The launch of the James Webb Telescope
is a giant step forward as we try to determine
if we're not alone in the universe.
But it's not just big government organizations,
like NASA, that are scanning the skies.
Our next video is from a small team of researchers
who have banded together to try and answer that question.
And they were shocked by what they found.
Friday, July 16th, 2021.
It's a foggy night, and a team of scientists
from the research group, UAPx, is on a week-long expedition
near Catalina Island off the coast of California.
Then, shortly before 4:00 a.m.,
one of their motion detector cameras
in night vision mode captures this.
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In the upper right-hand corner of the frame,
a black hole suddenly appears in the sky.
But take a closer look. Do you see that?
A cluster of small dots begins to materialize inside
and researchers don't think they're mere stars.
Physicist, Dr. Matthew Szydagis,
is one of the researchers with the project.
[Szydagis]
because this timestamp of this video does match
with one of our most anomalous, highest energy events
that we recorded in our radiation sensor.
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have historically involved radiation,
the team came prepared with a radiation sensor.
In normal circumstances, the average reading
is about one to two megaelectron volts,
but at the time of the anomaly, it jumped to 43.
According to writer, MJ Banias, we shouldn't be surprised
that something mysterious appears to be happening
over Catalina Island.
Catalina Island is home to a very long history
of strange and anomalous phenomena.
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UFO sightings in history
was documented only miles away in 2004.
So as the story goes, onboard the USS Princeton,
on their radar,
they encountered some sort of anomalous object
between Catalina Island
and several other islands in the channel.
They approached what looked like to be
a 40-foot-long-shaped Tic Tac
hovering, making erratic maneuvers
just above the surface of the water.
Then the pilots played chase with this object
back and forth for several minutes
before being ordered to return back
to their aircraft carrier.
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Banias lays out one popular theory.
There's a lot of people who believe
that UFOs open up wormholes or portals between their world
and travel through dimensions,
this idea that we can open a gateway
between place X and place Y and move between them.
The Catalina Islands would be a sort of entry point
for UFOs to use.
When the scientists from UAPx
filed a Freedom of Information request
to get their satellite imagery
or logs from any Navy ships in the area that night,
they were told those files either don't exist,
or if they do, they're classified.
That's only added to the mystery.
What exactly did they witness?
We take that question to our experts.
We begin with Rich Hoffman
of the Coalition for UAP Studies.
I've spent a lot of time looking at everything
from aircraft to clouds to helicopters
to birds to kites to... you name it,
and it doesn't match anything like that.
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[Hoffman]
You can have all kinds of interference
when you're working with electronics of any kind.
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another possibility exists, at least in theory.
We know these aren't known stars.
There's no constellation that matches,
but might they be stars from another universe?
Is it possible this is a wormhole?
Think of a universe here
with another parallel universe right next to it.
You might be able to create a gateway
that connects two universes.
But the energy necessary to open a stable gateway
between universes
is that of a black hole.
But there should be side effects,
and that would be the force
of intense gravitational fields.
However, in this videotape,
we don't see any examples of that.
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there is a scientific phenomenon
which may explain what we're seeing.
Fallstreak is when you have
a mass of super cold air in the sky
and there's a sudden influx of ice crystals.
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that compose clouds to freeze and fall
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In fact, many of the fallstreaks
were created by airplanes
that went right by this mass of super cold air,
causing literally a hole in space.
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Matthew Szydagis confirms it was one possibility
among many explored by the UAPx researchers.
We considered fallstreak hole.
However, we checked
the FAA records of this day and time.
There was no airplane at that location.
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Szydagis says "No way."
We find no evidence of a camera glitch
in the entire week of the expedition
that looks like this.
How likely is it that this was a camera glitch
that by coincidence happens to align
with one of our most anomalous detections
also in our radiation sensor?
Is it alien? Is it extraterrestrial?
As a scientist, I've gotta see the evidence
or the proof of something.
But the flip side of that is,
I'm not so skeptical
that I refuse to listen
to a crazy idea
just because there's no evidence for it yet.
Our verdict? Until we get more definitive evidence,
we have to go with unexplained phenomenon.
While our experts were able to come up
with some interesting theories,
none can be confirmed.
And if the team of scientists at UAPx
isn't sure what's going on,
it's clear there is more work to be done.
When they do figure it out,
we'll be the first to bring it to you.