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Looking at the camera,

okay, you need proof to believe

the government covered up these facts. A

conspiracy theory, like any other

theory, needs proof. That was the

first thing I asked myself: where is the

proof? The scientists who appear on

this program speak on camera

for the first

time in

1997. Scientists from the [unclear] recorded a

sound in the depths of the Pacific. It is of

organic origin but could not be

identified. They called it

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bl. In the early 2000s, it was

proven that the Navy caused

whale strandings while

testing a

military sonar. For years, the Navy denied

responsibility for those strandings, but it

is a fact. In some of those

incidents, other bodies were reported to have been

washed ashore with the whales.

In 2004, two children were the first to

arrive at a mass stranding in

Washington state. They recorded it with their

cell phone. The children claimed to have seen

something that

day. They claimed to have seen a

body. The images you are about to

see have never been broadcast on

television.

They publicly declared having seen a

body. Later, they changed their

official statement, and the Navy took

the remains the children found. I

know. Because I was part of the team that

investigated that stranding, because I know what

the Navy did that day, and I think I know what they took.

Mermaids,

reality or

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myth. MPS Beach, Washington State, April 4,

2004, site of the largest

whale stranding in U.S. history.

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A research team from

NOAA, the National Oceanic

and Atmospheric Administration, based in SIAT,

quickly arrived on site to investigate the

cause of the

mass stranding. Dr. Brian McCormick, a respected

marine biologist, led the

investigation. In 2000, McCormick

published a landmark study

linking mass

whale strandings to military SAR tests

conducted by the

Navy. The study forced the suspension of the

program that same year.

Dr. McCormick and his team suspected

that the Navy had begun using

sonar again. Now, two members of that team

have agreed to speak on camera for the first time

about what

they say the Navy discovered but has never been made

public. I remember looking over of the

dunes and it was

incredible, I had never seen anything like it. My

name is Paul Roberson, I was a

research assistant to Dr. McCormick at the time. I had been

working

at

NOA for several years. When we arrived, a

storm was approaching and the wind was blowing so hard

that it swept everyone off the beach, so it

was just our team and the

Navy's. They cordoned off an area of ​​the beach. There were

people in

biohazard suits or medical personnel, we weren't

sure. But that caught our

attention. Dr. McCormick was one of the first

scientists to find a relationship

between mass

whale strandings and the use of Navy sonar. He

was the most experienced in those cases,

but even he had never seen anything like it. I

am Rebecca Davis. I worked as a

field biologist at NOA in the

Marine Mammal Department. After

joining Dr. McCormick's team in

1999, we saw visible blood coming out of the

whales' ears. We had never

seen anything like it. All the whales were

bleeding from their

ears, which means they suffered some

kind of significant internal trauma.

We took many samples of We collected

tissue samples to study under a

microscope and determine the cause of

death. We

gathered everything as quickly as

we could, but Brian didn't want to leave. He wanted to

collect as many

samples as possible because he wanted to know what

the Navy was doing there.

When the Navy team

left, we approached the area where they had been

working, and they hadn't

opened any animals up or

performed autopsies. We had no

idea what they had been doing.

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In previous strandings where the

Navy had been involved, the

NOA team had found whales that had

died from asphyxiation. It is believed that the loud

sound of military sonar drives

whales into shallow waters

where they

beach themselves without enough water to support their

weight. The whales' internal organs

collapse, and they

slowly suffocate. The NOA team expected to

find evidence of internal organ collapse in the analysis of the remains,

but instead, they found

something else. When we examined the

samples, we expected to see signs of

trauma because that would indicate

bleeding from the ears. We weren't

prepared for what we were about to find. Let's

see, the internal organs didn't collapse.

What we saw was the consequence of constant

trauma. There

were circular lesions in the

samples, clear evidence of damage, and they were

in all the samples we

collected. Brian immediately proposed a

theory:

infrasound are sound waves at

ultra-low frequencies that can

theoretically be used as weapons with

potentially

devastating effects. They are launched against

living tissue with

incredible force. The microscope showed

evidence of catastrophic

impact wounds, impact wounds that we believed

were caused by a new

Navy sonar. A sonar blast that

did more than scare the whales

into shallow waters; this sonar

seemed to

kill them. Brian knew we needed more

than just those tissues to prove the

theory. We had

NOAA; they had devices to record

audio of marine fauna and flora, even

seismic activity. One of those beacons was very

close, so we knew it was possible

we had recorded everything that happened:

the sonar blast,

the whales' reaction. The

first thing we found was the

sound of the whales, and that was what

we expected, but then we found

what We thought it was the sonar setup,

then there was a

silence. It turned out to be the calm

before the storm because then

we heard a

boom. It was horrible to hear.

Brian was so preoccupied cataloging

the sonar blast that he almost missed

what was

happening. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Then there was another sound on the recording. It was an animal scream. We realized it was a Blop, the same creature that Noa recorded in 1997, but in this case, the recording

lasted longer. It's the most

complex and intricate animal scream I've ever heard.

We had no idea where that

sound was coming from. All we knew was that this

creature had only been heard once before

in human history. It had

reappeared. This recording was

supposedly made in 2009 at a

naval facility in Beauford,

South Carolina.

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I've seen the recording that was supposedly

made on

BT. I don't know if that video is authentic or not. I do

n't really care. He

maintains strict control over all

his Classified information, but even

they've realized that no

matter what they do to prevent it, there will

always be some leaks. This man

agreed to give his testimony for this

program on the condition of

anonymity. When there's a leak, they know

how to

control it. It doesn't surprise me that the

BF video was immediately deemed fake.

The Navy says it's

fake. So it's fake.

Whenever there's an information leak,

the military uses its influence

to make the general public believe what

they want them to believe. What I

can tell you is that I

saw a creature that's in

the Navy's possession. We picked it up after the

first test in

Washington State. That day it was on the beach,

but we weren't the first to arrive.

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In the months following the stranding in

Washington State, the

NOAA team responded to a large increase in

mass strandings along

both coasts of the United States.

Reports of

similar mass strandings were received from all over

the

world. Rescue teams are working

against the clock to try to save nearly

200 pilot whales stranded this

Monday in South Australia. They have also

found six dolphins. This

is the fourth such incident

in just a few months in southern

Australia, and scientists can't

find an explanation for these

incidents. It was happening all over the

world. So we were examining the

strandings everywhere, alerting

maritime agencies to what

we discovered with the

sonar blasts. And we started hearing other things:

reports of bodies being dragged along with the

whales. There were rumors that the

whales were dragging other things with them,

and in every case, the

authorities were always nearby to

control the

scene. At that point, all we

wanted was for the strandings to

stop once and for all. In

some of these incidents, we

received reports not only of bodies being

found but of something

else—something that had already formed

before. They weren't bodies but

spears. For years, deep-sea fishermen

from all over the world have seen them; they find them

in fish caught in the

open sea. In the archives of a

German news program, we found an

interview with a fisherman who had an

experience with this strange

phenomenon. My name is B. I grew up in the

fishing port of

Sasn. I've been a fisherman all my

life. I used to work on a boat... In

Bremen, we mainly did

cod and pollock trawling in the

Baltic Sea. I had heard many

stories about strange objects

found in fish caught in the middle

of the Baltic,

but on a trawl in the

deep waters of the Borm Basin, I saw it

with my own eyes. Sometimes, when

we hauled the nets onto the boat, we would

find

the fish dead; they had spears

in their sides. I saw it several

times, so on one of those trips, I

took my camera. I wanted to take pictures of

the whales to show my son. It was on

that trip, while we were hauling in the

nets, that we saw something sticking out of them

as we were bringing them onto the boat.

So I ran for the camera and

managed to take a

picture. I think that's where the

spears came from. I think we disturbed that creature

while it was

fishing. We requested information from the

Department of Defense and asked them to

limit the Navy's operations,

but we didn't get anywhere. The Navy

assured us that it was only

studying the anomalies and not

causing them. We continued compiling

the profiles of those events and reviewing

the only thing we had, which was the

recording. We listened and We analyzed the

recording I don't know how many times and

compared it to whale and

dolphin calls. This sound, in our

understanding, seemed much more intricate,

much more

advanced. We believed we had some

chance of solving the mystery,

but it was beyond us. So

we needed

help. I'm Dr. Rodney Webster from the

University of South Florida. I

specialize in animal communication.

My work focuses primarily on

the calls of

dolphins and

whales. A large part of my work

consists of looking for signifiers, which are

particular sounds to which you can

relate a meaning or a

mood. For humans, they would be words.

So they would be like

dolphin words. The most interesting thing about the

2004 recording is that I was able to

identify literally hundreds of

signifiers and organize them into

recognizable patterns. In the previous 30 years,

we had gathered so much information

studying dolphins and

whales. But that wasn't all

Dr. Webster found in the recording. I

noticed that there were pitch changes

in the bass in certain parts of the

recording. So I performed a

spectrographic analysis of the data at

frequencies higher than those perceived by the human ear.

human being and this is what I found

this is the

actual speed removing the sound of the

whales

then slowed the recording down to a

scale audible to

humans so it's at a third of the

original speed [Applause] multiple

individuals literally thousands of

significant ones

well What we hear is a

language they are talking to each other

What animal could have such a

complex language so

sophisticated Our theory was that it was

some kind of dolphin but I had other ideas

The aquatic ape theory

is actually a theory about

ourselves Where we come from

I know there has always been a great

controversy but I think now we

really have

something Why we are so different from

other

land animals According to this theory it is because there was

a time when early

humans spent most of their lives at

sea and the trait that makes us so

different from other land animals

is their legacy from that

time We can control our breathing

like marine mammals and hold it

longer than any other

land animal The record for holding our

breath is about 20 minutes almost

the same time a dolphin can dive

Compared to monkeys our

closest relatives we have A

much more flexible spine and

partial webbing between our

fingers, which they don't have, are

characteristics of an aquatic environment.

Why do we have them? If not for

swimming, human babies

automatically hold their breath underwater;

they know how to swim instinctively, while

a baby chimpanzee or gorilla would

drown. Unlike other apes,

we shed our hair; hair creates

resistance in the water. We have a

thick layer of insulating fat that

keeps us warm in the water; the only

animals born with a thick layer

of fat are

marine mammals. Some people are also

adapted to underwater life; they still

hunt on the seabed and walk

across the

ocean floor. The Moques, a people of

Southeast Asia, can constrict their

pupils at will to control the

distortion created by the water; in fact,

underwater they see with the same clarity

as if they were wearing

glasses. In some parts of the world,

humans skilled in the water who can

fish without hooks or

nets are adaptations for life in the

water, but we lack adaptations

common to

land animals. We shed tears and

salty sweat; salt and water are resources.

Valuable other land animals

have efficient ways of preserving their resources.

Why do

n't we? Because part of our evolution

took place in the

sea. Well, this is just a theory, but the

transition from land to sea has

happened before. It's documented.

Orcas evolved from a

wolf ancestor millions of years ago, and there are

more

recent examples. 150 million years ago—a

fraction of time in

evolutionary terms—a group of brown bears

separated from the rest of their lineage and

evolved into a new species:

polar bears. Polar bears are able to

hold their breath underwater

for several minutes. They have developed

webbing between their toes

to swim better. Currently,

before our very eyes, they are

evolving into marine mammals. If

this is happening with

polar bears, why couldn't the same thing have happened

with the human lineage at some point in

our evolution?

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We could have descended from a group of

apes that one day became

marine mammals in Africa 7 million years ago.

Some scientists believe our

ancestors traded the forests for the

sea. But what brought them there?

What brought them to the

seashore was food.

Our ability to walk

upright first developed

here, walking in the

shallow waters where food was easy to find.

Trees had been our

cradle, but now we were adapted to

the

sea. Over time, more of our

human ancestors gathered along the

coast. It is also believed that this is where

our advanced intelligence began to develop.

The brain developed

thanks to nutrients like iodine and

fatty acids that were abundant in

the crustaceans and shellfish they

found there. We were beginning to

change, as was the environment.

Earthquakes and volcanic activity along

the

coast. The east African coast would soon

be flooded by rising

sea levels. Some of our ancestors

stayed on land and retained some

of the adaptive characteristics from the

aquatic period of their

evolution. Others went in different

directions. Six and a half million years

earlier, if our distant ancestors

spent some time living at sea, it is

possible that one group separated from the

rest.

Instead of drifting away, they... We went further

into the water

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We detailed all the strandings

after the Washington one to

try to establish a pattern of

Navy involvement. If we could prove that it

was affecting a new

species, we thought we would have some

power that we could compel the Navy

to reveal what they were doing and

possibly prevent it.

We had

more circumstantial evidence, and that's what we

got in the

South African stranding. What makes that

stranding stand out is that our

South African colleagues also managed to make a

recording. Of course, we had heard about

Dr. Macormic's work.

We knew about the reports that linked

mass strandings to sonar tests.

We also knew about the rumors that

those tests might have affected a

species that science had not yet

identified. And of course, we

had also heard the recording of the blop.

I'm Dr. Gavin Dmar, head of the

Acoustic Research Project at the

Marine Biology Research Centre, University of Cape Town.

A submarine device just 1 km off

the coast of

Cape Town was part of a

research program to observe the

whale population at certain times. That

year we contacted

Dr. McCormick because we believed we had

found the

same thing. When we heard his recording,

we immediately accepted his invitation

to

investigate. We arrived about 40 hours

after the stranding. And again, we weren't

the first to arrive.

Other official researchers had been

there.

The South African stranding was the

largest since the Washington State stranding.

And again, we found the

same patterns of

acoustic trauma. What was different in

South Africa was the

recording. They had a recording of a blop,

the same strange creature we had

recorded, and an

identical low-frequency sonar burst.

But here, the revealing thing was what

happened before the

burst. It was the sound of a bl

similar to the one we had recorded. It was

clear it was the same type of

creature. But this time, a dolphin was also heard. It

's no surprise; there are

dolphins in those waters, and there were also

stranded dolphins. But this was

communication, a two-way communication

between the bl creature and the

dolphins, which made us think it

could be a Dolphin, some

new species of dolphin. From that moment on,

we believed that was what we were

looking for. Up until then, we only had

acoustic evidence, but the

physical evidence that Dr. Ditmar gave us was

the most important. It's a great

white shark—not the shark itself,

but what's

inside. It was a mess, and the smell was

awful. There were parts that seemed to

come from a dolphin, other parts that

looked like seals, but we didn't find either

a seal or a dolphin. There were also

other body parts.

We had no idea what we were

looking at, but we immediately thought we'd

hit the jackpot. It was something

new, a new

species. There were puncture marks

around the gills. And the shark's mouth—

at first I thought it was

harpoon wounds from when I was near the

boat, but I examined one of those wounds

and found a venomous ray stinger inside. It

could have been left there by a

venomous ray while defending itself.

Sharks eat rays; the

hammerhead and tiger sharks do,

but not the great white. So I

kept the

stinger. I thought it was something I could

publish in a journal. It seemed

interesting. African coast, 6

million years ago.

A million years after venturing

into the sea, the aquatic apes were

better adapted to their new

environment. They lost most of their

fur and could hold their breath

for several

minutes. They were still learning to

hunt by observation.

Without warning,

dolphins

temporarily dispersed. The

aquatic apes had to hide, but over

time, they learned to defend themselves against the dangers of their

new

environment. The first time

the weapon was tested off the coast of Washington, it

was a

disaster. The result took us

completely by surprise.

The perimeter wasn't secured. It was

completely open. Anyone

walking along the beach that

morning would have known those children were in the

right place at the wrong

time. At first, it seemed like it was going to

be a

problem. They refused to retract what they

initially claimed to have

seen. Finally, we convinced the mother

of one of the children that it wasn't what they

thought they had seen.

Normally, people don't want trouble

when the military is involved.

The mother was

clever enough to get the children

to change their

statement. We kept an eye on the

children, but they didn't tell anyone what

happened. They kept everything

that happened that

day a secret. After the first test, we didn't leave them there again. We didn't want to

find

anything. University of Cape Town,

July 22, 2005. We took the body to the

laboratory, and the state of the remains

was very

bad. We recovered parts of the body, so it was going to be

difficult to put them back together. The first thing

we did was take DNA samples

to try to establish its

genetic makeup. We started by examining the

rib cage, and it appeared to be

articulated. The articulated rib cage is

a feature of

marine mammals that have evolved for diving.

The flipper The tail was well-

preserved and looked very similar to that of

manatees. We wondered if it could be the

remains of a

population, or perhaps an unidentified relative of

the

manatee. We took X-rays and saw

bones in the tail fluke;

manatees don't have them. So we were left

wondering what on earth

this was. The skull was seriously damaged;

half of it was missing, but we did have one piece:

part of the

frontal bone. The bone had a hole, and it wasn't from

the injuries. We knew it was

a

blowhole. We made resin casts of

the skull fragments and sent them

to a

forensic expert. Then we examined the pelvis. There were

traces of leg bones; seals

have these traces, but the femur was

shorter, and we knew that our

specimen's was

longer. So the specimen wasn't

a seal or a

manatee, and despite talking to

dolphins, it wasn't a dolphin, at least not

according to what we were

seeing. So what other animal would be

intelligent enough to

communicate with dolphins? What else is

down there? Coast of Madagascar 4.5

million years ago

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The creature that once hid in

the shadows now swam in the

open sea. They weren't

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alone. They had bonds with another

intelligent being. It was a bond of friendship.

Sometimes they just played, but on occasion

they hunted

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together. Their ancestors slept in trees.

Now they swam among

them. Soon their transition would be

complete. Just as dolphins

would be adapted to the

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sea. Brian and I tried to make sense of the

remaining parts. We found a

bone that wasn't part of the animal. It had

markings all along its length. The tip had

a

carved notch. We didn't know what to do with it,

so we set it aside to

analyze

later. I started working with the

phalanges. They are the bones that support the

flippers or the flipper structure of

seals and

dolphins. It was clear that those bones

couldn't be arranged to configure any

of those things.

The creature had suffered injuries from

the navy's sonar.

Now the team of Noa was

convinced that the Navy was not only

harming whales with

its tests but also a new

species. The creature's physiology

gave them deeper insight into its

behavior. Despite having injuries

from the shark attack, they found a

large cup. Large cups are a

characteristic of marine mammals; they

store energy for

deep dives. It's like having a

scuba tank built into them. The only

reason for having this adaptation is for

deep dives in search of

food. Mariana Trench, 3,100,000 years ago.

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Every time we found something new,

dozens of

questions arose. Dr. McCormick invited

someone to take a look.

South African bureaucracy was

taking a long time to authorize us to

take material out of the country, so Brian had him

come. "

There I am, specializing in biomechanics,

in the different ways in which

animals have adapted to different

means of locomotion. I am Dr.

Steven

Piersall." When I arrived,

I thought, "What the hell am I doing here if it's already there?" Of

course it's a marine mammal. The tail

looked like those of animals

found in the

oceans. Only when we analyzed the

remains with the scanner did I

realize it was a

tail no one had ever seen

before. Observing the

hip structure, Dr. Pial recognized something

surprisingly familiar in

humans. If we look at the upper part of

the hip, we find ridges

called iliac crests,

designed to support

weight. It seemed the creature had

similar ridges on its hips, but it didn't make

sense until I realized we were

looking at the X-ray

incorrectly. We were seeing it this way, but

in fact, we had to turn it upside down.

Then it became obvious

that this creature once walked on two

legs. There's only one animal that walks

upright on two

legs.

If this creature walked on two legs, it

also

had

hands. Rebecca discovered

that

this creature had

hands. The discovery that this

creature once walked upright on

Earth, just like us, because it was

like us, changed

everything. This bone had been manipulated,

hand-carved. The tip, where the notch was,

was designed to hold something.

We found fibers of plant material

that The bone was wrapped around it; it must be there

to hold

something. Then

I remembered, the tip of the

stinger fit perfectly into the

tip of the bone. It was a

tool. All those fish they

found with

embedded spears, all those stories of

fishermen finding spears in the

open sea—it was the same thing. It's a

creature that makes

tools. This creature has found

a way to disarm the stingrays

and use their stingers to

kill fish. They are

intelligent hunters,

but they are also prey. How have

these creatures evolved to

survive among the most

formidable predators in the

ocean? North America,

1,000

years ago, the land now covered in

glaciers must have seemed a strange

and cold place to them.

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A lone explorer swims ahead

of his group. Before beginning his journey

into the

open sea, the dark abyssal waters are

common feeding grounds.

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There the

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whales gather, as do the sharks that

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hunt them. The megalodon, a shark as big

as the whales, a shark that eats

whales.

A million and a half years ago, the

creatures had to face the monster.

largest that has reigned in the

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seas in the group there are

pregnant females and they must protect them at all

costs

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that body was one of the

most

important anthropological finds Possibly one of the

most important scientific discoveries

in the history of

humanity is an intelligent

toolmaker with skillful hands

that evolved from a primate ancestor

that walked upright on the Earth just like

us if that creature is part of the

human family tree How much of it is human

Gauten Province South Africa August 4, 2005

I remember we were in the car to see

the full cast of the

skull I thought everything was perfect we were

heading to one of the places where

they found some of our

oldest ancestors

and we were about to meet

another one Only this was not an

ancestor but a creature that follows

There,

reconstruction, I am Dr. Lian Biser, a

forensic anthropologist in the Department of

Human Evolution. I took charge of

reconstructing the individual based

on the skull fragments and other

bones. Immediately,

certain characteristics caught my attention. The

skull had very large eye sockets,

larger than any fossil or

modern human skull I have reconstructed. It

must have had very large eyes, and

large eyes are a characteristic of

animals adapted to

darkness. Another thing I noticed was a

crest on the skull. Skulls with

crests are found in some of

our ancestors but not in

modern humans. Apes have them too; they are

found in some of our

earliest ancestors.

Examining the reconstructed skull allowed

Dr. Biser to map the interior of

the

brain cavity. She discovered that the areas in

humans that correspond to the

interpretation of sounds were very

large. The opening in the front

of the skull was connected to a wide

series of

nasal cavities. The shape and characteristics

of the skull revealed how complicated

the acoustic capacity is.

The concave shape of the front of the

skull indicates that they have a melon,

a specialized mass of fatty tissue

that It allows dolphins and

whales to

echolocate. It's not a

blowhole; they don't use it to breathe, but

to channel

sound. The skull reconstruction

showed that it's possible that this creature

is capable of using echolocation. It's

the creature that makes that

sound. The cry that we hadn't been able to identify.

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Echolocation, a form

of biosonar, is the ability to emit

high-frequency sounds that bounce off

objects to give the animal a

mental map of its

surroundings. They use sound to

find food and to communicate in the

middle of the dark and vast

ocean. We have no doubt that this animal

was the one that made the blop. It was the same

animal that made the blop we recorded in

1997, the same one we recorded in

Washington State in

2004, and it was the same animal we recorded

in South Africa that was talking to the

dolphins in the Indian Ocean 100,000 years ago.

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Dolphins do it to hunt in

schools of

sardines. Almost all the ocean's predators

converge in a caravan of

several kilometers long during the

migration Marina but only two work

together

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found a creature of

fable that's what

we examined we had waited days to

say this probably

weeks

but scientists are not

supposed to believe in fairy tales

and what we were examining

was a

mermaid if the BT recording is

authentic it's not the same creature

we caught in

Washington that one wasn't in a condition

to be

transported I saw the same thing those

children saw and it's

Marina How do you think people would react

if they knew we were killing

an unknown species that is

probably the only

surviving ancestor of humans Look how they

continue to react to

whale strandings if the public ever sees

that creature there will be a huge

outcry how is it possible that that

creature was hidden for so

long I realized that we

have explored more of the surface

of the moon than the depths of the

ocean if we take into account the fact

that we are currently still discovering

large animals In the past decade

two new species of

whales were discovered These are animals between 9

and 12 meters long that we had never seen before. They had

never been recorded.

Gigantic animals that were seen for the

first time in the last 10 years,

so it is possible that they are still

hidden.

But

also, there was already a record of the animal we

found. We didn't have

scientific records, but we did have other types of

records. We already knew about them, and for a long time

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Sailors' tales from

all over the world speak of them.

Greek navigators

described them, as did the

Vikings, as did the Chinese during their

great age of

maritime exploration. There are medieval and

even 19th-century records where

captains of whaling ships

saw them swimming with groups of

whales. These are cultures from different

continents, people who had no contact with each

other, but they all described the same

creature.

These stories could be more than a

myth. There are records in the

logbooks of Christopher Columbus and Henry

Hudson of sightings of

humanoid creatures with pale,

mottled bellies, dark blue backs, and

oar-shaped tails. These could be

exact descriptions of what they

saw. They could give us A new

perspective, other historical evidence

such as these 10th-century Italian drawings

of what was thought to be the

description of some human medical anomaly.

Now these sketches could

tell a different story.

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Even today,

reports continue to surface, such as this video

hastily recorded in 2005 on the

Adriatic coast.

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This recent sighting comes from

fishermen at

sea. The oldest can be found

in the desert that remained where there was once

a sea.

Egypt

today, these caves of Aris IIer by

the Bay. 3,000

years ago, the sea is gone, but the memory

of the people who lived there is still

etched in cave paintings that cover

the

cave walls. Archaeologists believe they could

be the oldest mythical paintings

made by man.

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dream projections of the first fishermen

imagining themselves with tails,

swimming with spears and nets to fish? Or is it something else? Did

the first humans fight

savagely for farming and

fishing grounds, using force against

rival tribes? Against any competitor

that threatened a valuable

food source, could that be what

these

paintings represent? Could these paintings be a

record of man's conflict with

a creature now relegated to

myth? Did we push them to extinction, or did

we force them into

hiding? Did they exist? If they

survived, they must have hidden

somewhere, but where?

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We knew what they

had. We knew it even before

they knew it. Since 2004, we've been tracking

the

McOr team. We followed them to

South Africa. We knew they had found

the same creature we

took from the

beach. They had evidence that could have

shut down the

operation. They had physical evidence that

could have stopped us. Do

you think we were going to let them do that? They were getting

ahead of our

research. That's why we let them

continue for a

while. At that point, we had already wrapped up

in

South Africa and were preparing the

evidence to return to the United States,

but the

permits were missing. The South African authorities

were delaying the permits to

take the evidence out of the

country. We should have known what was going to

happen. Now it's hard to remember everything. It's

hard to remember how excited

we were. The reason I agreed to

do this is because I think it will be

useful. Rebecca and I believe so. However,

BR is more

suspicious. I think he's not

convinced, and I don't blame him at all.

Cape Town, South Africa, August 8,

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Where did you get that? Get your

hands off me!

I tried to control

BR after that for

weeks, but he was very

upset. We all were.

The police confiscated

everything, all the lab evidence,

all the

files, the reconstructed skull we

were going to bring back,

and they took the body.

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certainly never seen anything

like it, and I've worked here for 20

years. This is unprecedented. It wasn't

a normal police raid. It was a

very

sophisticated operation. They arrived in the morning

when they knew no

one was around. Right over all the

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information.

A

discovery of

national importance. I've never heard of anything

like it. We know who did it. We all

know that the sonar evidence is behind this. We

proved it. So they had to stop the

tests. They had to make it public that they had

a sonar.

Military, who knows what other things

they would have had to acknowledge.

The only thing we have, the only thing they did

n't confiscate, were the

Blop recordings. They couldn't

take them because so

many people already had those recordings. We were so

focused on the things

the government had confiscated that we didn't realize that

the only thing we needed

was on those

recordings. We just needed the

recordings.

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The South Pacific 150

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years ago, a

shallow coastal lagoon in the Southern Hemisphere where

creatures take refuge in the

warm, safe waters, and where this

endangered species clings desperately.

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When we returned to the United States,

we were in

shock. We couldn't stay in South Africa

because they revoked our

visas, and when we returned to Washington,

we filed several complaints with the

U.S. and

South African governments. After a while, the

South African government

responded and shared the

DNA samples. that they had confiscated from the

University lab where they

were

processing them because the

DNA test results were so similar to

human DNA. They said the tests had been

contaminated in the lab with

human DNA. They said why else would they

be so

similar? To discredit the

results, they destroyed all the

samples. It seemed like we were in

an Orwellian novel. It was the

government; they were rewriting

history. Basically, they were erasing the

existence of that creature. And the question I kept asking myself

was why are they doing it? To

hide their

evidence? Do they want to keep the

creature? Are they doing tests on it? We do

n't know.

We still don't

know. Now we just have time.

We keep receiving reports of

whale strandings and other bodies

washed up on beaches, where

local authorities close off the areas.

They say that in some cases there are

army officers in civilian clothes.

We kept thinking about the

Washington stranding, about that

Navy team. We thought they were

doing tests on the

whales, but now we have a

different theory. We located the children who

reported the

stranding. The Navy had spent a lot of

time with those children. They even went to

see them at their

house. They convinced the children that

what they had seen was a

seal, a decomposing seal, which is why it

looked so strange.

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The boy drew a picture of what

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Besides the

scientists and

government officials who confiscated our

material, no one knew what the

reconstructed skull looked like, but the boy drew

a picture of what he had

seen, and it matched.

The boy had seen the same

creature. It wasn't all he showed us.

The boy's mother agreed to

show us

something they hadn't shown to anyone.

The Navy didn't think to check the boy's

cell phone camera. It's

not the first time

military personnel have been caught with cell phone cameras. But back then,

almost no one had them. I

doubt the officer who

investigated

checked it. The boy had it; he had it all that

time.

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The first time I saw the video, I remember

feeling chills, and not from the

surprise of seeing the creature alive.

I remember

previous sonar exposures. The creature didn't

stand a

chance.

Washington coast, April 4.

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2004 the mermaids travel with the whales

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where just as the whales give birth to

their

young they now head to the

feeding grounds of the

North the whales provide them

protection against orcas and

open-ocean sharks and the females with calves

can swim over them to conserve

energy as they travel up the Pacific coast

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their last hiding place is in the

depths of the ocean But now not

even there do they find refuge and the

whales cannot protect them from the

new threats that are

coming they swim through an expanse

of water in the Pacific Northwest that day

the ships of the United States

Navy were there too what happened

next was what the NOA audio teams recorded

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we didn't find another

live creature at least not during my time in the

Navy when I resigned we

weren't even sure we'd find any

more the creature we picked up from the

beach in Washington state died

in

2007 we were alive as long as

possible I know it was wrong What We did it. I knew it

was wrong when I

was doing it, and I have to live with

it now. My only hope is that by

telling all this, it will help protect them,

if there are any left.

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knew they were being swept along with

the

whales.

We discovered they travel along the

migration routes. They not only interact with

whales, they also migrate with

them. We wanted to try to establish

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We started

recording and waited to see if there was

anything.

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something. Brian was sure he

saw something,

and I'm sure I saw something too.

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They were watching what we were doing. The

government was

monitoring us. Anything we had

recorded that day would have been

taken from us. That way, we weren't going to achieve

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anything. He was the first to leave.

Noah, Paul, and I resigned shortly

after. I haven't spoken to Brian since he

left. I guess he

thinks the only The way to save them

is by

finding her, but I'm not so

sure, and I don't think Paul is either. He

was

devastated, and he wanted to search for the creature to

the ends of the

earth. I'm sure he'll find them; I

know he's still

looking for them after that day. I don't know

if I can do

anything; I'm not even

sure I should try. I

started thinking of them as

our

equals. The last time we lived alongside other

human beings was with

the

Neanderthals. We

displaced them. Some scientists think we

even hunted them, that we

quickly ended their

existence. This is the same thing. What

we did on land with our

fellow humans, we do in the

sea. We don't handle coexistence very well;

sometimes other

responsibilities supplant

science. My only goal is for the

Navy to stop the

sonar tests, for the justice system to investigate their

activities, and for them to be ordered to hand over

their

evidence. The mermaids have been able to

survive only because they can hide,

and I hope they continue to do so. I hope they

stay

hidden. I don't want them

hunted

because they don't want to be found.

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only asked me to analyze the pelvis

and leg bones. I never saw The

rest is not

from a strange

disease or a

deformity. What was that

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creature? I don't

know. The only thing I know is where it came from.

I'm absolutely sure. Where it

came from: the bones we

examined are of

unknown origin. It's a creature with which

we share a

common ancestor. We both descend from the same

species. What I saw that day on the pier

is

something I've never seen before. I've

dedicated my whole life to the sea, I've

dedicated my life to the study of the sea,

and I've never seen a creature like that before. It's

a new creature for

science. I've mentally replayed those

recordings over and over again, the first one

from Washington State and the second one

from South Africa, to try to understand it,

but I can't. I don't know what they are. I don't know what they're

saying. I've never heard anything

like it. The only creature with that level

of complexity

is the human being.

We, as I've said before, doing

a reconstruction is like doing a

puzzle. The pieces have to fit together for

the image to make sense,

biological sense. If even one piece doesn't fit, the

reconstruction is

useless. In my opinion, the molds they

sent me were made from an

authentic

find. They were

authentic molds. of a

real animal, call it what you want, forget

our claims,

forget the recordings we have,

forget the sworn statements of

other scientists, and forget our

cultural references to mermaids. There is

another culture that...

Remember, nature does not lie.

Observe nature.

There are a few places on Earth

where wild dolphins hunt with

fishermen. They help humans

catch fish. This happens in Brazil,

on the west coast of Africa, and in

Southeast

Asia. The fishermen position themselves on the

seashore in shallow water

and call and lick the

dolphins. They are wild sea dolphins.

The dolphins respond to the call

by driving entire schools of fish

toward the

shore. Then the fishermen surround

the schools of fish with their nets, along

with the

dolphins. The dolphins are not frightened;

they remain calm. They know that the

fishermen will let them go. When they

haul in the

nets, they let the dolphins out before

taking the fish to shore, and the

dolphins stay in the

shallow water, anxiously waiting for

the fishermen... They give them their

share, they throw fish to the dolphins to

eat, basically they divide the catch,

dolphins and men sharing the

loot, sharing the fish they've

caught together, two animals from different

environments

cooperating. There's nothing like it anywhere else in

the world and nobody knows. How

this

collaboration began is one of the great

mysteries of the

ocean. How did that collaboration

between humans and

dolphins evolve? How were we able to teach the

dolphins to do

this? We didn't do it, we did

n't teach the

dolphins. They taught us,

and I think they learned it from someone.

We're not the only culture that remembers

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any resemblance to real people and

living people