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00:00tonight on the proof is out there is this a ufo tracking an american fighter plane i can't think
00:10of anything that size and shape that would be able to keep up with a jet fighter is this a sea serpent
00:15in north carolina look at that i didn't see anything like that and i've looked down every
00:2020 years is this a message from another galaxy voyager introduced prospective extraterrestrials
00:27to our civilization maybe this is their response and why are geese mobbing this car the earth is
00:35going through some changes that we don't sense but the animals do
00:40around the globe are videos one of those things it's moving photos and sounds that defy explanation
00:57we don't know where they come from who made them or how they operate what are they some sort of
01:03bizarre mutation what's exciting is nobody really knows extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof
01:09i'm tony harris and as a journalist for more than 30 years i've followed the facts where they take me
01:17now i'm bringing that spirit of investigation to the world's strangest sounds and images
01:23we'll analyze each one with top experts it's a credible case it's a credible video and pass a
01:31verdict on what it is this video was clearly faked the proof starts now
01:36good evening everyone and welcome to the proof is out there tonight we start near the southern border
01:51within the past few years three video shot in arizona were leaked to the public
01:56they reignited the conversation about uaps and border security we've investigated two of these cases
02:02before here is the latest clip april 14th 2021 east of tombstone arizona it's shortly after 11 pm
02:12and an agent with the department of homeland security is tracking an a-10 warthog plane
02:16he's operating a forward-looking infrared camera or flare mounted atop a truck the a-10 appear silhouetted
02:24because with this camera hot objects are black while cooler objects appear white the leaker didn't
02:30elaborate on why this plane is flying over arizona or why a dhs agent would be filming it but it's in
02:37our hands because nobody expected what happened next a spherical object appears to be chasing the
02:44fighter jet like the a-10 the object's heat signature is also black hot but when the agent changes to a
02:52different setting the uap shows up like a bright orb trailing the a-10 at times the light is traveling
02:58so fast the flare operator has problems following it and keeping it in frame this video remains secret
03:05until it was sent to ufo investigator andy marcion when i saw this and i realized that this was real
03:12i understood that you know what i got my hands on was a big deal for some this arizona sighting falls
03:21in line with much of what we've heard about uaps from other government sources at an april 2023
03:28congressional hearing dr sean kirkpatrick the head of arrow testified that 52 percent of all uap
03:35cases it has investigated the objects are spherical most measure between one and four meters across
03:41orbs like this one uncovered by investigative journalist jeremy corbell this unidentified object
03:48was photographed over mosul iraq in 2016. and usually their method of propulsion is never
03:54immediately obvious this sighting falls into all of the major categories aero is the all domain anomaly
04:03resolution office the department of defense's official agency for tracking unidentified aerial
04:09phenomena and title notes they've seen some similarities more concerning than others kirkpatrick also
04:16presented a number of cases where spherical ufos are seen trailing military planes the video shows that the
04:23object is keeping up with the a-10 warthog like it's nothing this has led some people to wonder
04:29whether these spheres are actually aliens tracking our military technology
04:38there are many reasons why extraterrestrials might be interested in our military surveillance curiosity
04:45one former nasa astronaut has even claimed that aliens prevented a nuclear exchange during the peak of
04:51the cold war so were aliens really monitoring the a-10 warthog or was this something else flying in the
04:58plains airspace after releasing the footage andy marcial went to his friend david falch for answers
05:09falch is a fleer technician and operator who works with the exact same cameras our video was shot on
05:16the first question is could this be much ado about nothing are we simply looking at a bird it appears
05:22that the object is flying around the same speed as the aircraft which is traveling about 340 to 350
05:29miles an hour i don't know any birds that fly 350 miles an hour next we check with rich hoffman of the
05:36scientific coalition for uap studies if it's not a bird could it be another object seen over the arizona
05:43desert nowadays within the last year alone there's been about maybe 2200 incidents reported by homeland
05:51security of drones being used to carry drugs across the border and into u.s territory however a drone
05:59wouldn't be changing the shape this particular object doesn't remain round in fact we don't know of
