A video recorded off an aircraft sensor display shows blips crossing the screen and reappearing.
A video recorded off an aircraft sensor display shows blips disappearing and returning from different directions. The report calls them “cold spheres,” but does not explain what they are.
Bright and dark blips moving across a sensor display, disappearing at the edges of the image and reappearing.
The report notes that filming a screen with a phone can cause blurring or flickering. It does not say whether either factor explains the movement.
In a video recorded on a phone, a blip appears at the center of a screen inside a military aircraft. The aircraft is flying over the Gulf of Oman, and the screen shows an image from an infrared sensor, which detects heat.
Bright and dark blips emerge from the edges of the image and reappear from other directions. The footage does not reveal what they are, but it does show something unusual: the blips vanish from the screen, then appear somewhere else.
At the start of the video, an area that looks different from its surroundings stays near the center of the image. Then a larger blip moves from the bottom of the screen to the top. It disappears, then reappears in the upper-left corner and moves downward.
At the same time, a smaller blip emerges from the bottom of the image. It returns from the upper-right area. The two blips move across the display, but the video does not show whether they represent objects moving through space or shapes within the image.
Later, the sensor changes its display. An area that looks different from the rest of the image enters from the top and stays roughly in the center until the video ends. This change occurs after the earlier blips have crossed the screen.
The accompanying report describes the areas as “cold spheres,” about 1.2 meters in diameter. That is the report’s label for them, not an explanation of what they are. The video is 26 seconds long and was recorded on a phone pointed at the aircraft’s screen.
It is not known what the areas shown in the video were. The report says that filming a screen with a phone can cause blurring or flickering. It also notes that the video is not the original sensor data, but does not say whether either factor explains the movement.
The blips disappear at the edge of the screen and return. But the screen alone does not reveal what passed through it.