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A sighting of an unknown object was posted on reddit on 2024-09-02 17:42 UTC.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1f7cw5v/we_saw_a_ufo_on_friday_night_for_about_23_minutes/

A claim is made that it looked like a single huge object with a rotating red/orange light on the bottom:

On Friday night my wife and I were sitting on the deck out back looking at the stars, we do this every night. Just after 10 pm my wife said "is that a shooting star??", which I found odd, because if it was I wouldn't have time to look at it. The tree near me was blocking the direction she was staring so I got up and looked, and my jaw dropped. I said "Holy shit. Holy shit!!" and we both jumped off of the deck and got into the yard for a better view.

The craft seemed huge, miles away, had tons of blinking and spinning lights, and a...

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M1umC1S_gw

Limited information on this one. Flickering coloured lights were spotted in the sky north of Adelaide in Australia, at 8:45pm Saturday the 10th of August. Noting in the article that it was suggested that the lights were too high for a drone...

'(The lights) shine very bright then just disappear, only to reappear again.

'This was happening just left of and below the moon.'

The video captured a series of coloured lights flickering in the sky.

'We're not too sure what it could be,' a woman can be heard in the background.

'It's just really bizarre.'

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I can confirm that there is a video that was circulated on Facebook but I cannot seem to find it...

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1f20ar2/uap_spotted_at_35000_feet/

Another popular Reddit thread video from a pilot.

I'll try to get the relevant info for the OP that we know so far

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I'm an Airline pilot and was flying over the Atlantic Ocean when me and captain spotted these orb of lights that kept moving around each other and one point we saw them move at incredible speeds and stop and hover instantaneously. It was at that moment I took out my phone to record them. Through out the night we kept seeing them. One would show up then another out of nowhere. I have another video showing two of them and I turn the camera showing another group to the South.

Gathering so far...

UPDATE: The structure has been identified as a rainwater catchment that has since been removed and replaced by a different structure

MonkeeSage said:

I downloaded the CarryMap application on my phone and the "New Mexico Hunting Recreation Map" as described here:

https://www.blm.gov/maps/frequently...nting-maps#DownloadInformationandInstructions

The map has various BLM features marked and shows a catchment at these coordinates:

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For the replacement structure, see:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/cl...rainwater-catchment-removed.13616/post-322009

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This claim has been repeated on social media and Youtube in the past couple of days. It's another promotion by MrMBB333, who...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Pc48yXWyI

I collected a few errors I noticed in Elizondo's book in the above video (transcript below), and thought it might be useful to have a thread to collect any others that happen to be there.

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Luis Elizondo's book "Imminent - Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs" contains many extraordinary claims about crashed alien craft, psychic powers, abductions, implants, vast government conspiracies, glowing orbs, and other unusual things.

Unfortunately, Elizondo provided no supporting evidence for the more extreme claims, saying that they are all classified. So how are we to judge the accuracy of claims in the book.

What we can do is fact-check as much as possible, and then extrapolate the results of that out to the rest of the book.

There are some things we can check. In particular He talks about four videos, Gimbal, Gofast...

Here's a possibly fun one

I saw it in this Reddit thread:


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1eqbrrz/pilots_flying_from_saudi_arabia_to_nigeria_in_a/

It looks like Starlink but there's no date/time/flight number, however this is a 4k YouTube cockpit and b roll video with lots of possible clues that means it might possible (and fun) to track it down...


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86L3UYZAeys

Some clues

Before 4th Aug (video date on YT)
747-400
Flight from Jeddah



Airline probably (could be B roll from earlier, but pilot is wearing MaxAir pin in actual flight video):


Possibly this...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLybWj-ojck

Article:

JUST IN: Former President Donald Trump was rushed off stage after he fell to the ground at the start of a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Saturday night.
It was not immediately clear what caused Trump to fall. He raised a fist and yelled back to members of the crowd before he was rushed away.

