The camera tracked the spot and zoomed in. Then it vanished from the frame and reappeared, again and again.
A military camera tracked a bright spot, zoomed in, and watched it disappear from the frame and return. The video was reviewed as part of a collection of records, but it remains unclear what it shows.
It was found in a collection of records reviewed after members of Congress requested access to materials related to reports of anomalous phenomena.
No. The office estimates that the video was recorded by a heat-sensing camera, but it has not determined what appears in it.
In a 2020 military video, a bright spot moves along the left side of the frame. A camera tracks it, trying to keep it centered.
The camera zooms in on the spot. Then the spot disappears from the frame and returns several times. After a little more than a minute, the video stops showing any content. The movement looks like an attempt to track something, but the video itself does not reveal what it is.
The video was included in a collection of records reviewed after members of Congress requested access to materials related to reports of anomalous phenomena. The U.S. office responsible for reviewing such reports found the video on a restricted military computer network.
According to the office, a user uploaded it to the network in August 2020. In other words, the video surfaced during a review of existing records; the office did not determine what it showed.
At the start of the video, the sensor tracks a bright area moving along the left side of the frame. Later, it turns the camera to keep the area centered, then zooms in. The camera is not merely filming the spot from a distance: it tracks the spot and adjusts the image to focus on it.
The area then disappears from the frame and returns several times. Near the end of the clip, no content is visible. The sensor offers no explanation for what happened; the footage shows only the area and changes in the image.
The office estimates that the video was recorded by a heat-sensing camera aboard a U.S. military aircraft operating in the area of responsibility of U.S. Central Command. That is an estimate, not a determination of what appears in the image. It is not known what caused the area to disappear and return, or what the area was.
The video cuts off, and the spot disappears. But by the final frame, it has already returned several times.