UFOs seen by Oil Rig Worker in Gulf of Mexico

[flarkey]

This video is getting some exposure on X.


Source: https://x.com/Jehoseph/status/2120076265780920457?a=J978X_2Yoh4eK0EZGIo&s=19

Date and Time is unknown, but presumably this was recently. The location was given as on an oil rig 100miles offshore from Alabama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_oil_and_gas_in_the_Gulf_of_Mexico_(United_States)

The UFOs look just like Starlink Satellite Flares. Ive taken the location and created a stitch in Sitrec. The flares would either be visible a few hrs after sunset in the west, or a few hours before dawn in the east. I've tried to match the stars in the video with known stars, looking west has a better match but its not conclusive. Can anyone else match them...?

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=15857/Gulf of Mexico Oil rig - Starlink/20261110_133803_a94f35c10ce4f75114ec5beb16d9b67e.js

 

[RobertBillyBob]

I think the original source is this reddit thread :

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/1xsebvg/my_buddy_works_on_an_offshore_rig_and_sent_this/


The OP doesn't give any time or direction and didn't answer questions asking for it.

 

[RobertBillyBob]

I've tried to match the stars in the video with known stars, looking west has a better match but its not conclusive.

"Sent this in the middle of the night" works well for the 3AM eastward flares

 

[JMartJr]

"Sent this in the middle of the night" works well for the 3AM eastward flares

Although... to be SENT in the middle of the night, it would have to have been taken earlier?

 

[jarlrmai]

There will be wifi on the rig so no reason it couldn't be sent just after being taken

 

[JMartJr]

There will be wifi on the rig so no reason it couldn't be sent just after being taken

Maybe, but would AFTER 3 am be described as the middle of the night? There seems to me to be a larger window of "middle of the night" after an evening sighting than a morning one.

Not saying it could not have been the morning show that was videoed, just that I don't think being sent "in the middle of the night" really favors one interpretation over the other.

With the added possibility that the poster could be in a different time zone (I walked through several layers of subreddits trying to see if I could find any mention of where the poster was located, and gave up, perhaps somebody else knows how to find that, or has already found it?) So "middle of the night" may refer to when it was received, in which case it tells us nothing about when it was sent unless we know where the poster was located, time-zone-wise.

 

[jarlrmai]

12-4am is the colloquial 'middle of the night' to me

As happens often we are with no details, with details this one would have recreated by me, Mick or Flarkey as soon as we found out about it, thus potentially nipping it in the bud.

 

[Mick West]

Claude found what looks like a match. The problem is that it's not in the Gulf, but rather in the North Atlantic. Possibly a false positive? The match does seem very good.

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=1/Seph Alabama Gulf Starlink/20261111_170539_fc47ae7e9888156f5ea4df291e775caa.js

 

[NorCal Dave]

Claude found what looks like a match. The problem is that it's not in the Gulf, but rather in the North Atlantic. Possibly a false positive? The match does seem very good.

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=1/Seph Alabama Gulf Starlink/20261111_170539_fc47ae7e9888156f5ea4df291e775caa.js

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Are there oil rigs out there? Or maybe it's a ship?

 

[Matt33]

Looks like a ship to me. You can see some rocking with the horizon going up and down, and those white things look like lifeboat davits (not sure if oil platforms have those too).