Latest Reports Of UFO Sightings

[DougalLongfoot]

Pilot reports UFO to air traffic control:

 

[Sid]

That is still very distant, and consistent with a balloon. Perhaps a heart-shaped balloon or some other simple design.

"It is!" And very pixelized to-boot! In no way clear enough to say what it could be - one way or another.

 

[eburacum]

Well, the fact that there is a shadow rules out Venus; at first that was my original hypothesis, but analysis of the video shows that there are several objects, and they are all at different angles to the camera. This suggests a mass balloon release, such as a party or other celebration.

 

[BS3]

So the latest kerfuffle is a clip Jeremy Corbell posted on Twitter of a "UAP incursion" on a base in Iraq in 2018:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744790827254313423

While this superficially looks very odd indeed, someone has suggested it's likely a stain (eg bird droppings) on the outer lens housing of the camera, and this seems to fit to me. The anonymous leakers apparently claimed the object then entered a body of water before leaving at high speed, but given as no film evidence was supplied for this bit I'm inclined to believe someone was pulling Corbell's leg here.

 

[eburacum]

The 'bird droppings' hypothesis seems to be ruled out by the hyperfocal lens used by the drone. This object is probably two or three thousand feet away from the camera.

My current favourite hypothesis is that it is a bunch of strangely-shaped balloons, possibly Eid or Ramadan balloons, let off accidentally or on purpose by some locals. Here is a graphic I've made showing some celebratory balloons which might fit the bill. The image on the left is a frame from the film. The apparent movement of the object is almost certainly caused by parallax; the balloons are maybe 2000 feet from the ground, and 3000 feet from the camera, which means the balloons may be moving quite slowly indeed.

 

[Sid]

So the latest kerfuffle is a clip Jeremy Corbell posted on Twitter of a "UAP incursion" on a base in Iraq in 2018:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744790827254313423

While this superficially looks very odd indeed, someone has suggested it's likely a stain (eg bird droppings) on the outer lens housing of the camera, and this seems to fit to me. The anonymous leakers apparently claimed the object then entered a body of water before leaving at high speed, but given as no film evidence was supplied for this bit I'm inclined to believe someone was pulling Corbell's leg here.

If it is thought to be just a bunch of balloons, it seems odd to say the least, that from frame #44 onwards it seems to jump upwards - and accelerate faster than the movement of the camera shot?
On enlarging the object from the replay video, it does seem to have a far more complex structure than just a group of balloons? (note: centre dark shadows which suggest a greater depth and seem to contradict it being balloons.)

 

[eburacum]

The apparent movement of the object/bunch of balloons is entirely a result of the movement of the aircraft carrying the camera, and the movement of the camera itself, which is tracing backwards to keep the object in shot. This is a relatively new technology, and it looks very impressive, but the results are often counterintuitive to say the least.

Apparent the camera is an MX-15 gimballed cam, a camera that is not usually carried by drones but instead by small aircraft or helicopters, possibly a dirigible balloon.

The most likely aircraft is an MC-12

Because the plane carrying the camera is flying at constant speed, this means the camera has to track backwards constantly. This also means the landscape behind the object appears to be in constant motion, and this make the object look like it is moving, but it is almost certainly not. An American flag can be seen briefly at one point, showing that there is little more than a light breeze blowing; this may account for a slight drifting motion of the object at a few miles per hour.

On enlarging the object from the replay video, it does seem to have a far more complex structure than just a group of balloons? (note: centre dark shadows which suggest a greater depth and seem to contradict it being balloons.)

I have found a large assortment of different balloons that could account for this complexity, and incorporated some of them into that graphic. Several are crescent-shaped: it was filmed in Iraq, after all. The dark colour is probably due to the fact that this was filmed at night, using a thermal camera, so it shows characteristics that we might not recognise from a visible-light daylight shot.

 

[eburacum]

If it is thought to be just a bunch of balloons, it seems odd to say the least, that from frame #44 onwards it seems to jump upwards - and accelerate faster than the movement of the camera shot?

I've just checked out this 'jump upwards' in some detail; the object does appear to move upwards when compared to the graticule, but if you compare the position of the object against the background buildings the angle remains the same; this shows that the movement we see is entirely caused by the movement and rotation of the camera.

https://www.metabunk.org/data/video/64/64344-32e9948ddda67b802658f16e92f3ddc9.mp4

 

[eburacum]

Further information about this video seems to indicate that it was shot from a tethered aerostat - basically a blimp with a camera. This indicates that the object/balloon cluster must have been moving, in a breeze of maybe 5-10mph.

Interestingly, this stabilised clip shows that the balloon cluster is vaguely humanoid- I wonder if it was supposed to look like a flying robot, or maybe a jetpack man, or even Iron Man.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1931gfx

 

[charliebrown]

Harvard professor, Avi Loeb, tells GB News that UFOs and humanoids are probably mechanical since it is the only way to survive the distances of space and radiation.

Avi claims he doubts another off world species would survive Earth’s conditions.

I think he is leaving out inter dimensional.

