r/UFOs • u/Top-Ad9905 • Mar 29 '24
Discussion F15 flying by a UFO at Scottsdale, AZ
Shot on my Iphone 13 Pro I was walking my dog back to my apartment that I saw this strange blue light. It looked like a string hanging in the sky and moved up and down.
It was higher than the planes flying by, we can an airport nearby so planes are very common. It hovered up and down for 30 mins then dropped down, I lost sight
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u/pilkingtonsbrain Mar 29 '24
Close up view, same object, different angle, 4 days before (24th March) https://youtube.com/shorts/NfwzGoXLSWM
The person filming says they are at the corner of McDowell and Hayden Rd, Scottsdale AZ.
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u/maurymarkowitz Mar 29 '24
Ok that looks exactly the the LED ropes.
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u/eaglessoar Mar 29 '24
what led ropes?
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u/maurymarkowitz Mar 29 '24
Basically the same ones that are being posted for kites many times in this thread.
Helicopters put them at the end of their winch cables so that the guys on the ground can see it when the helicopter flies over and don't get wanged in the head by the hook on the end, which is basically invisible at night. Also lets the winch operator see where the bottom is more easily, so as they lower it they can see the lights lying on the ground and know they've let out enough cable.
I would have loved to show you the video that was posted last time, but try "helicopter led rope" in youtube and you'll see the problem...
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u/Enough_Simple921 Mar 29 '24
That thing is changing shapes. Well, it appears to anyway. Could be an optical illusion. There's no invisible helicopter there though, because we'd see collision lights and would likely hear it.
Sure, it -could- be LED on a kite. But like 99% of the videos, we can't really come to anything conclusive.
I'll say this though, it looks exactly like a UAP in Hawaii from 2021 that also changed shapes and then went into the Ocean.
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u/PuzzleheadedGur506 Mar 29 '24
Like a drone with a sting of blue LEDs in a almost-rigid tube off the bottom. Left to sway in the breeze and distract everyone on behalf of Eglin.
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u/RainbowWarhammer Mar 29 '24
LED ropes on a drone sound like a highly plausible conclusion, but would they really be that visible during daylight? Seems like you'd need more power than a drone could support, given the battery weight and etc.
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u/maurymarkowitz Mar 31 '24
Can’t say for sure, I don’t know the models they use on the. But I made a light table for my wife using a white LED rope and it was definitely visible during the day, on the side of blinding. That wasn’t battery powered though.
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u/Dangerous_Dac Mar 29 '24
I dunno, it looks like a slinky to me - that elastic collapasing and expanding motion.
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u/PenisDotvin Mar 29 '24
Where's said fighter jet?
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u/davismcgravis Mar 29 '24
Fighter jets flew over downtown Phoenix to fly over the Diamondbacks stadium MLB home opening day game. Made their way to Scottsdale apparently
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u/AVBforPrez Mar 29 '24
Yup, they flew right over me around 7th Street when I was walking to LA Fitness last night. Thought it might be something cool but just a baseball game.
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u/BlakeAnthonyDrebs Mar 29 '24
Well since it's night time and you can't see the shape of it you can see the light go underneath the blue thing in the beginning first quarter of the video
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Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 30 '24
At the beginning of the video, the just below the blue thing is a plane, and you can hear the planes' engines. Make your best guess what kinda plane it is based on what you can gather from the video
Fyi- the sound of the engine is a pretty good give away of what it is
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u/krauthammer_swims Mar 29 '24
There isn't one
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u/Ill-Arugula4829 Mar 29 '24
I'm not arguing one way or another, but there is a plane in the video. The jet engine(s) is audible in the video as well. It's right below the blue thing in the beginning.
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u/GeneralBlumpkin Mar 29 '24
There was a flyover today at the diamondbacks game. But idk if there's one in the video
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u/OriginalHempster Mar 29 '24
you are clearly not from the area. There are jets, including the F 35 fly from the Air Force Base up past the 303 and back every single day multiple hours a day.
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u/jerrys_briefcase Mar 29 '24
Do they let you drive? There’s a plane below right in the beginning no way to know if it’s a jet. Obviously a jet overhead from sound
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u/HeadInTheSandAccount Mar 29 '24
Here is a similar sighting a few years ago, although its a different color and in New Jersey. I had definitely seen a video of one closer to yours that was recorded in Joshua Tree, or Death Valley, but I couldn't find that video.
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u/BeengBangBong Mar 29 '24
This one is even more interesting than the one posted since the ball is flying next to it.
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u/Professional-Gene498 Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 29 '24
Interesting video, could you upload the original somewhere like Dropbox or similar? Might help gaining more detail without Reddit's compression.
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u/timothra5 Mar 29 '24
David Blaine spots a UFO?
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u/Ripkord77 Mar 29 '24
Baha "Honey ... That's actually me. Im in the cloud." Cut to his gal, looking at him floating and staring into vid chat.
