A pH๏τo of a metallic UFO over a Middle Eastern country does not normally get much media attention. However, one image in question has become trending this week, for a variety of reasons.

The pH๏τo was taken over northern Iraq from a military reconnaissance aircraft. The pH๏τo is part of a video recorded in an active military zone. The startling footage was obtained by UFO researcher Jeremy Corbell and journalist George Knapp, who say the incident is being investigated by the Pentagon’s All Domains Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).

Metallic UFO over MOSUL

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp kicked off their new “ Weaponized ” podcast with a big story: an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) recorded by a US military reconnaissance aircraft in 2016 over the city of Mosul, Iraq. The short video, lasting just four seconds, was reportedly released in 2020 during a confidential briefing for US government officials by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). According to Corbell’s Facebook page, what is now known as the “Orbs of Mosul” was revealed to prepare the United States military and intelligence community about the nature and presentation of the UAP/UFO phenomenon. This apparently includes showing the intelligence community that there is more to UAP meetings than Tic Tacs and drones.

Details in the report indicate that the flying silver ball was “moving with purpose” in a lateral direction across the video (south to north). It was detected and recorded by an MC-12A twin-engine turboprop military aircraft conducting low-alтιтude scouting, primarily used to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support to ground forces. The maximum speed of the MC-12 is 312 knots (579 km/h). The UAP was in sight of MC-12 for only one second and was observed not to change alтιтude during the time it was visible. After returning to base, the image was analyzed by a specialized team that focuses on electronics and artificial intelligence and mainly supports the US Central Command.

In their analysis of the podcast, Corbell and Knapp explain that this is one of many pH๏τos and videos that have yet to be made public, and that the Pentagon task force is figuring out what to do with it. An interesting observation concerns the simplicity of these various UAPs.

“It’s not funny? UFOs are often reported in four basic shapes, either spheres, pyramids, cubes and cigars” or balls of light, Corbell explains. “Very basic shapes, totally non-aerodynamic. You have a flying cube, a flying sphere. These shapes are not aerodynamic”.

Corbell is right in his explanation of shapes: cubes and pyramids are not streamlined. Spheres are better, and cigars, like soccer balls, are probably the leanest of the four. However, all demonstrate maneuvers (direction, speed, and hybrid (air-water) changes) that far exceed the known capabilities of current aircraft.

Another interesting thing about the Mosul UFO is when and where it was seen: April 16, 2016, in a “H๏τ” conflict zone. This is a completely different scenario than the UAP Tic Tacs recorded by US Navy pilots off the coast of the US and is also unusual because Iraq, unlike its neighbor Iran, is not known to have UFO sightings. Wikibin.org points to a period between 2003 and 2005 when that country had an unusual number of UFO sightings.

For those familiar with recent military history, March 19, 2003 is the date of the invasion of Iraq by the United States and coalition forces that started the Iraq War. This could explain the UFOs on that date. However, also over Kirkuk on March 23, a BBC News reporter saw a triangular shaped UFO and appeared in the video; they have not been able to positively identify it. Perhaps the best sighting in Iraq in 2003 occurred on April 6 when five cylindrical UFOs were sighted near the Tigris River; these were recorded live by Fox News.

This has led some to put forward the bizarre theory that Saddam Hussein had a hidden Area 51-like base in Iraq and that inside it was a UFO that crashed during the Gulf War in 1991 or Operation Desert Fox in 1998. All these sightings have in common that they have been seen during times of conflict in Iraq and Iran, making it difficult to positively identify UFOs other than conventional aircraft, covert aircraft, or missiles. Corbell and Knapp conclude that the April 2016 video is genuine UFO/UAP evidence with impressive provenance and circumstance and is the tip of the iceberg of what has been accumulated through visual data from the United States.

Congrats to   Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp   for obtaining and releasing video of a spherical UFO over Mosul in 2016 that the Department of Defense admits is real and further admits it cannot identify. And if this is indeed the tip of the iceberg, then we may be on the verge of a major revelation: the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent beings on our planet.