Leaked Photo Surfaces of Purported Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

nivek

As Above So Below
Leaked Photo Surfaces of Purported Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
By Tim McMillan

The Debrief has learned of the leak of an unclassified photo, said to have been widely distributed in the Intelligence Community, which purportedly shows what the DoD has characterized as “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.”

On Wednesday, The Debrief reported on two classified intelligence reports issued by The Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF).

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The Debrief learned of the existence of the photograph from a defense official who has been verified as being in a position to have access to the UAPTF intelligence reports. Additionally, the same two officials with the DoD, and one from the U.S. Intelligence community with whom we previously spoke, confirmed that the leaked image is the same photo provided in a 2018 intelligence position report issued by the UAPTF.

The photo itself is said to be considered “Unclassified and For Official Use Only,” however, because the image and accompanying report were shared on a secure Intelligence Community network, the officials we spoke with would only acknowledge it under strict conditions of anonymity. Prior to any agreement, The Debrief did verify these sources were in fact in positions within the U.S. Intelligence Community and under the authority of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence.

The Debrief reached out to Pentagon spokeswoman Susan Gough for clarification about the photo, who on December 3, 2020, responded to our questions via email.

“To maintain operations security and to avoid disclosing information that may be useful to potential adversaries, DOD does not discuss publicly the details of reports, observations or examinations of reported incursions into our training ranges or designated airspace, including those incursions initially designated as UAP,” Gough’s reply read.

According to officials The Debrief spoke with, the photo appears to be the same as one referenced in our previous reporting, described as an “unidentified silver ‘cube-shaped’ object” encountered by military pilots as it hovered motionlessly over the ocean. It appears evident that the image was captured by the backseat weapons systems operator of what appears to be an F/A-18 fighter jet.

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The photo is consistent with the claims that the image was captured by a pilot using their personal cell phone. Officials we spoke with said the image was captured in 2018 off the East Coast of the United States.

While details are difficult to make out, the image appears to depict an inverted bell-shaped object, which is not readily identifiable given the photo’s context. The object appears to possess ridges or other protrusions along its lateral edges, extending toward its base.

The object bears at least some resemblance to a GPS dropsonde, an atmospheric profiling device designed to be dropped from aircraft. However, notably absent in the pilot’s photo is the GPS receiver which trails below a dropsonde’s square-cone parachute.

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A dropsonde is a small weather reconnaissance instrument developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Source: NCAR /UCAR
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The Debrief reached out to Terry Hock, In-situ Sensing Facility (ISF) Manager at the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Earth Observing Laboratory, about whether the object in the photo resembled any recognizable atmospheric research equipment.

“In regards to the photo, while the image of the object is not clear, it certainly does not look like a dropsonde,” Hock told The Debrief, “because there are no signs of a dropsonde below the object where the object could potentially be a parachute, and it does not have the right shape.”

“Dropsonde are dropped into hurricanes over water, not over military bases,” Hock added. “A dropsonde decent is ~15 m/s, thus it would be very brief for a pilot to see and there would obviously need to be an aircraft above the Navy aircraft which could be confirmed with ATC.”

In Hock’s opinion, the object most closely resembles a mylar balloon.

“There are scientific research groups that do launch balloons which they refer to as drifters,” Hock told us. “[T]his may be a possibility.”

Another possibility is that the photo depicts some variety of military radar-reflector or research balloon. However, two defense officials we spoke with said pilots who encountered the object described that, unlike a balloon under similar conditions, the object was completely motionless and seemingly unaffected by ambient air currents.

While they did not describe the photo as compelling, all three officials we spoke with seemed dismissive of the idea that it depicts a balloon. According to these sources, the photo would not have been issued if there were reasonable estimates that the object was a balloon, given the nature of the intelligence report in which it appeared.

The Debrief has not been able to speak with any of the pilots involved, in order to confirm the accounts described in the intelligence reports. In 2018, the Navy changed its guidelines concerning the reporting of unknown objects by military personnel, and the surfacing of this photograph seems to indicate that some aviators are coming forward with sighting reports.

It was also expressed to us that the photo is not related to an image provided in a separate intelligence report released earlier this summer, as reported previously by The Debrief. Officials who had seen that report said it contained an image of a large equilateral triangle with rounded or “blunted” edges and large, perfectly spherical white illuminated areas in each corner. The image of the large triangular craft was said to have been captured in 2019.

Earlier this year, the Pentagon officially released three videos of what they say show “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” captured in 2004 and 2015. The newly leaked photo of the balloon-like object is said to have been captured in 2018.

The Debrief will continue to provide updates on this story as more information is obtained. If readers have more information concerning similar UAP reports, images, or videos, please contact The Debrief at tips@thedebrief.org.

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nivek

As Above So Below

1963

Noble
This is a "leaked" photo of a UAP / UFO, according to the new site called The Debrief, which is circulating within the U.S. Intelligence Community.
East Coast general location; 2018 timeframe. .. and of course, unfortunately The source is anonymous. :Sneaky:
Leaked Photo Surfaces of Purported Unidentified Aerial Phenomena - The Debrief

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I don't know what it is, but thought it looked 'different from the norm' and the general shape of it tosses my mind back to 'The Kecksburg Object', ... what do you guys think?

Cheers.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
This is a "leaked" photo of a UAP / UFO, according to the new site called The Debrief, which is circulating within the U.S. Intelligence Community.
East Coast general location; 2018 timeframe. .. and of course, unfortunately The source is anonymous. :Sneaky:
Leaked Photo Surfaces of Purported Unidentified Aerial Phenomena - The Debrief

129180924_4782510901823782_6100851532928695361_o.jpg

129119198_4782510995157106_3998566381356437077_o.png

I don't know what it is, but thought it looked 'different from the norm' and the general shape of it tosses my mind back to 'The Kecksburg Object', ... what do you guys think?

Cheers.

I thought Kecksburg was supposed to be more of an acorn shape
 

1963

Noble
This is a "leaked" photo of a UAP / UFO, according to the new site called The Debrief, which is circulating within the U.S. Intelligence Community.
East Coast general location; 2018 timeframe. .. and of course, unfortunately The source is anonymous. :Sneaky:
Leaked Photo Surfaces of Purported Unidentified Aerial Phenomena - The Debrief

129180924_4782510901823782_6100851532928695361_o.jpg

129119198_4782510995157106_3998566381356437077_o.png

I don't know what it is, but thought it looked 'different from the norm' and the general shape of it tosses my mind back to 'The Kecksburg Object', ... what do you guys think?

Cheers.
Sorry for the DP Nivek. :oops: great find though mate! :Thumbsup: ... What do you make of this 'new super-source' The Debrief mate? ... do you think it might amount to something a little more than all of the other 'mystery-busters' that are full of it , [apart from wanting donations] ?

Cheers Buddy.
 

Dejan Corovic

As above, so bellow
It's a helium balloon.

1) It has radial creases on its sides. Like helium balloons do.
2) Helium balloon would float with wider side upwards and ... this one is floating with broader side upwards.
3) It is not all metallic, has a dark patch in the middle ... which looks like a paint job.
4) Photo is not clear, but it seems that it has some graphics printed in the middle, in something like golden color.
 

Dejan Corovic

As above, so bellow
90% of UFOs have uniformly predictable features:

1) completely metallic on all sides
2) have panels around their circumference and these panels blink in RGB colors.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Sorry for the DP Nivek. :oops: great find though mate! :Thumbsup: ... What do you make of this 'new super-source' The Debrief mate? ... do you think it might amount to something a little more than all of the other 'mystery-busters' that are full of it , [apart from wanting donations] ?

Cheers Buddy.

I'm hopeful this Debrief group takes things a bit further than some others like TTSA, whom I somewhat question their intentions and sincerity, especially after not releasing their data on the metamaterials...The members of this group seem to want the truth of things and willing to put it out there as they get information, time will tell...

As far as this photo is concerned , to me definitely not some party balloon, it has distinct sides and form that does not correspond to a deflated balloon...I think is more solid than a balloon...IMO

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Without a clear source, an analysis, witness reports or any other things, that photo is useless. At that distance u cant tell much, could be a balloon. It is a good photo tough considering it was taken with a phone from a jet.
 
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1963

Noble
I'm hopeful this Debrief group takes things a bit further than some others like TTSA, whom I somewhat question their intentions and sincerity, especially after not releasing their data on the metamaterials...The members of this group seem to want the truth of things and willing to put it out there as they get information, time will tell...

