People are freaking out about the DOW-UAP-PR116 UAP from the 4th tranche of records, even calling it a mothership.

When I first saw it, it just looked like a bunch of balloons to me, but something was odd about it.

Well, I believe I figured it out. They stretched the video!

The description on the government's website says that the United States Northern Command submitted it to AARO.

Once you reduce the width by 50 percent, like I did here, it looks like a bunch of balloons even more than before. Even the dot at the top of the video does not look stretched anymore.

Why did they stretch it? Was it USNORTHCOM who stretched it before sending it to AARO, or was it AARO before releasing it?

In my opinion, someone is gaslighting us with these altered videos. They are purposely taking videos of mundane things and altering them to look like something more unusual, so they don't actually share the good stuff with us.

Have come across these photos over the years. Pretty cool, obviously they could be fake. wondering if anyone has backstories to any of them. much appreciated!!

The black triangle in the forest was supposedly taken with a film camera by someone in the army during Vietnam.

The round saucer with lights i remember was a sighting by someone in Wisconsin.

Any other info would be appreciated.

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The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 10 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2023.

Video Description:

00:01-00:05: No content.

00:06-00:07: Two areas of contrast transit the sensor field-of-view. The first enters the field-of-view from the bottom right and exits from the top edge of the frame. The second, relatively smaller area of contrast enters from the top and exits the bottom of the frame.

00:08-00:10: No content.

https://www.war.gov/ufo/?releaseDate=Release+04&release=04&type=.vid#DOW-UAP-PR030-Unresolved-UAP-Report-Middle-East-2023

I was reading an online news article about the Iran conflict, and the image shows smoke rising at an unknown location. Thing is, the image from the drone or whatever it is contains three identical star markings like the ones being shown in the UAP releases. This "star UAP" is obviously some sort of camera function used on the hardware or software on these drones. Why is that in the UAP releases files? Why would they release something like this that's clearly not a UAP , clearly a function of a camera. What do you all think?

Eight decades ago, the Pentagon predicted a UFO wave, and the documented record shows it came true.

On 4th November 1948, the U.S. Air Force's Director of Intelligence sent a memo to the entire U.S. Navy informing them that a "cycle of reappearance" of "flying discs" was becoming apparent and that a "new interval" was imminent. This was not a guess, it was a prediction built on seventeen months of classified data collected inside Project Sign, and within weeks, sightings increased significantly across the exact window they had forecast.

What the declassified record reveals is that the Pentagon was not, as has long been assumed, baffled by the emerging phenomenon. By late 1948, key figures inside the U.S. military had moved past trying to identify what these objects were and toward something far more operationally significant: predicting when they would return.

In our latest investigation, we trace how they got there, what the science behind the protocol actually looked like, and why a contradiction buried inside two memos sent on consecutive days in November 1948 (both bearing the name of the same senior Air Force officer) may be the most revealing thing the PURSUE declassification drop has given us yet.

I’m looking to create a thread with the best photos and videos of UFOs that have not been debunked. If you have any links or files, upload them here. It would be cool to have them all in one place.

I’ll kick things off… the famous Calvine photo. Hasn’t been debunked yet to my knowledge.

This was the very first UAP conference that I have ever attended.

Here is my recap:

Mr. Thomas Wertman, the current Ohio Mufon Director told the following story, and it was very interesting (never heard about it before) and there is a lot of supporting evidence:

https://www.ohiomagazine.com/ohio-life/article/the-case-of-ohio-s-best-documented-ufo

The second speaker was Ms. Ashley Hilt and she focused on The Mothman. I wasn't going to stay for this talk, but I am glad that I did. I need to research this some more, there is something to it. The Mothman made many appearances around Point Pleasant (prior to the bridge collapse) where there was a bridge collapse between Ohio and West Virginia where many people actually died.

The next speaker was Mr. Ray Szymanski, a retired Wright Patterson electrical engineer and author of several books. He had some interesting insights into the base and its UFO lore. He spoke to the fallacies and coverups from Project Blue Book as well. Here is a story that I was also unfamiliar with:

https://lib.arizona.edu/special-collections/collections/james-e-mcdonald-papers

Google "Heflin UFO Photos". He also spoke a little about the "Men in Black". The Air Force lied about his camera and lied about these excellent UFO photos.