06:05any technology that changes shape like this as it flies what kind of airborne object can change its
06:12shape perhaps a balloon in the process of deflating we asked astronomer and visual effects artist mark
06:18d'antonio whether or not that theory is full of hot air could it be a balloon probably not based on
06:25the speed of its motion it looks like it's something that's moving along under its own power
06:30fast enough so that it can stay in the field of the a10 now it's still possible it could be caught
06:36in the fast moving wind column the winds and jet streams on average reach speeds of about 110 miles
06:42per hour but if a balloon was caught in that stream how could it keep up with the warthog which typically
06:48flies at 350 miles per hour so with no earthly explanation for this object could we be looking
06:54at something truly extraterrestrial it's changing its size we don't know any craft or any objects that
07:01can do that our verdict we're calling this one a genuine ufo and it's worth noting we see striking
07:14similarities here to other government released videos like the infamous uss nimitz tic tac but let's
07:20be cautious here we're still uncertain this object is of alien origin in any case andy keep them coming
07:30now from the desert to the water as we've noted before scotland's nessie isn't the world's only
07:37legendary aquatic monster people have spotted them right here in the us and some videos are cut above
07:43the rest check out this footage it's january 3rd 2023 in moorhead city north carolina captain daniel
07:51griffey and his girlfriend ashley wright are out in the port on his boat when they see something strange
07:57lurking in the waters daniel pulls out his phone and takes a video of a mysterious possibly snake-like
08:04animal circling his boat here's the moment it briefly pops its head out of the water
08:09look at that the couple is shocked by its sheer size about it's 22 foot long and it had to be
08:17ever been of 25 30 feet it wasn't like something i had seen in the water before we didn't have any
08:23idea what type of creature it was the animal looks like a cross between an alligator a manatee and a
08:29dolphin yet compared to the length of daniel's boat it appears to be much bigger than any of those aquatic
08:35animals though it's difficult to gauge the size with the shot zoomed in field researcher ken gerhardt
08:41knows the south is no stranger to mysterious water monsters 200 miles up the coast from this location
08:48we come to chesapeake bay nestled between maryland and virginia which is home to a monster known as chessie
08:54chessie is typically described as a dark gray serpentine animal about 20 to 40 feet long with a football
09:01shaped head the most notable chessie sighting on record occurred in 1982 when a man named bob fru
09:09videotaped a suspicious animal swimming near his dock on kent island maryland he described it as being
09:15up to 40 feet long he couldn't tell what it was for sure scientists from the smithsonian institute
09:21reviewed the footage and admitted that it appeared to show some type of animal that was real that was
09:26animate and that he was not familiar with another nearby legend is georgia's ultimahaha believed to
09:33live in the coastal marshes around the mouth of the ultimaha river this iconic sea monster with the
09:38flippers of a seal has in recent times been reported as being 30 feet long just like the creature spotted
09:45in north carolina in 1830 the captain of the schooner eagle claimed he saw ultimahaha off the coast of
09:53georgia he described it as about 70 feet long with large protruding eyes sharp teeth with an alligator
10:00shaped head to go along with its long tail could the creature in the video have migrated from georgia
10:06to north carolina's crystal coast let's see if our experts can reel in this maritime mystery
10:16let's do some process of elimination first could this be an alligator well it's not moving like
10:22an alligator would alligators swim more at the top of the water their tail is propelling them forward
10:29moving back and forth horizontally manka says that in contrast this sea creature is propelling itself by
10:36moving its tail vertically it's undulating through the water so it's going to the surface and going up
10:42and down up and down repeatedly another disqualifier this doesn't look like alligator skin especially in
10:49this shot right here when it's coming out of the water the skin looks really smooth i'm not seeing
10:53the bumpy scales that you would see on an alligator okay then could it be a different reptile like a
10:58giant sea snake sea snakes can get big but not that big and they're long and skinny this animal is really
11:05thick even a thicker snake like anaconda or a python i still don't think it would be as thick as this animal
11:13another obvious possibility often seen in the outer banks is the dolphin but that's not a good fit
11:19either the nose and face of this creature look too wide to be that of a porpoise or a dolphin and we
