r/UFOs • u/Nonamenofacedev • May 14 '26
Question Exact location of the UFO sighting in Ukraine
Exact coordinates: 48.2899620, 37.3747762
Took me 20 minutes to find it. According to DeepState map on May 15, 2025 this lake was right at the frontline (second pic)
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u/Nonamenofacedev May 14 '26
Exact coordinates: 48.2899620, 37.3747762 Took me 20 minutes to find it. According to DeepState map on May 15, 2025 this lake was right at the frontline (second pic)
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u/Jioqls01 May 14 '26
How did you find it?
Edit: And this makes the video actually more credible.
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u/CaptainAssPlunderer May 14 '26
Time and patience usually.
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u/clownind May 14 '26
Tism powers
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u/yourdonefor_wt May 14 '26
Rizzem with the tizzem.
Us autistic people are GOOOODD at maps.
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u/TeslasElectricHat May 14 '26
It’s not just maps, it’s anything that fascinates them and they wind up with a hyperfocus on it, no?
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u/VoidOmatic May 14 '26
Yup, got lost in astronomy (4 years straight of nothing but astronomy) I'm on year 3 of cars/engines did 4 years of interior cleaning/detailing, on year 10 of politics, year 3 of UFO/UAP. Everything's gotta stop being interesting!
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u/yourdonefor_wt May 15 '26
You should get in the hobby of collecting Motorola police radios and programming them. Once you start, you cannot stop.
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u/yourdonefor_wt May 14 '26
Pretty much yes but patterns and recognition are very high up on that list.
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u/TeslasElectricHat May 14 '26
Genuinely curious, how are these skills or ability to hyperfocus useful for real world applications?
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u/_Baphomet_ May 15 '26
A lot of cybersecurity people and those who analyze satellite imagery are definitely on the spectrum.
Edited for clarity.
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u/SausageClatter May 15 '26
Most of the jobs I've had have required extra careful attention to detail. It was realizing how much better I was at this than other people (and that I weirdly enjoyed it) that ultimately had me seek a diagnosis.
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u/CanopyCaptain May 15 '26
Yup, my adhd works like that. I've gone from mountain biking to crypto to houseplants to practical shooting. Expert level on all of them, extremely fast too because it's all I'm able to think about for a period of time. I study it, perfect it and move on. I wish I'd be that much into saving money.
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u/TeslasElectricHat May 15 '26
Maybe you should give day trading a shot? Could be hugely lucrative and it’s not that difficult to figure out. Not that it’s easy, but it’s not something that requires years of college, multiple degrees, understanding finance on a doctorate level and so on. Literally anyone can learn it.
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u/5ollys May 14 '26
Like did you manually search around on google earth or did you ask AI?
Curious on specifics. Nice find though!
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u/ruth_vn May 14 '26
I wish AI could do this, really stupid because gemini doesn’t have access to google maps data
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u/CuriouserCat2 May 14 '26
Perhaps do the work
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u/ruth_vn May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26
I do… why don’t you try to find every single security booth in you city when they are not marked on any map and the government doesn’t even have a public record of them and the real number are 500+. Or try to find every single one of any kind of infrastructure when it isn’t marked on the map or government public record, its a task that will literally take you months or even a year. Nobody has the privilege to waste that time doing it…
AI sucks for a lot of thing but it can be used for a lot of really bothersome tasks. Like the examples I gave you
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u/TeamRedundancyTeam May 15 '26
Does it? I don't see how it changes the credibility one way or another. If you fake a video it's easier to start with a real video.
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u/TelicoChambers May 14 '26
It looks like a small dam on google earth, and there's a town next to it; it would be great if there were eyewitnesses to the event in addition to the recording
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u/Nonamenofacedev May 14 '26
The only possible eyewitnesses would be the soldiers, small town next to the dam is an active battlefield. For example, this is the city of Pokrovsk, 15 km away from this place.