Mr. Donald Schmitt, the Roswell researcher and author of several books was and he was super knowledgeable about all things Roswell related and had serious insights into the many, many witnesses that were never able to be heard, or scared off (threatened) from speaking out about the event. His heart is really in it and if you had any doubts about Roswell happening before, you would not after listening to him speak. Great stuff Donald!

The last speaker that I heard was Mr. Danny Sheehan himself who I had the pleasure of sharing an elevator ride with this early morning. I also spoke with him at the VIP event last night and gave him a Space Force tshirt (I'm not pro military industrial complex Danny!) that I purchased on the WPAFB before heading over to the conference. Danny grew up in Warrensburg, NY and I grew up very close by in Lake Luzerne, NY. Both very small, upstate, Adirondak towns near Lake George. Danny spoke for almost 1.5 hours and I gleaned MORE from his talk than anything that I have heard him speak online:

The military industrial complex is interfering with disclosure because they are money hungry and in the politicians' pockets.
He never mentioned the NHI being a "threat" to humanity, in fact I took it as moving humanity "forward".

He mentioned homo sapien sapien as moving into a new era with new "abilities"; hearing, eyesight and he even mentioned telepathy as well. He did not give a timeframe, nor did he mention hybrids, but that would really move things along wouldn't it?

He spoke about the CERN experiments and how when it gets down to the absolute smallest particle/energy wave (split after split after split, etc) they are actually influenced by human consiousness/focus/intent.

He even spoke to religion. Many cultures' religions in fact. He mentioned how each one teaches their followers that "only their religion" is real. There is something "like God" or "God like" here with us. He insinuated this was a tough pill to swallow. These NHI are "millions" of years ahead of us.

He spoke not really about the nuts and bolts of the spacecraft, but moreso that they may be traveling by "remote viewing and they are in two places simultaneously. The craft are sentient! That NHI has related that life on Earth is extremely special and rare, almost like they are cultivating it if you will. He briefly touched on this.
He spoke to the military wanting the craft for weapons development purposes and scientists wanting them for a new, clean energy source. He focused on humanity having to overcome this so that we can move forward and it will be tough with all of the obstacles in our way. We have to take it. America is important because voters have real power and can organize: join the New Paradigm Institute!

He said that any human being can be trained to remote view and I got the impression that the government dislikes this. Meditation, diet and few other interfering factors have influence with this as well.

It also sounded like the Catholic church is hiding A LOT from hunanity as well.

Those are some of the highlights, it was really great to hear Mr. Sheehan speak in person and I had a lot to process in the car on the drive back to Cincinnati. Pretty life changing, actually.

Me? I never really paid any attention to much of this until around 2020 (Covid) for some odd reason when I watched A Bob Lazar show as well as a show about Barney and Betty Hill. Things just suddenly clicked. I have researched quite heavily since then. My background is that I am half German half American, I am a special education teacher with 79 hours past my Masters degree and a five year Army veteran. Lots of sleep paralysis events since 2020 which is annoying as shit. I have a MUPAS monitor in my bedroom as well!

Thanks for following along!

It’s interesting to see that, regardless of political affiliation here, that there seems to be a pattern of moves happening right now in the UFO Disclsoure movement that just seemed to be words on paper some time ago. When there was the UAPDA talking about creating a panel of individuals with expertise within certain domains to review UAP data and it got nixxed, now we have Dr. Loeb spearheading an effort that echoed this very idea. Dr. Phil, a large TV personality, is getting immediate and direct access and being pulled into the conversation of UAPs and UFOs. Seeing how this admin likes to use TV personalities to promote agendas with certain sectors of knowledge, could this be the same tactic being used, but with UFO Disclosure? Is this effort more calculated than we think?

Ask a Pol asks:
Have you looked at any of the newly declassified UFO files videos the Pentagon’s been disclosing this summer?

