‘Is that a UFO?’ Oklahoma family spot bizarre other-worldly sighting in night sky
The object appeared to be slow moving and had rings coming off it – but what is it?
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Your support makes all the difference.A bizarre other-wordly object was captured on camera by an Oklahoma family in the night sky on Monday night.
A TikTok video that has amassed almost half a million views, shows a bright, slow-moving object in the sky.
Steve Aragona was outside with his kids and his neighbours when the video was captured on Monday at 7.30pm.
In the full-length video given to KFOR by Mr Aragona, people question what the unexplained object could possibly be. A child asks if it is a shooting star, to which an adult responds that it is moving too slow to be one.
Another person asks if it could be a UFO. The object appears to start separating from itself, one person pointed out, while another said that it could be sound waves.
Mr Aragona told KFOR, “Everybody was playing out front, and my neighbour Kevin says, ‘Steve, take a look at this.’”
“I looked up, and this white thing appeared in the sky. Everybody had their opinions about what it was.”
In the TikTok comments, some theorised that it could have been the Space X mission that also occurred on Monday, that set satellites up into orbit on their Falcon 9 rocket from Florida.
However, the satellites took off at 6.56pm ET, an hour and a half after the video was purportedly shot at 7.30pm CT.
The National UFO Reporting Centre, a non-profit based in Washington, often receive reports of possible UFO sightings, or what the US government calls them, UAPs – unidentified anomalous phenomena. They recently reported that between 20 December 2023 to mid-February 2024, they had 566 new reports, received via their online report form.
The mysterious video was uploaded days before an extensive report from the Pentagon was released, which detailed that a spike in UFO sightings in the 1960s was most likely due to secret tests by the US military of advanced spy planes and space technology.
The report, which was presented to Congress on Friday, also found that there is “no evidence” that the US government had interactions with aliens, adding that most sightings of UAPs were ordinary objects.
“The proliferation of television programmes, books, movies, and the vast amount of internet and social media content centred on UAP-related topics most likely has influenced the public conversation on this topic, and reinforced these beliefs within some sections of the population,” the report said.
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