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The mystery surrounding UFO footage shared by Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’ All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), during testimony before a Senate subcommittee in April has been solved.
At least that is what some internet detectives from a group calling themselves Bellingcat are claiming.
The UFO video, taken by a MQ-9 Reaper drone over Syria, shows what appears to be a metallic orb speeding along above several buildings.
“This is a typical example of a thing we see most of,” Kirkpatrick said about the footage during his testimony. “We see these all over the world and we see these making very interesting apparent maneuvers.
“This one in particular, however, I may point out, demonstrated no enigmatic technical capabilities and was no threat to airborne safety.”
Kirkpatrick offered no specific explanation for the what UFO in the video, taken on July 12, 2022, actually was though.
Subsequent analysis by the US Department of Defense and NASA also came up with no solid conclusions.
Bellingcat, however, geolocated an area northeast of the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor using Google Earth imagery from July 2022 that matched the mysterious Pentagon UFO footage.
“With the geolocation established, it is easy to measure objects on the ground and reference sizes seen in the video,” the group wrote on their website.
Using this information, they determined that “the object has a maximum diameter of approximately 0.43 metres or smaller.”
“This contradicts the AARO’s own list of ‘typical UAP characteristics’ presented in the video, which states that UAPs are typically between one and four metres in size,” they wrote.
Their conclusion?
“One explanation for why the orb does not demonstrate enigmatic technical capabilities is that it really is just a balloon,” they wrote. “The object may not be moving at all, and we are simply witnessing a motion parallax in which the speed of the Reaper Drone relative to the object creates the illusion that the object is moving.”
They do admit that the UFO could be “technology of extraterrestrial origin” or “technology of an unknown country,” but “a balloon is consistent with what we see in the video.”
Perhaps the US Department of Defense should consult the sleuths at Bellingcat the next time they are thinking about using a $400,000 Sidewinder missile to shoot down something that looks like, well, a balloon.