 

[BS3]

Further information about this video seems to indicate that it was shot from a tethered aerostat - basically a blimp with a camera. This indicates that the object/balloon cluster must have been moving, in a breeze of maybe 5-10mph.

Interestingly, this stabilised clip shows that the balloon cluster is vaguely humanoid- I wonder if it was supposed to look like a flying robot, or maybe a jetpack man, or even Iron Man.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1931gfx

It does look vaguely humanoid, but at this point pareidolia is kicking in so much it's hard to tell exactly what we're looking at. Posters on Reddit seem to be seeing everything from a person in a "jetpack" to a small figure piloting the object to various animals or combinations of all of them.

What does seem clear is that most of the "jellyfish UFO" clips people are posting in an attempt to draw comparisons with this one all a) look fairly different both from this thing, and each other and b) move in a way strongly reminiscent of partly deflated balloons.

 

[eburacum]

Curiously enough, I saw a 'jellyfish UFO' myself about ten years ago; shortly after 5th November, a floppy, grey papery tube drifting sideways across the sky maybe a hundred feet up. I identified it as a Chinese sky lantern with the burner extinguished; it gradually fell into a nearby school playground, but I didn't see it land.

 

[eburacum]

It does look vaguely humanoid, but at this point pareidolia is kicking in so much it's hard to tell exactly what we're looking at. Posters on Reddit seem to be seeing everything from a person in a "jetpack" to a small figure piloting the object to various animals or combinations of all of them.

This clip shows a more complete .gif of the rotation - it seems obvious that the object is not humanoid after all.
https://packaged-media.redd.it/3dmy...=568a59c7253f776cdc6cb20855c8880cc46de52a#t=0


Mick West's Sitrec tool indicates that an object 2 feet wide would be travelling at 10mph. That would be quite a small bunch of balloons.

A larger bunch of balloons would be travelling faster but still consistent with an object floating on the breeze.

 

[Sid]

Further information about this video seems to indicate that it was shot from a tethered aerostat - basically a blimp with a camera. This indicates that the object/balloon cluster must have been moving, in a breeze of maybe 5-10mph.

Interestingly, this stabilised clip shows that the balloon cluster is vaguely humanoid- I wonder if it was supposed to look like a flying robot, or maybe a jetpack man, or even Iron Man.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1931gfx

It's pretty odd, mainly because what it seems to show is that as it slightly turns, 'it' shows that it has three lower legs?

 

[eburacum]

Yes. The humanoid hypothesis looks shaky.
One suggestion is that it has tinsel or some other decorative element dangling down; another suggestion is that the object included hand-grenades and was in fact a form of deadly attack, which evidently failed as it seems to have ended up in a distant lake.

 

[BS3]

Looking at the slightly hysterical response of Reddit to all these videos of partly deflated balloons, diffraction patterns etc, and sensational narratives about demons, malevolent transdimensional NHIs and the like, you start for a second to wonder if ufology has lost the plot. Then you remember it never had the plot in the first place.

We had demonic saucers and divine saucers back in the 50s; we had cryptoterrestrials too from the very start of the 'phenomenon'. Read any BUFORA journal or FSR back issue and you'll find that a good 50% of the theories put forward are frankly batshit crazy. You might argue that the average Redditor or Twitter user is probably very young, immature and impressionable but this ignores that many of the 'footsoldiers' of ufology back in the old days, the field investigators and journal subscribers, were also impressionable teenagers.

While now we've got 'credible' ex-military and government types convinced of the reality of the 'phenomenon' and giving it legitimacy, then we had...oh yeah, the same thing (Keyhoe, Ruppelt, Lord Hill-Norton etc). While now we've got scientists and technical specialists openly proclaiming belief in alien visitation, then we had James McDonald and Daniel Fry.

Most of the more lurid current ideas about 'NHIs' were stated far more entertainingly by John Keel decades ago. Or by Fort, for that matter.

Even the supposed 'scientific' or technical gloss applied to present day ufology has its mirror in the past; you've just exchanged the dials-levers-and-rocketry advanced tech of the 50s for AI and genetic engineering.

In short, business as usual.

 

[Paul_Exeter]

Alaskan pilot photographs shapes and lights near a volcano he believes to be aliens:

https://www.the-sun.com/news/10006513/ufo-found-near-alaskan-volcano/

 

[RaM]

UFO's over Fleetwood from local face ach last night,
likely a reflection from the steps lights.

 

[eburacum]

UFO's over Fleetwood from local face ache last night, likely a reflection from the steps lights.

That's almost certainly correct. Internal reflections in a smartphone seem to produce additional 'ghost' lights exactly opposite the centre of the image, so that the lights are reversed both left-to-right and up-and down. You can see the curvature of the lights on the steps repeated in the sky.

 

[charliebrown]

A stewardess on an airliner in Poland takes a photo out the window of a shocking pink UFO.

https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/16/hot-pink-ufo-followed-wizz-air-flight-luton-poland-20121261/

 

[SummerLightning]

Virtually everything on Wizz Air is Barbie pink, and I suspect the flight attendant was heading in the right direction when she wondered about a reflection of some kind

It reminds me that one feature of pilot Ray Bowyer’s 2007 sighting was that the yellow UAP was a good match for the livery of his Aurigny Airlines aircraft - though as far as I know no-one has been able to suggest a mechanism that explains the sighting as some kind of reflection.

 

[BS3]

Virtually everything on Wizz Air is Barbie pink, and I suspect the flight attendant was heading in the right direction when she wondered about a reflection of some kind

It reminds me that one feature of pilot Ray Bowyer’s 2007 sighting was that the yellow UAP was a good match for the livery of his Aurigny Airlines aircraft - though as far as I know no-one has been able to suggest a mechanism that explains the sighting as some kind of reflection.

Some of the passengers who also saw the UFOs suggested they were "sunlight" coloured, which to me points towards the fact the effect was caused by sunlight rather than by a reflection of the plane itself.

Having said that the brief 'corroborating' sighting by the pilot of another aircraft in the area, of a yellowish object in haze at approximately the right position, was described as being reminiscent of the colour of the Aurigny aircraft. I seem to recall Bowyer had already landed at that point though.

 

[Ascalon]

I hate quoting the Daily Heil, but they claim an exclusive...

EXCLUSIVE​

Video shows mysterious 'black glass' UFO floating in sky near airfield used by military contractor General Atomic in El Mirage, California​

Fully story.

 

[Sid]

Spotted this report online this morning, about a thought-to-be UFO, which was caught viewing through a planes window - on a flight from Luton to Poland, by the air stewardesses on the plane.

Looks to be an interesting (singular) object - at first looks just like a multiple image reflection from inside the plane, however, considering that the object is being seen at some distance, moving, and being videoed through three layers of window!

So what I decided might be interesting to do is to eliminate the multiple images, and what's left (as below) is what appears to be it's basic (uniform) shape.

I have come across this exact same ufo shape - on another ufo site I did some work for some years ago, and it seems to be identical both in shape and the highly lit apertures' etc.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/ne...like-it-the-pilot-was-so-confused/ar-AA1n3wDE

 

[Paul_Exeter]

My kind of UFO high-strangeness:

12-10-23-Derry- A dog awakened this person at 5 AM. The witness looked out a window and saw four balls of white light about twenty-five feet across the driveway about twenty to thirty feet off ground or tree level. The objects looked like solid round balls of white light. They were first bouncing up and down, then hovering ,then bounced up and down again and then flew over the woods toward the southeast. They moved in a diamond formation.

https://www.stangordon.info/wp/2024...nd-other-mysterious-activity-in-pennsylvania/

 

[Paul_Exeter]

I hate quoting the Daily Heil, but they claim an exclusive...

EXCLUSIVE​

Video shows mysterious 'black glass' UFO floating in sky near airfield used by military contractor General Atomic in El Mirage, California​

Fully story.

Looks exactly like the weather balloon I watched being launched a couple of years ago.

 

[Paul_Exeter]

Have we had this one yet?

"UK missile base tracks ‘UFO’ leaving RAF experts baffled and sparking top-secret probe"

https://www.the-sun.com/news/9908374/ufo-missile-defence-uk-raf-secret-sky/

 

[Paul_Exeter]

An Interesting 2021 report from Kent, UK:

"This UFO hovered around 50 feet from the ground and was around 200 to 300 yards away from the road in the field as a rough estimate. The marking were black and the edges looked angular/sharp. But whilst in the air the object was jet white oval like the TicTac UFO documented."

https://truthproof.uk/Reports2/reprt223.html

 

[eburacum]

A stewardess on an airliner in Poland takes a photo out the window of a shocking pink UFO.
https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/16/hot-pink-ufo-followed-wizz-air-flight-luton-poland-20121261/

So what I decided might be interesting to do is to eliminate the multiple images, and what's left (as below) is what appears to be it's basic (uniform) shape.
I have come across this exact same ufo shape - on another ufo site I did some work for some years ago, and it seems to be identical both in shape and the highly lit apertures' etc.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/ne...like-it-the-pilot-was-so-confused/ar-AA1n3wDE

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The current thinking at Metabunk is that this is the autofocus light on the iPhone used to take this video, reflected in the window. When reflected, the autofocus light appears purple, and flashes at a similar rate. There are three reflections because the window was triple-glazed.

Here are two frames from a video by Mick West showing a light of the same colour emitted by an iPhone and reflected in a mirror.

 

[Sid]

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The current thinking at Metabunk is that this is the autofocus light on the iPhone used to take this video, reflected in the window. When reflected, the autofocus light appears purple, and flashes at a similar rate. There are three reflections because the window was triple-glazed.
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Here are two frames from a video by Mick West showing a light of the same colour emitted by an iPhone and reflected in a mirror.

Yes, it may show up as the same - or similar as regards to the lights colour, but noting the actual image that the stewardess' camera caught also shows up individual highly lit white areas ~ along with a darker area, which an iPhone or similar wouldn't (I imagine) be able to reproduce in a reflection from the small pink coloured singular dot of the auto focus.