11:27don't see that dorsal fin or the fin on the back that we would see for a dolphin or a porpoise though
11:34before we plunge into the theory that this is in fact a legendary sea monster this creature does have
11:40one feature found on a dolphin or porpoise that might provide the definitive clue a blowhole based
11:47on the timing and the anatomical features that i'm seeing a defined backbone a dynamic tail that is
11:56horizontally oriented and what appears to be a blowhole i think that this is actually the calf of a
12:05northern right whale these animals actually do travel as far south as north carolina to have their
12:12young during the winter months so the time and the location matches up but how do you explain its
12:19slithering body a whale that slithers this is actually pretty normal movement for a juvenile whale
12:26they're pretty active and dynamic but the other thing we might be seeing here is that because this
12:31animal is so weak it's being pushed by the current and actually just trying to stay upright
12:41our verdict this is a north atlantic right whale calf it is one of the world's most endangered large
12:48whale species so daniel and ashley are very lucky they got a sneak peek
12:52in great britain a moor is an open hilly area of rough grass sometimes wet sometimes dry
13:02and fairly isolated the yorkshire moors is where the classic novel wuthering heights is set
13:09well according to one person the moors should also be known for something else alien encounters
13:15it's december 1st 1987 a story goes that a retired police officer named philip spencer was taking a
13:22routine morning walk across ilkley moore in west yorkshire england when his life changed forever
13:29local resident and tour guide tim barber knows spencer's tale and this mysterious landscape well
13:35ilkley moore is this wild landscape full of heather and wild marsh grasses so it's quite a desolate
13:42environment and if i'm taking people up on the moors the story of philip spencer always comes out
13:48barber says back in 1987 spencer was walking along the moors with his camera when he saw something
13:54strange in the distance and that's when he captured this he started to come across a six-seater figure
14:02which he just thought was another hiker but as he got closer i think it just seemed to be quite
14:07strange it got an enlarged head large long arms and um by all account had a green tinge
14:16this thing is pretty creepy looking it doesn't look quite human obviously it's kind of a mist shrouded
14:23location so we don't get a really clear visual years later the photo showed up on the internet by that
14:31time it had been enhanced three versions emerged in different color schemes in the enhancements you
14:38can see what looks to be a face with dark eyes it has long arms and large hands that helps make sense of
14:45the rest of spencer's story shortly after this the creature vanished and he saw what looked to be a
14:51strange type of craft taking off in the distance and going up into the air the next thing spencer
14:57remembered was his watch was behind by an hour and the magnetic compass that he had taken with him
15:02on the hike had reversed polarity he surmised that in that lost amount of time he'd been hit with an
15:09enormous amount of energy in fact he believed he'd been abducted aware his story was hard to believe he
15:16created the pseudonym philip spencer to protect his identity we don't know what his real name was and can't
15:23even confirm he was an ex-policeman but ken gearhart says what is certain is the area's connection to
15:29ufos this sighting is just one of several in the area which actually lies near an ancient neolithic
15:36stone circle known as the 12 apostles and like many ancient monolithic sites in england it's very
15:42mysterious we're not really sure who made it there are some who say that this ancient circle is actually
15:48evidence that aliens visited the moors a millennia ago and that the visitations continue to this very
15:54day in 2011 britain's telegraph newspaper called the ilkley moore alien sighting one of the top 10 uk
16:02ufo incidents of all time for decades the original photo and the enhancement
16:07have been studied backwards and forwards and now it's time for our experts to take a look
16:13first we ask anthropologist kathy strain to examine the enhanced photo the only thing that i can tell
16:24from the photo is that it's bipedal i find it creepy in the sense that it doesn't immediately
16:32look like a human all the other animals that exist in england they're four-legged hoofed animals dogs
16:40cows deer so i do not know if what we are seeing in that photograph is an alien or not next we take
16:48it to forensic photo and video analyst michael primo what i find peculiar is that when i examine images
16:55like this there's always only one the operator could have captured multiple images so why didn't
17:00they but it's the enhanced versions of the photograph that lead primo to have brave doubts what we're
17:07looking at here is three different iterations of this creature and what's interesting is the shadowing
