hi everybody and welcome to the proof is out there let me start by asking you to imagine you're at a
family gathering celebrating the fourth of july when an unexpected guest shows up and it's not
your crazy uncle it's something up in the sky it's independence day in alamance north carolina
and a local man is enjoying a barbecue with his family fireworks are going off intermittently
so he's been looking at the sky all evening when he suddenly sees something even more spectacular
it's moving it's moving slow it's a classic orb shaped ufo the kind we've seen in several videos
some real some fake and what makes this footage extra special is that it goes on for more than
eight minutes god i wish i had some binoculars now look at what happens here at the six and a
half minute mark oh wow look at that something's coming off of it two things are coming off of it
one went up and one's coming down holy crap look at this the orb seems to bifurcate and seconds
later it splits again oh now something's coming out of the other one holy third one's coming out
there's three different oh my god that's crazy like other orbs seen around the world this one
had no wings or obvious means of propulsion it's hard to judge at speed but others have been
clogged by commercial pilots at over 500 miles per hour and it's pulsating too man that is nuts
journalist alexis brooks who writes and speaks about ufos says the duration of this sighting is
important some individuals that have long contact encounters that is exceeding five minutes or more
may actually be having a literal contact encounter without them being consciously aware of it
could it be that non-human intelligence or the occupants of the craft were actually
making contact with the witness and vice versa yeah we got some action going on here boys
the witness said he later tried to find some earthly explanation for the incident
even checking with a nearby military base but to this day he says he's got no answers
our experts may be able to change that
our video analyst mark d'antonio begins by looking at the surrounding factors involved in this event
i stepped through it frame by frame to try to isolate the components and equate them with
something that we might already know it's actually pretty high altitude for starters
d'antonio's positive it couldn't be a bird birds don't have that kind of reflectivity to them even
geese at high altitude you can still detect that they're birds he's just as sure it's not a plane
or a drone planes and drones they have to follow federal aviation administration rules for lighting
and this object had none of that nor could it be a natural phenomenon like a meteor it just hangs in
the sky too long meteors are momentary objects they go through the sky and then they're gone
so what was it the secret could be in that strange splitting here you can see in this image you can
see how it's a teardrop shape and these objects are falling away and the object that's way up
there has changed brightness tremendously now my thinking takes me down the path of weather balloon
it certainly wouldn't be the first time a weather balloon was mistaken for a ufo
in fact the government initially claimed it was a weather balloon that caused the roswell incident
but that still doesn't explain how this thing could split apart and move off in different
directions i would guess that this is a weather balloon uh where whatever was attached to it broke
off and when something like this happens the resistance of the air will tend to streamline
it and make it more into a teardrop shape and that shape is what i think we're seeing here
that theory sounds plausible but then to our surprise atmospheric scientist deanna hintz
shoots it out of the sky so i do think it's really unlikely that this is any kind of you know weather
instrument they come down on a little parachute and they wouldn't emit light this brightly like
this but it doesn't seem to be meteorologically related you see it dean you see ufo
so america is it proof or not it doesn't appear to be a bird or a plane
could it be a weather balloon maybe but a local weather service later told the witness there
were none in the area until we get more solid information we're going to call this a genuine ufo
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