Looks like he was actually shot with something. He raises up his hand to his ear before crouching/falling

This video was posted as a Reddit thread in the /r/Winnipeg sub


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Winnipeg/comments/1duyh0p/does_anyone_know_what_this_was_about/

It was later posted to r/ufos

I've attached a downloaded version here



I've not had time to look into it much but it seems a fun test, the building should be easy to find, but I can't find it it says 300 something on it, there's a 300 Main street in Winnipeg but with a brief look I couldn't correlate it, and no exact time is given, but I took a few mins to look at a ADSB Exchange data for a few hours before the video was posted for helo activity over Winnipeg but couldn't find it either.

I'm sure someone else will have more time and better skills.

[ADMIN UPDATE: This appears to be Starlink, see: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/cl...ock-arena-colorado-starlink.13524/post-318663 ]

https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=181776

https://nypost.com/2024/06/29/us-news/dozen-spot-ufo-soaring-above-red-rocks-amphitheater/

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Occurred: 2024-06-05 01:00 Local
Reported: 2024-06-05 10:43 Pacific
Duration: about 30 seconds
No of observers: 12

Location: Golden, CO, USA
Location details: North of Red Rocks about a mile or so, hovering above the treetops on the hog's back ridge.

Shape: Disk
Color: Dark metallic
Estimated Size: Several hundred feet long
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: North
Angle of Elevation: 7
Closest Distance: About a mile or so
Estimated Speed: It hovered in place and then moved 5-10mph east...

https://www.ryangraves.io/p/part-i-why-pilots-arent-reporting

From a post by Ryan Graves (posted Jun 28, 2024). Since it's a paid post I'm just extracting the minimum details:

• a routine red-eye from São Paulo to New York
• It began with a very bright point of light appearing directly off their nose, seemingly co-altitude with their Boeing 777 at 37,000 feet.
• It became apparent, due to the changing aspect, that they were witnessing an extremely long object traveling at speeds that far exceeded anything familiar to them.
• They estimated the object to be over a half mile long and at an altitude of about 90,000 feet.
• The luminous, ellipse-shaped anomaly passed directly over their aircraft on what had initially appeared to be a collision course.
• Before it disappeared from view, Captain R managed to capture the photograph [above]
• The entire encounter lasted 30...

New UI first. That drop down on the left was getting way too busy, so I've changed it to a menu/widget system that I hacked together from the existing lil-gui code


The menus can be detached from the bar and then remain open. You can drag them back or double-click on the title to send it back.

Things are organized as logically as possible under traditional menus. But it's only partly done. The first menu is still the catch-all for sitch-specific items that probably belong elsewhere. It will evolve; I just need to make a couple of passes.

Time sliders now wrap at the end and increment/decrement the one above, making it much easier to adjust the time.

Lighting is now more accurate to time/date, with the sun's direction being very accurate.

Here's a new model inspector; the yellow arrow points towards the sun.



The Objects menu lets you pick or modify...

jimmyslippin said:

It appears we have more spooky satellites and space lasers on the menu in next week's episode.

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"The beam stops ... and then starts again".
The question here is, what makes the beam visible in the first place?

Source: Michelle Reyes, Facebook

This video was shot on March 24th, 2024, but recently showed up on a NewsNation segment with an interview of Michelle. Ben Hansen was in the segment, persumable as a representative of Engima Labs who had done some analysis, determining it was not fake, probably outside the plane, and not that far away, but bigger than an insect.

I agree it's outside. It's much more in focus than the window


A glimpse of a "Howdy" on the wing shows it's Spirit airlines



Via Social media posts we know she was going from Myrtle Beach to LaGuardia, on March 25th. We can see they are descending near New York, and there's a distinctive bridge

Which we can find in...

Videos and photos of some striking spiralling contrails have been causing a stir on social media in April 2024:


Source: https://twitter.com/Humanbydesign3/status/1783377660229341504




https://www.instagram.com/reels/C6Jr1UOICVr/

The first clue is that road signs are visible in the video footage, including the name of a village, Tekačevo, which is in eastern Slovenia, near the Croatian border.

