261. The Patterns in the Data - News 1.26.26

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All right, welcome back to
Infinite Rabbit Hole.

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My name is Jeremy, and here's
your fringe news for January

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22nd, 2026.
Today we're stepping into some

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uncomfortable territory, and I
mean that in the best possible

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way because these stories aren't
just strange, they're the kind

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that make you question what you
thought you knew about reality,

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technology, and the limits of
human understanding.

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Artificial intelligence just
analyzed over 150,000 UFO

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sighting reports and found
patterns that shouldn't exist.

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Patterns so specific, so
consistent, they're forcing even

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the skeptics to ask
uncomfortable questions about

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what's actually flying around in
our skies.

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We're diving deep, literally,
into an underwater discovery at

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2570 meters below the ocean
surface.

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Military sonars picked up
something with geometry, with

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structure angles that nature
doesn't typically produce at

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those depths.
And the people who've seen the

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data are very carefully choosing
the words.

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There's a 10 second signal
transmitted from one of the most

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distant sources ever detected.
No explanation, no follow up,

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just a brief, intense burst of
energy from a corner of space we

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barely understand, leaving
astronomers scrambling for

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answers that don't seem to
exist.

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interesting.
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What up Kenzar?
Good morning.

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Good morning.
Morning.

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Everybody in the chat appreciate
you joining me for this nice

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early bird episode.
So let's talk about data for a

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minute.
Not speculation, not some guy

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claiming he saw lights in the
sky after a few beers.

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I'm talking about 152,000 UFO
sighting reports fed into an AI

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system and what came back is
specific enough to make you

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uncomfortable.
A man by the name Brian Decker

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published this analysis on
January 5th of this year, 2026.

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That makes it different from
every other attempt to make

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sense of UFO sightings is scale
and methodology.

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A Decker built an AI
specifically to extract

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structured data from witness
narratives.

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This matters because people
described same experiences in

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completely different ways.
Different words, different

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focus, different details.
Trying to find patterns

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manually.
Honestly, it's a mess.

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But AI doesn't care about
narrative style.

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It extracts features,
categorizes observations, finds

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correlations a human would miss
simply because the data set's

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too massive.
Decker took the National UFO

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Reporting Center's database,
maintained by Peter Davenport

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since the 70s, one of the most
comprehensive civilian UFO

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databases in all of existence,
and analyzed every single report

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across 35 dimensions and eight
categories.

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What came back wasn't vague, it
was disturbingly precise.

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Angular craft are almost
exclusively nocturnal.

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When you map sightings by time
of day, the correlation is so

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strong it's hard to wave away.
Not a slight preference for

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night time, a near total absence
of daytime reports for the

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shape.
That's not random, that's

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behavioral Disk shaped craft,
your classic flying saucer are

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five times more likely to
involve entity encounters than

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any other shape.
Five times when?

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Five times the probability.
They also report seeing humanoid

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figures jumps dramatically
compared to triangle spheres and

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cigars.
And most sightings across all

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shapes, all locations, all time
periods describe complete

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silence.
No engine noise, no rotor wash,

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no Sonic boom.
Just pure silence.

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This cuts across the entire data
set.

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Silent operation appears
universal regardless of shape,

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size, or behavior.
If these were misidentified

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craft or drones, you wouldn't
see such clean patterns.

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You'd see noise, random
distribution, sightings at all

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times of the day, inconsistent
descriptions.

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But instead, there's what we
call clustering behavioral

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consistency that suggests
intentionality.

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Decker's analysis breaks it down
by shape, sound, time of day,

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movement patterns, physical
effects like radiation burns or

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electromagnetic interference,
entity encounters, geographic

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distribution, and duration.
The system cross references it

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all, or the cross reference that
looked at how these variables

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interact with each other.
Triangles at night, discs with

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entities, orbs with erratic
movement, sudden stops, right

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angle turns, acceleration that
would turn a human pilot into

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paste and silent operation
across everything not specific

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to one type universal.
So if these objects are

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operating under intelligent
control, and the patterns are

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this consistent across decades
in geographic regions, what does

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that tell us?
You don't get behavioral

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consistency like this from
random misidentifications, not

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from weather balloons or
satellites or even Venus.

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You get it from something that
operates according to rules,

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something with purpose,
something following a protocol.

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The most unsettling part?
Decker makes no attempt to

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explain what these objects are.
He presents the data, shows you

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the patterns, gives you these
beautiful, terrifying charts

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laying out exactly how
consistent the phenomenon is,

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then leaves you to sit with it.
Once you see the patterns, you

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can't Unsee them.
So what do they actually mean?

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If we're seeing this level of
consistency across 152,000

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reports spanning decades, are we
looking at multiple sources

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operating under similar
principles, or one coordinated

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intelligence?
Depends entirely on how you

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interpret the data.
If you approach this from a

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purely terrestrial perspective,
meaning you assume these are

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advanced military craft, then
the consistency makes sense.

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Different platforms, same
operational doctrine.

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You'd expect, or you'd expect
triangular craft to operate at

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night because they're designed
for stealth.

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You'd expect silence because
that's the whole point of

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advanced propulsion.
The patterns would reflect

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strategic choices made by
whoever's deploying these

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things.
The US military has been working

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on silent propulsion for
decades.

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The F117, Nighthawk, B2, Spirit,
and the alleged TR3B all

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designed to minimize detection.
So it's not unreasonable to

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think some of these sightings
are classified aerospace

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platforms operating under strict
protocols, night operations,

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radio silence, and limited
deployment areas.

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But here's the problem.
The sightings go back decades

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before stealth technology,
before silent drones, before the

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kind of propulsion systems that
would allow for the movement

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patterns witnesses describe.
Triangular craft sightings don't

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start in the 70s or 80s with the
F117, they go back to the 50s

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and 60s.
Same shape, same silent

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operation, same nocturnal
behavior.

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So either we're looking at a
decades long COVID program

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that's consistently outpaced
publicly acknowledged aerospace

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development by 30 to 40 years,
or we're looking at something

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not human.
If it's non human, the

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behavioral consistency could
suggest two things.

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One, multiple sources, different
civilizations, different origins

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operating under similar
principles.

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Because these principles are
based on physics we don't

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understand yet.
Think convergent evolution.

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But for technology.
You're dealing with the same

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laws of physics.
You might arrive at similar

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solutions independently.
Birds, bats, and insects all

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developed wings separately
because flight requires certain

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aerodynamic principles.
If multiple non human

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intelligence are visiting earth
and they're all contrained are

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constrained by the same physics
laws, you might expect them to

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develop similar technologies.
Silent propulsion because it's

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the most efficient way to move
through an atmosphere without

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creating disturbance.
Triangular shapes because that

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geometry offers the best
combination of lift, stability

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and stuff.
Nocturnal operations because

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avoiding detection is universal
priority.

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Or two a single a single
coordinated intelligence with a

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specific operational
methodology.

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Triangles operate at night for a
reason.

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Discs interact with humans for a
reason.

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The silence serves a purpose.
All of it part of a larger

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pattern we can't see yet because
we don't have the full data set.

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Personally, I lean towards the
second explanation.

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The patterns aren't just
consistent, they're too

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consistent.
If you had multiple independent

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actors showing up randomly over
70 years, you'd expect more

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variants, different operational
philosophies, different

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approaches to the same problem.
But what we're seeing looks more

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like a structured approach, like
someone running experiments,

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testing different configurations
under different conditions,

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documenting the results.
Think about it this way.

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If you were a scientist studying
an unfamiliar ecosystem, you

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wouldn't just send one type of
probe.

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You'd send different instruments
designed for different

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observations.
One for atmospheric analysis,

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one for biological sampling, one
for the magnetic field mapping.

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Each tool serves a specific
function, and you deploy them

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systematically based on what
you're trying to learn.

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That's what this data looks like
to me.

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Different craft designs deployed
for different purposes.

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Triangles for long range
surveillance, hence the

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nighttime operations and the
geographic spread.

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Discs for close range
interaction, hence the entity

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encounters.
Orbs for rapid transit between

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locations.
Each shape corresponds to a

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function.
The consistency suggests a

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single organized intelligence
coordinating the whole

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operation.
Which brings us to another

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uncomfortable detail.
Disc shaped craft are five times

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more likely to involve entity
encounters.

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Five times not a slight
increase, A significant

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repeatable pattern showing U
consistently across the entire

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data set O.
What does that tell us?

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Is the shape itself significant
or just a marker for a specific

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type of interaction?
Sounds trivial until you think

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about it for more than 5
seconds.

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Why would the shape of the craft
correlate with whether or not

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entities are observed?
If these were just misidentified

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aircraft, there's no reason a
disc shape would be associated

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with humanoid figures more than
a triangle or sphere.

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The correlation has to mean
something.

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One possibility, the shape is
functionally tied to the type.

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Mission discs show up when the
goal is interaction, triangle

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show up when the goal is
surveillance, or show up for

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rapid transit.
I've already went over these.

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Each design serves a specific
purpose and entity encounters

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having more often with disks
because that's the platform

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designed for close range
contact.

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It's not that the shape causes
the encounter, it's that the

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encounter requires the specific
design.

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Maybe disk shaped craft have
features triangular craft don't.

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Medical base communication
systems?

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Observation decks that allow for
the entity to interact.

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Maybe the shape itself is
optimized for hovering at low

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altitude, which is where most
entity encounters occur.

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Witnesses report discs
descending slowly landing, or

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hovering just above the ground.
That's very different from the

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high altitude, fast moving
behavior associated with

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triangles.
Another another possibility, and

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this one's darker.
The shape isn't relevant fact,

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or isn't the relevant factor at
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It's a marker, a visual cue that
tells us which type of

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intelligence we're dealing with.
If you've got multiple non human

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actors operating in the same
airspace and they each prefer

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different designs, then the
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Disk belong to one group,
triangles belong to another.

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The fact that disks are
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encounters tell us that one
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interested in direct contact
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We see this in human military
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Different branches use different
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Air Force uses fighter jets,
Navy uses carriers and

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helicopters.
Special operations use stealth

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choppers.
You can identify the mission

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based on the equipment.
So if you're dealing with a non

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human intelligence and they
operate under similar

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organizational principles, then
the shape of the craft might

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tell us which faction we're
dealing with and what their

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intentions are.
But here's what really bothers

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me about this data.
The encounters aren't random.

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They're not even distributed, or
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5 times more likely means
there's intent.

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When a disc shaped craft shows
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that whoever's piloting wants to
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And that raises the question,
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What is the purpose?
Are we?

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Are they studying us?
Running biological samples,

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monitoring our development?
Or is it something else

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entirely, something we don't
have the framework to understand

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yet?
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intentional, then we're not just
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dealing with a strategy.
And we have to know, or we have

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no idea what the end game is.
Decker's analysis doesn't answer

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these questions.
It can't.

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All it can do is show us the
patterns and force us to

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acknowledge that they exist.
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staggering.
If this data holds up under

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scrutiny, if other researchers
can replicate these findings

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using different data sets, then
we're looking at evidence of

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structured intentional activity
that spans decades and the

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silence from the scientific
community, the lack of

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institutional interest in
pursuing this line of research,

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that silence becomes harder and
harder to justify because the

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data is there, the patterns are
there, and the questions they

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raise aren't going away.
We're going deep for this one.