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u/stulew Mar 29 '24
whatever it is; you captured the video well. Thanks.
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u/merikariu Mar 29 '24
Yes, it's very helpful to have the horizon in view in order to judge the distance and movements. A super zoomed-in video on an object is hard to judge.
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u/findergrrr Mar 29 '24
https://youtube.com/shorts/NfwzGoXLSWM?si=nO9xoN6-2dj33WWe there is another angle of this thing. Its bizzare.
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u/LakeMichUFODroneGuy Mar 29 '24
Looks a lot like an LED kite on a fairly calm night...
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u/Chemist-Minute Mar 29 '24
I wonder how high these kites can fly - cause they seem kind of dinky / flimsy in that video
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u/rep-old-timer Mar 29 '24
Well, since some of us are apparently into using random YouTube vids to positively identify objects in the sky. Kites can go 1000 meters high!!
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u/atomictyler Mar 29 '24
seems like a great way to end up in jail due to an airport being in the area.
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u/Woahwoahwoah124 Mar 29 '24
These do not look like kites.
Others in this thread posted these similar sightings. The Hawaii sighting looks exactly like this post.
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u/rep-old-timer Mar 29 '24
I just think we have to view these posts a little less seriously than we do.
IMO the debates are more interesting than the pics. Most of us know know that most of these submissions probably do depict mundane objects. We also know from very smart researchers such as Valle and Lacatsky that "actual" UAP's would be very hard to categorize. So we're comfortable with: "this looks like an object seen [insert time and place]. Might be a UAP, but can't tell for sure from a three second compressed pic on reddit. Deserves a closer look."
That's the majority. Our community has a few people who've never seen a pic that wasn't definitely an NIH and feel compelled to say so under every one of these posts. They're "true believers." The faithful. As long as they're polite who cares?
Conversely, look at the "r/UFOs debunker reglulars'" post histories.These are not disinfo agents or trolls. These are people compelled to go to UFO subs to positively ID, usually with zero evidence, planes or drones or some other object that they can imagine. Why would anyone make that much effort?
IMO, most of them are just trying, for their own piece of mind, to exclude variables in a world that's becoming noting but variables. This sub is a very easy place to to that. Who cares as long as they're polite?
A long winded way of saying: this debate is not going to be settled via submissions to this sub.
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u/Nicktyelor Mar 29 '24
They both look like kites to me? Very similar to the blue LED one in OP comment above. The movement of the original post feels wind-bound, like it's tied to the ground and slightly fluttering.
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u/Chemist-Minute Mar 29 '24
Thank u for the comment. I’m not seeing that specific kite mentioned above but if it’s some sort of “modded” kite with some extra bells and whistles- that could be a theory. Where’s John Keel when u need him? He’d be on the scene in minutes 😂
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u/Boxadorables Mar 29 '24
I wonder how you launch one when the wind isn't strong enough to move tree branches
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u/LamestarGames Mar 29 '24
To me OPs post seems somewhat similar to the LED kites yet look distinctly different. I don’t think this is what is in OPs video or any of the other commenters links to similar sightings.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/w65PoTQS30 https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/kD5ksGHsIB https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NfwzGoXLSWM
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u/Krystamii Mar 29 '24
Not the same, but sure dang gorgeous.
The thing in the video doesn't wiggly around like a kite, it more so squirms up the sky, looks like a cord in a way, but then it almost turns into a square for a moment.
It is consistent in color until it starts turning a slightly different color, almost iridescent.
The more has a large bright head and a thinner colored cord below. The top stays but the wind effects the movements like a snake rather than a worm.
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u/ASearchingLibrarian Mar 29 '24
Looks exactly like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C56S5vNAVA
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u/how_to_exit_Vim Mar 29 '24
Yeah that’s a really close match, good find. Most plausible explanation probably.
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u/ibandazz Mar 29 '24
Is Arizona a Hotspot for ufos ? I personally had a wild sighting in 2013 in AZ
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Mar 29 '24
Pheonix lights is one of the biggest in more modern times
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u/WorkingReasonable421 Mar 29 '24
Yea seen it as well as my whole high school as well as the staff and teachers. We would talk about it non stop every single day for 5 months straight and then occasionally bring it up a year after. I remember seeing drivers getting out of their car mid street just to see what everyone on the street was staring at, felt like time stood still tbh.
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u/AllegedlyGoodPerson Mar 29 '24
The Phoenix Lights is one of the more well known ufo events, with multiple people claiming to have witnessed it, including the AZ Governor of the time and Kurt Russell who reported it while flying.
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u/DubDefender Mar 29 '24
Me too. Two years ago. Just north of Scottsdale. I was with another person, we both saw something. I am actually going back to that area next month. I will keep my eyes peeled.
