A blob appeared at the bottom of the video, moved upward, then vanished into a corner. The camera zoomed in as it tracked the shape.
A blob appeared in a 2020 military video. The camera zoomed in and tracked it until it left the frame, but the record does not identify it.
The record says a user uploaded it to a classified network but does not give the user's name.
No. The record describes its position and movement but does not identify it.
After more than a minute of blank footage, a blob appears at the bottom of the screen. It moves upward as the camera zooms in and tracks it. Near the end of the video, it disappears through the lower-left corner.
That is all the video shows: a camera tracking a blob, without revealing what it is. The official record describes its movement but does not identify what was filmed. Watching the video offers no clearer view of the blob, either.
The video was recorded in 2020 and uploaded to a classified internal network that September. The U.S. Department of War released the record to the public. A U.S. agency that reviewed the material assessed that the video was probably filmed with a camera mounted on a U.S. military vehicle.
At first, the video shows nothing. Then an area that looks different from the background appears at the bottom of the screen. It moves upward, and the camera adjusts its view and zooms in to keep the area roughly centered.
The blob remains in the center of the image for several minutes. The camera zooms in further, but the video reveals no details that would allow the blob to be identified. The record describes what appears on screen, not what caused it to appear.
Near the end of the video, the blob leaves the frame through the lower-left corner. The camera no longer shows it, and the video does not reveal where it went or what lies beyond the frame.
The record says a user uploaded the video to the classified network. It does not say who the user was. The agency that reviewed the material assessed that the video probably came from a camera on a military vehicle operating in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.
Parts of the record were redacted, leaving no further details about the camera or the circumstances of the recording. Nor does the record explain what appears in the video.
It is not known what the blob was, whether it was a physical object, or what made it look that way. The record offers no conventional explanation and makes clear that its description is not a finding about the nature or credibility of the incident.
The camera tracked the blob until it left the frame. Beyond the corner, all that remains is what the video does not show.