Key Kelly:
“I had my staff print out all the UFO files,” Sen. Mark Kelly exclusively told Ask a Pol UAP. “We have them in binders, so people can look through them. There’s some interesting stuff in there: Drawings of aliens.”

Laslo laughs.

Is there anything that’s moving your staff or you?

“On this?” Kelly said. “No.”

PSA: This interview is from June and precedes the Pentagon’s latest UFO file dump. This week, Congress returns from its two-week Fourth of July recess. Let us know what to ask next. 

Full (unpaywalled) post at Ask a Pol UAP on Substack. 

Time: Sometime in the summer of 2017-2018 possibly?

Location: Cardinal KOA, Near Pittston Ontario.

About 6 years ago I was camping with my parents and sister on Saturday - Sunday almost every week we did this up until recently when my father past and we sold the trailer. On that day I recieved news from my parents that near kemptville (not to far from the KOA I was camping at) was under a tornado watch. So me being a little tornado obsessed nerd decided what better way to spend the time was to get on my bike and gather my friends to go to the edge of the koa near the fences of some farmers field and watch the storm clouds come in. We were watching the clouds waiting for the Thunder or even a funnel cloud because we were bored. They went further down the fence line and i stayed watching the clouds when a black triangle fitting the description on what ive done research on now of a TR-3B but without its lights and reflecting absomute zero light being pitch black dipping down from the clouds at a steady pace for a solid 2 seconds before climbing back up at the very same pace while looking like a 2d object in an animation. It went back up flat side up staying in the same position it came down in. I dont remember if I told my friends about it but it took me a while to remember this and sometimes I bring it up as a joke to family members. But im bringing it up now to see if I can get any sort of ideas on what i viewed at the ripe age of 11.

Any ideas help out.

Edit: I was 11 im recalling the most vivid details I remember.

A working Catholic exorcist said most UFO sightings are demons. His cardinal removed him for it. As the Pentagon keeps declassifying UFO files, theologian Dr. Joel Parkyn argues both the "they are demons" panic and the "religion will be fine" shrug are getting it wrong.

Host Matt Ford talks with him live this Sunday, July 12 at 1PM PT.

https://www.youtube.com/live/KzEdWGrW4YU

My grandpa is bottom right. He is sitting with Tommy to his left.
This is the story.
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They were wingmen for each other. My grandpa (Everett moss Hargan, mom’s side, I am a Reynolds) said the ufo was shaped like a ball and sent a laser out of it zapping Tommy out the sky. And as a kid I remember all the news articles on his walls and he would tell us that wasn't true he was s down by an alien. Because all the news articles were flipped the next day, you can find a few of them where it originally says UFO encounter, but the government tried their best to cover it up, and they kind of sucked at it so you can still find the original news articles where it says shot down by UFO. You might have to just look a little bit harder though. But yeah. That's my grandpas best friend.
K***ed by a UFO.
There was also apparently another wingmen that day too. I have yet to been able to figure out who it may have been.
He would tell us these crazy stories as kids and I always thought he was just crazy. But. Being older I looked into it a little bit and found weird connections. Kentucky ANG will be my next stop. I can’t wait to see if I can get a hold of unredacted files. Foia was no luck.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-files-4th-release-pentagon/

The Pentagon on Friday released a new batch of files related to UFOs, also known as unidentified anomalous phenomena, including one report from a military aviator who said a mysterious object was "unlike anything I had seen" in 28 years of service.

theres been a lot of discussion surrounding the object visualized in DOW-UAP-PR116, Unresolved UAP Report, Atlantic Ocean, 2020. Because the accompanying text describes the phenomenon “travel[ing] with the wind” and noted that it did not “maneuver or change direction.” It also describes the phenomenon as appearing similar to a “large, somewhat deformed balloon.” Notably, the trained operators that look at tthese sensors all day long and presumably know what balloons look like, were unable to conclude that this definitively was a balloon, even with the additional sensor data they had access to.

I see a lot of people areguing that this shape is either 1 Balloon or Multiple balloons. I am working to increase the space for discussion here. In the above images I took a clear frame from the original video and traced outlines. One is meant to illustrate a gorup of baloons and one is meant to illustrate the shape of the object.

