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Near the Earth's atmosphere is a swirling cauldron of gases, producing spectacular phenomena

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that science is still struggling to understand.

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But some experts believe many atmospheric light shows are actually caused by extraterrestrials.

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Could the atmosphere's greatest displays in fact be otherworldly organisms?

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And if they are, what is their ultimate goal?

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Do they pose an imminent threat to humanity?

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From food fighters to life forms from outer space, join us as the alien secrets behind

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atmospheric anomalies are unsealed.

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Secret files hidden from the public for decades, detailing every UFO account, are now available

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Exposing the biggest secret on planet Earth.

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Hestalan Norway, January 18th, 1982.

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At 7.30pm, local resident Lars Lillefold steps out of his house into the deepening twilight.

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Here in the far north, the winter skies grow dim at night, but darkness never fully falls.

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The skies regularly blaze with the northern lights.

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But, looking up on this particular night, Lillefold's eyes are met by something unlike

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anything he's ever seen before.

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It's a bright red cigar-shaped object, some 10 to 40 meters in length, hovering perfectly

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still in the air.

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Lillefold is struck by its eerie silence, and states later he expected to hear sounds,

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but instead heard only the murmur of the forest.

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Then suddenly, the object springs to life in a blinding flash of light and red smoke,

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as it speeds away to the north.

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Lillefold is just one of dozens of local residents who report such an encounter in the early

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1980s, as the skies over this sleepy village erupt in a bizarre light show.

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Between 1981 and 1984, as many as 20 objects are sighted each week, bringing Hestalan

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to the attention of both ufologists and scientists from around the world.

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An ongoing research project is established to collect eyewitness accounts and analyze

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the data.

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Astrophysicist Massimo Teodorani has since concluded the majority of the Hestalan objects

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are likely comprised of plasma, a cloud of highly charged particles known to demonstrate

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colorful qualities.

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But only its external surface, or photosphere, behaves like a plasma, which by its nature

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is able to hide all what exists inside it.

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And he speculates that if an alien intelligence is behind the objects, they may be using plasma

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as a kind of atmospheric camouflage.

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Are UFOs cloaking themselves with plasma in the skies over Hestalan?

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And if they are, why are they concentrated over the small Norwegian town?

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The answer is still under investigation.

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Norway isn't the only European nation that has been visited by mysterious lights.

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Unsealed case file.

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Foo Fighters.

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Agenal France, December 23, 1944.

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American pilots are on patrol over the city when they notice a strange orange light following

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one of the planes.

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The light pursues the plane for two tension-filled minutes until it breaks away with the maneuver

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far beyond the capability of any existing aircraft.

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It's the first of dozens of wartime encounters with glowing UFOs that will become known as

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Foo Fighters.

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The Foo Fighters was a phenomenon seen by American pilots during the war where they would look

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outside of their aircraft and see balls of light or craft flying in the sky.

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They would exhibit technology that they didn't have, and they got a little scared, because

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they thought that that was Nazi technology, that that was going to be the aircraft that

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they were going to be facing.

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But in the years following the war's end, Allied airmen would learn they weren't the

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only ones threatened by Foo Fighters.

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After the war, we found out both sides were seeing this highly advanced technology, and

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to this day no one's been able to identify it.

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For decades, experts have attempted to solve the riddle of the flying lights.

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Many believe the Foo Fighters were in reality a weather phenomenon known as St. Elmo's Fire,

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bursts of glowing plasma that appear at the tips of ships' masts, and aircraft wings.

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But unlike St. Elmo's Fire, the Foo Fighters moved independently of the plane in a way

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that points to an advanced intelligence.

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Are the Hestalan objects and the Foo Fighters naturally occurring phenomena?

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Or are they UFOs in disguise?

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And if so, why do they choose to remain hidden?

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Plasma reactions have been cited as one possible answer to the growing concern of strange glowing

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balls of light in modern skies.

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But their behavior often seems too intelligent to be mere atmospheric anomalies.

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Washington, D.C., 1952.

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The Cold War is at its height, and the sky over America's capital is the most heavily

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guarded airspace in the world.

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But on the night of July 12, an air traffic controller at Washington National Airport

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spots seven unidentified objects on radar to the southwest of the city.

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Shortly after, a pilot preparing for takeoff contacts the tower to report six fast-moving

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lights.

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The objects make a sudden turn toward the White House and the capital.

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Fighter jets scramble and attempt to pursue the UFOs.

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But shortly before they arrive, the mysterious craft disappear from radar.

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But this isn't the last Washington will see of the mysterious lights.

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Wave after wave of similar UFOs will menace the area for the next three weeks before disappearing

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for good.

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A terrified public looks to the military for answers.

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This was a huge deal because this is not only a big threat to our national security even

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in 1952, but it was also something that the government and the military could not explain.

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The sightings were confirmed on radar.

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They knew the objects were there, and yet they weren't ours.

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General John Samford, director of Air Force Intelligence, holds a press conference in

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which he claims the UFOs were likely a simple optical illusion caused by a natural weather

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phenomenon known as temperature inversion.

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It happens when a layer of warm air becomes trapped above a layer of cold air, resulting

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in unusual light refractions and visual distortions.

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But the Washington sightings occurred in the dead of night when any such effects would

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be difficult if not impossible to detect.

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Nonetheless, temperature inversion becomes the military's go-to explanation to debunk

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UFO claims for decades.

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Were the Washington lights really just an atmospheric anomaly?

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Or were they UFOs?

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And why is the government so quick to dismiss them?

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Decades later, another anomaly will reopen the investigation of mysterious lights in

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the nighttime sky.

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Western China, July 24, 1981.

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Thousands witness a giant spiral of light winding its way up through the night sky into

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the upper atmosphere.

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Planetary astronomer Professor Wang Xichao conducts an in-depth analysis of the data

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from the incident and concludes the object's spiraling motion indicates the presence of

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anti-gravity technology in its drive system.

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This means the object could be an alien spacecraft, since no man-made craft can fly so high at

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such a low speed.

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Nearly three decades later, a virtually identical anomaly will appear half a world away, causing

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both a media sensation and a bizarre cover-up by one of the world's superpowers.

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Unsealed case file, the Norway Spiral.

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Trondelod Norway, December 9, 2009.

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The Norwegian Meteorological Institute is flooded with calls as thousands witness a giant spiral

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of light form in the night sky above the city.

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It hovers in the air for nearly three minutes before disappearing into the night.

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Some believe the spiral to be the byproduct of experiments being conducted hundreds of

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miles to the south at CERN's Large Hatron Collider in Switzerland.

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Others believe it to be the result of a failed Russian rocket test.

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But ufologists have a very different explanation.

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They believe those who saw the spiral were actually witnessing the opening of a wormhole.

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A passage across the fabric of space and time, through which aliens can travel vast distances

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of interstellar space in the blink of an eye.

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But after denying any involvement, the Russians changed their story and confirmed the anomaly

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was in fact one of their rockets that had spiraled out of control.

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Were the China and Norway spirals really interstellar wormholes?

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Why did the Russians change their story?

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Did the spiral represent a potential leak of vital intelligence?

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Or does it pose a danger that might cause worldwide panic?

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Atmospheric anomalies have been denied by governments as mere temperature inversions.

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But recent multiple witness sightings of strange spirals moving through the sky have many experts

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believing something else may be behind their existence.

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Fargo, North Dakota, October 1, 1948.

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An Air National Guard pilot on routine maneuvers catches sight of a strange ball of light,

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flying at incredible speed.

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Though only 6 to 8 inches in diameter, the object races toward the fighter.

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The pilot sets off in pursuit, beginning a dangerous game of cat and mouse.

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After nearly 30 minutes, the bizarre dogfight comes to an end, with the tiny UFO darting out of sight.

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The Fargo object bears a striking resemblance to a rare atmospheric phenomenon known as ball lightning,

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spheres of electrical energy that appear during thunderstorms.

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Rather than instantly traveling to Earth like most conventional strikes,

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ball lightning can last much longer and move in any direction.

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Before exploding.

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But the Fargo incident lasted upwards of 30 minutes, far longer than any recorded occurrence of ball lightning.

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And in the pilot's official report, he states that he could sense thought behind the UFO's behavior.

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Not long after, the military initiates a study of all of its recent UFO encounters.

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They speculate the Fargo object may in fact have been some kind of animal.

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Is it possible?

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Could some UFO's actually be a type of bioform living high in our atmosphere?

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In the 1970s, renowned astrophysicist Carl Sagan hypothesized that gelatinous organisms he called floaters

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could be living in the outer atmosphere of Jupiter.

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Little did he know that similar creatures may already be swimming in Earth's upper atmosphere.

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Unsealed case file, the Amoeba UFO.

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San Pablo, California, September 1948.

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Retired US Army Colonel Horace Eakins and a friend look up at the sky as a low-flying bomber passes overhead.

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Beyond it, they catch sight of a UFO unlike anything seen before or since.

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They later describe it as a massive, undulating amoeba with a dark spot near the center,

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like the nucleus of a single, massive cell.

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The anomaly speeds off to the east before disappearing without a trace.

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Just two years later, another encounter points to the presence of strange creatures living in the sky.

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Philadelphia, September 1950.

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Two police officers catch sight of a UFO and pursue it into a field where they believe it has landed.

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But instead of a spacecraft, they find a mass of glistening, lavender-colored material that appears organic in nature.

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Experts call it star jelly.

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But before the star jelly can be collected for analysis, it dissolves, leaving authorities baffled as to its origins.

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According to folklore, these jelly deposits tend to follow meteor showers.

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Is this strange substance really of extraterrestrial origin and being transported to Earth on meteors?

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Or could meteors be knocking large atmospheric beasts out of the sky?

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We've had two instances in the past decade where a meteor or comet has come very close, if not within our atmosphere, and left something behind.

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What type of creature could possibly exist in Earth's upper atmosphere?

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And what clues have scientists been chasing that may finally explain these chilling phenomena?

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Unsealed Case File.

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Alien Bacteria.

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In 2009, Indian scientists launch a balloon into the Earth's stratosphere to collect particle samples.

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But the craft returns bearing an unknown bacteria that demonstrate a significantly higher resistance to ultraviolet radiation, far beyond any similar kind on Earth.

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Do these strange microscopic life forms come from outer space?

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In February 2013, discoveries of star jelly in England are thought by some to have been deposited in the wake of the Russian cellulubin's comedior.

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Can strange jelly-like substances be the carcasses of fallen giant amoeba-like creatures living in our atmosphere?

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Decades of UFO sightings have revealed that many of the brilliant atmospheric anomalies that light up our skies may be alien life forms.

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Some are camouflaged UFOs, while others may in fact be amoeba-like creatures living in the upper reaches of the Earth's atmosphere that ufologists have dubbed critters.

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And their presence raises a series of disturbing questions. How many types of these non-intelligent life forms are there?

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What is the size of their population? And do they pose a danger to humanity?

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If Earth's vulnerable atmosphere were to suddenly collapse, could we become prey to this alien subspecies?

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February 1996. Scientists aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia witnessed something out of this world.

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While conducting a magnetic field test, a tether, miles from the shuttle, is surrounded with objects, whose movement seems stunningly like that of amoeba or sea plankton.

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We've seen a lot of things swimming in the foreground.

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Are atmospheric critters in our skies harmless? Or are they truly beasts?

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What might happen if our atmosphere were to suddenly and drastically change, allowing them to breach it?

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The recent discoveries of massive deposits of living microorganisms in our atmosphere reveal that they display a death-defying resistance to ultraviolet radiation,

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something that our ozone layer protects us against. We have long struggled against ozone depletion.

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But in 2010, NASA announced that one of Earth's upper layers had suddenly and inexplicably collapsed.

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Could an ozone depleted, ultraviolet soaked Earth create an ideal habitat for these non-intelligent alien creatures?

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And like a giant school of space jellyfish, swarm our planet with terrifying destruction.

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This is Unsealed Alien Files, exposing the biggest secret on planet Earth.