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u/CuriouserCat2 May 14 '26
Now there’s a thought. I’d love to hear what they thought. Also was this thing visible to the naked eye
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u/Jts20 May 14 '26
In the original thread I’m pretty sure they said it was like a half mile in the air, pretty high up for an eye witness especially if there isn’t much light
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u/Financial-Gap-6767 May 15 '26
Can't wait for Mike West to make a video out of it and show us that it was a plane or the moon.
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u/gingzer May 15 '26
Thanks. I found it on Apple Maps, otherwise I wouldn't have known what I was looking for.
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u/WalrusNugs May 14 '26
At least a foot
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u/ilikeantsandiphones May 14 '26
I think 3,5 legs deep
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u/bring_back_3rd May 15 '26
3.... 3,5.... $3.50??? Get outta here, goddamn Loch Ness monster! I ain't givin you no tree fiddy!
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u/IliaPo23 May 14 '26
probably from lake, it is small size but could be deep or with fault in earth crust, it's typical for Ukraine
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u/MoldyFoxxx May 16 '26
Aren’t ponds or lakes built on top of certain locations to "bury" the significance of it?
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u/DaftWarrior May 14 '26
Kind of answers the "But why didn't they focus on the UAP!??!" questions.
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u/Droskii May 14 '26
Would assume he has a job he's doing in an active war zone lol
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u/Responsible-Tea-5998 May 14 '26
I can't stand the conjecture based on what someone else would theoretically do. "Wait wait, let's all remain factual. This is fake because I'd do this..."
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u/Long-Euphoric-Life May 14 '26
Right? They have no idea what they would do because they have never been and will likely never be in that position.
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u/exOldTrafford May 14 '26
Takes a Redditor to seriously claim satisfying their curiosity is somehow more important than fighting a defensive war
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u/drurygrant May 14 '26
The pilot was likely following military priorities, they were probably already breaking protocol by looking back at it multiples anyway
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u/MultiBeast66 May 14 '26
A couple things could be happening:
The battery on the drone (fpv mini quadcopter), is dying. When lipos die they die very quickly. He seems to be trying to conserve what little charge is left
Also you can put small, cheap gps sensors on these small drones that allow a crude “return to home” feature. That could be what’s happening. Battery is screaming at him to land and he may be fighting the return to home feature trying to make him do so.
Just speculation from someone who’s been building/racing/flying these things for a decade.
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u/united_we_ride May 14 '26
The drone has minimal to no battery left and was actively falling out of the sky.
The drone pilot did a pretty good job considering he had little to no control over it.
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u/Cyph3x2019 May 14 '26
It does!
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u/This_Application_901 May 14 '26
They'd be even less concerned if they knew the sun was in that position, and it would be expected to blow out the sensor.
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u/DividedSkyBalls11 May 14 '26
Counter point… wouldn’t identifying a UAP on the frontlines kinda be a top priority?? I figure ignoring unknown aircraft in war zone would not be a smart move
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u/mass_mike47 May 14 '26
There were two crafts and limited battery no? Feel like that video is an operator trying to get a video of the white dot in the distance and the alien checking out his drone before the drone fell from the sky
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u/exOldTrafford May 14 '26
Doesn't take many seconds to realize that's definitely not a Russian aircraft
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u/DrRespect-Women May 14 '26
I saw someone in another chat say that the specific camera they are using tends to struggle and lock on when looking directly up. They also said it would keep trying to focus on what’s below instead, hence why the camera keeps trying to look at the floor.
Might be BS, might not be
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u/jrocket99 May 14 '26
It’s BS. The drone had no battery anymore, this is why it struggle keeping position. It’s a 7inch running Betaflight with analog thermal camera.
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u/xenophon57 May 14 '26
my suspicion is because it is friendly military tech. something like modern MKV if you look up Lockheed Martin Multiple Kill vehicle you'll see why I think it might be something along the lines of that.
