Ukrainian drone footage of 6 pointed star

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This video appeared on Telegram posted by user serhii_flash.


This reddit thread claims serhii_flash is Ukrainian Defense Ministry advisor Serhii Beskrestnov.
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The video in the post was reportedly sent to him by military personnel. He wrote that the video was filmed in May 2025 at an altitude of 800 meters. In a previous post, he wrote:

"In 2023, I published a video from the front line in which aerial reconnaissance was observing an unidentified flying object. An hour later, I received a message… from representatives of a government agency that has been dealing with these issues in Ukraine since Soviet times," he said.

According to the Defense Ministry advisor, since the start of the war, the study of UFOs in Ukrainian airspace has become more of a military task than a civilian one. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have even created a "special comprehensive document" on the subject, approved by the Commander-in-Chief.

"So it is not only the United States that is dealing with such issues, because what is classified as a UFO could in fact be a new weapon used by our enemy," "Flash" emphasized.

The news article also includes a thermal imaging photo and a frame from the previous 2023 video. Unfortunately, I can't manage to post it in the comments via Imgur: https://ua.korrespondent.net/ukraine/4877809-u-zsu-ye-spetsialnyi-dokument-schodo-nlo-flesh
 
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This just seems like social media clickbait. Unless there's evidence otherwise, I generally ignore things like this as a waste of time.
 
Machine translations of the two posts.

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This article describes him as "Serhiy FLASH Besksreztsnov, a freelance adviser to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine" (machine translated).
https://meta.ua/uk/news/ukraine/pom...ku-dlya-vivchennya-tehnologii-voroga-1201196/

He asked for UFO videos in case they show some kind of Russian aerial platform, and got sent this video "from the military." I don't know how much vetting went into what he received (or how official his "freelance advisor" role is).
 
More on "Flash" (from two years ago),

https://www.technologyreview.com/20...-flash-radio-serhii-beskrestnov-social-media/
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This anecdote is emblematic of Flash's frustration with a military complex that may not always want his involvement. Ukraine's armed forces, he has told me on several occasions, make no attempt to collaborate with him in an official manner. He claims not to receive any financial support, either. "I'm trying to help," he says. "But nobody wants to help me."

Both Flash and Yurii Pylypenko, another radio enthusiast who helps Flash manage his Telegram channel, say military officials have accused Flash of sharing too much information about Ukraine's operations. Flash claims to verify every member of his closed Signal groups, which he says only discuss "technical issues" in any case. But he also admits the system is not perfect and that Russians could have gained access in the past.
So "Ukrainian Defense Ministry advisor Serhii Beskrestnov" might be overstating things a bit.
 
This immediately looks like CGI/ edited footage to me.

The crispness of the 'UAP'in comparison to the rest of the visuals, the movement of the 'UAP' when the drone turns, the drone's response, the banded visuals across the video seeming to be patterned/repetitive, etc. all immediately make me assume it's hoax footage.

I'm disturbed that the popular census on Reddit is to believe it and defend it blindly.

I'd appreciate someone with a background in video editing breaking this one down.
 
Typhoon displayed on the overlay is the name of Ukraine's specialised drone unit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Unit_(Ukraine)

This company provides balloons/aerostats for a variety of purposes in Ukraine

https://aerobavovna.com/#Balloons

note the "skirt" here at the back of the aerostat

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In the section (14/15 seconds in) where the drone rotates the 6 pointed star shape remains level with sensor horizontal.



Potentially diffraction spikes from a balloon mounted IR decoy
 
The first thing that struck me was "just as a gut reaction, due to the static and the general appearance of the UFO, and such, this looks fake." Of course "this looks fake:" is not a good debunk. But it still looks fake to me!

The second and possibly more substantive thing that struck me was how the camera is being tracked around looking here and there, sees an amazing UFO star-shaped thing... and then basically shrugs and pans away. This suggests to me that, if fake, the hoaxer didn't want too much time looking at it lest something be noticed that gives it away! Or, if real, the operator recognized it as something not particularly interesting (the bright moon seen through really garbagey imaging system? Or something equally uninteresting...) and quickly went back to looking everywhere else
 
There's a suggestion on Reddit that "It's a bullet impact on the protective dome surrounding the camera." I can see why someone might suggest this as it does look a bit like a bullet hole. But is that even possible?

Are we able to determine the type of drone and if it even has a static perspex cover around the camera gimbal.

