跟读练习: Spooky Encounter in the Amazon Jungle (S5) | The Proof Is Out There - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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We know the Amazon rainforest is home to some of the planet's most exotic creatures.
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We know the Amazon rainforest is home to some of the planet's most exotic creatures.
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But could it also be sheltering life forms not of this Earth?
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April 23rd, 2024.
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A group of conservationists flies a drone over an undisclosed location in the Amazon.
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Later, when the team reviews the footage, something odd appears.
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A spooky, alien-like creature seems to be hiding among the green canopy of the forest.
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Did you catch it?
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The footage is blurry, but when we enhance it,
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we see what appears to be a gray-colored being nestled between the trees.
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It looks to have a large,
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bulbous head, a long, thin body,
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and with these oversized, almond-shaped eyes,
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it immediately invites comparison to the classic gray aliens described by alleged abductees.
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The footage adds to a long pattern of strange Amazonian sightings.
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Brazilian researcher Roni Vernet recently documented UFOs near the villages of Amazonian indigenous tribes.
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Videos our experts still can't explain.
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The object started to descend very,
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very low on the top three level,
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and start to go inside the forest and going out of the forest.
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After some minutes, I started to realize that,
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oh, OK, this is not something normal.
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This is something really anomalous.
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It makes sense that a hyper-intelligent alien species might use the Amazon to their advantage.
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If you were an alien species that didn't want to panic the local human beings living on the planet,
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I think that is a reasonable spot to hide out.
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Another theory is that this creature is returning to a place where aliens had prior contact with humans.
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In the early 1920s, there was a British explorer named Percy Fawcett,
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and he actually uncovered an ancient Portuguese manuscript that described an absolutely wondrous Amazonian city.
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The city supposedly had crazy advanced architecture and also very advanced knowledge of astronomy and mathematics.
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In his cryptic journals, Fawcett hinted that the city of Z was built by a long-lost advanced civilization of spiritually evolved entities.
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Some believe he was referring to beings, not of this Earth.
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It's rumored that he actually believed this to be an outpost for some sort of extraterrestrial beings
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that had visited Earth millions of years ago.
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Some people have speculated that perhaps that's why there are so many UFO sightings and such alien interests in the Amazon.
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After years of searching for the lost city of Z,
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Percy Fawcett and his son vanished deep in the Amazon.
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While many believe they were killed by hostile tribes or succumbed to disease,
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others speculate Fawcett may have made first contact with beings not of this world.
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Could this creature be connected?
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Let's see what our experts think.
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Are we just not seeing the forest for the trees?
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Some foliage can look like animals,
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like this supposed dog-man creature that turned out to be a bush.
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As I rewatched it, I did see something move,
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and I do think that it is actually something living in the forest.
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This is what we're seeing.
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Here you can detect the creature's head turning to the left.
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But could this really be an incognito extraterrestrial?
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Before we run too far with that notion,
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we need to rule out some other potential explanations.
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Although I do see resemblance physically to an alien,
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I think there are much more plausible and logical answers as to what this is.
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This could be a young bird perched high up in the canopy and perhaps a nest.
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The Amazon has many bird species.
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One of them is the harpy eagle,
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which is a really large bird of prey.
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It looks like its eyes and mouth are opening or changing.
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But I think shadow effects from light,
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because remember, we're in the canopy here,
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there's sun going through leaves.
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So I think that's what we're seeing that's creating that appearance rather than an actual alien with a mouth and eyes.
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Our verdict?
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This is no alien, but a harpy eagle,
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one of the largest and most powerful eagles in the world.
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While it may not be extraterrestrial,
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the harpy eagle is a legend unto itself.
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Named after the harpies of Greek mythology,
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these birds can build nests about five feet wide and have talons as long as a grizzly bear's claws.
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