Strange Evidence (2017–…): Season 4, Episode 10 - Doomsday Vegas UFO - full transcript
After cameras capture footage of a UFO over Las Vegas, officials claim it's just a meteor, but some suspect something far stranger; using cutting-edge tech, experts investigate if it's evidence of an alien visit or a top-secret mi...
Worldwide,
27 billion cameras
are watching us...
On our streets,
at work, and in our homes.
They capture things
that seem impossible.
It defies the laws of physics.
This is unbelievable, man.
Experts carry out
forensic analysis
of these unusual events.
Now, that's an explosion.
There's got to be something
we're missing in this video.
Something we're not seeing,
right?
What else is going on here?
Coming up...
Have terrorists got
a weird new type of car bomb?
Holy cow.
What are these balls
writhing on a texas road?
I've never seen anything
quite this weird at the park.
And is las vegas getting a visit
from the ultimate
out-of-towners?
I turned and looked up
in the sky
and saw what looked like
a big explosion.
This is unreal.
Bizarre phenomenon.
Whoa.
Mysteries caught on camera.
What's the truth behind this
strange evidence?
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In an underground parking lot,
smoke billows from under a car.
And then...
Holy cow.
Is this some international
spy game going on here?
Did they try to blow a dude up?
Experts fear
an assassination attempt.
Is it some kind of attack
that's gone wrong?
It points
to a notorious
international crime syndicate.
Qiantang province in china
is kind of well-known
for having
organized crime activity.
The triad gangs have routinely
used high explosives
as part of their crimes.
Shanghai, china,
a megacity of 27 million people
over three times
the size of new york
and a global
economic powerhouse.
Here, finance, manufacturing
and shipping
generate $550 billion a year,
making it
the country's richest city.
April 21, 2019.
A luxury car is parked
in one of the city's
many underground parking lots.
So basically it just looks like
this car is just sitting there.
Just no one's there,
no one's around.
Smoke begins to pour
out from the car's underside.
And then suddenly...
This car
just explodes out of nowhere.
It's just sitting there
one minute
and a ball of flames the next.
Analysts struggle to explain
the bizarre explosion.
There's nobody around the cars,
so the car's not being driven.
It can't be overheating.
The blast is suspicious,
but the burnt-out shell
that remains
offers few clues
as to what or who is to blame.
You know, it's really lucky
that no one was in there.
Military analyst
carlo muñoz studies the footage.
He finds the origin
of the blast suspicious.
And one of the first questions
that pops up to me
in seeing this video
is this has to be
some sort of targeted attack.
Because the explosion itself,
while it did spread
to the other cars next to it,
it really was focused
on this one vehicle.
Was this a car bomb, perhaps
an attempted assassination?
Car bombs are a method of murder
favored by terrorists
and hit men worldwide.
They have a long
and bloody history.
But the 1920s is when you start
to see car bombs
being used on a regular basis.
But they really took
off a few decades later.
Throughout the 1970s,
irish mobster danny green
terrorized ohio's underworld.
In a single year,
there were 36 attacks.
Green's taste
for explosive homicide
ultimately leads
to his own demise.
Fittingly, it's a car bomb
that kills him.
Muñoz believes if the footage
in china
does show evidence
of a targeted attack,
the location may provide
a clue who's behind it.
Now, the video was shot
in shanghai,
which is one of
the largest cities in china.
Now, in any large city,
you're going to have
some sort of organized
crime element operating it.
China's triads
are one of the most feared
criminal gangs
in the world with hundreds
of thousands of members.
Their evil grip extends globally
with chapters in many countries,
including america, canada
and even in north korea.
The tribes participate
in all kinds
of traditional
organized-crime activities,
everything from extortion
to prostitution,
all the way to drug trafficking.
Triad gangs have routinely
used high explosives
as part of their crimes.
Now, in 2019,
the hong kong police
actually raided a triad
hideout/bomb factory.
And inside they found 4.4 pounds
of high-explosive materials.
In 2015, police
arrested 19,000 suspected triads
in a 3-month operation,
but it didn't put an end
to their hold here.
The fact that it's an expensive
car only hardens that belief
in maybe an assassination
and the car bomb.
Car bombs are designed
to explode
when someone gets
into the vehicle.
Is this a bomb
that went off too soon?
Matt kutcher is
a hollywood pyrotechnics
and ballistics expert
with over two decades'
experience.
The explosive whisperer.
Yeah, I guess
you could say that.
He's devising an experiment
to see if the explosion
in the video matches a car bomb.
We've really emptied this car
out of just about everything
so we could focus
all of our attention
on the explosive charge.
Does it resemble what we've seen
in this parking garage?
Rock back on the forks!
The first thing
that kutcher's team
needs to do is to move the car
to a place
they can safely blow it up
and record the results.
We want to get this car
in a position
that the high-speed camera
can film it in a way
where we can see the front,
the back and everything
that happens within it.
Next, the team carefully sets
the explosive charges.
So we're gonna use
some high explosives
and the gasoline,
the fuel, that's been found
in pretty much every car.
And together, combined,
that should be quite a hell
of an explosion.
We're ready to go.
Let's blow it.
When everything is ready.
Kutcher retreats
to a safe distance.
All right, gentlemen.
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So clearly this explosion
completely decimated the car.
And it happened
in a matter of seconds.
I mean, it's just
a raging inferno
and nobody could survive that.
It's certainly nothing like
what we witnessed
in the video, right?
In the footage, first
smoke builds under the car.
Then a few seconds later,
the vehicle erupts into flames.
But in the experiment,
the blast is instantaneous
and far more explosive,
powerfully launching shrapnel
in every direction.
For kutcher, this means
only one thing.
So in the video,
clearly what we witnessed
is not a car bomb.
Because what we just did
doesn't look similar in any way.
We've got to figure out
what it was.
Coming up,
are cars of the future
going to make
their drivers history?
It's crazy to think we're going
to have millions of pounds
of these flammable chemicals
driving around on the streets
by the end of the decade.
What are these writhing masses
of horror on a texas highway?
So I get close and I decide
that it's not something
I want to touch.
A car in a shanghai parking lot
erupts into flames.
When engineer
lisa lazareck-asunta
takes a closer look
at the footage,
she thinks that the smoke
that billows out
before the explosion
could be a vital clue.
Was something wrong
before it was parked?
She thinks
that what's under the hood
could be significant.
We're dealing with
very expensive,
sophisticated, battery-run car.
Looking at the footage again,
the smoke originates
from under the car
and the batteries are stored on
the chassis, on the underside.
I think we might be looking
at a battery fire.
Each car like this is packed
with over 7,000 individual
lithium-ion batteries,
enough to power
a small house for a week.
One of the things about
lithium-ion batteries
that makes the really good
as fuel cells
is also what
makes them dangerous.
They can store a lot of energy
and that energy
is chemical energy.
Lithium is a highly
volatile compound.
If it's not handled properly,
the consequences can be deadly.
Usually what happens is
the battery gets shorted, swells
and then produces a lot of smoke
before catching on fire.
And the flame is usually
a jet of flame
bursting out from the battery
as it begins to burn.