Source:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1taubco/the_most_realistic_explanation_for_the_ukrainian/

Edit - example of a drone with a dome...
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https://militarnyi.com/en/news/ukrainian-armed-forces-to-receive-american-scaneagle-drones/
 
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flarkey said:
There's a suggestion on Reddit that "It's a bullet impact on the protective dome surrounding the camera." I can see why someone might suggest this as it does look a bit like a bullet hole.
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It seems awfully symmetrical for that -- compare to:

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scie...hralling-photos-of-exploding-bullets-3534366/
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For her project "The Big Bang", photographer Deborah Bay captured macro photographs of plexiglass sheets that had various types of firearms fired at them. After having professional law enforcement officers fire bullets into the glass, she brought the sheets into a studio and "shot" them again with a Contax 645 and a 120 macro lens.
https://petapixel.com/2012/04/16/abstract-photos-of-bullets-fragmented-on-bulletproof-plexiglass/
 
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The second one is very symmetrical.
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The eight major spikes are, to an extent, the other stuff not so much (such as the extra spike to the left). Even with the "Big 8," I'd argue that the ones at 3 and 9 o'clock are visibly not on the same line, as are the ones at (roughly) 1:45 and 7:15!

But, I'd not say it was impossible to get a nice symmetrical six pointed star out of a bullet strike, just that it is unlikely to be as symmetrical as this "UFO" appears to be. I'd be more suspicious of an optical phenomenon , unless them of you what know more about such things say a six-pointed pattern would not be possible. I'd also be more suspicious of something made using CGI!
 
There is an old UFO photo from Australia, Alice Springs, iirc. Which reminds me of this. I didn't collect it because it looked too improbable. I will try and look for it again soon. Was in Trove newspapers.
This describes it:

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JMartJr said:
That one screams "a thing hung from a string" to me!

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Certainly possible! I wonder where the original photo is? I didn't clip it because I thought it looked so unusual and improbable. It was apparently controversial in its time.
Fwiw, I found a bemillion UFO sightings in TROVE, reported in Australia. Very fun.
If photos are released that look like that rendering of the metallic football-shaped object they released, things could get a lot more fun. I want to see the videos that are being blocked or held up.

I like these two from Australia. There's my guys! Coming up out of the ocean with a gray mist around them. 1947.

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Another, and one of my favorite, that I almost lost and need to locate again, occurred in 1901, iirc. A group of men was traveling at night in the Outback. A light overhead approached them and shined down a beam just on the group, about 30' wide as it illuminated the ground around them. Then the light went back up into object and it took off. Could barely read the print. The article mentioned the light was previously reported by another citizen.
I kick myself eternally for losing the way to find a very old astronomy manual that was describing different types of meteors. One of the types was able to fly around to different places and emit showers of colored light. That's a cool meteor.
But this isn't the thread for old stuff. Check my account; there's a link.
 
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Todd Feinman said:
I kick myself eternally for losing the way to find a very old astronomy manual that was describing different types of meteors. One of the types was able to fly around to different places and emit showers of colored light. That's a cool meteor.
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Did you just make that up yourself, or is that from the apocryphal "men traveling the Outback"?
 
Ann K said:
Did you just make that up yourself, or is that from the apocryphal "men traveling the Outback"?
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No, I think I originally found it in Google Books. I've looked for it a couple of times since. The Outback article is in the archive of clips I put together. Not sure which page. Maybe 12?
It's good for skeptics to look at old accounts. If there really is something people are seeing, the best exit is "interesting new natural phenomenon". You could try and prove such a fugitive phenomenon as natural, non-sentient perhaps electrical phenomenon, by using old accounts to do it, like ball lightning. Just lookin' out for ya.
 
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I like these two from Australia
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Link to the second of these, "Strange Objects In Sky", Trove website https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/30512698
under Letters to the Editor, The Advertiser (Adelaide, Australia) 17 Feb 1947, writer F.W. Flavel. Couldn't see the other article.

It would be interesting if the provenance of the uploaded paper could be established as this pre-dates Kenneth Arnold's sighting.
 
John J. said:
Link to the second of these, "Strange Objects In Sky", Trove website https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/30512698
under Letters to the Editor, The Advertiser (Adelaide, Australia) 17 Feb 1947, writer F.W. Flavel. Couldn't see the other article.

It would be interesting if the provenance of the uploaded paper could be established as this pre-dates Kenneth Arnold's sighting.
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You saw the objects on Everest from '33 too?

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This is the one. From 1920:

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Here is the link to about 22 pages of clippings I collected after my first sighting. Went through every available database with fine-toothed search terms. Took many months:
No matter what you think they are a blast to read. I sure as heck know what I think. You'll see certain patterns emerge, that continue today. And if you wanted material for a movie to scare the poop outta people, I present to you…:

Old Encounters:
https://alienexpanse.com/index.php?threads/old-encounters.4959/

Same old stuff. Spotlights from the sky, traumatized folks, transmedium objects, skeptics, same old arguments on all sides. Amazing.

Sleep well!
 
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The camera operator did not pay much attention to that nearby (?) UAP did they. Just a casual scan and then back to looking down for something more interesting. Their lack of interest in the 'object' suggests they knew what it was and it was nothing of concern.

