CBP UAP / UFO Video Release #10

[sigmops]

Admin Note

This is one of multiple CBP videos, discussed more broadly here: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/u-...tion-releases-uap-documents-and-videos.13177/

Number 10 is kind of interesting.


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykFGSkRcxb8


The object navigates close to buildings which might help determine its size. It also appears to rotate and turn as it approaches the first building and looks more narrow than it is long.

At 2:05 the camera operator must have gotten bored or distracted because it exits the frame to the left but the camera later pans to the right.

 

[Tyndareos]

Number 10 seems like a Plastic Bag to me.

Found a Video of a plastic Bag with a similar flight pattern : https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-If7qOgobmU

 

[NorCal Dave]

Number 10 is kind of interesting.

Looks a lot like a balloon drifting along in the breeze. It goes along to the right and at about the 00:50 mark, it disappears behind the hill. Maybe the breeze died down a bit allowing it float up again until the breeze again took it to the right until the operator lost interest.

The fact that the operator lost interest, if that's what happened, might be a clue that they figured out it was an old balloon.

 

[Ann K]

Number 10 is kind of interesting.


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykFGSkRcxb8


The object navigates close to buildings which might help determine its size. It also appears to rotate and turn as it approaches the first building and looks more narrow than it is long.

At 2:05 the camera operator must have gotten bored or distracted because it exits the frame to the left but the camera later pans to the right.

There's a moderate breeze blowing in the direction in which the object is moving; you can see that in the small tree in front of the semi. So I'd hesitate to use the term "navigates". It could be a balloon, a piece of paper, a plastic grocery bag, etc, moving with the wind.

 

[JWrightBrain]

Aren't we all just plastic grocery bags blowing in the wind?

 

[Duke]

Number 10 is kind of interesting.


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykFGSkRcxb8


The object navigates close to buildings which might help determine its size. It also appears to rotate and turn as it approaches the first building and looks more narrow than it is long.

At 2:05 the camera operator must have gotten bored or distracted because it exits the frame to the left but the camera later pans to the right.

Am I missing it, or do we have a location/date for #10?

 

[Nemon]

At 2:05 the camera operator must have gotten bored or distracted because it exits the frame to the left but the camera later pans to the right.

Agree. I would be interested to know what kind of camera it is and who operates it...

 

[psikiwi]

At the 1:26-27 mark, the object appears to rotate 90 degrees, showing a change in length/width dimensions. Given the object is clearly in front of the truck, there is an upper limit of it's size when compared to the wheel/hub behind. (I'm UK based, so we don't get these type of vehicles on the roads, and I'll not attempt to ID the vehicle make/type - but a quick estimated diameter is 4 feet/ a bit over a metre ...)

 

[Easy Muffin]

Am I missing it, or do we have a location/date for #10?

Not entirely sure but it looks like it might be the Nogales-Mariposa crossing. The camera would be quite some distance to the west and pretty much over the US-Mexico border. Somewhere near 111.0 W? It's kind of difficult to get used to the huge amount of foreshortening that's going on.

 

[jarlrmai]

Can we tell if itis white = hot or white = cold from context?

I note the strong black areas on the background buildings?

 

[Duke]

Not entirely sure but it looks like it might be the Nogales-Mariposa crossing. The camera would be quite some distance to the west and pretty much over the US-Mexico border. Somewhere near 111.0 W? It's kind of difficult to get used to the huge amount of foreshortening that's going on.

Mexican drug cartels are flying drones across the border to both carry drugs and undertake reconnaissance of CBP and other law enforcement activities. If this is a cartel drone, that's pretty bold.

TDPS Lieutenant Chris Olivares replied, "Well, it's very rare to actually capture a drone. But as far as seeing drone incursions, it's a daily occurrence. Now we can retrieve the drone's flight logs. That will be invaluable."

https://www.securityinfowatch.com/p...cartel-drones-surveillance-threat-and-capture


Source: https://youtu.be/wPlaqPl9I0U?si=34aTuP9CGWEaxenK

 

[Ravi]

Can we tell if itis white = hot or white = cold from context?

I note the strong black areas on the background buildings?

I believe white=cold here.

 

[John J.]

At about 17 seconds, a second white dot very briefly appears immediately to the right of the moving dot,
it gave me the impression of a brief puff of smoke or ejecta from the object (but I doubt that it is).

16 seconds:

17 seconds, second "dot" appears:

At several points, the object appears to have a larger (hotter?) upper component and a smaller (cooler?) lower component.
(Equally, it might be e.g. a balloon with unequal heat distribution/ reflectivity I guess).