The slightest crack or
bang on that lithium battery,
and it comes in contact
with the air,
you've got big fire.
The car
in the footage appears to have
suffered a similar catastrophic
lithium-based fate.
Today, there are approximately
one million electric cars
on america's roads.
Over the next decade,
that number is expected
to jump to almost 20 million.
It's crazy to think that
if estimates are right,
we're gonna have
millions of pounds
of these flammable chemicals
driving around on the streets
by the end of the decade.
Now, on an ordinary
texas highway,
writhing balls
of serpentine creatures
appear in the middle
of the road.
I've never seen anything
quite this weird at the park.
These look to be sort of
moving together as one entity.
What are these creatures
and why are they
in such a uniform pattern?
Just some bizarre,
natural-occurring event.
Locals fear these strange,
slimy masses are a harbinger
of deadly danger to come.
Animals can sense natural
disasters before they happen.
Eisenhower state park,
463 acres of rugged wilderness
nestled on the banks
of lake texoma.
May 29, 2015.
Park ranger katie sailing
is out on a routine patrol.
We got a lot of rain.
The weather was just bizarre.
It hadn't happened
like that for years.
The severe weather
forces half the park
to close down,
but rangers still need to check
the campgrounds for damage.
I see something really strange
in the middle of the road,
something I'd never seen before.
The ranger find 10
or more bizarre clusters
lining the middle of the road.
As she approaches, sailing makes
an horrific discovery.
It looks like clumps of dirt.
But as soon as I get
close enough to see,
I can tell that it's not dirt
and that it's moving.
Not just moving, but squirming.
So I get close and I decide
that it's not something
I want to touch.
So I grab a stick
and that's when we realize
it's bunches of worms.
But what are they
doing on the road?
And why are they spaced out
in an almost
mathematically precise line?
I've seen lots of earthworms
in my day,
but I've never seen them
behave like this.
There is a lot
of animal behavior
that seems weird
and alien to us.
When threatened, horned lizards
increase the blood pressure
in their sinuses
so much that they explode,
shooting blood out of their eyes
up to 5 feet away.
The hairy frog
is a real-life version
of the superhero wolverine.
They break their own toe bones
and push them through their skin
to act as weapons.
And a species of termite
in the rainforests
of french guyana
turns itself
into a suicide bomber.
Toxic crystals are produced
by glands in the abdomen
that creates a liquid
that explodes on enemies,
paralyzing them
and killing the termite.
But biologist danni washington
believes these worms
would only have to come
to the surface like this
if there is some
impending catastrophe
they are desperate to escape.
Animals can sense natural
disasters before they happen.
I, for one,
know that ibis birds in florida,
well, they get out of dodge.
They leave the area whenever
a hurricane is on the way.
It isn't just weather
that animals are believed
to be able to predict,
but natural disasters, too.
Cats and dogs, for example,
behaving in slightly strange
ways just before an earthquake
is something
that's widely reported.
It was the ancient
greeks who first noticed
that animals appeared to have
this predictive power.
People still take these natural
early-warning signs seriously.
This belief is so widely held
that in 1975 in a city in china,
they actually evacuated the city
partially based
on animal behavior.
People noticed that cows
and horses
were restless and chickens
refused to enter their coop
and even the rats were
acting like they were drunk.
Amazingly,
there was an earthquake.
And had they not
evacuated the city,
the casualties could have been
in excess of 100,000 people.
Scientists are unable to explain
why animals
have this super sense.
But greg szulgit has studied
one credible theory.
It's possible that some animals
could be picking up
on low-level p-waves
that come from earthquakes,
that we don't pick up ourselves
without equipment.
So they may be sensing
something before we do.
So are these clumps...
Is this behavior a clue
that something bad
is about to happen?
Coming up...
Is texas about
to be flooded with worms?
As that water starts to rise up,
they allow themselves
to float up out of the ground.
And how does this man
appear out of nowhere
near a secret test facility?
Many believe that teleportation
is really
just around the corner.
A texas park ranger
finds wriggling balls
of worms on a highway.
Bizarrely, they seem to be
routinely spaced
a few inches apart,
straight down the middle
of the road.
Worms. Lots of worms.
But why are they
in these clumps?
Fascinating and kind of gross
at the same time.
Storm chaser george kourounis
looks at weather records for
the day the footage was shot,
and he wonders
if these creatures
could have been fleeing
for their lives.
The weather records
tell quite a tale
and could be
directly responsible
for what we're seeing here.
May of 2015
was the rainiest may on record
for texas.
Worms need to breathe
just like you and me.
Yet they don't breathe
like you and me.
We breathe through our mouths
and our nose.
Worms breathe
through their skin.
Air dissolves
in the worms' mucus exterior.
Oxygen is then
drawn out of the membrane
into the worm's body.
And this is why worms
have to be moist all the time.
But while worms like the rain,
they can mistake the tremors
caused by heavy downpours
to be the vibrations of
a predator digging towards them.
As that water starts to rise up,
they allow themselves
to float up out of the ground.
Could this possibly
be some mass migration
of the local earthworms
out of the soil
that has been completely
saturated by record rainfall?
And the only safe high ground
that they can find
is in the middle of the road.
But the sides of the road
in the footage
don't look flooded,
and this is the only location
in the state of texas
where this was reported
to happen.
And that doesn't explain
why they appear
to be uniformly spaced.
Looking closer
at the big picture,
sure, the worms are in piles
to help each other,
but it's just not natural...
The level of organization.
Why are they spaced
apart and why exactly here?
What's so special
about this particular spot?
The eerily precise
distribution along the highway
in neat and even clumps
remains a mystery
even to those
who know the park well.
I've never seen anything
quite this weird at the park.
And so we still aren't
quite sure
why they gathered like this
at this time.
Now close to the
world's leading research center
in quantum physics,
something freaky is going on.
What? There's no one there.
And the car stops, he's there.
That is pretty weird.
A man appears out of nowhere
before getting up
and running off.
This is like something out
of "the terminator."
out of nowhere,
someone just appears
in the middle of the road.
Experts ask
if this could be evidence
someone has achieved the holy
grail of secret technology.
Many believe that teleportation
is really
just around the corner.
Tsukuba, japan,
about an hour's drive
from downtown tokyo is home
to the national laboratory
for high-energy physics,
one of the world's
leading particle physics
research facilities.
Hundreds of scientists work
on top-secret projects
that few outside the sphere
would fully understand.
They have built vast proton,
electron and positron
accelerators
and are investigating
the relationship
between matter particles
and their anti matter.
January 2017.
A driver travels down
a rainy city road
as a dash cam films
through the car's windshield.
As he drives around a bend,
an oncoming vehicle
emerges on the opposite side.
Then, shockingly,
a figure appears out of nowhere.
When this footage leaked online,
it got people talking.
This doesn't look like something
that should be possible.
What? There's no one there.
And the car stop,
and he's there.
Even more bizarrely,
after the vehicle
comes to a halt,
the man gets up from the ground
and runs away,
seemingly uninjured.
You're just driving along the
road, and then suddenly,
out of nowhere,
someone just pops up.