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Segment 2.
Literally January 3rd, 2026,

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Porch started surfacing about a
discovery made by military sonar

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operations at a depth of 2570
meters below the ocean surface.

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That's just over 8400 feet.
For context, that's deeper than

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the crush depth of most
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It's a region where pressure
exceeds 250 atmospheres, where

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sunlight has never penetrated,
where the environment is so

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hostile that very few forms of
life can survive.

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And at that depth, military
equipment detected something

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that shouldn't be there.
A structure, not a geological

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formation, not a shipwreck.
A structure with geometry, with

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straight edges, with right
angles, Features that suggest

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deliberate construction.
Before we go any farther, let's

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talk about what we know and what
we don't.

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The official details on this
discovery are extremely limited.

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The story broke through a
website called Com Comma

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ilab.org, Which published an
article titled At 2570 meters

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below the surface.
The military makes a

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record-breaking discovery that
will reshape archaeology, and

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the language in that article is
careful, I'd say even very

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careful.
They describe a routine mission,

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a classified sonar sweep,
another line in a report

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destined to be skimmed and
forgotten when the anomaly shape

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on the sonar feed that was quote
too clean, too symmetrical, too

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deliberate to be natural.
The article quotes an unnamed

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technician saying quote this
looks, and then the sentence

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just trails off like they
couldn't even finish the

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thought.
So we're dealing with this

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discovery made during a
classified military operation,

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which means the data is not
publicly available.

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The sonar scans are not public,
are not publicly available.

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The analysis is not publicly
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Everything we know comes from
second hand reporting and leaks

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from people who were allegedly
in the room when the discovery

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was made.
That makes the story both

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frustrating and fascinating.
On one hand, we can't verify the

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details, can't examine the
evidence.

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We're relying on descriptions
from people who may or may not

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have seen the actual data.
But on the other hand, the fact

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that this story exists at all
suggests something happened.

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Someone saw something unusual
enough to leak it.

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Someone thought it was important
enough to risk their clearance

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by talking about it.
So let's talk about what the

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reports describe.
Even if we can't confirm every

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detail, the description itself
raises questions worth

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exploring.
The structure was detected at

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2570 meters.
That's significant for several

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reasons.
First, at that depth, you're

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below the continental shelf.
You're in the abyssal zone,

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where the ocean floor consists
primarily of sediment that's

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been accumulating for millions
of years.

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Any structure at that depth
would either have to be

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extremely old or placed there
deliberately after the sediment

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settled.
Second, the depth makes natural

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explanations more difficult.
Geological formations at that

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depth tend to be shapeless,
eroded, covered in layers of

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sediment and biological
material.

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You don't get sharp edges, you
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The pressure in the environment
don't allow for it.

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So if the sonar is picking up
straight lines, right angles,

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and symmetrical shapes, that's a
problem for any natural

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explanation.
The article describes the

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structure as having columns,
angles, geometry that had no

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business existing in the layer
of the earth.

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It mentions that the people who
saw the sonar feed, experienced

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military officers, people who
spent years looking at the

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underwater topography, were
unsettled enough to stop what

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they were doing and pay
attention.

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One officer allegedly said,
quote, we're not chasing

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Atlantis, we're chasing data.
If the data ends up rewriting a

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chapter of our past, so be it.
But we'll let the evidence speak

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first.
That's the approach we need to

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take here.
Because the moment you say,

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quote, UN quote, underwater
structure and 2570 meters,

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people immediately jumped to
Atlantis.

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Lost civilizations, ancient
aliens, all the stuff that makes

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serious researchers roll their
eyes.

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The French community has a bad
habit of taking an anomaly and

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immediately spinning it into the
most sensational explanation

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possible.
But here's the thing.

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We don't need to invoke Atlantis
to make this discovery

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interesting.
We don't need ancient

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astronauts.
We just need to acknowledge that

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if there is a structure at that
depth, and if it shows signs of

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deliberate construction, then we
have a problem because it

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doesn't fit into our current
understanding of human history,

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geological processes, or
underwater archaeology.

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So let's explore the
possibilities, starting with the

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most conservative explanation
and working our way out.

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Possibility one, it's a natural
geological formation that

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happens to look artificial.
This is the default position for

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any anomaly.
The ocean floor is full of weird

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shapes.
Volcanic activity, tectonic

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shifts, erosion patterns.
All of these can create

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formations that look geometric
from certain angles.

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There are places in the ocean
where basalt columns form

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hexagonal patterns that look
almost man made underwater.

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Rock formations that resemble
pyramids, walls, even roads.

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So here's the problem with that
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In this case, the people looking
at the sonar weren't amateurs,

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they were military personnel
trained to distinguish between

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natural topography and
artificial objects.

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Some marines rely on sonar to
navigate if you can't tell the

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difference between a rock and a
shipwreck.

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You're not qualified to operate
sonar equipment.

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So when these people say the
shape was too clean to

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symmetrical, they're comparing
it to thousands of hours of

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sonar data showing what natural
formations actually look like.

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And they didn't just see one
anomalous shape.

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The description mentions columns
and angles, plural, multiple,

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geometric.
Features.

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Multiple geometric features in
proximity to each other That's

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hard to explain as natural
coincidence.

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Possibility #2 it's a shipwreck,
or some kind of modern human

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debris.
Maybe a submarine then went

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down.
Maybe cargo that sank, Maybe

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military equipment that was
deliberately scuttled.

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This would explain the geometry,
the straight edges, the

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artificial appearance.
It's a reasonable hypothesis,

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but the depth is a problem. 2570
meters is deeper than most

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shipwrecks.
The Titanic sits at 3800 meters,

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and that's considered an
exceptionally deep wreck.

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Most sunken vessels are in
shallower water, closer to

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shipping lanes and coastal
areas.

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And if this were a known wreck,
a submarine, a cargo ship or

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military vessel, there would be
records, documentation, The

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military would know what it is.
The fact that we don't, or at

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least the fact that people who
saw the sonar were surprised

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enough to report it as an
anomaly, suggests it's not

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something in the database, not a
catalog rect, something

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unexpected possibility #3 it's
an ancient structure that

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predates known human
civilization.

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And this is where it gets really
uncomfortable.

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If there's a man made structure
at 2570 meters, then either it

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was built before the ocean
reached at depth, or it was

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built by someone with the
capability to construct at

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extreme underwater depths.
Let's talk about sea level

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changes during the last glacial
maximum.

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Roughly 20,000 years ago, global
sea levels were about 120 meters

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lower than they are today.
That's significant.

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Coastal areas.
That are now underwater were dry

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land.
We know early humans lived in

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those areas.
We found archaeological sites on

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submerged continental shelves
all over the world.

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But 100?
20 meters is nowhere near 2570

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meters.
Even at the peak.

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Of the last Ice Age, you're not
getting that kind of sea level

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drop.
So if the structure was built on

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dry land, it would have to date
back millions of years, long

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before anatomically correct
modern humans existed, long

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before any known hominid secies
had the cognitive capability or

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capacity to build anything
resembling architecture.

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Which brings us to the other
option.

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It was built underwater by
someone with the technology to

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operate at extreme depths.
And that opens up a whole

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different set of questions.
Modern humans didn't develop the

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ability to build those depths
until the mid 20th century.

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Deep sea submersibles, remotely
operated vehicles, specialized

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construction equipment designed
to withstand pressure or the

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crush of pressure.
So if there's an artificial

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structure down there and it
predates modern technology, then

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who built it and how?
The article mentions that.

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The discovery quote asks what
else we have completely missed.

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That's the right question.
The ocean floor is largely

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unmapped.
We have better maps of the

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surface of Mars than we do with
the bottom of our oceans.

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The technology to survey deep
ocean environments is expensive,

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time consuming, and limited in
scope.

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Most of what we know about the
Abyssal Zone comes from sonar

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sweeps conducted by military
vessels, and those surveys

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aren't publicly available, so
it's entirely possible.

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Likely.
Even that there are other

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structures down there, other
anomalies, other things that

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don't fit into our current
models of geology or human

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history.
We just haven't found them yet

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because we haven't looked.
And that brings us to the bigger

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question.
If the structure is real, if it

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holds up under further
investigation, what does that

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mean for our understanding of
the past?

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We tend to think of human
history as a linear progression.

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Hunter, gatherers, agriculture,
cities, civilizations,

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technology.
A steady climb from primitive to

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advanced.
But what if that's not the whole

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story?
What if there were other

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chapters that got erased?
Not by conspiracy, not by cover

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up, just by time, by rising sea
levels, by geological processes

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that bury the evidence under
miles of sediment.

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We know sea levels have
fluctuated dramatically over the

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past 100,000 years.
We know coastal areas where

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humans tend to settle because of
access to resources have been

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submerged and exposed multiple
times.

471
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:01,240
And we know that if you want to
erase a civilization from the

472
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,400
archaeological record, all you
have to do is sink it under a

473
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,560
few 1000 meters of ocean.
The pressure, the sediment, the

474
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:11,360
lack of oxygen, it all conspires
to destroy organic material and

475
00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:14,640
corrode anything metal.
So if there was an advanced

476
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,640
culture 10,000 years ago, 20,000
years ago, 50,000 years ago, and

477
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,760
they lived primarily in coastal
regions that are now underwater,

478
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,640
we wouldn't know.
We'd have no evidence, because

479
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,440
the evidence is sitting at the
bottom of the ocean,

480
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,840
inaccessible to everyone except
military submarines and deep sea

481
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,480
research vessels.
And here's the uncomfortable

482
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,560
part.
Even if we find evidence, even

483
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,920
if structures like this one are
confirmed, the institutional

484
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:45,000
resistance to revise to revising
our historical timeline is

485
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,280
enormous.
Archaeology is a conservative

486
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:48,720
field.
It has to be.

487
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,800
You can't just throw established
models every time someone finds

488
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,600
something weird.
You need reproducible evidence,

489
00:25:55,880 --> 00:26:00,360
peer review, consensus.
But that can't but that

490
00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:02,920
conservatism also means paradigm
shifting.

491
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:06,000
Discoveries get dismissed,
ignored, or explained away until

492
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,800
the weight of evidence becomes
overwhelming.

493
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,840
And by then decades have passed.
Careers have been built on the

494
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,720
old model textbooks.
Textbooks have been written.

495
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,680
The idea of rewriting everything
is too disruptive to

496
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,960
contemplate.
So even if this structure turns

497
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,680
out to be real, even if follow
up surveys confirm it's

498
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,720
artificial, I wouldn't expect
the mainstream archaeological

499
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,440
community to embrace it
immediately.

500
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,280
I'd expect caution.
Skepticism demands for more

501
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,000
data.
And unfortunately, that's fair.

502
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:35,920
That's how science is supposed
to work.

