It’s not the object that bothers me. It’s what appears to keep dropping out of it. Police helicopter FLIR footage. California, 2004. #UAP #UFO https://t.co/3K0QKk2Uve

2004. Law enforcement helicopter FLIR footage of a UFO. 🚁👇 Same year and ~150 miles from the USS Nimitz Tic Tac incident. I’m sure it’s something prosaic. I just can’t think what it could be. #FLIR #Aviation #Unexplained https://t.co/TDsm4ODHCY [Quoted] Long Beach police helicopter. FLIR captures a #UAP over the ocean. Is it shedding… or spawning? Same year as the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac encounter. Same body of water. The camera never looks away. Neither should you. https://t.co/Oi8188lPtq

Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp just dropped MQ-9 Reaper FLIR footage of UAP orbs in formation — Persian Gulf, 2012

People keep treating this frame like it’s the literal silhouette of some impossible craft, but what you’re seeing is very likely a known optical artifact from the FLIR system itself. The “cross” or “orb-with-spikes” shape is consistent with a saturation/blooming effect that happens when an extremely bright heat source is centered in-frame on certain infrared targeting cameras. Because the polarity of the feed is inverted, hotter objects appear darker instead of brighter, so the glare artifact...