Ex-nypd image analyst
conor mccourt
studies the footage for clues.
So the mystery of this video is
where does this guy come from?
That's the question.
So what I'm gonna do
is pinpoint that moment
in which he appears.
The problem with this video
is that it's low quality.
There's a lot of digital
compression.
And we also have raindrops
all over the windshield.
This isn't gonna be an easy one.
We're gonna have
to do some digging
and think outside the box.
Such a bizarre incident
so close to a weird
world-renowned science lab
has excited
some wild speculation
straight out of sci-fi.
But the disturbing thing is
the most far-out notions
often have some basis
in fact and science.
So you see this person
appearing from nowhere,
and you can almost say
it's like teleportation.
Physicist simon foster
has studied teleportation...
The idea of instantaneously
transporting physical matter
from one location to another.
Now, you think that's out
of the movies,
but in actual fact,
it's something
that's scientifically possible.
Chinese scientists have managed
to beam photons,
that's little parcels of light,
up to a satellite
orbiting 500 miles
above the earth.
And this wasn't a one-off.
They managed to do it 90 times.
So this is repeatable.
The scientists were
able to do this via process
called quantum entanglement,
where two particles are
entangled or locked together.
When you split them up,
what happens to one
instantly happens to the other,
no matter where it is.
You can take them
thousands of miles apart.
But the key thing is
what you do to one,
you do to the other.
So if you turn one,
you turn the other.
Instantaneously, it happens
at the same time.
You can transfer information
across huge spaces,
the entire width of the galaxy
in a fraction of a second,
far faster than
the speed of light.
Using this new technology,
the future
of teleporting large particles
or even living beings
could be closer than we think.
Scientists are
actively working on a way
to teleport complex particles.
So many believe
that teleportation is really
just around the corner.
Think about that.
Instantaneous transfer
of goods and services
across the world.
We wouldn't have to have
jet airplanes.
The transportation sector
would be pretty much dismantled.
We would instantly go
from place to place.
It would change human history.
Coming up,
is this video evidence
of something even stranger
happening at the nearby lab?
Shrinking a human down
to the size of an ant
is not outside
the realm of possibility.
And what happens in vegas
leaves scientists baffled.
I turned and looked up
in the sky
and saw what looked like
a big explosion.
A dash cam captures the moment
a man seems to appear out
of nowhere
on a japanese city street
before running off
into the twilight.
Intriguingly, this footage was
filmed in the city of tsukuba,
home to one of the world's
leading particle physics
laboratories.
Is there any link
between what happened here
and the facility in tsukuba?
Science journalist
jeff wise examines the footage
and is reminded of a superhero.
The clip kind of reminds me
of the movie "ant-man"...
...Where you've got this...
This guy who can switch
into a really tiny, tiny guy.
And then he gets... boop.
He pops up and it looks like
he's just materialized.
Shrinking a human down
to the size of an ant
is not outside
the realm of possibility.
It may sound crazy,
but experts believe
that it is possible.
In order to shrink
a large object such as a human,
first you would have to reduce
the empty space
inside of all of its atoms.
If you blow an atom up
to the size of, say,
a football stadium,
the nucleus would be tiny
right in the middle
on the 50-yard line,
whereas the electron
that orbits it
would be no more
than the size of a baseball
and would be all the way
at the end of the end zone.
All of that space in between
is completely empty.
Squashing this space
down seems logical,
but there's
a problem with this idea.
Unfortunately, you can't simply
just reduce the space.
You can't squash things down
because the more
you try to squash it,
the more they squish back,
they push back
and then repel back down.
The laws of the universe
dictate that this empty space
inside an atom
cannot be shrunk without
destroying the atom itself.
But in 1936, scientists studying
the cosmos discovered something
which could make
shrinking humans a possibility.
It's called muonic matter
or muons.
They are heavy electrons,
so heavy
that when they form an atom,
the atom is about 200 times
smaller than an ordinary atom.
Think about it.
The same chemistry
that we learned in high school,
except these objects are
200 times smaller than normal.
If you could replace
all the electrons
inside a human body with muons,
would shrinking a human being
to the size
of an ant be possible?
So you can imagine
if you had a person
that was made entirely
out of these sort of
muonic elements,
that it would be much tinier.
And somehow
if all those muonic elements
turned into normal elements,
there you are suddenly
paul rudd or whatever.
You know, you're sort of
a big-size, normal person.
Governments have been
very keen to get hold of this,
because obviously, if you can
shrink a man or a woman down
200 times in size,
they can get anywhere.
So this would be incredibly
useful for good and for bad.
But could there be
a simpler explanation?
There is a bridge close by.
Could this person
have just dropped from it?
What we have here
is a black s.U.V.
If we take the measurements
of the black s.U.V.
And compare that to the bridge,
we can figure out what
the height of the bridge is.
The average height of an s.U.V.
Is 6.2 feet.
If we stack four s.U.V.S
on top of each other,
that's about 25 feet, which is
about the height of the bridge.
A drop of 10 feet
can be enough
to fracture your spine.
How could a man have fallen
or jumped from 25 feet
in a fraction of a second
and then walked away
seemingly uninjured?
The identity of the man
remains unknown.
Who he was and however
he got there remains a mystery.
The way the guy
gets out of there real quick
seems like he might have
something to hide.
Really wasn't interested in
answering any kind of questions
about what just happened.
Now high above area 51,
an unidentified ball of fire
on a collision course
with earth.
It looks like a firestorm
just streaking across the sky.
This is unreal.
It's headed straight
for las vegas.
Sin city appears to be
under attack.
What is that?
But by what?
If I was that guy,
I'm not sure I'd be filming it.
I'd be, like, running away.
Las vegas, nevada.
Each year, 42 million tourists
descend on the desert
gambling mecca.
The strip has over 15,000 miles
of neon tubing,
making this
the brightest spot on earth.
July 27, 2016, 9:40 p.M.
Local resident trevor kerr is
driving home.
I was headed home.
A friend of mine
called from out of state
and we haven't spoken
in a while.
So I thought I'd pull over
to the car park
and have a proper chat.
As he talks, trevor's
eyes are suddenly drawn
to a fiery streak illuminating
the darkened skies.
I turned and looked up
in the sky
and saw what looked like
a big explosion.
This is unreal.
It was pretty shocking.
I've never seen anything
like that before.
And it's just
blowing across the sky.
So I hung up the call.
I pulled the phone out
and just started filming.
Kerr stands mesmerized
by the bright, burning object
consumed by a sense
of foreboding.
My first thought was maybe
an airplane had exploded.
I'm thinking, "is this...
Is this something bad?
Is it like 9/11
happening all over again?"
but it's just moving too fast.
It couldn't be an airplane.
Coming up, are chinese space men
making an unscheduled visit
to vegas?
You would end up with,
you know, bits of hot metal
falling in the wrong places
and doing some sort of damage.
And a monster in a bedroom.
This is in the closet
in a house that people live in.
Get out of the house.
A fiery streak creeps
across the vegas sky.
What is this light
traveling at such high velocity?
I don't know what that is.
