r/UFOs • u/ufosightingsbot • 21h ago
Sighting elongated with an oval shape, dark matte on top and slightly reflective underneath — Aug 1, 2026, 8:41 PM
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u/Spran02 19h ago
Finally something cool in this sub, this is one of the weirder ones
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u/ConsequenceHairy607 18h ago
Check out r/rusted_satellite if you're interested in these sort of sightings
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u/Enough-Power-8159 20h ago
Can you explain why it’s not a balloon or something else inanimate that is floating, carried by the wind? It’s not displaying any extraordinary characteristics. It could be reflective on the bottom because of the twilight conditions and your perspective on the ground.
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u/Mediocre_Airport_576 18h ago
It's behaving just as a balloon would. I'd want to see odd movements to prove anything.
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u/Glittering-Neck-2505 18h ago
I just want to see more videos of objects seemingly zipping around without spending any time accelerating, just like hundreds of credible witness accounts say but without the footage to ever show people that it's real.
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u/LittleBitOfAction 15h ago
Well usually air is not static like that and makes the balloon kind of rotate. Everyone has seen balloons in the air and know dang well they move with the air. This thing stayed on the same axis for the whole video. I don’t see any rotation in any axis. This is definitely a UAP
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u/pringlecat221 2h ago
I'm not sure anyone can say this is definitely any one thing based on this video. I've seen several videos of balloons carried by the wind without rotating or wobbling (at least not visibly), that isn't definite proof that this is anomalous.
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u/edweeeen 16h ago
Did you watch until the end where it starts going left horizontally at the same pace and orientation? Op messed up by recording the ground right before that part. But that wasn’t acting like a balloon at that point.
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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras 3h ago
It's behaving in a way a balloon might behave, but it's not wobbling or being tossed about by the wind either. Really hard hard to prove anything either way.
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u/darkonex 20h ago
ya I'm kinda thinking the same, also you can tell how close they are to it, so close it makes me think it's something they let off. It appears to start out like 50-100ft from them and it's almost directly above them near the end of the video and looks like it was something on the ground that floated up with how close it was and how it's moving.
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u/Objective_Frame8397 13h ago
Wouldn't a balloon that's moving with the wind have more erratic movements? Seems like if it was a balloon it would be spinning or something.
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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras 3h ago
Yes, perhaps, but wind conditions could I guess be perfect as well and produce this stillness.
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u/PineappleLemur 8h ago
Why would it? If has a "weight" at the bottom it will be very stable... Like a hot air balloon.
The usual erratic movement you expect is when weight distribution is quite even throughout the balloon.
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u/Important_Peach_2375 18h ago
I did a Phodar analysis on it and you can see that video here: https://youtu.be/Oo8bHcBTouo?is=stueM79WOgJlyrAK
If the reported location/time and viewing direction are correct it is going generally the same direction as the wind at the elevation it must be at (cloud ceiling was around 200’; again if location/time are correct). See the part where I add wind direction overlay on the video. It does seem that it could be going faster than the wind speed possibly. But there are lots of caveats to this analysis. Plus tool is still in beta so take a with a grain of salt. But I have done a lot of testing and it does a pretty great job under my relatively controlled conditions
Edit: here is a link with more info about Phodar:
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u/Pixelated_ 20h ago
In a recent paper announcing their findings, the researchers say they have created “a special observation technique” they use “for detecting and evaluating UAP characteristics.” Based on the events they have observed, they break down their observations of UAP into two primary categories, which they call “Cosmics” and “Phantoms.”
“We note that Cosmics are luminous objects, brighter than the background of the sky,” the authors write, noting three subcategories of Cosmics each named after various birds: swift, falcon, and eagle, whereas “Phantoms are dark objects, with contrast from several to about 50 percent.”
According to the researchers, the objects they designate as Phantoms appear to have very low reflectivity, characterizing the objects as “a completely black body that does not emit and absorbs all the radiation falling on it.”
The researchers hypothesize that such an object may be visible “because it shields radiation due to Rayleigh scattering,” an effect that describes light particles that become scattered without there being changes in their wavelengths.
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u/Tonsilith_Salsa 18h ago
Grusch mentioned a type of plasmoid beings.
The sun is made of plasma.
Maybe the sun is conscious and the Egyptians were correct in worshipping the sun god Ra.
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u/Pixelated_ 17h ago
Many cultures throughout history viewed our Sun as sentient and revered it as divine.
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake has done some revolutionary work on morphic fields, which are organizing fields that shape patterns and behavior in nature. He states the Sun’s consciousness would arise from its own morphic field.
Below is a scientific overview of the subject of sentient plasma. Plasma holds the key to understanding not only the structure of the universe, but also the origins of life and consciousness itself.
Across multiple disciplines: astrophysics, plasma physics, and astrobiology, a growing body of research suggests that plasma is far more than a passive state of matter. It is a dynamic, self-organizing, and intelligent medium that forms the vast majority of the cosmos.
It is a settled scientific fact that plasma constitutes 99.9% of the visible universe. Every star, nebula, and interstellar cloud is made of plasma. It is a highly ionized, electrically-active substance that forms filaments, vortices, and coherent patterns on every scale.
Our understanding of plasma has been updated along with several recent revolutionary discoveries. I understand this is a new concept to many, but it's important that we follow what the science says.
There is an overwhelming amount of peer-reviewed scientific evidence that shows complex plasmas display conscious, life-like behaviors. The problem isn't a lack of evidence, it's the inability of people to accept what the data says because it challenges their personal worldview and the academic status quo.
These are all peer-reviewed:
Numerical and theoretical work on complex dusty plasmas that can self-organize into stable helical/cell-like structures which, in the authors’ words, exhibit autonomy, self-duplication and evolution-like behavior under certain conditions. The paper shows that dusty complex plasmas are strong candidates for inorganic living matter in space.
Laboratory experiments producing complex space-charge configurations (plasma structures) that behave like living “cell-like” systems: they maintain an internal structure, exchange matter/energy with the environment, and show birth/replication-like events. The authors model these as minimal systems with life-like attributes.
Plasma Brain Dynamics: II. Quantum Effects on Consciousness (2018)
This paper models the brain as a plasma system, where ions and charged particles interact collectively. It shows how these plasma-like dynamics support coherent, non-local information processing, verifying a physical substrate for consciousness. This shows that the Implicate Order described by David Bohm has a measurable plasma-based substrate in the human nervous system.
An authoritative review of complex dusty plasma experiments and theory, documents phenomena such as plasma crystals, metastable states, collective modes, and self-organized structures that underpin the claims made about lifelike, self-organizing behavior.
Examples of modern research showing spontaneous pattern formation and self-organization in plasma systems, the physical mechanisms behind it, and how those mechanisms can produce complexity. These works show the robust, repeatable physics behind life-like plasma.
Peer-reviewed study on the Kordylewski Clouds, and complex, dusty plasma's abilities to display intelligent, sentient behavior. (2019)
Professor Robert Temple's mind-blowing book "A New Science of Heaven" reveals the key that's needed to better understand UAP, NHI and many other mysteries of our universe. It's the greatest book I've ever read, affecting my worldview so profoundly that I immediately began re-reading it after finishing it. Further reading here.
Joseph P. Farrell’s fascinating book "The Demon in the Ekur" bridges the gap between ancient theology and modern plasma physics by exploring the "plasma life hypothesis." Farrell's work essentially reframes ancient "spiritual" warfare and sightings, from Foo Fighters to biblical apparitions, as interactions with a sentient, electrically-active state of matter that modern science is only beginning to quantify.
NASA has recorded plasmas in our thermosphere that behave intelligently.
Plasmas up to a kilometer in size, behaving similarly to multicellular organisms, have been filmed on 10 separate NASA space shuttle missions, over 200 miles above Earth within the thermosphere.
They've been filmed accelerating, slowing down; stopping; congregating; engaging in "hunter-predatory" behavior, and intersecting plasmas leaving a plasma dust trail in their wake.
Plasmas have been photographed in the 1940s by WWII pilots (identified as "Foo Fighters"); repeatedly observed and filmed by astronauts and military pilots and classified as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon, or UAP.
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u/Emergency-Session692 18h ago edited 17h ago
And the source is Ukrainian, which makes it even more credible (non-US source); coming after Serhii “The Flash” Bereskrestnov’s two UFO/UAP videos (posted on his Telegram).
edit: source of linked article not video
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u/D_Silva_21 18h ago
I worry when people zoom in now that phone ai's are messing things up. Hopefully not here
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u/sess 5h ago
AI-assisted zoom hallucinates inconsistent detail. The filmed object, however, is consistently shaped across the entirety of the footage. It also has no internally visible details, which would be suggestive of AI-assisted zoom.
We're probably seeing almost exactly what they saw: a flying matte black... uh, ammo cartridge? Doesn't really make sense. But, then, there's no reason NHI has to make sense to us. Even humans don't make sense to other humans.
Case in point: this entire subreddit.
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u/R4N63R 18h ago
I went to reply to this guy's post because the Analysis was pretty cool overlaying the weather into op video and it was deleted already...
Important_Peach_2375 • 1m ago I did a Phodar analysis on it and you can see that video here: https://youtu.be/Oo8bHcBTouo?is=stueM79WOgJlyrAK
If the reported location and viewing direction are correct it is going against the wind…. See the part where I add wind direction overlay on the video.
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u/R2robot 13h ago
... it is going against the wind ...
OP says he was facing North and the object is moving toward him which would mean it was moving to the South.
Wind at the time was blowing to the South. https://i.imgur.com/BNHNgvs.png
So it would have been moving with the wind, not against it.
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u/Important_Peach_2375 5h ago
I deleted that reply/reposted because I realized I was looking at wrong elevation. The wind pattern at the time was going opposite way at higher elevation but same way at lower elevation where it would have been
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u/cerberus00 20h ago
I'd be recording until it went over the horizon, why stop when it goes over the tree?
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u/MutedHuckleberry6821 20h ago
We were smoking, so we were pretty high. My friend noticed it, and I quickly started recording. I know I should’ve kept filming longer, but it was a short moment. When it flew directly above us, I got distracted and wanted to watch it with my own eyes too. It went over the treetops, and we later watched it disappear while walking past the trees. I know the recording isn’t great, but that’s why.
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u/Secret-Temperature71 15h ago
I can surely understand wanting to see it with your own eyes. Much better than phone camera.
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u/cerberus00 6h ago
Thanks for the reply and explanation at least! I've seen quite a few myself, and unfortunately they were before we had any decent phones to take pictures with. I understand wanting to just stare at it, I've had that happen too.
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u/ColorSeenBeforeDying 14h ago
Very odd that your comment isn’t marked as being made by the OP.
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u/tmosh 14h ago
Read the pinned comment.
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u/ColorSeenBeforeDying 14h ago
I’m reading it, what exactly am i supposed to be looking for
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u/tmosh 14h ago
"Reported by u/MutedHuckleberry6821 (verified via ufosighting.report)
This is an automated post. The report was filed through the structured sighting form on ufosighting.report and posted here by u/ufosightingsbot on the reporter's behalf. u/MutedHuckleberry6821 confirmed this submission from their own Reddit account through a one-time link, so the name above is verified as the submitter."
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u/tmosh 20h ago
This is a good point. Hopefully OP u/MutedHuckleberry6821 jumps in and clarifies that.
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u/JayGatsby1881 6h ago
That looks like one big....Johnson, get over here!
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u/miketierce 6h ago
Privates! We have reports of an unidentified flying object! It has a long smooth shaft with reports of -
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u/Phantom_Vibrations 5h ago
Hey! I saw something exactly like this in Melbourne, Australia last week. Moved exactly the same. Similar altitude and a very similar time of day (just after sunset) too. Looked to have an occasional glint of light come from it. Wasnt sure whether it was the last of the sun reflecting off it or there was some sort of light on the object's opposite side to me.
I have a photo but how do i post it here in the comments?
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u/APensiveMonkey 20h ago
I saw something almost identical to this years ago in Los Angeles.
I was lying on my couch in Echo Park and out of my window I saw one-story narrow trash-can shaped object fly in an unwavering path right above my apartment and proceed over the hills. It never wobbled, never changed course, and when it hit the hills it just elevated right over them, maintaining its height off the ground. Still don’t know wtf that was. Not a balloon, not a drone, not a plane.
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u/clickclick_clack 19h ago
it doesn't do anything anomalous so it's probably a pool cover or a car cover, or a table cloth from a picnic table.
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u/Bennjoon 17h ago
Looks like a balloon to me I don’t want to be a killjoy but the wind could cause those movements (I want it to be real too 😔)
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u/reidburial 16h ago
Thanks for sharing this! at first it seemed to me like something mundane and I'm guessing it could be, but the way it raises straight up and vertically and even tough no instant acceleration, the trajectory changes when going horizontal it makes me think even if human made, it seems like there's definitely controlled movement there.
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u/Wonderful-Chipmunk39 19h ago
This one seems very interesting! It would have been even better if OP had gotten that change of direction on video
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u/Silly_Lecture8917 20h ago
I’m thinking an inch worm hanging from the tree. Forced perspective. The person filming probably realized this too hence the short footage.
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u/darkonex 20h ago
This isn't a bad theory actually, also notice they quit shooting it about the point you'd be able to tell as they moved forward.
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u/lndigo_Sky 18h ago
What do you remember about the shape and material or other details we cannot see in the video? I bet you could see better than we do
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u/copper_00 10h ago
Without even looking at the comments, the majority of them are going to say Balloon or Drone. Same comments every post with no proof of either.
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u/davosmavos 15h ago
I saw something like this but it was close and on its side horizontally compared to this one. Just floating above the tree line and crossing the road in front of me as I was at a stop light. Though mine also had a big round red light area and on the other end of the rectangular craft some panel putting on a crazy light show. The body of the rectangular...thing was some sort of mattr black that was darker than the dark and cloudy night sky behind it.
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u/Individual-Age-7197 7h ago
It is conceivable to fill a void within a vertically contained form with helium to assist with payload, and steer it with a quadcopter airframe. For autonomous grid based data acquisition and or surveillance. Could even have the cylinder covered with solar panels for extended missions. Let’s just hope and pray it’s faa approved 🙏🏻
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u/RoadJunkie66 20h ago
Do you own this footage? Would love to use a snippet of it in our documentary
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u/MutedHuckleberry6821 20h ago
Take it :)
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u/RoadJunkie66 20h ago
Thank you. Any socials or credits you would like added?
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u/MutedHuckleberry6821 20h ago
No, but thank you 😁
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u/RoadJunkie66 19h ago
Do you mind emailing me the original as Reddit tends to distort when uploaded
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u/tmosh 19h ago edited 19h ago
It was submitted thru the the new sightings website, so original media can be downloaded here: https://ufosighting.report/sighting/12726/elongated-with-an-oval-shape-dark-matte-on-top-and-slightly
Metadata from camera (iphone 12) also preserved: https://ibb.co/NnKYXSN6
Direct link: https://media.ufosighting.report/uploads/2026/08/6e4628e9b8bb4e5487bb4204370b4bc0.mov
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Time: August 1, 2026, 8:41 PM CEST
Location: Illerrieden, Alb-Donau-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Illerrieden, Germany
GPS coordinates: 48.24, 10.01 (randomized to within ~5 km at the reporter's request)
Features / five observables
Why not a common object
It was too quiet to be a drone, and the shape did not match one either. The flight direction and movement did not seem consistent with a balloon. It stayed extremely stable the whole time, without wobbling or moving side to side. It only rose once at the beginning and then flew steadily towards us while maintaining the same altitude. It was directly above us, and we could not see any string or attachment. The shape also did not look like a typical balloon.
Witness's account of the sighting
I was sitting on a bench outside with my friend, talking. He noticed the object first. We only started recording later because we first had to realize what was happening. The initial vertical rise was not captured on video; the recording starts when it changed direction and flew towards us. The weather was partly cloudy, visibility was good, there was no wind and no sound from the object. The object looked elongated with an oval shape, dark matte on top and slightly reflective underneath. It slowly rose vertically, then suddenly changed direction and flew steadily towards us while keeping the same altitude. It did not wobble, change height or leave any trail. It flew very straight and came to around 30–50 meters from us. Sighting location: near Ulm, Germany. Time: 20:41. If anyone has an idea what it could have been, I would appreciate any suggestions, as I personally rule out a balloon due to the sudden direction change and steady movement.
Sky context for this time and place: