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SF-2026-000484UnverifiedAliens & UAPs

Mt. Etna Object

This file is a silent infrared video released by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) as part of its Official UAP Imagery collection. According to the releasing agency, in December 2018 a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) video sensor aboard an uncrewed U.S. Air Force platform captured the footage while operating over the Mediterranean Sea. The footage shows an object that appears to transit a plume of superheated gas and ash produced by an eruption of Mt. Etna, a volcano in Sicily, Italy. AARO states it coordinated an interagency and international analytical effort that determined optical effects from the intense atmospheric conditions near the volcano distorted the video, causing the object to appear to transit the plume. AARO assesses with moderate confidence a resolution consistent with atmospheric/optical distortion. No extractable text is present in the video itself; this metadata is drawn from the AARO/DVIDS page context.

Source: AARO — Official UAP Imageryd34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net ↗Incident Dec 2018Released Nov 2024Discovered Jul 2, 202685.4 MBvideo
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Description

AARO official UAP imagery: a silent forward-looking infrared (FLIR) video captured in December 2018 by a sensor aboard an uncrewed U.S. Air Force platform operating over the Mediterranean Sea, depicting an object appearing to transit the volcanic plume of Mt. Etna in Sicily, Italy.

Claims

  • In December 2018 a FLIR sensor aboard an uncrewed U.S. Air Force platform captured the footage over the Mediterranean Sea.

    85%

  • The object appears to transit a plume of superheated gas and ash from an eruption of Mt. Etna.

    85%

  • AARO assesses that optical effects from intense atmospheric conditions near the volcano distorted the video, causing the apparent transit.

    80%

Events

  1. Nov 30, 2018

    FLIR capture of Mt. Etna Object

    An infrared sensor aboard an uncrewed U.S. Air Force platform captured footage of an object appearing to transit Mt. Etna's eruption plume over the Mediterranean Sea.

  2. AARO analytical resolution

    AARO coordinated an interagency and international effort assessing that atmospheric optical effects near the volcano distorted the video, making the object appear to transit the plume.

Dates mentioned

2018-122024-11

Keywords

UAPAAROMt. EtnaFLIRinfraredMediterranean SeaSicilyvolcanic plumeuncrewed platformUS Air Forceoptical distortion

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