Pentagon's former UFO investigator offers simple theory for mysterious jellyfish-shaped object on video
NEW PENTAGON UFO FILES DETAIL FBI AGENTS' SIGHTING OF SILENT TRIANGULAR OBJECT WITH NO VISIBLE ENGINES Sara Jane Osborn recorded the unusual sighting and posted the video to Facebook the following day.
Key points
- NEW TRUMP UFO FILE DUMP INCLUDES MILITARY FOOTAGE OF MYSTERIOUS STAR-SHAPED OBJECT Sean Kirkpatrick, who led the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which investigates unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, cautioned against relying on social media footage to assess unexplained sightings.
- military base in Anchorage, Alaska, has sparked online speculation, but the Pentagon's former top UFO investigator says there may be a much simpler explanation.
- A bizarre, jellyfish-shaped object filmed moving through the sky near a major U.S.
"First, as I've said many times, social media is not a good source of data for anything, let alone UAP sightings." NASA CHIEF CONFIRMS AGENCY HAS UNEXPLAINED UFO IMAGERY: 'WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS' "The video, if authentic and not generated, is compressed and cannot be used for data analysis.
Additional details
- Video recorded June 15 shows a dark object appearing to hover along a mountainside near a rainbow, with several long strands dangling beneath it.
- "We are aware of a video circulating on social media regarding a reported aerial sighting near Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson from June 15, 2026, but have no additional information to provide at this time," the base's 673d Air Base Wing Public Affairs office said in a statement.
- LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST The base did not say whether the object was detected by military personnel or equipment, whether it entered military or restricted airspace or whether any known activity could account for what appears in the footage.
- "If it was a real video and not generated, I would add kite with streamers to the hypothesis category and then do some local research on whether there was any sort of celebration or party, what the wind patterns were, and whether or not there's any corroborating video from another angle," Kirkpatrick said.
- GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL Kirkpatrick said determining what was actually in the sky would require more information than the video alone can provide.
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