Official · Video · Department of War
Military Camera Tracks a Light Over the Ocean Again and Again
The footage cuts out several times and was altered before it was reviewed.
Released to the public August 7, 20262 min readALIENS editorial
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The footage cuts out several times and was altered before it was reviewed.
A U.S. service member filmed a light over the Pacific Ocean. The camera moves to follow it, and the image cuts out several times. The video was altered before it was submitted for review, but officials have not said what was changed.
No. The video description does not identify the source of the light or offer an explanation for it.
Officials have not said exactly what was changed. All that is known is that the video was digitally altered before it was submitted for review.
A U.S. service member filmed a light appearing over the Pacific Ocean. The camera moved to follow it, then the image cut out. When it returned, the camera turned toward the light again.
That’s how a video recorded in 2019 is described. It contains several gaps with no footage and offers no explanation for the light. There’s another detail: the video was altered before it was submitted for review, but officials have not said what they changed.
The footage was shot on a handheld device and runs about two and a half minutes. At the start, the camera moves to track a light source visible in the frame. Then come several stretches with no footage at all.
Each time the recording resumes, the camera moves to follow the light source again. Later, there’s a longer stretch: for more than a minute, the camera keeps moving to track it. Even at the end, the footage offers no explanation for what appears on screen.
Poor lighting affected the quality of the recording. Details are difficult to make out, and the video alone cannot establish the source of the light. The description does show the camera moving toward it, with gaps in which no image appears.
The video was submitted in 2022 to a U.S. office that investigates anomalous phenomena. Before it reached the office, it was digitally altered, meaning a change was made using a computer or digital device. Officials have not said exactly what was changed, so it’s impossible to know how the alteration affected the image.
The version reviewed was presented as received. The official description specifies when the camera moved and when no footage appears, but says nothing about what happened outside the frame. It also does not identify the light or characterize the event.
The source of the light, the reason the image cut out, and what was changed in the video are all unknown. The description offers no conventional explanation for the light and reaches no conclusion about what happened.
A light remains on screen as the camera tracks it. Then the image vanishes, only to return to the light.