17:13on the creature's face and down onto its torso and through its neck region for primo the details
17:19of an alien creature weren't revealed by the enhancement they were added none of that information is
17:25represented in the very first image that was captured information has been introduced shapes of
17:31things have been altered the perspectives have been skewed tonal values have changed basically i would not
17:37consider this an authentic representation of the events because of the number of changes that this picture
17:44has undergone it's a logical argument but strain believes the most important detail in spencer's story
17:51if true may not be in the photograph he had a compass with him that had reverse polarity and the only way
18:00that you can do that to a compass is that it is exposed to a high level of magnetism so it makes me wonder
18:10if he was near a ufo and then that's why his compass had that happen and so it leads me to believe
18:19regardless of the photograph maybe he's telling the truth
18:22our verdict we're going to go with unexplained phenomenon primo makes a good case that the
18:33enhanced photo was doctored but the original can't be entirely dismissed in fact one analysis conducted
18:40by kodak labs couldn't find any evidence of tampering on the original photograph clearly there's more
18:46investigating to do nearly everyone has had to break for wildlife at one time or another nothing strange
18:55about that but the animals crossing in our next video left spectators with goosebumps august 16 2022
19:05it's a beautiful day for a drive through long joe china but on this particular stretch of road things
19:10have come to a standstill and it's not because of traffic a car is pulled to the side of the road
19:17to let a gaggle of geese cross but the geese have other plans hundreds of the birds strangely circled
19:24the car surrounding it in an uncanny spiral while blocking traffic the sea of beaks moves about in
19:31a counterclockwise direction with no sign of stopping when i saw this video i thought is there
19:37a message that we need to be gleaning from seeing something so ominous what if the earth
19:44is going through some changes that we don't see or sense but the animals do brooks suggests a deeper
19:52connection with earth's magnetic field may cause animals to behave in ways that seem odd to their
19:57human neighbors scientists believe that we are well overdue for a full-on magnetic pole shift a pole
20:04shift is when the earth's magnetic north and south pole swapped location the magnetic field becomes
20:09jumbled but stays intact the last time this happened was nearly 800 000 years ago during a pole reversal
20:17it is said that the magnetic field actually weakens animals are tuned into our magnetic field a lot more
20:26than we are we've learned that livestock actually tend to line up in a north-south line kind of like
20:33a compass needle if we're seeing a shift the strange animal behavior is apt to happen i think that
20:39they're maybe more tethered to terra firma than we give them credit for scientists believe that many
20:46animals such as sharks sea turtles and even insects like honeybees use the earth's magnetic field for
20:53navigation if a switch occurred it could cause problems in terms of migration but brooks believes
20:58there could be another factor making these geese ambush this unsuspecting sedan there's a phenomenon
21:04known as imprinting and imprinting is when a young animal forms an attachment to this protector
21:12mother figure uh when they're first born as i looked at this i thought to myself are these geese
21:18imprinting on this car in other words the geese think the car is their mother turns out animals have
21:25been imprinting on inanimate objects for centuries in china rice farmers have historically imprinted
21:32newly hatched ducklings to a special stick which they then use to bring the ducks out to rice paddies to
21:37control the snail population so with imprinting they are sort of looking for this parental figure as a form of protection
21:47this is far from the first time we've covered weird animal behavior we've seen an elephant that could
21:53supposedly talk and strange sheep circling in both china and the uk some of those phenomena remain
21:59unexplained we're hoping our experts will have more luck figuring this one out
22:08wildlife biologist stephanie manka isn't so sure that these geese are imprinting this car
22:14as a potential mother figure we have a lot of geese in this situation and they would all have to be
22:21around this car as goslings there's a critical window for imprintation after the young are hatched
22:27so it is very unlikely that this many geese were in contact with this car and happen to come across
22:34it now crossing the road and as far as magnetic fields are concerned manka points out that the poles
22:40have reversed before with very little fallout from the animal community we are overdue to have the poles flipped
22:47but it doesn't seem to be a big concern in history there haven't been major changes when this has happened
22:54biologist floyd hayes says many people online were comparing this to a death spiral
23:00an act commonly found in insects like ants where part of a group loses their orientation
23:05and end up walking in circles until dead from exhaustion i think this is quite different than
23:10the death spire that we see in certain insects birds have larger brains than insects and they're
23:16not dumb enough they're going to walk in circles until they die ultimately hayes thinks we're simply
23:21seeing a flummoxed gaggle temporarily following its own tail i think the geese just got a little bit
23:27confused they were following the leader and the leader was following others suspect a few minutes
23:33later he stopped that behavior and walked off the side of the road i think it was just a temporary
23:37phenomenon our verdict this is a case of mass goose confusion like the blind leading the blind a couple
23:50of geese got turned around and let their flocking instincts get the better of them leading the rest in
23:56a time-consuming loop around the car we're happy to report that the geese did eventually make it to safety
24:02before the oncoming traffic turned them into pate did you know that the first photograph was taken
24:10in the 1820s since then humans have taken more photos than we could possibly count but who took
24:17the first photo of a ufo and was it the real deal it's the winter season of 1870 and 1871 on mount
24:26washington in new hampshire photographers amos cloth and howard kimball are on a meteorological
24:32expedition when they unwittingly snap a photo that makes history the stereograph or pair of photos
24:39taken simultaneously by a dual lens camera would have originally been viewed through a stereoscope
24:45a precursor to the view master toy we know today it appears to show a fluffy white cloud
24:53but look closer right in the center is a dark cigar shaped object that seems to be flying in the clouds
25:01it doesn't have any wings or means of propulsion that we can see what could it be in 1870 there
25:09were no airplanes it's clearly not a bird so what could possibly be floating in front of the clouds like
25:15this this is thought to be the first ufo photo ever taken but it's hardly the first sighting of its kind
25:22one such incident was in 1860 in wilmington delaware residents reported seeing something 200 feet long
25:30streaking across the sky and in 1876 residents of sacramento california reported seeing something
25:37that looked like an electric arc lamp propelled by some mysterious force crossing over them in the sky
25:45at the time these reports referred to the strange objects as mystery airships and with the 20th century
25:51came more photos of them like the so-called sawmill ufo snapped in ward colorado believed to have been
25:58taken taken in 1929 edward pline was in ward to photograph the sawmill when he heard a thunderous
26:05boom overhead he said that when he looked up he saw what looked like a giant spherical boulder passing
26:12over him in the sky that makes at least two antique ufo photos still drawing eyes today the challenge with
26:20these vintage ufo photographs is that we don't have as much data about them as we do modern photographs when
26:27we look at certain old ufo photographs there really is a mystery as to what it could possibly be
26:35in a criminal investigation an open and unsolved case is generally considered cold after only one
26:41year so have these ufo cases frozen in time gone too cold to solve we ask our experts to turn up the heat
26:50first astrophotographer andrew mccarthy considers if the mount washington ufo could be some kind of
27:00early aircraft today we have aircraft flying over constantly in thousands of satellites in our night
27:08sky back in the 19th century none of that was relevant now there were hot air balloons still this ufo's
27:16oblong profile clearly doesn't match that of a hot air balloon that means an early aircraft explanation
27:22is out but what about the sawmill photo now one of the unique things about this photo is it doesn't
27:28actually have an eyewitness to go along with it other than the photographer the workers heard a noise and
27:34felt a shutter but they didn't see this object the photographer did allegedly see the object at the time
27:41he snapped the photo but mccarthy questions that claim he suspects there may be something else at play
27:46here what i think we're looking at here is actually a drop of moisture getting sandwiched in between
27:51these negatives there's old photos like this just filled with artifacts and they probably all happen
27:58in the dark room when the film negatives were being processed but it's unlikely that a film artifact
28:05could explain away the mount washington ufo since it appears in both of the images but film
28:10producer sam sherman who owns the physical stereograph says it's that stereoscopic view that unlocks the
28:17whole story everybody on the internet who claims that this is an object flying over mount washington
28:25it's because they're looking at one eye view of a stereo card it looks like it could be flying
28:32over the snow-capped mountain but then when you see it in stereo with your two eyes seeing the 3d