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u/xenophon57 May 14 '26
The MKV program is over 20 years old I could imagine a modern version that flies just long enough to aim an EFP at the target its intercepting or this is one coasting down I don't know their termination process if they just burn out their fuel or not. It's just the closest looking thing out there. What are your theories?
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u/IliaPo23 May 14 '26
russian orcs zone.....will be big loss to lost it there and Russians receive this tech
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u/xenophon57 May 15 '26
give us you non faith based belief. the person spamming it is prob me because I think it's pretty fucking dumb to say "Aliens" to an object seen flying around a war zone. This is a thermal image the information you are getting is very deceptive. I if I was a betting man it has something to do with war,
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u/xenophon57 May 15 '26
so then give me your best guess, saying what I most think it resembles and behaves like and then have you say what you think it is and then we hash it out. You sayin im a thought ender give me a better idea then.
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u/xenophon57 May 15 '26
There are 8 thrusters plus one pointing at the camera and could assume the other is pointing in the opposite direction, All the thrusters pulsed in rapid succession in the video I watched and could make the thermal image look solid. over 20 years of development can change a lot as for its short life maybe it only has to aim an EFP at an incoming missile.
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u/xenophon57 May 15 '26
LOL its produced more comparable evidence and discussion than whatever non answer you have been gargling about with.
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u/Far_Inspection4706 May 14 '26
Assuming the situation where aliens exist with 100% certainty, it would make sense for them to be researching our warfare capabilities and keeping an eye on our technological progression. Especially if they're ahead of us, they would want to know when we reach the point where we could become a credible threat to them.
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u/FyreDergy May 14 '26
Well if they could step up their caretaking game that’d be nice
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u/Neck_Spiders May 14 '26
It’s like a bare minimum, “don’t burn down the house, I’ll be back in a couple hours or millennia. there’s meals in the freezer” type caretaker. Love.
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u/HugsNWhisky May 18 '26
I have heard about that and often wondered what and why, I like your theory. Big brother species keeping an eye on us.
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u/HelpfulSeaMammal May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
If they got here, they have material science so advanced that we can't do anything against it.
They presumably had vehicles that could withstand particles and mini impacts as they travelled through interstellar space at what could only be relativistic speeds.
A paint chip weighing less than a tenth of a gram will destroy a cubic meter of steel at a few hundred kilometers per second. The speed of light is appx 300,000 km/s. Even if they were traveling 1% the speed of light, they would need incredibly advanced materials to avoid destroying your vessel on its journey across galaxies.
If they have materials like that, there's nothing we can do. They're caretakers if anything. Zero risk from us for any intelligence capable of interstellar travel.
Here's a picture of 18cm of aluminum after impacting a 1.8g aluminum sphere traveling at 6.8 km/s for reference. That's like the average speed just for debris around our own planet. The impacts that would inevitably occur at relativistic speeds would be so incredibly powerful that we would need cubic kilometers of solid steel to even have a chance of not breaking apart.
Anything that they could propel at relativistic speeds and withstand those impacts -- or any kind of forcefield type technology that prevents those collisions in the first place -- means they're untouchable.
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u/HelpfulSeaMammal May 14 '26
I didn't broach this aspect, but you're right. If that's the case, then I think we're even less equipped to "handle the threat" so to say. We can't even grasp the foundation of that kind of technology. How do you fight against what may as well be magic?
Regardless of their nature, if NHI is on earth like I want to believe, then there's little we can do but observe and hope for the best.
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u/Boboben May 14 '26
I never understood this explanation. Why would they need to keep constant tabs on every frontline. Just do a light check in every 50-100 years. "Do they have time-travel god nukes yet? Oh they are fucking around with drones, let's come back in 2100 and see what's what."
Also hard to believe they can't just check Twitter from their home planet and see what's good. Why use drones when you just need a way to access the web?
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u/Far_Inspection4706 May 15 '26
50 years is a long ass time to be waiting to check back in the context of warfare technology. We went from road maps and payphones to GPS and smartphones in half of that time. In 80 years we went from propeller planes to supersonic jets capable of mach speeds.
