The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of one minute and 46 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2013. The reporter did not provide any oral or written description of the observation.
Video Description: This video depicts an area of contrast resembling an eight-pointed star with arms of alternating length.
00:10: The sensor field-of-view narrows to zoom in on the area of contrast.
00:11-00:29: The area of contrast moves within the sensor field-of-view, followed by a visible trail.
The figure looks exactly like a classic "diffraction spike" effect seen in telescopes, as a result of the internal framework of the optical system. (Cameras are essentially telescopes.) This has been known in astronomy for a century or so. Good account at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike. What looks to be a smoke trail could also be an artifact of pixels that had been oversaturated by the center of the image; as the image moves in the field of view, the pixels eventually restore their normal state (fading).
Those 'arms' look like jet exhaust. This is probably our own tech. Observed and reported by our own military, by people that don't have clearance at that level, so report it unidentified.
Yep, classic design. Think of a soccer ball with exhaust ports spread out around the circumference. Slow to move, imprecise reactions. Depending on its size you're probably looking at a test drone using a combustible energy source instead of stored energy.
It's gotta heat signature of some kind.
https://x.com/DOWResponse/status/2052774267515798014?s=20
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of one minute and 46 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2013. The reporter did not provide any oral or written description of the observation.
Video Description: This video depicts an area of contrast resembling an eight-pointed star with arms of alternating length.
00:10: The sensor field-of-view narrows to zoom in on the area of contrast.
00:11-00:29: The area of contrast moves within the sensor field-of-view, followed by a visible trail.
https://www.war.gov/UFO/#DOW-UAP-PR38-Unresolved-UAP-Report-Middle-East-2013
The figure looks exactly like a classic "diffraction spike" effect seen in telescopes, as a result of the internal framework of the optical system. (Cameras are essentially telescopes.) This has been known in astronomy for a century or so. Good account at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike. What looks to be a smoke trail could also be an artifact of pixels that had been oversaturated by the center of the image; as the image moves in the field of view, the pixels eventually restore their normal state (fading).
Those 'arms' look like jet exhaust. This is probably our own tech. Observed and reported by our own military, by people that don't have clearance at that level, so report it unidentified.
Yep, classic design. Think of a soccer ball with exhaust ports spread out around the circumference. Slow to move, imprecise reactions. Depending on its size you're probably looking at a test drone using a combustible energy source instead of stored energy.
looks like the early version of pong being played on a vacuum tube television set.
It's a T-Model, have they upgraded since then?
C'mon man...
WE CAN SEE THE STRING!!!
u/#popcornjones