The most obvious answer
was the initial response
given by the government.
Nellis air force base initially
came out and stated
that this object
was most likely a meteor.
But the fireball in the footage
bears none of the hallmarks
of a superheated space rock
crashing to earth.
When I think of
a typical, like, meteor
entering the atmosphere,
it lasts for just
a second or two.
But this thing just goes on
and on and on.
It's not one quick streak.
In fact, it's several of them.
And they just kind of
slowly move along, burning.
Whatever this is,
it clearly isn't a meteor.
There were suggestions
that the air force statement
may have been intended
to deceive the public.
Witnesses have reported
u.F.O. Sightings over las vegas
for a long, long time.
There is no doubt
that there are lots
of things going on in the area.
Area 51 is not far from vegas.
So you just never know
what you're gonna see
in the night sky.
In 1958, 38,400 acres of land
located 120 miles north
of las vegas in remote desert
was withdrawn from public use
by the u.S.
Atomic energy commission.
This became the location
for a top-secret military base
known by various names...
Paradise ranch,
watertown, dreamland,
or most famously, area 51.
It is so secret that when skylab
astronauts inadvertently
took pictures of it in 1974,
the film was confiscated
and locked
in a restricted vault.
The cia only publicly
acknowledged
the existence of the base
in 2013.
This is an area
that's been used for testing
of experimental aircraft
since the early 50s.
So this has been going on
for a very long time
and accounts
for a lot of the sightings
of strange aircraft
in the nevada area.
Astrophysicist
athena brensberger
considers if the u.S. Military
is trying to conceal
the catastrophic result
of its latest
aerial prototype testing.
If that aircraft development
has been continuing
up till today,
maybe this is what we're seeing
in the video.
Maybe it was
a secret aircraft development
that's gone horribly wrong.
But when space
journalist amy shira teitel
views the footage,
she suspects the date the video
is filmed can help identify
what the object is
and where it's from.
One possibility is that this
is actually a man-made object
re-entering the atmosphere.
There are reports
that a chinese mission
that launched a month earlier
actually had
some pieces of hardware
that took that full month
to re-enter the atmosphere.
It's possible that that light
over las vegas
is part of that chinese rocket.
Just like a meteor,
the air resistance will
break them apart
and they'll burn up
into fragments
as they fall back to earth.
But why would
a chinese rocket booster
fall close
to a major american city?
The chinese space
program is incredibly ambitious
and hopes to catch up with
and eventually surpass
american-russian efforts.
China has already built
a prototype space station
and is planning
a human mission to the moon.
China didn't send
a man into orbit until 2003,
but it is quickly
becoming a space superpower.
To fuel this ambition,
china currently launches
more rockets
than any other nation on earth.
When you launch something
like a satellite into orbit,
most of the rocket
is actually just the booster,
the part needed to actually
get that tiny satellite
off the earth and into space.
Everything that doesn't go into
orbit has to fall back down.
As the 6-ton
second-stage booster
of the long March 7 rocket
collides with
the earth's protective shield
at an incredible
18,000 miles per hour,
this is the dramatic result
of flaming ball of fire
over the las vegas skyline.
I've never seen
anything like that before.
An unsuspecting family
finds something terrifying
lurking in their bedroom.
This is in the closet in a house
that people live in.
Get out of the house.
The way it hangs,
it's so creepy and gangly.
It looks like no
creature known to science.
I want to know
what this thing is,
if it's dangerous,
and if there are more of them.
Coming up,
the unbelievable truth
behind this bizarre creature.
Sometimes nature can be weirder
than anything we could imagine.
A bizarre creature is
filmed in a tropical bedroom.
The islands of indonesia.
This unreal volcanic landscape
is like the land
that time forgot.
Amazed zoological explorers
to this part of the world
have described it
as a lost world of beasts.
On the indonesian
island of sumba,
scientists have discovered
the bones of dwarf elephants,
giant rats,
and other extinct creatures.
Huge komodo dragons,
the largest lizards
in existence,
still roam the forests here.
June 17, 2019.
While relaxing at home,
local resident hari toet
suddenly sees
a monster in his bedroom.
There's this
crazy-looking creature
hanging from this guy's closet,
and it's got this
inflatable appendage
or antenna of some sort.
It's really weird.
It kind of reminds me to
a degree of the "alien" movies.
It's the sort of thing
that would suddenly jump
onto your face
and impregnate you.
I mean, it's a really
horrible creature.
As hari moves in closer to film,
the thing suddenly reacts with
swift and apparent aggression.
Is it trying to grab on
to something?
I wouldn't want to be the one
to be grabbed onto.
The creature's
bizarre appearance
seems to defy
rational explanation.
There's something really
crazy going on here.
This biologist is intrigued.
Biologist greg szulgit
studies the footage.
He thinks we could be watching
some kind of horrific
dance of death.
The two halves of this
thing seem really different.
Could it be that this is
actually two creatures together
where one is either
eating the other
or interacting with it
in some way?
The insect world has
no morality, no scruples,
and the only rule
is survival at any cost.
We certainly know that there are
some insects
that intentionally paralyze
their victims,
like parasitic wasps.
The opportunistic
female lays her eggs
inside the body
of a newly hatched caterpillar.
The larvae eat the insect until
they're ready to break free,
using saw-like teeth.
And the poor thing is
alive until the eggs hatch
and eat
their way out of the victim.
If you think
that sounds disturbing,
meet the terrifying
assassin bug.
Its preferred method
of execution
is to impale its victims
with its razor-sharp proboscis,
suck them dry,
and then carry the corpse
on its back
as a macabre form of camouflage.
Sometimes nature can be weirder
than anything we could imagine.
Investigators consider
if the footage has captured
a grotesque display of nature.
Now, I've never seen anything
like this before.
But there are, we estimate,
about 4 million insects
that we still have not
identified and cataloged.
But when biologist carin bondar
examines the footage,
she thinks the time of year
the thing was spotted
points to a different
explanation.
I immediately went
to my calendar
because this footage was taken
in the summertime...
Prime mating season for insects.
Could this be some kind of weird
mating display?
Insect mating rituals
are some of the strangest
in nature.
When it comes to sex,
no one is weirder
than the insects.
Everything is on the table,
whether it's hanging
from the ceiling,
cutting each other's heads off
or ripping off
various other body parts.
Sex is weird.
Entomologist kevin kaski
looks closely at the features
of this weird creature.
I think I found
the creature
that matches the description.
It is a creatonotos gangis,
but the specimen that we're
looking at in this video
is larger than normal.
Bondar believes
the bizarre-looking creature's
enhanced size
is a sign it wants to reproduce.
They have a superpower and that
is these unfoldable tendrils
that are actually scent glands
that males can use
to emit signals to females
when they're looking for a mate.
The alien-looking creature
has four semi-transparent
hairy scent glands,
or coremata,
that inflate like balloons
from its behind.
Weirdly, before transforming
into an adult,
the infants feast on toxic
alkaloid plants
like indian heliotrope,
also known as scorpion's tail.
Deadly to humans,
the more these creatures devour,
the bigger their glands can grow
when they reach maturity.