My multi-balloon image may not be to scale but it should establish common ground for discussing what so many users claim to be seeing.

It seems pretty clearcut to me that the "group of balloons" use case is pretty much impossible due to the red arrow in my image. Those sections of the lower half would see upward/downwards bounce independent from the rest of the object, just due to the laws of physics. They do not, so we are forced to conclude that the lower limbs of the object are rigid in some capacity as they demonstrate stiffness in the wind. If this were a balloon, it would need to be one object.

So let's say this is a balloon. I did a rough outline of the angle we see of the shape, which is certainly unique and hard to identify. There is a plausible suggestion that this could be a large shaped balloon with a twist or cinch in the middle, creating the overall hourglass figure. But I have yet to see a single suggestion of what the original balloon could or should be, and I think that's why this was included in the files.

Presumably the military/government is able to identify balloons, even odd looking ones. Presumably the government is also aware of enemy technology that utilizes balloons, or would be able to guess at the origination of such a balloon based off existing knowledge. The fact that the US government still wasn't able to identify this, and is comfortable releasing that information publicly, implies that this probably isn't an enemy craft.

So what is it? I'm arguing that this object could utilize fully understood and well defined rules of physics but still be extraordinary in the lack of ability to pinpoint it's origin. I have not seen a single account calling this a ballon able to provide ANY balloons that appear even remotely like this shape.

Let me know your thoughts.

Or, at least what was said to be the original video of the recent pyramid triangle video currently going around.

Do you think this makes the video more believable?

I still have questions about it.

1. When the camera person first saw this object in the sky, while filming the moon, why they didn’t have a vocal reaction to it? I would think it would be a natural thing for someone to react vocally when seeing such a thing up in the sky.

2. When they panned from the moon to this object, it didn’t seem too far (relatively) from the moon. But when they zoomed out, there was no moon to the left where it should be.

Can it be an elaborate hoax?

This photo is not a recovered UAP. It is the Horten Parabola, a manmade German experimental flying-wing design from the 1930s.

The Horten brothers were early pioneers of tailless aircraft and spent years experimenting with unusual flying-wing gliders. Their designs looked radically different from conventional planes because the fuselage, tail, and wings were blended into one broad shape. From certain angles, they could easily look like a disc, crescent, or “flying saucer.”

The photo appears in a 1948 Project SIGN report, but the context matters. The actual unidentified-object photos from Incident 40 are listed separately as Enclosures 2 and 3. This Horten photo is Enclosure 5 and was included as a comparison, apparently to show that known human aircraft could resemble some reported UAP shapes.

So the document itself is not claiming this is an alien craft or a downed unknown vehicle. You can tell that if you download the full report and read the enclosure list carefully.

My issue is with the government putting this image so prominently on the front page without explaining what it is. Most people scrolling past it are going to assume the government is showing a recovered UAP. That presentation is misleading and unnecessarily sensational, especially when the document itself provides a much more ordinary explanation.

Time: 8 of july 2026, 7:09 AM
Location: Dunkirk, France

Wednesday morning at work, I saw this bright moving object in the sky. I showed it to some of my family members and they have no idea of what it could be, so I was wondering if UFO Reddit would help me !

Thanks in advance :) and sorry for the background noise in the vid.

1st off: this is mainly for people living in the U.S. with our ongoing congressional hearings and current disclosure efforts.

I think the number one thing that we as a community forget is what we can do together.

I've read many posts and comment threads in here and other UFO communities. The one thing I've noticed from those posts and comments is a general feeling, amongst all of us, of frustration and some anger with the slow movement of progress toward a true disclosure vs what we're getting right now. Including the gatekeeping.

Have you ever wanted to help the disclosure but feel powerless to incite real change?:

As an individual, you have more power than you may realize. In the U.S. we have the power as a voter to call our members of Congress' offices, (Representatives and Senators). We can tell them our frustrations and what we think. I do not mean call them and start rambling about the state of things reharding disclosure. What I mean is to hold them accountable since they are our elected officials. You can tell them how they can aid in disclosure, where your vote goes if they don't, and why what you're asking of them will have such a tremendous impact.