Duke mentioned drones;

Mexican drug cartels are flying drones across the border

surely a possibility worth considering here.

At about 50 seconds we lose sight of the object as it appears to dip behind a shallow rise in the ground,
it remains hidden for approximately 30 seconds before rising into view again from a point fairly close to the vanishing point.
(That's assuming it's the same object, of course- not one coming in, another going out!)
Maybe a "delivery"?

(Object immediately before we lose line-of-sight)

(Object re-emerges approx. 30 seconds later)

 

[Ann K]

At the 1:26-27 mark, the object appears to rotate 90 degrees, showing a change in length/width dimensions. Given the object is clearly in front of the truck, there is an upper limit of it's size when compared to the wheel/hub behind. (I'm UK based, so we don't get these type of vehicles on the roads, and I'll not attempt to ID the vehicle make/type - but a quick estimated diameter is 4 feet/ a bit over a metre ...)

At 1:24 it's behind the hill slope which is clearly in front of the truck, so i think you'd have to lower that max-diameter value considerably.

 

[sigmops]

My first few watchings of this I assumed that the object was floating along the road and then close to and around the toll booth looking structure and then later the warehouse style building.

However now it appears to me that the object floats in front of the two light poles at 24 and 33 seconds and that puts it much closer to the camera than the buildings in my mind. So perhaps not really interacting with the buildings at all.

Maybe others already saw it this way, just thought I would mention in case it helps others visualize its path since its hard to gauge distances with this camera angle.

Still seems like quite dynamic movements for a balloon. Perhaps the hilly landscape causes lots of varying air currents?

 

[Easy Muffin]

If my geolocation is correct and this is a stationary camera then I'd guess that its most likely location is on top of the surveillance mast that's about 1 km to the west of the warehouse with the parked trucks/trailers. Google Maps doesn't show it but it's on OpenStreetMap - https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/9936950195 - near 31°20'N/110°59'W if you want to look around in Google Earth.

The object would then disappear behind the far edge of the ridge that the mast sits on and descend into the small dale between the loading bays and that ridge, which OSM says is home to a farmyard - https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1091139552

 

[Easy Muffin]

FWIW I had a look around the area in Google Streetview and there's all sorts of small debris, trash items, construction waste etc strewn around. I don't think it's too unlikely that something could get picked up by the wind and be blown around for a bit like in the video.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/b4WbBfvkWxaQoAXS8

US side of the border - looks like an industrial estate complete with recycling centre, lots of stuff lying around like that

https://maps.app.goo.gl/V55kqCCncTnWsnNh7

Over in Mexico - don't know who thought it would be a good idea to dispose of old tyres like that

https://maps.app.goo.gl/iZmRgBseJc75uaEq6 - this is the warehouse, if you follow the road south you'll get close to where the object moves around in the video

 

[psikiwi]

At 1:24 it's behind the hill slope which is clearly in front of the truck, so i think you'd have to lower that max-diameter value considerably.

Sorry, on re-reading I understand your point. I intended to imply that was max. wheel diameter, so the object being in front of the truck must be considerably less, not that the maximum object size was 4 foot.

 

[psikiwi]

My first few watchings of this I assumed that the object was floating along the road and then close to and around the toll booth looking structure and then later the warehouse style building.

However now it appears to me that the object floats in front of the two light poles at 24 and 33 seconds and that puts it much closer to the camera than the buildings in my mind. So perhaps not really interacting with the buildings at all.

Maybe others already saw it this way, just thought I would mention in case it helps others visualize its path since its hard to gauge distances with this camera angle.

Still seems like quite dynamic movements for a balloon. Perhaps the hilly landscape causes lots of varying air currents?

further to my initial observation, and clarification in post above, this observation by sigmops would also help narrow the object dimensions down. I don't have the time (at work) and certainly not the skills to do the analysis of relative pixel counts, or determine the lamp-post diameter in the first place.

 

[Doctor Franger]

Object appears to be having a general sticky-beak at its surroundings, but this motion also resembles (indistinguishable from?) a wind driven object (like a plastic bag? If it has inflated by being caught in a breeze, it will have a wide side aspect and a narrow, as it seems in 0.32 to 0.45).
It travels more or less in direct lines when over open ground, but deviates after going into a defile at 0.51, after moving closer to the types of big obstacles which would create turbulence in a prevailing wind direction. Then it follows the path a prevailing breeze would take around such obstacles. (i.e., when the breeze is blocked to object's left and straight ahead, object at first travels to its right, then up and over)
Looking at the lack of perspective or foreshortening in the large long elements which angle away from the POV, I would put the extreme tele camera's distance at around 1km, or more, but not a lot less (my opinion as a drawer)