Ukrainian drone footage of 6 pointed star

[Harabeck]

This video appeared on Telegram posted by user serhii_flash.


This reddit thread claims serhii_flash is Ukrainian Defense Ministry advisor Serhii Beskrestnov.

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

 

[Mick West]

This just seems like social media clickbait. Unless there's evidence otherwise, I generally ignore things like this as a waste of time.

 

[MonkeeSage]

Machine translations of the two posts.

t.me/serhii_flash/7397

t.me/serhii_flash/7398

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).

 

[Mick West]

More on "Flash" (from two years ago),

https://www.technologyreview.com/20...-flash-radio-serhii-beskrestnov-social-media/

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.

 

[Roosevelt]

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.

 

[flarkey]

A stabilised version of the video has been posted on Reddit. Looks like some kind of IR decoy, or maybe an alien spaceship.


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1tamy5k/ukrainian_telegram_flash_video_stabilized/

 

[jarlrmai]

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

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

 

[brasco]

Long shot, but could this be a trailing fibre optic cable on the drone being overloaded somehow? Here's an overloaded fibre with a laser in Ukraine:


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2-p2srIRLI


Maybe some damage along the line, and it leaks or gets overloaded by the Sun or even the transmission source?

 

[Chief Gleeby]

This just seems like social media clickbait. Unless there's evidence otherwise, I generally ignore things like this as a waste of time.

What immediately stands out to you with videos like this? Trying to arm myself!

 

[JMartJr]

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

 

[Mick West]

What immediately stands out to you with videos like this? Trying to arm myself!

- Unusually low video quality
- Wild and continuous camera movements
- Two different types of static
- Random meaningless numbers
- Lack of interest in the UFO.

 

[flarkey]

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...

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/ukrainian-armed-forces-to-receive-american-scaneagle-drones/

 

[JMartJr]

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.

It seems awfully symmetrical for that -- compare to:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scie...hralling-photos-of-exploding-bullets-3534366/

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/

 

[flarkey]

The second one is very symmetrical.

 

[flarkey]

Also, does this frame towards the end of the video show a reflection in the (possible?) gimbal dome of the drone's tail boom structure?

 

[JMartJr]

The second one is very symmetrical.

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!

 

[jarlrmai]

Symmetric and maintains sensor orientation.

 

[flarkey]

Symmetric and maintains sensor orientation.

There is some change in perspective & outline of the 'thing' (?) as the camera moves around.

 

[Todd Feinman]

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:

 

[Todd Feinman]

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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And here it is:

 

[JMartJr]

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

 

[Todd Feinman]

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.

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.

 

[Ann K]

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.

Did you just make that up yourself, or is that from the apocryphal "men traveling the Outback"?