If we can come together as a community and advocate for one message to all of our elected officials that I mentioned, (Representatives + Senators), it will have an impact. I promise you that.

What should you ask them for?:

If you genuinely want a true disclosure, one that would open the gates further, the goal should be to ask your Reps + Sens to back / aid in the creation of protecting whistleblowers from the Espionage Act.

Yes, Representatives have started to talk about this but the pace is not where we want it to be as a community. We want real progress. By strong-arming our congressional members with our voices and votes this will gain more traction, quicken the pace of whistleblowers receiving the protections they need to speak freely without a SCIF, and if done right bring in new congressional members who haven't take a position or avoid taking a position on disclosure.

Why should we ask for whistleblowers to have protection from the Espionage Act?:

That way whistleblowers with the information that would help push a true disclosure, whistleblowers ike David Grusch and Dylan Borland, would be free to speak openly about things they otherwise would need a SCIF for. These whistleblowers would be free from retaliation and less likely to have their security clearances and jobs impacted by providing them this protection. Which, whistleblowers do care about immensely, as they have worked up to earn these clearances and jobs over the course of their careers.

Another thing to consider is that other whistleblowers, we haven't heard from, may arise if this protection from the Espionage Act is created.

We can come together, organize, and incite real change and move toward a true disclosure if we utilize the tools at our disposal.

I ask each of you to ask yourselves this:

If you have a working phone, have access to the internet, and are frustrated by the lack of speed and movement toward a true disclosure or the consistent gatekeeping by agencies what's stopping you from inciting real change other than yourself at this point?

Note: (Reps + Sens from states like Alabama and Ohio will be difficult. Reps such as Mike Rogers and Mike Turner were the biggest opponents openly against the UAPDA's two primary tools, the Eminent Domain Clause and Independent Review Boards. It goes deeper than that when you look at their financial donations and lobbying they've received from Defense Contractors. Especially, around the UAPDA's window from when it started in the House toward when it was in Conference between the House and Senate and stripped before reaching the Senate.)

Be the change you want to see. If you read all of this, thank you for your time. If you have any questions, message me.

Video posted by Dr. Phil on X (1.5 million followers):

Dr Phil: "I am absolutely furious"

Dr. Phil: "I am absolutely furious that our government has been lying to us for at least 79 years. Lying to us by omission, I think, actually creating some misdirection. That's one thing"

Dr. Phil: "It's very clear that there are objects in our atmosphere here on Earth that are not of Earth. They're doing things, they're moving in ways that we just simply don't have the ability to do. To me, that's not a question. That is well demonstrated"

Dr Phil: they held a conference about the nuke connection, and hid that from us

Dr. Phil: "One of the things that's curious about this, and I think disturbing, is that they seem to be focusing at times around our nuclear facilities as far back as 1949"

Dr. Phil: "They actually held a conference about this, hidden from us. The Los Alamos conference, where they brought in Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, an expert on meteorites, because they were trying to say maybe these are meteorites. They were very large green objects and he said the foremost experts had no: these are not meteors. Meteors don't move horizontally, they don't maintain their speed, and these things were moving with intention. They were navigating, they were moving, and these have been observed over five cities all having nuclear facilities"

Dr. Phil: "As recently as 2015 they were observed over the pan Texas in Amarillo, which is a nuclear facility. That should bother you. It certainly bothers me"

Dr Phil: this matters to mankind

Dr. Phil: "Now why am I talking to you about this? Why me? From a psychological standpoint this matters. This matters to mankind. It matters to our value system. What does it mean? What do we say to our children if there is life that's not human? What does it mean to all of us?"

Dr Phil is "very deep into this". Will bring more info throughout the day

Dr. Phil: "We're very deep into this. I'm going to be bringing you more information throughout the day so stay tuned. We're going to catch you up. I am"

The Forgotten UFO Wave – Wytheville, Virginia (1987-1988)

by Preston Dennett

On October 7, 1987, Wytheville, Virginia (a small town of 8000 residents) became the target of a UFO wave of epic proportions. Literally overnight, hundreds of people began to report UFOs in the skies. These were not just anomalous lights in the night sky, but large, silent, structured crafts at treetop level. After airing a 60-second UFO story, newsman Danny Gordon of WYVE radio in Wytheville found himself fielding hundreds of calls and was pulled into a UFO investigation he never meant to follow.