I think this animal
proves to us yet again
that nature can be
utterly disgusting,
really quite horrible.
Despite the fact
that this looks really bizarre,
it's actually just a guy
looking for love.
27 billion cameras
are watching us...
On our streets,
at work, and in our homes.
They capture things
that seem impossible.
It defies the laws of physics.
This is unbelievable, man.
Experts carry out
forensic analysis
of these unusual events.
Now, that's an explosion.
There's got to be something
we're missing in this video.
Something we're not seeing,
right?
What else is going on here?
Coming up...
Have terrorists got
a weird new type of car bomb?
Holy cow.
What are these balls
writhing on a texas road?
I've never seen anything
quite this weird at the park.
And is las vegas getting a visit
from the ultimate
out-of-towners?
I turned and looked up
in the sky
and saw what looked like
a big explosion.
This is unreal.
Bizarre phenomenon.
Whoa.
Mysteries caught on camera.
What's the truth behind this
strange evidence?
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In an underground parking lot,
smoke billows from under a car.
And then...
Holy cow.
Is this some international
spy game going on here?
Did they try to blow a dude up?
Experts fear
an assassination attempt.
Is it some kind of attack
that's gone wrong?
It points
to a notorious
international crime syndicate.
Qiantang province in china
is kind of well-known
for having
organized crime activity.
The triad gangs have routinely
used high explosives
as part of their crimes.
Shanghai, china,
a megacity of 27 million people
over three times
the size of new york
and a global
economic powerhouse.
Here, finance, manufacturing
and shipping
generate $550 billion a year,
making it
the country's richest city.
April 21, 2019.
A luxury car is parked
in one of the city's
many underground parking lots.
So basically it just looks like
this car is just sitting there.
Just no one's there,
no one's around.
Smoke begins to pour
out from the car's underside.
And then suddenly...
This car
just explodes out of nowhere.
It's just sitting there
one minute
and a ball of flames the next.
Analysts struggle to explain
the bizarre explosion.
There's nobody around the cars,
so the car's not being driven.
It can't be overheating.
The blast is suspicious,
but the burnt-out shell
that remains
offers few clues
as to what or who is to blame.
You know, it's really lucky
that no one was in there.
Military analyst
carlo muñoz studies the footage.
He finds the origin
of the blast suspicious.
And one of the first questions
that pops up to me
in seeing this video
is this has to be
some sort of targeted attack.
Because the explosion itself,
while it did spread
to the other cars next to it,
it really was focused
on this one vehicle.
Was this a car bomb, perhaps
an attempted assassination?
Car bombs are a method of murder
favored by terrorists
and hit men worldwide.
They have a long
and bloody history.
But the 1920s is when you start
to see car bombs
being used on a regular basis.
But they really took
off a few decades later.
Throughout the 1970s,
irish mobster danny green
terrorized ohio's underworld.
In a single year,
there were 36 attacks.
Green's taste
for explosive homicide
ultimately leads
to his own demise.
Fittingly, it's a car bomb
that kills him.
Muñoz believes if the footage
in china
does show evidence
of a targeted attack,
the location may provide
a clue who's behind it.
Now, the video was shot
in shanghai,
which is one of
the largest cities in china.
Now, in any large city,
you're going to have
some sort of organized
crime element operating it.
China's triads
are one of the most feared
criminal gangs
in the world with hundreds
of thousands of members.
Their evil grip extends globally
with chapters in many countries,
including america, canada
and even in north korea.
The tribes participate
in all kinds
of traditional
organized-crime activities,
everything from extortion
to prostitution,
all the way to drug trafficking.
Triad gangs have routinely
used high explosives
as part of their crimes.
Now, in 2019,
the hong kong police
actually raided a triad
hideout/bomb factory.
And inside they found 4.4 pounds
of high-explosive materials.
In 2015, police
arrested 19,000 suspected triads
in a 3-month operation,
but it didn't put an end
to their hold here.
The fact that it's an expensive
car only hardens that belief
in maybe an assassination
and the car bomb.
Car bombs are designed
to explode
when someone gets
into the vehicle.
Is this a bomb
that went off too soon?
Matt kutcher is
a hollywood pyrotechnics
and ballistics expert
with over two decades'
experience.
The explosive whisperer.
Yeah, I guess
you could say that.
He's devising an experiment
to see if the explosion
in the video matches a car bomb.
We've really emptied this car
out of just about everything
so we could focus
all of our attention
on the explosive charge.
Does it resemble what we've seen
in this parking garage?
Rock back on the forks!
The first thing
that kutcher's team
needs to do is to move the car
to a place
they can safely blow it up
and record the results.
We want to get this car
in a position
that the high-speed camera
can film it in a way
where we can see the front,
the back and everything
that happens within it.
Next, the team carefully sets
the explosive charges.
So we're gonna use
some high explosives
and the gasoline,
the fuel, that's been found
in pretty much every car.
And together, combined,
that should be quite a hell
of an explosion.
We're ready to go.
Let's blow it.
When everything is ready.
Kutcher retreats
to a safe distance.
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So clearly this explosion
completely decimated the car.
And it happened
in a matter of seconds.
I mean, it's just
a raging inferno
and nobody could survive that.
It's certainly nothing like
what we witnessed
in the video, right?
In the footage, first
smoke builds under the car.
Then a few seconds later,
the vehicle erupts into flames.
But in the experiment,
the blast is instantaneous
and far more explosive,
powerfully launching shrapnel
in every direction.
For kutcher, this means
only one thing.
So in the video,
clearly what we witnessed
is not a car bomb.
Because what we just did
doesn't look similar in any way.
We've got to figure out
what it was.
Coming up,
are cars of the future
going to make
their drivers history?
It's crazy to think we're going
to have millions of pounds
of these flammable chemicals
driving around on the streets
by the end of the decade.
What are these writhing masses
of horror on a texas highway?
So I get close and I decide
that it's not something
I want to touch.
A car in a shanghai parking lot
erupts into flames.
When engineer
lisa lazareck-asunta
takes a closer look
at the footage,
she thinks that the smoke
that billows out
before the explosion
could be a vital clue.
Was something wrong
before it was parked?
She thinks
that what's under the hood
could be significant.
We're dealing with
very expensive,
sophisticated, battery-run car.
Looking at the footage again,
the smoke originates
from under the car
and the batteries are stored on
the chassis, on the underside.
I think we might be looking
at a battery fire.
Each car like this is packed
with over 7,000 individual
lithium-ion batteries,
enough to power
a small house for a week.
One of the things about
lithium-ion batteries
that makes the really good
as fuel cells
is also what
makes them dangerous.
They can store a lot of energy
and that energy
is chemical energy.
Lithium is a highly
volatile compound.
If it's not handled properly,
the consequences can be deadly.
Usually what happens is
the battery gets shorted, swells
and then produces a lot of smoke
before catching on fire.
And the flame is usually
a jet of flame
bursting out from the battery
as it begins to burn.
The slightest crack or
bang on that lithium battery,
and it comes in contact
with the air,
you've got big fire.
The car
in the footage appears to have
suffered a similar catastrophic
lithium-based fate.