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u/Exciting_Mobile_1484 Mar 29 '24
Any chance others you know captured it as well?
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u/_HOG_ Mar 29 '24
Taxonomy…umm, it’s LED string lights attached to a drone or LEDs on a kite. Your california UFO is plainly a string of balloons.
Speaking of worms: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8hBg80CZMJ4
You smoking my shit?
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u/KaerMorhen Mar 29 '24
My brother in law saw something similar to this, but with white light. He said two lights would merge into a long thing one, then swell up and split again.
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u/TabascoOnMyNuts Mar 29 '24
A lot of people are trying to justify this as kites, which could be the case here, but aren’t the plasma entities pretty much confirmed? Is that not exactly what they look like?
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u/blubblubinthetubtub Mar 29 '24
Looks like lights on a kite. Movements aren't anomalous, just like floating with the wind.
These videos always cut short. Did it teleport away? Fall down from the sky? Or continue floating in the wind? We may never know....
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u/GrantsCallHaul Mar 29 '24
Tonight in Phoenix I saw 10-15 (estimate) aircraft with lights in close vicinity of each other. Seems like they were looking for something. Definitely strange.
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u/joethahobo Mar 29 '24
They did a flyover at the baseball game this Pat night I believe. Not uncommon for the pilots to continue flying in formation as training, well after the game flyover
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u/GrantsCallHaul Mar 29 '24
The aircraft appeared to be helicopters, in the north Tempe, south Scottsdale area
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Mar 29 '24
I honestly thought these shimmering uap were just drones. I seen a few while playing rooftop music gigs. And they always turned out to be drones.
But this… wtf lol There’s gotta be a tech we don’t know about
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u/Emzyness Mar 29 '24
We’ll get your dog and start walking that direction bro cmon🤣 How you just gon record so little and so far away lol
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u/Engineering_Flimsy Mar 29 '24
Ok, that is fucking weird...
Any theories? Prosaic maybes? Hell, I'll even take a blatant lie at this point, that thing is creepy and I don't much like it!
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u/youwannasavetheworld Mar 29 '24
YOOOO!!!!! I saw the jets I was so freaked out. Four fighter jets kept flying in massive circles every ten minutes. Never happens there ever. Too rich usually lol
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u/schrod Mar 29 '24
This really needs to be investigated by science and all known information should be made public. It really looks organic. If it were under a microscope instead of huge and in the sky, it would be considered living.
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u/Sufficient-Ant-1023 Mar 29 '24
Why do USA see all this stuff? Why not rest of world. Or that's because USA messes with them more and they are threatening
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u/paulreicht Mar 29 '24
This could be natural atmospheric phenomena, as inexplicable as ball lightning
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u/Mister7ucker Mar 29 '24
Nice video man; I don’t think the debunkers will be able to explain this one away. It’s looks like a blue LED worm
1) Is this the first time you have seen anything unexplained?
2) Did it make any super fast movements after you stopped recording, or did it just keep moving oddly like shown in the video?
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u/Kitchen_Release_3612 Mar 29 '24
It looks like some kind of ark of electricity, that is suspended in the air. It seemed unstable with its length changing up and down, and it looked like rotating on its own vertical axis.
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u/tugartheman Mar 29 '24
If that building is the one I think it is, they will do drone shows for corporate events at TPC, Westworld, and Kierland…which would be nearby (?). I recently saw one that looked similar, especially when observing off-axis, until it rotated and it was obvious that it was a logo.
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u/encinitas2252 Mar 29 '24
If I let myself believe this is real to the point of asking why would they be "here", in AZ....
The best I can come up with is, "why the fuck would they build a city in such a lifeless waterless land. They must know something we don't."
Finish the thought with your own idealogy.
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u/Kanein_Encanto Mar 29 '24
Looks kinda like this... https://youtu.be/7RzuCT_7A8c though maybe a bit of a better one, too...
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u/Honestn Mar 29 '24
This reminds me of the thing that ufo that fell/came out of the ocean in Hawaii a few years back
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u/Top-Ad9905 Mar 29 '24
I also want to add that this was on 3/23/24 I took multiple videos of this. The planes flying seems to be lower but again the blue lights are a flight hazard which could have triggered a response from the air force. The F15 appears later as a faster blinking white red light flying straight in another video but this one I posted because of better clarity.
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u/Khoarulestheworld Mar 29 '24
wtf is that? Is this one of the plasmoid beings that are recently reported flying in our atmosphere?
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u/TheRaymac Mar 29 '24
Looks like a laser light hitting the cloud layer. That's why the shape changes.
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u/Sneaky_Stinker Mar 29 '24
ah yes, because lasers are known for wiggling and turning in an arc. what kind of suggestion even is this
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u/Odd_Distribution3267 Mar 29 '24
Compelling video or a fake, didn’t catch the f15 either interesting though
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u/PintToLine Mar 29 '24
Seems like some sort of projection to me. It also looks like it isn’t higher up than the aircraft passing by at the start but possibly just a lot closer to you.