503
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,440
But in the meantime, we're left
with a tantalizing possibility

504
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:43,560
that somewhere 2570 meters below
the surface, there's something

505
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,360
that shouldn't exist.
Something with geometry,

506
00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:50,320
something with purpose.
And the people who've seen the

507
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,920
sonar scans, the people who were
in the room when the discovery

508
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,440
was made, are choosing their
words very carefully because

509
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,440
they know what they saw and they
know it doesn't fit.

510
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,720
The article ends with a note
about the research teams working

511
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,520
on the site.
They're following a strict

512
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,800
protocol, record record before
touching.

513
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,880
Every pass of the remotely
operated vehicle maps the area

514
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,600
in three dimensions, building a
digital twin of the structure

515
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,440
with millimeter precision.
These scans become.

516
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,520
A time capsule freezing the site
in its current state before any

517
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,800
sampling or disturbance happens.
That's the right approach.

518
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,440
If this is real, if it's as
significant as the initial

519
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,160
report suggests, then we only
get one chance to study it

520
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,720
properly, one chance to document
it before human intervention

521
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,360
changes it forever.
So we wait, we watch, and we

522
00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:41,000
hope that whoever's holding the
data decides the public has a

523
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,960
right to know what's sitting at
the bottom of the ocean.

524
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:48,240
Because if there's one thing
this discovery proves, it's that

525
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,320
we still don't know our own
planet as well as we think we

526
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,280
do.
And the ocean, fast, deep, and

527
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,040
largely unexplored, is still
keeping secret.

528
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,880
Now for our third segment,
January 16th, 2026.

529
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:03,840
If you weren't paying attention
to the right corners of the

530
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,560
Internet, you probably missed it
entirely.

531
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,920
A10 second radio signal detected
by the Australian Square

532
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,800
Kilometer Array Pathfinder
Telescope.

533
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,160
Coming from a source.
So distant that the light and

534
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,120
the radio waves have been
traveling toward us for longer

535
00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:23,320
than complex life has existed on
Earth. 10 seconds.

536
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,200
That's all that lasted.
But in those 10 seconds,

537
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:30,280
astronomers detected a pattern
that has no natural explanation

538
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,480
they can confirm.
Let me back up.

539
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,400
Context matters here.
Radio astronomy is all about

540
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,840
listening.
We point massive arrays of

541
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,960
antennas at the sky and collect
electromagnetic radiation across

542
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,960
different frequencies.
Most of what we detect is noise.

543
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,320
Cosmic background radiation
leftover from The Big Bang.

544
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,200
Emissions from pulsars.
Rapidly rotating neutron stars

545
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,080
that sweep beams of radiation
across space like cosmic

546
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,680
lighthouses.
Signals from quasars, black

547
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,880
holes, supernova.
The universe is loud if you're

548
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,760
listening in the right spectrum.
And we've gotten very good at

549
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,240
identifying natural sources.
We know what a pulsar sounds

550
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:08,760
like.
We know what happened when

551
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,600
galaxies collide, when stars
explode, when gas clouds

552
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,080
collapse.
We built models, cataloged

553
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,040
thousands of sources.
When something new shows up, we

554
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,120
run it through those models to
see if it fits.

555
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,000
The signal detected on January
16th doesn't fit.

556
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,280
The Australian Square Kilometer
Array.

557
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:35,360
Pathfinder AKAASKAP or ASCAP is
located in WA in one of the most

558
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,120
radio quiet regions of the
planet.

559
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,560
It's a precursor.
To the Square Kilometer Array,

560
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,160
which when completed, will be
the most sensitive radio

561
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,400
telescope ever built.
But even in its current form,

562
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,800
ASCAP is powerful.
It can detect faint signals from

563
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:56,200
incredibly distant sources,
survey large sections of the sky

564
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,960
simultaneously, and it's
designed specifically to catch

565
00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:03,880
transient events, things that
flash into existence and then

566
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,520
disappear.
Which is exactly what happened.

567
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,760
January 16th.
The signal appeared at a

568
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:17,120
frequency of 1.42 gigahertz.
That's significant because 1.42

569
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:21,120
gigahertz is right in the middle
of what's called the water hole,

570
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,600
a relatively quiet region of the
radio spectrum where hydrogen

571
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,920
and hydrosol molecules emit
radiation.

572
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,520
It's called the water hole
because hydrogen and hydrosol

573
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:35,200
combine to make water, and it's
long been theorized that if an

574
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,680
advanced civilization want to
broadcast signal that would be

575
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:42,440
noticed by other civilizations,
they choose a frequency in this

576
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,800
range because any species
sophisticated enough to build

577
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,840
radio telescopes would be
listening to the water hole.

578
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,160
It's where the universe is
quietest, where signal would

579
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:56,200
stand out.
And this signal stood out. 10

580
00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:00,000
seconds of continuous emission,
no frequency drift, no Doppler

581
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,120
shift, no scintillation.
The twinkling effect you get

582
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,560
when radio waves pass through
interstellar gas.

583
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:11,440
Just clean steady signal that
appeared, held for 10 seconds

584
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,680
and vanished.
The source was.

585
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,960
Triangulated to a region of
space approximately 8.7 billion

586
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:24,880
light years away.
That's not a typo. 8.7 billion.

587
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,640
From her perspective, the
universe is about 13.8 billion

588
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,560
years old.
So this signal originated when

589
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,880
the universe was roughly 5
billion years old, before our

590
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,640
solar system existed.
Earth formed before the sun

591
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,880
ignited.
Whatever generated that signal

592
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,600
sent out those radio waves 8.7
billion years ago.

593
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,000
They've been traveling through
space ever since, crossing voids

594
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,240
between galaxies, passing
through clouds of gas and dust,

595
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,240
bending around gravitational
fields.

596
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,480
And on January 16th, 2026,
they've reached Earth.

597
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:58,840
Here's where it gets.
Tricky.

598
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,360
When you detect a signal from
that distance, you can't just

599
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,000
point a telescope at the exact
same spot and expect to see it

600
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,360
again.
Space is expanding, the source

601
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,440
has moved.
The signal may have been a one

602
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,720
time event, and even if it
wasn't, even if the source is

603
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:20,160
still broadcasting, we won't
know for another 8.7 billion

604
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,640
years.
So the only data we have is what

605
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,080
ASCAP captured in those 10
seconds.

606
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:30,280
And the team analyzing that data
is being very careful about what

607
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:34,160
they say publicly.
The official line is that it's a

608
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:39,880
quote Fast radio burst or FRB.
Fast radio bursts are one of the

609
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,160
most mysterious phenomenon in
astrophysics.

610
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:46,280
Extremely bright pulses of radio
emission that last anywhere from

611
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,920
a fraction of a millisecond to a
few seconds.

612
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,280
They're detected regularly.
Hundreds have been cataloged

613
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,800
since the first one was
discovered in 2007.

614
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,120
For the most part, we think
they're natural, probably caused

615
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:04,640
by magnetars, neutron stars,
which with incredibly powerful

616
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,880
magnetic fields that
occasionally release bursts of

617
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,360
energy.
But here's the problem.

618
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,200
Most FRBS last less than a
second.

619
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,640
This one lasted 10.
And most FRBS show frequency

620
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,600
drift, the signal sweeping
across a range of frequencies

621
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,440
over the course of the burst.
This one didn't.

622
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,600
It stayed locked at 1.42
gigahertz.

623
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:32,160
No variation, no drift, just a
constant tone.

624
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:36,440
And when you look at the signal
structure, when you analyze the

625
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,680
waveform, it's not chaotic, it's
not random.

626
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,280
There's a pattern.
The details of that pattern

627
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,120
haven't been released publicly.
The research team is still

628
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,280
working on the analysis.
But according to sources close

629
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,520
to the project, and we're
talking about leaks here, not

630
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,360
official statements, the signal
contains what appears to be a

631
00:33:55,360 --> 00:34:00,000
repeating sequence.
This a series of pulses embedded

632
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,160
within the 10 second
transmission, and the spacing

633
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:07,800
between those pulses is regular,
too regular to be accidental.

634
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,560
I want to be clear, we're not
talking about a message, not

635
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,520
binary code or mathematical
proofs or anything like that.

636
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,520
We're talking about a structure,
a framework, something that

637
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,920
suggests that signal, or
suggests the signal wasn't just

638
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,840
a random burst of energy, it was
organized.

639
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,800
And that raises the question,
organized by what?

640
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:34,000
If this is a natural phenomenon,
A magnetar, A colliding neutron

641
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,480
star binary, some exotic
astrophysical event we haven't

642
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,880
discovered yet, then we need to
figure out what kind of process

643
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,000
can produce a 10 second radio
burst with no frequency drift

644
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,600
and an internal structure that
appears non random.

645
00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:50,840
That's hard.
The known mechanisms for

646
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,679
generating fast radio bursts
don't predict that kind of

647
00:34:53,679 --> 00:34:56,239
behavior.
Magnetars release energy in

648
00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:00,280
bursts, yes, but those bursts
are violent, chaotic.

649
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,680
They occur across a range of
frequencies.

650
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,160
You don't get a clean, stable 10
second tone from a magnetar.

651
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,240
It's like the difference between
an explosion and a laser.

652
00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:12,640
One is messy and the other one
is controlled.

653
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,920
So if it's not a magnetar, what
is it?

654
00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:19,440
Some researchers are suggesting
it could be a previously unknown

655
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,520
type of pulsar.
Pulsars emit regular pulses of

656
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,040
radiation as they rotate, and
the timing can be extraordinary

657
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:29,120
precise.
But pulsars emit continuously.

658
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,160
You can point a telescope at a
pulsar and detect it over and

659
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,120
over again because it's always
there spinning away.

660
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,400
This signal appeared once and
disappeared.

661
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,440
That's not consistent with a
pulsar behavior.

662
00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:44,080
Others are suggesting it could
be related to a gravitational

663
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:48,160
lens event or lensing event,
where the where the gravity of a

664
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,760
massive object bends and
amplifies light or radio waves

665
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,880
from a background source.
Maybe something passed in front

666
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,960
of the source, magnifying the
signal just long enough for us

667
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,160
to detect it.
That would explain why it

668
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,440
appeared and then vanished.
But it doesn't explain the

669
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:06,200
internal structure, doesn't
explain why the signal was so

670
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:07,920
clean.
And then there's the third

671
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,320
possibility, the one no
mainstream astronomer wants to

672
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,600
say out loud, but everyone's
thinking about it, I can

673
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,360
guarantee you.
What if it's artificial?

674
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:21,040
What if 8.7 billion years ago
someone pointed A transmitter at

675
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,160
our section of the Galaxy and
broadcast a signal?

676
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,640
Not to us specifically, They
couldn't have known we'd be

677
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,600
here, but maybe they were
broadcasting in all directions,

678
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,920
sending out a beacon, a calling
card, a way of saying we exist,

679
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,280
we're here, we're thinking,
building, transmitting.

680
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:37,760
If anyone's listening, This Is
Us.

681
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,720
And if that's what this is, if
this signal came from a

682
00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:45,200
technological civilization that
existed when the universe was

683
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,200
only 5 billion years old, then
we need to sit with that for a

684
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:54,080
moment, because it would mean
we're not first.