28:38you see it's embedded in the snow stereoscopy works just like our eyes displaying a pair of
28:44two-dimensional images from slightly different angles that when combined create a single three
28:49dimensional image and since the background immediately surrounding the ufo doesn't shift
28:55from the left image to the right that means this ufo isn't flying at all when they list in their catalog
29:02what they've taken a photograph of they call it frost architecture in other words a photo of a snow
29:09bank on the mountaintop that's feet rather than miles away not an image of a faraway cloud in the sky
29:16hoffman says that when it came to photographing something as featureless as snow back in the day
29:21a photographer would often add an object to indicate scale so what's happened is that they probably have
29:27set their ruler over there on that frost architecture to give a perspective in terms
29:33of how big this thing is that they're looking at
29:40our verdict the eyes have it once you understand stereoscopy it is easy to identify this as a ruler in
29:49the snow of course ufos could have been visiting earth back in the 19th century
29:55but we can say for sure they didn't photobomb this shot trucking is a unique way to see the country
30:03if you can put up with the long hours on the road and if you know your cb lingo however the trucker in
30:10our next story may have seen or heard more than he bargained for breaker breaker one nine this is the
30:16good reverend t boogie here anyone out there with your ears on roger and cover that march 23rd 2023
30:24after a long day of driving danny ramirez is stopped at a truck stop near beaver marsh oregon
30:29off route 97. it's almost 11 p.m but after recording these sounds he wonders if he wouldn't
30:36have been better off if he had kept driving
30:43i'm starting to regret that i stopped at this
30:53it did spook me i was scared in the video as you can tell you know i've stopped all over the country
30:57i've heard a lot of spooky things but nothing like that like many online danny thinks this could be
31:03the call of a sasquatch which many americans often call bigfoot and he's not the only one
31:10this vocalization was obtained right on the edge of the umcqua national forest which is thousands and
31:15thousands of square miles of prime sasquatch habitat with a long history of sighting reports
31:21in fact highway 97 the road where this was recorded traverses a particularly secluded portion of the
31:27national forest with only one isolated highway intersection one might wonder why a sasquatch
31:34would be hanging out around a rest stop where clearly a lot of people go to well there's a
31:38perfectly good explanation for that food right the bigfoot is thought to be an opportunistic eater
31:44just like most bears and canids sharing the same traits and scavenging for food sasquatches have
31:49actually been observed raiding trash cans at rest stops along the highway when no one else is there
32:01many researchers believe that if bigfoot does exist its diet might resemble that of wolves and
32:07coyotes as large predators who are opportunistic eaters these creatures aren't very picky
32:14and must quickly snatch prey without scaring it off could this be why so many bigfoot recordings
32:20feature the sound of howling canids let's check in with our experts
32:29first forensic audio analyst rob maher rules out some potential local culprits
32:34here's a recording of an elk sound and we can see it's actually a higher frequency than we observe in the
32:41howl
32:50a wolf sound has the duration similar to what was recorded in the truck stop recording
33:05but the wolf howl is very distinctive and does not have the same rising and falling characteristic
33:14that are present in the truck stop recording so could this be bigfoot biological anthropologist
33:21and anatomist dr jeff meldrum takes a listen as with with many animals and especially with with higher
33:30primates sasquatch seems to present quite a diverse repertoire of vocalizations and so this truck stop
33:38vocalization is not out of the character of various reported sasquatch calls
33:46but not so fast there are a couple segments early in the recording where there are these dark bands
33:52where the sound sort of disappears that always raises some concern about the authenticity so trying
33:58to understand this we did a little bit of investigation and found on the internet a recording of various
34:05howl sounds enemies time gaps and the sequence of these sounds matches danny's recording virtually
34:13perfectly visually you can see here that everything lines up the evidence here would indicate to me that
34:20this recording was created by playing back a known recording in the truck stop and this was a hoax
34:38don't be too disappointed though this still doesn't answer the question of what caused these sounds
34:43in the recording we discovered on the internet so how those sounds were made and what those indicate
34:49still are unexplained and that's a copy good buddy and be safe out there okay so we are calling this