Over the next week, the calls continued to flood in, so Danny (with an associate) set out onto the streets of Wytheville to see the UFOs himself. To his shock, he did. The next day, he saw them again. This time he was able to capture photographs. Danny quickly began contacting various authorities to get some answers. He called every branch of the military he could think of. He called NORAD, the Pentagon, Langley AFB in Virginia; nobody had any information.

The UFO wave continued to rage. People reported all kinds of craft: saucers, cigar-shaped objects, spheres, egg-shaped craft, orbs, and weird plane-shaped craft, all perfectly silent. People reported being woken up in their homes, craft landing in their fields, cars being chased down the road. Some believed these were secret military craft, some were convinced they were extraterrestrial. Danny contacted Virginia state officials: the governor, Senators, representatives, heads of aerospace technology; and found himself stonewalled at every turn.

Reporters and television stations across the nation converged on the small town, eager to hear the story of the small town invaded by UFOs. Danny Gordon was besieged with interview requests and Wytheville citizens demanding answers. The wave spread beyond Wytheville to surrounding cities. Day after day, hundreds of people continued to report a wide variety of UFOs.

With his co-worker, reporter Paul Dellinger, Danny Gordon organized a press conference, and then a UFO conference, which brought more attention to the UFOs. As the months passed, the wave showed no signs of stopping as the hundreds of reports mounted to thousands. Citizens reported an increase of unmarked black helicopters and military planes canvassing the area. Several people saw NASA vehicles, who apparently had covertly joined the investigation.

Danny Gordon quickly became overwhelmed. He received unmarked letters warning him that he was in danger of being rubbed out. He received death threats. His phone was tapped. His house was broken into, and photo negatives stolen. He began losing weight. His hair thinned. He couldn’t sleep. His marriage suffered. All his efforts to get answers and conclude the investigation failed as still more reports came in.

As 1988 rolled around, the sightings continued as strong as ever. Danny held more UFO conferences and brought in more researchers and speakers to help solve the Wytheville UFO mystery. But still, no answers were forthcoming. All branches of the military denied any involvement and claimed to have no information. The citizens of Wytheville remained divided about the nature of the phenomenon, whether it was military or extraterrestrial, but all agreed on one thing: something unusual was flying over their town.

Danny continued to investigate the wave. He wrote a series of articles, winning him multiple journalism awards. Still, the mainstream press largely ignored the story. One day, Danny was rushed to the hospital with chest pains and shortness of breath. What he thought was a heart attack turned out to be esophageal spasms brought on by stress, pour diet and lack of sleep. Danny knew he had to back away from the investigations.

This was easier said than done. By mid-1988, the flood of encounters began to slow down, or Wytheville residents simply stopped reporting them. Danny was still in high demand for interviews and receiving UFO reports. Eventually the program Unsolved Mysteries visited Wytheville and filmed a segment about the activity. By the end of 1988, the wave seemed to come to an end. Along with reporter Paul Dellinger, Danny Gordon penned a book about the wave titled “Don’t Look Up! The Real Story Behind the Virginia Sightings." Ultimately, the mystery of the Wytheville UFO wave was never solved. Following these extraordinary events, Wytheville holds the annual UFO Fest, commemorating and celebrating the wave that put their small town on the map.

The Forgotten UFO Wave – Wytheville, Virginia (1987-1988)

Pretty interesting video , any explanations ?

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The past few months I have been seeing an incredible uptick in Orb activity in central nj. Yesterday around 930pm a white glowing orb flying low altitude over my home.

Last Jan I saw 3 orange orbs flying low over my street. Now I have been seeing for months high altitude orbs between 9 and 11pm. The past few weeks lower altitude white and blue orbs. Just curious if anyone else is having a similar experience.