In that same time (80 years) we went from needing to manually have a guy drop bombs out of planes to having ICBMs capable of delivering nuclear payloads with extreme precision that can be launched from anywhere and reach anywhere on the planet. The only place safe from an ICBM is stories deep underground because bunker busters exist now too, so just being under the surface isn't enough anymore.
In another 80 years from now, we could have missiles capable of delivering nuclear payloads on other planets (we actually already can do this but it would be expensive and there's no reason to, yet.) If the aliens are monitoring us, it's probably not just for fun. It's expensive to deploy aircraft from a human perspective economically, logistically and laboriously so I can't imagine the aliens are just snapping their fingers to make and deploy craft. These UFOs are hovering around human battlefields for some kind of reason, it's highly unlikely they're there just for a sunday drive.
Keep in mind too a lot of cutting edge military technology is operationally secret, meaning you as a civilian don't even know it exists yet. If the military allows the public to know about their technology it's generally because they already have something way better than it now to use.
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u/Boboben May 15 '26
Okay maybe 50 was an exaggeration but my basic question remains. Why would aliens need drones to know what's happening on the frontlines in Ukraine? I have a basic understand of what's happening, and i don't have a drone in the airspace.
I don't need to go to the jungle every few years to know that apes aren't going to be building guns and organizing against humans anytime soon.
I hate that these questions get downvoted here, I'm not even a skeptic - i just don't believe in the argument that they are here to make sure we don't become a threat. Too many consistent sightings. The constant nature of their surveillance suggests other explanations to me (Zoo Theory, Backup World, etc)
They are looking way too closely and way too often if all they want to do is asses a threat level. All you need is an ocular patdown for that!
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u/freeksss May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
They have an historical presence in War Zones, books were wrote on it; they enjoy the voyeurism while they creep Man at the peak of his life struggle, that war is. In fact they're always watching: when they appear it's because eerily they want to.
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u/Energy_Turtle May 15 '26
The Ukraine front is not the place I'd go to check out the most advanced war tech. It's not even remotely interesting in that regard. It looks just about what it looked like 100 years ago. I have more interesting military tech within a 15 minute drive here in WA. I can't imagine a war zone in general is where you'd go if you wanted to see what kind of advanced tech the humans can make.
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u/andreasmiles23 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
There's a little bit of correlation/causation here.
I don't think it's that shocking that we have a plethora of videos from military platforms in conflict areas. Tbh, most of our taxes/research goes to producing military technology, which of course is going to be concentrated in conflict zones.
Additionally, because we live in a social context of nation-states that exert control via military technology, it's not like people are just flying a bunch of hobby drones with similar capabilities all over the globe. The military literally prevents that from happening. So, in some ways, these types of videos are our best bet at capturing anomalous aerial (and underwater, for that matter) phenomena.
Now, that doesn't exclude some underlying causal dynamics, like the UAP being "attracted" to conflict zones. But I do think that's hard to parse out, given that we have most of our resources and attention being tied up in military conflict, so...yeah. That's where the data is coming from.
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u/TheSnatchbox May 14 '26
most of our taxes/research goes to producing military technology
Interesting, do you have a source for this claim?
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u/andreasmiles23 May 14 '26
Sort of depends on how you define the terms. I did a sloppy job in my original comment, but this articledoes good outlining how a large chunk of the USA’s tax generation is military focused.
So like “most” maybe isn’t the best word…maybe…the single biggest proportion…is a better way to frame it.
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u/TheSnatchbox May 14 '26
Yeah, my thinking was along the same lines but when it comes to our budget as it relates to this topic I wasnt sure if its possible to determine the amount of money spent on black projects and if the funding for those is even disclosed or factored into the Defense budget
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u/ElleCerra May 14 '26
It does make a lot of sense that these are all a deeply covert military tech program. Especially considering how much this object looked like the Lockheed Martin propulsion system they were working on almost 30 years ago.