35:06one a host it's not the first time we've seen someone stealing an audio sample and it surely won't
35:12be the last but we still don't know what made the original sound so who knows maybe it
35:19was a bigfoot we won't know until we investigate further in the meantime keep on trucking the james
35:27webb space telescope has been crucial in teaching us more about our universe it discovered carbon
35:33dioxide on one of jupiter's moons and even water vapor on a distant planetary system but as many answers
35:41as we've been getting images like this next one raise even more questions literally july 26 2023 the european
35:50space agency releases a brilliant image from the james webb telescope of two young stars forming 1470 light
35:59years away among the other cosmic swirls and sparkles in the picture are objects easily recognizable as
36:06galaxies and stars and then there's one detail that shakes the world zooming in below the mass of
36:13forming stars there's a tiny orange glow that is shaped like a question mark author jason martell
36:20explains how this little piece of punctuation became a big viral hit the internet instantly began
36:26clamoring about the strange object what it could be one net citizen suggested the aliens know that we
36:32found them there were many people that instantly jumped on this thing it's a fake it's been doctored
36:38and isa the european space agency quickly said no this is a real image and it hasn't been doctored
36:45the discovery of a question mark was completely unexpected some believe it may actually be a response
36:51to humanity's own space exploration in 1977 nasa sent the probes voyager one and two on missions to
37:00collect data on the outer planets of our solar system in 2012 voyager one officially left our
37:06solar system could it be someone found it our first voyager probes included time capsules and it
37:13introduced prospective extraterrestrials to our civilization maybe this question mark is their
37:18response was this perhaps put there to catch our attention while others see the possibility we're
37:25witnessing one of the most mysterious phenomena in the universe black holes maybe it's literally
37:31pulling the swirl of that galaxy into what looks like now a question mark being sucked into this
37:37supermassive black hole this is something that's really unknown and deserves further investigation
37:47according to the center for astrophysics there could be as many as a hundred million black holes in our
37:53milky way galaxy alone could that be what we have here or is there some sort of advanced intelligence
37:59involved our experts are ready with some answers at the center of almost every galaxy that we've ever seen
38:12we see a black hole but this does not look like what a typical black hole is we have images from the event
38:19horizon telescope of the black hole at the center of the milky way and of other black holes and you see
38:27this black circle or ellipse with an orange-ish light around that represents the light the matter the dust
38:37and gas that's either falling into the black hole or trapped in eternal orbit of it and you don't see
38:44this actually a supermassive black hole cannot be question mark shaped it can only be spherical elliptical
38:53kind of a flat elliptical shape if it's rotating with a great degree of speed okay then could it
39:00actually be a message from an alien civilization dr chadaga says the answer to that question is all about
39:06time and the speed of light we are looking at it as it was billions of years ago not as it looks like
39:16now and so not only did humanity not exist but any signal from earth has not been able to reach
39:26these vast distances yet but why does it look like a question mark professor kaku says in order to solve
39:32the mystery you need to think in three dimensions one thing about a two-dimensional photograph is you
39:38don't know how distances are if you could somehow leave the earth and look at this from a different
39:44angle perhaps the question mark would fall apart as a consequence you would see distinct features
39:51unrelated to each other as to what those features are both kaku and chadagas agree the question mark
39:58is probably the collision of two galaxies and when you put them together from this angle it looks like
40:05a question mark the twisting top part would be the first galaxy and that dot on the bottom possibly the
40:12second i'm frankly surprised we haven't found more question marks because the universe is very big if we
40:19look hard enough we are going to find every kind of punctuation mark
40:30our verdict merging galaxies sad to say this time it's no alien message but it is fascinating how much
40:38we can learn about the universe from a fraction of a fraction of a single image and the good news is
40:44that there will be many more to come the telescope is expected to remain operational up there for at
40:51least 20 years and that's our show for tonight as always thank you so much for watching and remember
40:57so much for watching and remember to keep those cameras rolling
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