Kirkpatrick: The Video Alone Can’t Identify the Object
Weather Underground reported westerly winds of about 25 km/h that evening, but the video doesn’t show which way the camera was facing.
A video of a jellyfish-shaped object filmed near a military base in Anchorage, Alaska, spread online. The Pentagon’s former UAP investigator says its movement resembles that of a kite with streamers, but the video alone can’t identify the object.
One evening in June, someone filmed a dark object hovering near a rainbow-colored arc above the Chugach Mountains, close to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. Long streamers dangled beneath it, swaying as it moved. The video spread online. Sean Kirkpatrick, who led the Pentagon office that investigates unidentified anomalous phenomena, says there may be a simpler explanation, but the video alone isn’t enough to identify the object.
What the Video Shows
Sarah Jane Osborne filmed the object on June 15 and posted the video on Facebook the next day. The streamers beneath it sway and trail as it moves. The base said it was aware of the video but had no additional information. It did not say whether military personnel or equipment had detected the object, or whether it had entered military or restricted airspace.
Kirkpatrick: It Could Be a Kite
Kirkpatrick told Fox News Digital that he generally doesn’t assess anything based on a video posted online. “Social media is not a good source of data for anything, certainly not for sightings like this,” he said. The video, he added, isn’t enough to determine the object’s size, altitude, or distance.
He did offer one possible explanation. “The movement is similar to a kite with streamers, especially the undulations,” he said. If the video is authentic and wasn’t digitally created, he would add a kite to the list of possibilities. He would also check whether there had been a celebration in the area, which way the wind was blowing, and whether another video had been filmed from a different angle.
Weather Underground reported westerly winds of about 25 km/h that evening. That doesn’t prove the object was being carried by the wind: the video doesn’t show which way the camera was facing or exactly where it was.
Not Enough Information to Identify the Object
Kirkpatrick said there isn’t enough information to determine whether the object was a kite. The base has yet to clarify whether military equipment recorded it.
Questions & answers
What did the Pentagon’s former investigator say about the video?
Sean Kirkpatrick said the movement resembles that of a kite with streamers, and that the video alone can’t establish the object’s size, altitude, or distance.
Was the object identified as a kite?
No. The wind report for that evening doesn’t prove the object was carried by the wind, and the video doesn’t show which way the camera was facing.