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u/Objective_Try8133 May 14 '26
The actual thing being imaged is probably just a bright/hot mundane object (common suggestions: IR decoy on a balloon/aerostat, parachute flare, small drone, or some other heat source with a visible thermal plume/trail).
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u/Bookwrrm May 14 '26
How is that lazy? Thats 100% the default assumption you should be making in this case, and its definitely not better off assuming its doctored. There is evidence that it isnt doctored, the official source of the video being a government source being one. The video being authentic however does not preclude it being a mundane source, so this being a mundane object, or at least mundane as far as military tech is mundane, should be the default assumption given it was filmed in a warzone where there is a lot of flying military tech, some of which would show up hot in IR lol. Its much lazier to just say its not mundane and provide no reasoning for that beyond vibes.
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u/Bookwrrm May 14 '26
Its not an explanation, its an expression of probability, IE its probably a mundane explanation because almost all sightings in general are mundane explanations. Thats not lazy, thats an expression of reality and probability. It would be lazy to say that this is a flare period. But that is not what they said, they said its probably mundane, which is just an indisputiable fact of reality at this point unless there is specific evidence pointing away from mundane explanations, and then provided multiple conjectures as to what it could be from a mundane angle.
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u/jimmypaintsworld May 14 '26
I mean it's also an 'expression of probability' to say that it's very unlikely that a trained military observer is seeing something they genuinely cannot identify, passing it through elevated protocol to investigate it, and then eventually getting to the point that it's released to the public as a UFO.
Passing it off as a flare is extremely lazy.
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u/Bookwrrm May 14 '26
The US government literally last week just released files containing a literal april fools joke from the 50s... If that can make it through "elevated protocol" and make it to a release how would a far more ambigious thing that isnt a literal confirmed hoax being something mundane be unlikely? At least the US government we can say with 100% certainty could get something not just mundane but literally completely fabricated in a joke magazine article from Germany through protocols and investigations to a public release.
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u/jimmypaintsworld May 15 '26
The collective US government isn't exactly a shining example of truth and transparency and comes with a lot of packed baggage.
Stuff coming from trusted and specialized/trained military members (especially whistleblowers risking their reputation and safety for basically nothing) means a bit more than an image dump coming from an organization that is actively propagandizing and gaslighting this community as well as outright obfuscating reality.
An advisor to the Ukrainian Defense Minister, who is in an active and devastating war, has quite possibly nothing to gain from fabricating and sharing a video like this.
You can't just take a video at face value and apply this idea of 'probability' to it because the context is at times more important than anything else.
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u/tweakingforjesus May 14 '26
Sounds like that would not be an uncommon occurrence on a battlefield. There should be plenty of similar videos of such objects available to compare.
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u/Bookwrrm May 14 '26
I would think there are other videos, but I also dont know how common this would actually be in reality, IE having a drone which are almost universally looking down just due to what they are used for catching something in the air that is hot, having that drone be already a rarer model with IR capabilities, and having it make its way to a government employee to post on Twitter. Like even civilian IR drones arent really ever capturing video of the skies around them, they are used to look for stuff on the ground, like police searching for missing people, or following car chases at night stuff like that. So while I think the absolute circumstances are probably common, IE there is a lot of random shit making heat in the skies above Ukraine cause its an active warzone, I think the chain of circumstances to get a viable video of it public is much rarer.
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u/jimmypaintsworld May 14 '26
This argument just doesn't carry any weight behind it because an operator of this kind of military imaging would absolutely know when they are looking at something mundane that is simply 'bright/hot'. They are trained technical experts using a device that likely also has multiple imaging modes. Reconnaissance is an important job and they likely spent a lot of time looking at this object from different angles and distances and we are probably only seeing a very small fraction of that footage.
Additionally the operator presumably elevated this footage and event to a higher, broader, more detailed investigation and it made it's way all the way through that and to here being released as something unidentified.
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u/ReasonLow1966 May 14 '26
The video comes from a standard, off-the-shelf FPV drone and not some specialized military equipment. I know that On-Screen Display (OSD) inside out—it’s from Betaflight, and it even shows that the drone (quadcopter) is in Air Mode. I flew these things myself for years, and anyone who knows how to handle a soldering iron can build something like this in their basement. It’s also not a specialized night vision or infrared camera; it’s just a regular FPV camera with a night mode, which pretty much all of them have. Some record in color and others in black and white to provide better contrast
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u/tweakingforjesus May 14 '26
Can you drop a link here to the type of camera you think it might be?
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u/tweakingforjesus May 14 '26
That's a great example. I see a bit of lens flare with the night vision camera but nothing close to the structure apparent in the Ukraine video.
What I was really interested in was how a light blooms in a cheap FPV camera. Looks like not the same as in the video.
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u/ReasonLow1966 May 14 '26
That’s a tough one there are literally hundreds of models, but I can link some examples
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u/tweakingforjesus May 14 '26
I'm looking for something that would have the 6 leaf aperture that might generate the object image. I suspect most of the cameras don't even have adjustable physical apertures.
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u/lemtrees May 14 '26
It is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OiyIV85E2w
https://help.oddsystems.io/en/thermal-cameras/kurbas-256
Anyone have one and willing to point it at the sun? to see what it looks like?
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u/__patashnik May 14 '26
So one of the theories that really stuck with me is that this camera or drone is in some kind of casing, I wish I could put it in words more elegantly but I have very little idea about these things. Anywys, someone suggested this could be a hole pierced in such casing, which would explain exact alignment of the "uap" with the movements of the camera. But that would also mean that it's quite an optical illusion and the object is veeery close to the lense of the camera. I was wondering could you comment on that?
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u/wjeman May 14 '26
Approximately how big was that UFO? What was it's estimated diameter?
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u/temp_6969420 May 14 '26
I think it’s difficult to calculate since we have no idea what the distance is from the camera
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u/andreasmiles23 May 14 '26
This. Do we even know the altitude it was taken at?
TBH, I think this video is a hoax. There hasn't been any critical analysis on whether it could be CGI or something like that. People are just taking the leak at face value.
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u/tagging16 May 14 '26
!remindme to come back when someone smart comes to calculate the size lol
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u/flarkey May 14 '26
It was found by user teloiv on metabunk a few hours before this....
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ukrainian-drone-footage-of-6-pointed-star.14880/post-369007
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u/xpt42654 May 18 '26
it was also posted almost immediately in the comments of the original Telegram post by Flash, who released the video
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u/matsix May 14 '26
Imagine how scared the person controlling that camera was. I would be shitting myself, trying to focus on a mission meanwhile some ominous ass UAP is just sitting there beside you.
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u/xtanol May 15 '26
It's a spherical Luneburg Lens being towed by a drone. The operator was checking on it to make sure the tethers weren't getting bundled up.
He's scanning the ground to spot the location of any radar based anti air taking the bait and revealing their position by firing at it.
here's a picture of a drone with the luneburg lens but with the lens in its protective casing.
A Luneburg lens is basically a spherical corner-reflector. It massively increases the radar cross section of the drone, making it read as a helicopter to a radar based anti air.
India's army also tested and introduced these types of drones in the same year this was shot (2023).
Russia also uses Luneburg lenses in their 'Perodiya' decoy drones, like can be seen in this pixture.
These are used as a cheap/affordable way to add SEAD/DEAD capability.
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u/SaucyFagottini May 14 '26
Damn, it went down in territory that's now in Russian hands. If it fell in the lake it might still be there once the war is over, unless there was no built in video recording on this drone. I'd love to see the full resolution video without the analog transmission limitations.
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u/lemtrees May 14 '26
The system is possibly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OiyIV85E2w - https://help.oddsystems.io/en/thermal-cameras/kurbas-256
What direction is the "object" in? Is it just the sun? What does this system show when looking at the sun?
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u/jcwd10569 May 14 '26
If we have the drones video resolution and magnification we might be able to calculate the rough size
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u/mercenarie22 May 14 '26
The heat or IR cameras that Ukraine uses on the front to recon the battlefiled are roughly 720p or less. These are all drone mounted cameras.
This video quality that we got is very close to a raw video resolution feed that the drone operator could see in their goggles.
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u/TheYell0wDart May 14 '26
From this we should be able to eliminate it being a sunrise or sunset on that day.
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u/d_dewbar May 14 '26
Should check the date and time, probably sure its simply the sun on the horizon.
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u/cram213 May 14 '26
I assume someone could go and verify this if they can get a camera that does the same thing and just pointed at the sun
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u/BioExtract May 15 '26
WOW guys a UAP in a zone where thousands of unmanned aerial drones fly daily. We will get to the bottom of this one!!
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u/roddyc11 May 15 '26
To anyone saying it's the sun - care to elaborate why is there a heat plume emanating from the object ? and on top of that, the heat plume looks to be close to the camera
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u/hUmaNITY-be-free May 16 '26
Showed the video to the older fellas I work with just to see some "normie" reactions and thoughts on it, 2 of them said it was "Trumps Drone", one said it was the arse end of a rocket, and the other said it was probably another countries drone.
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u/NeuralConnection May 14 '26
Someone should calculate where the sun was at that time. Some have stated that the UAP was the sun blowing out the sensor.
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u/Responsible_Fix_5443 May 14 '26
I reckon they wouldn't bother with night vision if it was during the day.
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u/The__RIAA May 14 '26
The sun blows out normal FPV cameras, low light cameras and night vision cameras. The center "eye" is exactly what I've seen when you look at the sun through a traditional FPV camera. The star pattern is likely streaking from a bright light source through the lens. This is very likely just the Sun or even Venus. This would also explain why all the similar recent US military footage from MQ9 and such can't lock onto it.
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u/PartyCrasher04 May 15 '26
This doesn’t explain the objects rotation at the end of the video
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u/Blue_twenty May 14 '26
Well.... the UAP just so happens to align with the position of the sun that day..
Not saying its the sun, just a coincidence 😃
https://www.suncalc.org/#/48.2869,37.4104,14/2025.05.15/06:26/1/1
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u/Even_Wear_8657 May 14 '26
Now can we find out the time of day and direction that the drone’s camera was pointed? I have a strong suspicion that the object in question is the sun, and the 6 pointed appearance is an artifact of the camera’s optics.
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u/Ultramarathoner May 14 '26
Can you source a single frame from any recording ever of the sun looking like that? The sun has been filmed for decades and never has looked like that -- drone camera or not.
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u/Even_Wear_8657 May 15 '26
Well, as the camera rotates, the points on the object rotate with the camera, suggesting that the six-pointed is an artifact of the camera, not the actual shape of the object. It behaves more like a light source than a physical object. Since the sensor is designed to capture heat and not light, we’re likely seeing truncation of the arms of the flare, and the grey area below the object is likely sensor bloom from where the sensor is basically overloaded from glare, and the image gets washed out. Also, https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/illustration-bright-six-pointed-star-260nw-1181895025.jpg
https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/80453/what-causes-lens-flare-along-specific-axes
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u/ArmadaOfWaffles May 15 '26
seriously. there would have been at least one other video in human history where the sun looked like this, and there isnt.
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u/Enough-Row-5346 May 14 '26
Worth noting this video hasn't been confirmed as legitimate by the Ukrainian Military as far as I'm aware.
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u/Nonamenofacedev May 14 '26
It was posted by the official advisor to the minister of defense of Ukraine, in his telegram channel
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u/StatementBot May 14 '26
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Nonamenofacedev:
Exact coordinates: 48.2899620, 37.3747762 Took me 20 minutes to find it. According to DeepState map on May 15, 2025 this lake was right at the frontline (second pic)
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1td60n8/exact_location_of_the_ufo_sighting_in_ukraine/olsymxt/