Today, there are approximately
one million electric cars
on america's roads.
Over the next decade,
that number is expected
to jump to almost 20 million.
It's crazy to think that
if estimates are right,
we're gonna have
millions of pounds
of these flammable chemicals
driving around on the streets
by the end of the decade.
Now, on an ordinary
texas highway,
writhing balls
of serpentine creatures
appear in the middle
of the road.
I've never seen anything
quite this weird at the park.
These look to be sort of
moving together as one entity.
What are these creatures
and why are they
in such a uniform pattern?
Just some bizarre,
natural-occurring event.
Locals fear these strange,
slimy masses are a harbinger
of deadly danger to come.
Animals can sense natural
disasters before they happen.
Eisenhower state park,
463 acres of rugged wilderness
nestled on the banks
of lake texoma.
May 29, 2015.
Park ranger katie sailing
is out on a routine patrol.
We got a lot of rain.
The weather was just bizarre.
It hadn't happened
like that for years.
The severe weather
forces half the park
to close down,
but rangers still need to check
the campgrounds for damage.
I see something really strange
in the middle of the road,
something I'd never seen before.
The ranger find 10
or more bizarre clusters
lining the middle of the road.
As she approaches, sailing makes
an horrific discovery.
It looks like clumps of dirt.
But as soon as I get
close enough to see,
I can tell that it's not dirt
and that it's moving.
Not just moving, but squirming.
So I get close and I decide
that it's not something
I want to touch.
So I grab a stick
and that's when we realize
it's bunches of worms.
But what are they
doing on the road?
And why are they spaced out
in an almost
mathematically precise line?
I've seen lots of earthworms
in my day,
but I've never seen them
behave like this.
There is a lot
of animal behavior
that seems weird
and alien to us.
When threatened, horned lizards
increase the blood pressure
in their sinuses
so much that they explode,
shooting blood out of their eyes
up to 5 feet away.
The hairy frog
is a real-life version
of the superhero wolverine.
They break their own toe bones
and push them through their skin
to act as weapons.
And a species of termite
in the rainforests
of french guyana
turns itself
into a suicide bomber.
Toxic crystals are produced
by glands in the abdomen
that creates a liquid
that explodes on enemies,
paralyzing them
and killing the termite.
But biologist danni washington
believes these worms
would only have to come
to the surface like this
if there is some
impending catastrophe
they are desperate to escape.
Animals can sense natural
disasters before they happen.
I, for one,
know that ibis birds in florida,
well, they get out of dodge.
They leave the area whenever
a hurricane is on the way.
It isn't just weather
that animals are believed
to be able to predict,
but natural disasters, too.
Cats and dogs, for example,
behaving in slightly strange
ways just before an earthquake
is something
that's widely reported.
It was the ancient
greeks who first noticed
that animals appeared to have
this predictive power.
People still take these natural
early-warning signs seriously.
This belief is so widely held
that in 1975 in a city in china,
they actually evacuated the city
partially based
on animal behavior.
People noticed that cows
and horses
were restless and chickens
refused to enter their coop
and even the rats were
acting like they were drunk.
Amazingly,
there was an earthquake.
And had they not
evacuated the city,
the casualties could have been
in excess of 100,000 people.
Scientists are unable to explain
why animals
have this super sense.
But greg szulgit has studied
one credible theory.
It's possible that some animals
could be picking up
on low-level p-waves
that come from earthquakes,
that we don't pick up ourselves
without equipment.
So they may be sensing
something before we do.
So are these clumps...
Is this behavior a clue
that something bad
is about to happen?
Coming up...
Is texas about
to be flooded with worms?
As that water starts to rise up,
they allow themselves
to float up out of the ground.
And how does this man
appear out of nowhere
near a secret test facility?
Many believe that teleportation
is really
just around the corner.
A texas park ranger
finds wriggling balls
of worms on a highway.
Bizarrely, they seem to be
routinely spaced
a few inches apart,
straight down the middle
of the road.
Worms. Lots of worms.
But why are they
in these clumps?
Fascinating and kind of gross
at the same time.
Storm chaser george kourounis
looks at weather records for
the day the footage was shot,
and he wonders
if these creatures
could have been fleeing
for their lives.
The weather records
tell quite a tale
and could be
directly responsible
for what we're seeing here.
May of 2015
was the rainiest may on record
for texas.
Worms need to breathe
just like you and me.
Yet they don't breathe
like you and me.
We breathe through our mouths
and our nose.
Worms breathe
through their skin.
Air dissolves
in the worms' mucus exterior.
Oxygen is then
drawn out of the membrane
into the worm's body.
And this is why worms
have to be moist all the time.
But while worms like the rain,
they can mistake the tremors
caused by heavy downpours
to be the vibrations of
a predator digging towards them.
As that water starts to rise up,
they allow themselves
to float up out of the ground.
Could this possibly
be some mass migration
of the local earthworms
out of the soil
that has been completely
saturated by record rainfall?
And the only safe high ground
that they can find
is in the middle of the road.
But the sides of the road
in the footage
don't look flooded,
and this is the only location
in the state of texas
where this was reported
to happen.
And that doesn't explain
why they appear
to be uniformly spaced.
Looking closer
at the big picture,
sure, the worms are in piles
to help each other,
but it's just not natural...
The level of organization.
Why are they spaced
apart and why exactly here?
What's so special
about this particular spot?
The eerily precise
distribution along the highway
in neat and even clumps
remains a mystery
even to those
who know the park well.
I've never seen anything
quite this weird at the park.
And so we still aren't
quite sure
why they gathered like this
at this time.
Now close to the
world's leading research center
in quantum physics,
something freaky is going on.
What? There's no one there.
And the car stops, he's there.
That is pretty weird.
A man appears out of nowhere
before getting up
and running off.
This is like something out
of "the terminator."
out of nowhere,
someone just appears
in the middle of the road.
Experts ask
if this could be evidence
someone has achieved the holy
grail of secret technology.
Many believe that teleportation
is really
just around the corner.
Tsukuba, japan,
about an hour's drive
from downtown tokyo is home
to the national laboratory
for high-energy physics,
one of the world's
leading particle physics
research facilities.
Hundreds of scientists work
on top-secret projects
that few outside the sphere
would fully understand.
They have built vast proton,
electron and positron
accelerators
and are investigating
the relationship
between matter particles
and their anti matter.
January 2017.
A driver travels down
a rainy city road
as a dash cam films
through the car's windshield.
As he drives around a bend,
an oncoming vehicle
emerges on the opposite side.
Then, shockingly,
a figure appears out of nowhere.
When this footage leaked online,
it got people talking.
This doesn't look like something
that should be possible.
What? There's no one there.
And the car stop,
and he's there.
Even more bizarrely,
after the vehicle
comes to a halt,
the man gets up from the ground
and runs away,
seemingly uninjured.
You're just driving along the
road, and then suddenly,
out of nowhere,
someone just pops up.
Ex-nypd image analyst
conor mccourt
studies the footage for clues.
So the mystery of this video is
where does this guy come from?
That's the question.
So what I'm gonna do
is pinpoint that moment
in which he appears.
The problem with this video
is that it's low quality.
There's a lot of digital
compression.
And we also have raindrops
all over the windshield.
This isn't gonna be an easy one.
We're gonna have
to do some digging
and think outside the box.
Such a bizarre incident
so close to a weird
world-renowned science lab
has excited
some wild speculation
straight out of sci-fi.
But the disturbing thing is
the most far-out notions
often have some basis
in fact and science.
So you see this person
appearing from nowhere,
and you can almost say
it's like teleportation.
Physicist simon foster
has studied teleportation...
The idea of instantaneously
transporting physical matter
from one location to another.
Now, you think that's out
of the movies,
but in actual fact,
it's something
that's scientifically possible.
Chinese scientists have managed
to beam photons,
that's little parcels of light,
up to a satellite
orbiting 500 miles
above the earth.
And this wasn't a one-off.
They managed to do it 90 times.
So this is repeatable.
The scientists were
able to do this via process
called quantum entanglement,
where two particles are
entangled or locked together.
When you split them up,
what happens to one
instantly happens to the other,
no matter where it is.
You can take them
thousands of miles apart.
But the key thing is
what you do to one,
you do to the other.
So if you turn one,
you turn the other.
Instantaneously, it happens
at the same time.
You can transfer information
across huge spaces,
the entire width of the galaxy
in a fraction of a second,
far faster than
the speed of light.
Using this new technology,
the future
of teleporting large particles
or even living beings
could be closer than we think.
Scientists are
actively working on a way
to teleport complex particles.
So many believe
that teleportation is really
just around the corner.
Think about that.
Instantaneous transfer
of goods and services
across the world.
We wouldn't have to have
jet airplanes.
The transportation sector
would be pretty much dismantled.
We would instantly go
from place to place.
It would change human history.
Coming up,
is this video evidence
of something even stranger
happening at the nearby lab?
Shrinking a human down
to the size of an ant
is not outside
the realm of possibility.
And what happens in vegas
leaves scientists baffled.
I turned and looked up
in the sky
and saw what looked like
a big explosion.
A dash cam captures the moment
a man seems to appear out
of nowhere
on a japanese city street
before running off
into the twilight.
Intriguingly, this footage was
filmed in the city of tsukuba,
home to one of the world's
leading particle physics
laboratories.
Is there any link
between what happened here
and the facility in tsukuba?
Science journalist
jeff wise examines the footage
and is reminded of a superhero.
The clip kind of reminds me
of the movie "ant-man"...
...Where you've got this...
This guy who can switch
into a really tiny, tiny guy.
And then he gets... boop.
He pops up and it looks like
he's just materialized.
Shrinking a human down
to the size of an ant
is not outside
the realm of possibility.
It may sound crazy,
but experts believe
that it is possible.
In order to shrink
a large object such as a human,
first you would have to reduce
the empty space
inside of all of its atoms.
If you blow an atom up
to the size of, say,
a football stadium,
the nucleus would be tiny
right in the middle
on the 50-yard line,
whereas the electron
that orbits it
would be no more
than the size of a baseball
and would be all the way
at the end of the end zone.
All of that space in between
is completely empty.
Squashing this space
down seems logical,
but there's
a problem with this idea.
Unfortunately, you can't simply
just reduce the space.
You can't squash things down
because the more
you try to squash it,
the more they squish back,
they push back
and then repel back down.
The laws of the universe
dictate that this empty space
inside an atom
cannot be shrunk without
destroying the atom itself.
But in 1936, scientists studying
the cosmos discovered something
which could make
shrinking humans a possibility.
It's called muonic matter
or muons.
They are heavy electrons,
so heavy
that when they form an atom,
the atom is about 200 times
smaller than an ordinary atom.
Think about it.
The same chemistry
that we learned in high school,
except these objects are
200 times smaller than normal.
If you could replace
all the electrons
inside a human body with muons,
would shrinking a human being
to the size
of an ant be possible?
So you can imagine
if you had a person
that was made entirely
out of these sort of
muonic elements,
that it would be much tinier.
And somehow
if all those muonic elements
turned into normal elements,
there you are suddenly
paul rudd or whatever.
You know, you're sort of
a big-size, normal person.
Governments have been
very keen to get hold of this,
because obviously, if you can
shrink a man or a woman down
200 times in size,
they can get anywhere.
So this would be incredibly
useful for good and for bad.
But could there be
a simpler explanation?
There is a bridge close by.
Could this person
have just dropped from it?
What we have here
is a black s.U.V.
If we take the measurements
of the black s.U.V.
And compare that to the bridge,
we can figure out what
the height of the bridge is.
The average height of an s.U.V.
Is 6.2 feet.
If we stack four s.U.V.S
on top of each other,
that's about 25 feet, which is
about the height of the bridge.
A drop of 10 feet
can be enough
to fracture your spine.
How could a man have fallen
or jumped from 25 feet
in a fraction of a second
and then walked away
seemingly uninjured?
The identity of the man
remains unknown.
Who he was and however
he got there remains a mystery.
The way the guy
gets out of there real quick
seems like he might have
something to hide.
Really wasn't interested in
answering any kind of questions
about what just happened.
Now high above area 51,
an unidentified ball of fire
on a collision course
with earth.
It looks like a firestorm
just streaking across the sky.
This is unreal.
It's headed straight
for las vegas.
Sin city appears to be
under attack.
What is that?
But by what?
If I was that guy,
I'm not sure I'd be filming it.
I'd be, like, running away.
Las vegas, nevada.
Each year, 42 million tourists
descend on the desert
gambling mecca.
The strip has over 15,000 miles
of neon tubing,
making this
the brightest spot on earth.
July 27, 2016, 9:40 p.M.
Local resident trevor kerr is
driving home.
I was headed home.
A friend of mine
called from out of state
and we haven't spoken
in a while.
So I thought I'd pull over
to the car park
and have a proper chat.
As he talks, trevor's
eyes are suddenly drawn
to a fiery streak illuminating
the darkened skies.
I turned and looked up
in the sky
and saw what looked like
a big explosion.
This is unreal.
It was pretty shocking.
I've never seen anything
like that before.
And it's just
blowing across the sky.
So I hung up the call.
I pulled the phone out
and just started filming.
Kerr stands mesmerized
by the bright, burning object
consumed by a sense
of foreboding.
My first thought was maybe
an airplane had exploded.
I'm thinking, "is this...
Is this something bad?
Is it like 9/11
happening all over again?"
but it's just moving too fast.
It couldn't be an airplane.
Coming up, are chinese space men
making an unscheduled visit
to vegas?
You would end up with,
you know, bits of hot metal
falling in the wrong places
and doing some sort of damage.
And a monster in a bedroom.
This is in the closet
in a house that people live in.
Get out of the house.
A fiery streak creeps
across the vegas sky.
What is this light
traveling at such high velocity?
I don't know what that is.
The most obvious answer
was the initial response
given by the government.
Nellis air force base initially
came out and stated
that this object
was most likely a meteor.
But the fireball in the footage
bears none of the hallmarks
of a superheated space rock
crashing to earth.
