The notochord is the predecessor to the spine.
We all have this in the womb.
In addition, these kind of ridges that we see here
to me look a lot like gill slits.
And that's another interesting aspect of mammal evolution.
Mammals in the womb as embryos actually have gill slits
as a remnant of our history, beginning as aquatic fish.
So I think this is actually a terrestrial organism.
It's just at a very early stage of development.
If I had to guess,
I would say this is probably a marsupial embryo.
Maybe something like a possum, especially
because this is in Australia, which really is the land
of marsupials.
Marsupials don't develop fully in the womb.
At some point they actually migrate from the womb
to the maternal pouch of the mother
and continue development there.
So it's biologically possible
that something could have gone wrong
during the early development of this animal.
So instead of ending up in the marsupial pouch, for example,
it ended up in an unnatural environment.
- [Tony] But how did it get here?
- [Juan] The atypical weather conditions that we saw
around Sydney contributed to significant flash flooding.
And it's possible
that this particular organism lived somewhere far away
from Sydney and was deposited in the Sydney area
due to flash flooding.
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- [Tony] Our verdict, we're going with a possum embryo.
It seems to us Hernandez and Conger's takes on what it is
and how it got there, add up,
and unfortunately, due to climate change,
it also seems that Australia will see more
and more intense weather events like the one
that likely washed this creature into the streets.
If aliens live among us, are they visitors from the stars
or have they always been here?
With each new piece of evidence,
are we moving closer to solving the mystery?
Thank you for watching the 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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