Unlike so many others where the camera operator follows some fuzzy dot around for some time.
 
People may find this Reddit post interesting

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Amateur FPV pilot here - the onscreen display (OSD) contains some useful information that many fpv pilots would immediately recognize. This is definitely a rotorcraft (likely quadcopter) running open source betaflight flight controller software (or one of the derivatives), the OSD is very characteristic. So basically a small acrobatic / racing style drone, (maybe a larger hex- or -octo copter, but non-mil-spec DIY in any case). Video quality is totally consistent with analog FPV TX, and the fact that there is noise means that this video was recorded in-goggle (many have slots for SD cards) and is not an onboard recording (some FPV cameras have onboard recording capability, which would be TX-noise-free). Top left is the video transmission channel (A-1, the default, 5865 MHz), below that "AIR" indicates that it is being piloted in air mode (aka acro mode, no auto-stabilization on any axis, as experienced pilots prefer, free to rotate on all axis without any auto-leveling ; as opposed to "angle" or "horizon" stabilization modes where the drone constantly levels itself in some way). The swirl symbol and number represents the throttle value on a scale of zero to 100; the pilot is basically hovering, no crazy movements. Below that (bottom left) is the instantaneous amp draw, which is low-ish and steady, consistent with hover (a high-power punch-out manoeuvre could draw 200 A or more). Below that is the voltage of the battery pack; it's running a six cell Lipo that would read 25.2 V when fully charged; it's almost empty. At the bottom right you have a single battery cell voltage (average of the six cells, or the lowest of the 6, can't tell) - this also helps the pilot know how close the battery is to being drained. At the top right you have radio control link parameters; LQ is link quality, and the numbers below are also likely related to the quality of the radio control link (rssi perhaps, there are several radio link health indicators that a pilot might choose to put on the OSD). These OSDs are entirely configurable with software - Typhoon is the craft or pilots chosen name that they entered into the betaflight software OSD configuration tab. Finally, at the end, we have the screen that betaflight shows at end of flight (the drone was disarmed for this screen to show), with a total flight time of a little over 5 min - typical for a 6S racing / acro quadcopter. It doesn't seem to have a gps unit on board (otherwise there would be OSD elements showing gps derived data like pos, speed, alt, distance to home, num of satellites, etc). All of this is consistent with a small and cheap analog FPV racing-style drone, fully analog VTX and RTX, for which we are seeing the last seconds of a five minute flight (that could have easily brought it to ca 800 m as OP claims). The camera is fixed-focus, no autofocus whatsoever, and is very wide angle (fisheye, depth of field is pretty much infinity, everything is in focus all the time). So the drone most likely got very close to whatever it was filming - my guess would be within 10 m for sure, and maybe within 2-3 m. Hope this helps :-)

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1tadb9l/the_video_from_telegram_was_posted_by_ukrainian/ol9ugp0/

https://betaflight.com/

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It seems this is likely a smaller custom FPV drone using this software, so not a commercial/military platform
 
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This seems to be throttle position

Given this it would seem less likely this platform has a dome shielded camera and more likely a fixed position camera
 
Todd Feinman said:
Here is the link to about 22 pages of clippings I collected after my first sighting. Went through every available database with fine-toothed search terms. Took many months:
No matter what you think they are a blast to read. I sure as heck know what I think. You'll see certain patterns emerge, that continue today. And if you wanted material for a movie to scare the poop outta people, I present to you…:

Old Encounters:
https://alienexpanse.com/index.php?threads/old-encounters.4959/

Same old stuff. Spotlights from the sky, traumatized folks, transmedium objects, skeptics, same old arguments on all sides. Amazing.

Sleep well!
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Interested forum Feinman, just registered an account there.
Thanks for sharing.
 
You bet. Tomorrow is the anniversary of my 2010 experience. That search and the clips was the result. And ultimately me flying over to Metabunk. You can imagine my experience a bit better after reading those accounts, and perhaps even seeing some of the released footage. "Shocking" is the word used a lot, and it is a good one for what I've experienced too. I originally started posting articles at Historum when I first started looking for them. I sifted through and put the good ones into a final bunch at alienexpanse. This is just what I discovered on a personal search. There are many others that other people have found and compiled from various sources over time too. You probably know some.
 
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jarlrmai said:
View attachment 90422 This seems to be throttle position

Given this it would seem less likely this platform has a dome shielded camera and more likely a fixed position camera
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So are you thinking that its a drone with a Fixed camera with a wideangle fisheye lens and the FoV/azimuth changes depending on the position of the pilots head, who is wearing FPV goggles?

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@UAV Hive - what are your thought on this?
 
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Possibly even simpler than than that, a fixed lens and movement with the controller only, but I have limited experience with the recent developments in FPV drone tech
 
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