With the location, other social media posts could be found, including this


Source: https://twitter.com/Pedjijatar/status/1781982502384484665

Translation:
Yesterday morning above the Slovenia-Croatia...

https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Volume_1_2024.pdf

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SECTION II: Executive Summary

AARO found no evidence that any USG investigation, academic-sponsored research,or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology. All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification. Although not the focus of this report, it is worthwhile to note that all official foreign UAP investigatory efforts to date have reached the same general conclusions as USG investigations.

• Although many UAP reports remain unsolved or unidentified, AARO assesses that if more and better quality data were available, most of these cases also could bei dentified and resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena. Sensors and visual observations are imperfect; the vast majority of cases lack...

Source: https://www.theblackvault.com/docum...t-brought-to-light-by-congressman-matt-gaetz/

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DECLASSIFIED SUMMARY:
On 26 Jan 23, an USAF pilot gained radar lock on four separate UAP. Upon approach, the pilot was able to make visual contact and employ sensors to obtain a screen capture of the first of these objects. The remaining three were only detected by radar.

UAP-1 likened to an "Apollo spacecraft" in size and shape, with an "orange-reddish" illuminated rounded bottom and the top section "a three-dimensional cone shape" comprising "gunmetal gray segmented panels."

UAP-1 operated at an altitude of about 16,000 above ground level (AGL). The second and third UAPs were noted at altitudes of 17,000 and 18,000. The fourth was lost from radar and no altitude was noted. Moreover, no airspeeds were noted for any of the UAP in this report.

Of...

I've made Sitrec (Metabunk's situation recreation tool) open source.

https://github.com/MickWest/sitrec

This means anyone can look at the source code to see how it works. You can also make you own version of the code, install it on your own server, make changes to the code, and request your changed be merged in with Metabunk's version.

The link above goes to the home page for Sitrec on Github. It will show you the top level view of the code, and a variety of menus and links.

"Readme" (or just scrolling down a bit) will give you instructions on how to build the code and install it on your own server.

"Activity" will show the most recent published changes to the code:
https://github.com/MickWest/sitrec/activity


"Issues" will take you to the issue tracking database. Here you can report bugs, make...

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

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Looks like a diffraction artifact - i.e. glare around a bright light.

The following is the subtitles of the discussion between Jeremy Corbell and an unidentified person claiming to be from the Intelligence Community. Emphasis mine.

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00:00:43,320 Kind of shocked that a buddy of mine is gonna talk with me, but you know, it's an individual that has direct insight into what I call the Chandelier UAP.
00:00:54,579 (eerie music)
00:00:58,350 It was classified UFO UAP by our intelligence agencies.
00:01:03,198 (ominous music)
00:01:11,598 (phone ringing)
00:01:14,108 - [Intelligence Officer] Hello?
00:01:15,000 - Hey man, how's it going?
00:01:16,267 - [Intelligence Officer] Good, man.
00:01:16,267 How are...

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

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Source: https://tubitv.com/movies/200044921/s01-e01-the-breakthrough
Higher quality video: https://www.metabunk.org/f/Jellyfish 720p High.mov
Video viewer: https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?sitch=video&video=Jellyfish

Full Video from Corbell:

Source: https://youtu.be/7bns_WhNAQM

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So, any hypotheses? I'd put balloon(s) at the top for now, as it seems to just be drifting in the wind. A list of possibilities:

• Balloon
• Kite
• Drone
• Something suspended from a drone
• Bird...

On three separate timestamps a live stream by LA Flights YT Channel captured on camera UFOs hovering over President Joe Biden's Air Force One as it taxied to a private gate at LAX Airport on December 10, 2023.
Here is the mentioned video:



Timestamps 2:24:00, 2:27:00 and 3:14:30.