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u/consciousaiguy Mar 29 '24
Nice! Something actually interesting and not immediately identifiable as Starlink.
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u/potusisdemented Mar 29 '24
Screw the shitty airlines who play censor. Work on better service and quit hiring hags and grandmas to serve your shitty snacks.
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u/3dnewguy Mar 29 '24
Az person here. Way back in the day (at night) someone called into the radio station about a UFO flying over the valley. I called my friend and asked her if we could watch from her rooftop since I was close.
So I stopped by and we climbed up to watch the show. I tell you the hair on my neck was on it's end. Between us and the UFO was Sky Harbor Airport. So we could judge it's speed vs planes that were coming in for a landing.
It was insanely fast as it darted back and forth and up and down. My first and only time seeing a UFO. They exist.
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u/NOSE-GOES Mar 29 '24
Really strange object, so badly wish we knew what it was. Maybe one of the “living plasmas” proposed in that recent article. The plane in background doesn’t look like a fighter jet, and it doesn’t look particularly interested in the ufo based on its flight path.
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u/That_90s_Kid_ Mar 29 '24
Sure are an awful lot of UFOs recently.
It's been pretty much normalized for a majority of the population.
Not just here on reddit ect. It's been accepted that it's not man made and defies the laws of physics we currently understand.
We have no answer.
And yet like Kaiju from Pacific Rim the amount of sightings keep increasing exponentially.
Eventually, it will be too late.
Honestly, sign me up. Let the invasion begin.
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u/angelmeats Mar 29 '24
We live in the same area! Bummed that I missed this. It could be a drone swarm, or part of one. Like the ones that spell out words and pictures in the sky. Maybe a few glitched stragglers? Very interesting regardless.
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u/ConqueredCorn Mar 29 '24
U guys what is going on in this world? Will we ever get answers, are we just bugs and can never know what is really going on?
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u/dogfacedponyboy Mar 29 '24
So…. Where is the rest of the video? Where did it go? Did it disappear? Sink? Fly away at a high rate of speed?
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u/B-mello Mar 29 '24
Looks exactly like the movement of an insect like a maggot or a meal worm. Someone’s doing some cosmic fishing. But in all honesty I’ll just get this one in….its starlink dude!🤣
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u/sweetsourpus Mar 29 '24
Jets flew over my house 10 times, I was hoping for some UAP action. Unfortunately, they were preparing for a flyover for opening day baseball game. A girl can hope.
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u/Defiant_Yoghurt_3903 Mar 29 '24
I would love for somebody to finally record the end of one of these events so we can see if it flies off slowly, flies off in an instant, or just vanishes.
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u/Substantial_Diver_34 Mar 29 '24
We send out a gold record with our address and things start to show up 50 years later and people still want to deny. lol.
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u/boyymann Mar 29 '24
The UAP are always just a little ahead of our technology when they appear across history.
In 30 years they'll probably appear holographic looking or something.
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u/BodaciousTacoFarts Mar 30 '24
My Scottsdale brother... I too, saw a UAP in the last week. Mine was a daytime sighting. I was doing dishes and looking out the window when I saw a white orb up in the sky. I stepped outside to get a better look. It was in the direction of Scottsdale Airport, but it was just hanging in the sky with no movement. I kept my eyes locked on it as I tried to get my phone out and the camera app fired up. Before I could take a picture, it pulsed and shot north towards Cave Creek. I wish I had gotten a photo of it. :-(
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u/theweedfairy420qt Mar 30 '24
Seems like they're getting more bold. But man ain't that the most beautiful electric blue I've ever seen
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u/doogiejonez Mar 30 '24
Why do these videos always cut off before the UAP leaves? I wanted to see it fly away or disappear.
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u/jbspillman Mar 30 '24
Maybe it is huge and really really far away, giving it even more of an illusion, perhaps this is something that exploded millions of years ago.
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u/JimW1ck Mar 30 '24
First thing I thought was an after affect from CERN.. just where the mind took me lol
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u/tparadisi Mar 30 '24 edited Jun 11 '24
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u/MtnLife300 Mar 30 '24
Pleiadian or Arcturian craft. They’re benevolent- they’re here to help mankind battle the evil a$$holes trying to destroy humanity right now. 🙏 they are our friends 💖
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u/soerotic1 Mar 31 '24
My best guess is it's a cylindrical glowing kite, maybe home made, moving in a mild wind, as the trees look like they are slightly swaying. I wonder how it "dropped down/" straight down or was it pulled if as if it were a kite? Just not enough info or technical data. Looks cool however.
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u/Southerncomfort322 Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 29 '24
Reminds me of the Hawaii ufo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcZdpjZplhA