It appears three times, then vanishes. The video offers no clue what caused it.
In footage from a military sensor, a light-and-dark patch crosses the screen three times. What caused it is unknown.
A light-and-dark patch crosses the screen from bottom to top three times. The description does not identify a particular shape or object.
No. The material offers no explanation for what appears in the video.
After more than a minute of a blank image, a light-and-dark patch enters the frame from below. It moves upward and disappears beyond the top edge. That’s how the unusual moment in the military sensor footage begins.
The same movement appears again, then a third time. Each time, the patch crosses the screen in the same direction, with blank stretches between appearances. But the footage reveals no clear shape to identify, and nothing can be seen behind the patch. That’s the only clue: a repeated movement, with no explanation for what caused it.
The video runs for nearly five minutes. At the start, it shows nothing for more than a minute. Then the light-and-dark patch appears for a few seconds, travels from bottom to top, and disappears. The image is blank again for an extended stretch before the movement repeats.
The video description does not identify an aircraft, a person, or an object. It describes only an area of contrast between light and dark. So the footage can’t tell us whether something moved in front of the sensor or whether the patch is an artifact of the image the sensor produced.
The second appearance looks like the first: the patch enters from below and exits at the top. After another blank stretch, it appears for a third time and crosses the screen along the same path. In all, there are three brief appearances in a video that shows nothing for most of its run.
According to the body that examined the record, the video was likely produced by an infrared sensor on a U.S. military aircraft. The sensor displays differences in heat as an image. The video was uploaded to a restricted computer network in September 2020.
It is unknown what caused the patch or what it shows. The material offers no ordinary explanation, and the body that examined the record stresses that the video description does not establish what happened or why it matters.
Three times, the patch crosses the screen. What was there? The video doesn’t say.