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00:00:40 This pulsating magnetic field...like a Tesla.

00:00:56 Location except that now it's sitting on the floor.

00:01:04 We're just on the floor here so. We'll try and clip from here.

00:01:06 If I get burned up, you know what happens here. So what are we doing?

00:01:15 I want to try something over here.

00:01:21 So here we go. Hooking up the drinks.

00:01:52 All right. Whoa.

00:01:58 Bit of lightning.

00:02:14 There's a bit of movement there.

00:02:19 It's not my hand either.

00:02:30 Whoa.

00:02:41 So let's see where we are.

00:02:46 There we are. More dead center.

00:02:49 Little bit of pulling action there.

00:02:55 You can see it move back and forth.

00:03:00 Pretty gently like.

00:03:04 Nothing feels strange or anything. I'll even get closer for you.

00:03:08 As close as possible.

00:03:13 It's an ordinary hell vitamin bottle.

00:03:25 I'm working the magnetron by hand, which is kind of dangerous.

00:03:30 If you notice, the height is important. It's not as violent as it was, but...

00:03:38 It makes it rock around like that, so...

00:03:41 Good heavens.

00:03:43 This one might take off, okay.

00:03:49 Don't you dare go rolling away on me.

00:03:51 Oh, almost did.

00:03:53 Oh, dear.

00:03:56 I was going to see if there was something that would take off. Oh, well.

00:04:08 The other bottle, notice the other one is not affected.

00:04:16 This is very interesting.

00:04:20 I guess for this recording, until something does take off.

00:04:26 Hands are getting hot, okay.

00:04:34 Seems it's forming a pattern there, but nevertheless.

00:04:48 Something else there.

00:04:51 Showing other things in the field.

00:05:05 That's steel. I can see that.

00:06:14 Oh, it took off somewhere.

00:06:16 Good heavens. Shot off.

00:06:18 Okay, I guess we'll turn this off and try and locate it.

00:06:24 If we can do it.

00:06:26 My main transmitter.

00:07:00 Thank you, man. Thank you.

00:07:02 I love that.

00:07:11 Oh, man.

00:07:17 Oh, my goodness, man.

00:07:19 Gotta follow it. Gotta follow it.

00:07:23 Following. Following.

00:07:26 Where is it?

00:07:28 Where in the hell did it go?

00:07:30 Where'd it go?

00:07:34 Oh, my God.

00:07:43 Just saving tape here.

00:07:45 Sorry, I've got to turn you off here.

00:07:47 I've got to run and find it.

00:07:49 I don't know where it went. It's unbelievable.

00:07:53 Come on.

00:07:55 I've only got a few minutes of tape left.

00:07:57 Come on, where's that damn button on the...

00:07:59 Anyway, this thing, like, plastic,

00:08:02 I thought it'd be fun to do this one here.

00:08:05 Instead of a bottle, much to Pete's sake.

00:08:08 So, let's see if it works.

00:08:18 Uh, yeah, this is day three of these weird experiments.

00:08:21 That's the slowest one I've ever seen.

00:08:23 No, I'm actually hovering below the floor.

00:08:26 Beautiful thing took off pretty well.

00:08:28 Anyway, I've got to do some more tests

00:08:32 before I want to end this film really quickly.

00:08:35 Explain it all later sometime.

00:08:37 Ha!

00:08:39 Oh, man.

00:08:41 Let's see what's going on outside here.

00:08:43 There's a bunch of people screaming or something.

00:08:46 Oops.

00:08:49 I don't know what to say.

00:08:51 Uh-huh. Here we go.

00:08:53 I'm right by the window, all right.

00:08:56 There we go. Come on.

00:08:59 Right there.

00:09:01 Yep.

00:09:04 Oh, I mean, what's going on?

00:09:06 Sorry, folks, I smashed your dishes, but nevertheless.

00:09:10 Um...

00:09:12 What?

00:09:14 Give me the finger.

00:09:16 Good heavens, this is not good.

00:09:18 I mean, it's drawing too much attention.

00:09:20 Oh, no.

00:09:23 That's scary. I thought it was the cops.

00:09:27 I don't know what I'm doing.

00:09:32 Excuse me.

00:09:34 Hmm. Good.

00:09:54 Okay.

00:11:03 Hmm. Okay.

00:11:33 Hmm.

00:11:35 Whoa.

00:11:45 Thank you.

00:11:48 Very good.

00:11:53 Stopped breathing, actually I think.

00:11:57 Whoa.

00:12:10 What?

00:12:12 Whoa.

00:12:36 What?

00:12:38 Uh, I love it.

00:12:53 I think they're trying to power up.

00:12:56 Whoa.

00:13:00 Go back in.

00:13:14 I mean, this is too freaky.

00:13:17 Come on. Keep going.

00:13:22 Wow.

00:13:40 I don't know what they're doing.

00:13:51 Oh, what's that?

00:13:56 I don't know.

00:14:00 I'm going to put that away.

00:14:02 Put that away for a minute.

00:14:34 It doesn't like that.

00:14:37 Turn it off.

00:14:43 All right.

00:14:52 Oh, yeah.

00:14:54 All right.

00:15:22 Okay.

00:15:38 Let's see, huh?

00:15:40 Oh, yeah, cool.

00:15:59 Oh, that's cool.

00:16:20 Oh, my God.

00:16:27 Huh.

00:16:40 It's something.

00:16:47 Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh.

00:16:57 That's bad.

00:17:05 Keep on hovering there.

00:17:07 Hover, hover, hover, hover.

00:17:10 Monitor, monitor, monitor.

00:17:15 Is that ever cool, man?

00:17:17 It's going up so slowly.

00:17:20 Hold that for just a moment.

00:17:23 Give her a lack of static.

00:17:24 Come on, work.

00:17:29 Man, I know where to go now.

00:17:35 I can't see it.

00:17:43 Did it fall down?

00:17:44 No, no, hold on, hold on, hold on.

00:17:49 I didn't press pause, did I?

00:17:51 Oh, man.

00:17:56 Come on, where are you?

00:17:58 Good heavens.

00:18:00 It's gone.

00:18:06 It's gone?

00:18:09 It's hovering.

00:18:11 It's stuck.

00:18:13 Zoom in, quick.

00:18:16 Where in the heck am I?

00:18:18 Scan for it.

00:18:24 Where'd it go?

00:18:32 Must be the electrostatic holding it.

00:18:34 Oh, is that ever cool?

00:18:35 There it is.

00:18:38 Zoom in.

00:18:40 Zoom in so much.

00:18:48 Come on.

00:18:50 Is that ever cool?

00:18:53 Oh, man.

00:18:55 I don't want to go into the field.

00:18:57 It's stuck there.

00:18:59 But I don't see how that much electrostatic power can hold something that heavy up there.

00:19:05 I'm going to try and zoom in as far as I can go with it.

00:19:07 I'm not going in the field, because look at this.

00:19:09 The floor is starting to buckle again.

00:19:13 There's other noises going on out there.

00:19:17 Oh, man.

00:19:18 I've got to keep this as long as possible.

00:19:20 Come on, come on.

00:19:22 It doesn't want to come up, down.

00:19:25 It's kinky.

00:19:29 It's spinning around like a top, too.

00:19:31 Let's see.

00:19:34 A little bit of vibration, I think.

00:19:36 Something in here.

00:19:40 Something is wiggling around over there.

00:19:43 I'm not sure what, but I thought I saw something moving.

00:19:50 That's it.

00:19:52 That's it.

00:20:01 It's spinning right up.

00:20:14 Anyway, we're still recording.

00:20:20 You stay off.

00:20:26 I'll turn the camera.

00:20:29 Oh, man.

00:20:31 Oh, I'm different from here.

00:20:34 I got the UFO.

00:20:36 I caught a handheld UFO.

00:20:38 Let's see.

00:20:39 Pull this off.

00:20:42 Okay, how do you get this out of here?

00:20:48 Come on.

00:20:53 Still recording?

00:21:00 Still recording.

00:21:08 Okay, zoom in.

00:21:15 There's our UFO.

00:21:18 That's what it looks like underneath.

00:21:20 The little wheels.

00:21:25 And here's the guy that I was told

00:21:28 inspired after the plastic

00:21:31 calcium pyruvate bottle took off.

00:21:33 I decided this is plastic mostly.

00:21:35 There's been another one before.

00:21:37 Try this.

00:21:38 And it was successful after a long wait

00:21:40 and many trials and attempts and trials and attempts.

00:21:42 Now, I'll show you what it got stuck on.

00:21:47 Where are we?

00:21:49 It got stuck

00:21:51 actually on

00:21:53 I believe around here

00:21:55 in correlation.

00:21:57 If you're looking at the camera,

00:21:59 this is the light, right?

00:22:01 There's no hidden motors or generators

00:22:03 or stuff that you'd think.

00:22:05 Let's see.