Good to see a serious and well known scientific publication promptly reporting the story The footage was recorded on a cellular device in September 2021 and shows the infrared display of a U.S. Special Operations Forces AC-130J gunship flying over the Gulf of Oman during a training exercise. In an accompanying incident report, the blips are described as “Multiple Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Observed Maneuvering Erratically and In Formation.” The report states that the objects appeared to b...

🧵THE 'COLD ORBS' OF THE GULF OF OMAN The latest https://t.co/P1ZBOmOHhb UAP release contains a 2021 encounter over the Gulf of Oman involving a U.S. Special Operations Forces AC-130J gunship and objects described in the accompanying intelligence report as "cold orbs." These objects were observed through military EO/IR sensors during an active live fire exercise, but what is a cold orb?👇

[The 2021 Gulf of Oman AC-130J UAP Encounter]() [An Open-Ended Examination of the Reported Behavior and the Questions the Released Evidence Cannot Yet Answer]() [Purpose]() The September 8, 2021 UAP encounter involving a U.S. Special Operations Forces AC-130J over the Gulf of Oman is noteworthy because it reportedly combines trained military observers, operational electro-optical/infrared equipment, multiple observations, contemporaneous recordings, and an intelligence report describing unusu...

30 seconds of infrared footage taken on September 8, 2021 over the Gulf of Oman. It was recorded by U.S. Special Operations Forces aboard an AC-130J Gunship. Important caveat from the official description: this is a secondary capture — someone filmed the infrared sensor display with a cellphone. It’s not the original primary sensor data, so the quality is limited and you can expect the usual screen-recording artifacts (blurring, flickering, etc.). The footage is part of a set of six contempor...