685
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,640
Not even close.
Somewhere billions of years

686
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,640
before Earth formed, someone
else figured out how to build a

687
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,640
civilization, advanced enough to
send radio signals across

688
00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:06,240
intergalactic distances, and
they're gone.

689
00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:11,520
Now they have to be. 8.7 billion
years is an incomprehensible

690
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,000
amount of time.
Stars are born and die in that

691
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,040
span.
Galaxies collide and merge.

692
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:21,040
Whatever sent that signal, if it
was a civilization, they're most

693
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:25,120
likely dust now, scattered
across the cosmos and forgotten.

694
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:30,800
But the signal remains
propagation outward at the speed

695
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,240
of light.
It goes to something that might

696
00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:35,320
have been.
Let's talk about the

697
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:39,360
implications if this is real, if
the signal is confirmed to be

698
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,960
artificial.
The consequences are.

699
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:43,880
Profound.
First, it would mean that

700
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:47,800
intelligent life is or was
common enough in the universe

701
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:51,520
that we've detected evidence of
it from 8.7 billion light years

702
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:52,960
away.
Think about that.

703
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:57,160
We're not talking about a signal
from a nearby star system, not

704
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:00,280
our own Galaxy.
We're talking about a source so

705
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,760
distant that the light we see
from the region of space shows

706
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,640
us a universe that looks
completely different from the

707
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,080
universe today.
If civilizations are calm enough

708
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:14,320
that we can detect one at that
distance, then the universe is

709
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,920
teeming with them.
Or at least it was.

710
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,880
We have no idea how many other
civilizations might have risen

711
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,200
and fallen in the 8.7 billion
years since that signal was

712
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,280
sent.
Second, it would mean that the

713
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,360
technological capability to send
a signal that can be detected

714
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,560
across billions of light years
is achievable.

715
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,360
We can't do that, not even
close.

716
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,520
Yet the most powerful radio
transmitters we have on Earth,

717
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:44,200
like the Erica Bow message sent
in 1974, would be undetectable

718
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,800
from more than a few dozen light
years away.

719
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:50,160
The signal would be too faint,
lost in the background noise of

720
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,720
the universe.
But this signal crossed 8.7

721
00:38:53,720 --> 00:38:56,840
billion light years and was
still strong enough to be

722
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,520
detected by ASCAP.
That means whoever sent it had

723
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,600
access to energy on scale that
we can barely imagine.

724
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,760
We're talking about a
civilization that might have

725
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:12,160
been harnessing the output of
entire stars, a curse of Type 2

726
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:15,680
civilization or higher,
something so advanced that our

727
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:17,760
technology looks primitive by
comparison.

728
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,120
Third, it raises the possibility
that there are other signals out

729
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,000
there, other transmissions from
other civilizations.

730
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,000
And we're only just starting to
look.

731
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,600
ASCAP has been operational for a
few years.

732
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,520
The square kilometer array isn't
even finished yet.

733
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,440
We've surveyed a tiny fraction
the sky in the frequencies where

734
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,400
these signals might appear.
And if we've already found one,

735
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,040
how many more are waiting to be
discovered?

736
00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:47,400
But here's the thing that keeps
me up at night.

737
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,640
The silence.
If the signal is artificial, if

738
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,320
it came from a civilization
billions of years old, why is it

739
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,200
only 10 seconds?
Why not a continuous broadcast?

740
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:03,120
Why not a repeating pattern we
can detect over and over again?

741
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,080
Well, here we go breaking down
the possibilities again.

742
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,800
One, it was a one time
transmission of deliberate

743
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,760
bursts sent out into the
universe with no expectation of

744
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,920
a reply.
Maybe it was a memorial, a way

745
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:19,320
of saying we were here.
Maybe it was the last act of a

746
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:23,080
dying civilization, a final
message before they were wiped

747
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:28,080
out by a catastrophe they
couldn't prevent. 2 It's part of

748
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,600
a larger transmission that we
missed.

749
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,760
The ASCAP wasn't pointed at that
region space continuously.

750
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,480
It was doing a survey sweeping
across the sky.

751
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,920
Maybe the signal had been
broadcasting for hours or days

752
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,360
before we detected it.
Maybe it continued after we

753
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,120
moved on to survey the next
region.

754
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,040
We caught 10 seconds in the
middle.

755
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:50,920
The rest is lost.
Three, it was directed not a

756
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,320
broadcast in all directions, but
a narrow beam pointed at

757
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:58,040
specific targets, and by pure
chance Earth happened to be in

758
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:02,840
the path of that beam for 10
seconds, the source's rotation

759
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,760
or orbital motion.
Move the beam away and it won't

760
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:09,480
point our way again for
thousands or millions of years,

761
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:13,760
if ever.
Or for it wasn't meant for us at

762
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,160
all.
Maybe it was a communication

763
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:19,040
between 2:00.
Points.

764
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,360
A signal sent from one location
to another, and we just happened

765
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:26,440
to be in the line of of sight.
We intercepted something we were

766
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,000
never supposed to hear.
All of these possibilities are

767
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,640
unsettling in their own way.
They all point to the same

768
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,760
conclusion.
We're listening to a universe

769
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,520
that's full of voices, and most
of them are speaking to each

770
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,960
other, not to us.
We're eavesdropping on

771
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,680
conversations we don't
understand, using the technology

772
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,800
that's barely sensitive enough
to catch the faintest whispers

773
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,600
and the voices.
We do hear.

774
00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:51,040
Their echoes?
Messages from civilizations that

775
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:54,160
might not exist anymore.
Radio waves that have been

776
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,120
traveling for billions of years,
carrying information from a

777
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,720
universe that no longer
resembles the one we see today.

778
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,840
The team analyzed the January
16th signal is being cautious.

779
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,800
They're not making bold claims,
not jumping to conclusions.

780
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,320
They're doing what scientists
are supposed to do, examining

781
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:14,000
the data, running simulations,
checking for errors, looking for

782
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,160
alternative explanation.
That's good.

783
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:20,000
That's necessary.
But at some point, if the data

784
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,360
holds up, if no natural
explanation emerges, they're

785
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,440
going to have to consider the
possibility that this signal is

786
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:30,360
exactly what it appears to be, a
transmission from someone,

787
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,520
somewhere who wanted to be
heard.

788
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,440
And if that's the case, then we
have to ask.

789
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,280
What do we do about it?
We can't reply the.

790
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,280
Source is 8.7 billion light
years away.

791
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,720
Even if we send a response at
the speed of light, it would

792
00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:46,600
reach them.
It wouldn't reach them for

793
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,520
another 8.7 billion years.
And by then the universe will

794
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,680
have changed beyond recognition.
Stars will have burned out,

795
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,640
galaxies will have drifted
apart.

796
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,040
Whatever was there won't be
there anymore.

797
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:02,040
So the signal stands as a
monument, a marker, proof that

798
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:06,240
we're not alone, or at least
that we weren't always alone.

799
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,280
And maybe that's enough.
Maybe just knowing that someone

800
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,200
else was out there thinking,
building, transmitting.

801
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,280
Maybe that's the message, not
the content of the signal.

802
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,480
Just the fact.
That it exists because it tells

803
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:25,000
us that intelligence arises,
that consciousness emerges.

804
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,360
The civilizations capable of
reaching across the cosmos are

805
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,240
possible.
And if it happened once, 8.7

806
00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:33,680
billion years ago, it can happen
again.

807
00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:36,680
Maybe it already has.
Maybe there are signals from

808
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:38,760
closer sources, from
civilizations that are still

809
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,360
thriving, still broadcasting,
still waiting for someone to

810
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,840
listen.
And if we keep looking, if we

811
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:47,040
build better telescopes, more
sensitive receivers, wider

812
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:51,680
surveys, maybe we'll hear them.
Or maybe we won't.

813
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,480
Maybe the universe is full of
voices calling out into the

814
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,000
void, and the distances are just
too vast.

815
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:01,280
The time scale is too long for
any 2 civilizations to ever make

816
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,040
contact.
Either way, the 10 segment

817
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:08,080
signal from January 16th reminds
us that we live in a universe

818
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:14,720
far stranger and more populated
than we ever imagined, and

819
00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:17,760
somewhere 8.7 billion light
years away.

820
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,280
Something or someone spoke to
us.

821
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:24,440
For our 4th segment, let's do
something a little different.

822
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:27,680
Let's talk about prophecy.
I know what you're thinking.

823
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,960
Prophecy doesn't belong in a
show about fringe news and

824
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,720
unexplained phenomena.
Prophecy is fortune telling,

825
00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:37,400
cold reading, vague predictions
that people a retrofit to match

826
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:41,880
events after the fact.
Well, most of the time you're

827
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,040
probably right.
But there's a woman.

828
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:49,840
There was a woman named Baba
Vanga who died in 1996, and her

829
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,960
track record is disturbing
enough that when one of her

830
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:57,320
alleged prophecies started
making headlines in 2026.

831
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:00,400
We need to pay attention.
Baba Vanga born.

832
00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:03,160
I'm going to butcher this.
I apologize now.

833
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:10,200
Vangelia Pandava Kushirova,
1911, in what is now N

834
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:14,080
Macedonia, was a blind Mystic
who spent most of her life

835
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:15,720
making predictions about the
future.

836
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,400
She lost her sight at the age of
12 during a massive storm that

837
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,640
reportedly threw her into the
air and buried her in sand and

838
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:24,640
dust.
When she was found, her eyes

839
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:28,080
were sealed shut by debris and
she never saw again.

840
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,960
But according to her followers,
she started seeing other things.

841
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,760
Over the course of her life,
Baba Vanga made thousands of

842
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:37,640
predictions.
Some were personal.

843
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,640
Individuals would visit her
seeking guidance about health,

844
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:43,760
relationship, lost relatives.
Others were geopolitical.

845
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,640
She allegedly predicted the rise
and fall of leaders, wars,

846
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:50,120
natural disasters, technological
breakthroughs, and some were

847
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,440
apocalyptic.
She claimed to see centuries

848
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,480
into the future, describing
events that would reshape human

849
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:57,920
civilization.
Here's where it gets

850
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,520
complicated.
Baba Vanga didn't write anything

851
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:02,520
down herself.
She was illiterate.

852
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,560
Most of her predictions were
recorded by people who visited

853
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:09,160
her, or by her secretary, or by
journalists who interviewed her.

854
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,680
Those records are incomplete,
contradictory, subject to

855
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,000
interpretation.
Which means when someone says

856
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,440
Baba Vanga predicted this event,
you have to ask, did she

857
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,800
actually, actually say that?
Or is this a retroactive

858
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:24,280
interpretation of something
vague she said decades ago?

859
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,400
It's a legitimate question, one
we should apply to every

860
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:31,000
prophecy, every Mystic, or every
psychic who claims to see the

861
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,640
future.
The history of prophecy is full

862
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:37,320
of misattributions,
fabrications, and convenient

863
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:40,120
revisions.
But here's what makes Bubba

864
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,800
Vanga different.
There are predictions attributed

865
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,240
to her documented before the
events occurred.

866
00:46:45,240 --> 00:46:48,280
What are specific enough that
are specific enough to be

867
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,440
falsifiable, And some of them
have come true.

868
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,760
She allegedly predicted the
Kursk submarine disaster in

869
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:56,960
2019.
Eighty, she reportedly said

870
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:01,960
quote at the turn of the century
in August of 99 or 2000, Kursk

871
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,520
will be covered with water at
the whole in the whole world

872
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,760
will be weeping over it.
At the time, people thought she

873
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:12,600
was talking about the Russian
city of Kursk made no sense.

874
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,360
How does a landlocked city get
covered with water?

875
00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:20,720
But in August 2000, the Russian
submarine curse sank during a

876
00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:27,080
naval exercise in the Barents
Sea, killing all 118 crew

877
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:29,600
members.
The submarine was named after

878
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:31,760
the city.
She allegedly predicted the

879
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:34,680
September 11th attacks.
She reportedly said Horror,

880
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:36,760
horror.
The American brethren will fall

881
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:38,600
after being attacked by the
steel birds.

882
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,880
The wolves will be howling in a
Bush and innocent blood will be

883
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,720
gushing Steel birds.
Twin Towers.

884
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:48,320
You can interpret that however
you want, but it's specific

885
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:51,680
enough that when the attacks
happened, people went back and

886
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:54,760
found the quote.
She allegedly predicted the 2004

887
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,440
Indian Ocean tsunami, the
election of Barack Obama,

888
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,920
describing him as the 44th
president and the last African

889
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,960
American president, though that
second part remains to be seen.

890
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,000
The rise of ISIS?
The Russian annexation of

891
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,440
Crimea.
Are all of these predictions

892
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:12,160
legitimate?
Probably not.

893
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,480
Some are almost certainly
fabrications or

894
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:18,120
reinterpretations, but the fact
that even a handful of them are

895
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,040
documented in specific, it's
pretty unusual.

896
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:25,120
Most most psychics, when you
look at their actual track

897
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:28,120
record, are wrong far more than
the right.

898
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,160
They make hundreds of vague
predictions.

899
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,920
A few line up with real events,
and those are the ones that get

900
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,280
remembered while the failures
are quietly forgotten.

901
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:43,040
But Bubba Vanga's predictions,
some of them are hitting at A at

902
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:47,400
a rate that's hard to dismiss as
pure coincidence.

903
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,880
And that brings us to 2026,
according to sources that claim

904
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,000
to be reporting Babavanga's
predictions.

905
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,480
She foresaw an.
Event occurring in November of

906
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,800
2026.
An event involving

907
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:03,680
extraterrestrial contact.
Specifically, she allegedly

908
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:07,840
predicted that, quote, a large
spacecraft would appear over

909
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,360
Earth and that this event would
mark the beginning of a new era

910
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,920
for humanity.
Before we go any further, let's

911
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:15,560
address the obvious problem with
this claim.

912
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:19,320
First, the sourcing is murky.
I haven't found a primary

913
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,520
document where Babavango says
these exact words.

914
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,240
The prediction appears in
articles and websites that

915
00:49:25,240 --> 00:49:28,640
compile her prophecies, but they
don't cite specific interviews

916
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,560
or recordings.
So it's possible this is a

917
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:34,960
fabrication, someone inventing A
prophecy and attributing it to

918
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:36,920
her because her name carries
weight.

919
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,440
Second, even if she did make
this prediction, the language is

920
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,640
vague.
A large spacecraft?

921
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:44,600
What does that mean?
How large?

922
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:46,720
What kind of spacecraft?
Human made?

923
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:52,040
Alien and appears over Earth.
Does that mean it lands, just

924
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,160
flies by, makes contact?
Or is it just a sighting?

925
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:59,680
3rd November 2026 is still 10
months away, so we can't verify

926
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:01,320
whether this prediction is
accurate.

927
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,160
We're sitting here in January
talking about something that

928
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:06,400
allegedly won't happen until the
end of the year.

929
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:10,000
This could be completely wrong
and we won't know until November

930
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,840
comes and goes without incident,
but here's why I'm including

931
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,080
this in tonight's episode if the
prediction is fake.

932
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,880
Even.
If Baba Vanga never said

933
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:22,240
anything about 2026, the fact
that this prophecy is

934
00:50:22,240 --> 00:50:25,960
circulating right now, at a time
when UFO and UAP disclosure is

935
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:30,360
accelerating, when governments
are admitting they have data on

936
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,360
unidentified objects, when the
scientific community is taking

937
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,360
the possibility of
extraterrestrial intelligence

938
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:38,880
more seriously than ever before,
that's significant.

939
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:41,080
Prophecies don't exist in a
vacuum.

940
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:44,320
They influence behavior, shape
expectations.

941
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:47,600
If millions of people believe
something is going to happen in

942
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:50,640
November 2026, and if those
people start looking for signs

943
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:53,920
that the prophecy is coming
true, then even a mundane event

944
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,600
can be interpreted as
fulfilment.

945
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,840
A meteor shower becomes a sign,
a satellite deployment becomes

946
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:02,000
evidence, and military exercise
becomes proof.

947
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:05,760
And if something genuinely
anomalous happens in November,

948
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:10,640
something that would normally be
dismissed or explained away, the

949
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,720
prophecy creates a framework
that makes people pay attention.

950
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:15,640
So let's explore the
possibilities.

951
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:18,920
Let's say, for the sake of
argument, that Babuvanga did

952
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:21,440
make this prediction.
And let's say something happens

953
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:24,240
in November 2026 that resembles
what she described.

954
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:28,560
What would that look like?
Possibility 1A genuine

955
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,280
extraterrestrial spacecraft
appears in Earth's atmosphere.

956
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,880
Visible, undeniable, recorded by
thousands of cameras across

957
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:38,600
multiple continents.
Not a fleeting sighting, that.

958
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:40,560
Vanishes before.
Anyone can verify it.

959
00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:44,640
Not a grainy video that could be
anything but a massive object

960
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:47,240
that hovers, maneuvers, and
demonstrates technology beyond

961
00:51:47,240 --> 00:51:50,920
human capability.
If that happens, we're looking

962
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:53,320
at a paradigm shift unlike
anything in human history.

963
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,080
It's one thing to speculate
about alien life.

964
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:58,960
It's another thing to have it
show up unannounced and park

965
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:00,880
itself over a major populated
area.

966
00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:05,640
The social, political and
religious implications would be

967
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:07,520
staggering.
Governments would have to

968
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:09,400
respond.
Scientists would have to

969
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,000
explain.
And the general public, most of

970
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,640
whom still think UFOs are fringe
nonsense, would have to reckon

971
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:17,280
with the fact that we're not
alone.

972
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,880
But here's what's bothered me
about this scenario.

973
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:24,080
If an advanced extraterrestrial
civilization wanted to make

974
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:28,240
contact, why now?
Why November 2026?

975
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:31,040
What's special about that moment
in human history?

976
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,520
Are reaching some kind of
threshold, some kind of

977
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:36,760
technological or social
development that makes us worth

978
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,160
engaging with?
Or is this something else, a

979
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:42,720
timeline we're not aware of, an
event that's already been set in

980
00:52:42,720 --> 00:52:47,040
motion?
Because if Baba Vanga predicted

981
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:50,480
this decades ago, and if it
happens exactly as she

982
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:54,640
described, then it raises the
disturbing possibility that the

983
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:59,080
future isn't random.
That there's a schedule, a plan,

984
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:03,320
and we're just following it.
Possibility #2A human made

985
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:06,560
spacecraft appears over the
Earth, something classified,

986
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,400
something that's been in
development for decades in black

987
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:13,200
budget programs, and is revealed
in a controlled disclosure event

988
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,880
designed to shift the global
conversation about space defense

989
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:20,240
and technology.
This would explain why the event

990
00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:24,120
is predicted, not because
Babavanga had a mystical insight

991
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:27,160
into the future, but because the
plan has been in place for

992
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,240
years.
Governments and military

993
00:53:29,240 --> 00:53:32,960
contractors have been working
toward a reveal date, and

994
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:36,240
information about that plan
leaked into fringe communities

995
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,960
where it got picked up and
attributed to prophecy.

996
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:44,000
It happened before.
During the Cold War, Psychics

997
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,160
and Mystics would make
predictions about the Soviet

998
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:49,600
technology, American weapons
programs, geopolitical shifts,

999
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,160
and sometimes they'd be eerily
accurate.

1000
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,920
Not because they could see the
future, but because they had

1001
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,080
sources, people inside the
system who were leaking

1002
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:01,920
information in ways that
couldn't be directly traced back

1003
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:03,840
to them.
They tell a psychic something,

1004
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:07,840
the psychic makes a prediction,
the prediction comes true, and

1005
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,400
suddenly you've got plausible
deniability.

1006
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,680
You didn't leak classified
information, you just talked to

1007
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:16,520
a Mystic.
So it's possible that Baba Vanga

1008
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:20,120
or someone claiming to report
her predictions was fed

1009
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:23,360
information by a planned event,
And now, decades later, we're

1010
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:28,440
watching the plan unfold.
Possibility #3 nothing happens.

1011
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,400
November 2026 comes and goes and
there's no spacecraft, no

1012
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:34,600
contact, no revelation.
The prophecy was wrong, or it

1013
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,440
was fabricated, or it was
misinterpreted and life

1014
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:41,440
continues as normal.
This is the most likely outcome.

1015
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:45,400
The track record of prophecy
across all cultures, all time

1016
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:49,040
periods, all Mystics, is the
most predictions fail.

1017
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,640
They either don't come true at
all, or they come true in such a

1018
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:58,000
vague, watered down way that
calling it a success is

1019
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:01,160
generous.
But even if nothing happens,

1020
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:02,080
the.
Prophecy will.

1021
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,040
Still matter.
The people who believe in

1022
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:06,160
Babavvango won't accept that she
was wrong.

1023
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,000
They'll reinterpret the
prediction, say that the

1024
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,960
spacecraft appeared but it was
hidden, or that the contact

1025
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:15,040
happened but it was kept secret,
or that the timeline shifted and

1026
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,480
the event is still coming, just
delayed.

1027
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:20,080
Prophecy has has a way of
surviving failure.

1028
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:23,320
The human mind is incredibly
good at finding patterns even

1029
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,040
where none exist, and once
you've committed to the idea

1030
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:29,560
that someone can see the future,
you'll bend reality to fit their

1031
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:33,000
predictions rather than admit
that they were just guessing.

1032
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,360
But here's the part I keep
coming back to.

1033
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:39,000
Baba Vanga's track record.
Whatever you think of prophecy

1034
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:43,720
in general is better than most.
She made specific, falsifiable

1035
00:55:43,720 --> 00:55:46,040
predictions, and some of them
came true.

1036
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:50,840
Not all, probably not even most,
but enough that dismissed her

1037
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,800
entirely.
Feels intellectually lazy.

1038
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,320
So what if she did see
something?

1039
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:59,360
What if there is a mechanism,
something we don't understand

1040
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:02,480
yet, that allows certain people
under the certain conditions to

1041
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:06,280
perceive future events?
Not with perfect clarity, not

1042
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:09,240
with complete accuracy, but with
enough detail.

1043
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,600
Be unsettling.
We know time is more flexible

1044
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:17,400
than we intuitively understand.
Relativity tells us that time

1045
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:21,160
slows down near massive objects,
that if that it flows

1046
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:28,440
differently at different speeds,
that simu is relative depending

1047
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:32,600
on your frame of reference.
So the idea that the future is

1048
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:37,800
locked in and can somehow be
perceived is not as observed or

1049
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:42,280
absurd as it sounds.
There are theoretical models in

1050
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:45,640
physics, like the block universe
model that suggests past,

1051
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:50,160
present, and future all exist
simultaneously, that time is

1052
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:53,760
just another dimension and our
perception of it as a flowing

1053
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:56,080
river is an illusion created by
consciousness.

1054
00:56:56,680 --> 00:57:00,240
If that's true future, then the
future is already there, it's

1055
00:57:00,240 --> 00:57:03,200
already happened and we just
haven't experienced it yet from

1056
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:05,800
our perspective.
And if the future is already

1057
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,520
there, then maybe some people
through mechanisms we don't

1058
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:10,800
understand.
Neurological anomalies, altered

1059
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:13,480
states of consciousness,
sensitivity to quantum

1060
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:17,600
information can catch glimpses
of it, fragments, flashes,

1061
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:21,120
enough to describe events before
they happen, but not enough to

1062
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:24,080
understand the full context.
That would explain why

1063
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:27,400
prophecies are often vague, why
they're open to interpretation.

1064
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:30,200
The prophet isn't seeing the
future clearly.

1065
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:33,480
They're seeing impressions,
images, feelings, and they're

1066
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:37,080
translating those impressions
into language, which distorts

1067
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:40,720
the message even further.
Balavanga describes steel birds

1068
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:44,080
attacking American brethren.
She didn't say terrorists will

1069
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:46,400
fly hijacked planes into the
World Trade Center.

1070
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,640
But the image was there.
The steel birds, the falling

1071
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:54,240
towers, the innocent blood close
enough to be chilling when you

1072
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:57,720
look back at it.
So if she said something about a

1073
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:01,000
large spacecraft appearing in
November 2026, what did she

1074
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,240
actually see?
What impression was she

1075
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:06,800
translating into those words?
Was it a literal spacecraft, or

1076
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:09,480
was it something else, a
metaphor for an event she

1077
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:12,320
couldn't describe any other way?
And if something does happen in

1078
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:14,960
November, will we recognize it
as the fulfillment of the

1079
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:18,520
prophecy, or will it be so
different from what we expected

1080
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:20,800
that we miss it entirely?
Because that's the thing about

1081
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:24,240
prophecy, It's only useful if
you recognize the event when it

1082
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:26,680
happens.
If Baba Vanga saw something we

1083
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:29,640
don't have the framework to
understand yet, then her

1084
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:32,800
description won't make sense
until after the fact, and by

1085
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:37,160
then it's too late to prepare.
So we're left in this strange

1086
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:39,360
position.
We have a prophecy that may or

1087
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:42,040
may not be legitimate,
describing an event that may or

1088
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:45,280
may not happen, attributed to a
woman who may or may not have

1089
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:49,000
the ability to see the future.
And all we can do is wait 10

1090
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:51,000
months.
That's how long we have to wait

1091
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,480
until November 2026.
And in those ten months, we'll

1092
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:57,760
be watching, looking for signs,
analyzing reports, monitoring

1093
00:58:57,760 --> 00:58:59,680
the skies.
Because if Babalongo was right

1094
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:03,640
about the Kirks, about the
towers, about the tsunami, that

1095
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:05,560
maybe, just maybe, she'd write
about this one too.

1096
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:08,800
And if a large spacecraft
appears over Earth in November,

1097
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,800
if the skies open up and
something emerges that we can't

1098
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:14,480
explain, then we'll have to
confront the possibility that

1099
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,480
the future isn't as uncertain as
we think.

1100
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:22,320
That there are patterns,
trajectories, events that are

1101
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:26,280
locked in and waiting to unfold.
Or maybe nothing will happen,

1102
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:28,960
maybe November will pass and
we'll move on to the next

1103
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:32,000
prophecy, the next prediction,
the next claim that someone,

1104
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:36,120
somewhere knows that's coming.
But until then, we watch, we

1105
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:39,600
wait, and we wonder whether Baba
Vanga saw something that we're

1106
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:43,680
about to experience first hand.
Because if she did, then

1107
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:47,920
everything changes in November.
All right, on to our last

1108
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:49,720
segment of the night.
Man, it's been, this is a long

1109
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:52,040
one.
We need to talk about something

1110
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:55,800
that's threatening to destroy an
entire field of study.

1111
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:59,880
Something close to my heart.
Not through lack of evidence,

1112
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:03,040
not through debunking, but
through an overwhelming flood of

1113
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:07,120
fake evidence so convincing that
it's becoming impossible to tell

1114
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:11,360
what's real anymore.
January 3rd, 2026, Researchers

1115
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:15,880
and cryptozoology enthusiasts
started noticing something.

1116
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:19,160
Disturbing videos of cryptids,
Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster,

1117
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:21,360
Chupacabra, and Mothman were
appearing on social media and

1118
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:23,680
video platforms at an
unprecedented rate.

1119
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:26,440
Now of course this has been
happening for way longer than

1120
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:31,120
January 3rd, but the article
that I read to produce this

1121
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:34,160
segment was published on January
3rd, so that's.

1122
01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:37,080
What I went with?
And they weren't blurry, achy

1123
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:40,280
Cam footage shot on a phone from
200 yards away.

1124
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:43,400
They were high definition,
stabilized, well lit, showing

1125
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:47,240
creatures in vivid detail as
they moved through forest,

1126
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:50,280
crossroads and work from water.
They were perfect, too.

1127
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:53,680
Perfect because they were AI
generated, created by

1128
01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:58,440
sophisticated video synthesis
models that can take a prompt or

1129
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:02,080
a text prompt like Bigfoot
crossing a highway at dusk, and

1130
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:05,840
produce footage that looks
completely real for texture,

1131
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,960
movement, physics, lighting that
matches the environment, shadows

1132
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:13,520
that fall correctly, everything
your brain expects to see.

1133
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:16,560
When watching real.
Video and the models are getting

1134
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:20,640
better every month.
Every week the quality improves

1135
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:23,360
the tells that used to give
away.

1136
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:24,400
Synthetic.
Video.

1137
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:27,720
Weird hand movements, facial
distortions, physics glitches

1138
01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:30,520
are disappearing.
We're rapidly approaching a

1139
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:33,720
point where AI generated video
is indistinguishable from

1140
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:38,080
footage captured by a camera.
And when that happens, when you

1141
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:41,240
can't trust your eyes anymore,
everything falls apart.

1142
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:45,080
Cryptozoology, the study of
hidden animals, creatures that

1143
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:47,840
haven't been formally recognized
by mainstream science, has

1144
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:51,520
always operated in a weird space
between legitimate zoology and

1145
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:53,960
pure folklore.
On one hand you have serious

1146
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:57,840
researchers, people with
backgrounds in biology, ecology,

1147
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:01,520
and Wildlife Conservation, who
investigate reports of unknown

1148
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:03,880
animals because history has
shown us that new species are

1149
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:07,360
discovered all the time.
The okapi, the giant squid, the

1150
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:09,240
kolkanth.
All of these were considered

1151
01:02:09,240 --> 01:02:14,240
myths or extinct until physical
evidence proved otherwise.

1152
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:17,920
On the other hand, you have
hoaxers, people who fake

1153
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:21,960
footprints, costume up as
Bigfoot, Photoshop images, and

1154
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:24,800
fabricate evidence for
attention, money, or just to see

1155
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:28,040
if they can fool people.
And cryptozoology has always had

1156
01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:32,440
to navigate this minefield.
Every piece of evidence has to

1157
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:35,800
be scrutinized, every video
analyzed for signs of

1158
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:38,400
manipulation, every photograph
verified.

1159
01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:42,760
But the tradition.
But the traditional hoaxes, guys

1160
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:46,000
in gorilla suits, plaster casts
made from carved wooden feet,

1161
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:50,040
edited photos with blur added to
hide the seams?

1162
01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:54,080
Those are detectable.
Experts can spot them, analyze

1163
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:57,760
gait patterns, muscle movement,
fur texture, examine pixels,

1164
01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:00,920
look for compression artifacts,
check metadata.

1165
01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:04,200
Overtime, the cryptozoology
community develops protocols,

1166
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:07,120
ways to separate genuine
evidence from fakes.

1167
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:11,720
AI generated content.
AI generated breaks those

1168
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:14,800
protocols.
The artifacts aren't there.

1169
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:18,000
The tells aren't there.
The video isn't edited or

1170
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,200
composited from multiple
sources.

1171
01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:23,480
It's synthesized from scratch,
and the AI is trained on

1172
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:24,960
millions of hours of real
footage.

1173
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:29,960
It knows how light behaves,
knows how muscles move, knows

1174
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:33,000
how fur responds to wind and how
water ripples when something

1175
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:37,080
moves through it.
And because the AI is generating

1176
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:40,480
every frame from a statistical
model of reality, it doesn't

1177
01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:43,320
make the mistakes a human hopes
or makes.

1178
01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:46,400
There's no zipper on the
costume, no visible wires, no

1179
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:50,360
continuity errors, just clean,
coherent footage that looks

1180
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:55,240
exactly like what you've you'd
expect to see if you actually

1181
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:58,680
filmed a Cryptid in the wild.
The first wave of these videos

1182
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:02,000
appeared in late 2025, but they
were obvious.

1183
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:05,680
The models were still early, the
movements were slightly off, the

1184
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:09,520
textures didn't quite match.
But by January 2026, the quality

1185
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:13,880
has improved to the point where
even experienced researchers

1186
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:16,320
were having trouble
distinguishing real footage from

1187
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:19,840
synthetic.
And that's the that's when the

1188
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:22,840
panic starts.
If you can't trust video

1189
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:25,560
evidence anymore, then what do
you have left?

1190
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:28,000
Eyewitness testimony.
That's always been the weakest

1191
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:31,120
form of evidence.
Memory is unreliable, Perception

1192
01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:34,360
is biased.
People see what they expect to

1193
01:04:34,360 --> 01:04:37,640
see, especially in low light
conditions or high stress

1194
01:04:37,640 --> 01:04:41,120
situations.
Physical evidence, footprints

1195
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:45,240
can be faked, hair samples can
be planted, and even when you

1196
01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:49,160
get legitimate biological
material, it usually turns out

1197
01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:54,840
to be from a known animal.
Fairs, wolves, deer, not even an

1198
01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:57,480
unknown.
Encrypted or not, an unknown

1199
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:00,600
encrypted video was the gold
standard.

1200
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:03,360
Not perfect, but.
Better than anything else, if

1201
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:05,640
you had clear footage of an
animal that didn't match any

1202
01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:09,800
known species, if experts could
analyze the movement, the

1203
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:12,840
anatomy, the behavior, then you
had something worth

1204
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:15,640
investigating, something that
could potentially lead to a

1205
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:20,520
formal discovery.
But now, Now you can generate

1206
01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:23,840
that footage in minutes.
You can create an entire library

1207
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:26,640
of crypto videos, each one
showing a different creature in

1208
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:29,840
a different environment, all of
them completely fake but

1209
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:33,600
visually indistinguishable from
real recordings.

1210
01:05:33,640 --> 01:05:35,720
And the people creating these
videos aren't doing it for

1211
01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:37,800
research.
They're doing it for views, for

1212
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:40,440
engagement, for the thrill of
watching people argue in the

1213
01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:42,600
comments about whether the
footage is real.

1214
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:44,320
Some of them are upfront about
it.

1215
01:05:44,320 --> 01:05:46,440
They tag their videos as AI
generated.

1216
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:50,160
They explain the process.
They treat it as digital, but

1217
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:52,960
others present their synthetic
footage as genuine.

1218
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:56,800
They add captions like quote
film this in the woods behind my

1219
01:05:56,800 --> 01:05:59,960
house or caught this on my trail
Cam last night.

1220
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:03,000
They fabricate backstories,
engage with skeptics and

1221
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:06,160
believers as if the video is
real and it works.

1222
01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:08,960
People want to believe.
They want the Loch Ness Monster

1223
01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:11,040
to be real.
They want Bigfoot to exist.

1224
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:14,200
So when they see high quality
footage that confirms their

1225
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:17,640
belief, they don't question it
as aggressively as they should.

1226
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:22,160
They share it, defend it, build
narratives around it, and by the

1227
01:06:22,160 --> 01:06:25,920
time someone proves it's AI
generated, if they can prove it,

1228
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:28,760
the video has already spread
across platforms, been embedded

1229
01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:32,720
in articles, cited in podcasts,
and entered the cultural

1230
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:37,200
consciousness as that amazing
Bigfoot footage from 2026.

1231
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:40,680
The damage is already freaking
done.

1232
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:43,920
Let's talk about what that means
for cryptozoology.

1233
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:49,280
This isn't an inconvenience.
This, unfortunately, is an

1234
01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:53,600
existential threat.
Cryptozoology has always.

1235
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:57,280
Struggled with credibility.
Mainstream science treats it as

1236
01:06:57,280 --> 01:07:00,760
a pseudoscience.
Universities don't offer degrees

1237
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:04,000
in it.
Funding is almost non existent.

1238
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:07,040
The researchers who dedicate
their lives to investigating

1239
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:10,800
unknown animals do it on their
own time with their own money,

1240
01:07:11,040 --> 01:07:14,680
because they genuinely believe
there are undiscovered species

1241
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:17,280
out there and someone needs to
look for them.

1242
01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:21,200
And they've had some successes.
The mountain gorilla was

1243
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:24,000
considered a myth until 19 O2.
The Komodo dragon wasn't

1244
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:27,760
confirmed until 1910.
The megamouth shark, a 15 long

1245
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:31,640
foot long filter feeder, wasn't
discovered until 1976.

1246
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:35,320
So the idea that there are large
animals still out there, hiding

1247
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:38,400
in remote regions avoiding human
contact is not absurd.

1248
01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:41,240
It's plausible.
But every time a hoax get it

1249
01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:44,120
gets exposed, it damages the
field's credibility.

1250
01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:48,120
Every guy in a gorilla suit,
every faked photograph, every

1251
01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:52,120
fabricated footprint reinforces
the mainstream narrative that

1252
01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:55,200
cryptozoology is a joke, that
the people involved are

1253
01:07:55,200 --> 01:07:58,240
gullible, uncritical, willing to
believe anything.

1254
01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:01,080
And the researchers know this.
They police their own community,

1255
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:04,200
call out hoaxes, demand
evidence, apply the same

1256
01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:07,400
standards of scrutiny that any
scientist would apply to any

1257
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:10,240
extraordinary claim.
Because they know that if they

1258
01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:15,560
don't, if they let fake evidence
slide, then no one will take

1259
01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:17,359
them seriously when they find
something real.

1260
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:21,200
But AI generated content makes
that policing almost impossible.

1261
01:08:21,279 --> 01:08:23,560
You can't call out every fake
video.

1262
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:26,399
There are too many of them.
They're being created faster

1263
01:08:26,399 --> 01:08:29,120
than they can be debunked.
And the people creating them

1264
01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:31,920
don't care about credibility.
They're not part of the

1265
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:35,319
cryptozoology community.
They're content creators,

1266
01:08:35,479 --> 01:08:39,240
digital artists, trolls, people
who have no investing in the

1267
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:41,680
field and no concern about the
damage they're causing.

1268
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:45,120
What happens when every piece of
video evidence is suspect?

1269
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:48,800
When you can't trust anything
unless you you were there to

1270
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:52,080
film it yourself?
When even the most compelling

1271
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:55,279
footage could be dismissed as AI
generated regardless of whether

1272
01:08:55,279 --> 01:08:59,240
it's real, you get paralysis.
A situation where genuine

1273
01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:01,800
evidence, if it exists, gets
drowned out by the noise.

1274
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:06,080
Where researchers stop sharing
their findings publicly because

1275
01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:08,560
they know it'll just get lumped
in with the fakes?

1276
01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:11,080
Trust me, you can hate that.
Sorry.

1277
01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:15,120
Where the entire field retreats
into obscurity because the

1278
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:19,080
signal to noise ratio has become
so skewed that meaningful

1279
01:09:19,080 --> 01:09:21,200
investigation is no longer
possible.

1280
01:09:21,479 --> 01:09:25,560
And here's the RE out.
Here's the really insidious

1281
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:27,399
part.
This isn't just happening to

1282
01:09:27,399 --> 01:09:31,640
cryptozoology.
It's happening to everything.

1283
01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:35,800
UFO footage?
AI can generate that Ghost

1284
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:39,760
videos, Synthetic paranormal
activity caught on camera, fake.

1285
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:42,160
Any phenomenon that relies on
visual evidence is now

1286
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:46,560
vulnerable to the same attack.
The tools to create this content

1287
01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:48,720
are freely available.
You don't need extensive

1288
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:50,000
software or specialized
training.

1289
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:53,240
Just a computer, an Internet
connection and a text to video

1290
01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:56,000
AI model.
Which means we're entering an

1291
01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:58,880
era where video evidence,
something we've relied on for

1292
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:01,200
over a century to document
reality, is no longer

1293
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:03,720
trustworthy by default.
We're going to have to develop a

1294
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:07,400
new verification methods,
digital signatures, blockchain

1295
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:11,960
authentication, hardware level
encoding that proved a a video

1296
01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:14,280
was captured by a specific
camera at a specific time and

1297
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:16,400
place.
But even though solutions aren't

1298
01:10:16,400 --> 01:10:19,240
perfect, once the technology
exists to verify authentic

1299
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:21,840
footage, the technology to fake
that verification will appear

1300
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:24,440
shortly after.
It's an arms race and then an

1301
01:10:24,440 --> 01:10:27,400
arms race between people trying
to preserve truth and people

1302
01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:29,840
trying to generate convincing
fakes.

1303
01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:34,440
The fakes have an advantage.
They only need to fool people

1304
01:10:34,440 --> 01:10:38,080
once.
The truth has to be defended

1305
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:40,160
constantly.
So where does that leave

1306
01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:44,200
cryptozoologists who spent years
investigating reports, analyzing

1307
01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:48,120
evidence, trying to separate
signal from noise in a very

1308
01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:50,400
difficult position?
They're facing a flood of

1309
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:53,560
synthetic evidence designed to
look exactly like the real

1310
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:56,000
thing, and they don't have the
resources to combat it.

1311
01:10:56,600 --> 01:10:59,440
No funding for advanced digital
forensics, no institutional

1312
01:10:59,440 --> 01:11:02,000
support, no mainstream
credibility to fall back on when

1313
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:05,840
they try to explain why this
particular video is fake.

1314
01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:08,920
But that other one might be
real.

1315
01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:12,600
And the public, the people who
watch these videos, share them,

1316
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:14,640
argue about them.
They're not equipped to tell the

1317
01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:17,320
difference either.
Most people don't know what to

1318
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:22,360
look for, don't know about micro
expressions, gait analysis,

1319
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:24,880
lighting, consistency, shadow
physics.

1320
01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:28,400
They see a video that looks real
and they assume it is real.

1321
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:32,200
Or they see a video that looks
fake and they assume it is fake,

1322
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:36,280
but conclusions might be wrong.
So we're losing our ability to

1323
01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:39,680
collectively agree on what's
real and what's terrifying, not

1324
01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:43,200
just for cryptozoology, but for
society as a whole.

1325
01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:46,600
If you can't trust video, what
can you trust?

1326
01:11:47,120 --> 01:11:49,480
Eyewitness accounts.
Those have always been

1327
01:11:49,480 --> 01:11:53,960
unreliable photographs, Even
easier to fake than video audio

1328
01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:56,400
recordings, unfortunately.
Yeah, I can generate those two.

1329
01:11:56,920 --> 01:11:59,600
Voice cloning technology is
already frighteningly good,

1330
01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:04,160
frighteningly good physical
evidence that can be planted,

1331
01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:07,920
fabricated, and misidentified.
We're approaching a point where

1332
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:11,000
reality itself becomes
contested, where every piece of

1333
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:14,600
evidence can be challenged,
where every claim requires

1334
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:18,400
levels of verification that are
impractical for everyday use.

1335
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:23,160
And in that environment, truth
becomes whatever narrative has

1336
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:25,720
the most compelling
presentation, regardless of

1337
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:27,800
whether it corresponds to actual
events.

1338
01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:31,440
This is what the researchers who
noticed the surge in AI

1339
01:12:31,440 --> 01:12:35,120
generated Cryptid videos in 2026
are worried about.

1340
01:12:35,680 --> 01:12:39,080
Not just that the field is being
polluted with fake evidence, but

1341
01:12:39,080 --> 01:12:41,600
that we're witnessing the
collapse of a foundational

1342
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:45,360
assumption about how we know
what's real.

1343
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:48,800
For decades, we've operated.
Under belief that.

1344
01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:52,040
Seeing is believing that if you
can capture something on camera,

1345
01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:56,560
you've documented reality.
That belief is dying.

1346
01:12:57,320 --> 01:12:58,840
We don't have a replacement for
it yet.

1347
01:12:58,880 --> 01:13:01,160
So what do we do?
Some researchers are advocating

1348
01:13:01,160 --> 01:13:02,680
for a return to physical
evidence.

1349
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:04,880
Forget the videos.
Focus on DNA samples,

1350
01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:08,280
footprints, hair, scat,
biological material that can be

1351
01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:10,160
tested in the lab.
If you claim you found a

1352
01:13:10,160 --> 01:13:12,840
Bigfoot, don't show me a video.
Show me tissue samples.

1353
01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:16,240
Show me something that can be
sequenced, analyzing compared to

1354
01:13:16,240 --> 01:13:18,320
known species.
But that approach has its own

1355
01:13:18,320 --> 01:13:20,360
problems.
Physical evidence can be faked

1356
01:13:20,360 --> 01:13:23,840
too, and even when it's genuine,
it's often inconclusive.

1357
01:13:24,240 --> 01:13:26,040
Hair that doesn't match any
known animal.

1358
01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:30,520
Could be a hybrid, could be a
contaminated sample, could be

1359
01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:32,680
degraded DNA that's missing key
markers.

1360
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:35,640
It's evidence, yes, but it's
really definitive.

1361
01:13:36,480 --> 01:13:40,040
Others are calling for better
digital forensics tools that can

1362
01:13:40,040 --> 01:13:43,840
analyze video at the frame
level, looking for the subtle

1363
01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:45,200
artifacts.
That AI models leave.

1364
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:48,720
Behind inconsistencies and
compression patterns, Anomalies

1365
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:52,080
and pixel distributed
statistical signatures that

1366
01:13:52,080 --> 01:13:57,040
indicate synthesis rather than
capture, those tools already

1367
01:13:57,040 --> 01:13:58,520
exist.
They're being developed by

1368
01:13:58,520 --> 01:14:01,440
researchers in computer science,
digital media, and

1369
01:14:01,440 --> 01:14:03,840
cybersecurity.
But they're not foolproof.

1370
01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:07,560
The AI models are improving
faster than the detection

1371
01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:09,840
methods.
Every time someone develops a

1372
01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:13,160
test that can identify synthetic
video, the next generation of AI

1373
01:14:13,160 --> 01:14:17,560
is trained to pass that test.
It's an asymmetric battle.

1374
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:21,440
The people creating fake content
have more resources, more

1375
01:14:21,440 --> 01:14:24,680
talent, and more motivation than
the people trying to detect it.

1376
01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:28,480
There's money in creating viral
content, fame, influence, but

1377
01:14:28,480 --> 01:14:32,480
there's very little reward for
being the person who says

1378
01:14:33,160 --> 01:14:36,080
actually that's fake.
So the fakes will keep coming,

1379
01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:39,080
they'll keep getting better, and
the line between real and

1380
01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:42,000
synthetic will keep blurring
until it disappears entirely.

1381
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:44,800
And when that happens, when we
reach the point where AI

1382
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:48,200
generated video is completely
distinguishable,

1383
01:14:48,360 --> 01:14:51,800
indistinguishable from authentic
footage, we'll have to make a

1384
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:54,240
choice.
Do we abandoned video evidence

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01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:56,920
altogether, treat every
recording as suspect unless

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01:14:56,920 --> 01:15:00,880
proven otherwise, Retreat to a
pre digital epistemology where

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01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:05,000
only direct personnel experience
counts as knowledge?

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01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:08,880
Or do we develop new framework
for trust, new systems for

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01:15:08,880 --> 01:15:12,000
verification, new ways of
establishing provenance and

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01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:15,440
authenticity that don't rely on
what our eyes tell us?

1391
01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:19,680
Because the Cryptid crisis, the
flood of AI generated Bigfoot

1392
01:15:19,680 --> 01:15:22,160
videos, Loch Ness Monster
footage, and Mothman sightings.

1393
01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:24,600
That's just the beginning.
The same technology that's

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01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:28,240
polluting cryptozoology is going
to spread to journalism, law

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01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:32,160
enforcement, politics, history,
and every domain where visual

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01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:35,200
evidence matters.
And we're not ready for it if we

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01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:38,120
don't have the infrastructure,
we don't have the literacy, we

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01:15:38,120 --> 01:15:41,040
don't have the cultural
practices that would allow us to

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01:15:41,040 --> 01:15:43,360
navigate a world where video
can't be trusted.

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01:15:43,440 --> 01:15:46,040
So we're going to stumble
through this transition.

1401
01:15:46,840 --> 01:15:49,520
We're going to make mistakes,
believe things that aren't true,

1402
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:52,720
and dismiss things that are.
Watch society fracture along

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01:15:52,720 --> 01:15:57,040
lines of quote, What evidence do
you accept as real, and whose

1404
01:15:57,040 --> 01:15:58,760
verification methods do you
trust?

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01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:02,240
And in the chaos, in the noise,
real discoveries are going to

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01:16:02,240 --> 01:16:04,640
get lost.
Here's the thing that keeps me

1407
01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:07,960
up at night.
What if, in January 2026,

1408
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:09,520
someone actually filmed a
Cryptid?

1409
01:16:10,040 --> 01:16:13,960
What if, buried in the avalanche
of AI generated content, there's

1410
01:16:13,960 --> 01:16:18,000
one genuine video, one piece of
authentic evidence showing an

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01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:20,280
unknown animal in its natural
habitat?

1412
01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:23,840
How would we know?
How do we distinguish?

1413
01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:28,560
That one real video from 1000?
Or thousands of synthetic ones?

1414
01:16:29,200 --> 01:16:30,800
What if the discovery of the
century is sitting?

1415
01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:33,720
On a hard drive somewhere.
Ignored, dismissed.

1416
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:38,240
Written off as obviously AI
generated because we've trained

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01:16:38,240 --> 01:16:39,960
ourselves to assume everything
is fake.

1418
01:16:40,920 --> 01:16:44,640
That's the real crisis.
Not that we're being fooled by

1419
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:48,040
synthetic content, but that
we're becoming so paranoid, so

1420
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:51,800
skeptical, so overwhelmed by
fakes that we can't recognize

1421
01:16:51,800 --> 01:16:54,080
the truth when it appears in
front of us.

1422
01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:58,160
The researchers who documented
this surge in AI generated

1423
01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:01,760
Cryptid videos in January 2026
are sounding the alarm.

1424
01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:05,520
They're saying this is a
problem, This is going to

1425
01:17:05,520 --> 01:17:07,960
destroy our ability to
investigate unknown animals.

1426
01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:12,120
We need solutions, we need
standards, we need help.

1427
01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:14,080
But I'm not sure anyone's
listening.

1428
01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:17,480
The people who create AI models.
Are focused.

1429
01:17:17,480 --> 01:17:21,480
On making the technology better,
not on mitigating the harm it

1430
01:17:21,480 --> 01:17:23,920
causes.
The platforms that host the

1431
01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:27,360
content are focused on
engagement, not on truth, and

1432
01:17:27,360 --> 01:17:29,840
the public is just trying to
figure out what's real and

1433
01:17:29,840 --> 01:17:32,280
what's not, one viral video at a
time.

1434
01:17:32,280 --> 01:17:35,200
So the crisis continues, the
fakes keep coming, and

1435
01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:38,280
cryptozoology, a field that was
already struggling for

1436
01:17:38,280 --> 01:17:42,640
legitimacy, is drowning in
synthetic evidence that it has

1437
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:46,720
no way to combat.
And maybe best, the future we're

1438
01:17:46,720 --> 01:17:50,440
headed towards a world where
every field of inquiry that

1439
01:17:50,440 --> 01:17:53,840
relies on visual documentation
faces the same existential

1440
01:17:53,960 --> 01:17:57,320
threat.
We're the tools we develop to

1441
01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:01,160
capture and preserve reality.
Reality become the very things

1442
01:18:01,160 --> 01:18:03,320
that make reality impossible to
verify.

1443
01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:07,000
It's not a future I'm looking
forward to, but it's the future

1444
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:11,400
we're building. 1 AAI generated
video at a time.

1445
01:18:12,240 --> 01:18:14,560
What's up Grizz?
Thanks for showing up man.

1446
01:18:15,400 --> 01:18:20,600
Well that's it for today's main
show. 5 stories, 5 threads, and

1447
01:18:20,600 --> 01:18:22,080
they're all connected by the
same question.

1448
01:18:22,280 --> 01:18:25,160
What happens when the tools we
use to understand reality stop

1449
01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:29,000
working?
AI finding patterns in UFO data

1450
01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:35,600
that suggests intentionality.
A structure 2570 meters

1451
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:40,480
underwater that shouldn't exist.
A 10 second signal from 8.7

1452
01:18:40,760 --> 01:18:43,400
billion light years away.
A prophecy predicting alien

1453
01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:47,720
contact this November and AI
generated Cryptid videos so

1454
01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:51,080
convincing we can't trust our
eyes anymore. 5 different

1455
01:18:51,080 --> 01:18:53,840
stories, same crisis running
through all of them.

1456
01:18:53,880 --> 01:18:57,360
The tools we use to verify truth
are the same tools that can

1457
01:18:57,360 --> 01:19:00,400
fabricate lies.
The technologies we use to

1458
01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:05,320
extend our senses can deceive us
more effectively than our senses

1459
01:19:05,560 --> 01:19:08,320
ever could.
We're living through the moment

1460
01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:11,640
where the old frameworks stop
working, but the new ones

1461
01:19:11,640 --> 01:19:14,560
haven't been established yet.
So what do we do?

1462
01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:17,720
It starts with humanity
acknowledging that our tools are

1463
01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:20,600
fallible and our understanding
is incomplete.

1464
01:19:21,040 --> 01:19:24,560
Continues with curiosity, A
willingness to investigate even

1465
01:19:24,560 --> 01:19:28,360
unlikely claims.
But it also claims or requires

1466
01:19:28,360 --> 01:19:31,520
discipline, a refusal to accept.
Easy.

1467
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:34,800
Answers a willingness.
To say I don't know when the

1468
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:38,040
evidence isn't strong enough.
We're living in a time where AI

1469
01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:42,360
can generate reality.
We're oceans hide structures we

1470
01:19:42,360 --> 01:19:45,160
can't explain, where signals
from distant civilizations might

1471
01:19:45,160 --> 01:19:48,160
be reaching us, and where the
skies are full of objects

1472
01:19:48,160 --> 01:19:52,080
operating according to rules we
don't understand.

1473
01:19:52,840 --> 01:19:56,440
All of it could be real, or it
could be noise, but that's why

1474
01:19:56,440 --> 01:19:58,640
we're here.
Someone needs to pay attention.

1475
01:19:58,640 --> 01:20:00,960
Someone needs to ask the
uncomfortable questions.

1476
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:04,240
And every once in a while, we
find something real, something

1477
01:20:04,240 --> 01:20:06,680
that suggests the world is
stranger than we're allowed to

1478
01:20:06,680 --> 01:20:09,440
emit.
If you want access to all our

1479
01:20:09,440 --> 01:20:12,680
sources and references, head
over to patreon.com/infinite

1480
01:20:12,680 --> 01:20:14,480
Rival.
That's also where you'll get

1481
01:20:14,880 --> 01:20:19,080
Segment 6, our Patreon exclusive
deep dive into the psychedelic

1482
01:20:19,080 --> 01:20:21,240
assisted therapy moving
mainstream.

1483
01:20:22,280 --> 01:20:24,120
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1484
01:20:24,120 --> 01:20:28,720
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1485
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:31,800
Subscribe wherever you're
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1486
01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:35,360
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1487
01:20:36,400 --> 01:20:39,840
Until next time, travelers,
we'll see you right here, the

1488
01:20:39,840 --> 01:20:42,240
next working path of the
infinite rabbit hole.

1489
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:43,360
Peace.