As far as this photo is concerned , to me definitely not some party balloon, it has distinct sides and form that does not correspond to a deflated balloon...I think is more solid than a balloon...IMO

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Hi mate, :Thumbsup: ... fingers crossed on the new sources of information, but so far I have to say that my excitement level about that prospect is pretty muted based solely on this opening offer, but am willing to hope that it's going to improve.
...I say this because I really do think that the 'UFO' in the picture is most probably the 'Batman Balloon' that I posted earlier. [or some equivalent superhero balloon] ... I know that you are not convinced on that, but i'm really in the high 90s in percentage-convinced. ... And so look forward to the next instalment of 'The Debrief' with anticipation ... but no serious expectations .

Cheers Buddy.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Hi mate, :Thumbsup: ... fingers crossed on the new sources of information, but so far I have to say that my excitement level about that prospect is pretty muted based solely on this opening offer, but am willing to hope that it's going to improve.
...I say this because I really do think that the 'UFO' in the picture is most probably the 'Batman Balloon' that I posted earlier. [or some equivalent superhero balloon] ... I know that you are not convinced on that, but i'm really in the high 90s in percentage-convinced. ... And so look forward to the next instalment of 'The Debrief' with anticipation ... but no serious expectations .

Cheers Buddy.

They've put out a couple good reports lately, not anything spectacular but good tidbits of info and perhaps thats all they can get at the moment...

As far as the photo here, its definitely no smoking gun type proof of anything but also doesn’t mean they shouldn’t publish it if they got their hands on it...I hear there's a clear image of a triangle UFO they are trying to get their hands on lol, we shall see...

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nivek

As Above So Below
I'm of the notion that the photo would not have been issued if there were reasonable estimates that the object was simply a balloon...

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There's no way that's a mylar balloon. The maximum altitude of a mylar balloon is 3000-7000 ft. The curvature of the Earth is visible in the photo - the minimum altitude required to see the curvature of the Earth is about 35,000 ft. So that object appears to be about 28,000 ft higher than any mylar toy balloon can reach.
 

Dejan Corovic

As above, so bellow
There's no way that's a mylar balloon. The maximum altitude of a mylar balloon is 3000-7000 ft. The curvature of the Earth is visible in the photo - the minimum altitude required to see the curvature of the Earth is about 35,000 ft. So that object appears to be about 28,000 ft higher than any mylar balloon can reach.

We don't know the altitude at which the photo was taken. 35k ft is only an estimate that could be off by +/- 10k ft. But here is some info about the maximum altitude helium balloons can reach:

Because density is altered by altitude, the helium balloon can reach a height of 9,000 meters, or 29,537 feet. Anything higher than this altitude will cause the helium within the balloon to expand and the balloon to pop.

How High Can a Helium Balloon Go Before it Pops?

From the above article maximum altitude for helium balloons is 30k ft, which is inside the estimate error.

I thought of two more reason why it's not UFO. Here is the new list:

It's a helium balloon because:

1) It has radial creases on its sides. Like helium balloons do.
2) Helium balloon would float with wider side upwards and ... this one is floating with broader side upwards.
3) It is not all metallic, has a dark patch in the middle ... which looks like a paint job.
4) Photo is not clear, but it seems that it has some graphics printed in the middle, in something like golden color
5) NEW: Helium balloons can reach 30k ft. Which is within estimate error of the photo.

90% of UFOs have uniformly predictable features:

1) completely metallic on all sides
2) have panels around their circumference and these panels blink in RGB colors.
3) NEW: object didn't move during the whole flyby. From all the UFO-plane encounters so far, UFOs would always react with some form of movement.
 

August

Metanoia
It has been known that UFOs can and do purposefully resemble common and ordinary objects. Its part of the Phenomena.
 
Phenomena of misidentification? I think a lot of skeptics would agree on that, yes.

As for that object in the photo, some people have suggested a solar balloon, without further info, im leaning towards something like that too.

And someone leaking something like this to the Debrief with a story and no additional way of verification, it feels like were being played here.
 
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1963

Noble
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Ufonly

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Image Analysis Update...
This is my image Analysis for the recently released UFO/UAP Image.
LEAKED PHOTO SURFACES OF
PURPORTED UNIDENTIFIED
AERIAL PHENOMENA
TIM MCMILLAN BREAKING NEWS
UAP.
3rd DECEMBER, 2020.
Upon using simple techniques, I’ve managed to match up a simple children’s balloon (Batman design) to the UFO/UAP Image captured recently from a military fighter jet.
As you can clearly see there is an almost accurate match up of the 2 separate images, in shape and size. In my opinion it is a simple misidentifications.
Jason Gleaves, Ufonly.
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...and Bruce Maccabee agrees. ... so good enough for me. :Thumbsup:

Cheers.
 
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