When I think of
a typical, like, meteor
entering the atmosphere,
it lasts for just
a second or two.
But this thing just goes on
and on and on.
It's not one quick streak.
In fact, it's several of them.
And they just kind of
slowly move along, burning.
Whatever this is,
it clearly isn't a meteor.
There were suggestions
that the air force statement
may have been intended
to deceive the public.
Witnesses have reported
u.F.O. Sightings over las vegas
for a long, long time.
There is no doubt
that there are lots
of things going on in the area.
Area 51 is not far from vegas.
So you just never know
what you're gonna see
in the night sky.
In 1958, 38,400 acres of land
located 120 miles north
of las vegas in remote desert
was withdrawn from public use
by the u.S.
Atomic energy commission.
This became the location
for a top-secret military base
known by various names...
Paradise ranch,
watertown, dreamland,
or most famously, area 51.
It is so secret that when skylab
astronauts inadvertently
took pictures of it in 1974,
the film was confiscated
and locked
in a restricted vault.
The cia only publicly
acknowledged
the existence of the base
in 2013.
This is an area
that's been used for testing
of experimental aircraft
since the early 50s.
So this has been going on
for a very long time
and accounts
for a lot of the sightings
of strange aircraft
in the nevada area.
Astrophysicist
athena brensberger
considers if the u.S. Military
is trying to conceal
the catastrophic result
of its latest
aerial prototype testing.
If that aircraft development
has been continuing
up till today,
maybe this is what we're seeing
in the video.
Maybe it was
a secret aircraft development
that's gone horribly wrong.
But when space
journalist amy shira teitel
views the footage,
she suspects the date the video
is filmed can help identify
what the object is
and where it's from.
One possibility is that this
is actually a man-made object
re-entering the atmosphere.
There are reports
that a chinese mission
that launched a month earlier
actually had
some pieces of hardware
that took that full month
to re-enter the atmosphere.
It's possible that that light
over las vegas
is part of that chinese rocket.
Just like a meteor,
the air resistance will
break them apart
and they'll burn up
into fragments
as they fall back to earth.
But why would
a chinese rocket booster
fall close
to a major american city?
The chinese space
program is incredibly ambitious
and hopes to catch up with
and eventually surpass
american-russian efforts.
China has already built
a prototype space station
and is planning
a human mission to the moon.
China didn't send
a man into orbit until 2003,
but it is quickly
becoming a space superpower.
To fuel this ambition,
china currently launches
more rockets
than any other nation on earth.
When you launch something
like a satellite into orbit,
most of the rocket
is actually just the booster,
the part needed to actually
get that tiny satellite
off the earth and into space.
Everything that doesn't go into
orbit has to fall back down.
As the 6-ton
second-stage booster
of the long March 7 rocket
collides with
the earth's protective shield
at an incredible
18,000 miles per hour,
this is the dramatic result
of flaming ball of fire
over the las vegas skyline.
I've never seen
anything like that before.
An unsuspecting family
finds something terrifying
lurking in their bedroom.
This is in the closet in a house
that people live in.
Get out of the house.
The way it hangs,
it's so creepy and gangly.
It looks like no
creature known to science.
I want to know
what this thing is,
if it's dangerous,
and if there are more of them.
Coming up,
the unbelievable truth
behind this bizarre creature.
Sometimes nature can be weirder
than anything we could imagine.
A bizarre creature is
filmed in a tropical bedroom.
The islands of indonesia.
This unreal volcanic landscape
is like the land
that time forgot.
Amazed zoological explorers
to this part of the world
have described it
as a lost world of beasts.
On the indonesian
island of sumba,
scientists have discovered
the bones of dwarf elephants,
giant rats,
and other extinct creatures.
Huge komodo dragons,
the largest lizards
in existence,
still roam the forests here.
June 17, 2019.
While relaxing at home,
local resident hari toet
suddenly sees
a monster in his bedroom.
There's this
crazy-looking creature
hanging from this guy's closet,
and it's got this
inflatable appendage
or antenna of some sort.
It's really weird.
It kind of reminds me to
a degree of the "alien" movies.
It's the sort of thing
that would suddenly jump
onto your face
and impregnate you.
I mean, it's a really
horrible creature.
As hari moves in closer to film,
the thing suddenly reacts with
swift and apparent aggression.
Is it trying to grab on
to something?
I wouldn't want to be the one
to be grabbed onto.
The creature's
bizarre appearance
seems to defy
rational explanation.
There's something really
crazy going on here.
This biologist is intrigued.
Biologist greg szulgit
studies the footage.
He thinks we could be watching
some kind of horrific
dance of death.
The two halves of this
thing seem really different.
Could it be that this is
actually two creatures together
where one is either
eating the other
or interacting with it
in some way?
The insect world has
no morality, no scruples,
and the only rule
is survival at any cost.
We certainly know that there are
some insects
that intentionally paralyze
their victims,
like parasitic wasps.
The opportunistic
female lays her eggs
inside the body
of a newly hatched caterpillar.
The larvae eat the insect until
they're ready to break free,
using saw-like teeth.
And the poor thing is
alive until the eggs hatch
and eat
their way out of the victim.
If you think
that sounds disturbing,
meet the terrifying
assassin bug.
Its preferred method
of execution
is to impale its victims
with its razor-sharp proboscis,
suck them dry,
and then carry the corpse
on its back
as a macabre form of camouflage.
Sometimes nature can be weirder
than anything we could imagine.
Investigators consider
if the footage has captured
a grotesque display of nature.
Now, I've never seen anything
like this before.
But there are, we estimate,
about 4 million insects
that we still have not
identified and cataloged.
But when biologist carin bondar
examines the footage,
she thinks the time of year
the thing was spotted
points to a different
explanation.
I immediately went
to my calendar
because this footage was taken
in the summertime...
Prime mating season for insects.
Could this be some kind of weird
mating display?
Insect mating rituals
are some of the strangest
in nature.
When it comes to sex,
no one is weirder
than the insects.
Everything is on the table,
whether it's hanging
from the ceiling,
cutting each other's heads off
or ripping off
various other body parts.
Sex is weird.
Entomologist kevin kaski
looks closely at the features
of this weird creature.
I think I found
the creature
that matches the description.
It is a creatonotos gangis,
but the specimen that we're
looking at in this video
is larger than normal.
Bondar believes
the bizarre-looking creature's
enhanced size
is a sign it wants to reproduce.
They have a superpower and that
is these unfoldable tendrils
that are actually scent glands
that males can use
to emit signals to females
when they're looking for a mate.
The alien-looking creature
has four semi-transparent
hairy scent glands,
or coremata,
that inflate like balloons
from its behind.
Weirdly, before transforming
into an adult,
the infants feast on toxic
alkaloid plants
like indian heliotrope,
also known as scorpion's tail.
Deadly to humans,
the more these creatures devour,
the bigger their glands can grow
when they reach maturity.
I think this animal
proves to us yet again
that nature can be
utterly disgusting,
really quite horrible.
Despite the fact
that this looks really bizarre,
it's actually just a guy
looking for love.