PR100: Drone? Flying Car?

[Hwy666]

So I looked at this clip and I've always been wary of heat imaging because the visual doesn't usually match the physical shape of the object.

If you fly a quadcopter at full throttle, it'll assume an upright, almost 90 degree position. The motors will get warm and may generate enough heat to travel along the arms of the quadcopter. In this clip the heat signature, especially when it zooms in around the middle of the video, seems to be uniform across the entire object.

But it's real life context that hurts this explanation. If the quadcopter is electric battery powered, it wouldn't be able to maintain that high speed stance for 4 minutes. To cover that much distance it would be much more efficient(and logical) to use a fixed-wing aircraft flying in a horizontal stance.

I wondered if it might some type of antenna array attached to a craft that isn't putting off heat or has some kind of stealth tech to hide the thermal signature of it's propulsion system. But if the VTX is that hot, it kind of defeats the purpose.

1:06 in the video: Looks like it might be some kind of oblong balloon but I'm having trouble understanding how the heat signature correlates to a balloon. I've taken thermal imaging of a hot air balloon and the heat image exactly matched the balloon's shape.

Heat signature of a hot air balloon(white hot):

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfeA2SrMujc

 

[RobertBillyBob]

That's PR100, could you edit thread title so people can find it when searching for this video?

As for the shape it could be a bunch of balloons tied together or balloons with an exotic 3D shape. See https://www.metabunk.org/threads/balloon-shapes.12857/ for examples of balloon shapes. To me it looks like a teddy bear with spread arms and legs but that's probably pareidolia.

 

[John J.]

As @RobertBillyBob said,
"DOW-UAP-PR100, Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023", https://www.war.gov/UFO/release/04/...P-PR100-Unresolved-UAP-Report-Yellow-Sea-2023

The thread Naming convention for PR videos: PR000 might understandably not have been seen by @Hwy666 (and others);
maybe make it a sticky for "UFO Reports from the US Military and Government" @Mick West?

If the quadcopter is electric battery powered, it wouldn't be able to maintain that high speed stance for 4 minutes. To cover that much distance it would be much more efficient(and logical) to use a fixed-wing aircraft flying in a horizontal stance.

So it might be a fixed-wing aircraft.
I don't know what is shown in the video, but if it were a drone, there are fixed-wing drones with significantly greater speed, endurance and ranges than hobby quadcopters in widespread use, particularly by various militaries but also by civil operators.

There are quite a few twin-engined fixed-wing drones of 'conventional' aeroplane shape, e.g. the Koncern Granit Os-25-R
("Russia introduces new twin-engine tactical drone", Defence Blog website https://defence-blog.com/russia-introduces-new-twin-engine-tactical-drone/ 11 October 2025); also search "twin engine drone" for others;

There's also a number of twin-boom, twin engine designs, e.g. China's Sichuan Tengden TB-001 (Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengden_TB-001);

-also the Ukrainian "twin-fuselage" Blitz-2, Militanyi website https://militarnyi.com/en/news/ukraine-develops-blitz-2-twin-fuselage-drone/

There are fixed-wing hybrid drones that combine hydrocarbon propellor engines with rotors on booms/ outriggers,
e.g. the Chengfee CF-20, "UAV Drone Shop" website https://www.oemuavdrone.com/product...-drone-survey-terrain-fixed-wing-uav-unmanned,

I'm not suggesting PR-100 is any of these, or even like any of these, but fixed-wing drones that outperform small quadcopters (and which might have multiple "hot points") are not massively rare. There are probably some types (and possibly architectures) we're not aware of, particularly in Chinese use.

As @RobertBillyBob pointed out, we might not be able to rule out balloons, which at a glance might seem far-fetched but they're pretty ubiquitous (thread Balloons, how many are there?).
Parallax effects have previously made what was probably a balloon filmed in IR from a US platform seem to move at great speed
("Pentagon UFO video" GOFAST, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos- couldn't find a dedicated Metabunk thread but it is discussed). The strange-shaped subject of thread Jellyfish UFO from TMZ's 'UFO Revolution' might be a cluster of party balloons.
We don't know what temperature the brightest areas visible in PR-100 correspond to, they might be cooler than the heat from electric motors or combustion engines.

 

[Mick West]

The thread Naming convention for PR videos: PR000 might understandably not have been seen by @Hwy666 (and others);
maybe make it a sticky for "UFO Reports from the US Military and Government" @Mick West?

Stickied.

 

[Ann K]

That's PR100, could you edit thread title so people can find it when searching for this video?

As for the shape it could be a bunch of balloons tied together or balloons with an exotic 3D shape. See https://www.metabunk.org/threads/balloon-shapes.12857/ for examples of balloon shapes. To me it looks like a teddy bear with spread arms and legs but that's probably pareidolia.

That was my thought, balloons in company with our old friend, parallax. There is also one black spot on the object as well (maybe strings of the balloons, tied together, and some smaller dark bits that are sometimes seen. It would appear that the light is coming from the left and slightly behind the thing, so that balloons might look "white-hot" on the sunlit portion with cooler portions in the shadow.

That can be more easily seen toward the end of the video (from about the three minute mark) where the thing is seen more closely.